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Don’t worry about the second vaccine dose being given early. It’s not so much the timing of the second dose, it’s that you received the second dose.

And yah. Myself and everyone else on my unit, we still wear the exact same PPE and don and doff the additional PPE as we did prior to vaccination. Maybe the only thing that has changed is our social interactions, like at break.

I seriously doubt that my employer is going to be changing the PPE policy soon. I’m thinking more likely 18 months. And yes, it’s extremely unlikely that a vaccinated individual could be a vector, but every time I think that we have a handle on this bastard, it pulls another trick.

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Funny in a mordant sort of way that you should mention fire. I work, or am paid, for sixteen hours a month for Fire’s Office of Emergency Management (the other forty odd hours per month I do on a volunteer basis). Yet another thing that I picked up when I was a suburban housewife.

Anyway, yes. In a fire or structural failure or MASCAL or whatever, you get out whom ever you can without becoming yet another victim. You triage, you move past the dead or soon to be dead to save those that can be saved.

Then you debrief, hours or days or weeks later. We’ll be debriefing this one for a while.

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My workplace is increasing capacity today. We're still wearing masks. But I'm worried.

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Just think about how quickly an Ebola outbreak would end this great experiment in democracy.

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https://twitter.com/Voices4...This group can say that but their twitter feed where they retweet stuff from Republicans that has nothing to do with COVID or nursing homes says otherwise, as does the fact they give Trump a complete pass on COVID even after he admitted he lied about the threat it posed.Fuck them and anyone who buys their stories.

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Have they said that vaccinated people can transmit the virus, because last I heard, they were saying there was no evidence vaccinated individuals could still spread it. I'm not challenging the idea that we need to be safe, I am vaccinated and still wear a mask, just wondering if you know more based on where you're working.

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He spends hours each day practicing in the mirror.

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It's all in his delivery.

He is a MASTER of comic timing and tone.

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I thought Not Joe the Not Plumber had stopped circling the drain, was well past the trap and on his way to the treatment plant (or sceptic tank)

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Yeah, the GOP is pro-life only when it doesn't inconvenience them.

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trump wants to take credit for the hard work and sacrifices of others

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Wait. A rebroadcast from the end of last century?

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I think it’s a Roman Empire thing.

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Good heavens! Alert the Media!

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drumpf's moneyed handlers cackled with glee as the most expensive to maintain, but least productive human capital was cleared off the balance sheet.

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for every one vietnamese person who died of covid, there are almost 5,000 americans who died. that's per capita.

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