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    Re: Covid - 19

    Quote Originally Posted by dawg80 View Post
    Nurses are selling themselves to the highest bidder. OMG! $50,000 signing bonuses, $180/hour! That's at the high end, but $10,000 bonuses and $120/hour is very common today.
    That's great for my daughter who we just moved to Choudrant two weeks ago and is a highly trained ICU/Covid Nurse with 2 years experience doing that at Parkland here in Dallas. She will be looking for a job once they settle in their new home, but I don't think these numbers are sustainable long term..

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    Quote Originally Posted by FriscoDog View Post
    That's great for my daughter who we just moved to Choudrant two weeks ago and is a highly trained ICU/Covid Nurse with 2 years experience doing that at Parkland here in Dallas. She will be looking for a job once they settle in their new home, but I don't think these numbers are sustainable long term..
    The anticipation is these types of numbers will go away. At least hospital administrations hope so! Please note these high paying jobs are contract status, the nurse is an independent contractor, no retirement, no benefits. Also, in most cases nurses are given a heavier patient load. Of course some hospitals are paying signing bonuses and raising hourly pay rates to attract/keep good nurses, but those are more like $80/hour rates. Still very good.

    We lost two experienced nurses, supervisors, to this arms race. Both submitted resignations yesterday. One gave his final report to the board of directors yesterday and then said his thanks and goodbyes. He's heading to Dallas, the other to Shreveport.

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    Re: Covid - 19

    Quote Originally Posted by dawg80 View Post
    The anticipation is these types of numbers will go away. At least hospital administrations hope so! Please note these high paying jobs are contract status, the nurse is an independent contractor, no retirement, no benefits. Also, in most cases nurses are given a heavier patient load. Of course some hospitals are paying signing bonuses and raising hourly pay rates to attract/keep good nurses, but those are more like $80/hour rates. Still very good.

    We lost two experienced nurses, supervisors, to this arms race. Both submitted resignations yesterday. One gave his final report to the board of directors yesterday and then said his thanks and goodbyes. He's heading to Dallas, the other to Shreveport.
    Yeah.. my daughter while she would like a signing bonus, I don't think she is going to do it because she doesn't want to be under a long-term contract anymore. She had a 2 year one at Parkland and the work environment was not good. She loves what she does, but if the admin and leadership are not up to the task and life is hell, she wants to be able to jump ship.. She started out in Neuro-ICU, then went to Covid Units, then back to ICU and was a charge nurse in both Covid and ICU units.

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    Re: Covid - 19

    Regarding Ivermectin, from the FDA:

    “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it.”

    https://twitter.com/us_fda/status/14...243192839?s=21

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    Re: Covid - 19

    Quote Originally Posted by Guisslapp View Post
    Regarding Ivermectin, from the FDA:

    “You are not a horse. You are not a cow. Seriously, y'all. Stop it.”

    https://twitter.com/us_fda/status/14...243192839?s=21
    Old news. Try to keep up.

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    Re: Covid - 19

    More evidence that the Chicoms are indeed working on biological weapons at Wuhan Lab and elsewhere, and that "COVID-19" was released from that lab. It might have been, and probably was, an accident but as a result the Chicoms are encouraged to continue developing such viruses and weaponizing them.

    Just think what would happen if some nation developed a killer virus, and vaccines against it. They could vax their army and all political leaders, industrial leaders, and as many of their peasant population they deemed necessary then release the virus on the world. They would survive, the world would be devastated.

    The infamous tyrant and military leader Timur, a Mongol by birth and culture who adopted radical Islam since he found it helped him build a brutal army, once "used" biologicals to his advantage. The Black Plague began where most, if not all, such pandemics begin, in Asia and swept across the continent into Europe. Timur was smart enough to seize the opportunities presented. First he took his 50,000-man army into the remote wilderness and lived in isolation while his spies and scouts ventured out to monitor the progress of the plague. When they reported that a kingdom and its army had been wrecked by the disease, greatly weakened, Timur would launch an attack and conquer it. He did this for years and followed the spread of the plague into eastern Europe, always keeping his distance and closely controlling the comings and goings of people, including his scouts, invoking a quarantine system so as to keep the plaque from infecting his own army. Timur did not create the Black Plaque nor control its spread, but he did use it to his military advantage. The Chicoms are planning to do the same thing.

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    Re: Covid - 19

    Literally, the only conclusion that the intelligence community could draw was that it was NOT the result of a bioweapons program.

    How can you get things so backwards?

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    Re: Covid - 19

    Quote Originally Posted by Guisslapp View Post
    Literally, the only conclusion that the intelligence community could draw was that it was NOT the result of a bioweapons program.

    How can you get things so backwards?
    You are so naive.

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    Re: Covid - 19

    Veteran dies of treatable pancreatitis in Houston because he couldn’t get an ICU bed.

    https://www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-u...klToz20HWwO2Fc

    Currently there are 102 people waiting on ICU beds in the area…

    So this is where the risk that people that want to play the anti-vaxx and anti-mask games impacts everyone else.

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    Re: Covid - 19

    As I mentioned our small, rural hospital, the NRMC is not making excuses nor feeling sorry for itself, but instead is doing what it can to be proactive. They have created a 6-bed "progressive care center" to serve as an overflow for the 10-bed ICU. It is playing "musical chairs" with 16 beds, instead of 10, and it is NOT a perfect solution, but at least they are frickin' THINKING and TRYING!

    Meanwhile the party animals were at it again yesterday, no less than 25 idiots getting drunk, sharing food...if this virus is so contagious how is it possible after more than 18 months of this behavior only 2 have tested positive, with zero symptoms, and they all laughed about it, even posting comments on Facebook. There is a core of these morons who almost always are there and another 25-30 others who show up now and then. A handful of them have admitted to being vaxxed, recently, only because their jobs depended on it. But for months prior they too, unvaxxed, were part of the partiers.

    I honestly don't get it. Yes, this is a group of about 50 but their behavior has not only been "less than desirable" it has been wreckless! About 17% of Louisianians have tested positive, and that is just those who got tested. I am sure many, many more are/have been positive but never got tested. I have seen these folks out in public, interacting with others, hugs & kisses, no masks, no precautions at all. No social distancing for sure!

    As a student of REAL science, I know observation is a legit method to gather data/information. I hear the militant "wear your mask, murderers!" types who are afraid of their own shadow...unless it is masked too. I read articles about vax vs. unvaxxed, the effectiveness of masks (or not), and then I observe this bunch. Hmmm, statistically, several of this "group of 50+" should have died from the China Virus and many more been hospitalized. Yet...nothing.

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    Re: Covid - 19

    Quote Originally Posted by dawg80 View Post
    As I mentioned our small, rural hospital, the NRMC is not making excuses nor feeling sorry for itself, but instead is doing what it can to be proactive. They have created a 6-bed "progressive care center" to serve as an overflow for the 10-bed ICU. It is playing "musical chairs" with 16 beds, instead of 10, and it is NOT a perfect solution, but at least they are frickin' THINKING and TRYING!

    Meanwhile the party animals were at it again yesterday, no less than 25 idiots getting drunk, sharing food...if this virus is so contagious how is it possible after more than 18 months of this behavior only 2 have tested positive, with zero symptoms, and they all laughed about it, even posting comments on Facebook. There is a core of these morons who almost always are there and another 25-30 others who show up now and then. A handful of them have admitted to being vaxxed, recently, only because their jobs depended on it. But for months prior they too, unvaxxed, were part of the partiers.

    I honestly don't get it. Yes, this is a group of about 50 but their behavior has not only been "less than desirable" it has been wreckless! About 17% of Louisianians have tested positive, and that is just those who got tested. I am sure many, many more are/have been positive but never got tested. I have seen these folks out in public, interacting with others, hugs & kisses, no masks, no precautions at all. No social distancing for sure!

    As a student of REAL science, I know observation is a legit method to gather data/information. I hear the militant "wear your mask, murderers!" types who are afraid of their own shadow...unless it is masked too. I read articles about vax vs. unvaxxed, the effectiveness of masks (or not), and then I observe this bunch. Hmmm, statistically, several of this "group of 50+" should have died from the China Virus and many more been hospitalized. Yet...nothing.
    Are you sure they haven’t been vaxxed?

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    Re: Covid - 19

    Quote Originally Posted by Guisslapp View Post
    Are you sure they haven’t been vaxxed?
    Based on what they say, only a few have. Now, they can be and are azzholes so maybe they are just shooting off their mouths. But, even if everyone is vaxxed, the adults, as there are often kids running around too, they most definitely do NOT do any of the other things recommended, like wear masks.

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    Re: Covid - 19

    It has been well established that restaurants, parties, salons and other venues are potentially virus free depending on certain circumstances. Are these partiers liberals?

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    Re: Covid - 19

    Studies show most of those not taking shots are Trumpers.

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    Re: Covid - 19

    Quote Originally Posted by techman05 View Post
    It has been well established that restaurants, parties, salons and other venues are potentially virus free depending on certain circumstances. Are these partiers liberals?
    "Moderate" Democrats...if any still exist.

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