bucks' county is making national news the bucks' county way!  

link is to a local site but they were just talking about this on msnbc. 

 

https://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/story/news/2021/09/01/central-bucks-achool-district-adopts-mask-mandate-john-gamble-resigns-after-threats-pennsylvania/5670477001/

Board Vice President John Gamble got the brunt of that anger after a special meeting last Wednesday, when the board ultimately rejected an updated plan that could have required masks in schools immediately.

Gamble said he felt he was put into the role of the swing vote among the divided board, and his vote not to require masks last week caused online bullying and even death threats on him and his family.

This news organization has filed a Right to Know Law request for a copy of the threat Gamble said was in his "inbox" that was subject to open records requests under state law. 

 

"No matter how I vote, I will be viewed as public enemy No. 1 again," a frustrated Gamble said after discussion seemed to be putting him into another swing vote position Tuesday.

Between online harassment if he voted for universal masking and potential death threats if he voted mask optional, Gamble told the crowd the divisive issue had "broken" the community.

6 minutes ago, greenskeeper said:

The virus will be with us forever. Cases will never be zero. We need to assume risk and move on with our lives.

”positive cases” scare people but if they are not going to the hospital then why panic?

i work at a long term care facility. 100% of the building has been vaccinated since Janurary. 

Here comes the madness.

A nurse tested positive (surveillance testing) with no symptoms at all. 

The result? 

All residents have to be quarantined in their rooms for 2 weeks, even though they’ve all tested negative (rapid test and molecular) and show no symptoms. The nurse has to stay home for 10 days. 

Everyone exposed has been vaccinated! 

Total madness.

A vaccine works by preventing you from getting extremely sick when infected, it does not prevent infection that a test won’t pickup.

So we’ll be in this madness indefinitely until something changes with protocol regarding a positive case.

There should be case separation between positive/no hospital and positive/hospital admitted.

I guess you are not in the medical field. There are medical reasons, valid, standard procedures for dealing with infectious disease. Everybody exposed, like the nurse, could be positive and have no symptoms. They can spread the disease. Everyone infected can still spread the disease regardless of vaccination status. It only protects the vaccinated, and even that protection is not perfect, especially among patients with certain existing conditions.

My guess is in a long term care facility, there are plenty of at risk patients. Regardless of vaccination status, getting COVID COULD be a problem for a lot of people, as well as any unvaccinated people coming into the facility.

3 hours ago, we_gotta_believe said:

Falsifying federal documents, and then getting caught because it looked like you used a crayon to do it, to own the libs. 

Should work out well for my dad when he takes his forged vax card on his cruise 

2 hours ago, JohnSnowsHair said:

little grumpy looking, but I'd hit it.

edit: jeez, maybe it's just me but her mugshot looked better than her thot shot:

There is something that turns me off about these plastic surgery Barbie wannabes. Yuck. I prefer the natural look. 

1 minute ago, jsdarkstar said:

There is something that turns me off about these plastic surgery Barbie wannabes. Yuck. I prefer the natural look. 

Looks like a tranny

6 hours ago, Bwestbrook36 said:

Looks like a tranny

3 hours ago, Boogyman said:

Florida is around 50 percent for ICU covid patients last I read. Not half, but still a huge strain. Should any type of natural disaster or something else that can tax their hospital systems happen now...a lot of people are going to suffer and die.

I saw where a guy couldn't get a bed and he had Pneumonia and then since he couldn't get in for care he ended up catching corona on top of it and died without help at all. 

10 minutes ago, jsdarkstar said:

There is something that turns me off about these plastic surgery Barbie wannabes. Yuck. I prefer the natural look. 

I believe the brits have a word for these type of gals... chavs

6 minutes ago, Bwestbrook36 said:

I saw where a guy couldn't get a bed and he had Pneumonia and then since he couldn't get in for care he ended up catching corona on top of it and died without help at all. 

Ask anyone; he was fat, poor and probably deserved to die for voting for Biden anyway.

3 minutes ago, Toastrel said:

Ask anyone; he was fat, poor and probably deserved to die for voting for Biden anyway.

Yup, everyone that isn't vaccinated is the poster child for being healthy 🙄. They do understand that their leader is obese right? 

42 minutes ago, greenskeeper said:

The virus will be with us forever. Cases will never be zero. We need to assume risk and move on with our lives.

”positive cases” scare people but if they are not going to the hospital then why panic?

i work at a long term care facility. 100% of the building has been vaccinated since Janurary. 

Here comes the madness.

A nurse tested positive (surveillance testing) with no symptoms at all. 

The result? 

All residents have to be quarantined in their rooms for 2 weeks, even though they’ve all tested negative (rapid test and molecular) and show no symptoms. The nurse has to stay home for 10 days. 

Everyone exposed has been vaccinated! 

Total madness.

A vaccine works by preventing you from getting extremely sick when infected, it does not prevent infection that a test won’t pickup.

So we’ll be in this madness indefinitely until something changes with protocol regarding a positive case.

There should be case separation between positive/no hospital and positive/hospital admitted.

Because immunity is waning in that population. I'd bet almost every resident already meets the 6-60 criteria and needs to get boosted. You can have a cavalier attitude about this when it's your own life in the balance, but if you still do so while you're charged with the care of others, then you're an inconsiderate dewsh who should find another job.

6 hours ago, greenskeeper said:

The virus will be with us forever. Cases will never be zero. We need to assume risk and move on with our lives.

”positive cases” scare people but if they are not going to the hospital then why panic?

i work at a long term care facility. 100% of the building has been vaccinated since Janurary. 

Here comes the madness.

A nurse tested positive (surveillance testing) with no symptoms at all. 

The result? 

All residents have to be quarantined in their rooms for 2 weeks, even though they’ve all tested negative (rapid test and molecular) and show no symptoms. The nurse has to stay home for 10 days. 

Everyone exposed has been vaccinated! 

Total madness.

A vaccine works by preventing you from getting extremely sick when infected, it does not prevent infection that a test won’t pickup.

So we’ll be in this madness indefinitely until something changes with protocol regarding a positive case.

There should be case separation between positive/no hospital and positive/hospital admitted.

Agree on that last part.

here’s my big concern in terms of school - not that kids are going to get deathly sick and hospitalized - but that their education is going to be so interrupted and broken that they don’t learn anything for the second year in a row.  Masking in schools to me is more about keeping kids learning than it is healthy.  We know the vast majority of kids testing positive have little to no symptoms and aren’t getting hospitalized but the more kids testing positive the more likely it is the schools get shut down again, and/or go remote which we know was a complete joke. 

3 hours ago, greenskeeper said:

The virus will be with us forever. Cases will never be zero. 

Yep, the cold and flu has always been with us and always will be. 

GOVERNMENTS MANUFACTURING FOOD SHORTAGES TO KEEP PEOPLE IN PERPETUAL LOCKDOWNS AND COVID FEAR

 

28 minutes ago, EagleVA said:

Yep, the cold and flu has always been with us and always will be. 

There will be an OTC treatment for covid at some point, this much I am sure of.  Studies are already being done with Pfizer and the pill could be ready by end of the year.  
ive said from the jump that we needed to focus on a treatment drug like Tamiflu.   

8 minutes ago, greenskeeper said:

no "cavalier attitude" here, next time you attempt to name call at least spell it correctly you ****

no boosters for our residents yet, they don't meet the criteria

100% of them would rather life the rest of their lives with friends and family instead of in isolation, which is why they signed up to be the first in the nation vaccinated

Hence the caution required by isolating and limiting contact when a positive case crops up among the residents or staff, numbnuts.

After they can actually get boosters, less caution would be warranted.

 

 

Just now, greenskeeper said:

WRONG. The same protocols have been in place since "full immunity" after the second does (3 weeks) was reached.

I'm done with a name calling 12 year old named "we_gotta_believe"

Right now boosters are only approved for immunocompromised. But anyone over 60 and 6 months out is at risk of reduced immunity, including against severe disease, not just symptomatic disease.

Oh and looks like I spelled it just fine:

 

"Cavalier Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com" https://www.dictionary.com/browse/cavalier

 

Stick to posting unfunny memes, trumpbot

 

18 minutes ago, greenskeeper said:

Agree virtual learning was a joke, kids learned nothing during that year and a half.

I worry that schools will use the number of cases as a reason to close schools again, when there is practically ZERO risk to the students.

In DE they use the cdc guidelines of x/100k or something like that to decide on what to do, however the school district really has no contingency plans that they’ve Made us aware of, and my wife teaches in the district yet is kept in the dark.  They had an emergency board meeting tonight to discuss what to do as we’ve already had almost every school in the district with kids in quarantine.  And we have a before school daycare program to thank for it as they were not following ANY of the guidelines for distancing, kids in classroom, teachers/student ratio, etc.  there’s going to be lawsuits and potential license issue for that place now.  

https://www.axios.com/axios-ipsos-poll-vaccine-hesitancy-crumbling-9ffe938f-5b9b-4707-bfe4-f7c3dc559ba9.html

Hopefully this is real. 

4 minutes ago, DEagle7 said:

https://www.axios.com/axios-ipsos-poll-vaccine-hesitancy-crumbling-9ffe938f-5b9b-4707-bfe4-f7c3dc559ba9.html

Hopefully this is real. 

31% of parents should have their children taken from them

Just for shsts and giggles to set off the deranged dozen in CVON:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8248252/

American Journal of Therapeutics

Am J Ther. 2021 Jul-Aug; 28(4): e434–e460.

Published online 2021 Jun 21. doi: 10.1097/MJT.0000000000001402

PMCID: PMC8248252

PMID: 34145166

Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, and Trial Sequential Analysis to Inform Clinical Guidelines

Andrew Bryant, MSc,^1,*Theresa A. Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD,²Therese Dowswell, PhD,²Edmund J. Fordham, PhD,²Scott Mitchell, MBChB, MRCS,³Sarah R. Hill, PhD,¹ and Tony C. Tham, MD, FRCP⁴

Author information Copyright and License information Disclaimer

 

This article has been cited by other articles in PMC.

 

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Background:

Repurposed medicines may have a role against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The antiparasitic ivermectin, with antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties, has now been tested in numerous clinical trials.

Areas of uncertainty:

We assessed the efficacy of ivermectin treatment in reducing mortality, in secondary outcomes, and in chemoprophylaxis, among people with, or at high risk of, COVID-19 infection.

Data sources:

We searched bibliographic databases up to April 25, 2021. Two review authors sifted for studies, extracted data, and assessed risk of bias. Meta-analyses were conducted and certainty of the evidence was assessed using the GRADE approach and additionally in trial sequential analyses for mortality. Twenty-four randomized controlled trials involving 3406 participants met review inclusion.

Therapeutic Advances:

Meta-analysis of 15 trials found that ivermectin reduced risk of death compared with no ivermectin (average risk ratio 0.38, 95% confidence interval 0.19–0.73; n = 2438; I² = 49%; moderate-certainty evidence). This result was confirmed in a trial sequential analysis using the same DerSimonian–Laird method that underpinned the unadjusted analysis. This was also robust against a trial sequential analysis using the Biggerstaff–Tweedie method. Low-certainty evidence found that ivermectin prophylaxis reduced COVID-19 infection by an average 86% (95% confidence interval 79%–91%). Secondary outcomes provided less certain evidence. Low-certainty evidence suggested that there may be no benefit with ivermectin for "need for mechanical ventilation,” whereas effect estimates for "improvement” and "deterioration” clearly favored ivermectin use. Severe adverse events were rare among treatment trials and evidence of no difference was assessed as low certainty. Evidence on other secondary outcomes was very low certainty.

Conclusions:

Moderate-certainty evidence finds that large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin. Using ivermectin early in the clinical course may reduce numbers progressing to severe disease. The apparent safety and low cost suggest that ivermectin is likely to have a significant impact on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic globally.

Keywords: ivermectin, prophylaxis, treatment, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2

 

2 hours ago, greenskeeper said:

Agree virtual learning was a joke, kids learned nothing during that year and a half.

I worry that schools will use the number of cases as a reason to close schools again, when there is practically ZERO risk to the students.

 But plenty of risk to the teachers. Already have had teacher deaths here in FL and the school year is barely started. Masks should be a no brainer. The kids don’t care. Unfortunately, many teachers are also anti-maskers (Trumpers).

On 8/31/2021 at 9:04 AM, Kz! said:

Oddly enough people shoving food in their face and people refusing to get vaccines both suffer from mental illness. 

1 hour ago, Procus said:

Just for shsts and giggles to set off the deranged dozen in CVON:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8248252/

American Journal of Therapeutics

Am J Ther. 2021 Jul-Aug; 28(4): e434–e460.

Published online 2021 Jun 21. doi: 10.1097/MJT.0000000000001402

PMCID: PMC8248252

PMID: 34145166

Ivermectin for Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19 Infection: A Systematic Review, Meta-analysis, and Trial Sequential Analysis to Inform Clinical Guidelines

Andrew Bryant, MSc,^1,*Theresa A. Lawrie, MBBCh, PhD,²Therese Dowswell, PhD,²Edmund J. Fordham, PhD,²Scott Mitchell, MBChB, MRCS,³Sarah R. Hill, PhD,¹ and Tony C. Tham, MD, FRCP⁴

Author information Copyright and License information Disclaimer

 

This article has been cited by other articles in PMC.

 

Go to:

Background:

Repurposed medicines may have a role against the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The antiparasitic ivermectin, with antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties, has now been tested in numerous clinical trials.

Areas of uncertainty:

We assessed the efficacy of ivermectin treatment in reducing mortality, in secondary outcomes, and in chemoprophylaxis, among people with, or at high risk of, COVID-19 infection.

Data sources:

We searched bibliographic databases up to April 25, 2021. Two review authors sifted for studies, extracted data, and assessed risk of bias. Meta-analyses were conducted and certainty of the evidence was assessed using the GRADE approach and additionally in trial sequential analyses for mortality. Twenty-four randomized controlled trials involving 3406 participants met review inclusion.

Therapeutic Advances:

Meta-analysis of 15 trials found that ivermectin reduced risk of death compared with no ivermectin (average risk ratio 0.38, 95% confidence interval 0.19–0.73; n = 2438; I² = 49%; moderate-certainty evidence). This result was confirmed in a trial sequential analysis using the same DerSimonian–Laird method that underpinned the unadjusted analysis. This was also robust against a trial sequential analysis using the Biggerstaff–Tweedie method. Low-certainty evidence found that ivermectin prophylaxis reduced COVID-19 infection by an average 86% (95% confidence interval 79%–91%). Secondary outcomes provided less certain evidence. Low-certainty evidence suggested that there may be no benefit with ivermectin for "need for mechanical ventilation,” whereas effect estimates for "improvement” and "deterioration” clearly favored ivermectin use. Severe adverse events were rare among treatment trials and evidence of no difference was assessed as low certainty. Evidence on other secondary outcomes was very low certainty.

Conclusions:

Moderate-certainty evidence finds that large reductions in COVID-19 deaths are possible using ivermectin. Using ivermectin early in the clinical course may reduce numbers progressing to severe disease. The apparent safety and low cost suggest that ivermectin is likely to have a significant impact on the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic globally.

Keywords: ivermectin, prophylaxis, treatment, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2

 

We arent opposed to ivermectin, we’re opposed to anal chugging drugs containing that and 50 other chemicals and drugs that are specifically made for fish and horses.