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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]High risk individuals are being advised to wear masks in public. There is a new covid strain that isn't in any of the vaccine shots or booster shots BA.2.86 and [b]this is why where is a huge spike in cases and hospitalizations right now.[/b]

Be safe out there!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/24/new-covid-variant-masking-high-risk-people[/quote]

The bolder displays many degrees of untrue.[/quote]

:roll: Why do you lie? Covid hospitalizations are up 60% according to the CDC:
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/covid-hospitalizations-up-60-as-booster-slated-to-arrive-soon/

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Yawn

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Yes. And the acute covid hospitalization totals are even smaller than what the overall figures show.  Covid hospitalizations include those i) with acute covid, ii) conditions related to covid -- i.e. get dehydrated from covid, fall, and break hip, and iii) asymptomatic positives for other unrelated admissions like labor and delivery. The acute covid component is a subset of total covid hospitalizations. Rhode Island breaks out its covid hospitalizations into these three categories. In August, only 1/3 of RI covid hospitalizations were due to acute, symptomatic covid.
https://ri-department-of-health-covid-19-data-rihealth.hub.arcgis.com/
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Nq25JKlbQphdBKqZc09mjRKF0HWHO9280p9xCnVvOyY/edit#gid=244885031
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Right. Gradual increases are more indicative of a similar, gradual increase in cases, rather than any sort of sign of increased severity.

Are cases up? It’s certainly possible. But not in a way that looks troubling.
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Are you kidding?  EVERYTHING looks troubling to the Covid crazies. [/quote]

My parent is in the ICU right now.  You can call someone else crazy but you are completely out of touch as you live in a selfish little bubble where as long as it doesn't impact you everything is ok.[/quote]

Your parent is what— in their 70s? Maybe 80s? Did you think they were going to live forever? If not covid, something else would have caught up them.

I know that sounds crass, and I suppose it is. But it is also true.[/quote]

You continue to sound like a jack ()$ responding to someone with a relative in extremis in this way. [/quote]

Continue? I’m not sure which poster you think I am.

Regardless, the other poster seems to have wildly unreasonable and unrealistic expectations regarding geriatric health. I would cut her more slack if not for how she’s been treating other posters in this (and other) threads. She really needs to get some perspective. I’m sure I’m not going to be the one to provide it, but hopefully she’s listening to her parent’s doctors so that she doesn’t put her loved one through unnecessary procedures/treatments if there’s little hope for meaningful recovery. So many people these days have lost their ability to think rationally about end-of-life care.[/quote]

Yep. Continue to sound like a jack()$. [/quote]

I am the original PP who said everything looks troubling to Covid crazies. Who cares if you think I, or the other PP, sound like a jacka$$?  Luckily in science, your opinion doesn’t matter. PP was spot on with their last post. It may hurt your fee-fees but oh well. Some of us understand science and reality and can make decisions based upon that. Just because you can’t, doesn’t make us jacka$$e$. [/quote]

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