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My father was in hospital for an unrelated issue, but caught covid there and was moved to the covid wing. I'm pretty sure he was counted as a covid patient then.

They are probably counting every positive patient as a COVID patient, which is probably the wrong approach if COVID wasn't what ultimately brought the patient to the hospital.  However, for safety measure reasons, the hospital probably doesn't care if you are in for appendicitis, gallbladder removal, or any other thing because if you have COVID along with those, then you are contagious and need to be treated as such.  The hospitals probably could break it down to patients admitted due to COVID vs COVID patients admitted for other reasons, but the staff would probably be irate with the increased paperwork on top of the increase in patient load.

Looking at the ICU COVID cases probably gives a better idea of the situation, as mild cases of COVID won't be in the ICU.

Yes, especially if they're using hospitalizations as a metric for how we're doing.

its only a big deal if icu and morgues are getting full

Does every patient walking into a hospital get a Covid Test?
In my area, when you walk in you say yes/no to a list of Covid symptom questions, given a surgical mask (even if you have one), hand sanitize, then get a little sticker to put on your jacket/shirt stating you've been vetted. If you go in for a planned procedure (not an appointment), you have to get a Covid test 2 days prior. I don't know how ER's work.

Does every patient walking into a hospital get a Covid Test?
In my area, when you walk in you say yes/no to a list of Covid symptom questions, given a surgical mask (even if you have one), hand sanitize, then get a little sticker to put on your jacket/shirt stating you've been vetted. If you go in for a planned procedure (not an appointment), you have to get a Covid test 2 days prior. I don't know how ER's work.

In short, in the US, if you are going to be scheduled for surgery or hospital treatment, you will get a covid test.

They need to keep the numbers up!

Even though the swab up the nose doesn't isolate the coronavirus for verification.

Does every patient walking into a hospital get a Covid Test?
In my area, when you walk in you say yes/no to a list of Covid symptom questions, given a surgical mask (even if you have one), hand sanitize, then get a little sticker to put on your jacket/shirt stating you've been vetted. If you go in for a planned procedure (not an appointment), you have to get a Covid test 2 days prior. I don't know how ER's work.

I think it may be individual hospital policy, but I don't really know. My stepfather is in a nursing home, he had to go to the hospital three times this year, and I think they tested him each time. They might be more likely to test nursing home residents, but also the nursing home he lives in had a major outbreak this summer.

Quote from: Stash on September 14, 2021, 10:31:51 AM

Does every patient walking into a hospital get a Covid Test?
In my area, when you walk in you say yes/no to a list of Covid symptom questions, given a surgical mask (even if you have one), hand sanitize, then get a little sticker to put on your jacket/shirt stating you've been vetted. If you go in for a planned procedure (not an appointment), you have to get a Covid test 2 days prior. I don't know how ER's work.

In short, in the US, if you are going to be scheduled for surgery or hospital treatment, you will get a covid test.

They need to keep the numbers up!

Yeah, just like I wrote, "If you go in for a planned procedure (not an appointment), you have to get a Covid test 2 days prior." Read much?

I'm not sure where the logic is for testing prior to a procedure and "keeping numbers up". If they test you prior to a procedure and you test negative, how does that boost positive numbers. Or are you referring just to number of people tested, period?

Even though the swab up the nose doesn't isolate the coronavirus for verification.

Citation requested.

https://nypost.com/2021/09/13/texas-girl-dies-of-covid-19-infection-from-anti-vax-momtexas-girl-4-dies-of-covid-19-after-being-infected-by-anti-vax-mom/

A 4-year-old Texas girl has died of COVID-19 — which she likely contracted from her mom, a staunch anti-vaxxer, the grieving parent said.

Little Kali Cook died in her sleep at home in Bacliff on Tuesday, just five hours after she woke in the early hours with the first signs of a fever, mom Karra Harwood told local media.

Flapping dumb bitch mum!

The mom admitted that she now regrets opposing COVID-19 vaccines. In Texas, the vaccination rate is just a fraction over 50 percent, Johns Hopkins University data shows.

“I was one of the people that was anti, I was against it,” she told her local paper of the shots.

“Now, I wish I never was,” she admitted.

So the 650K people that died before in America said nothing of the seriousness to this bitch?

Hard lesson to learn. At least she finally sees the error. Pretty disgraceful for Texas overall that vaccination rates in my state in Oz are higher than the Texas state given how late we were to getting vaccines and how our government royally fudged up the roll-out. Over 60K people in Texas dead already. They must be quite indifferent to a human life's worth

Just got the 2nd dose now. W00t! 

A pity my phone is too old for 5G. Might have gotten some benefit there. Oh well, next phone should be good

this bitch?

Fuck you shitler.  That's a mum that's just lost a 4 year old child.

She might be an idiot for not getting vaccinated, but this has nothing to do with the death of her child.  No matter how much people like you want to chuck her in the stocks and shame her.

That 4 year old was never going to vaccinated so would at some point come into contact with the virus, just like all of us.  The reason we don't vaccinate 4 year olds is that they are almost immune to covid - deaths in young children are incredibly rare.


If this woman had infected her grandma I'd feel different, but this is just really terrible luck.

only 99%!
that 1% keeps getting bigger every time these idiots have a rally.
keep on sticking it to biden by sacrificing your vulnerable.

Quote from: Shifter on September 14, 2021, 06:31:04 PM

this bitch?

Fuck you shitler.  That's a mum that's just lost a 4 year old child.

She might be an idiot for not getting vaccinated, but this has nothing to do with the death of her child.  No matter how much people like you want to chuck her in the stocks and shame her.

That 4 year old was never going to vaccinated so would at some point come into contact with the virus, just like all of us.  The reason we don't vaccinate 4 year olds is that they are almost immune to covid - deaths in young children are incredibly rare.


If this woman had infected her grandma I'd feel different, but this is just really terrible luck.

What else do you call a parent who manslaughters their own child with stupidity?

This is a pretty bad hot take that you should probably punt on. She didn't kill her daughter. Her daughter got sick from a virus. Her daughter wasn't eligible for any sort of vaccine to protect her from the virus.

This is a pretty bad hot take that you should probably punt on. She didn't kill her daughter. Her daughter got sick from a virus. Her daughter wasn't eligible for any sort of vaccine to protect her from the virus.

Initial viral loading may contribute as to how ill you get. If the mother hadn't been a a stupid moron that tunes into Cucker Tarlson's every episode and gotten herself vaccinated then maybe her daughter would not have been infected or at least not infected at a much higher dose.

In any event, it's the mum, not some anti vax infected moron passing idly by that dealt the death blow. The mum only has herself to blame here

And it's BS anti vaxxer stances like this mother which have allowed the continued proliferation of the virus into the vulnerable and groups that can't get vaccinated

Is she responsible? Hell yes. Idgaf about raking her over the coals despite her loss. It's because of her loss she deserves a good raking over the coals

Would you reprimand a parent if their kid died in a car accident because the parent believed their driving was so good that seat belts were stupid so didn't have their kid buckle up?

Your seat belt comparison is not even remotely the same. And your speculation is just that - speculation. You seem to be rejoicing that the death of a small child finally taught the mom a life lesson? That's just a supremely weird thing to latch on to. Maybe go back to the radio hosts that broadcasted the antivax message and then died or something. This just doesn't make sense.

Your seat belt comparison is not even remotely the same. And your speculation is just that - speculation. You seem to be rejoicing that the death of a small child finally taught the mom a life lesson? That's just a supremely weird thing to latch on to. Maybe go back to the radio hosts that broadcasted the antivax message and then died or something. This just doesn't make sense.

I don't rejoice in that death and fail to see how that could be your take away unless you just want to be deliberately hyperbolic for some stupid virtue signaling nonsense

Keep in mind this mother was a stupid bitch before her child died. Her child is dead and you think that means we should go 'Aww poor mummy, she lost her kid lets feel sorry for her'. To hell with that sentimental crap. She absolutely failed as a parent and frankly the way I see these anti vaxxers when they plod along their lives spreading killer diseases, everyone in their chain of death is manslaughter.

To those radio hosts, I ROFL at their comeuppance. I don't LOL at the mum but I do express a lot of disdain for her. The death should have been hers to bear.

I imagine as a parent you would do anything to protect your kids. I do the same. Getting inoculated with a deadly and novel disease was all to much for this mum. F&#k her

What the fuck are you on about? Typical Shitler. Carry on.

What the fuck are you on about? Typical Shitler. Carry on.

Typical boydster. You carry on too

Quote from: JimmyTheCrab on September 15, 2021, 05:26:35 AM

Quote from: Shifter on September 14, 2021, 06:31:04 PM

this bitch?

Fuck you shitler.  That's a mum that's just lost a 4 year old child.

She might be an idiot for not getting vaccinated, but this has nothing to do with the death of her child.  No matter how much people like you want to chuck her in the stocks and shame her.

That 4 year old was never going to vaccinated so would at some point come into contact with the virus, just like all of us.  The reason we don't vaccinate 4 year olds is that they are almost immune to covid - deaths in young children are incredibly rare.


If this woman had infected her grandma I'd feel different, but this is just really terrible luck.

What else do you call a parent who manslaughters their own child with stupidity?

She didn't.   You're just been a cunt. 

Initial viral loading may contribute as to how ill you get.

Now you're just making shit up.  That child would have caught the virus at some stage and would be fantastically unlucky to suffer any symptoms, let alone die.

Would you reprimand a parent if their kid died in a car accident because the parent believed their driving was so good that seat belts were stupid so didn't have their kid buckle up?

This doesn't even work as a metaphor.  The seat belt is the vaccination and vaccinations aren't available to 4 year olds.

Yes. She manslaughtered her own kid with stupidity because being an anti vaxxer in such a high risk plce (America) where you are sure as shit going to get it (especially if you think the virus is a hoax so go out as normal) she very predicaibly got covid so very predicaibly passed it on to everyone she lives with or associates with

Initial viral load may indicate how severe covid affects you.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19057-5

If you're so worried that your kid can't get the vaccine, why don't you all take your kid to covid parties then? Seeing as getting so sickly that you die is such a freak event? Oh that's right. You're responsible caring parents who wouldn't want your kid to be anywhere near this virus despite their chances of recovery

This mum in Texas just didn't give a shit. More people in America dead than all the wars and conflicts combined in Americas modern history. Millions permenantly damaged and she still didn't give a shit about ensuring she and her family protected herself

Yes. The 4 year old couldn't get the vaccine. The mother could. The other point of vaccines you forget is that you protect those that are unable to be vaccinated

The mum blames herself for her child's death. She regrets her antivaxxer BS stance. On that, she's spot on right

Yes Shitler, we know you never miss an opportunity to call a woman a bitch.

Yes Shitler, we know you never miss an opportunity to call a woman a bitch.

Or a bloke a dickhead. If they earn the title, they can surely have it.

Yes Shitler, we know you never miss an opportunity to call a woman a bitch.

Or miss an opportunity to start building a pyre under them, ready to burn the witch bitch.

Quote from: Space Cowgirl on September 16, 2021, 03:18:16 PM

Yes Shitler, we know you never miss an opportunity to call a woman a bitch.

Or miss an opportunity to start building a pyre under them, ready to burn the witch bitch.

Her BS stance got her daughter covid and thus dead. What would you call it?

If I was a bullshit antivaxxer / antimasker and tempted contracting a virus known for its internal damage/lethality and passed it on to my family, I'd fully expect to be called the same. Whether they survived or not.

Number 1 job of a parent is to protect your kids

She fucked up. Not by accident, but by design. She deserves to be called a bitch and many other negative connotative words.

Her BS stance got her daughter covid and thus dead. What would you call it?

Tragic. 

Her BS stance got her daughter covid and thus dead. What would you call it?

I'd call it extremely unlucky and a tragedy for everyone involved, including the poor mother.


You carry on sticking "the bitch" in the stocks and whipping the crowd up though.  I guess it makes you feel a little better about yourself or something.

Quote from: Shifter on September 17, 2021, 03:00:52 AM

Her BS stance got her daughter covid and thus dead. What would you call it?

I'd call it extremely unlucky and a tragedy for everyone involved, including the poor mother.


You carry on sticking "the bitch" in the stocks and whipping the crowd up though.  I guess it makes you feel a little better about yourself or something.

I was happy to call her it once but you guys kept pressing it like my opinion is invalid. Maybe you like to hear other people say it

What was tragic was the daughter having such a failure of a parent that she lost her life. Her mum didn't deserve a child

I wasnt here in a while, and immediately I notice two things
1) the forum is dead, but not as dead as expected
2) shittler is still the same old retard. He even seems a bit similar to d1 now!

I wasnt here in a while, and immediately I notice two things
1) the forum is dead, but not as dead as expected
2) shittler is still the same old retard. He even seems a bit similar to d1 now!

d1 is a gun loving, anti vaxxer, racist, Neo Nazi, xenophobic, misogynistic, Cucker Tarlson obsessed freak. In what way do you think I am similar?