COVID-19 2020

lily1 wrote:
5 days a week with work from home days rarely granted. Remote work was severely curtailed and repeatedly denied.

I see.  The good news is it's a job seekers market and plenty of opportunities out there as we come out of the pandemic….

Yada wrote:
My partner in life recently had a dr's appointment for a very specific issue and the entire appointment, the dr. who is highly recommended and one of the best in the business around their specialty complained to my partner (the patient) the entire appoinment that she was mandated to get the vaccine if she wanted to continue performing surgeries. She stated multiple times in the appointment that she felt the vaccine isn't necessary… I couldn't believe it.

Between your wife's doctor and your vet, I. Don't think you're getting very good recommendations

vansmack wrote:

lily1 wrote:
5 days a week with work from home days rarely granted. Remote work was severely curtailed and repeatedly denied.

I see.  The good news is it's a job seekers market and plenty of opportunities out there as we come out of the pandemic….

Oh they definitely lost people which is why I think they dialed back the 4 days a week set schedule in July to 3 days a week of your choosing for in office recently. Plus it seems most organizations are doing a 2 or 3 day a week in office so we were not even aligning to the norm.

If DC ever allows for organizations to mandate vaccinations, I'll be curious to see if we do it. I personally didn't want to disclose if I had been vaccinated but my second shot was scheduled the second day of starting there so I kinda felt that I had to give a solid reason why I was disappearing for a couple hours in the afternoon being so new.

Space wrote:
Between your wife's doctor and your vet, I. Don't think you're getting very good recommendations

I really hate to agree with space, for purely puerile reasons, but I do think he's got a point

lily1 wrote:

vansmack wrote:

lily1 wrote:
5 days a week with work from home days rarely granted. Remote work was severely curtailed and repeatedly denied.

I see.  The good news is it's a job seekers market and plenty of opportunities out there as we come out of the pandemic….

Oh they definitely lost people which is why I think they dialed back the 4 days a week set schedule in July to 3 days a week of your choosing for in office recently. Plus it seems most organizations are doing a 2 or 3 day a week in office so we were not even aligning to the norm.

If DC ever allows for organizations to mandate vaccinations, I'll be curious to see if we do it. I personally didn't want to disclose if I had been vaccinated but my second shot was scheduled the second day of starting there so I kinda felt that I had to give a solid reason why I was disappearing for a couple hours in the afternoon being so new.

Why didn't you want to disclose that you had been vaccinated?

Space wrote:

Yada wrote:
My partner in life recently had a dr's appointment for a very specific issue and the entire appointment, the dr. who is highly recommended and one of the best in the business around their specialty complained to my partner (the patient) the entire appoinment that she was mandated to get the vaccine if she wanted to continue performing surgeries. She stated multiple times in the appointment that she felt the vaccine isn't necessary… I couldn't believe it.

Between your wife's doctor and your vet, I. Don't think you're getting very good recommendations

Well, the vet is the same company we went to for over a decade and they provided perfect care until the fuck up…

The partner's recommendation came directly from her GP and other than her vaccine slant, she's the best in her specialty. Who do you recommend Dr. Space?

Yada wrote:

Space wrote:

Yada wrote:
My partner in life recently had a dr's appointment for a very specific issue and the entire appointment, the dr. who is highly recommended and one of the best in the business around their specialty complained to my partner (the patient) the entire appoinment that she was mandated to get the vaccine if she wanted to continue performing surgeries. She stated multiple times in the appointment that she felt the vaccine isn't necessary… I couldn't believe it.

Between your wife's doctor and your vet, I. Don't think you're getting very good recommendations

Well, the vet is the same company we went to for over a decade and they provided perfect care until the fuck up…

The partner's recommendation came directly from her GP and other than her vaccine slant, she's the best in her specialty. Who do you recommend Dr. Space?

I'm basically satisfied with our vet and my doctor, but not satisfied enough to recommend them over anybody else. Our vet seems to want to extract all kinds of unnecessary services from us, but I usually turn them down. I'm not someone who is going to spend thousands of dollars on my pet's health. Thankfully our doodle has good genes, a good diet and exercise, and still going strong at 13+.

I don't really have an opinion on my kid's doctor (we left the one who insisted our then toddler needed to eat more veal) or dentist. And my wife refuses to ever go the doctor since she's not sick.

We were happy with our kid's orthodonist (NoVA) and I've been happy with my dentist (DC) of the past 15+ years, so I'd be happy to share those with anybody in need.

Look, have you guys as a family considered flipping the doctor and the vet? Gotta crosstrain to create some muscle confusion.

Space wrote:

Why didn't you want to disclose that you had been vaccinated?

It's not public information and no one's business. I didn't tell the office that I was up to date on all my other vaccinations and that I fully support vaccinations overall. It has nothing to do with my skillset.

I recognize these are new waters for society so I do actively comply with my company's request.

When I got Covid in 2020 and spent weeks in the hospital, it was harrowing. But it was nothing compared to what my family is dealing with now—also as a result of Covid.

This is a Covid horror story in which no one actually gets Covid, and it could still happen to anyone

https://twitter.com/summerbrennan/status/1442806675325476867

excontradiction wrote:
When I got Covid in 2020 and spent weeks in the hospital, it was harrowing.

I was very thrown off here for a second. Let me teach you about this invention we have: quotation marks.

Julian, wrote:

excontradiction wrote:
When I got Covid in 2020 and spent weeks in the hospital, it was harrowing.

I was very thrown off here for a second. Let me teach you about this invention we have: quotation marks.

I debated putting this in the "Twitter" thread…I'm just hoping this doesn't turn into a "kosmo-level" "debacle".

excontradiction wrote:
This is a Covid horror story in which no one actually gets Covid, and it could still happen to anyone

This is almost the exact story of my wife's grandmother, who passed away last month, except replace New Mexico with Florida.  A trip to the ER from a nursing home (where she already had contracted Covid in March), staying the first two nights in the hallway because all of the beds were full, contracting pneumonia, then deciding on her own (and with the advice of doctors) to head to hospice for peace and quiet instead of dying in the ER.  She passed away about 3 days later - at least she had family around her in hospice instead of alone in the ER.

Imagine being in your mid-nineties, getting and beating Covid and dying months later of pneumonia contracted for a completely unrelated trip to the ER, because of Covid.

lily1 wrote:
It's not public information and no one's business. I didn't tell the office that I was up to date on all my other vaccinations and that I fully support vaccinations overall. It has nothing to do with my skillset.

You might want to rethink if you decide 4 days in the office is too many:

Vaccination Status Is the New Must-Have on Your Resume

I'm very biased on this topic as I have a financial incentivization to be so but all these stories highlight a problem that pre-dates COVID and will exist long after COVID is "over": an American healthcare system that is wildly dependent on facility stays and that make hospital case managers and discharge planners czars over client's care options. People should stop the handwringing about bed counts at hospitals and SNFs and start asking why we think so many people need have 3, 4, or 5 day stays in these facilities for relatively minor issues when skilled home health services exist, have better outcomes, and are cheaper for insurance programs.

Obviously hospitals and SNFs need to exist for our truly sickest and frailest in the most acute of situations but some random old dude breaking his foot and needing PT and ortho care had little business being in the hospital for more than 12 hours aside from "the hospital stops making fucking money the second they discharge him."

Julian, wrote:
some random old dude breaking his foot and needing PT and ortho care had little business being in the hospital for more than 12 hours aside from "the hospital stops making fucking money the second they discharge him."

I thought the same thing when I read it, unless the injury was so bad that he needed surgery to put a rod or pin in or something.

vansmack wrote:

Julian, wrote:
some random old dude breaking his foot and needing PT and ortho care had little business being in the hospital for more than 12 hours aside from "the hospital stops making fucking money the second they discharge him."

I thought the same thing when I read it, unless the injury was so bad that he needed surgery to put a rod or pin in or something.

Even if it did! Do the surgery, stabilize, send home with an order for PT and wound care to start within 24 hours. Need to convalesce for three days to stabilize? Send to the ortho-facility down the road that is IN NO WAY overrun by Covid cases. (Oh, but wait, I bet the hospital group doesn't own that.) None of this requires the dude being in the hospital "for a week" like the lady says they were planning unless his health was being wildly misrepresented in the tweets.

We really need to relook at who informs the patients of options in our system of what they can do around their own care and the outcomes of such other than hospital case managers and discharge planners who are super incentivized to keep them in a facility because if they don't, the lights go off. Again, I'm super biased both professionally and personally (my wife got MRSA during surgery and basically lost 6 months of her life) but folks should REALLY read up on this.

United Airlines says 99% of its workforce met a deadline to show proof of vaccination.  Now it will lay off about 600 workers who refused to get vaccinated.
I see the lay offs are starting
it's a tight job market, talent is scarce, so it's good to see corps sticking to their guns on these threats

Interesting, an oral antiviral
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/01/health/us-coronavirus-friday/index.html

An oral pill from Merck and Ridgeback Therapeutics reduced the risk of hospitalization or death from Covid-19 by half, Merck said in a news release Friday.
It would become the first oral antivral for Covid-19 if approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for emergency use authorization.

Brett Kavanaugh