#Elderly

The Rules as of today: 1. Basically, you can't leave the house for any reason, but if you have to, then you can.2. Masks are useless, but maybe you have
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1/ An interesting conversation took place last night on the #LoreByNight Discord server, where a member was questioning myself and (mostly) a mod regarding how does one assign points for
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MT - NOT MY TAOISEACH - NEW TAOISEACH IS A CROOK! Michael Martin is a gangster. Michael Martin will be the first Taoiseach in the new 'rotating' arrangement with Fine
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This map from the NYT is going around in a lot of memes/commentary on this website.It represents individual donors to Presidential campaigns, not anything else. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/08/02/us/politics/2020-democratic-fundraising.ht
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I do not know enough but I know stats well enough. The peak of the epidemic in the world seems over for now. In the USA total deaths is not
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Our elderly neighbour passed away recently. His daughter popped round a few moments ago clutching a large plastic sack. In the sack were all the Christmas presents he’d bought for
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1. Death! Death! Death!Focus on COVID deaths, not cases. Why? Cases are more a function of testing than anything else, esp. given the VAST MAJORITY of INFECTIONS, like over 99%,
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Tragic news from Old Delhi: the dome of the Masjid Mubarak Begum (aka the Rundi ki Masjid) just collapsed.... Mubarak Begum was wife of Sir David Ochterlony. She started off
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I read this blog yesterday. Also yesterday, I received some of the most positive patient feedback of my career. Lady in her 80s, consulted me 4 times over a couple
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Since there has been talks about racist brands, here’s a thread few who have names and/or logos that have racist origins. Of course our original Black Stars knew about these
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(thread) A year ago today I was adjusting to being back home, after spending a few weeks visiting family in Juarez/El Paso. The trauma of the events that took place
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In honor of #Juneteenth a quick thread about the Black Muslim rebellion in Brazil only 30 years before Juneteenth known as the Male` Revolt. During Ramadan in 1835, the
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I've been knee-deep in #COVID19 preparedness + response x 4+ mos now, and have watched the focal point of my efforts shift month-to-month... 1/ Jan: H2H transmission + models of
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In the Times this morning, a “government source” told @Smyth_Chris and @GregHurstTimes that Britain is testing “roughly twice as many people per head as France”. Let’s take a look. 1/8
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I join San Franciscans of all backgrounds in condemning the political grandstanding that led to the rejection of sitting commissioner @CRubke from the @sfmta_muni Board https://twitter.com/apthornley/status/1260582156050608129?s=20 1/ Our Richmond Di
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Cardiology thread:In heart pts, flu can cause heart attacks/worsen heart failure/predispose to pneumonia. #COVID19 may be no different. Heart pts are more likely to have severe Covid infection than others,
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