Long COVID and the moral injury of passively harming others both suck shit. A well fitted respirator mask like an N95 can save a lot of hurt, and every broken chain of transmission is still valuable.
Article provides no source for ‘…covid surges…’ ('Im not saying its false, I’m saying where the hell do we get this info now that the CDC is unreliable)
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Denis the COVID info guy, on Bluesky or Mastodon
Im american and got vaccinated last saturday.
When I attempt to schedule a COVID vaccine, I get this:
The 2025-26 COVID-19 vaccine is for everyone ages 65 and older and patients under 65 with certain health conditions and/or risk factors.
I get a pop up saying…
Patients who do not have any of these health conditions and/or risk factors are not eligible for COVID-19 vaccination.
Qualifying health conditions and/or risk factors:
- Cancer
- Cerebrovascular disease
- Chronic kidney disease (at any stage)
- Chronic liver disease
- Chronic lung disease
- Cystic fibrosis
- Dementia or other neurological conditions
- Diabetes (type 1 or type 2)
- Disabilities
- Heart conditions
- Hemoglobin blood disorders
- HIV infection (human immunodeficiency virus)
- Mental health conditions
- Mood disorders including depression and schizophrenia spectrum disorders.
- Overweight or obesity
- Physical inactivity
- Pregnancy (Current or recent)
- Smoking - current or former
- Solid organ or blood stem cell transplant
- Substance use disorders
- Tuberculosis (TB)
- Other conditions that increase the risk of severe COVID-19. Learn more from CDC
So, health insurance fraud or COVID? Considering the administration will likely try to slaughter any consumer-friendly insurance regulations and everyone shares everyone’s every piece of data with everyone… What a choice.
If you look through the list and how prevalent some things are its easy to not commit fraud if your a typical person.
So if you are healthy, you shouldn’t get the vaccine? Typical people are unhealthy enough? What exactly is your point? Why the fuck should it be harder to get a vaccine for COVID than the flu?
A decision is going to be make later this month by a committee as to the future of the vaccine. That committee was fired, in its entirety, and replaced by people picked by RFK. So… I guess if you willing to attest to your insurance company that you have conditions that, in no time at all, may be used by your insurance company to increase your rate or drop you (because I guarantee they’ll try to kill Obamacare at some point), you can get a vaccine for a limited time… assuming you live in certain states.
Last I checked, the following states require a prescription:
Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia.
The following states are not providing the vaccine at all:
Massachusetts, Nevada, and New Mexico
Edit: Looks like things have progressed. MA is now offering them to anyone.
I think because Donvict and Brainworms have created such a clusterfuck here, Colorado did an emergency measure as well.
(As a side note: Isn’t it weird how the cons break EVERYTHING and everyone else is expected to clean up their fucking mess?
Biden’s admin had 4 years to try to undo some of the damage of Donvict’s first 4 years, and most of the bitching from the left and the center seemed to be how the admin did not INSTANTLY fix all of the messes that conservatives make…forgetting that building and running a working system is hard work; breaking shit is really easy to do.)
God keeps sending plagues. I wonder why.
