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2 hours ago, azdr0710 said:

here's the text from that review.....it comes from what must be one of the charter members (!) of Rentmen.....I didn't even think RM existed back in 2008!....so does that make it a legit review??!!......

He hosted me in quite old/cheap motel in a ghetto-like area of the city. When i entered the motel, i noticed almost all the doors of the rooms were fully open and didn't see any guest. We talked a little bit and he seemed nice. About 20 minutes after our session started, we heard some real loud banging of our door, with some shouting. Not once, but continuous. Fame didn't open the door, but he let me finish putting my clothes on and told me to use the backdoor & wait in my car. But our room didn't have a backdoor, so i used the same route when i went in. I waited in my car at least 15 minutes but never hear from him, so i drove back home. I was at home when i received a text message from him asking where i was and to come back. I never replied. Driving one way to his place took an hour and to go back at rush hour was a no brainer. I experienced same situation before in a quite upscale hotel where same thing happened, so i assume same modus operandi. I paid $250 for an hour and i got this scary/could be shameful situation.

Was that a review for Knockout or his Ex Fame?

I got mine on January 30. The tests were the one that is iffy for omicron.

You are right. I just can’t recall the name anymore. He used to be based in NJ/NYC area

The phone number is linked to a lady who works at McDonalds as a cashier lol. 

The ticket price ranges from around 800 to 3000 dollars, about on par with Hamilton ticket prices.

He is one of the collaborators of rhyheim Shabazz. You can find videos of him on rhyheim’s twitter.

10 hours ago, WilliamM said:

ALT died of a heart attack, according to Vague.

https://www.the-sun.com/entertainment/4492986/what-andre-leon-talley-cause-of-death/
the initial report was in Houston Chronicle, sourced to a personal friend of ALT.

Sadly, another covid victim.

5 hours ago, purplekow said:

Things are finally quieting down here in NJ.  Full hospitals and absence of monoclonal antibody have been problematic but staffing has been especially problematic.  There are so many per diem nurses that do not know the ins and outs of the hospital that even routine procedures and care are taking much longer.   

Over the New Years weekend, I admitted about 30 Covid patient's to the hospital with many of those having asymptomatic Covid as well as another condition which required their hospitalization.   Vast majority of those coming in for just Covid were unvaccinated.  The ones with asymptomatic Covid plus another issue were about 60 40 with unvaccinated predominating but to a much lesser degree.   

Good news is, there seem to be many fewer deaths but the bad news is that many of the patients are much younger than we have seen in the past and some of those are getting very sick but surviving.  Long term health issues are yet to be determined but are likely in those people.  

So stay safe.   Get vaccinated if you have not and get boosted as well if you have already had the first two.    For all the nonsense of making this a political issue it is primarily a public health issue and it will be a major financial issue as we continue to spend billions on caring for people who would not require as much care if they had simply been vaccinated.   

 

The long-term financial burden is only going to get bigger as there is no end insight for this pandemic.

There should be a public debate about whether insurance should cover long-covid if one refuses to be vaccinated and then contracted the disease. The cost of care for long covid is going to be enormous.

After the constant stress of the last two years, is it really a surprise that we have a shortage in hospital staffs now?

Here is a fun fact: the most acute crisis we have right now is the lack of adequate cleaning staff.

There is no way to predict what is in the store for the future. One thing is certain: the more people are infected, the chances of new virulent strains emerging get greater. So it is in everyone’s interest to end this pandemic sooner rather than later. Immunization of the rest of the globe is also very important. 

36 minutes ago, FreshFluff said:

Omicron apparently evades immunity from prior infection from other variants. Do you think future variants will be be the same way?

Covid accumulates one mutation every two weeks. So there are 50 mutations on average by now for each strains. A lot of these mutations are inconsequential but some of them do change the virulence and infectious abilities. Alpha, delta and now omicron are some of the more notable strains. 

2 minutes ago, topunderachiever said:

That's what they said in March of 2020.  

The difference this time is that 50-60 % of the population will be infected after this current wave. There will be far fewer fresh bodies to infect. 

The good news is it will be over eventually in a couple weeks.

Our hospital is overwhelmed and we have no beds or personnel to provide timely care for medical emergency due to omicron. Please take care of yourself and stay away from the hospitals.

A new study suggests that rapid antigen tests may miss the early days of omicron infection and documented real world transmission of omicron by rapid antigen negative but PCR-positive people.

Here is the link to it: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.01.04.22268770v1

Pictures with different faces and an one star review. Enough 🚩 

If you look the covid admission number in NYC hospitals, there is a 3 fold increase in December (up to 2400 roughly). It is driven by the current omicron wave.

Israeli government is contemplating 4th covid shots for older people. They have been right about the need for a 3rd shot to crash the delta wave. They  will probably have solid evidence if they decide to go for the 4th.

9 hours ago, Lucky said:

Gone With The Wind

You beat me to it 😅

$2.89. 

The beta version offers more info than their regular app. But the filter settings are kind of weird.

A quick way to differentiate a true N95 mask from a lesser KN95 mask is whether the straps go over to the back of your head or just loop around your ears. The ones ear-loop straps will not fit tight enough to meet the N95 standards. A true N95 fitted properly is uncomfortable and I doubt that anyone can wear it over an extended period. There are good reasons that people suited up for level 3 and 4 works only work for a relative short shifts.

However, there is another side about masking that people don’t talk about. It is really about reducing what comes out of a person’s mouth and nose. Preventing virus or bacteria coming out of a sick person certainly reduces the transmission of the disease to other people. 

4 hours ago, Jamie21 said:

And one day the painting will be worth millions…

Or ended up in a landfill 

A few years there was another scary incident involving a provider and a forum member. The forum member had disclosed the identity of the provider in PM to other forum members who wanted to know. That precedent seems to be a good solution here.