Anyone who took bio1 in high school could’ve told you that. Viruses mutate. Always have, always will. Covid is a virus and, at some point, will become nothing more than an inconvenience that we endure.
Pay today is so abysmal that most truckers on the road have to drive dangerously long shifts of well over 60 hours a week (with many topping 100 hours) to make a bare-bones living. It’s a grind, too—you can’t stand up for hours, you travel alone, dinner is a gas station burrito, bathroom breaks mean pulling out the plastic jug you carry along… and you won’t get home for days. Exhaustion is a constant companion and a real hazard, especially because you’re wrangling bulky machines known as “40 tons of death.”
Pilots are being “recklessly utilized” as airlines across the industry work tirelessly to recapture revenue lost during the pandemic, according to Pilots Association Communications Chair Dennis Tajer.
The issue is that airlines are scheduling too many flights for the number of trained and current pilots they have, Tajer told FOX Business. It’s creating an uptick in pilots calling out fatigued or who have hit the legal limit of duty hours, he said.
Isn’t it interesting that both of these things can easily be explained by just corporate greed, but you’d rather explain them away with “the vaccine”?
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I tested positive in September. still dealing with complications over 2 months later. and fully vaccinated and boosted…
I do hope you feel better soon and it isn’t complicated.
I can attest that it is in fact. not fun.
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I’m very skeptical of something like this being passed around. This is basically the same as when covid related deaths were marked if someone just had covid even when it wasn’t an effect. People pass out, this happens more than we think I certainly wouldn’t trust someone saying that the vaccine is causing people to pass out at the wheel without extensive research because of how easily that data is skewed.
Yep. It’s really easy to make the data say a certain narrative when we aren’t given context. It’s one of the most effective misinformation tactics.
LOL are you trying to insult me…hahaha…or make me feel bad cause I said the truth about N-95 masks…why is it when someone older puts out the truth you folks get upset…didn’t your mother or father teach to have respect for older folks…knows damn well my parents did and I taught my Son the same thing…you are what is wrong with this world some times.
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Completely forgot about COVID.
I got my first two COVID shots and proceeded to go to bars, clubs and college parties irresponsibly.
So glad those ridiculous lockdowns are over.
“10% for the big guy!”
I never gave medical advice. And you have no business calling someone evil and claiming that a vaccine is:
You do you. Don’t get vaccinated if you don’t want. I never told anyone they had to. But lying to people that vaccines don’t lessen the effects of viruses and long term effects is straight up lying.
But responding to your trolling is a waste of time.
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lol wtf seriously?
Unfortunately it’s doubtful we’ll get any unbiased data that we can also reliably trust. This is why I only read sources on virology from 2018 and earlier. Can’t skew the data if you don’t even know there’s something to skew it over!
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I work in a hospital, and we get fitted every 6 months for the N-95. it isn’t a fun process. but they have to fit a specific way in order to provide any form of protection, and that still isn’t 100%.
Me and my husband (who is a volunteer firefighter as well and runs calls with me), as well as our elderly parents, have all been vaccinated and boosted.
No one in our immediate family has gotten COVID, except for my sister (before the vaccine was generally available to the public, since she ISN’T a first responder).
That being said, I’ve scraped enough patients off the street with it to be very happy I got lucky. Especially in the earlier days. Before COVID, I’d never seen SPO2 saturation below 80 on a conscious patient (small town department). Now I’ve seen it more than I care to – and that’s where long term side effects hit.
My volunteer ambulance department’s call volume jumped, and more than I’d like was due to COVID. My perspective is colored by largely seeing patients in very bad shape, since no one else calls for the wee-woo wagon… But COVID knocked down enough people so that in my small town, I saw more people in very bad shape due to COVID than I would care to.
Beyond the CPR calls, the one that’s going to stick with me for a long time was a call I went on as a firefighter. This was just after vaccines were available to the public, but while PPE was still pretty short supply (well, to fire departments). We had a patient in his 30s or 40s who was just this huge guy. Not fat, just well over 6 feet and solid. Unvaxxed, in pretty bad shape. The EMTs on duty were both tiny women, and then the firefighter who showed up ready to get suited was me (a slightly less tiny woman).
The fire department’s suits didn’t have hoods and the patient was in the back of the house because of course he was. There were too many twists and corners to get him out on the gurney, so what we eventually wound up doing was having him lean on me. This guy is a good foot taller and a hundred pounds heavier than me, and I’m mostly carrying him out of the house because he can barely stand while he coughs into my hair.
We pass his kids. They’re crying, and two of them are coughing. And I’m just trying to keep my cool while this huge guy is putting most of his weight on me because he is too whupped to stand and the only bright side of that is that he can’t breath well enough to hold a conversation so I don’t have to find reassuring EMS patter in my heart and my ponytail is flapping out covered in COVID. As soon as we had him out of the house, we got him on the gurney and I pretended I wasn’t breathing hard through my mask (“No trouble at all, sir, hope you feel better soon”).
I can’t imagine what the first responders in bigger departments went through, but trust me, a lot of us are tired.
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This has been going on since people were mobile. Horses have some sense of self guidance. Vehicles do not. People have been having strokes, heart attacks, diabetic incidents, seizures, exhaustion/sleep disorders, etc. forever. This is NOT new… It is also why people who operate commercial passenger vehicles have medical checkup requirements so they do their best to avoid “unknown” issues.
You can also drop dead playing sports at a young age - again, not new. Usually due to heart issues the person/parents did not know about.
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Like climate change, reactionaries will insist anything that requires them to change their behavior to be fake news.
“You aren’t the boss of me” will be the downfall of humans.
Having driven a rig OTR, I can attest to abyssmal pay. However, the rest of this is pure drivel as there are, under most circumstances, legally mandated laws to prevent such abuses as you describe.
Technology is such that a driver can be reported to the authorities if found to be in violation of these laws and risk steep penalties which not only include fines but also permanent loss of their CDL.
Fact is, truck driving is one of the most strictly regulated fields in this country precisely because of the “40 ton death machine”.
And given my experience, I’d put money on most wrecks being caused by idiots in their four wheelers who can’t be bothered to pay attention on the road.
When the behaviours in question make no sense other than to solidify power structures, then I will indeed reject authority.
For example, politicians making life significantly worse for their own people by outsourcing pollution, driving up the price of energy while ultimately increasing net carbon globally. Domestic production, where feasible, is always more efficient.
Meanwhile they make no efforts to reduce the zoning and rent-seeking issues that make our societies so dependent on high-energy lifestyles to begin with.
https://www.ntsb.gov/safety/safety-studies/Pages/SS9502.aspx
The Safety Board believes, however, that the incidence of driver fatigue is underrepresented in FARS in general and in FARS specifically with regard to truckdrivers. Research has suggested that truckdriver fatigue is a contributing factor in 30 to 40 percent of all heavy truck accidents.
You know putting onion on your feet before you go to bed actually helps. That is so cool even though it makes my feet smelly.
It must be nice to be sheltered enough to have the luxury of dismissing COVID as “basically a cold”, though.
I kind of envy that innocence.
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Florida sunshine year around.
Yesterday was hot and humid!
That is the perk of living near sand cranes, sea cows, and sun bathing gators!
What do you think the common cold is? It’s “COVID” aka “Corona Virus Disease”