COVID-19 Pandemic (Coronavirus)
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Had Covid like 3 times. Every time sucked but I came back out like a freaking albatross.
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Yo that shyt he said about his erections & piss streams being weaker..WOW...I experienced the same thing my 2nd time after catching Covid.Took about 9 months for me to get back normal.I was starting to think I had nerve damage or low testosterone.Which I'd never had a problem with in my life.My dikk used to jump up if the wind blew too hard.Can't front, that shyt was fukking with my self esteem.Like I said, took about 9 months to get back to normal.And honestly, I still don't feel 100%.I'd say more like 90-95%.I was waking up with no morning wood.I'd purposely watch porn hoping to feel the fire & tingles flowing through my veins, but to no avail.Felt like I was walking around with a rubber dikk.At present, I'm back to breaking backs, but something still feels a lil off.That Covid's a cold mthafkka, man.
United exec says COVID-19 pandemic may have contributed to Boeing’s problems with lost personnel: ‘Experience counts’
“Experience counts, and they need to have a good experienced team righting the ship,” Laderman said.
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United exec says COVID-19 pandemic may have contributed to Boeing’s problems with lost personnel: ‘Experience counts’
By Chris Pandolfo, Fox BusinessPublished Feb. 1, 2024, 9:57 p.m. ET
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A top United Airlines executive suggested the loss of experienced personnel during the COVID-19 pandemic is to blame for Boeing’s recent string of problems.
United Airlines Executive Vice President Finance Gerry Laderman made the observation at the Airline Economics conference in Dublin, Reuters reported.
“Experience counts, and they need to have a good experienced team righting the ship,” Laderman said.
“Part of the problem for lots of industrial companies is nobody realized the difficulties that we were all going to get hit with as we came out of COVID,” he continued.
“Principally the supply chain but also a lack of senior people and a lot of retirements: the knowledge base. That impacts everybody, and I think that is part of what happened at Boeing and … it will take time.”
Laderman said he would not comment on whether there should be management changes at the airplane manufacturer, according to Reuters.
3Boeing has faced setbacks since a door plug on a 737 MAX 9 plane operated by Alaska Airlines blew off mid-flight earlier this month, which prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to ground all 737 MAX 9 planes pending a safety investigation.
The apparent cause of the accident may have been missing bolts meant to secure the door plug in place when the aircraft left Boeing’s factory, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Catch up on Boeing's ongoing airplane fiasco
Boeing has recently been plagued by safety concerns that began Jan. 5 after a door panel blew off a Boeing 737 MAX 9 jet during a flight from Oregon to California.According to the National Transportation Safety Board, the plane — which was operated by Alaska Airlines — appeared to be missing four key bolts.
Scott Kirby, CEO of United Airlines, threatened to shun Boeingafter the carrier’s fleet of Max 9 aircraft was grounded in the wake of the near-disastrous Alaska Airlines door blowout.
Jennifer Homendy, chair of the National Transportation Safety Board, warned the public on Wednesday that another midair door blowout like the Boeing 737 Max 9 fiasco “can happen again.”
Homendy added there was “no way” the plane should have been delivered with four critical bolts missing, and noted that there is a “problem with the process.”
Disaster struck again a week after the initial incident when a Boeing plane was forced to make an emergency landing in Japan due to a crack in the cockpit window.
A Boeing 757 lost its front tire as the aircraft was preparing to depart for an international flight in late January. At the Atlanta International Airport, a Delta flight bound for Bogota, Colombia, was taxiing across the runway into takeoff position when another plane alerted the control tower that something was amiss.
Later, a UK passenger was alarmed after noticing pieces of tape on the exterior of a Boeing 787during a flight to India, as seen in shocking photos. “It began peeling off mid-flight, I thought, ‘What the hell!?’” said the Brit. “I pointed it out to my missus — she just said, ‘I wish you hadn’t shown me that.’”
Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary previously said he’s made ‘loud complaints’ to Boeing over quality control.
Since the incident, lawmakers have pressured Boeing to withdraw a request for a key safety exemption that could have allowed regulators to speed up certification of its forthcoming 737 MAX 7 plane. Boeing said it would do so on Monday.
The ongoing Airline Economics conference this week is being closely watched as key airline executives — many of whom are Boeing customers — react to the trouble at Boeing.
3Conference delegates said Boeing’s decision raised questions about the timing of the larger and more widely sold MAX 10, whose certification had been expected a year after the MAX 7.
United, a leading operator of the MAX 9, has ordered 277 of the larger MAX 10 aircraft, for which Boeing has also been expected to ask for an exemption.
CEO Scott Kirby has reportedly visited competitor Airbus to discuss the purchase of more A321neos amid the controversy with Boeing, Reuters reported.
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Laderman, who is set to retire after stepping down as chief financial officer, told Reuters he doesn’t keep track of Kirby’s travel anymore. He did note that AIrbus has also had delivery problems, with the A321neo in strong demand but low supply.
“Yes there’s a Boeing issue. But keep in mind, for very different reasons, Airbus has issues too, related mostly let’s say to the supply chain.”
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Peoples' heads are cooked
I'll never forget people acting like loosing their whole sense of taste for multiple days/weeks was normal. That and hoarding toilet paper.
Peoples' heads are cooked
I'll never forget people acting like loosing their whole sense of taste for multiple days/weeks was normal. That and hoarding toilet paper.
yeah that was insane cause once I learned that was a symptom I knew it was negatively impacting the brain. the nonchalance of it all.
Covid death toll in US likely 16% higher than official tally, study says
Researchers think undercounting goes beyond overloaded health systems to a lack of awareness of Covid and low levels of testing
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Covid death toll in US likely 16% higher than official tally, study says
Researchers think undercounting goes beyond overloaded health systems to a lack of awareness of Covid and low levels of testing
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Wed 21 Feb 2024 10.00 EST
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Caskets at a funeral home in Queens, New York, on 26 April 2020. Photograph: Bryan R. Smith/Reuters
The Covid death toll in the US is likely at least 16% higher than the official tally, according to a new study, and researchers believe the cause of the undercounting goes beyond overloaded health systems to a lack of awareness of Covid and low levels of testing.
The second year of the pandemic also had nearly as many uncounted excess deaths as the first, the study found.
More than 1.1 million Americans have died from Covid, according to official records. But the actual number is assuredly higher, given the high rates of excess deaths. Demographers wanted to know how many could be attributed to Covid, and they drilled down to data at the county level to discover patterns in geography and time.
There were 1.2 million excess deaths from natural causes – excluding deaths from accidents, firearms, suicide and overdoses – between March 2020 and August 2022, the researchers estimated, and about 163,000 of those deaths were not attributed to Covid in any way – but most of them should have been, the researchers say.
Once they determined how many more people had died than expected, more questions arose.
“Everyone has wanted to know: why did all these extra deaths happen?” asked Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, associate professor in the department of sociology and the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota and one of the study’s authors.
To get closer to that answer, they first looked at when and where excess deaths occurred.
The researchers thought they might see the deaths happening at the peak of major surges or shortly thereafter, when health systems were overwhelmed and health workers were exhausted and sick themselves.
Instead, the excess deaths began ticking up in the month before, in the lead-up to major surges.
“The mortality that’s not considered Covid starts a little bit before the Covid surges officially start and crests a little bit sooner,” Wrigley-Field said.
That indicates some people didn’t realize their illness was Covid, due to a lack of awareness about its prevalence and low levels of testing. There was also a rise in out-of-hospital deaths – in homes and nursing homes, for instance – which makes ascertaining the cause of death more difficult.
The researchers also thought they would see under-reporting of Covid deaths mainly in the early months of the pandemic, as other research has indicated. It was still a novel virus then, and not everyone knew the symptoms or had access to tests.
“Quite the contrary, we find over the first 30 months of the pandemic that serious gaps remained in surveillance,” said Andrew Stokes, associate professor of global health and sociology at Boston University and one of the study’s authors.
“Even though we got a lot better at testing for Covid, we were still missing a lot of official Covid deaths” in the US, said Jennifer Dowd, professor of demography and population health at University of Oxford, who was not involved in this research.
The phenomenon “underscores how badly the US fared as the pandemic continued”, Wrigley-Field said. “It does profoundly reflect failures in the public health system.”
As for where the deaths occurred, “there was marked regional variation”, Stokes said. The hardest-hit were non-metropolitan counties, especially in the west and the south – areas that don’t have as many resources for investigating deaths, and which have had lower levels of testing for Covid, he said.
These differences are also likely explained by different state-level policies, how jurisdictions count Covid deaths, and the politicization of the crisis down to the local level, where beliefs about Covid may have influenced the cause of death listed on certificates.
“Every jurisdiction is doing this differently, and that’s why this is such a mess,” Stokes said.
The US needs to invest in more complete and timely mortality reporting, the experts agreed.
While Covid deaths have now declined from soaring heights seen earlier in the pandemic, the virus is still deadly. “If we really want to know the impact, yes, that Covid is continuing to have on mortality, we still need to look at this excess over time,” Dowd said.
“We probably will be using these numbers for lots of reasons to try to understand what went right and what went wrong with Covid – and how we can do better for the next pandemic,” she said.
Knowing mortality rates helps authorities allocate resources, including vaccines, treatments, and extra health workers, to the hardest-hit populations and regions, and it can help individuals make more informed decisions about taking precautions.
Understanding Covid’s true death toll – and elucidating the reasons for under-counting – is important for the current responses to infectious diseases as well as preparing for the next pandemic, the researchers said.
“What does it take to be able to respond to a disaster as it’s unfolding?” Wrigley-Field asked. “Where are the places that, when there was a crisis, really were not able to keep people alive?”