Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #100

[Teche]

Is it better than a shot?

We grew up with "jabs", must have made its way over. Shots come in glasses (mine's a Tequila ).

Seriously tho, just goes to show the power of words.

Yes, the power of words.

 

[Teche]

That's weird...The headline of your link has been altered to say cancelled. Hundreds of people still partied at the bash. Looks like they had a great time from the pics.

That doesn't look like a canceled party to me.

 

[Teche]

All I know is that people who've never heard shots called "jabs" feel horrified by the word (source: polling my students as to how they feel about various COVID terms). "Jab" sounds awful and it made me wonder if that word alone wasn't making some people squeamish.

It's a tiny shot. Little itty bitty needle and there's no "jab" when it goes in...

We live in south Louisiana and jab to us means being hit.

 

[TootsieFootsie]

I think I've heard the expression here. in Australia to take a jab at someone, ie to hit them.

And don't boxers jab at each other ?

We live in south Louisiana and jab to us means being hit.

 

[ZoriahNZ]

Alabama man dies after hospital contacts 43 ICUs in 3 states, family says

This is so very sad. What a tragedy. 43 ICUs had no room for him due to the strain of COVID cases.

It's probably worth trying to remember that the problem is not so much the lack of physical beds per se, but a severe shortage of qualified/trained ICU personnel who are needed to staff them around the clock.

 

[LadyL]

This is so very sad. What a tragedy. 43 ICUs had no room for him due to the strain of COVID cases.

It's probably worth trying to remember that the problem is not so much the lack of physical beds per se, but a severe shortage of qualified/trained ICU personnel who are needed to staff them around the clock.

depends where you're referring to

Many Hospitals With No Beds Left Are Forced To Send COVID Patients To Cities Far Away
COVID surge creates shortage of hospital ICU beds
London Health Sciences Centre at Capacity - Patients facing long waits and canceled surgeries Heading | LHSC

 

[SouthAussie]

General update (for those who are interested):

NSW expected to hit 80% vaccinated (at least first dose) today.
Vic expected to hit 70% vaccinated (at least first dose) on Friday.

The govt has been throwing every extra available vaccine dose at them. Trying to help ease their outbreaks.
(While still supplying the rest of the states with our usual per-head-of-population quantity.)

They are hoping that NSW's covid curve is starting to flatten, as the daily numbers appear to be stabilising. We'll know for sure in about a week. I think that some NSW areas (Sydney) have been in lockdown for about 11 weeks now.

As a country, we are currently standing at 1,102 covid deaths.

Source: Ch7 morning TV news

Sydney COVID-19 infections ease, but unclear if they have peaked

 

[TootsieFootsie]

Me! Me! I'm very interested as NSW is my home state

Yay well done NSWers! Keep it up! And well done Victoria too!

Thanks for the post, South

General update (for those who are interested):

 

[margarita25]

Yesterday in France:

 

[SouthAussie]

Yesterday in France:

So, the people who were protesting against the health pass were attacked by others.

I guess people around the world are really getting sick and tired of the protesters who are holding up progress against covid.

 

[LadyL]

‘It Took Her So Fast’: 4-Year-Old Texas Preschooler Dies of COVID Within Hours of First Symptoms

 

[ontheclock]

Posers. Nobody in that vid is worried about Covid.

 

[anneg]

All I know is that people who've never heard shots called "jabs" feel horrified by the word (source: polling my students as to how they feel about various COVID terms). "Jab" sounds awful and it made me wonder if that word alone wasn't making some people squeamish.

It's a tiny shot. Little itty bitty needle and there's no "jab" when it goes in...

I'm still going to call my flu shot, a flu shot, so there jab!

But jab has really taken over in the past week or so here.
I don't like the idea of being jabbed, though when I think of it, shot could sound pretty violent too.

Maybe we could say we got our Vaxx today Nothing jabby or shooty there

This is like an argument here with an aquaintance ages ago over what you call those draught stoppers, in our house we called them a snake, in their house they called them a sausage.

I might start saying vaxx and see if I can get a trend going.

At first I cringed hearing/seeing "jab" instead of shot, but I've pretty much gotten used to it. I prefer "getting the vaccine" or getting/being vaccinated (getting vaxxed works too), because that sounds less violent than jab or shot! MOO

 

[mickey2942]

COVID-19 Vaccination Required for Immigration Medical Examinations

 

[insanity]

Me! Me! I'm very interested as NSW is my home state

Yay well done NSWers! Keep it up! And well done Victoria too!

Thanks for the post, South

Me too!! I'm in NSW, albeit regionally where there are no cases. Thanks South.

Re jab I hate it. I just say vax, or vaxxed and now double vaxxed as I am!!

 

[mickey2942]

Hospitals 'in a crisis' with COVID patients in overflow rooms, more young people hospitalized

I hope that we don't need to go to the hospital.

 

[Lilibet]

WaPo advice columnist Carolyn Hax nails it as usual…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...es-to-mask-get-vaccinated-friendship-survive/

Hello, Carolyn! My close friend of many years and I live about an hour away from each other, but we might as well be on distant planets when it comes to covid.

Lockdown was extremely stressful for both of us. Since lockdown ended, I have been living carefully: masking up indoors and getting vaccinated ASAP. She has been living confidently, maskless, and refuses to get vaccinated. I think covid safety is a big deal, she thinks it’s not necessary. Her friend got covid-19 while battling breast cancer and died. My friend is convinced her death wasn’t related to covid (how would anyone know?).

I don't respect her decisions, her logic or her behavior. She doesn't respect mine — she thinks I'm overreacting and overly cautious. When we talk about it, we both dig our heels in. So now we aren't talking. It's been over a month now.

Now that the delta variant is here, I’m even more worried, angry and frustrated with her. I’m practically obsessed with her lack of safety. How can a friendship overcome these differences?

— Frustrated

Frustrated: If you’re wrong about covid (you’re not), then here’s what happens: You feel minor discomfort in your mask and no one else is harmed.

If she's wrong about covid (she is), then here's what happens: She puts herself at risk of sickness and death; she puts other people at risk of sickness and death; she does her small part to help extend the life and reach of a virus that has brought sickness and death to millions, along with massive emotional, experiential, educational and economic losses to the entire world; and in doing all of these she gives the virus one more living opportunity to mutate into even more dangerous forms.

(More at link)

 

[SouthAussie]

Me! Me! I'm very interested as NSW is my home state

Yay well done NSWers! Keep it up! And well done Victoria too!

Thanks for the post, South

If NSW residents keep getting vaccinated at the rate they have been doing, you will reach 80% fully vaccinated in 39 more days!



Covid-19 vaccine Australia rollout tracker by state: total number of people and per cent vaccinated, daily vaccine doses and rate of progress

 

[ilovewings]

WaPo advice columnist Carolyn Hax nails it as usual…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/life...es-to-mask-get-vaccinated-friendship-survive/

Hello, Carolyn! My close friend of many years and I live about an hour away from each other, but we might as well be on distant planets when it comes to covid.

Lockdown was extremely stressful for both of us. Since lockdown ended, I have been living carefully: masking up indoors and getting vaccinated ASAP. She has been living confidently, maskless, and refuses to get vaccinated. I think covid safety is a big deal, she thinks it’s not necessary. Her friend got covid-19 while battling breast cancer and died. My friend is convinced her death wasn’t related to covid (how would anyone know?).

I don't respect her decisions, her logic or her behavior. She doesn't respect mine — she thinks I'm overreacting and overly cautious. When we talk about it, we both dig our heels in. So now we aren't talking. It's been over a month now.

Now that the delta variant is here, I’m even more worried, angry and frustrated with her. I’m practically obsessed with her lack of safety. How can a friendship overcome these differences?

— Frustrated

Frustrated: If you’re wrong about covid (you’re not), then here’s what happens: You feel minor discomfort in your mask and no one else is harmed.

If she's wrong about covid (she is), then here's what happens: She puts herself at risk of sickness and death; she puts other people at risk of sickness and death; she does her small part to help extend the life and reach of a virus that has brought sickness and death to millions, along with massive emotional, experiential, educational and economic losses to the entire world; and in doing all of these she gives the virus one more living opportunity to mutate into even more dangerous forms.

(More at link)

That pretty much sums it up!!!!

I'm thinking maybe this friendship may not be able to overcome the divergent approaches to Covid---

 

[GRT]

Hospitals 'in a crisis' with COVID patients in overflow rooms, more young people hospitalized

I hope that we don't need to go to the hospital.

That's a real risk. This guy had a "heart episode," and ended up dying 200 miles away from home because there were no hospitals closer. They called 43 hospitals!!!

A heart patient died after he couldn't get a cardiac ICU bed in 43 hospitals. Now his family is pleading for people to get vaccinated