The Coronavirus Thread

[rainbow]

29 new cases in Victoria today, all infectious while in the community, many of them muslims who don't want to obey instructions from infidel authorities......

Our lockdown is going to last longer than a week, methinks...

You should make a poster with that information and distribute it in the relevant areas of the city:

The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "If you hear of an outbreak of plague in a land, do not enter it; but if the plague breaks out in a place while you are in it, do not leave that place."

https://sunnah.com/bukhari:5728

Inshallah.

[laklak]

Al'hamdulillah,

[Seabass]

ﷺ

There's a unicode character for pbuh?

[Seabass]

It is amazing to me that these people who get pulled into these alternate reality narratives are unable to escape even when it is leading so many of them to death.

Anti-vaxxer dies of Covid nine days after saying virus is ‘nothing to be afraid of’

[Sean Hayden]

I'm surrounded by hospitals, literally, and yet the nearest available bed is 150 miles away. People are waiting ages to get a room, even with serious conditions. It's weird because I seem to remember this being a much bigger deal last year when they weren't nearly so full.

[laklak]

Todays stats for our largest hospital, Sarasota Memorial:



Hospital / ICU Capacity

Today’s patient census: 756

Today's COVID-positive patients total: 170 (160 yesterday)

Today’s ICU census: 65 (70 yesterday)

COVID-positive patients in ICU today: 38 (36 yesterday)

% Unvaccinated COVID-positive patients in the hospital this week: 89%*

Total hospital beds: 839

ICU bed capacity: 78

Total occupancy rate 90%, ICU 83%

[Sean Hayden]

As COVID-19 strains Houston hospitals, small facilities scramble to transfer patients out of state

LUMBERTON — For the past week, Brooke Hale has been told “no” about 80 times a day. The executive assistant at Altus Lumberton Hospital has spent her shifts on the phone in a windowless office, repeatedly asking other facilities within an 800-mile radius the same question: Can you take one of our critical COVID-19 patients?

On Thursday, there were three. They needed intensive care, and without it they could die. Hale tried hospitals in Texarkana and Tyler, Lubbock and Lufkin, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Mississippi. None had room.

“I feel helpless,” Hale said through her green N95 mask. “I feel like I can’t help patients like I need to.”

The same scene is being repeated throughout Southeast Texas, as rural hospitals and freestanding emergency rooms are scrambling to send critical patients to other regions and states because Houston medical centers, full with COVID-19 patients, refuse to accept transfers.

For small facilities, what once was a routine transport to local hospitals has become a frantic process of cold calling and cajoling health care providers in hopes of securing an open bed. In the meantime, patients who must receive intensive care languish in places that are unable to provide it.

By Thursday afternoon, 543 patients in the 25-county hospital region anchored by Houston were waiting for staffed hospital beds, according to the SouthEast Texas Regional Advisory Council; 62 more waited to be admitted to an ICU. The gridlock also extends to ambulance crews, who wait longer outside of crowded ERs to admit patients.

https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/h ... 368257.php

--such a shitshow given vaccines are available people

[Seabass]

Hospitals should give anti-vaxxers lowest priority. Seriously. Someone comes in with a heart condition or something, and the beds are full, an anti-vaxxer should be tossed out on their ass. Send them home with some lozenges and wish them luck.

[JimC]

The Delta strain may only be the beginning:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-08/ ... /100343554

Experts fear Indonesia, considered one of the world's COVID-19 epicentres, is now a high-risk "hotspot" for the emergence of a new coronavirus "super strain".

An alarming second wave in the country has been largely fuelled by the highly infectious Delta variant, which was first identified in India's out-of-control outbreak.

And now experts are worried that a similar situation could occur in Indonesia, where the rampant spread of the virus may create the perfect breeding ground for another variant of concern.

"Uncontrolled epidemics are really bad hotspots for the evolution of variants," Aris Katzourakis, a professor of evolution and genomics at Oxford University in the UK, said.

"Two of the most challenging variants that we're facing – Alpha and Delta – are quite possibly connected to very poor public health interventions [in the UK and India].

"Controlling the epidemic [in Indonesia] is certainly a high priority for minimizing the risk of a new variant."

[NineBerry]

Christian Drosten had said that this virus doesn't have so many chances left to evolve more contagious. Delta is according to him probably the best it has to offer in the medium term. So I'm not worried

[Tero]

Stupid virus! Evolution! That takes years. By then we will be like the bats, immune.

[Seabass]

Anti-Vax Radio Host Who Called Fauci a ‘Power Tripping Lying Freak’ Dies of COVID

A anti-vaccine right-wing radio host in West Palm Beach, Florida died Wednesday from COVID-19 complications.

Dick Farrel, 65, used his local talk show and social media to rail against Dr. Anthony Fauci, who he called a “power tripping lying freak,” and say that no one should get the coronavirus vaccine. When COVID-19 sent him to the hospital for three weeks, though, he changed his tune, urging friends to get vaccinated, friends told local station WPTV.

Farrel wrote in early July, “Vaccine Bogus Bull Shid!, Two peeps I know, got vaxed, now have Corona, hospitalized critical. Thank you Moderna, FOR NOTHING!” He erroneously told his followers they would not need the vaccine if they had already survived COVID-19. The CDC has advised former coronavirus patients to get vaccinated.

Two days later, he wrote, “Why take a vax promoted by people who lied 2u all along about masks.” He called Fauci “FOOT-chee” and said that the infectious disease expert and “power trip libb loons” Democrats were conspiring to make it seem like the pandemic was ongoing so they could grab more power.

In late June, he wrote, “So, u think it wasn’t a SCAM DEMIC? NOT ONE ELECTED DEMOCRAT ever tested positive.” He called masks “face diapers” and “face pantys.”

An ardent supporter of former President Donald Trump, Farrel wrote often about baseless conspiracy theories of election fraud. In June, he penned a fearmongering post about liberals wanting to remove the American flag, writing, “Civil war beckons.”

Amy Leigh Hair, a close friend of Farrel, wrote on Facebook, “COVID took one of my best friends! RIP Dick Farrel. He is the reason I took the shot. He texted me and told me to ‘Get it!’ He told me this virus is no joke and he said, ‘I wish I had gotten it!’”

[laklak]

Hospitals should give anti-vaxxers lowest priority. Seriously. Someone comes in with a heart condition or something, and the beds are full, an anti-vaxxer should be tossed out on their ass. Send them home with some lozenges and wish them luck.

I agree, pretty much. If you've had the opportunity and refused it, then fuck you. But, if there's a reason you can't be vaccinated then it's a different situation.

But what if they're covid positive but not in there for covid? They broke a leg, but are asymptomatic?

Ethics. They aren't easy.

[Tero]

Multivaxxers:
Booster shots haven't been authorized by the Food and Drug Administration and are still being studied in clinical trials, so Bent didn't mention that she'd already gotten J&J.

"They never asked, so I never told," she said.

https://www.businessinsider.com/mulit-v ... 2021-8?amp

[JimC]

It's the 5G chips, they are addictive...