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My local HD never enforced it last time. I’ve already quit my local service station over it.

That’s not true. Hospice care doesn’t mean you’re in a facility. It can get extended for several 6 month intervals.

We’ve never done widespread testing for the flu using PCR like this. Ever

We could talk about local sportsball teams 5 game slide.

The home depot around here never enforced it the last time. But ill be going to lowes. they dont require customers wear one. Ill be patronizing businesses that dont require it.

Delta +

Ive seen that movie at least 7 times. At sone point we’ll all have to go in a sterilizing room and get all our hair and top layer of skin burned off sans the hood they got to wear.

Baker just mandated all employees and contractors at long term care facilities have to be fully vaxed by October 10th.

I have it in both vehicles and a house account on my Russound/Casa Tunes system.

You have to go. We need a field report

Lolololol

You make it?

Depends on what it is. A scientific enterprise thrives on daily interaction and face to face working together. We’ve found it very difficult to build a team environment thats needed to do good science and drug discovery on zoom.

Lol. Never ends

Yes. The company wants them back, but the policies are just making them stay home. I could work from home at least 2days a week, maybe 3. It my lab folks are there everyday. I’d be a pretty shitty boss if I just sat on my butt at home because I didnt want to wear a mask but made them come in since they can’t do lab work from their couch.

Lol. Dude, we have PhD scientists that manage projects and people who I haven’t seen in person in 17 months. We have a campus of 3000. On any given day there MIGHT be 200 scattered across 10 buildings across eastern Massachusetts.

Ding ding, we have a winner. I know some where I work that haven't been in the building since March 2020. And with mandates today, they’re not likely back until 2022. That’s a solid 2 years sitting at home. Why would they want to come back. But yea, we’ll have a vax mandate by the end of the year. That’s the only way we’ll get out of masks. I’m sure that’s the angle.

It won’t affect me much outside of work unless I have to fly. I won’t wear one anymore.

How many hours a day do you wear yours?

Well, I don’t REALLY think that’s what they’re saying. It’s just poor optics if they want people to take their vax.

I think my company is setting us up for a vax mandate. The way the email was worded, it makes me think that the way out of masks at work is to mandate a vax. They’ve been touting a September return to work. The email today said that was being backed off until late October or November. With the holidays, that will get backed off till after the first of the year. No office people will come back to work en masse if they have to wear a mask after sitting on their a$$ at home for the last 18 months on Zoom. In betting that the place will be a tomb tomorrow. We had a few non lab people back, but after today, they’ll be back on zoom.

Ah, it’s both. What Phin said above is basically correct. Pharma takes govt money in the form of Medicare and Medicaid. If they don’t go along, we’ll… I just find it funny that Pfizer going to mask mandate ms for vaxed office employees is tantamount to admitting their vax doesnt work.

Yea, that’s the worst part.

Easier said than done. They pay my salary so it’s either suck it up or quit. All the local pharma put mandates back on. Merck and Astra Zeneca put there’s back on yesterday. Bristol Myers Squib and Pfizer put it back on last Thursday. I was just waiting for ours. I figured it would be yesterday honestly. Pfizer, lol. Of all companies to put an office mask mandate back on vaxed people. The irony.

What pisses me off even worse is Massachusetts and Cambridge isn’t under a mandate. Baker said he’s comfortable where we are with our vax rates, low hospitalizations, and low death numbers. Yet a private company is kowtowing to a CDC recommendation. Multinational corporations are letting the government tell them how to run their business.