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    Maxp

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    I fear we are really going to be in a bad place due to the obvious cuts to the federal agencies that deal with infectious disease, but also the negative effect the Affordable Care act has had on non urban hospitals. Our front line defenses are ineffectual and our ability to treat the populous is probably at an all time low. Factor in the cost of healthcare and I can see our system crashing. What do you think about the politics of this virus?
     
    May be Daily KOS, but the story is still the same.

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    He and his wife got COVID-19. She died last week. This week, he went maskless to anti-vaxx rally

    At the end of July, Republican Rep. Chris Johansen of Aroostook County, Maine, was reportedly recorded by Mariner News contributor Crash Barry saying, “Listen up, I’ve got COVID and I’m really, really sick and I just don’t have time to talk to you...
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    At the end of July, Republican Rep. Chris Johansen of Aroostook County, Maine, was reportedly recorded by Mariner News contributor Crash Barry saying, “Listen up, I’ve got COVID and I’m really, really sick and I just don’t have time to talk to you today.” It was news because Johansen, along with his wife Cindy, have been very vocal and demonstratively anti-mask and anti-vaccine. Johansen’s anti-science stance led to him and six other Republican representatives getting stripped of their committee assignments after entering the Maine State House without wearing masks “in violation of legislative rules that go beyond state recommendations” back in May.
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    On Aug. 10, Cindy Johansen reportedly passed away after struggling for almost a month with the virus. Her death was confirmed by The Daily Beast and the Maine Republican Party. A week after her passing, Chris Johansen appeared at an anti-vaxxer mandate demonstration in Augusta. As various reporters covering this demonstration noted, Johansen did not wear a mask. Whether or not Johansen has been cleared of COVID-19 or is safe outside of quarantine is not known. Barry has reported that neither Cindy nor Chris were vaccinated before contracting COVID-19. Aroostook County, like many counties across the country, has seen a surge in COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations over the last few weeks.


    Johansen’s social media feed is filled with posts of memes like one with two mice, one asking the other, “Did you get the vaccine yet?” and the other responding, “No, they’re still testing it on the humans.”
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    Cindy Johansen was the corresponding secretary-officer for the Aroostook County Republicans. Johansen, when contacted by the Beast, denied he himself was ever sick, saying: “All of these reports are false.” Though when contacted by the Press Herald back in July, he reportedly said, “I’m not doing well. I’m not feeling well, and I’m not talking to people right now.”
    While her husband did not release information about either his wife’s illness or her passing, his Facebook page gave clues to the sad situation as it unfolded. On Aug. 5, he wrote about his wife not being allowed to talk, needing to show an ability to breathe on her own, and her need to be sedated. This was likely during periods where they had put her on a ventilator and then were trying to see if she could practice breathing on her own while they kept the ventilator on her. On Aug. 6, Johansen posted on his Facebook page: “Yesterday was not such a good day. No good news and one or two minor set backs. Will talk to the Doctor again this afternoon.” The last post on Johansen’s Facebook feed is dated Aug. 7. Johansen writes: “It was all bad news today. Cindy has suffered several major set backs.”
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    Cindy’s Facebook page had a profile image of a horse with a green circle around it. Inside of the circle was written, “I don’t care if you’ve had your vaccine.” A lot of her feed was dedicated to caring for horses and a farm. She wasn’t a fan of Vice President Kamala Harris or Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger or Black Lives Matter. She posted an image on July 4 of a flag reading: “TRUMP 2024, I’ll be back.”
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    The end of the story is rather fitting for how anti-vaccination she was.
     
    As said, it’s remarkable that Florida has more deaths now than before the vaccines were available. I suppose it shouldn’t surprise anyone though, considering how anti-mask and anti-social distancing that governor is.

     
    GrandAdmiral said:
    What about the other threads?

    (Runs and hides before he banned...):peace:
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    I didn't realize that it was a global issue. I only see it on this one. I just finished upgrading the software and the problem still exists. :sneaky: I am going to have to bring in our coder on this one.
     
    I suspected the problem was the Sticky OP on every page may have messed up the pagination when I turned it off. I saw there was an upgrade fix for the problem that we were having with that feature, so I installed the fix. While it fixed that issue, it did not fix the paging problem. Back to the old drawing board.
     
    It's high time the corporate masters of modern media got this message:

    In the U.S. alone, millions of people have developed lasting cognitive and neurological problems long after an initial COVID-19 infection. Some of these patients may be permanently disabled and need long-term care. “My concern is that we're going to have huge numbers of the population who aren't able to function at their cognitive baseline. They can't go back to work, or at least not to what they did before,” Frontera says. “We haven’t even thought of the long-term implications. It could be an incredible blow to the economy.”

    Davis says the scariest part about COVID-19’s cognitive effects is that people of all ages and health status are affected. “This is something everyone is at risk for, and it's completely debilitating.”
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    From: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/...20210820&rid=4E6E28FF802F8C09493A24752A385789

    Your worker bees ain't gonna work so good if they get Covid. So start hammering on that immediately damn you. From Faux News to Rachel Maddow, y'all need to get this message out to everyone. Get the F'ing vaccine. Get it NOW. Wear a freakin' mask and stop enabling these tiny terrorists y'all are carrying around.
     
    Taurus said:
    It's high time the corporate masters of modern media got this message:


    From: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/...20210820&rid=4E6E28FF802F8C09493A24752A385789

    Your worker bees ain't gonna work so good if they get Covid. So start hammering on that immediately damn you. From Faux News to Rachel Maddow, y'all need to get this message out to everyone. Get the F'ing vaccine. Get it NOW. Wear a freakin' mask and stop enabling these tiny terrorists y'all are carrying around.
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    Yeah, really. We are screwed as a society because we can't be bothered to do the right thing as a public service. Too many people only care about themselves. We don't all live in vacuums.
     

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