SARS II: Respiratory Boogaloo

I was doing pharmacy school rotations for the last year and was lucky enough to get a few that I could do from home. Finally graduated and just gotta take the licensing exam and then find a job. It will be strange to be out in the world full time again.

You’re fucking your boss?

I also believe that a lot of employers who are against WFH don't know how to judge productivity...if they even know what their employees are supposed to be doing. They also lose the thrill of pushing people around.

If that were the case, I'd definitely continue working remotely at my current job because I am just that awesome in bed.

True. When working remotely, I'm online within a half hour of waking up (6, 6:30, 7) and stay online until ... most days at least 4 pm some days (when I have meetings) 5pm. If I need to go into the office, I get there around 7, then after getting coffee and being stopped by everyone between my desk and the cafeteria a bunch of questions that could be answered by anyone on my team in an email, I don't even start work until 7:30. By 3 I'm already closing stuff down because I leave a 3:30.

I'm less productive in the office than I am at home.

You're not? You should.

We're doing the same. The past year has actually allowed us to bring on a bunch of talent we might not have in the past because the amount of people doing WFH locally meant it wasn't a massive change to add employees based interstate.

The people responsible for telling your kids they can get vaccinated have been sacked.

My work also provided for this, you could apply for four hours of pay to get the first and second vaccination, or the single vaccination. Then once you were fully vaccinated, you would email a copy of your vaccination and get an additional eight hours of vacation.

If you failed your health check (we had a questionnaire and temp checks every day you reported for work) or were exposed to Covid, you were then quarantined at first for two weeks and would also would also be required to take a Covid test. If you tested positive, you would still quarantine for the remainder of two weeks, then be allowed to return to work once you were no longer positive. You would get paid during your quarantine (an average of the previous six weeks hours). Once home test became available, you would still follow the quarantine guidelines but you would have a test mailed to you, take it and await the results. In either case if positive, a total of two weeks quarantine, then return to work. If you failed again, then start the process over, if pass you could work.

If you had someone in your household or immediate family get Covid, then work would pay you for four weeks (average of the previous six weeks) to provide care if you chose or choose to (it's been expanded to prove care for immediate family for any illness now). If you have children and have to decide between work and needing to care for them (school closures) work also would either pay you for four weeks or provide for childcare for up to eight weeks at no cost to you. And it didn't end there, if you were facing financial hardships, you could apply for and receive up to $2000 in aid, no strings attached. You just needed to submit a form, explaining what the hardship was and then it would be submitted for approval. Submitting did not guarantee you would get it, but of some people I know, almost everyone got some amount, from a couple hundred up the full amount. And work also paid for our health insurance for around 3-4 months as well.

And everyone who is fully vaccinated and submitted proof, is entered into a drawing to win $5000, there will be 100 winners drawn.

It keeps getting worse.

It's moments like these that make me wish the black death would come back in a big way, and then I could start a rumor that the antibiotics to treat it have Bill Gates microchips, Trump would pick it up, and then all the Trumpublicans would refuse to take them and die. Everyone else would be just fine.

So that's my fantasy getting me through the day, how about y'all?

Various U.S. news reports are saying that 99% of Americans who are now dying of COVID-19 are unvaccinated.

Good.

Roughly 3,000 Americans are dying each day due to COVID-19 complications. Every unvaccinated idiot who dies is one less idiot who will vote for Republican idiots.

Time to start thinning the herd and removing the idiots from the gene pool.

There may be an upside to this pandemic yet...

Go Australia! @Bailey

Wish Biden had the cojones to put out ads like this.

Seen a similar one for the UK.

US idiots will see it as just propaganda though.

Nice ad, but our government has absolutely fucked up vaccine procurement to the point many people can't get one yet.

Of bats and men.

It's so important they had to say it twice!

Wait, I thought Covid was 100% definitely created in a lab, and any other theory was hopelessly stupid and naive?

Still holding out hope that we're working up to a zombie apocalypse.

I am not going down that hole of infinite stupidity for the answer to your question. I am pretty sure we can wait and the @Uncle Albert bot will regurgitate it sooner or later to confirm or deny your query.

I was wondering that if we were facing a Zombie apocalypse and there was a vaccine for Zombiesm would the anti-vax crowd still be so concerned about their free-dum?

They’d be starting a new religion. Or, trying to figure out how to align Christianity with Zombies.

You would have to ask them.

Well, it was a rhetorical question.

any doubts about where this curve is headed?

Really? Ft Benning has a high infection rate? Am I reading that correctly?

yeah, columbus and ft benning are in the middle of a hotspot. actually that's south of columbus, ft benning is at the top of the hotspot.

I think that area has always been high in covid infections.