BA.2 surge hitting US in April/May

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Anonymous wrote:I’m covid cautious (tripe vaxxed, still wear medical masks in stores etc) and yet I still remember DCUM falling all over itself just a few months ago to agree with this thread. Such ridiculous nonsense. I am tired of this hysteria.

I work in an ER and this wasn’t hysteria, it was true! Wait times were over 24 hours for patients. It only lasted a few weeks but it was horrific. Not necessarily in terms of deaths (thankfully) but in terms of sheer numbers of patients.

Sorry PP, with people's urge to treat the whole 2 years of the pandemic as a nothingburger, just based on the mildness of Omicron (friends have had Delta, and you would not have wanted that one) any medical professional that wants to talk about the actual patient loads in the hospitals is going to get "canceled."
Thanks for your work.

Come on. The Twitter thread was full hysteria that simply didn’t happen. Here is what else she said, among other things:

When we go to grocery stores & find shelves empty, to pharmacies & find them closed because every single employee is out sick themselves or tending to a loved one. Please get what you need to look after your household. Fill prescriptions, get over the counter meds & staples…

And on and on. And that simply didn’t happen.

This level of hysterical ranting does nobody good.

Maybe you just didn’t need to get meds filled in late December/ early January because the CVSs around us both closed for 3-5 days at different points due to lack of staff. PM Pediatrics also closed a few locations due to lack of staff.

Yes, we had a few DAYS - not weeks or months - of disruption in some health and service-related areas due to a combination of Covid and the holidays. Plus the snowstorm after New Years. There’s a huge difference between a momentary disruption for some people that’s resolved fairly quickly and TWO MONTHS OF PANIC, EMPTY SHELVES, people dying in the streets!

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Anonymous wrote:I’m covid cautious (tripe vaxxed, still wear medical masks in stores etc) and yet I still remember DCUM falling all over itself just a few months ago to agree with this thread. Such ridiculous nonsense. I am tired of this hysteria.

I work in an ER and this wasn’t hysteria, it was true! Wait times were over 24 hours for patients. It only lasted a few weeks but it was horrific. Not necessarily in terms of deaths (thankfully) but in terms of sheer numbers of patients.

How many of those people really need to go to the ER though?
Did they show up to get tested thinking they had covid?
How many had been so scared by media coverage over the past few years that even if they were vaccinated and had few symptoms they literally had anxiety attacks convincing them whatever symptom they had was much worse and went to the ER>

A lot of them just needed testing for mild symptoms or exposure because we are operating a society where you need to test to travel (and this was over Christmas), a test to return to work or school if you’re sick…. They couldn’t go back to work without a lab run PCR test and they were impossible to get over the holidays. I don’t know what planet you were in between Christmas and New Years but the area was basically shut down due to covid and medical care was not possible to obtain.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m covid cautious (tripe vaxxed, still wear medical masks in stores etc) and yet I still remember DCUM falling all over itself just a few months ago to agree with this thread. Such ridiculous nonsense. I am tired of this hysteria.

I work in an ER and this wasn’t hysteria, it was true! Wait times were over 24 hours for patients. It only lasted a few weeks but it was horrific. Not necessarily in terms of deaths (thankfully) but in terms of sheer numbers of patients.

Sorry PP, with people's urge to treat the whole 2 years of the pandemic as a nothingburger, just based on the mildness of Omicron (friends have had Delta, and you would not have wanted that one) any medical professional that wants to talk about the actual patient loads in the hospitals is going to get "canceled."
Thanks for your work.

Come on. The Twitter thread was full hysteria that simply didn’t happen. Here is what else she said, among other things:

When we go to grocery stores & find shelves empty, to pharmacies & find them closed because every single employee is out sick themselves or tending to a loved one. Please get what you need to look after your household. Fill prescriptions, get over the counter meds & staples…

And on and on. And that simply didn’t happen.

This level of hysterical ranting does nobody good.

Maybe you just didn’t need to get meds filled in late December/ early January because the CVSs around us both closed for 3-5 days at different points due to lack of staff. PM Pediatrics also closed a few locations due to lack of staff.

Yes, we had a few DAYS - not weeks or months - of disruption in some health and service-related areas due to a combination of Covid and the holidays. Plus the snowstorm after New Years. There’s a huge difference between a momentary disruption for some people that’s resolved fairly quickly and TWO MONTHS OF PANIC, EMPTY SHELVES, people dying in the streets!

Like I said…. Next time, come work for us and see if that helps you understand the magnitude of stress we are just now coming out from under.

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Anonymous wrote:Most people wear cloth masks or flimsy “medical’ masks from China (that I’m pretty sure are full of chemicals as evidenced by the breakouts and odd smell). Are they really protecting anyone?

I rarely see high quality masks properly worn by people.

Where are you looking? In the District almost everyone is wearing N95s or KN95s. Our offices are handing them out and we're all ordering them online now that they're widely available. Because... we're not idiots. Your cloth mask-focused arguments do not match reality.

I live and work in DC and this just isn't true. Most people, if wearing masks at all, are wearing cloth or the fake "surgical" or "medical" masks. A few wear KN95s. Definitely not most.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m covid cautious (tripe vaxxed, still wear medical masks in stores etc) and yet I still remember DCUM falling all over itself just a few months ago to agree with this thread. Such ridiculous nonsense. I am tired of this hysteria.

I work in an ER and this wasn’t hysteria, it was true! Wait times were over 24 hours for patients. It only lasted a few weeks but it was horrific. Not necessarily in terms of deaths (thankfully) but in terms of sheer numbers of patients.

Sorry PP, with people's urge to treat the whole 2 years of the pandemic as a nothingburger, just based on the mildness of Omicron (friends have had Delta, and you would not have wanted that one) any medical professional that wants to talk about the actual patient loads in the hospitals is going to get "canceled."
Thanks for your work.

Come on. The Twitter thread was full hysteria that simply didn’t happen. Here is what else she said, among other things:

When we go to grocery stores & find shelves empty, to pharmacies & find them closed because every single employee is out sick themselves or tending to a loved one. Please get what you need to look after your household. Fill prescriptions, get over the counter meds & staples…

And on and on. And that simply didn’t happen.

This level of hysterical ranting does nobody good.

Those things completely happened! Did you not try to get any errands done around New Years? Nothing was open , everyone had Omicron!

What are you talking about? I did my grocery shopping, pharmacy visits, etc like normal. Obviously masked, and there were periodic things missing or slower, but it was nothing like what that hysterical thread said would happen. And everybody knows it.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m covid cautious (tripe vaxxed, still wear medical masks in stores etc) and yet I still remember DCUM falling all over itself just a few months ago to agree with this thread. Such ridiculous nonsense. I am tired of this hysteria.

I work in an ER and this wasn’t hysteria, it was true! Wait times were over 24 hours for patients. It only lasted a few weeks but it was horrific. Not necessarily in terms of deaths (thankfully) but in terms of sheer numbers of patients.

Sorry PP, with people's urge to treat the whole 2 years of the pandemic as a nothingburger, just based on the mildness of Omicron (friends have had Delta, and you would not have wanted that one) any medical professional that wants to talk about the actual patient loads in the hospitals is going to get "canceled."
Thanks for your work.

Come on. The Twitter thread was full hysteria that simply didn’t happen. Here is what else she said, among other things:

When we go to grocery stores & find shelves empty, to pharmacies & find them closed because every single employee is out sick themselves or tending to a loved one. Please get what you need to look after your household. Fill prescriptions, get over the counter meds & staples…

And on and on. And that simply didn’t happen.

This level of hysterical ranting does nobody good.

Those things completely happened! Did you not try to get any errands done around New Years? Nothing was open , everyone had Omicron!

What are you talking about? I did my grocery shopping, pharmacy visits, etc like normal. Obviously masked, and there were periodic things missing or slower, but it was nothing like what that hysterical thread said would happen. And everybody knows it.

Well, sort of. Schools shut down for a week, even though the snow closure was really only valid for two days. So yes, as always, everything was fine, life went on, but the schools were closed. Because kids and parents must bear the entire burden of this pandemic.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ll need too dead bodies in the bread aisle of Giant before I go back to wearing a mask. Omicron wasn’t sht when I caught it.

+1

Don’t care at all about new variants. This is life now. Not wearing a mask ever again.

Cool. Enjoy not flying.

I flew this week. It was the first time in nearly six months that I wore a mask. It was more awful than I remembered.

Grow up.

Nope. It was awful. Hot and stuffy. I can’t believe my kids were only recently unshackled from this nonsense.

With all of the actual suffering in the world, and plenty of it fairly visible to anyone following news at all, I have a really hard time understanding how a rational adult can believe wearing a mask rates at all. My conclusion is that you must not be a rational adult.

“Unshackled?” What a moron.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m covid cautious (tripe vaxxed, still wear medical masks in stores etc) and yet I still remember DCUM falling all over itself just a few months ago to agree with this thread. Such ridiculous nonsense. I am tired of this hysteria.

I work in an ER and this wasn’t hysteria, it was true! Wait times were over 24 hours for patients. It only lasted a few weeks but it was horrific. Not necessarily in terms of deaths (thankfully) but in terms of sheer numbers of patients.

How many of those people really need to go to the ER though?
Did they show up to get tested thinking they had covid?
How many had been so scared by media coverage over the past few years that even if they were vaccinated and had few symptoms they literally had anxiety attacks convincing them whatever symptom they had was much worse and went to the ER>

Yes, remember when INOVA had to put out statements asking people not to come to the ER for tests or immediately upon a positive test, just because?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m covid cautious (tripe vaxxed, still wear medical masks in stores etc) and yet I still remember DCUM falling all over itself just a few months ago to agree with this thread. Such ridiculous nonsense. I am tired of this hysteria.

I work in an ER and this wasn’t hysteria, it was true! Wait times were over 24 hours for patients. It only lasted a few weeks but it was horrific. Not necessarily in terms of deaths (thankfully) but in terms of sheer numbers of patients.

Lol. Life was not "unrecognizable" for most Americans.

I was referring to the part about anyone who was unfortunate enough to need emergency care during that time. My friends child needed stitches and he literally was not able to get them! He showed up at PM Pediatrics at 6pm and was told they weren’t taking any more patients since they already had OVER 100 CHECKED IN and they closed in 6 hours. He went to the ER and was told 24 hour wait time. Called a doc friend who said after 24 hours it would be too late anyways.

Now is this a tragedy? Not really. He will have a scar he wouldn’t have had but it’s not like he died. But medical care was not accessible for about 4 weeks for most people and that’s a fact.

Most Americans don't work in an ER or need that much medical care. I stand by my comment - life was not "unrecognizable". I even went on vacation. Twice.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m covid cautious (tripe vaxxed, still wear medical masks in stores etc) and yet I still remember DCUM falling all over itself just a few months ago to agree with this thread. Such ridiculous nonsense. I am tired of this hysteria.

I work in an ER and this wasn’t hysteria, it was true! Wait times were over 24 hours for patients. It only lasted a few weeks but it was horrific. Not necessarily in terms of deaths (thankfully) but in terms of sheer numbers of patients.

Sorry PP, with people's urge to treat the whole 2 years of the pandemic as a nothingburger, just based on the mildness of Omicron (friends have had Delta, and you would not have wanted that one) any medical professional that wants to talk about the actual patient loads in the hospitals is going to get "canceled."
Thanks for your work.

Come on. The Twitter thread was full hysteria that simply didn’t happen. Here is what else she said, among other things:

When we go to grocery stores & find shelves empty, to pharmacies & find them closed because every single employee is out sick themselves or tending to a loved one. Please get what you need to look after your household. Fill prescriptions, get over the counter meds & staples…

And on and on. And that simply didn’t happen.

This level of hysterical ranting does nobody good.

Those things completely happened! Did you not try to get any errands done around New Years? Nothing was open , everyone had Omicron!

What are you talking about? I did my grocery shopping, pharmacy visits, etc like normal. Obviously masked, and there were periodic things missing or slower, but it was nothing like what that hysterical thread said would happen. And everybody knows it.

That's great! My pharmacy closed and my kid's asthma meds were held hostage there until they reopened 5 days later (with a 2+ hour line to pick up prescriptions when I arrived). Our schools closed for an extra week. And my niece injured her ankle and was unable to be seen anywhere despite trying for 3 days straight at urgent cares.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m covid cautious (tripe vaxxed, still wear medical masks in stores etc) and yet I still remember DCUM falling all over itself just a few months ago to agree with this thread. Such ridiculous nonsense. I am tired of this hysteria.

I work in an ER and this wasn’t hysteria, it was true! Wait times were over 24 hours for patients. It only lasted a few weeks but it was horrific. Not necessarily in terms of deaths (thankfully) but in terms of sheer numbers of patients.

Lol. Life was not "unrecognizable" for most Americans.

I was referring to the part about anyone who was unfortunate enough to need emergency care during that time. My friends child needed stitches and he literally was not able to get them! He showed up at PM Pediatrics at 6pm and was told they weren’t taking any more patients since they already had OVER 100 CHECKED IN and they closed in 6 hours. He went to the ER and was told 24 hour wait time. Called a doc friend who said after 24 hours it would be too late anyways.

Now is this a tragedy? Not really. He will have a scar he wouldn’t have had but it’s not like he died. But medical care was not accessible for about 4 weeks for most people and that’s a fact.

Most Americans don't work in an ER or need that much medical care. I stand by my comment - life was not "unrecognizable". I even went on vacation. Twice.

To be fair, most Americans (think about how unhealthy Americans are as a whole) will need some sort of access to medical care in a 4-6 week period (the period of time that Omicron decimated medical care around here). That might include prescription pick up for example.

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Anonymous wrote:Most people wear cloth masks or flimsy “medical’ masks from China (that I’m pretty sure are full of chemicals as evidenced by the breakouts and odd smell). Are they really protecting anyone?

I rarely see high quality masks properly worn by people.

Where are you looking? In the District almost everyone is wearing N95s or KN95s. Our offices are handing them out and we're all ordering them online now that they're widely available. Because... we're not idiots. Your cloth mask-focused arguments do not match reality.

I live and work in DC and this just isn't true. Most people, if wearing masks at all, are wearing cloth or the fake "surgical" or "medical" masks. A few wear KN95s. Definitely not most.

Agree. Most people aren't wearing masks at all but will throw on a token crumpled old surgical mask or old navy cloth mask if they have to.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m covid cautious (tripe vaxxed, still wear medical masks in stores etc) and yet I still remember DCUM falling all over itself just a few months ago to agree with this thread. Such ridiculous nonsense. I am tired of this hysteria.

I work in an ER and this wasn’t hysteria, it was true! Wait times were over 24 hours for patients. It only lasted a few weeks but it was horrific. Not necessarily in terms of deaths (thankfully) but in terms of sheer numbers of patients.

Lol. Life was not "unrecognizable" for most Americans.

I was referring to the part about anyone who was unfortunate enough to need emergency care during that time. My friends child needed stitches and he literally was not able to get them! He showed up at PM Pediatrics at 6pm and was told they weren’t taking any more patients since they already had OVER 100 CHECKED IN and they closed in 6 hours. He went to the ER and was told 24 hour wait time. Called a doc friend who said after 24 hours it would be too late anyways.

Now is this a tragedy? Not really. He will have a scar he wouldn’t have had but it’s not like he died. But medical care was not accessible for about 4 weeks for most people and that’s a fact.

Most Americans don't work in an ER or need that much medical care. I stand by my comment - life was not "unrecognizable". I even went on vacation. Twice.

Congratulations on your privilege.

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Anonymous wrote:Most people wear cloth masks or flimsy “medical’ masks from China (that I’m pretty sure are full of chemicals as evidenced by the breakouts and odd smell). Are they really protecting anyone?

I rarely see high quality masks properly worn by people.

Where are you looking? In the District almost everyone is wearing N95s or KN95s. Our offices are handing them out and we're all ordering them online now that they're widely available. Because... we're not idiots. Your cloth mask-focused arguments do not match reality.

I live and work in DC and this just isn't true. Most people, if wearing masks at all, are wearing cloth or the fake "surgical" or "medical" masks. A few wear KN95s. Definitely not most.

Not where I am. Crazy. I see very few surgical masks and most people are still masking inside.

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