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In shitty news of COVID fucking up life, just enough to make you really depressed, my wife’s grandmother just died.
Not of COVID, just old age. But, she had to die alone as no-one was allowed into the hospital to see her once she got admitted.
Even her double-jabbed sister who could have had tests every day? Nope.
So off you go all alone lady. Thanks for paying your taxes for the better part of 80 years.
Its the second member of her family to die that way and it leaves behind a pretty heartbroken family.
Imagine not being able to see your Mum before she dies?
That’s the situation two of my wife’s family have had in the last two months. They are all double-jabbed, incredibly careful people, and they just don’t deserve it.
All while Japan puts on a fucking sporting event.
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@gt12 said in Coronavirus - Overall:
In shitty news of COVID fucking up life, just enough to make you really depressed, my wife’s grandmother just died.
Not of COVID, just old age. But, she had to die alone as no-one was allowed into the hospital to see her once she got admitted.
Even her double-jabbed sister who could have had tests every day? Nope.
So off you go all alone lady. Thanks for paying your taxes for the better part of 80 years.
Its the second member of her family to die that way and it leaves behind a pretty heartbroken family.
Imagine not being able to see your Mum before she dies?
That’s the situation two of my wife’s family have had in the last two months. They are all double-jabbed, incredibly careful people, and they just don’t deserve it.
All while Japan puts on a fucking sporting event.
That's tough, very tough and I struggle to comprehend having to go through that
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@gt12 said in Coronavirus - Overall:
In shitty news of COVID fucking up life, just enough to make you really depressed, my wife’s grandmother just died.
Not of COVID, just old age. But, she had to die alone as no-one was allowed into the hospital to see her once she got admitted.
Even her double-jabbed sister who could have had tests every day? Nope.
So off you go all alone lady. Thanks for paying your taxes for the better part of 80 years.
Its the second member of her family to die that way and it leaves behind a pretty heartbroken family.
Imagine not being able to see your Mum before she dies?
That’s the situation two of my wife’s family have had in the last two months. They are all double-jabbed, incredibly careful people, and they just don’t deserve it.
All while Japan puts on a fucking sporting event.
It’s a worldwide fucking disgrace not just Japan’s
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@kid-chocolate 100%
I think the huge amount of fear around this virus has been engineered in such a strange way. daily updates on cases and constant news updates. I Hardly watch tv because of this. I saw the 30 year old Australian mother (sad but obese are 60% of the deaths), highlighted the other day, all seems done to make people scared and get the vaccine and obey the rules.
We have had a year to deal with this after a successful first lockdown. Train 15000 temporary covid nurses from all the annoying preachy losers on social media. Build some temporary or permanent medical centers from the 40 billion dollar fund that went into residential housing markets. Fund some fitness and nutrition for the country (dramatically increase immunity). Open up and deal with this very low fatality rate virus. lock down the immuno-compromised and elderly. pay their staff bonus pay to not break conditions.
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@muddyriver said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@kid-chocolate 100%
I think the huge amount of fear around this virus has been engineered in such a strange way. daily updates on cases and constant news updates. I Hardly watch tv because of this. I saw the 30 year old Australian mother (sad but obese are 60% of the deaths), highlighted the other day, all seems done to make people scared and get the vaccine and obey the rules.
We have had a year to deal with this after a successful first lockdown. Train 15000 temporary covid nurses from all the annoying preachy losers on social media. Build some temporary or permanent medical centers from the 40 billion dollar fund that went into residential housing markets. Fund some fitness and nutrition for the country (dramatically increase immunity). Open up and deal with this very low fatality rate virus. lock down the immuno-compromised and elderly. pay their staff bonus pay to not break conditions.
Much of what you say chimes with me but you are really outlining long term plans. Whilst obesity and Vit D deficiency appear to be comorbidities you cannot simply get thin or get required Vit D levels overnight. There are no instant magic bullets for either. So if your plan is to solve those two issues in society (laudable) it will take a long time and meanwhile people will die, people will get severely ill, hospitals will fill up and the health service will start creaking.
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@catogrande I'm referring to NZ specifically here. We had a year, with a closed border policy. but we didn't build up any internal defense just hope Covid would go away or something.
I understand trying to get everyone fit is impossible, but a lot of the messaging of the lockdowns is stay home to protect others team of 5 million etc etc. I would reverse this and put it on people, whilst we had the time, to get healthy as much as they could, pump money into programs, pay per kilo haha. Because much like people claiming unvaccinated or no obeying lockdown put people at risk, the unhealthy do, more so ,as they are the most likely to put pressure on the hospital system. Could have been great time for a social re think. but maybe i'm dreaming
We had over a year. I think the temporary covid nurses could have been done in that time frame and would be useful for years as pandemic plan, much like the territorial army division -
Your point about putting infrastructure in place is well made. From the outside it looks like NZ have shut their eyes, covered their ears and cried la-la, hoping it will all go away.
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We’re now a year and a half into Covid, with no end in sight.
What really annoys me about gov’t, health officials and state media regularly pointing fingers at “anti-vaxxers” is they won’t extend the same shame to obese people —who are seriously affecting fatality rates and ICUs far beyond the numbers of healthy people whose natural immunity systems offer them as much (if not more) protection than the experimental vaccines. These gov’ts and their media cohort refuse to condemn high BMIs because they have to stay in their politicially-correct lanes and refrain from fat-shaming. Evidence if any was required that our leaders can stamp their feet and blow a lot of smoke, but they’re not really serious. If we really are all in this together, than the fat-bodies need to start pulling their own weight, and our leaders need to be saying as much, pushing the message every day.
If they are vulnerable and at high-risk — and clearly they are, proven as scientific fact — they need to be getting DAILY exercise, resistance training, cardio, and dieting etc.. It’s been well over a year. There are no excuses. Covid doesn’t scare me in the slightest, but I’ve been a good citizen and vaxxed twice to protect fat-bodies and seniors. I’m still wearing a mask and nothing has changed. Fat-bodies need to protect themselves, and make necessary sacrifices for the rest of us. Put down the soda and get on a treadmill already ffs.
/End of rant.
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@kid-chocolate what a load of shit.
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@godder said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@kid-chocolate what a load of shit.
What exactly is shit about his/her rant?
Because if you follow the science as our illustrious leaders keep fucking yammering about, this is science fact not science fiction
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@kid-chocolate said in Coronavirus - Overall:
We’re now a year and a half into Covid, with no end in sight…
…If we really are all in this together, than **the fat-bodies need to start pulling their own weight **Easier said than done😳
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@gt12 said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Imagine not being able to see your Mum before she dies?
Sorry to hear about that mate. It really does suck and no nobody deserves it. I feel for your wife because I have seen it too.
It happened to my wife end of last year. Sick Mum and I couldn't get her home to see her before she died, nor to get her to the funeral. I could get tickets and organise everything except MIQ to get wife home. She now has a desperately lonely heartbroken father that she can't visit either, because MIQ. The two weeks is no problem, nor the money, just can't get a booking. It's fucked.
Having said that I saw my Mum die on the kitchen floor surrounded by paramedics. That wasn't exactly fun either.
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Can somebody explain this one to me? I haven't read this anywhere and I read a lot about this because I have to convince morons to get jabbed.
When you get your jab you don't get weighed, or even asked your weight. So how do dosages work with a vaccine? It looks one size fits all. How?
My wife is only a little over half my weight but it looked like we got the same dose. The reason that I mention it is that she has felt like shit for two days and is still in bed now. I haven't had a symptom at all (sore arm at worst if I slept on it).
@Tim ?
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@snowy said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Can somebody explain this one to me? I haven't read this anywhere and I read a lot about this because I have to convince morons to get jabbed.
When you get your jab you don't get weighed, or even asked your weight. So how do dosages work with a vaccine? It looks one size fits all. How?
My wife is only a little over half my weight but it looked like we got the same dose. The reason that I mention it is that she has felt like shit for two days and is still in bed now. I haven't had a symptom at all (sore arm at worst if I slept on it).
@Tim ?
I had exactly that conversation with the wife who was mildly knocked around by the jab while I felt nothing. I have a pretty big tolerance for that stuff, I'll take 3x neurofen for a headache while she'd take just 1.
Guess portion size is just irrelevant for a vax
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@godder said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@kid-chocolate what a load of shit.
Does someone need to get on the treadmill?
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@voodoo said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Guess portion size is just irrelevant for a vax
Looks that way. Had a quick google and it does seem that everyone gets the same.
The interesting part being our reactions, surely that is size / weight related? Possibly different immune system responses but I would have thought that "size matters" - yes I know.
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@snowy said in Coronavirus - Overall:
@gt12 said in Coronavirus - Overall:
Imagine not being able to see your Mum before she dies?
Sorry to hear about that mate. It really does suck and no nobody deserves it. I feel for your wife because I have seen it too.
It happened to my wife end of last year. Sick Mum and I couldn't get her home to see her before she died, nor to get her to the funeral. I could get tickets and organise everything except MIQ to get wife home. She now has a desperately lonely heartbroken father that she can't visit either, because MIQ. The two weeks is no problem, nor the money, just can't get a booking. It's fucked.
Having said that I saw my Mum die on the kitchen floor surrounded by paramedics. That wasn't exactly fun either.
Jesus, that’s really rough.
The MIQ system should be considered a scandal but gets no treatment at all from a compliant media.
My biggest worry is that my Dad’s cancer will go downhill super fast and I won’t make it home, but in some good news, he got a WOF from his doctor for 3 more months on the same medication.
That’s about as good as the news can be, so with luck that will hold out for a few more times and things will open up so we can get home while he is healthy enough to play with my boy.
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