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17 Tuesday Aug 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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anti-mask, anti-vaccine, Corona virus, COVID-19, Delta variant, Hospital capacity, missouri, pandemic, sociopaths

In west central Missouri, one person’s story.

I just received word from a friend that their elderly parent fell and broke a leg. This injury will require surgery and a hospital stay. Their local small town hospital has no available beds. Due to COVID-19 cases. This in a county with a very low vaccination rate and active anti-mask agitators.

Their injured parent was transferred to a suburban hospital. That hospital has no available beds. Their parent is in that hospital’s emergency department until a bed becomes available. The friend described a scene with patients in beds in the hallways.

What does anyone think will happen to a patient in the case of a heart attack, or a stroke, or injuries due to a car accident?

If you’re anti-vaccine and/or anti-mask you own this. It’s your world. And you’re a dumbass sociopath.

If you haven’t already done so, get vaccinated.

Wear a damn mask.

Same planet, different worlds

03 Tuesday Aug 2021

Posted by Michael Bersin in meta

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anti-mask, anti-vaccine, Corona virus, COVID-19, meta, missouri, pandemic, right wingnut, sociopaths

We get a comment. In response to:
Johnson County Community Health Services – Board of Trustees – August 2, 2021 – This is why we can’t have nice things (August 2, 2021)

Glad some citizens showed up to stand up for our rights. Donna Stewart seems rude and scared. Maybe she just needs to lock herself up at home. We don’t want any restrictions or lockdown. Saint Louis county just lost their mask mandate lawsuit. I expect Kansas City to lose theirs in court as well. We are free and have rights

Selfish sociopath.

Uh, “they” showed up to complain about masks and vaccines, spouting misinformation which would be laughable if it weren’t so dangerous to others. It was definitely not a virtuoso display of critical thinking skills. Thirty or so people in a county with a population of approximately 54,000.

Whining about a local school district “making” school children wear masks, while being lax in their enforcement, while being too strict in their enforcement, and possibly making students follow established policy.

Masks designated for biological use don’t work for paint (uh, wrong type), therefore they won’t work for their intended purpose.

Wearing a mask will cause you to breathe excessive amounts of carbon dioxide, never mind that highly skilled surgeons and medical personnel wear masks for hours. Seriously, would anyone want their medical team to do otherwise?

How many individuals in Johnson County have been fully vaccinated? Definitely more than thirty anti-science luddites.

Listen to the audio. Donna Stewart was definitely polite.

Who is “we”?

Uh, a temporary restraining order does not equate to “just lost their mask mandate lawsuit”. You expect?

With freedom and rights comes responsibility. Maybe even empathy. But, here we are.

As always, we’re not allowing ignorant comments like these out of moderation to be linked with the original post, but we will present some of them in subsequent posts for the purpose of public derision and mockery. As we see fit.

Good neighbors in Missouri

31 Saturday Oct 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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contact tracing, Corona virus, COVID-19, Maries County, missouri, pandemic, Phelps County, sociopaths

From the Phelps-Maries County Health Department:

Phelps-Maries County Health Department
October 29 at 6:26 PM ·

Unfortunately we are again encountering a significant number of individuals that have tested positive for COVID-19 who are declining to provide us with potential sources of exposure and/or identify any potential direct contacts. While this is the individual’s right to do so, this negatively impacts our ability to effectively contact trace and notify individuals of their exposure to COVID-19. This means there are individuals still attending work, school, public and private events that have been exposed to COVID-19, may or may not be aware of their exposure, and are potentially further spreading COVID-19 amongst the community. Unfortunately this increases the chance that COVID-19 will unknowingly enter our schools, long-term care facilities, and places of business. When we call you after your positive result, we ask that you are honest and thorough, so that we can confidentially notify the contacts of their exposure to further mitigate the spread of COVID-19.

A friendly reminder that if you are tested for COVID-19 you must quarantine/isolate until you have your test results back. Please do not get tested and then return to school or work. Unfortunately we have numerous individuals who continue to go work or attend school after being tested only to be called later with a positive test result. This unnecessarily exposes others to COVID-19.

Care facilities with current COVID-19 outbreaks include: MO Veterans Home, St. James Living Center, Ferndale Residential Care Facility, Presbyterian Manor (staff only), Maries Manor (staff only)
[….]

“Unfortunately we are again encountering a significant number of individuals that have tested positive for COVID-19 who are declining to provide us with potential sources of exposure and/or identify any potential direct contacts…”

Read the entire first paragraph again.

Good neighbors, right?

In Maries County, Missouri:

In Phelps County, Missouri:

The fatalities are among the elderly. Good neighbors protect the elderly. Sociopaths don’t give a damn.

Good neighbors, eh?

Missouri DHSS – COVID-19 Outbreak Statistics – September 22, 2020 – 2:00 p.m.

22 Tuesday Sep 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Corona virus, COVID-19, DHSS, missouri, pandemic, sociopaths, statistics

This is where not wearing masks gets us.

The most recent statistics on the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) outbreak for Missouri from the Department of Health and Senior Services:

Cases in Missouri: 115,366
Total Deaths: 1,864
Number of cases in the last 24 hours: 1,059
7 Day Percent Positive of PCR Tested Individuals: 11.5%
Number of New Deaths Reported in the Last 24 Hours: 57

“Time-based data, including one- and seven-day percent increase in statewide cases, daily COVID-19 test results, and cases and deaths by reported date, are subject to a 72-hour delay to ensure that the data are accurate and complete.”

Johnson County
Confirmed cases: 1,020
Cases per 100K Population: 1,886.23
Deaths: 4

Cass County
Confirmed cases: 1,420
Cases per 100K Population: 1,353.66

Pettis County
Confirmed cases: 1,043
Cases per 100K Population: 2,430.54

Henry County
Confirmed cases: 167
Cases per 100K Population: 766.34

Saline County
Confirmed cases: 676
Cases per 100K Population: 2,939.51

Lafayette County
Confirmed cases: 476
Cases per 100K Population: 1,457.14

Wear a damn mask. And while you’re at it, wear some damn gloves.

Stay Home. Wash your hands. Don’t touch your face. Good luck to us all.
#FlattenTheCurve

Our 21st Century

25 Monday May 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Corona virus, COVID-19, covidiots, Lake of the Ozarks, missouri, narcissists, pandemic, Rex Archer, sociopaths

Today from Dr. Rex Archer, Director of Health at @KCMOHealthDept:

Rex Archer, M.D., M.P.H. @RexArcherMD
Memorial Day Pool Party in the Ozarks! [….] @YouTube
#COVIDIDIOTS Anyone who didn’t practice CDC, DHSS, and KCMO Health Department social distancing guidance should self quarantine for 14 days if they have any compassion for others

Memorial Day Pool Party in the Ozarks!
Missouri getting it in, pandemic or not!
[….]

7:36 PM · May 25, 2020

They won’t. And they don’t.

Wear a damn mask. And while you’re at it, wear some damn gloves.

Stay Home. Wash your hands. Don’t touch your face. Good luck to us all.
#FlattenTheCurve

Previously:

The postman always rings twice (April 20, 2020)

Missouri (May 24, 2020)

Missouri, of course (May 25, 2020)

Missouri

24 Sunday May 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in Uncategorized

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Corona virus, COVID-19, covidiots, Lake of the Ozarks, missouri, pandemic, social media, sociopaths, Twitter

“Hold my beer…”

Yesterday:

Tom Folan, MD @tomfolanmd
Current US death toll: 97,414

Incubation period: 2-14 days

Lake of the Ozarks, Missouri – today

#COVIDー19
[….]
11:18 PM · May 23, 2020

It’s just got to be that economic anxiety. Apparently they needed to enter a crowded pool to drink at a weekend party in a resort area so that they could feed their families or something.

Previously:

The postman always rings twice (April 20, 2020)

Why we can’t have nice things

15 Wednesday Apr 2020

Posted by Michael Bersin in social media

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#TrumpPandemic, Corona virus, COVID-19, I see stupid people, missouri, pandemic, right wingnuts, social media, sociopaths, Twitter

Or science. Or math.

Today.

MRA @MOGOPAssembly
We call on @GovParsonMO to end the Stay-at-Home Order immediately.

We call on officials to educate the public on the risks of COVID-19 & to encourage self-quarantine if/when recommended, personal responsibility & Christian love for their neighbors.

#endthestay
#covid19
#moleg
[Some bullshit that reads like it was written by a junior high school dance decoration subcommittee.]
10:22 AM · Apr 15, 2020

What a bunch of fucking sociopaths. Assholes.

Some of the response are priceless:

Shame on you.

A few questions:
*How do you know if you are healthy or not, when testing is mostly limited to people with (significant) symptoms? Many people infected have few symptoms, but still spread the virus
*Are you aware that MRA is more widely known as short for Men’s Rights Activists?

Indeed, profits are much more important than safety & health of our citizens! Let ’em die, they were sick anyway, or old, or minority, or an immigrant, or some other person not needed by vibrant robust righteous economy!

BTW, what is “Republican wing of the Republican Party”?

Christian love for neighbors means sacrificing cancer patients & other immune compromised people that HAVE to go places for life saving treatments so you can wander around in your normal life infecting people? I’ll keep my Christian values of care for all. We aren’t sacrifices.

I enjoy living, breathing, etc. I guess you don’t?

Hahaha seriously go away!!

And lo Jesus went to the money changers and offered a sacrifice of James the Greater, a small Samaritan child,and Elizabeth – mother of St John the Baptist – all in an attempt to restart the economy.

-Gospel of Parsons in honor of the GOP Lord and Savior, Donald Trump.

And here folks is your pro-life party. Go ahead and die. As long as the economy continues.

Promote the general welfare. The delusions of the extreme right-wing cannot be allowed to threaten us all.

If you assholes are so anxious to get out, go volunteer at a medical facility caring for Covid-19 patients. I’m sure the professionals could use the help.

Yep.

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