How is your sector of employment handling vax mandates?

[tgizzard]

Different symptoms, and the same test we use to check for COVID also tests for influenzas and B as well as RSV.

And yes, we test for influenza almost every time somebody comes in with respiratory symptoms and is acutely ill.

What most people thinks is “just the flu” is something else entirely.


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Funny story

When this whole thing was just popping off our daughter brought the woo flu home.

A kid in her class traveled to China with her family to visit family. Upon returning she was under the weather but her parents sent her to school anyway. This kid proceeded to infect about 70% of the class. Kids brought it home to their families. Most of the kids - mine included - has mild symptoms and were back up and doing their thang after a couple days. The parents - myself included - were wiped out.

So I had all the symptoms. Headache, body aches, extreme shortness of breath, fever, etc. So on day five or six of this, I finally went to the Drs. I had a fever of 104, a heart rate of like 120 bpm, struggling for a breath. I was in bad shape.

Now i’m getting to your post. Dr. ask if I’ve traveled to Asia, I say no. Dr. says there is a new virus going around but if you’ve not been out of the country it’s most likely the flu and left it at that. Gave me steroids and sent me home. Basically at that time this wasn’t wide spread yet (late February) so the assumption was must be the flu.

Did we have the woo flu? I think so, especially since I felt like I was breathing through glass for a couple months after my symptoms went away. So i’m not in the medical field, but I can see how during the height of it in 2020 the above logic of “must be the flu” was reversed and all respiratory cases were considered covid.


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[HKGuns]

Hospitals are incentivized to call cases Covid. $50K per case they wouldn't get otherwise. Lots of people getting rich off this fiasco.

Looks like the start at is broken. Skip to the 4:00 mark.

[mRad]

Funny story

When this whole thing was just popping off our daughter brought the woo flu home.

A kid in her class traveled to China with her family to visit family. Upon returning she was under the weather but her parents sent her to school anyway. This kid proceeded to infect about 70% of the class. Kids brought it home to their families. Most of the kids - mine included - has mild symptoms and were back up and doing their thang after a couple days. The parents - myself included - were wiped out.

So I had all the symptoms. Headache, body aches, extreme shortness of breath, fever, etc. So on day five or six of this, I finally went to the Drs. I had a fever of 104, a heart rate of like 120 bpm, struggling for a breath. I was in bad shape.

Now i’m getting to your post. Dr. ask if I’ve traveled to Asia, I say no. Dr. says there is a new virus going around but if you’ve not been out of the country it’s most likely the flu and left it at that. Gave me steroids and sent me home. Basically at that time this wasn’t wide spread yet (late February) so the assumption was must be the flu.

Did we have the woo flu? I think so, especially since I felt like I was breathing through glass for a couple months after my symptoms went away. So i’m not in the medical field, but I can see how during the height of it in 2020 the above logic of “must be the flu” was reversed and all respiratory cases were considered covid.


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Heh you were being counted as “flu” without being tested.

They did do “probable” COVID early on if all symptoms were present. That was actually when numbers were low. We didn’t have any available tests for several weeks. By June, every patient that walked through the door for a COVID test and every time a patient was transferred units, they got another COVID test. Most places in the US didn’t peak until we were ramped up on testing supplies.


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[mRad]

Hospitals are incentivized to call cases Covid. $50K per case they wouldn't get otherwise. Lots of people getting rich off this fiasco.

Looks like the start at is broken. Skip to the 4:00 mark.

Just as that idiot from Oklahoma can get on television and lie, so can this guy.


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[Averageman]

Something to ponder;

[Diamondback]

And it looks like Shitzizpantz is intent on going into FAFO territory and killing people via withholding treatments just to "Own The Deplorables"...

https://twitchy.com/sarahd-313035/20...om-red-states/
"The Biden administration is imposing new limits on states’ ability to access to Covid-19 antibody treatments amid rising demand from GOP governors who have relied on the drug as a primary weapon against the virus.

Federal health officials plan to allocate specific amounts to each state under the new approach, in an effort to more evenly distribute the 150,000 doses that the government makes available each week.

The approach is likely to cut into shipments to GOP-led states in the Southeast that have made the pricey antibody drug a central part of their pandemic strategy, while simultaneously spurning mask mandates and other restrictions. That threatens to heighten tensions between the Biden administration and governors like Florida’s Ron DeSantis, who have emerged as vocal opponents of the federal Covid-19 response."
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/0...atments-511825

This sick freak can't be 25'ed soon enough. Granted, not like Willie Brown's sausagesocket is gonna be any better, but...

[AKDoug]

Something to ponder;

I'd love to believe this, but I seriously know more fat people that kicked COVID easily than I know skinny people. The only people I personally know that had huge issues with COVID were in shape; like run and work out every day in shape. The toughest guy I know is going on week three of COVID kicking his ass. His wife, who's overweight, kicked it in under a week. As for actual deaths from COVID, two of the three were in shape non-obese, but over 70. The third fought obesity every day I knew him for 40 years, but was one of those bull strong big dudes that worked hard every day, but he was also in his 70's.