SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19

[Jason]

6 minutes ago, Jay said:

I gotta be honest I never heard of the Lumineers until @cals mentioned he was going to the concert.

 

 

That’s because you aren’t gay 

[St1ck]

18 minutes ago, Jay said:

I gotta be honest I never heard of the Lumineers until @cals mentioned he was going to the concert.

 

 

Music has changed since the ragtime era when you were in highschool hasn't it? 

[Jay]

2 minutes ago, St1ck said:

Music has changed since the ragtime era when you were in highschool hasn't it? 

I'm only 61 you fool.

 

[Jason]

Just now, Jay said:

I'm only 61 you fool.

 

You were there for the disco days 

[Jay]

2 minutes ago, Jason said:

You were there for the disco days 

Yes I was there for a lot of days, including the disco days.

 

[St1ck]

1 minute ago, Jason said:

You were there for the disco days 

I was conceived during the disco days. My dad was a Bee Gees fan so it's possible he was listening to "How Deep Is Your Love" when he forgot to strap up that night. 

[arch stanton]

48 minutes ago, cals said:

I told my wife and she said it made no sense you guys were making fun of the Lumineers and she also thought you guys were being rude and unthoughtful by making fun of me.

Has she met you?

[St1ck]

7 minutes ago, Jay said:

I'm only 61 you fool.

 

How many decades have you been telling people that? 

[Jay]

4 minutes ago, St1ck said:

I was conceived during the disco days. My dad was a Bee Gees fan so it's possible he was listening to "How Deep Is Your Love" when he forgot to strap up that night. 

Saturday Night Fever came out the year I graduated High School.

I remember it well but I didn't really care for it much. I was more of a Led Zeppelin guy.

[St1ck]

1 minute ago, Jay said:

Saturday Night Fever came out the year I graduated High School.

I remember it well but I didn't really care for it much. I was more of a Led Zeppelin guy.

Have you come around since then? I mean there are some pretty good songs on that soundtrack. 

[Jay]

1 minute ago, St1ck said:

Have you come around since then? I mean there are some pretty good songs on that soundtrack. 

No question there are some iconic songs on the soundtrack.

But when I was 17 it was, "disco sucks"

 

[St1ck]

1 minute ago, Jay said:

No question there are some iconic songs on the soundtrack.

But when I was 17 it was, "disco sucks"

 

I hear ya. 

 

[Taylor]

1 hour ago, St1ck said:

I was conceived during the disco days. My dad was a Bee Gees fan so it's possible he was listening to "How Deep Is Your Love" when he forgot to strap up that night. 

You're old.

[gotbeer]

So I was finally able to sit down and have a pizza at a local joint in Larchmont.  The Larchmont Village Pizzaria. I read earlier in the year that they were having issues with their landlord, due to the stupid lockdowns.  Pretty much they have been on a very limited take out menu.  Anyways, I talked to the owner and asked how their lease negotiation went.  Pretty much the landlord said fuck you, pay me or get the fuck out.  So their rent is now $18,000 a month with the prorated amount added on.  Oh, and the area where they are at for those that don't know, is upper end.  And that street alone has 30 store vacancies.  Just around the pizza place, one vacancy to the left of them.  Then two new stores to the right, then three more vacancies.  Also noticed that the Greek high end restaurant that was next to the Pizarria, they shut down 1/3 of it, and it's now part sushi or something like that and the other part is vacant.  

So all is well with small businesses and the government response to the pandemic.

[Taylor]

Larchmont is where the Salt and Straw is, right?

[gotbeer]

11 minutes ago, Taylor said:

Larchmont is where the Salt and Straw is, right?

Yes, had that for dessert.  Was delicious.

[Blarg]

I used to go to Larchmont for lunch when I was working about 6 blocks from there. Hit up that pizza place a couple times, did the Greek restaurant, the Thai place and Starbucks back when it wasn't on every street corner. 

[Inside Pitch]

3 hours ago, Jay said:

No question there are some iconic songs on the soundtrack.

But when I was 17 it was, "disco sucks"

 

A little over a decade later when I was 17 it still sucked.

[gotbeer]

Does this make any sense to anyone?  I would get it if this was a rule for vaccinated students.  But this just sounds like they are asking for trouble.

 

Asymptomatic Florida students exposed to COVID no longer have to quarantine

 

[T.G.]

12 hours ago, St1ck said:

I was conceived during the disco days. My dad was a Bee Gees fan so it's possible he was listening to "How Deep Is Your Love" when he forgot to strap up that night. 

 

12 hours ago, Jay said:

Saturday Night Fever came out the year I graduated High School.

I remember it well but I didn't really care for it much. I was more of a Led Zeppelin guy.

So... Jay is Stick's dad?

Who knew?

[RallyMo]

@cals, I've got a solid story for you. It's on track to become a Herman Cain Award nominee.

[RallyMo]

5 hours ago, cals said:

Well tell brother, tell…

Soooooo...

My unit is no longer COVID as we transitioned back to non-COVID a couple weeks ago, so we are dealing with people that are coming in for other stuff. We are allowing visitors for patients as mandated by law (we're no long allowed to have a blanket no visitor policy). One of our patients (age somewhere between 75 and 85, so a solid target for COVID) was in the hospital for an issue completely unrelated to COVID for which they would have been discharged from the hospital within about a 5-7 day stay.

Well, this patient's family visitors included a child, child-in-law and a grandkid. When we admitted the patient, one of our screens is for a COVID vaccine. The patient's child-in-law was present at the time of this screen and heard the patient being asked about that, they reacted rather belligerently and started to say that not only did they not believe in the vaccine, but demanded the RN at the time provide information to substantiate the vaccine's efficacy. The family member also was very contentious about being asked to wear a mask and had an argument with the RN (an absolutely fantastic, kind and all-around great person) about masks. They demanded that the RN provide her with peer-reviewed studies on the efficacy of masks. The family member also contested the actual concept of COVID being a threat to health.

Moving on...

Over the next 4 or so days, visitors would come and go, including the grandkid and the kid-in-law, as well as the patient's actual kid. Our policy is that guests must wear masks at all times when with patients. Frequent confrontations were had with the family over the policy, a complete headache for the staff. The kid-in-law straight up refused to wear a mask at times and the grandkid took their mask off while in the room.

Come night 5 of the stay slightly before midnight, a call comes in from the patient's child: the grandkid tested positive for COVID that evening. The patient had spiked a temp that afternoon (consistent with the admitting diagnosis) but had JUST started requiring O2 that night and showing other symptoms. The patient subsequently pops positive for COVID and is now on a moderate amount of oxygen on our COVID floor.

Dumbasses.

[T.G.]

We could all see that one coming...

Sheesh.

[RallyMo]

5 hours ago, cals said:

Well tell brother, tell…

Another one:

We had a COVID patient (unvaccinated, as is the usual), who came in and for whom we needed to get O2 for to safely discharge home. They insisted that they didn't need O2 and left before we could get it set up (which isn't all that long in this environment, the oxygen providers have moved into the medical building right next to the hospital due to the demand). The patient said that they were ok, COVID wasn't that bad and that they knew what to do because THEY WERE A VETERINARIAN.

The patient signed AMA papers and took off.

2 days later the patient came back to the hospital via EMS.

The veterinarian is now dead.

[T.G.]

If it's predictable... it's preventable....