Prophet Zacharia

Southwest Airlines is the major carrier at my airport. It’s a lot like taking a bus. Or more like a series of buses with multiple transfers. With a limited schedule. I used to be able to fly a fair number of places direct, or with one stop, with an array of departure time choices. I don’t know if it’s Covid-related or not, but there aren’t many choices any more. I’ve had to reschedule a flight to California three times now, because they keep cancelling my late afternoon flight and rescheduling me on a 1 pm Friday afternoon flight. I simply can’t leave work early enough for a 1 pm flight. With some searching, I cobbled together PGH to St. Louis to Vegas to San Jose as the only way I can leave late afternoon and still get to California that night. And that’s still 2 1/2 hours faster than the 1 pm flight they had rescheduled me on! Hopefully, it won’t snow that day, and my luggage won’t get left behind. /rant

This indecision’s bugging me.

Given Germany’s political history I don’t find that surprising, at all.

I guess my point is I don’t see a lot of pictures of her, until this week!

Well, some are making a lot of money and have no incentive to change, others are losing money and don’t have the financial ability to make the changes you propose. But to your point, most of the bailout money has been geared to cover hospital losses and paying for treatment during this time, instead of stimulating initiative/change in the systems (even if not physical hospital expansion itself).

I can’t say that I noticed before, but I will now.

I haven’t gotten a single one, truth be told!

You’re not going to build more permanent hospital space in the 8 months time from last peak to this one. And you’re not going to get hospitals to increase permanent bed capacity for x months time, when it will then sit empty after the pandemic is over (“someday this war’s gonna end”). Some hospitals have made bank during the pandemic, others have struggled financially. I believe tent hospital wards are being used again this wave, and they shouldn’t be hard to reassemble (although it is my impression is that the strain of this wave is in different geographic areas than the previous ones). And think hospitals have done a good job at increasing ICU space, and shared ventilators in ways not intended. But nursing vacancies are up to 12% from a previous level of 8%, and I’m not sure there are tons of people rushing in to replace them. And certainly not the experienced nurses typically filling the ICU and critical care areas. I personally don’t believe an additional 30% of nurses will leave patient care due to a vaccine mandate, at least not nationally, but some local areas may additionally suffer. Regardless, I do believe staffing will continue to be a problem for the foreseeable future.

I don’t. I have an issue with you calling people dumb. You’ve called me dumb twice this week, including once telling me not to post in my own thread because I asked you to explain your conclusions. Not because I said you were necessarily wrong, but I didn’t understand your position given the data. You’ve called @Razors Edge, and @12string similar this week, and tried to insult @maddmaxx by calling him a “libtard”, for taking a position against yours. You’ve gotten treads deleted, and pinned threads from @Square Wheels asking people not to call each other names. The only offense that I know I’ve made directly against you is calling you out when you called more than half the forum dumb in a semi-veiled comment to Couch, you proceeded to call me names at that time. So get a mirror and reflect a bit. Put me on ignore and I have you and move on. Good day.

Or @Wilbur.

I’m quoting you, you stud. And because you’re so nice, here’s

Fortunately, there are still direct flights to Cancún.

Without All Dressed Chips, all you have done is pissed off a bunch of Canadians.

Canadians, I am told, come in all flavors.

With 52 weeks lead time on the chips, sometime before September was the time for your leadership team to act. I don’t work with making anything with computers but knew this would be an issue more than 6 months ago.

As seen on Air b&b?

Why did Legionella impact his walking so severely? Just weakness, or something else? Glad he is walking now!

Found your original email account.

About layoffs?

And Thom. Apparently you two are VERY close.

It’s just him doing what he thinks is right for him and his family.

I think Delta Airlines is entirely vaccinated due to a mandate (I think it was vax or don’t work for us), NHL is 98% vaccinated as any player who is unvaccinated who misses a game due to covid/protocols doesn’t get paid. My company is not (yet) covid vaccine mandated, but we are 70+% vaccinated and we will be flu vaccine mandated this year for the first time. I doubt anyone quits.

She is now!!!

Take a bite.

Yeah, it was a week or two ago that I posted it, so I don’t have the reference handy, but the ethic vaccination gap is narrowing a lot. Hispanics in particular are getting vaccines at a rapid rate over the past few months.