(September 14, 2021 at 1:42 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote:

Yeah, and the school district in Fort Worth just had their mask mandate struck down by the courts.

Four - count them - four parents brought the suit.

I can't wait for my second dose of the vaccination. Places like Syria are witnessing hellish rates of death between displaced civilians living in refugee war camps:

https://mubasher.aljazeera.net/news/2021...8%aa%d8%a7

There this fast spreading variant of COVID called "Delta variant".


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If the bullets of war do not penetrate their bodies, the Corona virus will do so. This is the case of the Syrians in the displacement camps in the northern countryside of Idlib, which is under the control of the opposition forces.

Al-Jazeera Mubasher correspondent described the situation as catastrophic, as daily from 1000 to 1500 cases of the delta mutant are recorded in an area where hospitals are no longer able to accommodate any additional cases.

According to the statistics of the Civil Defense and the White Helmets, medical centers conduct a huge number of daily swabs, revealing 90 positive cases out of every 120 swabs.

Al-Jazeera Mubasher reported the difficulty of the situation in one of the isolation centers of the Union of Syrian Medical Relief Organizations (Awsome) in the northern countryside of Idlib, which receives more than 40 injured in isolation rooms.

The center is working with very limited capabilities in an attempt to contain the dire health situation, which is becoming increasingly difficult due to the rapid spread of the new wave of the virus and its severity on the infected.

The Civil Defense is responsible for transferring critical cases from isolation centers to specialized hospitals, in which the task of finding a bed is impossible.

A civil defense worker revealed to Al Jazeera Mubasher that the number of deaths ranges between 7 to 10 per day at the level of hospitals in the region due to the lack of beds and oxygen.

He explained that the numbers have been on the rise for a month, with a noticeable record of injuries among children.

Protecting children in the northern countryside of Idlib is difficult in light of the limited possibilities
There is no protection in the camps
One of the infected people at the center attributed the spread of the virus to the residents' failure to respond to calls for measures in the camps and among the displaced to prevent the new, fast-spreading boom.

However, he considered the overcrowding in the camps as one of the most important reasons for which prevention cannot be adhered to.

A displaced child from Idlib camps (Anadolu Agency)
Dr. Omar Raya, the health official of the Awsome Organization, told Al Jazeera Mubasher that the northwestern region of Syria is witnessing a new wave of Covid infections, and that full hospitals are unable to absorb the new infections.

The doctor explained that the current wave is more deadly than the past, and therefore it is recommended to distance, personal prevention and wearing a mask, even if simple measures may help stop the number of injuries.

The health official indicated that Awsome receives mild and moderate cases, while the advanced ones are unable to provide a bed for them, and that a number of the injured have died because of this.

Omar Raya stated that the current wave is caused by the delta mutant, which is the fastest spreading and most deadly, and that it affects the youngest from young people to children.

He stressed that the response is not done in hospitals, but through personal preventive measures that individuals are committed to, and he also recommended a vaccine that prevents severe cases

(September 14, 2021 at 5:07 pm)WinterHold Wrote: I can't wait for my second dose of the vaccination. Places like Syria are witnessing hellish rates of death between displaced civilians living in refugee war camps:

https://mubasher.aljazeera.net/news/2021...8%aa%d8%a7

There this fast spreading variant of COVID called "Delta variant".

Delta variant has been around a while. Our hospitals are filling up again with unvaccinated people who are picking up that variant. Now kids are getting that one too. Kids didn't seem as prone to catch what came around first. Now they are getting it and dying from it...many from their unvaxxed parents.

(September 14, 2021 at 5:09 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:

(September 14, 2021 at 5:07 pm)WinterHold Wrote: I can't wait for my second dose of the vaccination. Places like Syria are witnessing hellish rates of death between displaced civilians living in refugee war camps:

https://mubasher.aljazeera.net/news/2021...8%aa%d8%a7

There this fast spreading variant of COVID called "Delta variant".

Delta variant has been around a while.  Our hospitals are filling up again with unvaccinated people who are picking up that variant.  Now kids are getting that one too.  Kids didn't seem as prone to catch what came around first.  Now they are getting it and dying from it...many from their unvaxxed parents.

What I'm worried about is the "next mutation" of COVID; infecting people faster is only the start.

There may - and probably will - come a time when the coronavirus goes through mutations as frequently as the common strains of influenza. It would not surprise me if annual vaccinations for coronavirus strains were to become the norm.

Boru

Just got our area covid hospitalization numbers on the local evening news.

180 adults hospitalized, 56 in the ICU's, 7 dead-all unvaccinated.

Then they ran the list of free vaccine sites, more than 15, mostly in schools.

Darwin.

I guess since my kids are grown I hadn't paid attention to some of the details regarding school attendance here in TX.

Mask mandates have been outlawed by Gov. Abbott, I knew that. Kids are attending school in person without an option to study remote. I found out today that there is really NO option to study remote. So if a kid is quarantined for 10-14 days due to COVID exposure, they have to make up the work after they return to school, at the discretion of the teacher(s). In a very short time the first nine weeks will be done and grades will come out. Anyone failing or in danger of failing will be dropped from things like sports and band.

Here's what's happening - teachers have a set amount of time to enter daily grades and if a kid is out due to COVID they get a 0. For the marching band and flagline (that my granddaughter is part of) about a third of the kids are in danger of being thrown out of band/flagline due to grades and it's largely due to being forced to quarantine.

The flag the governor and other politicians have been flying is how important it is to have the kids learn in person but they have made no concession to those same kids being subject to quarantine and possibly screwing up their academics...who wants to take a guess at how many exposed or sick kids are going to school because of this BS?

Quite frankly - and I'm not proud of this - I'm reduced to hoping the antis die quickly and leave little collateral damage and let the rest of us can get on with our lives.

(September 14, 2021 at 1:54 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:

(September 14, 2021 at 1:42 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote:

Yeah, and the school district in Fort Worth just had their mask mandate struck down by the courts.

Four - count them - four parents brought the suit.

But ya know…pro-life and all that.