BOARD AMENDS DIRECTIVE TO ALLOW COMPLIANCE WITH BIDEN EXECUTIVE ORDER 10/25/2021 - Jackson, Miss. All employees that are employed at public universities that are federal contractors or subcontractors are now required to receive the COVID-19 vaccination, within the parameters outlined below and except those who obtain an accommodation as provided by law, including those for disability, medical reasons or for sincerely held religious beliefs.
If you wanted to know, Grant Wahl has/will likely confirm that this is his wife! (This is for all the soccer board guys)
Posting here mostly because I want to come back and fully read it later. It appears to touch on starting to see the ripple effects of having the healthcare system in the US basically commandeered for mostly covid related treatment/care for 1.5 years. If that is not what it is touching on, forgive me as I just gave it a cursory glance. But yeah, it is going to be interesting to see this aspect play out across the country. Deferred maintenance is a bitch. https://apple.news/ABaE2H04mS7mcEfSD5-v9ig
Just wait for the waves of other vaccine-preventable illnesses to show up. Gonna see some measles deaths around here for the first time in 3 generations.
The media coverage being Facebook, Fox News, OAN and Newsmax for a vast number of people in this country makes me think it doesn't matter what the CDC says. Or are you back to blame the CDC for your resoundingly stupid claim that covid-19 was over in March being wrong?
Arm is sore but nothing major. I don’t think I’ll be able to lift but I should be able to run or cycle. IDK if I should be worried but I never have too bad of a reaction to any vaccines. I say that because I once read a bad reaction is your immune system attacking the vaccine and that’s what you want.
there is a ton of fault to go around. The messaging has been terrible. But, the blame isn’t remotely close to equal the majority of it belongs to the gop, right wing media and Facebook type social media. To try and say otherwise is disingenuous at the very least. That said the messaging around booster shots has been a complete clusterfuck.
Update- neither my wife nor I have it (confirmed negative tests) but both my kids do. So the vaccines work at least
"The Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine is safe and effective for elementary school children, according to the FDA" I think I speak for everyone when I say IT'S ABOUT GOD DAMNED TIME
My brother just sent this pic to me. He said "The cases in Florida are down rn". I said "Maybe so, but most of those mother fuckers aren't from Florida " (At Disney for my Neice's birthday)
"Cases are down!" "We have to fix that!!" --Also the fl gov doesn't count out of state cases who are visiting
COVID vaccine being an exception, but there generally shouldn’t be much reaction (aside from soreness around the site if injection) to a vaccine unless it’s a live virus vaccine.
Booster and flu shot tomorrow at 10am. Decided to stick with Pfizer for 3rd dose as my first 2 reactions were basically non-existent except for tired after the first.
Thinking about the booster heavily now as I was just a close contact to a covid+ at work, but I haven't seen anything about the recommendation for people with Pfizer doses to go with a third one of that versus the half Moderna.
I’ve seen indoor photos in less disastrous states with limited mask wearing too. I think there’s a lot of fatigue.
General well-being: More than half of all patients reported weight loss, fatigue, fever or pain. Mobility: Roughly one in five survivors experienced a decrease in mobility. Neurologic concerns: Nearly one in four survivors experienced difficulty concentrating. Mental health disorders: Nearly one in three patients were diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorders. Lung abnormalities: Six in ten survivors had chest imaging abnormality and more than a quarter of patients had difficulty breathing. Cardiovascular issues: Chest pain and palpitations were among the commonly reported conditions. Skin conditions: Nearly one in five patients experienced hair loss or rashes. Digestive issues: Stomach pain, lack of appetite, diarrhea and vomiting were among the commonly reported conditions. KosAbility: Long-haul Covid realities may improve one-stop medical care for everyone! Spoiler Besame for KosAbility Community (This content is not subject to review by Daily Kos staff prior to publication.) Sunday October 24, 2021 · 6:00 PM CDT Community member Fuzzybotbuilder has a fascinating personal story for us next Sunday describing exercises he developed to recover from a stroke. His approach addressed more than physical therapy, it involved engaging his interest in something he wanted to do. Join us for our monthly KosAbility meeting at 4 PM PDT (7 PM EDT) to hear more. Look for a story with a headline beginning “KosAbility,” that’s our meeting, then share your thoughts and questions in the comments. The impact of COVID19 on people with chronic health conditions has been worrisome all along. We were warned about greater susceptibility to infection and more serious consequences, as well as potentially less protection from vaccinations. But an unexpected consequence could benefit us, even though, regretfully, it comes at a cost to others: Long-haul Covid may be providing information that helps doctors treat other conditions, and may alter how medical services are provided, making it easier for chronically ill people to access care. We’ve already seen a bit of that last point with more options for tele-visits in lieu of in-person medical appointments. However, we also are seeing this option dwindle as the pandemic wears on and vaccine-confidence grows (accurately or not, my county barely has 50% of eligible population vaccinated). Half or more of the people infected with COVID19 are likely to experience long-haul Covid with symptoms that last up to six months after initial recovery, say Pennsylvania State College of Medicine researchers. After examining 57 studies that included data from 250,351 unvaccinated adults and children diagnosed with COVID19, researchers identified a common set of long term health problems. General well-being: More than half of all patients reported weight loss, fatigue, fever or pain. Mobility: Roughly one in five survivors experienced a decrease in mobility. Neurologic concerns: Nearly one in four survivors experienced difficulty concentrating. Mental health disorders: Nearly one in three patients were diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorders. Lung abnormalities: Six in ten survivors had chest imaging abnormality and more than a quarter of patients had difficulty breathing. Cardiovascular issues: Chest pain and palpitations were among the commonly reported conditions. Skin conditions: Nearly one in five patients experienced hair loss or rashes. Digestive issues: Stomach pain, lack of appetite, diarrhea and vomiting were among the commonly reported conditions. A separate, on-going study of a cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET) found that people with long-haul Covid have problems with exercise similar to people with CFS/ME, a poorly-understood set of debilitating chronic conditions that includes exercise intolerance. The first cardiopulmonary exercise test done in long COVID produced results much like those found in ME/CFS. That was very good news given the extraordinary funding given long COVID and the potential it provides for a REALLY deep dive into energy production in long COVID (and ME/CFS). Even if studies don’t find enough commonality among the two different groups, perhaps a better approach to providing medical care will result in benefits to many different chronic patient groups. One of the researchers in the Penn State study, Anna Ssentongo said, “Since survivors may not have the energy or resources to go back and forth to their health care providers, one-stop clinics will be critical to effectively and efficiently manage patients with long-haul-covid. Such clinics could reduce medical costs and optimize access to care, especially in populations with historically larger health care disparities.” The similarities among long-haul Covid and Lyme disease, CFS/ME, and other maligned misunderstood chronic conditions have been thoughtfully explored by Ross Douthat. Seriously! That conservative writer whose positions on anything else are 180o from mine has chronic Lyme disease and he describes it well in the following NY Times articles. What to Do When Covid Doesn’t Go Away Aug. 8, 2020 Long-Haul Covid and the Chronic Illness Debate Feb. 2, 2021 How I Became a Sick Person Oct. 23, 2021 Now let’s see Douthat go through that without money, connections, and resources—you know, like all the people without health insurance, job stability, adequate income, and help. We can’t wait for every GOP pundit and politician to experience every social and health issue and learn to care about these problems before we have better social and governmental policies to help people. From the second article above. (O)ne possible parallel to what long-haul Covid patients are experiencing is myalgic encephalomyelitis, commonly known as chronic fatigue syndrome — a debilitating and mysterious affliction that’s increasingly understood as an autoimmune-related condition, in which the body’s own defenses seem to be constantly flaring, independent of actual infection, in ways that consign people to fatigue, brain fog and incapacity. Similar autoimmune theories are also often applied to the larger constellation of chronic conditions that bear some similarities to what we’ve seen from long-haul Covid: chronic Lyme, multiple sclerosis, rheumatic fever, Guillain-Barré syndrome, various psychiatric conditions that seem to be caused by persistent inflammation in the brain. And as with Covid, for many of these conditions, there appears to be some precipitating infection. Multiple sclerosis is often associated with the commonplace Epstein-Barr virus, rheumatic fever with the same bacteria that cause strep throat, and Lyme, famously, with bites from ticks that carry a spirochete called Borrelia burgdorferi. Chronic fatigue syndrome isn’t known to have a single agent as its trigger, but as Velasquez-Manoff notes, chronic-fatigue-like symptoms have long been linked to viral infections, from the recent SARS and H1N1 pandemics to the 1918 Spanish flu.
“And they’ve done it without mask or vaccine mandates,” added conservative radio host Clay Travis. “This is why Ron DeSantis terrifies the coronabros. Because all their shutdowns & mandates, which destroy freedoms, provide no benefits.”
Wait are we doing the “Ron Desantis deserves an apology” shit again? God damn these people are worthless pieces of shit. May as well piss on the graves of all these dead people
They deleted it so here was original On the downside, this mandate really killed the ability for senior leadership to set gambling odds on how many were going to get sick and die at their plants
Got booster yesterday around 1:00 pm. Arm hurt pretty bad all night, which impacted my sleep, and it still hurts a bit tbph, but other than that feeling damned good. Hoping that’s the worst of it.
Moderna booster definitely affecting me more than Shot #2. I don't remember getting chills and fever with my original shots but this time felt like I needed 4 blankets last night and running about 100-degrees this morning. But overall feel fine. Arm soreness already gone.
Poke in each arm this morning and let me tell you, I feel superior to all these mere mortals around me.
Rain was forecasted until noon today so I could not work half the day anyways. So I scheduled for this morning because have way too much going on during the weekends. Like stuff I enjoy.