yukbon
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Tbh I haven't been keeping up with local rent prices here in Miami but housing didn't even dip appreciably. Maybe a couple of months last year I guess. Otherwise it's been up up up up up
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I saw on the news where Miami's market never really cooled down.
yukbon
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It's foreign investment and immigration; anyone with any money in South America came here and bought up whatever they could
Meanwhile in Texas at a Chris Stapleton concert. No masks or proof of vaccination required.
Superspreader event incoming?
Max Sterling
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Damn, I hoped Stapleton was one of the good ones.
debianlinux
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My dad got me a pair of tickets to to see Alanis, Garbage, Liz Phair for July 2020 in Nashville, TN. Covid happened and it got pushed to September 2021. July is out outside the school year and September is not. Nashville is an 8 hour drive. I'm actually fine with still going to visit but am feeling drastically less okay with actually going to the concert. I think he has about $400 tied up in the tickets (meanwhile livenation sold a bunch for $20 cause you know you can die if you go).
Really not sure how to handle this situation. I was entertaining calling a family friend who I know is into the artists to see if she wants the tickets but even then it seems kinda crass.
Really not sure how to handle this situation. I was entertaining calling a family friend who I know is into the artists to see if she wants the tickets but even then it seems kinda crass.
Wow, what a stellar line up.
What does it look like in terms of the Delta variant spread in TN? Is it relatively low risk? Is the venue requiring vaccination proof or negative test? What are they doing at the venue to make sure this doesn't become a super spreader event? Is this indoors? Outdoors?
ETA: When was your vaccination done? It looks like Pfizer and Moderna are both lessening in efficacy around the 8 month mark, so you are much better protected within that first 8 months after receiving the second dose. I realize that we are finding viral loads of Delta that are similar in vaccinated and unvaccinated but it seems that being vaccinated has some protection against hospitalization unless you are already at risk (and received your shot over 8 months ago).
debianlinux
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TN is a red state and is having red state spread. Bridgestone's policy is basically just words of platitude saying they strongly recommend vaccinations and masking but no enforcement whatsoever. It is very much indoors. It's basically all the bad things.
Yuck yuck yuck
Yeah, that's all the bad things. Right now, if you want to go inside a business, you have to show proof of vaccination or a negative covid test in NOLA. If this were outside or this was a vax only event, I would be way more okay with going. It is hard for me to recommend that you go. I don't want my Deborah getting sick.
LeeVing
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We have 17 Covid positive on my unit...out of 39 patients. The one open bed is in my group and probably will be a covid patient.
That will give me 5 in my group of 13 patients.
And the pharmacy is saying we are getting short on Remdesivir.
The one vaccinated patient i know isn't even here for Covid and I don't think we're even treating it. He's asymptomatic and was admitted for something else.
The CDC hasn't been tracking breakthrough infections, I guess because if they don't acknowledge them, they don't exist(?). My gripe since the beginning of this thing is that we don't have any clear surveillance methodology. This is the CDC's job--to create clear surveillance methodology. I used to work doing public health surveillance and we had directives from the CDC on what to do. How in the world do they think we are going to fight this if we can't even accurately report on it? While yes they should report on vaccinated getting covid, obviously the one asymptomatic person should not have been included in this graphic. This is why people are questioning numbers, because everyone is working on a different set of criteria for counting.
LeeVing
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I'm not sure why the CDC doesn't track breakthrough cases, but my hospital does.
The one vaccinated patient that has covid should be tracked and listed as all the other positive patients, as far as the hospital is concerned , even though he wasn't in for Covid, he still takes more resources (staffing) and PPE than a non-covid patient. Positive is positive.
Turbo
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It’s so sad to see numbers like that when people have a simple way to mitigate that risk. You’d hope seeing this will get others to vaccinate, but I guess unlikely. Maybe a few and that’s a victory in and of itself.
Thanks for what you do. I know it’s not appreciated and respected by everyone based on the varying degrees of selfishness we see out there, but most of us are in awe of the sacrifices you make.
Turbo
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Just to show how different it is up here, my province is now at 86%/77% vaccination rate for 12+ (75%/67% of total population). Quite awesome really, but we're still striving for more and delta is forcing several measures to stay in place. Case loads are creeping up even though it still mostly unvaccinated folks. Delta seems to be a heat seeking missile for the unvaccinated.
I just downloaded my vaccination passport app - starting Sep 1, you need to be vaccinated for various non-essential activities like indoor dining at restaurants, bars, festivals, sports venues, high contact sports and gyms. Essential things like schools and healthcare are exempt. Also regular shopping is exempt, but the indoor mask mandate in public was never lifted. Schools are starting masked in most health units (a few are exempt because the Delta wave hasn't reached them). The whole idea is to avoid shutdowns. Most people are actually onboard, but I'm sure the loud few will make themselves seen and heard.
I just downloaded my vaccination passport app - starting Sep 1, you need to be vaccinated for various non-essential activities like indoor dining at restaurants, bars, festivals, sports venues, high contact sports and gyms. Essential things like schools and healthcare are exempt. Also regular shopping is exempt, but the indoor mask mandate in public was never lifted. Schools are starting masked in most health units (a few are exempt because the Delta wave hasn't reached them). The whole idea is to avoid shutdowns. Most people are actually onboard, but I'm sure the loud few will make themselves seen and heard.
My father told me tonight that hre resigned from his job over "The Natzis mandating the jab".
debianlinux
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I'm sure the relief in the office is palpable.
LeeVing
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There is a CNA I work with contemplating moving to Arkansas so she doesn't have to get the vaccine.
And a nurse threatening to get a lawyer.
While it would make us even more short staffed, I won't miss either.
Dtknuckles
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LeeVing
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What’s a lawyer gonna do!make money off her.
Exactly...just a waste of money.
She had been saying that she didn't want to get the shot because it wasn't fully FDA approved...now she was saying that she wants a religious exemption, when we all know she's not religious at all.
It's just hard to see some people in this field be so adamantly against the vaccine when we see what this does to people - and how quickly you can die from it....as a smoker, she should know that she's even more prone to get sicker if/when she gets it.
The CNA has other immune issues, so I get her hesitation, but moving to Arkansas seems pretty drastic for a slim chance of having a reaction from the vaccine.