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Abortion
by pdx rick - 04/14/24 03:23 PM
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You are probably fine, if you are not immunosuppressed or have a lot of comorbidities. I'm at three myself. If I do get Covid, I could qualify for Paxlovid, so I'm not worried. Not concerned about monkeypox, either: We have vaccines and an antiviral drug that works. One of the big national labs now offers a monkeypox test, and the feds will give you free treatment. Also transmission is from direct contact which I don't do.
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Me and the wife has received all 4, the 2 original shots and both boosters.
It's high past time that we start electing Americans to congress and the presidency who put America first instead of their political party. For way too long we have been electing Republicans and Democrats who happen to be Americans instead of Americans who happen to be Republicans and Democrats.
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I'll ask my doctor about the fourth one. I've got comorbidities out the ying-yang.
But my reclusive nature keeps me mostly protected from random germs.
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I've had 4. If you are over 50 you can get another booster. CDC GuidelinesI've continued to mask up in public places, and that seems prudent as it is spiking again in my area.
A well reasoned argument is like a diamond: impervious to corruption and crystal clear - and infinitely rarer.
Here, as elsewhere, people are outraged at what feels like a rigged game -- an economy that won't respond, a democracy that won't listen, and a financial sector that holds all the cards. - Robert Reich
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I don't go anywhere you might need to wear a mask. I'm having blood drawn tomorrow and there is a service who comes here and does it...all my groceries, pet supplies, household needs are delivered.
I manage it all right here from this desk. Other than that I 'walk' with the dog in the park or play shuffleboard outdoors and am safely distanced.
Do doctors give them in-house yet? I'd get the 4th if it was that easy.
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>Do doctors give them in-house yet? I'd get the 4th if it was that easy.
Try asking around with your local social services people. Being wheelchair-bound I bet you can get a visiting nurse to come give you a vaccination for free.
These days with all our vaccinations and antivirals available, I don't think most people need to mask if they are outside. It's going inside with other people that is dangerous. And for most of us, just a little inconvenient if we do catch it. I still mask-up to go in the grocery store or Home Depot. Most people don't. I still don my mask at drive-up food windows if the server is wearing a mask, just as a courtesy. I don't wear a mask when I pick up parking lot deliveries, but I do distance from the store delivery person.
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via free WaPo link At the start of the pandemic, Black people were more than three times as likely to die of covid as their White peers. But as 2020 progressed, the death rates narrowed — but not because fewer Black people were dying. White people began dying at increasingly unimaginable numbers, too, the Post analysis found.
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The Post analysis found that Black deaths declined, while White deaths never eased, increasing slowly but steadily, until the mortality gap flipped. From the end of October through the end of December [2021], White people died at a higher rate than Black people did, The Post found.
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“Usually, when we say a health disparity is disappearing, what we mean is that … the worse-off group is getting better,” said Tasleem Padamsee, an assistant professor at Ohio State University who researched vaccine use and was a member of the Ohio Department of Health’s work group on health equity. “We don’t usually mean that the group that had a systematic advantage got worse.”
That’s exactly what happened as the White death rate surpassed that for Black people, even though Black Americans routinely confront stress so corrosive it causes them to age quicker, become sicker and die younger.
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Researchers at the University of Georgia found that White people who assumed the pandemic had a disparate effect on communities of color — or were told that it did — had less fear of being infected with the coronavirus, were less likely to express empathy toward vulnerable populations and were less supportive of safety measures, according to an article in Social Science & Medicine.
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After it became clear that communities of color were being disproportionately affected, racial equity started to become the parlance of the pandemic, in words and deeds. As it did, vaccine access and acceptance within communities of color grew — and so did the belief among some White conservatives, who form the core of the Republican base, that vaccine requirements and mask mandates infringe on personal liberties.
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We just got our bivalent boosters, which will be shot #6.
Yeah, we're that serious because in Feb 2020 when I caught it the first time I came very close to winding up as 215 pounds of fertilizer. The second time I caught it three months ago it was three days of the sniffles and some fatigue and that's all.
I hope I don't ever catch it again even if it is just the sniffles.
My sense of smell is juuuuuuuuuust now beginning to come back a little bit, about 35% of what it used to be pre-COVID.
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I got my bivalent on 09/26/22 and got MP on 10/10/22. I need one more MP vaxx after 11/07/22.
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“ Q: Was that your biggest mistake as chief scientist—not calling SARS-CoV-2 airborne? A: We should have done it much earlier, based on the available evidence, and it is something that has cost the organization. You can argue that [the criticism of WHO] is unfair, because when it comes to mitigation, we did talk about all the methods, including ventilation and masking. But at the same time, we were not forcefully saying: “This is an airborne virus.” I regret that we didn't do this much, much earlier. WHO’s departing chief scientist r...r whether SARS-CoV-2 spreads through airI regret that the lesson learned by the ruling classes is they can kill over a million old and infirm, disable millions more, without any protests so long as they have buy in from the hegemonic PMC servant classes. Happy thanksgiving.
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