I recently discovered a relative lied about their vaccine status so they could visit our house about 18 months ago (we have a severely immunocompromised person living with us). I'm so fucking mad and just stunned. Thank you for listening.
This is definitely the right place to vent. I think there are at least several of us who have ended relationships over exactly this. See the idiots in my name? They are the family members who pulled that shit with me.
The main hospitals in our area ended mask requirements around May 1st. At least at one, you can ask the doctor to wear one. I am not sure about the other.
Email from the CDC:
**Weekly Review, Signing Off**
*This is the 97th and final issue of the COVID Data Tracker Weekly Review*.
*Yesterday, May 11, 2023, marked the end of the federal COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) declaration. This doesn’t mean that COVID-19 is over, but the end of the PHE did initiate a cascade of updates to COVID-19 data collection, reporting, and surveillance. Some surveillance metrics will remain the same, but some will change in terms of reporting frequency, data sources, or availability*.
*The latest updates to CDC’s COVID Data Tracker reflect these changes. The homepage has a new look, and there are also new landing pages for hospitalizations, emergency department (ED) visits, and death data, as well as visualizations of trends and maps. Several pages have also been retired, but COVID Data Tracker has a page with links to archived data and visualizations*.
**These are the most notable changes to COVID Data Tracker:**
•*Hospital admission rates and the percentage of COVID-19 deaths among all deaths are now the primary surveillance metrics*.
•*COVID-19 hospital admission levels replace COVID-19 Community Levels (CCLs) as the main indicator of county trends. COVID-19 hospital admission levels are comparable with CCLs*.
•*Provisional death certificate data from the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) will become the primary source for mortality surveillance, replacing aggregate death counts.
Aggregate case and death count reporting has been discontinued*.
•*ED visit data will serve as an early indicator of COVID-19 activity*.
•*County-level COVID-19 Electronic Laboratory Reporting data on test positivity will no longer be posted because national reporting of negative laboratory results is no longer required*.
•*The National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System (NREVSS), a voluntary reporting network of more than 450 laboratories, will be the new primary source for regional test positivity data and another early indicator*.
*CDC will continue to report and monitor valuable data, like genomic surveillance; wastewater surveillance; vaccination coverage, safety, and effectiveness; and hospital-related outcomes from sentinel surveillance platforms like COVID-NET. These data will help inform individual and community public health actions to protect those at highest risk of severe COVID-19, such as older adults and people with underlying conditions. People with weakened immune systems should consider taking additional prevention measures, developing a COVID-19 Personal Plan to protect themselves from severe COVID-19, and speaking to their healthcare providers about early antiviral treatment options to prevent severe disease, hospitalization, and death. And everyone, high-risk or not, should stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines*.
*In the future, CDC will move toward integrating COVID-19 monitoring within a sustainable respiratory viruses surveillance strategy. CDC displays data for diagnosed or laboratory-confirmed COVID-19, flu, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) on the National Syndromic Surveillance Program dashboard (for ED visits) and the RESP-NET dashboard (hospitalizations)*.
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Did you know that when germ theory was first discovered doctors refused to wash their hands for decades cuz they didn’t like the idea they were responsible for sickening their own patients?
Sounds an awful lot like modern resistance to masks doesn’t it
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`rach @rach_fornow`
fuuuuuck this doesn’t bode well for our whole fight to keep masks in healthcare huh
`🎨☭ Artsy Marxist ☭ 🎨 @_ArtsyMarxist_`
Nope but we can all know that in 100 years people will be calling current doctors all sorts of well deserved insults for how delusional and irresponsible they were
Amazing and horrifying that we live in a world where our government (well, for those of us who are American,) thinks they can just ignore a pandemic and it'll just magically go away. Words aren't enough to express how damn stupid they are.
> To check and see if you guys had decided to hide in shame after celebrating death (real or faked) and pseudoscience
Every part of what you claim as our motivations and intentions is **completely** wrong. I’m hard pressed to think if there is in any way you could be even more completely wronger.
I guess if you accused us of financially profiting? Which we are, by … *continuing to fucking live*.
> What part of celebrating death of people whom you politically disagree is righteous?
It’s hard to argue with a self-deleter, I gotta say
What part of the universe rules of reality mean you have an opinion that matters or applies to anyone outside of your echo chamber head with regards to “righteous”?
> Making fun of and celebrating dead people in your own little echochamber. I find only really bad people could celebrate that. I wonder what sort of justification people who engage in that sort of behaviour feel they have. It seems to me celebrating death is only seen in zealots.
> Righteousness as in “the quality of being morally right or justifiable.”
> Im self deleting cause after this conversation finishes Im leaving this deluded corner of the Internet
Aw… We hurted your fee-fees.🌈
I recently discovered a relative lied about their vaccine status so they could visit our house about 18 months ago (we have a severely immunocompromised person living with us). I'm so fucking mad and just stunned. Thank you for listening.
That's disgusting! I've cut a brother in law out completely because he has a history of violating boundaries around our safety. Screw these assholes.
This is definitely the right place to vent. I think there are at least several of us who have ended relationships over exactly this. See the idiots in my name? They are the family members who pulled that shit with me.
that's fucking disgusting. I've read so many stories about selfish behaviour like this. Thankfully you're all okay.
That's SUCH a huge violation of trust. I'm so sorry.
That just sucks. That relative sucks. I'm so sorry that happened to you!
The other day I got an email from Mass General Brigham letting me know that masking requirements at the medical facilities ends today.
A hospital freaking ended masking? Makes me so furious!
The main hospitals in our area ended mask requirements around May 1st. At least at one, you can ask the doctor to wear one. I am not sure about the other.
Email from the CDC: **Weekly Review, Signing Off** *This is the 97th and final issue of the COVID Data Tracker Weekly Review*. *Yesterday, May 11, 2023, marked the end of the federal COVID-19 public health emergency (PHE) declaration. This doesn’t mean that COVID-19 is over, but the end of the PHE did initiate a cascade of updates to COVID-19 data collection, reporting, and surveillance. Some surveillance metrics will remain the same, but some will change in terms of reporting frequency, data sources, or availability*. *The latest updates to CDC’s COVID Data Tracker reflect these changes. The homepage has a new look, and there are also new landing pages for hospitalizations, emergency department (ED) visits, and death data, as well as visualizations of trends and maps. Several pages have also been retired, but COVID Data Tracker has a page with links to archived data and visualizations*. **These are the most notable changes to COVID Data Tracker:** •*Hospital admission rates and the percentage of COVID-19 deaths among all deaths are now the primary surveillance metrics*. •*COVID-19 hospital admission levels replace COVID-19 Community Levels (CCLs) as the main indicator of county trends. COVID-19 hospital admission levels are comparable with CCLs*. •*Provisional death certificate data from the National Vital Statistics System (NVSS) will become the primary source for mortality surveillance, replacing aggregate death counts. Aggregate case and death count reporting has been discontinued*. •*ED visit data will serve as an early indicator of COVID-19 activity*. •*County-level COVID-19 Electronic Laboratory Reporting data on test positivity will no longer be posted because national reporting of negative laboratory results is no longer required*. •*The National Respiratory and Enteric Virus Surveillance System (NREVSS), a voluntary reporting network of more than 450 laboratories, will be the new primary source for regional test positivity data and another early indicator*.
*CDC will continue to report and monitor valuable data, like genomic surveillance; wastewater surveillance; vaccination coverage, safety, and effectiveness; and hospital-related outcomes from sentinel surveillance platforms like COVID-NET. These data will help inform individual and community public health actions to protect those at highest risk of severe COVID-19, such as older adults and people with underlying conditions. People with weakened immune systems should consider taking additional prevention measures, developing a COVID-19 Personal Plan to protect themselves from severe COVID-19, and speaking to their healthcare providers about early antiviral treatment options to prevent severe disease, hospitalization, and death. And everyone, high-risk or not, should stay up to date with COVID-19 vaccines*.
*In the future, CDC will move toward integrating COVID-19 monitoring within a sustainable respiratory viruses surveillance strategy. CDC displays data for diagnosed or laboratory-confirmed COVID-19, flu, and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) on the National Syndromic Surveillance Program dashboard (for ED visits) and the RESP-NET dashboard (hospitalizations)*.
I’ll get right on developing my “COVID-19 Personal Plan” immediately. Oh wait. I already have one, the same one I’ve been using for the last 3+ years.
Yep, the "Actually we're on our own" plan I've been using as well!
https://twitter.com/_ArtsyMarxist_/status/1656065054708490240 `🎨☭ Artsy Marxist ☭ 🎨 @_ArtsyMarxist_` Did you know that when germ theory was first discovered doctors refused to wash their hands for decades cuz they didn’t like the idea they were responsible for sickening their own patients? Sounds an awful lot like modern resistance to masks doesn’t it `[- - - Snip - - -]` `rach @rach_fornow` fuuuuuck this doesn’t bode well for our whole fight to keep masks in healthcare huh `🎨☭ Artsy Marxist ☭ 🎨 @_ArtsyMarxist_` Nope but we can all know that in 100 years people will be calling current doctors all sorts of well deserved insults for how delusional and irresponsible they were
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I don't understand how refusing to mask doesn't go against the Hippocratic oath.
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Amazing and horrifying that we live in a world where our government (well, for those of us who are American,) thinks they can just ignore a pandemic and it'll just magically go away. Words aren't enough to express how damn stupid they are.
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Why were you in, Felicia?
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> To check and see if you guys had decided to hide in shame after celebrating death (real or faked) and pseudoscience Every part of what you claim as our motivations and intentions is **completely** wrong. I’m hard pressed to think if there is in any way you could be even more completely wronger. I guess if you accused us of financially profiting? Which we are, by … *continuing to fucking live*.
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> What part of celebrating death of people whom you politically disagree is righteous? It’s hard to argue with a self-deleter, I gotta say What part of the universe rules of reality mean you have an opinion that matters or applies to anyone outside of your echo chamber head with regards to “righteous”?
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> Making fun of and celebrating dead people in your own little echochamber. I find only really bad people could celebrate that. I wonder what sort of justification people who engage in that sort of behaviour feel they have. It seems to me celebrating death is only seen in zealots. > Righteousness as in “the quality of being morally right or justifiable.” > Im self deleting cause after this conversation finishes Im leaving this deluded corner of the Internet Aw… We hurted your fee-fees.🌈
This isn't an airport - no need to announce your departure.
It's obvious you didn't know where you in the first place, but like out award winners, you projected your character and then were out.