Thread: Corona Virus

Originally Posted by Eevo

you not half wrong. it came to me while we were in the ****,

and i was contemplating about praying to god. and then suddenly i realised.

Wot? You thought first, I'll speak to Mr Bee, for he'll set me right on the Lord's path to righteousness, right?


or


That you are an atheist?




ps. millions cark it each year anyways, but cant make money from it...

Probably instigated by the New York Funeral Directors Asscn who must be rolling in it.

One never sees a poor Funeral Director nor does one wish to.

Originally Posted by 4bee

One never sees a poor Funeral Director nor does one wish to.

always see them in their nice cars...

Originally Posted by Eevo

always see them in their nice cars...

I'll take me chances.
But the client is always in the back so a bit of a downgrade really. No view at all, but beejeezuz one hears plenty of Undertaker Jokes when those in the front don't realise one ain't dead & can still hear stuff.

I wonder what their reaction would be if they heard a loud but muffled BOO. As hard as they think they are I reckon some ****ty pants would result.



Very busy Fire-ground over there for a few days now with all sorts taking a part.


Who knows what they might find that they weren't meant to? Unmarked graves for instance?

Not sure if this should be " only in America" but , from the NYTimes.;

Vaccination follies

The vaccination campaign in the United States has steadily managed to pick up its pace, and around 1.2 million Americans are now being inoculated each day. But there are hiccups.

At a time of widespread frustration over the troubled start to the campaign, episodes of ineptitude, selfishness and greed are drawing attention. While they may be few and far between, they give a glimpse into the behavior of some during the greatest health crisis in a century.

In Philadelphia this week, a plan to distribute vaccines went awry after the city used an organization called Philly Fighting Covid — which describes itself as a group of “college kids” and was founded last year by a 22-year-old graduate student — to run the state’s largest inoculation site.

The city eventually severed ties with the group after it moved to switch from nonprofit status to a for-profit company and changed its data privacy policy to allow it to potentially sell data about patients, and after allegations surfaced that the CEO pocketed vaccine doses and 18- and 19-year-olds were vaccinating one another without supervision.

In Houston, the focus of vaccine outrage has been on the still-unfinished story of Dr. Hasan Gokal. He was accused last week of stealing a vial of coronavirus vaccine from a public inoculation site he was supervising, and was fired and charged with a misdemeanor.

Dr. Gokal’s lawyer told The Houston Chronicle that his client noticed that a vial was left over at the end of the day and was going to spoil in a few hours. Rather than let the doses go to waste, he said Dr. Gokal administered doses to eligible people, including his wife. (A Texas judge dismissed the theft charge on Monday, but the county’s top prosecutor said the case would most likely be presented to a grand jury.)

Not all of the stories of vaccine flubs are frustrating — some are even heartwarming.

When public health workers found themselves stuck in a snowstorm on an Oregon highway this week, with six doses of the Moderna vaccine set to expire, they began walking from car to car, asking stranded drivers if they wanted to be vaccinated on the spot.

Most drivers laughed and declined the doses, but six people eventually signed up for a shot.

“We had one individual who was so happy, he took his shirt off and jumped out of the car,” said Michael Weber, the public health director in Josephine County, Ore. He called it “one of the coolest operations” he had ever been a part of.

“Our No. 1 rule right now,” he added, “is nothing gets wasted.”

A dispatch from an American visiting Canada The NY Times;

A dispatch from Canada

Carole Landry, a writer and editor on the Briefings team, wrote about her time in a part of the world where the coronavirus is almost completely absent.

Today, my family and I are starting the long drive back to New York City after nearly two months in a world largely free of Covid. We’ve been spending time with family on Cape Breton Island, at the northeastern end of Nova Scotia, where we’ve been able to meet with friends, go to restaurants, do some shopping and basically plunge back into the Before Times.

There are currently three active cases of Covid in the region that includes the island, and nine active cases in the entire province of Nova Scotia. It’s not as if people here are completely oblivious — mask wearing is strictly enforced, and social distancing is taken seriously, as I found out when I walked against the arrows on the floor of a grocery store.

I’ve been struck at how our time here has been much less stressful. In New York, outings carried a risk. I now realize that we had lived under a steady but grinding, low-level stress.

I’ve so appreciated the opportunity to be social again, to talk face to face with friends. I feel as if I’ve peered into the post-pandemic future, and, friends, it’s wonderful.

Originally Posted by bob10

The vaccination campaign in the United States has steadily managed to pick up its pace, and around 1.2 million Americans are now being inoculated each day. But there are hiccups.

thats a massive number.

0.3% of the population from day. i think aust is aiming for a similar number

Originally Posted by Eevo

thats a massive number.

0.3% of the population from day. i think aust is aiming for a similar number

The US experience could have been sooooo different.

A Seattle hospital refrigerator malfunction led to a frenzied overnight inoculation drive.



Wearing bathrobes, pajamas or whatever else they could quickly throw on, hundreds of people flocked to get Covid vaccines in Seattle on Thursday night after a refrigerator that was chilling 1,600 doses broke down, leading to a frenzied overnight inoculation drive.The impromptu vaccinations began after a refrigerator malfunctioned at a Kaiser Permanente hospital in Seattle, meaning the Moderna vaccines inside had to be quickly injected or they would become less effective and need to be thrown away. Health officials reached out to two other hospital systems in the city, and an urgent call was issued around 11 p.m., alerting residents that they had a rare chance to get vaccines if they could come right away.“We’ve got to get these 1,600 doses into people’s arms in the next 12 hours,” Susan Mullaney, Kaiser’s regional president for Washington, said at a virtual news conference on Friday, describing the hospital’s call to action.Within minutes, there were long lines outside of at least two medical centers, and by about 3:30 a.m., the vaccines had all been administered, hospital officials said.

My two vaccine fridges scare the crap out of me and my insurance company