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Daehawk wrote:A new bill passed through the Tennessee House that would allow pharmacists to prescribe Ivermectin


TennesseeAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHfuckingmorons.

What TN really needs is a drug to prevent TN GOP from reproducing and continuing to infects the state gov.

El Guapo wrote: Mon May 23, 2022 1:00 pm Was there a meeting last week where everyone decided this was ok? Again I know outdoor transmission risk is low, but like...just wait until you have a negative test before being around other people, ok?

El Guapo wrote: Mon May 23, 2022 1:00 pm So the development this weekend that I'm still wrapping my head around is that suddenly everyone seemingly decided that it's ok to send current Covid-positive people to outdoor events. I took my daughter to her soccer game Saturday while my wife took our son to his baseball game. I found out later that one of the kids was currently positive with Covid while another parent there was positive as well. They were both wearing masks and mostly keeping distant, and I know that the risk of outdoor tranmission is still (as far as I know) very low. But still. And on top of that we had a pool party yesterday, and one of the parents asked whether it would be ok to send a kid on covid day 9 who was still testing positive. I was like eh.....you know what, maybe not.

Was there a meeting last week where everyone decided this was ok? Again I know outdoor transmission risk is low, but like...just wait until you have a negative test before being around other people, ok?

Max Peck wrote: Wed May 25, 2022 12:58 am I finally scored a rapid test kit this week. We can't buy them anywhere here, as far as I know, but the provincial government distributes free kits to a variety of locations, none of which ever seem to have them in stock. I had to pick up some emergency supplies at the pharmacy on Monday, and noticed that they had a few available at the cashier, maybe 5 or 6, so I was able to get one.

My goal is to never need to use it before it expires in 2024.

LordMortis wrote: Wed May 25, 2022 9:05 am I got a kit of four tests in December. I have two tests left that expire in July. Glad yours are more durable.

As of April 28, the following brands have been given an extended shelf life, which you means you should look up the new expiration dates by clicking on this link:

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msteelers wrote: Wed May 25, 2022 8:39 am People just generally suck

Isgrimnur wrote: Tue May 10, 2022 1:15 am Back home after my trip. Masking was an afterthought for just about everyone in Columbus, Ohio. Certainly not much difference than my experience running pre-trip errands in the metroplex.

Start the clock.

In a 48-page document filed in the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the Justice Department argues that the order issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in early 2021 "falls easily within the CDC's statutory authority."

Last month, the Justice Department said that it would appeal U.S. District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle's decision to strike down the CDC's mask mandate for public transportation if the agency determines the mandate is still needed to protect public health.

"None of the district court's quarrels with the CDC order comes close to showing that the CDC has acted outside the 'zone of reasonableness,'" the Justice Department said in the brief.

"The findings in the CDC order provide ample support for the agency's determination that there was good cause to make the order effective without delay."

The State or Florida threatened the Special Olympics with $27.5 MILLION in fines because the organization had a vaccine requirement at its games in Orlando this weekend.

Late yesterday, the Special Olympics pulled the requirement

Kraken wrote: Fri Jun 03, 2022 1:49 pm One hopes that the next thing the Special Olympics will pull is out of FL.

LordMortis wrote: Fri Jun 03, 2022 3:14 pm

Kraken wrote: Fri Jun 03, 2022 1:49 pm One hopes that the next thing the Special Olympics will pull is out of FL.

Too late for that but hopefully everyone else knows what Florida is capable of doing before holding an event (or business) there. Of note, again this is in Orlando, which is a mostly blue area of Florida.

https://www.2022specialolympicsusagames.org/

Kraken wrote: Fri Jun 03, 2022 3:38 pm I was thinking of future years. I'd like to see a lot of businesses and organizations cauterize FL.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) vetoed a budget item for a new practice facility for the Tampa Bay Rays over the team’s recent tweets about gun control.

Smoove_B wrote: Fri Jun 03, 2022 3:42 pm

Kraken wrote: Fri Jun 03, 2022 3:38 pm I was thinking of future years. I'd like to see a lot of businesses and organizations cauterize FL.

And yet, I am hardly seeing much news about what else he did yesterday:

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) vetoed a budget item for a new practice facility for the Tampa Bay Rays over the team’s recent tweets about gun control.

And people voted for this, so I guess...awesome?

ImLawBoy wrote: Fri Jun 03, 2022 4:06 pm Right result, wrong reason. I'd love for the government to get out of the business of subsidizing billionaires and their sports teams. To do it based on political expression, however, is the wrong reason.

LordMortis wrote: Fri Jun 03, 2022 4:10 pm

ImLawBoy wrote: Fri Jun 03, 2022 4:06 pm Right result, wrong reason. I'd love for the government to get out of the business of subsidizing billionaires and their sports teams. To do it based on political expression, however, is the wrong reason.

So much this! So so so much this.

Smoove_B wrote: Fri Jun 03, 2022 3:42 pm

Kraken wrote: Fri Jun 03, 2022 3:38 pm I was thinking of future years. I'd like to see a lot of businesses and organizations cauterize FL.

And yet, I am hardly seeing much news about what else he did yesterday:

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) vetoed a budget item for a new practice facility for the Tampa Bay Rays over the team’s recent tweets about gun control.

And people voted for this, so I guess...awesome?

So. If you test positive at home for COVID and are seeking to cancel your @united flight as a result, you will need to obtain a doctor's note if you expect to get a refund. Otherwise, the airline will knowingly let you board, thereby exposing those around you.

An Arizona man has filed a lawsuit against American Airlines after being wrongfully identified and arrested as a shoplifting suspect, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in Tarrant County court.

Michael Lowe is accusing American Airlines of negligence, mental, physical and financial damages after being jailed for 17 days for a crime he didn’t commit in 2020, the lawsuit said.

The Biden administration said Wednesday that a funding crunch is forcing it to divert more than $10 billion in coronavirus relief from test procurement and other efforts as it tries to come up with money to secure the next generation of vaccines and treatments for some high-risk Americans.

The White House said it has been left with “no choice” but to cut back on orders of at-home rapid tests that have supported a domestic manufacturing base for the easy diagnostic tests. It also is scaling back funding for research and development of new COVID-19 vaccines and limiting orders of personal protective equipment in an effort to maintain some stockpiles of vaccines and treatments for Americans heading into the winter.

Even then, the Democratic administration says, there will only be enough money available to provide treatments and vaccines to some people. It urged Congress to act to provide enough money to secure doses for all who might want or need them.

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The administration said the Wednesday moves would shift $5 billion to buy COVID-19 vaccine doses for the fall, $4.9 billion for 10 million Paxlovid oral antiviral treatment courses and $300 million for the purchase of additional monoclonal antibody treatments.

The Biden administration has been warning for months of the potential for rationing and other tough trade-offs if Congress doesn’t act to provide additional funding, saying that it would cost lives as people’s immunity from booster doses or from prior infection wane.

Lawmakers in March appeared near a deal for $10 billion of the $22.5 billion that President Joe Biden has requested, but negotiations broke down over Biden’s plans to end pandemic-related public health restrictions on U.S. borders that severely curtailed migration. Though that move has been blocked by a federal judge, lawmakers have appeared no closer to reaching a deal.

I don’t think liberals can process how they are now being misled about Covid worse by Biden, congressional democrats and the New York Times worse than the county was ever misled about the pandemic by Trump, Mitch McConnell and Fox News. At the beginning of the pandemic, there was a lot of confusion. There is NOT much confusion now about what needs to be done—but the Democrat controlled White House and Congress won’t do it. They find the will to send tens of billions of Ukraine, but they’ve given up on Covid.

The Democrats have shifted from a sure-to-fail vaccine only policy (more on that later) to a sure-to-fail antiretroviral (ARV) policy.

coopasonic wrote: Thu Jun 09, 2022 4:39 pm I am less in the "Fuck it!" camp when it's my mom's life on the line.

Kraken wrote: Thu Jun 09, 2022 4:52 pm Oh, and that basket of free N95s by the door was gone.

El Guapo wrote: Thu Jun 09, 2022 9:08 pm Apparently the Boston public schools are rescinding the mask mandate as of Monday, just for the last week of school. Which like even if you don't think they should have a mask mandate...why just for the last week? A parting case of COVID as a special memory for the summer?

On September 16, 2020, Atlas proposed that PCR tests be made “less sensitive”, presumably to hide the true number of COVID19 cases. He stated that testing made reopening more difficult, hence it should be curtailed.