Heroic Shrimp
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https://twitter.com/AlexKokcharov/status/1472713943705661440
Wtf
Wtf
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Heroic Shrimp said:https://twitter.com/AlexKokcharov/status/1472713943705661440
Wtf
Frank E said:WTF indeed...and with everything that's going on with Ukraine right now.
CarltonTheBear said:Frank E said:WTF indeed...and with everything that's going on with Ukraine right now.
I feel like this just makes it less surprising that a current-era Russian national team would do this.
princedpw said:Yes.
I?m double vaccinated and boosted. 95+% of my colleagues at work at Princeton are fully vaxed. Everyone is tested once a week (unvaccinated twice a week) regardless of the presence of symptoms. My understanding is that you can be extremely infectious prior to having symptoms.
The point of testing is to slow down the spread, identifying folks before they have spread it to others, which can only be done by asymptomatic testing. If you don?t do asymptomatic testing, it will be too late and everyone on the team will get it and everyone in their families will get it.
herman said:princedpw summed it up. Yzerman?s suggestion, while attractive to those who are tired of pandemic measures, would cripple and crush the healthcare system and subsequently society and economy.
Under those proposed conditions, an asymptomatic person could inadvertently pass it on to another asymptomatic person who visits an immunosuppressed loved one who gets boned because people didn?t bother checking. Multiply that by a bajillion because asymptomatic people being given license to return to normal is toothpaste that won?t go back in the tube and the virus will happily take the opportunity to mutate.
herman said:I agree it is not feasible currently because a) tests haven't been made readily available; b) everything is pretty much open, nominally protected by plexiglass and whatever masking is actually enforced even though this respiratory virus is airborne, hence the return to the lockdown conversation every so often. The realities of the virus don't really care about testing feasibility.
Testing is useful as an airlock measure, when you go in (and out of) a higher risk situation with close quarters or no masks or limited ventilation. The NHL's return to play protocols worked! As it stands, our testing capacity is maxed and the number of cases being reported daily is understated.
It's pretty frustrating to see that we could have been ramping up testing, contact tracing infrastructure during the first lockdown. Local public health units have done a lot with little, but imagine if test kits were readily available to everybody and not just hoarded for businesses while sitting on federal funds.
CarltonTheBear said:https://twitter.com/frank_seravalli/status/1473314468251713543
https://twitter.com/wyshynski/status/1473333865586515975
Well not officially official yet but no NHLers at the Olympics next year.
RedLeaf said:Very disappointed. I understand the reasoning, but man it would have been exciting to see McDavid, Crosby & Marner on the same Olympic team. If its not happening for another 4 yrs its not happening at all.
L K said:Really no other way to approach the COVID testing. You can put people in isolation for illness but the COVID testing is unreliable for up to a few months after having COVID.
L K said:Really no other way to approach the COVID testing. You can put people in isolation for illness but the COVID testing is unreliable for up to a few months after having COVID.