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Are any of you on this forum living in New Zealand? My son just got a job there and will be moving to Auckland in January (if the borders open) -- I'd love to talk to you about life in NZ. Thanks!
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Glad and LLama, I am so sorry your COVID numbers are still rising, Here at my hospital we are down to only 25 pts ( 1,000 bed hospital) and I am glad of it! Most are not in the ICU at this point, and many came in for other issues and were tested here and found positive. I am thinking the vaccines are helping ! And due to mask wearing the regular flu numbers were almost zero last year! So that is good news too. Alot of the co workers at the hospital are hoping soon we won;t need to wear our masks for the entire shift,, but I really don;t see this ever happening again. It is hard to talk to the pts with a mask on, or understand reports as sound are muffled, but it is safer in the long run.
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My sig-other spent the past 5 days in Florida, visiting a relative and going to her son's wedding. He just go home, so I asked him how was the mask wearing in Florida, he said hardly anyone had on a mask.

Thankfully sig-other has had his shots, including his flu shot. But I still worry about break-thru infections since we are senior citizens, and he does have medical issues. He's not easy to live with if he has a simple cold :P

His grown daughter and her teenage girls flew in for the wedding, too. The daughter has Lupus and I don't think she even got her first covid-vaccine shot. It's all political where she lives. Sigh.
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I find the term 'break through' when referred to COVID infections meaningless. Unvaccinated and vaccinated can contract and die from the virus. As more and more people get vaccinated, most of the cases of hospitalization and deaths will be the vaccinated, then it's not 'break through' anymore.
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Doctors should know bwtter about the asymptomatic nonsense they have been shoveling. They ruined a lot of people's lives because of their lies and many couldn't even say goodbye to loved ones. And ironic Pamz in the comment below said many were in the icu for other reasons but tested positive for covid. This allowed the media and the hospitals to lie through their teeth. We should all be angry at what a fake pcr test and a lying cdc and governments around the world have done. Plus hospitals are to blame also. Stop the government hand outs and emergency use and see how fast this disappears. Even the media is being rewarded with a lot of money in the new budget they are trying to pass before December.
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Pamz: The hospital's ED that I use is in Glen Burnie.
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polarbear, in our area over 98% of the covid cases are in the unvaccinated, over 98% of the ICU admissions are unvaccinated, 98% of the ventilated, and 99% of the deaths are from the unvaccinated. Yes, some vaccinated people are getting covid, but the ones that do get it usually have a mild case _unless_ they have some problem with the vaccine, like my cousin's FIL who took medication preventing rejection of his kidney transplant. Over 90% of people over 65 have been vaccinated in our hospital's operating area, and the people that are being hospitalized and are dying are younger in the most recent covid spike (average age is 47). Just over 25% are children (long hospitalizations but no deaths yet thank God). Our spike is over for now, with hospital resources going to 90+% utilized back down to 45-55%, but healthcare workers fear the traditional winter spike of flu and covid _may_ overcome resources.

Dr. Pollard of the Mayo Clinic says because we have missed our herd immunity opportunity, people now have three options: get covid while unvaccinated, get covid after being vaccinated, or live in isolation. The local numbers are showing much better outcomes for those who have been vaccinated and only minor effects of being vaccinated. As one doctor here stated, "I haven't treated one patient in the ICU or signed one death certificate for someone because of vaccine complications."
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You Americans kill me 😯🙄🤣
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TNtech- Unvaxed does NOT mean unvaxed.

It includes vaxxed that had one jab or two jabs less than 2 weeks before getting sick. There are talks now that the definition of unvax to mean not having booster jab..

Studies show that those who had covid now have immunity protection that is far superior to that provided by the spike protein laden vaccines, hence the need for booster shots and more booster shots. Your bodies will be full of disease causing spike proteins.
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Forgive me...bringing up the topic of BEES is another very controversial topic.

When I told a friend the ground bees were packing up their little suitcases and moving out, she replied:

"That was really nice of you to give the bees some peppermint oils and thyme.
I bet they loved it.
I didn't know they had tiny suitcases though.
I just thought they carried everything in little backpacks"....🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝
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Llama I work at Johns hopkins..
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Today would have been mom's 95th birthday. I have been thinking of her all day.
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Geez, this site is slow tonight!
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glad - The memories flood back sometimes. Yes, this site is slow today.
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Glad, God Bless you and your memories of your dear mom!
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Glad: Happy Heavenly 95th Birthday to your mother!💜
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Pamz: I did recall that you are employed at Johns Hopkins. How long have you been working there?
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A big hug to you Glad
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Has anyone heard from Earlybird? It's been over a month since her mother's birthday trip. Hope everything is okay with her.🧡
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D@mn. My 9 year old grandson's class has been exposed to COVID. They all have to quarantine for 10 days (along with their parents). He's going to miss Halloween...
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Daughter says there were lots of tears but she opened the Halloween candy and he seems a bit comforted. Sigh.
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LLama I have been there 24 1/2 years! I specialize in Neuro patients. In fact I only work in the NCCU ICU.. We get both medical and surgical pts, and have 4 rooms that are used for airbourne isolation and now COVID.. I am senior staff for my department,, and still love my job! Most days...LOL
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Plywood got up to $88.00 a sheet, down to $22.00, finally getting there.
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pamz: You must excel at your employment.
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Will not be answering the door for halloween! Kids are the most affected now by covid. Last year was very quiet. The year before was a nightmare, probably 100-150 trickssters.

Dont forget to set your clocks back next weekend.
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I've decided to skip Halloween this year too but it's not because of the pandemic, rates here are very low and even urban centres have been given the green light by public health.
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Glad and cwilie: I hear you - will shut off outside light - not passing out candy. True story is when I was living and caring for my mother, whose birthday is on Halloween, and she tells me that she gets "cute" trick or treaters. Well, the first group were 6 older teens who were smoking and no doubt casing her home - saying "trick or treat" in deep male voices. I told mom that we were shutting down the operation, but the next trick or treater was actually quite a clever costume: the kid's costume was a table.
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I just find it tiring to put on a sparkling smile for all the trick or treaters. The toddlers who have their parents with them are one thing cause I don't need to fake a smile for them but the older, smarta** kids just irritate me.

Fortunately I live in a mostly adult condo development now and there won't be any trick or treaters.

Not that I begrudge kids having their fun. Then can just do it without me now. LOL
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I live in a 3 building complex. This year, as last, we will have an outdoors Halloween parade and a screening of The Great Pumpkin. Treats will be distributed.
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I’m looking forward to tomorrow evening. My husband always dresses up to hand out candy. We sit on the front porch. We have about 75 - 100 kids every year. I’ve got 125 candy bags ready. Sons and husband will eat any leftovers.
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