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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:12:43 PM EDT
The Covid-19 pandemic would be a wake-up call for America, advocates for the elderly predicted: incontrovertible proof that the nation wasn't doing enough to care for vulnerable older adults.
The death toll was shocking, as were reports of chaos in nursing homes and seniors suffering from isolation, depression, untreated illness, and neglect. Around 900,000 older adults have died of Covid-19 to date, accounting for 3 of every 4 Americans who have perished in the pandemic. But decisive actions that advocates had hoped for haven't materialized. Today, most people and government officials appear to accept Covid as a part of ordinary life. Many seniors at high risk aren't getting antiviral therapies for Covid, and most older adults in nursing homes aren't getting updated vaccines. Efforts to strengthen care quality in nursing homes and assisted living centers have stalled amid debate over costs and the availability of staff. And only a small percentage of people are masking or taking other precautions in public despite a new wave of covid, flu, and respiratory syncytial virus infections hospitalizing and killing seniors. In the last week of 2023 and the first two weeks of 2024 alone, 4,810 people 65 and older lost their lives to Covid a group that would fill more than 10 large airliners according to data provided by the CDC. But the alarm that would attend plane crashes is notably absent. (During the same period, the flu killed an additional 1,201 seniors, and RSV killed 126.) "It boggles my mind that there isn't more outrage," said Alice Bonner, 66, senior adviser for aging at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. "I'm at the point where I want to say, 'What the heck? Why aren't people responding and doing more for older adults?'" It's a good question. Do we simply not care? IBTM  |
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:13:36 PM EDT
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Quoted: The Covid-19 pandemic would be a wake-up call for America, advocates for the elderly predicted: incontrovertible proof that the nation wasn't doing enough to care for vulnerable older adults. The death toll was shocking, as were reports of chaos in nursing homes and seniors suffering from isolation, depression, untreated illness, and neglect. Around 900,000 older adults have died of Covid-19 to date, accounting for 3 of every 4 Americans who have perished in the pandemic. But decisive actions that advocates had hoped for haven't materialized. Today, most people and government officials appear to accept Covid as a part of ordinary life. Many seniors at high risk aren't getting antiviral therapies for Covid, and most older adults in nursing homes aren't getting updated vaccines. Efforts to strengthen care quality in nursing homes and assisted living centers have stalled amid debate over costs and the availability of staff. And only a small percentage of people are masking or taking other precautions in public despite a new wave of covid, flu, and respiratory syncytial virus infections hospitalizing and killing seniors. In the last week of 2023 and the first two weeks of 2024 alone, 4,810 people 65 and older lost their lives to Covid a group that would fill more than 10 large airliners according to data provided by the CDC. But the alarm that would attend plane crashes is notably absent. (During the same period, the flu killed an additional 1,201 seniors, and RSV killed 126.) "It boggles my mind that there isn't more outrage," said Alice Bonner, 66, senior adviser for aging at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. "I'm at the point where I want to say, 'What the heck? Why aren't people responding and doing more for older adults?'" It's a good question. Do we simply not care? IBTM https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/688/917/f1e.jpg |
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:14:05 PM EDT
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They didn't seem to care when Cuomo sent seniors to death camps.
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:14:19 PM EDT
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Wuflu or the killer clawt shawt?
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:16:46 PM EDT
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They didn't call it the Boomer Remover for nothing.
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:17:17 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:17:58 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Y'all cared about old people dying to begin with? this time four years ago after they sent us home from work i was watching the "contagion" documentary whilst sitting on my living room floor and loading every glock and AK mag i own and just waiting for shit to pop off.   Contagion (2011) Official Exclusive 1080p HD Trailer |
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:18:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Wuflu or the killer clawt shawt?
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:18:14 PM EDT
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PUREBLOOD MASTER RACE CHECKING IN!
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:18:29 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:18:42 PM EDT
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No better way to make them reliable democrat voters than to put them in the ground.
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:18:48 PM EDT
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Wait, I though all of those seniors were immunized?
How are they dying of something they have immunity too? |
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:19:08 PM EDT
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I thought they said the vaccines work
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:19:19 PM EDT
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Who's still peddling this bullshit?
I predicted four years ago that once they started the "dying with a positive test" garbage that nursing homes would be perpetual death factories. Not in reality, just in how they are attributed. I am glad people accept that sickly people who are well past their life expectancy - to the point of being incapable of caring for themselves - do in fact die regularly. |
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:19:25 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:19:37 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Wait, I though all of those seniors were immunized? How are they dying of something they have immunity too?  Attached File |
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:19:39 PM EDT
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Why should we care about this cause of death any more than any other cause of death?
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:19:46 PM EDT
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Pretty sure saving social security was one of the value propositions behind funding Fauci's gain of function research
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:19:49 PM EDT
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@eagarminuteman
went like this: JLP3, limping past the front desk possibly never to return, talking to one of the hot 23 year old chicks at work: welp, we might all get sick and die but i might finally be able to afford a house! she laughed. |
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:20:41 PM EDT
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I think far more young adults are dying of the clot shots.
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:20:49 PM EDT
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Do we simply not care?
Nope |
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:21:03 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Y’all cared about old people dying to begin with? It's even funnier coming from a place that came up with "What round for grandpa?" |
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:21:25 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Pretty sure saving social security was one of the value propositions behind funding Fauci's gain of function research |
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:21:38 PM EDT
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My grandfather was hospitalized for it for a month. Fortunately he beat it and is back home. He's also 94 and it's naive to think something won't get him eventually.
GD would love him though. Korean War B29 pilot, then went to fly for Eastern airlines. Flew FiFi for a long time for the CAF. Flew that plane for the movie "The Right Stuff". And his lifelong friend was Paul Tibbets, pilot of the Enola Gay. |
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:22:08 PM EDT
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How many of those deaths would have been classified as traditional flu deaths before 2020?
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:22:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: @eagarminuteman went like this: JLP3, limping past the front desk possibly never to return, talking to one of the hot 23 year old chicks at work: welp, we might all get sick and die but i might finally be able to afford a house! she laughed. I shudder to imagine who will brag about spending my OT money with blurry vertical photos of side-by-sides and commuter cars when the boomers are all gone. |
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:22:51 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: one of the hot 23 year old chicks at work: 
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:23:32 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryNo shit, I work with fat guys and post-wall women. |
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:24:16 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I shudder to imagine who will brag about spending my OT money with blurry vertical photos of side-by-sides and commuter cars when the boomers are all gone.  |
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:25:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryOn the plus side, maybe the incorrect use of "you're" will decrease internet-wide. |
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:26:31 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: No shit, I work with fat guys and post-wall women. i just choose not to talk to any of them. JLP3 seeing the 300-lb women lumbering toward him: i, uh, i gotta go. i'll see ya later. note: i was chatting with Karla the engineer one day and one of the 300 pounders saw me chatting with Karla. 300 pounder later said to me, she said: if Karla was middle aged, overweight, and unattractive you'd never talk to her would you? JLP3: um... |
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:26:34 PM EDT
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So the vaccine didn't work?
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:26:50 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: On the plus side, maybe the incorrect use of "you're" will decrease internet-wide. Doubtful lol |
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:27:09 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: On the plus side, maybe the incorrect use of "you're" will decrease internet-wide. *whistling denture noises* |
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:27:13 PM EDT
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No, it's better not to care. The cost benefit calculation says we made a huge mistake.
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:27:47 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: man, not gonna lie: this time four years ago after they sent us home from work i was watching the "contagion" documentary whilst sitting on my living room floor and loading every glock and AK mag i own and just waiting for shit to pop off.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sYSyuuLk5gI think you’ve got your time line off just a bit. The mass stay at home and business closures didn’t start until after the NBA canceled their season on March 11, 2020. Then New York started canceling events on March 12. I know because that was the day my tour ended and I was in Syracuse, NY that day and we had to stop our load-in about 2 hours after we came back from lunch. Were close to 4 years, but still have a couple of weeks left. |
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:27:59 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:29:00 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: YOUR WROKING SOME OT FOR ME RIGHT SONNY BOI? *whistling denture noises* WITH INTEREST!11! |
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:29:12 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: man, not gonna lie: The most realistic part of that move was when they opened up Gwyneth Paltrow's skull and found most of her brain missing. |
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:29:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: So the vaccine didn't work? It did! It was so effective it completely eradicated the flu for those years. |
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:29:49 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: WITH INTEREST!11! (firmly fastens velcro straps on white NBs) WITH INTEREST |
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:29:59 PM EDT
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I just haven't been seeing any significant deaths in geriatric patients for atleast the past two years .
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:30:08 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: WITH INTEREST!11! I NEED MY GOT DAYUM INTEREST |
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:30:11 PM EDT
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Settle down! We will care when we are in the grips of the election and they can force mail in ballots!
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:33:19 PM EDT
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Last year, over 15,000 seasoned citizens died of the flu . To put it bluntly, America didn't give a shit about them, either.
Death and disease are a part of life. COVID has joined the long list of things that can kill old people. |
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:33:55 PM EDT
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It's just "news" stories started and promulgated by vax makers - most likely Moderna - that aren't seeing the $$ from what they thought would be a forever vaccine.
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:34:00 PM EDT
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How are we supposed to know that is happening?
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:34:39 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: The most realistic part of that move was when they opened up Gwyneth Paltrow's skull and found most of her brain missing.  i'd be listening to samantha fish whilst i'm doing it, too, seeing that i am a very bad man.   SAMANTHA FISH "GONE FOR GOOD" !!! SUPERSONIC OIL CAN GUITAR |
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:35:37 PM EDT
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:35:40 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: I just haven't been seeing any significant deaths in geriatric patients for atleast the past two years . You're not going to become a "source" or "expert" like that. |
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Posted: 2/27/2024 7:36:34 PM EDT
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Odd these covid doomsayers never get angry at our government for funding a Chinese Bio-warfare lab and creating covid.
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