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the suck of sorrow's avatar

Well COVID beat Biden and there are good odds that it will give Trump a run also.

What we should never had to contemplate is the effect that repeated COVID exposures will do to life expectancy and quality. Are today's children going to have a healthy adult life?

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Marie Moneysmith's avatar

Well done, as always. It never ceases to amaze me that the administration has managed to sell so many people on the idea that the pandemic is over. It's like Fox News telling viewers what they want to hear. But for Biden to take credit for ending Covid while he has Covid -- that's a whole new level of mind fuckery.

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Laura T RN BSN's avatar

Please note SCOTUS just ruled on the Chevron Doctrine plus it was a GOP judge who said mask mandates were against our rights. We are heading into an era where scientific experience is irrelevant judges will be making decisions.

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Amy - The Tonic's avatar

THANK YOU. This was the post the world needed today.

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Margaret Stringer's avatar

I thought masks in hospitals were just common sense, until I took my spouse to ER, and there was not a single mask in sight.

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Amy - The Tonic's avatar

A long hauler friend of mine went for treatment at the NYU long COVID clinic and when she asked the ENT doc to put on a mask, he scoffed and refused.

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Margaret Stringer's avatar

Makes one wonder what medical school they went to. Next thing you know they will stop using masks and gloves in operating rooms. Honestly, with medical personnel not believing in prevention, I am not sure we will make it as a species.

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Amy - The Tonic's avatar

Couldn’t agree more

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Laura T RN BSN's avatar

The plutocracy is more important. They want Trump to roll back more regulations such as clean water, air, climate change. We can blame but a bulldozer is headed our way. Trump is a steamroller

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𝓙𝓪𝓼𝓶𝓲𝓷𝓮 𝓦𝓸𝓵𝓯𝓮's avatar

Thank you! I'm so sick of people talking about how many people died from Covid under Trump with mention to how many have died and been disabled under Biden.

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Eric Fish, DVM, PhD's avatar

The metric for success can’t be “this virus disappears and no one ever gets sick from it again.” We still have the H1N1 influenza virus from the 1918 pandemic circulating and causing tens of thousands of deaths a year. HIV is still with us, although we’ve greatly reduced the disease burden in the developed world. It is possible to both acknowledge progress and continually work to improve things. Indeed, we must—it’s the only option.

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Nate Bear's avatar

We need sensible mask policies in healthcare and national indoor clean air standards to reduce viral infections

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