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  Yep. Or at least they'll now go into full-time reviewing... but first drop you while they spend a year reviewing your case.
context: Of all the stock photos of people wearing masks they could choose from, they pick the one with a guy wearing a Porn Hub hat. >
  
  Now let’s ask why the fuck he’s wearing a pornhub hat lol. When I leave the house I might put on a Duluth Trading Company hat, that’s a brand I like. Or a University of Wisconsin hat, a school I support. But this guy loves jerking off so much that he wears clothing repping his favorite porn site. You’ve got no choice but to respect that honestly. >
  
  Or maybe it is just a spinoff parody hat. Like he is a farmer and it says "CornBub". >
  
  Corn does have the juice. >
  
  Don’t forget the knobs! >
  
  will people get dropped from medicaid because of this? >
  
  Yes. The good news is that all 50 state governments care greatly about optimizing healthcare coverage and have robustly funded and staffed their state Medicaid agencies to the point where renewals or transition to subsidized Marketplace plans will occur seamlessly and without critical delays. >
  
  Thanks, its good to know that our government can get things done efficiently. >
  
  And to think, all it took was filling it with people who hate it, believe it can't get things done and who work to destroy it. >
  
  By that, student debt cancellation won’t be a thing. >
  
  Isn't the loan repayment pause dependent on the covid emergency declaration as well? >
  
  Yes. So are the guaranteed sick days, vaccines, medications, hospital stays etc. This will only affect people who are poor and sick. It's not about masks which everyone is pretending. It's about the financial help for the poor and disabled that is being taken away and that's what people are celebrating today. >
  
  Also insurance is more inclined to stamp APPROVED on a lot of the things that are used in bad bouts of COVID.  Mostly because the Government has been helping cover some of those costs.
  Now that this is going away, I can assure anyone who gets a bad bout of COVID, your insurance is going to be breaking out the DENIED stamp a lot more often.
  Some of the worse bouts of COVID are six or seven figures.  Maybe knock one or two of those digits off with insurance helped by the Government.  With this ending, a lot of people are going to be on the hook for that bill now.
  Maybe this is what it takes for people to start treating this pandemic seriously? Million dollar medical bills that will haunt them the rest of their lives.  I mean, we're still shedding about 200+ some people a day to COVID.  That's ~73k a year.  That's twice as many people who die in car wrecks annually and about 20% the rate of people who die from heart disease.  That puts it in a firm third place for cause of death in the US. >
  
  500+ people a day in the US right now >
  
  This has real early war on terror "mission accomplished" vibes to it. >
  
  Since literally before the disaster even began in earnest in America, that's been the message. No wonder we're at 1.1 million deaths and tens of millions with permanent disabilities. >
  
  psst: we're also the most obese nation by far, which is a super big risk factor for severe Covid. >
  
  I can't read the article but being a caregiver for 2 high risk people, my life won't change. I didn't know there were still protocols in place. >
  
  Yeah I have family members who have had organ transplants. Zero immune system, produce zero antibodies when vaccinated multiple times. Evushield was pulled because it's not effective. And people don't get it, they act like we're freaks wearing masks still. I have been harassed in public, I was 9 mo pregnant and a man kept banging on my car screaming at me to take off my mask. So I am worried that the state of emergency being changed will just make things worse in terms of respecting people still needing to be careful. I just wish the government cared a little more about the immune compromised, or even just pretended to care. >
  
  
  I just wish the government cared a little more about the immune compromised, or even just pretended to care.
  
  They don't, we have objective evidence they do not now. Anyone in this situation, or caring for someone in this situation is on their own.   
  Western Society has really revealed itself to be an uncaring and selfish construct of humanity through this. >
  
  Yeah it's really sad, it bothers me how anyone vulnerable is just thrown to the side like they don't matter. It's always been this way here. Look how a lot of nursing homes function. >
  
  
  It's always been this way here.
  
  This is the personal revelation I have gone through with this. It's not something new, I just didn't understand where we were at, and now that I do, I can't unsee it.   
  It kind of reminds me of Logans run, how everyone was killed off young and didn't really get a chance to understand the reality of their situation. The young and healthy are rarely if ever going to interface with the systems we have in place that are like this, except in extraordinary situations like this one. >
  
  No I'm in a similar boat. I never realized it until very recently, and it's hard to come to terms with. I hope for change but with the current mentality of parents are evil and everyone over 50 is a crazy Trumper, and then no one caring about babies getting sick or people with cancer or pregnant people or organ recipients, i worry it'll get worse before it gets better. Especially with social media breeding such a self centered perspective on life and a sense of self importance. I wonder if it's this way in other countries too or just the US. >
  
  It absolutely is the same way in other countries. It may look a little different, but people have definitely reacted the same way, at least from a logical perspective.   
  Look at the Canadian trucker situation, and the Swedish approach to COVID from the start, Q-anon inspired would-be coupers in Germany, etc...  
  I don't know how we collectively dig ourselves out of this, but the focus of my life moving forward it to spend what energy and time I have left on this earth trying to figure out what I can do to help move us in that direction.   
  What I do know is that this is not the way to do things.   
  I'm glad you've engaged here, it's always nice to know that there are others out there who are paying attention to things and actually have empathy. >
  
  Definitely, it's been nice chatting with you too. I'm trying to make a difference too, starting within my family while my kids are little and my parents need help, and hopefully finding a way to contribute to change in society too. Take care, stay healthy. >
  
  Well, they ALSO chose a stock photo of people actually WEARING MASKS!!! >
  
  And a PornHub baseball cap >
  
  1.1 million people unavailable for comment due to unspecified illness >
  
  That's for the world. The 1.1 million for the US is probably fairly close, as opposed to say India where the excess deaths are about 10x the reported COVID deaths. >
  
  I think the US count is still off by hundreds of thousands if you look at excess mortality. >
  
  millions - it doesn't take into account just how many people are living off the counts >
  
  Fuck. There goes my Medicaid