Yes, a couple of the replies were along the lines of 'If you think wearing a mask is uncomfortable, wait till you have to wear a respirator'.
WetEV said:A personal note.
My uncle is 95, and a month ago was fairly healthy. Would take the shuttle out to a supermarket and buy a steak and tell the kitchen how to cook it. Grew tomatoes outside his window at the home. Mentally he was all there, and he discovered how to use an computer and the internet a decade ago. Mostly to find pictures of naked ladies, which he very much enjoyed. But also movies, news and science and lots more. Covid got into the nursing home, he came down with a fairly mild case, and lost his sense of taste and smell, and has been increasingly confused. Has stopped eating, and no longer knows where he is, what happened a few minutes ago, or much of anything else. The home's staff and the family doesn't expect him to recover.
WetEV said:That was fast. He didn't suffer much is the good news.
Died this afternoon.
WetEV said:That was fast. He didn't suffer much is the good news.
Died this afternoon.
My condolences to you and your family.WetEV said:That was fast. He didn't suffer much is the good news.
Died this afternoon.
Dr. Scott Atlas, the White House’s controversial coronavirus adviser, encouraged an insurrection on Sunday against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) over Michigan’s new COVID-19 safety protocols meant to curb the state’s skyrocketing infection rates.
The remarks by Atlas, who is a neuroradiologist with no formal training in treating infectious diseases, came in response to the Democratic governor announcing an epidemic order starting Wednesday for at least three weeks. The new Michigan Department of Health and Human Services regulations halt in-person learning for high schools and colleges, indoor dining, theaters, stadiums, organized sports, casinos and group exercise classes.
They say 'it's all a hoax': Nurses describe what it's like treating COVID patients in UtahIn addition to capacity issues, he's facing another challenge—patients refusing to believe they have COVID-`19.
"I've heard, 'It will go away after the election,' I've heard, 'I have O-negative type blood and my blood type can’t get COVID,' yet they're being admitted to the ICU," Dr. Larsen said.
He and other health workers say they believe people have stopped listening to them, and some say it's been tough to see people still not social distancing.
A FB friend of someone I know continually spews misinformation in FB comments about COVID and a TCF prohibited topic. I'm pretty sure it's the same person who has made a ton of anti-mask comments including posting https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/effectiveness-face-masks/ verbatim (asserting the post in there was true). Today, she said "Its a virus, LESS deadly than the flu!!" ARGH!"They deny it," Smithson said.
Their family members deny it. We have these patients who literally are on life support. We're working super hard to get them better, finally helping them to wake up. And then the first thing they communicate is that it's all a hoax.
"I wish people understood how much we really care..." Roberts said.
Dr. Brandon Webb says there continues to be pushback over the state's new mask mandate.
ROTT: But go outside and ask folks, mask-wearers or not, about their thoughts on the coronavirus pandemic and...
MARVIN LOFTIS: (Laughter) The big joke?
ROTT: You think it's a big joke?
LOFTIS: It's just another cold.
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CRAIG MANN: It's garbage. It's absolute garbage. And there's been plenty of proof behind the whole COVID pandemic, if you will, that links back to communist China. And it's communist Marxism that they're trying to push on this country.
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PAM FORNQUEST: And now they're telling us the hospitals are overwhelmed here in our community? It's for fear. That's what it's for - just to cause fear. And I don't appreciate that at all. It's a fear tactic.
Man... talk about pure idiocy!A recent Ohio wedding attended by 83 people has become the latest super-spreader event amid a nationwide surge in Covid-19 after nearly half of them tested positive for coronavirus, the newlywed couple said.
Among the 32 people to contract the virus were the couple, Anthony and Mikayla Bishop, and three of their grandparents, two of whom visited the emergency room, the Bishops said in an interview with NBC affiliate WLWT of Cincinnati.
“I didn't think that almost half of our wedding guests were gonna’ get sick,” Mikayla Bishop told the station. “You're in the moment. You're having fun. You don't think about COVID anymore."
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But aside from the couple’s grandparents, few people appeared to wear masks, even while they let loose during the reception and were close to one another on the dance floor.
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