Rose Bowl and Omicron Variant

Exactly correct. As of now, they’re not seeing big jumps in hospitalizations from Omicron, and that’s always their bellwether as to when to even consider lockdowns.

An anarchist in your midst…

Exactly. Fully vaxed and I’m done with masks. It’s never going away and one side of the aisle wants it that way.

I took what UtemanX said as he’s afraid the players will test positive and be unable to play, not that he was afraid for their lives.

There is little definition to determine ‘dying with COVID’ or ‘dying because of COVID’. I believe it is up to each individual doctor to decide. Could both be lumped together into the second category? Sometime ago I saw a discussion between two doctors related to an individual that had no symptoms but had a heart attack and was rushed to the hospital. While being admitted, he was tested positive for COVID and died shortly after arrival. One doctor stated that without COVID the individual could well have survived the heart attack. The other doctor countered, without the heart attack the individual could well have survived COVID. In the beginning, I understood that COVID kills by taking an individual into a cytokine storm and shutting down organs. Could it be that it can kill without any symptoms developing? I really don’t know I just wish someone would figure it all out.

At this point I had my shingles shot and now I do not think about shingles. I have had 3 COVID shots, I would like to think I do not have to think about COVID. At some point before COVID is completely gone we will need to think about it less but that will be an individual choice.

OK Johnny. I’m not currently living in fear BTW. I’m typing this on a vacation in Maui, so I’m obviously personally comfortable with reasonable precautions. But we as a society need to remember that the strain on the current healthcare professionals is taking a dramatic and negative toll on innocent but susceptible people. We’ve had a significant increase in other serious seasonal hospital admissions such as RSV and the flu is starting to absorb capacity in ICU’s. Hospitals have recently started to delay other medical treatments due to staffing and resource shortages. If a self absorbed Covid commando creates a cascade of infections that tie up healthcare capacity, that’s where I have a problem, and that’s where we as a society have a problem. I don’t support closing everything down again, but we need to be smart in our plans for managing infections as a society, because hospital professionals and infrastructure don’t magically increase overnight. Did I “bring it” enough for you?

Alright Johnny, take a break from the bender. Read what I said, take a moment to process. I’m not fearing for anyone on the teams life, as central coast said, I’d worry more about players testing positive and being forced to sit out, even if they feel totally fine. From my small bit of a connection to the university, there are currently some cases, so let’s hope they don’t spread or are out of the way before the game. 

I can only speak for the U Hospital – but it is the biggest hospital in the state. We have been on the verge of being ‘overwhelmed’ or actually pverwhelmed (could not accept any hospital transfers like we normally would due to lack of beds) for most of the pandemic. Currently, new policy in place where other ICU servicies (surgical ICU, cardiac ICU, neuro ICU, etc) are having to cover covid patients to help out the medical ICU and residents from other services that aren’t really trained to take care of covid patients (like surgical specialties) continue to be pulled to cover the covid unit to help out. 

The sickest of covid patients, the ICU ones, the split continues to be about 90% UNVACCINATED and 10% vaccinated (might be closer to 85%\15% now that the numbers cont to rise). 

I actually believe in people’s rights to do what they want with their bodies – I am anti-mandates. But based on the data it was an easy decision for me – even though I an fairly certain I was infected early on.

One big difference this yr vs last – people were afraid to come to hospital due to covid. So all the MI/stroke/etc type patients stayed home and either died at home or had acute cardiovascular syndromes and had bad consequences for not coming in acutely. This yr – we get all the usual reasons why one would come to the ED along with the covid patients on top. Pretty easy to overwhelm an entire hospital system. 

And the covid unit sucks. It’s people who have been in the hospital with consequences of covid for weeks to months. They all look like zombies – and a lot are just waiting to die.