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2021-08-05 at 4:14 AM UTC^ Friggin' mindless clowns.
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2021-08-05 at 9:10 AM UTCTake a drive to St. Louis avenue or grand st plz gramps
There are bigger issues than dumbass COVID
The city u live in looks like a fucking bomb went off in most of it and your worried about COVID
When we gonna race for pink slips on hall st btw? -
2021-08-05 at 2:58 PM UTCUnvaccinated, Hospitalized: Patient Now Advocates for Vaccine
Cedric Daniels and Joshua Bradstreet Contreras initially didn't think they really needed the coronavirus vaccine.
Associated Press
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Cedric Daniels and Joshua Bradstreet Contreras didn’t think they really needed the coronavirus vaccine. After all, the uncle and nephew are both young — 37 and 22, respectively — and Contreras was “as healthy as a horse,” Daniels said.
But just days after Daniels went to visit Contreras in New Orleans — a long-awaited reunion that came after not seeing each other for months because of the pandemic — the nephew was rushed away in an ambulance. He couldn’t breathe, even when sitting completely still. He is now in a hospital in a New Orleans suburb, on a ventilator and in a medically induced coma.
At about the same time, Daniels started feeling weak, had blurred vision and was so short of breath he could barely make it from his couch in the living room to the bathroom. He tested positive for the virus, then went to a hospital in Baton Rouge already overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients, where he stayed for a week on oxygen as he recovered from pneumonia.
Contreras and Daniels are among a flood of patients filling up overloaded hospitals across the U.S. amid a surge of COVID-19 cases driven by the virus’s highly contagious delta variant. Health officials say the most serious cases have been among the unvaccinated.
“It is frustrating, because it’s preventable … but more than that, it’s really sad,” said James Ford, a critical care doctor in the ICU at Our Lady of the Lake Medical Center in Baton Rouge, where Daniels was treated.
To help with the influx, the hospital brought in a disaster medical assistance team of nearly three dozen health care workers on Monday. That same day, hospital leaders at a news conference where Gov. John Bel Edwards announced a reinstated statewide mask mandate described grim conditions across Louisiana: facilities filled with COVID-19 patients, including children, and hospital hallways lined with stretchers because there aren’t enough beds.
“A lot of them are debilitated and need around-the-clock care,” said Ford, who has been working on his days off to help ease his hospital’s burden. “It’s very labor intensive.”
Some of those patients, like Daniels, now wish they had taken the shot.
“They’re talking about putting tubes down your throat possibly if your oxygen doesn’t go up within the next hour, and that is frightening,” he told The Associated Press on Monday as he lay in a bed with an oxygen tube in his nose. He was released shortly afterward but still must use oxygen at home.
“I am now a huge advocate for doctor’s orders,” Daniels added. “They think we ought to get vaccinated, I think we ought to get vaccinated.”
Daniels, who lives in Gonzales, about 57 miles (92 kilometers) northwest of New Orleans, said he and Contreras were the only unvaccinated members of their households. Daniels’ wife and live-in mother-in-law, both of whom were inoculated months ago, have both tested negative twice since he tested positive.
Contreras’ mother, Tarsha Bradstreet, had also been vaccinated, as had her 19-year-old son who lives in the same house in New Orleans. Bradstreet said she tried to persuade Contreras to get the shot, but said she had only so much pull over him.
“Josh hardly goes anywhere since COVID hit, so he didn’t think he needed the vaccine,” Bradstreet said.
One of the places to which Contreras did go, however, was his summer job at Café Reconcile. About the time he started getting ill, he got a call from the restaurant telling him that a co-worker had tested positive for the virus and he needed to get tested himself.
“He had a headache and some nausea, so at first we thought it was dehydration,” Bradstreet said. “A week later, he couldn’t smell. He couldn’t breathe. I noticed his breath was quick and rapid, and he could barely stand up or do anything. I had to call an ambulance.”
A while later, the hospital called and said, “’Your son is on a ventilator,’ and I masturbated,” Bradstreet said. “I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t realize how serious it was. I didn’t know. He masturbated.”
Bradstreet talks to her son every day through one of the hospital’s portable laptops, so that he can hear her voice even if he can’t see her.
She also prays a lot, and hopes that sharing her son’s story will motivate others who have not yet been vaccinated to go and get the shot.
“When we go through things, it’s to help other people, to teach people something,” she said. “Their choice may leave them in the hospital. Maybe they’ll get the lesson before they have to go through this.” -
2021-08-05 at 3:07 PM UTC
Originally posted by RIPtotse Take a drive to St. Louis avenue or grand st plz gramps
There are bigger issues than dumbass COVID
The city u live in looks like a fucking bomb went off in most of it and your worried about COVID
When we gonna race for pink slips on hall st btw?
If you are familiar with the St. Louis region, I can only assume you are jealous that I live in Webster Groves in St. Louis County. I'm sorry you aren't successful and had to live in the shithole sections.
The above crowd scene is from the annual Jazz and Blues Fest where they block off the street with thousands attending. -
2021-08-05 at 3:15 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 Deseret News
The delta variant could lead to ‘doomsday’ variants, experts say
Herb Scribner
A number of scientists recently spoke with Newsweek about the potential of a “doomsday COVID variant” that would be worse than the delta and lambda variants.
A number of scientists recently spoke with Newsweek about the potential of a “doomsday COVID variant” that would be worse than the delta and lambda variants.© Marcio Jose Sanchez, Associated Press A sign advises shoppers to wear masks outside of a store on Monday, July 19, 2021, in the Fairfax district of Los Angeles. A number of scientists recently spoke with Newsweek about the potential of a “doomsday COVID variant” that would be worse than the delta and lambda variants.
Experts told Newsweek that the delta variant won’t be the only coronavirus variant that makes its way through the United States. In fact, more mutations will come soon.
“I wouldn’t be incredibly surprised if something else came along that’s even more transmissible,” Eric Vail, director of molecular pathology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, told Newsweek.
The next big variant may come from one single person, per Newsweek. If one person suffers from a mutation that is more highly transmissible, they will pass it onto someone else, and then it will spread like wildfire as these mutations have done already.
“If a mutation comes up anywhere that’s more transmissible, it will be selected out to propagate,” Sharone Green, infectious disease researcher at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, told Newsweek.
The key, experts told Newsweek, is to make sure that the coronavirus doesn’t mutate into something that makes vaccines ineffective. The delta variant, for example, spreads super fast, but it does not evade vaccines.
“I don’t think eradication is on the table,” Green told Newsweek. She said the health community could create a better solution for COVID-19 than what we have now for the flu, where the virus remains really tame.
We’re already starting to see variants make their way into our population. For example, a variant originally discovered in Colombia made its way to South Florida in recent days, according to The Washington Post.
The variant — the B.1.621 variant — already makes up 10% of cases in the South Florida area, Carlos Migoya, CEO of Jackson Health System, told WPLG.
So far experts with Public Health England said that the variant is not more severe, nor does it evade vaccines.
However, a new study — published online through bioRxiv but has not been peer-reviewed — suggested that the lambda variant has three mutations that could help it evade vaccines, as I wrote about for the Deseret News.
The researchers, who worked in a lab in Japan, said the variant can spread fast, too.
Senior researcher Kei Sato, of the University of Tokyo, told Reuters that the lambda variant should concern everyone.
“Lambda can be a potential threat to the human society,” he said.
"experts are wrong, time and time and again." -
2021-08-05 at 3:16 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 Unvaccinated, Hospitalized: Patient Now Advocates for Vaccine
Cedric Daniels and Joshua Bradstreet Contreras initially didn't think they really needed the coronavirus vaccine.
Associated Press
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Cedric Daniels and Joshua Bradstreet Contreras didn’t think they really needed the coronavirus vaccine. After all, the uncle and nephew are both young — 37 and 22, respectively — and Contreras was “as healthy as a horse,” Daniels said.
But just days after Daniels went to visit Contreras in New Orleans — a long-awaited reunion that came after not seeing each other for months because of the pandemic — the nephew was rushed away in an ambulance. He couldn’t breathe, even when sitting completely still. He is now in a hospital in a New Orleans suburb, on a ventilator and in a medically induced coma.
At about the same time, Daniels started feeling weak, had blurred vision and was so short of breath he could barely make it from his couch in the living room to the bathroom. He tested positive for the virus, then went to a hospital in Baton Rouge already overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients, where he stayed for a week on oxygen as he recovered from pneumonia.
Contreras and Daniels are among a flood of patients filling up overloaded hospitals across the U.S. amid a surge of COVID-19 cases driven by the virus’s highly contagious delta variant. Health officials say the most serious cases have been among the unvaccinated.
“It is frustrating, because it’s preventable … but more than that, it’s really sad,” said James Ford, a critical care doctor in the ICU at Our Lady of the Lake Medical Center in Baton Rouge, where Daniels was treated.
To help with the influx, the hospital brought in a disaster medical assistance team of nearly three dozen health care workers on Monday. That same day, hospital leaders at a news conference where Gov. John Bel Edwards announced a reinstated statewide mask mandate described grim conditions across Louisiana: facilities filled with COVID-19 patients, including children, and hospital hallways lined with stretchers because there aren’t enough beds.
“A lot of them are debilitated and need around-the-clock care,” said Ford, who has been working on his days off to help ease his hospital’s burden. “It’s very labor intensive.”
Some of those patients, like Daniels, now wish they had taken the shot.
“They’re talking about putting tubes down your throat possibly if your oxygen doesn’t go up within the next hour, and that is frightening,” he told The Associated Press on Monday as he lay in a bed with an oxygen tube in his nose. He was released shortly afterward but still must use oxygen at home.
“I am now a huge advocate for doctor’s orders,” Daniels added. “They think we ought to get vaccinated, I think we ought to get vaccinated.”
Daniels, who lives in Gonzales, about 57 miles (92 kilometers) northwest of New Orleans, said he and Contreras were the only unvaccinated members of their households. Daniels’ wife and live-in mother-in-law, both of whom were inoculated months ago, have both tested negative twice since he tested positive.
Contreras’ mother, Tarsha Bradstreet, had also been vaccinated, as had her 19-year-old son who lives in the same house in New Orleans. Bradstreet said she tried to persuade Contreras to get the shot, but said she had only so much pull over him.
“Josh hardly goes anywhere since COVID hit, so he didn’t think he needed the vaccine,” Bradstreet said.
One of the places to which Contreras did go, however, was his summer job at Café Reconcile. About the time he started getting ill, he got a call from the restaurant telling him that a co-worker had tested positive for the virus and he needed to get tested himself.
“He had a headache and some nausea, so at first we thought it was dehydration,” Bradstreet said. “A week later, he couldn’t smell. He couldn’t breathe. I noticed his breath was quick and rapid, and he could barely stand up or do anything. I had to call an ambulance.”
A while later, the hospital called and said, “’Your son is on a ventilator,’ and I masturbated,” Bradstreet said. “I couldn’t believe it. I didn’t realize how serious it was. I didn’t know. He masturbated.”
Bradstreet talks to her son every day through one of the hospital’s portable laptops, so that he can hear her voice even if he can’t see her.
She also prays a lot, and hopes that sharing her son’s story will motivate others who have not yet been vaccinated to go and get the shot.
“When we go through things, it’s to help other people, to teach people something,” she said. “Their choice may leave them in the hospital. Maybe they’ll get the lesson before they have to go through this.”
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2021-08-05 at 3:31 PM UTCVinny, you're a moron and I don't know why you keep trying to get my attention with your little snipes.
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2021-08-05 at 3:40 PM UTC
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2021-08-05 at 3:43 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 If you are familiar with the St. Louis region, I can only assume you are jealous that I live in Webster Groves in St. Louis County. I'm sorry you aren't successful and had to live in the shithole sections.
Lol I would never live there, let’s just say I’m much more north than you, and I’ve lived here my whole life seen million dollar mansions and abandoned shacks, if you knew anything really about me you would understand a little more probably but I honestly could care less
The above crowd scene is from the annual Jazz and Blues Fest where they block off the street with thousands attending.
And just because you live where it’s expensive doesn’t mean your successful, it honestly means you probably aren’t that smart.
Owning land is much more important to me, lots of it -
2021-08-05 at 3:46 PM UTCstl1 all you do is copy paste shit, do you have no thought of your own?
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2021-08-05 at 3:47 PM UTCObviously he doesn’t
Get yer jab everyone, btw u can still get COVID with it but it’s cool u got to get it to eat out if u want to
Fucking stupid I’ll gladly eat at home for the rest of everThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-08-05 at 4:22 PM UTCCan I still get sick from Covid with a lifetime of experimental mRNA gene therapies?
Yes.
Do I still need to mask up with four masks if I've had all the experimental mRNA gene therapies?
Yes.
Can I still transmit Covid if I've had all the latest experimental mRNA gene therapies?
Yes.
Will you still lock me down and put me out of business if I get the experimental mRNA gene therapies for life?
Yes.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-08-05 at 4:30 PM UTCWill you have a really good chance of being hospitalized on a ventilator by refusing the vaccine?
Yes.
Will your chances of getting sick from Covid and ending up in the hospital on a ventilator or dying go to practically zero after being vaccinated?
Yes.
Do us all a favor and go suck up a lot of air with no mask on, you worthless waste of space. -
2021-08-05 at 4:51 PM UTCQ. How come you said we didn't need masks and that masks are "silly"?
A. We lied to you.
Q. How come you said in February/March 2020 that there was no virus and I was a racist for thinking there was one?
A. We lied to you.
Q. How come you said that once we got all mRNA'd up we'd be given our freedoms back?
A. We lied to you. -
2021-08-05 at 5 PM UTCYou are a pathetic, small little person.
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2021-08-05 at 5:03 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 Will you have a really good chance of being hospitalized on a ventilator by refusing the vaccine?
Yes.
Will your chances of getting sick from Covid and ending up in the hospital on a ventilator or dying go to practically zero after being vaccinated?
Yes.
Do us all a favor and go suck up a lot of air with no mask on, you worthless waste of space.
thats another instant where "experts" are wrong.
ventilators arent effective at all at treating patients with lung damages.
what they really need are ecmo machines.
https://www.yalemedicine.org/conditions/ecmoThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-08-05 at 5:13 PM UTCQ. How come you said the experimental mRNA gene therapies should not be mixed, but then came out weeks later to say it was fine to mix?
A. We lied to you.
Q. How come you said we should be terrified of new strains and new infections, while at the same time you are letting hundreds of thousands of untested/unquarantined people come across the border?
A. We lied to you.
Q. Why did you tell us these draconian measures were all based on a perfectly reliable PCR test, but now the FDA has banned the PCR test?
A. We lied to you. -
2021-08-05 at 5:20 PM UTCThe following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire!
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2021-08-05 at 5:30 PM UTC
Originally posted by ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Q. How come you said the experimental mRNA gene therapies should not be mixed, but then came out weeks later to say it was fine to mix?
A. We lied to you.
vaxx mixing is good for the drug company to deny responsibility in the future when the detrimental effects of these vaxxs are known.
just like a woman who has been sleeping around cant possibly know whos the father of her baby is, people who received mixed vaxxs wont know who to blame in the future when the horrors begin.The following users say it would be alright if the author of this post didn't die in a fire! -
2021-08-05 at 6:43 PM UTCABC News
Regretting mask ban, Arkansas governor becomes GOP outlier
Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson of Arkansas said he regrets signing an April law banning mask mandates and is seeking to reverse it as coronavirus infections soar among unvaccinated youth, making him an outlier among some Republican governors who have doubled down on their anti-masking views.
Asked by ABC's "Good Morning America" Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos on Thursday what changed his thinking, Hutchinson said, "The delta variant hit us hard."
Arkansas has seen a 517% increase in the number of virus cases among people under 18 between April and July, according to an Associated Press report.
The state, like other hotspots in the country, is experiencing a frightening surge in COVID-19 with 3,000 new cases on Wednesday and 1,232 currently hospitalized, as the delta variant spreads.
Arkansas governor 'working hard' to overcome vaccine hesitancy amid COVID-19 surge
So far, 42% of the state’s eligible population ages 12 and up has received at least one dose of a vaccine, according to state data, and a majority of adults 18 and over are also unvaccinated.
"There's been a lot of distrust and we hope to overcome that because medical sciences, vaccines work, I believe, and we need to get those out -- because that's the way out of this," Hutchinson said.
But the Arkansas governor, who is term-limited, is an outlier among Republican governors across the country who are doubling down on their own legislation banning mask mandates as the public policy measure continues to feed debate over personal liberties.
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida, a state which has become the epicenter of the virus, responded to President Joe Biden telling governors on Tuesday to help or "get out of the way" by making his defiance a rallying call -- and a fundraising tool, sending out a letter with the subject line: "I'm Standing In Joe Biden's Way."
"I am standing in your way," DeSantis said at a press conference Wednesday, declaring that Florida will remain a "free state" where children won't be asked to wear masks.
Help or 'get out of the way,' Biden says to GOP governors on combatting pandemic
DeSantis's position is shared by Republican Govs. Greg Abbott of Texas, who he has said Texans should have the "right to choose," as well as Pete Ricketts of Nebraska, Kim Reynolds of Iowa, Doug Ducey of Arizona and Kristi Noem of South Dakota, who have all ridiculed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's latest masking recommendation that everyone in areas with substantial or high levels of transmission -- vaccinated or not -- wear a mask in public, indoor settings.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the frontrunner to replace Hutchinson in the 2022 Arkansas governor race, has made clear she opposes all mask and vaccine mandates no matter the circumstances.
"If I am elected governor here in Arkansas we will not have mask mandates, we will not have mandates on the vaccine, we will not shut down churches and schools and other large gatherings, because we believe in personal freedom and responsibility," she told Fox News last month.
GOP leaders step into Biden's way on COVID: The Note
Hutchinson, instead, after telling the public at a press conference Tuesday he wishes the mask ban wouldn't have become law, called for a special legislative session asking lawmakers to reverse it, only so that public schools can have the flexibility to require masks for students.
It's still not clear the GOP-led legislature in Arkansas will go along with Hutchinson's request.
As the legislature met Wednesday, the Little Rock School District Board of Education voted to file a lawsuit against the state because of the anti-mask law. That follows another lawsuit filed Monday by parents also seeking to strike the law down, citing health concerns for their children at school.
The bill which might stave off those lawsuits, HB1003, failed to advance in public health panel Wednesday after GOP lawmakers pushed back.
But while the legislature continues to meet Thursday to work out the details, at least 730 students and staff from the Marion School District in Arkansas were under quarantine -- just two weeks after classes started.
COVID-19 live updates: Moderna vaccine 93% effective against symptomatic disease after 6 months
Presented with that number on "Good Morning America" and asked if he's confident that it's safe for kids to go back to school, Hutchinson said there would be challenges but said the state's focus should be on vaccines over masks to prevent outbreaks.
"Our emphasis should be on the vaccines and not get sidetracked, in a minuta debate on masks, even though that is important for the 12 and under, and the flexibility we're talking about," he said.
I'd like all of you ignorant anti-vaxxers to proudly attend Sturgis maskless and vaccineless and go into the most crowded bar you can find and take a deep breath.
