How COVID-19 is affecting society

[danielravennest]

Alaska hospitals make wrenching decisions as they begin to ration care

With Covid cases soaring and medical centers short of staff, doctors are forced to choose which patients to treat

www.theguardian.com

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Alaska's COVID cases seem to have peaked a week ago. So they still have a few weeks of peak hospitalization before it dies down. Nationally the US peaked about a month ago, and we are down 40% on the weekly average. Deaths peaked less than 3 weeks ago, and are only down ~20% so far. I use weekly averages because a lot of places don't report on the weekend.

 

[Imnotgoing Sideways]

So... Post-covid agoraphobia is a thing. Going to the office pre-covid was already an issue... (T_T)

Agoraphobia: Has COVID fueled this anxiety disorder? - Harvard Health

People with agoraphobia become anxious in places where they feel helpless or out of control, so they try to avoid such situations. But with the threat of COVID-19 still very real, fearing public sp...

www.health.harvard.edu

 

[Maggy Hazelnut]

So... Post-covid agoraphobia is a thing. Going to the office pre-covid was already an issue... (T_T)

Agoraphobia: Has COVID fueled this anxiety disorder? - Harvard Health

People with agoraphobia become anxious in places where they feel helpless or out of control, so they try to avoid such situations. But with the threat of COVID-19 still very real, fearing public sp...

www.health.harvard.edu

I had agorophobia long before covid came along but I have to say it's gotten worse in the last year or so. It's not too bad if I only go to the few places I'm fairly comfortable going like my local grocery store, the weed store & the library but I try to avoid going to the doctor, places with a lot of people or places I haven't been before. I do try to limit the amount of times I go to those places - grocery store once a week, weed store once a month, library for books I want that aren't available thru Overdrive (library Kindle books). For the most part I'm perfectly fine staying home away from people. Oh, going out to get my Pfizer booster shot next Wednesday so I'll start talking myself into that as it gets closer to the day. haha

 

[Katheryne Helendale]

Alaska hospitals make wrenching decisions as they begin to ration care

With Covid cases soaring and medical centers short of staff, doctors are forced to choose which patients to treat

www.theguardian.com

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We knew it would come to this. But the anti-vaxxers still refuse to listen

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Revealed: anti-vaccine TikTok videos being viewed by children as young as nine

Covid misinformation remains on site for months adding to concern over impact of social media on young people

www.theguardian.com

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[Isabeau]

Don’t know why this made me laugh-cry. The levitating leg maybe?

(there’s music in the first one if you have earphones on)

 

[WolfEyes]

I used to do that when I was young and I wanted to get out of having to do something I really did not want to do. It's not hard to do and is fake as all hell.

It's what happens when you strain the muscles to hold a raised limb in place. Dancers are very familiar with it.

 

[Imnotgoing Sideways]

"Because I'm vaccinated, dumbf***!" =^-^=

 

[Romana]

"Because I'm vaccinated, dumbf***!" =^-^=

I saw the tweet with that. In the replies the OP was saying they were going to try to find him and set up a GoFundMe to help him get back on his feet. I hope they were able to.

 

[Essence Lumin]

I used to do that when I was young and I wanted to get out of having to do something I really did not want to do. It's not hard to do and is fake as all hell.

It's what happens when you strain the muscles to hold a raised limb in place. Dancers are very familiar with it.

I used to have normal legs but then I took an arrow to the knee.

 

[danielravennest]

We knew it would come to this. But the anti-vaxxers still refuse to listen

Alaska has 51% fully vaccinated, compared to 55% for the US as a whole, so it is not desperately low. My guess is some combination of low number of hospital beds and difficulty reaching some groups, leading to clusters of unvaccinated, that has led to the rationing situation.

 

[Beebo Brink]

Alaska has 51% fully vaccinated, compared to 55% for the US as a whole, so it is not desperately low. My guess is some combination of low number of hospital beds and difficulty reaching some groups, leading to clusters of unvaccinated, that has led to the rationing situation.

The American model for delivering medical services was dancing on the knife edge of collapse well before SARS-CoV-2 came on the scene. Every flu season strained the just-in-time hospital structure and there was no buffer in the system.

Alaska -- with vast distances between small communities -- is in an even more precarious position. A few decades ago a friend of mine was a traveling doctor, driving her RV (and three dogs) from one small native town to another. It was a very challenging job, to say the least.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

99.7% survival rate!

He survived. Congratulations.

 

[Free]

Well that's something different.

‘Restless Anal Syndrome’ Affects Man Who Had Covid-19 Coronavirus Infection

The list of problems that may occur after a Covid-19 coronavirus infection continues to get longer and longer.

www.forbes.com

 

[Free]

More of the same story.

Allen West, Texas GOP gubernatorial hopeful, has COVID-19

A tea party firebrand who is running for the Republican nomination for governor of Texas says he has received monoclonal antibody injections after being diagnosed with COVID-19 pneumonia.

www.wsls.com

Tea party firebrand Allen West, a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor of Texas, said Saturday that he has received monoclonal antibody injections after being diagnosed with COVID-19 pneumonia.

The antibodies are used to treat those in the early stages of a coronavirus infection.

“My chest X-rays do show COVID pneumonia, not serious. I am probably going to be admitted to the hospital,” West wrote. “There’s a concern about my oxygen saturation levels, which are at 89 and they should be at 95.”

He also said his wife, Angela West, also tested positive and has received monoclonal antibodies. According to his Twitter account, Allen West did not get vaccinated against the virus, but his wife did.

Another of the Ivermectin crowd. Oh, and he is in the hospital, his wife is not.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Another of the Ivermectin crowd. Oh, and he is in the hospital, his wife is not.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

 

[Romana]

Early on, I said to someone who thought it was just another flu type thing, that I'd seen people die of respiratory illnesses, and don't even mention the "survival rate", because I don't care what the odds are, I choose not to roll those dice.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Who would have guessed with this name

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

Who would have guessed with this name

Kelowna restaurant shut down for not verifying proof of vaccination: Interior Health | Globalnews.ca

Interior Health delivered the orders on Thursday to Renegade Kitchen and Craft Bar located on Leon Avenue. The restaurant also had its liquor license suspended.

globalnews.ca