Covid-19
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Nope, though at work in a multi storey building we get advice & updates from HR of 1 or 2 per week with it.
Serious question: Who on this board has NOT had the Clap?
Does it help if we have a clinic punch card?
I'm 100% never-COVID....
...And *THIS* is exactly why. I don't run to med every time I have a headache to get an MRI. I don't go to the emergency room for every tummy ache. Most importantly, I refuse to take a non-clinically indicated test providing a 20% false positivity rate in the absence of reason for the test.
Testing without symptoms is virtue signaling or an overstep of a medical director forcing you to take a procedure you don't want; both are fucking dumb.
*If you internalized that last sentence, please, look internally. Your problem doesn't rest with me.*
I posted previously that my daughter's summer dance camp required proof of vaccinations **and** booster.
What I don't think I included in that post (because I found out later) they didn't tell us is that parents who were coming to drop off their children **also** had to show a negative COVID test just to drop off and inprocess their kids. The kids have to have a negative test (on top of proof of vaccination and boost) too.
1) this is stupid
2) the home tests are notoriously unreliable
3) there's nothing to keep anyone from faking the test, or from using someone else's test
4) if I can show you a vax card, and I'm masked up, WTF do I need to show you a negative COVID test on top of all of that?
5) ^this is stupid
My wife did the tests the night before and took our daughter to the camp. When she got there, she got hassled about the test. "Oh you took it last night? It needed to be today." Fortunately someone with more common sense told her it was fine and my daughter got inprocessed.
Now, according to my daughter the camp was absolutely fabulous. I went to the recital; the kids were really talented.
I didn't think about it until we were just outside the auditorium, but I didn't bring a mask to the recital. Unless I'm going to the hospital, I just don't really think about masks anymore. There were no signs saying we had to have one, and my oldest daughter and I got it with no hassles (wife had to work). About 10-20% of the audience was masked up. And I'm fine with that--do what you need to do to feel like you're protecting yourself and your family. 3-4 of the students also wore masks during their performances. I felt bad for them.
So much of the COVID stuff right now is purely performative. In inflicts additional cost, stress, and hassle on folks who already have enough of that in their lives. Maybe after the mid-terms we can stop pretending like we care...
What I don't think I included in that post (because I found out later) they didn't tell us is that parents who were coming to drop off their children **also** had to show a negative COVID test just to drop off and inprocess their kids. The kids have to have a negative test (on top of proof of vaccination and boost) too.
1) this is stupid
2) the home tests are notoriously unreliable
3) there's nothing to keep anyone from faking the test, or from using someone else's test
4) if I can show you a vax card, and I'm masked up, WTF do I need to show you a negative COVID test on top of all of that?
5) ^this is stupid
My wife did the tests the night before and took our daughter to the camp. When she got there, she got hassled about the test. "Oh you took it last night? It needed to be today." Fortunately someone with more common sense told her it was fine and my daughter got inprocessed.
Now, according to my daughter the camp was absolutely fabulous. I went to the recital; the kids were really talented.
I didn't think about it until we were just outside the auditorium, but I didn't bring a mask to the recital. Unless I'm going to the hospital, I just don't really think about masks anymore. There were no signs saying we had to have one, and my oldest daughter and I got it with no hassles (wife had to work). About 10-20% of the audience was masked up. And I'm fine with that--do what you need to do to feel like you're protecting yourself and your family. 3-4 of the students also wore masks during their performances. I felt bad for them.
So much of the COVID stuff right now is purely performative. In inflicts additional cost, stress, and hassle on folks who already have enough of that in their lives. Maybe after the mid-terms we can stop pretending like we care...
You...... complete me
My middle son (27) refused to get vaxxed. His employer--an MLB team--then issued a directive that all employees must get vaxxed...or else. So he went down to the local Walgreens (or CVS) and told the guy he didn't want to get vaxxed but needed a vax card showing he'd gotten the jabs. The guy said "Sure, dude" and signed him off as vaxxed. No problem, no questions. 
I am DEFINITELY NOT CONDONING SUCH BEHAVIOR.My middle son (27) refused to get vaxxed. His employer--an MLB team--then issued a directive that all employees must get vaxxed...or else. So he went down to the local Walgreens (or CVS) and told the guy he didn't want to get vaxxed but needed a vax card showing he'd gotten the jabs. The guy said "Sure, dude" and signed him off as vaxxed. No problem, no questions.
I am also not condoning behavior of some people going to a Walgreens (instead of their primary DoD care provider) and paying them for a flu shot, but not actually getting the shot, and then turning that paperwork in to have it reflected on their paperwork. I have heard completely and totally unsubstantiated rumors of some people doing this for years.
"Not that it's happening. And not that I condone it. Just, you know, hypothetically, there are things that are happening, and when they happen, to those that happen to think that those things shouldn't happen, they might just happen to find a way, to you know, get around it." - Kamala Harris, VPOTUS.
In related news...
Federal judge temporarily halts Air Force’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate
Thanks to this little hiccup in kicking out Operators with 18-19.5 years of service, looks like 3 of my close friends are going to be able to make it to 20 and retire.
And no, that's not hyperbole or an exaggeration.
Federal judge temporarily halts Air Force’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate
Thanks to this little hiccup in kicking out Operators with 18-19.5 years of service, looks like 3 of my close friends are going to be able to make it to 20 and retire.
And no, that's not hyperbole or an exaggeration.
ThunderHorse
Verified Military
My middle son (27) refused to get vaxxed. His employer--an MLB team--then issued a directive that all employees must get vaxxed...or else. So he went down to the local Walgreens (or CVS) and told the guy he didn't want to get vaxxed but needed a vax card showing he'd gotten the jabs. The guy said "Sure, dude" and signed him off as vaxxed. No problem, no questions.
This is some nonsense since MLBPA Union members don't need to get vaxxed.
The only person that needs all the jabs is the person who can't even speak about anything without ending up in dementia land...err I think that's the POTUS. And Lloyd is a dumb stooge for enforcing these idiotic policies.
I know of a few Operators up here that turned in their ID a week before the government lifted the mandate for other federal employee's, including defence department civilians. It's still being reviewed for those in uniform. Kind of ironic during a time that they are relaxing appearance standards to recruit more.
Anecdotally, I have never seen so many Senior NCO's opt for early retirement or finally get some nagging, career ending, medical issues looked at.
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Oooohhh, well if we have to have a positive test result then 0 times.
So what about the guy who was just discharged last week? Any hope for him? I hate seeing the coke-heads get a pay loss and some Sergeant get booted and lose his benefits. Would love to think he can stop packing now.
ThunderHorse
Verified Military
Sir,
May I please ask why you have not gone to the rally point with your family and gotten in the retrieval boat and exfilled to Texas? The people's republic of New York can get effed. What's crazy is how culturally different my friends down in the City are. They just do what the city tells them.
...I really like working at West Point. That's literally the only reason I'm in New York.
