Also, here's the latest fun from the web today:
State officials are attempting to address California's staffing shortage through a sweeping policy change that allows asymptomatic healthcare workers who have tested positive for the coronavirus to return to work immediately. The policy, set to remain in place through Feb. 1, is designed to keep many healthcare workers on the job at a time when hospitals are expecting more patients.
Some experts say California's stance is an unorthodox yet necessary solution to a difficult problem. Yet many healthcare workers and community members say the policy is not only ill-advised, it's potentially dangerous.
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Whatever y'all do, don't be an immunocompromised patient in California. With the CDC shortening guidelines despite it being contradictory to transmission data and viral loads during the illness, I was sort of concerned that this was going to happen. The story that @RenegadeMonster told about his sister attempting to call in sick is just the tip of the iceberg for this. They are trying to get people to show up to work sick...to take care of sick people.... I know they said asymptomatic, but RM's sister was told by management that she had the vaccine so she couldn't be sick.
And this fun bit:
An email from Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, on February 2 2020 said that “a likely explanation” was that Covid had rapidly evolved from a Sars-like virus inside human tissue in a low-security lab.
The email, to Dr Anthony Fauci and Dr Francis Collins of the US National Institutes of Health, went on to say that such evolution may have “accidentally created a virus primed for rapid transmission between humans”.
But a leading scientist told Sir Jeremy that “further debate would do unnecessary harm to science in general and science in China in particular”. Dr Collins, the former director of the US National Institutes of Health, warned it could damage “international harmony”.
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My head hurts. Okay, I'm going to say this one time y'all: Conspiracy theories abound when governments and people are not honest and forthright. If you cannot tell the American people that we were funding virology research in Wuhan, then maybe we shouldn't be funding virology research in Wuhan.
State officials are attempting to address California's staffing shortage through a sweeping policy change that allows asymptomatic healthcare workers who have tested positive for the coronavirus to return to work immediately. The policy, set to remain in place through Feb. 1, is designed to keep many healthcare workers on the job at a time when hospitals are expecting more patients.
Some experts say California's stance is an unorthodox yet necessary solution to a difficult problem. Yet many healthcare workers and community members say the policy is not only ill-advised, it's potentially dangerous.
As hospitals reel, California tells coronavirus-positive medical workers to stay on the job
Experts say it's a necessary solution to staffing shortages, yet many workers say the policy could be dangerous.
Whatever y'all do, don't be an immunocompromised patient in California. With the CDC shortening guidelines despite it being contradictory to transmission data and viral loads during the illness, I was sort of concerned that this was going to happen. The story that @RenegadeMonster told about his sister attempting to call in sick is just the tip of the iceberg for this. They are trying to get people to show up to work sick...to take care of sick people.... I know they said asymptomatic, but RM's sister was told by management that she had the vaccine so she couldn't be sick.
And this fun bit:
An email from Sir Jeremy Farrar, director of the Wellcome Trust, on February 2 2020 said that “a likely explanation” was that Covid had rapidly evolved from a Sars-like virus inside human tissue in a low-security lab.
The email, to Dr Anthony Fauci and Dr Francis Collins of the US National Institutes of Health, went on to say that such evolution may have “accidentally created a virus primed for rapid transmission between humans”.
But a leading scientist told Sir Jeremy that “further debate would do unnecessary harm to science in general and science in China in particular”. Dr Collins, the former director of the US National Institutes of Health, warned it could damage “international harmony”.
Scientists believed Covid leaked from Wuhan lab - but feared debate could hurt ‘international harmony’
Leading British and US scientists thought it was likely that Covid accidentally leaked from a laboratory but were concerned that further debate would harm science in China, emails show.
My head hurts. Okay, I'm going to say this one time y'all: Conspiracy theories abound when governments and people are not honest and forthright. If you cannot tell the American people that we were funding virology research in Wuhan, then maybe we shouldn't be funding virology research in Wuhan.
