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Why are 1,500 Americans still dying from COVID every week?
(abcnews.go.com)
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Feels like a combination of vaccine distrust and misinformation, cost of medical care, and the spread through coming to work sick as many can’t afford not to.
It’s a horrible situation all around that will continue as it was mismanaged from the start.
In March of ~~2019~~ 2020 I said this would change nothing about how businesses run, and within two years we would be back to sending people in to work sick. What I didn't predict was the CDC actually changing fucking medical guidelines to benefit business instead of following the actual timeline it takes from infection to no longer spreading COVID.
It fucking sucks so hard being right. It was like overnight from "You're heroes!" right back to "You're lucky to have a fucking job! You should be thankful to me for keeping you employed!"
No one in corporate America gives one fucking shit about our lives. Why aren't more Americans ready to fucking strike over it? Probably because they're fucking stupid.
A huge chunk might be stupid, but a vast majority of workers have no union protection, are one accident/car trouble/missed paycheck away from homelessness, AND have their healthcare tied to their job. Its a hurricane of fuck you that the ultra wealthy have created aimed at the working class.
Ah, so COVID happened a year earlier in your timeline
Lmao, yeah, wrong year. 2020, of course. Please forgive my misspeak/type.
It sure fucking FEELS like we’ve been dealing with this for 5 years LOL
2020 the year that lasted a decade
I do wonder what 2029 would look like
I mean in a month and a half it'll be 4 years
I heard a theory that covid was around in Europe for a few months before it was officially recognized.
late 2019 it was on the radio about a flu in China. I remember christmas eve 2019, talking with the guys at the parts counter about all this, wondering if they would close the border, the date is clear in my memory becuase i needed an important vehicle part in order to get home for christmas. They did, a couple months after the flu arrived the following year. I was so fucking mad that they didn't do a hard January closure, instead of a half assed patial closure 6 months late that literally solved nothing, prevented nothing, angered and inconvenienced people in two neighbouring countries that both had the fucking flu while thousands upon thousands of "essential" people just carried on. The whole thing was quite literally fucking retarded. Later there was proof it was in Italy early summer 2019, that's not a theory. Samples from water treatment plants.
WTF summer 2019 was very early in the timeline
Same as USA, people in my office were coming in with walking pneumonia getting everyone sick in January 2020 and this was a tech and health company (works closely with hospitals and health insurance)
This is how we out the time travelers.
They’ve also Making it really hard to find a shot.
My doctors office didn’t have it, Rite aide wants $100 for it, my state is stupid about providing the shot. I should probably go over to the next state and try there.
Weird. I went to the local minute clinic and got it for free (or maybe insurance, I guess I don't know come to think of it. There was no copay though) just a few weeks ago. I've never run into someone saying they were finding it harder to find one, either.
I have subsidized insurance in my state. They only cover it at drs offices, ours have no covid vaccine available. We may switch drs.
Did you try https://www.vaccines.gov ? Also your city, county, or state beauty departments may have (had) days where they gave out free vaccines - admittedly, those may or may not be over for the year, but you can bookmark the info for next fall.
Got Walgreens? They take most insurances for the covid shot.
Also Safeway?