You've got your schtick, man

Actually I knew a guy who got it last summer and died at 35 years old. They put him on a ventilator early and he never got off. I know another guy whose elderly dad died of COVID, but he also fell off his bed in the hospital and may have died of his injuries and other compounding factors (of course, his death certificate gives one attribution). And I met a guy whose aunt died of COVID.

It happens. So do car accidents, of course.

I learned yesterday that Little Nemo has been gender swapped in the upcoming Netflix adaptation. Fuck these people.

They're all gonna get approval. They filed weeks apart and the FDA will grant approval in that order to give the process a veneer of legitimacy.

Negative side effects from the Johnson and Johnson disproportionately affect women under 40.

It sounds like the director and deputy director of the FDA's Vaccines Research and Review are fed up with the White House and the political rushing of booster shots was the last straw. Curious to see what else comes of this, if anything. I'd love for these people to go public about the corrupt and politicized vaccine approval process, but I'm sure they'll just keep their heads down.

The offer (unless it was reported at the time completely wrong (totally possible)) was to turn him over to a neutral third country.

Reminder that in October of 2001 the Taliban offered to turn over Bin Laden and we could've ended the whole thing after dropping a few bombs.

My family doctor never mandated masks in her practice. She told us over a year ago almost everything this woman said in the vid, and basically kept our business for life. Common sense is so hard to find.

This chaos reveals people's true nature. People I considered friends turned out to be pretty vile, hateful, and cowardly. I'm ashamed of some of them. They were better people before this mess.

I miss my dad. I know he never would've stood for any of this bullshit. He was one of those rare, brave public figures who literally always stood on principle. People hated and loved him for that.

I'm grateful for my wife, who has an irrepressible positivity, but still maintains a grounded sense of realism, and a dead-on accurate moral compass. She's the only family I have, and I'd accept none other at this point.

There's a lot to be upset about. We've all been feeling beaten up by forces outside of our control. But we can all take to our graves the pride in knowing we weren't cowards. Some of us are downright nutjobs, but I'd gladly stand with a principled, honest nutjob than an authoritarian tyrant any day.

Those replies are depressing.

Hope these aren't discord servers because nothing is private there.

Even Dems hate her. She has no friends, no allies.

Their conservatives exist within a different Overton Window than, say, Tennessee conservatives. If this was tried where I live there would be blood in the streets. People still make bathtub moonshine out here and don't take kindly to our mental midget overlords.

You have a good attitude about it.

Do you have an option to become an in-home caregiver through a small provider with less stringent vaccine requirements? Can you go independent, or does the health department heavily regulate who can and cannot provide care to homebound infirmed? Curious to know what options are available to you at this point.

Elsewhere the propaganda machine stumbled for a minute, as ABC and even CNN was forced to do their jobs by a disaster too big to ignore. But MSNBC just kept right on rolling. It's almost impressive how deeply sociopathic they are.

He also directed Sicario, the most based movie made in the last decade.

Much as I'd love to shit on any celebrity, this sucks. Sanz has a ton of talent and is one of the few SNL guys in recent memory that's way funnier on appearances outside of the show. But all the behind-the-scenes info about SNL cast members makes them all sound like psychopaths.

I was just in Austin last week, which the media is calling "ground zero." My nurse friend said she had three COVID cases come in to her hospital, and two were asymptomatic. I sleep.

JDownloader 2 is a pretty great catch-all downloader.

Guess it really depends on how strict the employer is about showing your work.

As much as this is valuable advice I don't think it will change the requirement that you show up to work weekly with a negative COVID test, which appears to be the status quo regardless of you playing dumb with HR or not.

I think this will get very dicey very quickly. EOs aren't intended to have this kind of broad-reaching authority, and there's plenty of established international and US law that prohibits forced participation in experimental medical procedures and vaccines (all that will change once the FDA grants full approval later this year, I expect).

If it is enforced, from what I've seen there's going to be an out-clause whereby your SO could get tested for COVID weekly. We'll have to see what the actual order says, but if that information is correct then you at least have a short-term shitty, tedious, and infuriating new hoop to jump through to avoid getting vaxxed. That at least buys you time to make alternate plans.

There are also religious exemptions your SO could appeal toward. I'm not very familiar with that territory but I know it exists. Robert Barnes has got a lot of litigation he's preparing to challenge vaccine mandates, and I know he's outlaid options for people like your spouse on the Viva Barnes Locals (I'd go look it up but I'm no longer a paid member. That advice might even be available to unpaid members, FWIW).

I also doubt it would go into immediate effect, meaning your SO should have some time to get vaxxed or get out. I suppose we'll find out on Thursday.

Bottom line is, I believe your SO will have some short-term stalling options while planning to get out of federal employment ASAP. I have heard from friends at large companies like Wells Fargo that they are moving in similar directions, so it's probably best to move toward smaller companies that don't have HR departments.

There's another question altogether of just how far an employer can go to verify that you are vaccinated in the first place. Prying too deeply runs afoul of the ADA, and a simple "yes I am vaccinated" might be enough to save your job. That appears to have satisfied federal employers so far, anyway. There are templates for vaccine certificates, along with instructions to what card stock to print them out on, if you really feel up against the wall and need to forge your way out. I don't know how much this is maintained on a federal database.

Just gonna get worse when these get full FDA approval later this year.