Covidiots thread

[UNCjigga]

GQP covidiot of Thursday afternoon: Rep. Keith Kidwell of Beaufort, NC

Conservative NC lawmaker ill, wife hospitalized with COVID

Rep. Keith Kidwell, R-Beaufort, has posted on Facebook asking for prayers for his wife, who is hospitalized with COVID. Kidwell has been an outspoken critic of mask and vaccine mandates.

www.wral.com

Kidwell is the main sponsor of bills that would limit the governor's emergency powers, ban the governor from mandating vaccines by executive order and bar state agencies from requiring the shots for licensing purposes.

In prior Facebook posts, Kidwell has decried “vaccine passports,” employer mandates, mask requirements, and efforts to get more people vaccinated, calling vaccine campaigns “manipulation.”

Kidwell has also reposted stories and posts casting doubt on the danger of COVID and calling into question the safety of the vaccines.

WRAL News has asked Rep. Kidwell whether he is vaccinated. He did not immediately respond.

 

[Ajay]

GQP covidiot of Thursday afternoon: Rep. Keith Kidwell of Beaufort, NC

Conservative NC lawmaker ill, wife hospitalized with COVID

Rep. Keith Kidwell, R-Beaufort, has posted on Facebook asking for prayers for his wife, who is hospitalized with COVID. Kidwell has been an outspoken critic of mask and vaccine mandates.

www.wral.com

Kidwell is the main sponsor of bills that would limit the governor's emergency powers, ban the governor from mandating vaccines by executive order and bar state agencies from requiring the shots for licensing purposes.

In prior Facebook posts, Kidwell has decried “vaccine passports,” employer mandates, mask requirements, and efforts to get more people vaccinated, calling vaccine campaigns “manipulation.”

Kidwell has also reposted stories and posts casting doubt on the danger of COVID and calling into question the safety of the vaccines.

WRAL News has asked Rep. Kidwell whether he is vaccinated. He did not immediately respond.

Hopefully, he'll change his mind now (I know, I'm being overly optimistic...).

 

[UNCjigga]

Hopefully, he'll change his mind now (I know, I'm being overly optimistic...).

GQP have been sacrificing/jeopardizing women’s health for decades now…not sure he’ll change his mind.

 

[WelshBloke]

My SO is the head of intake for a medium sized healthcare company. That basically means she works the logistics of how to distribute the equipment and resources needed to care for patients. What she is trying to tell people is that the equipment, like the negative pressure room, is important but not really critical. They have done without those things in the past and knows how to work without them in emergencies. Those things make medicine easier, safer, and more effective. The one thing you absolutely can't do without in medicine is the people that care for the patients, and that is what you are really talking about when you talk about ICU beds.

In a typical ICU you have about 1 nurse for every 2-3 patients, outside of ICU you have 1 nurse for every 12-20 (mattering on the level of care) patients. The main difference between a 'normal' bed and a ICU bed is how many nurses you have for that bed. So, while they can work around not having a negative pressure room if they really have to, they can't work around not having a nurse to to attend that patient.

When big emergencies happen there is a pool of nurses they can move around to help, both locally and nationally, but what is going on right now is that the emergency is everywhere, and it is not ending. There is an finite number of nurses, and we are simply running out, so we are asking them to work more and more hours. That was doable for a few months. But we are now into years. We are burning them out, and because we are so short sighted we even stopped training new ones.

Driving a ventilator is fucking exhausting as well. Nursing shifts are long and you have to concentrate on the device that is literally keeping your patient alive for long periods, you can't start daydreaming or neffing on atot.
It's not for me, I like my patients awake.

 

[MtnMan]

Hopefully, he'll change his mind now (I know, I'm being overly optimistic...).

Optimistic? Some might say you are fucking delusional.

 

[StarTech]

Just in

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett on Thursday denied a bid by students at Indiana University to block the school's requirement that they be vaccinated against COVID-19.

Barrett rejected the students' emergency request without offering any explanation and without referring the matter to the full court for review. The decision marks an early test of vaccine mandates during a period of surging infections and hospitalizations caused by the Delta variant of the coronavirus.
REUTERS: Students can't block Indiana University vaccine mandate -U.S. Supreme Court's Barrett

 

[kage69]

Just in

Happy to see her prove me wrong. Now do it with abortion rights lady.

 

[Jhhnn]

Just in

OTOH, four justices can demand a full review so we'll see where it goes. Probably won't happen.

 

[uallas5]

OTOH, four justices can demand a full review so we'll see where it goes. Probably won't happen.

I'm sure Thomas and Alito would want to, probably can't convince 2 others to go along though.

 

[allisolm]

This week a lot of children started school and so it begins:

Reno, NV. A parent who tested positive for covid 2 days before school started sent their child, who had also tested positive, to school and now 80 children have to virtual school until various conditions are met. Hopefully, the saving grace here will be that Reno has a mask requirement for schools.

In our county in FL, school started Wednesday and today we already have 24 new cases among students and staff. We do have a mask mandate for schools but parents can sign a paper and opt their children out.

A parent sent their child to school after a positive Covid-19 test. More than 80 students may have been exposed, officials say | CNN

More than 80 students were potentially exposed to Covid-19 on the first day of class in Reno, Nevada, on Monday after a parent sent their child to Marce Herz Middle School, despite both the parent and child receiving a positive Covid-19 test just two days earlier, Washoe County Health District...

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[SMOGZINN]

This week a lot of children started school and so it begins:

Reno, NV. A parent who tested positive for covid 2 days before school started sent their child, who had also tested positive, to school and now 80 children have to virtual school until various conditions are met. Hopefully, the saving grace here will be that Reno has a mask requirement for schools.

In our county in FL, school started Wednesday and today we already have 24 new cases among students and staff. We do have a mask mandate for schools but parents can sign a paper and opt their children out.

A parent sent their child to school after a positive Covid-19 test. More than 80 students may have been exposed, officials say | CNN

More than 80 students were potentially exposed to Covid-19 on the first day of class in Reno, Nevada, on Monday after a parent sent their child to Marce Herz Middle School, despite both the parent and child receiving a positive Covid-19 test just two days earlier, Washoe County Health District...

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While I think that mask mandates are good, the fact is they simply don't work for kids. Having spent time with kids under a mask mandate I can say that they actually keep their mask on less then %25 of the time, and take it off to to everything. I had to keep explaining to them that they could not take it off to cough or sneeze. You have to constantly remind them to put the mask back on, and the very second you turn away they take it back off. This was varying ages from 5-18, and the truth is the 15-18 age range were the worst.

 

[VRAMdemon]

Grifting off the stupidity of his constituents. The grift that keeps on grifting!

MSN

"Nancy Pelosi JUST CALLED Kevin McCarthy a 'moron' for opposing the mask mandate," the message reads. "You're a top patriot and HE NEEDS YOU to get this t-shirt to oppose HER & the Radical Socialist Left." Donations ranging from $25 to $2,900 allow voters to secure the t-shirt.

 

[balloonshark]

Grifting off the stupidity of his constituents. The grift that keeps on grifting!

MSN

Ha. They're actually getting their constituents to not only buy t-shirts with the word 'Moron' on the front. They will get them to wear them in public. lol.

Speaking of Covidiots. I had to go to see my Cardiologist yesterday because they ran a bunch of tests on me this past week. In the waiting room I'm the youngest patient in the room. This man walks in with his mask below his nose. What kind of asshole endangers the life of the very people Covid targets? WTF?

 

[vi edit]

While I think that mask mandates are good, the fact is they simply don't work for kids. Having spent time with kids under a mask mandate I can say that they actually keep their mask on less then %25 of the time, and take it off to to everything. I had to keep explaining to them that they could not take it off to cough or sneeze. You have to constantly remind them to put the mask back on, and the very second you turn away they take it back off. This was varying ages from 5-18, and the truth is the 15-18 age range were the worst.

I have the complete opposite experience, but maybe it's an age thing. My 10 and 13 year are some of the most compliant mask wearers I know. Same for a lot of kids my younger kids age. They are like model citizens for masks. So much better than most adults I know (including myself). I do live in a super Covid Safety compliant area in general so there's good role models all around us. Our 13-18 year old vaccination rate is over 70%.

 

[SMOGZINN]

I have the complete opposite experience, but maybe it's an age thing. My 10 and 13 year are some of the most compliant mask wearers I know. Same for a lot of kids my younger kids age. They are like model citizens for masks. So much better than most adults I know (including myself). I do live in a super Covid Safety compliant area in general so there's good role models all around us. Our 13-18 year old vaccination rate is over 70%.

My experiences is that the middle school groups, 8-12 or so, are pretty good with the masks, older then that and some type of natural rebellion takes place and they simply refuse to wear it on principle, younger then that and they simply forget they should be.

 

[kage69]

This asshole cannot comprehend any topic if it does not revolve around him. Still doesn't give 1/2 a rat's ass about Americans dying by the thousands.

Help keep Americans alive? Nah.

Team Treason needs to be purged, for the good of the country.

 

[esquared]

More nurses yelling my body, my choice.
Get the vaccine or get fired? In Shenandoah Valley, some nurses choose termination.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/vaccine-mandate-nurses-virginia-covid/2021/08/13/493c906a-fad3-11eb-9c0e-97e29906a970_story.html?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3466800%2F6117e4089d2fda2f47f3a6da%2F5a1cd65d9bbc0f4d52f33ae6%2F8%2F70%2F6117e4089d2fda2f47f3a6da

 

[MtnMan]

This asshole cannot comprehend any topic if it does not revolve around him. Still doesn't give 1/2 a rat's ass about Americans dying by the thousands.

Help keep Americans alive? Nah.

Team Treason needs to be purged, for the good of the country.

Actually, by killing off your own base, you are doing the Dems a favor.

 

[kage69]

More nurses yelling my body, my choice.
Get the vaccine or get fired? In Shenandoah Valley, some nurses choose termination.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/vaccine-mandate-nurses-virginia-covid/2021/08/13/493c906a-fad3-11eb-9c0e-97e29906a970_story.html?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3466800%2F6117e4089d2fda2f47f3a6da%2F5a1cd65d9bbc0f4d52f33ae6%2F8%2F70%2F6117e4089d2fda2f47f3a6da

All states should being following Maine's example here. Any health care worker who doesn't understand or respect the nature of highly communicable diseases has no business working in a hospital or clinic. Period. End of fucking debate. We already mandate sooo many other vaccinations for health workers, why do you people not get this?

Quit, but it should also result in you never getting a job in the health care industry again. Your contempt for patients and coworkers should render you persona non grata for the entire industry. Have fun working for a vet. So sick of hearing the 'My body, my choice' bullshit. Pregnancy isn't contagious you assholes. When dealing with contagious diseases you are not the only body involved, why do you people not get this?

 

[kage69]

Actually, by killing off your own base, you are doing the Dems a favor.

That part I'm ok with. Magats and Qunts don't really deserve this country, by virtue of their own disrespect for it. If they want to risk death after all the time and effort that has been spent trying to help them, fine, go nuts assholes.

It's the innocent, non-political people around them that I feel for. No one should have to go on a ventilator just because they have a batshit crazy Qunt for an uncle or neighbor.

 

[hal2kilo]

This asshole cannot comprehend any topic if it does not revolve around him. Still doesn't give 1/2 a rat's ass about Americans dying by the thousands.

Help keep Americans alive? Nah.

Team Treason needs to be purged, for the good of the country.

Let the bodies hit the floor!

 

[NWRMidnight]

Let the bodies hit the floor!

Please, don't tarnish Rob Zombie like that.

 

[hal2kilo]

More nurses yelling my body, my choice.
Get the vaccine or get fired? In Shenandoah Valley, some nurses choose termination.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/vaccine-mandate-nurses-virginia-covid/2021/08/13/493c906a-fad3-11eb-9c0e-97e29906a970_story.html?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_most&carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F3466800%2F6117e4089d2fda2f47f3a6da%2F5a1cd65d9bbc0f4d52f33ae6%2F8%2F70%2F6117e4089d2fda2f47f3a6da

Shouldn't be in the medical profession then. Must not have paid any attention when viruses and communicable diseases were taught.

 

[kage69]

Please, don't tarnish Rob Zombie like that.

I think Rob is safe. That song is by Drowning Pool isn't it?

 

[NWRMidnight]

I think Rob is safe. That song is by Drowning Pool isn't it?

You are correct, I had to look it up. I only knew of it coming from Rob Zombie, until now. (I never heard of Drowning Pool till now).

My understanding is Drowning Pool where the original song writers/band, and where supposed to tour with Rob Zombie. But the lead singer of Drowning Pool (Dave Williams) died which made it impossible to occur, So Rob Zombie performed it as a tribute to Drowning Pool and Dave Williams.