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The only nut job on this thread uses the handle bsm2. He is hyper paranoid and has removed his true name and where he is located from his profile, it used to be there. I don't know but have a feeling that he doesn't have many friends either here or in his daily life. He frequently tells other that they must be off their meds so that tends to indicate that he is on some rather strong anti depression drugs. If he is, he needs to find a better therapist and soon before he breaks.Comment
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Well Mississippi still at 50 aleast your not last. You still beat Alabama
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Doses distributed to state: 2,415,815
Doses administered: 1,565,428
Percentage of distributed vaccines that have been administered: 64.8Comment
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If you put the bold text into google it brings up a CNBC article with no links to the original survey, so did it even happen?. We are shown similar nonsense in the UK that goes against popular opinion amongst people I know. The surveys are an attempt to make you think differently. Some people seem to be blind to that fact.Last edited by Tricky; 05-01-2021, 08:05 PM.Comment
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A broad majority of U.S. employers, 65%, plan to offer employees incentives to get vaccinated and 63% will require proof of vaccination, according to an ASU/Rockefeller Foundation survey.
Most U.S. companies will require proof of Covid vaccination from employees: survey
The survey, released Thursday, represents the responses of 957 facilities across 24 industry sectors in the U.S. Most of the respondents were businesses with 250 or more employees.
Arizona State University Survey of Employers Shows Companies Doubling Down on Covid-19 Testing and Support Vaccinations to Achieve a Post-Pandemic Workplace - The Rockefeller Foundation
Arizona State University Survey of Employers Shows Companies Doubling Down on Covid-19 Testing and Support Vaccinations to Achieve a Post-Pandemic Workplace
04.29.21
Nearly 9 out of 10 employers in the US & UK will require or encourage vaccination for employees. Most say employee mental health has become a top priority
PHOENIX, Ariz. | April 29, 2021 – A comprehensive business survey, conducted by Arizona State University’s College of Health Solutions with support from The Rockefeller Foundation, finds that nearly 9 out of 10 employers in the United States and UK plan to encourage or require vaccination for employees and nearly 7 out of 10 are currently performing Covid-19 testing for their employees. The results from 1,339 employers, focusing on mid to large size employers who completed this survey during the month of March, are available in a new comprehensive report, Back to the Workplace: Are we there yet? Key Insights from Employers One Year Into the Pandemic. The survey produced real-time responses of American and British businesses, representing 71% and 24% of respondents respectively, about their vaccination policies, testing and contact tracing, employee well-being, pandemic response and preparedness, the pandemic’s financial impact, and the future of work.
“More than one year into the Covid-19 crisis, it’s clear that employers across the United States and UK are now taking a more proactive role and creating their own policies to manage the pandemic,” said Mara Aspinall, Project Co-Lead, Professor of Practice at Arizona State University’s College of Health Solutions, and Advisor to The Rockefeller Foundation. “In making the physical workplace as safe as possible, almost 70% of employers surveyed are testing some or all of their workforce and nearly 90% say that they will require or encourage Covid-19 vaccination in the months ahead.”
As vaccination rates increase globally—with more than half of adults in the U.S. and the UK having received at least one shot—employers and employees now face important questions and complex challenges about when and how they will return to work. The second in a series launched last summer, with the initial round published in November 2020, key findings of the latest Covid-19 Workplace Commons — Keeping Workers Well survey include:
- Vaccinations are the top priority. Eighty-eight percent of employers plan to require or encourage their employees to be vaccinated against Covid-19. Fifty-nine percent plan to incentivize their employees to be vaccinated, and 60% of employers say they will require proof of vaccination from employees.
- Productivity and morale are up. The survey also provided surprising insights on worker productivity and morale, with a majority of employers saying their employees’ engagement and productivity have gone up since the pandemic and 44% reporting that employee morale has gone up, compared to 26% indicating that morale went down, since the pandemic began.
- Mental health and employee burnout is a big concern. Seventy-seven percent of employers said employees’ mental health has now become a top priority since the pandemic started. For companies in the U.S., 79% of employers indicated that employee mental health wellbeing has become a top priority for their company.
“This pandemic clearly has had a devastating impact on our collective mental health.” said Dr. Jonathan D. Quick, Managing Director for Pandemic Response, Preparedness, and Prevention at The Rockefeller Foundation. “The data indicate that employers see this crisis and are working to find ways to help employees restore their mental well-being.”
Additionally, with so many adults being vaccinated, both employees and employers are sharing what they want the work environment in the future to look like post-pandemic.
- Companies are looking towards offering a more flexible working environment
○ Nearly three quarters of companies (72%) indicated that they intend to offer more flexible or expanded work from home policies for their employees post-pandemic (in the U.S., this number increases to 73% of employers).
○ Overall, more than 6 out of 10 companies surveyed will offer a virtual work environment or a hybrid model – a combination of virtual and physical work environment – in a post-pandemic world.
○ For the rest of 2021, a majority of companies (63%) will allow employees to work from home through the rest of the year.
- Most companies indicated they are not ready to completely abandon their physical workplace space in a post-pandemic world:
○ A majority of employers (68%) believe that employees should be in the office at least 20 hours per week.
○ They cited their top reasons for wanting employees to be in the office partially during the week as 1) it allows for social connections to be created and maintained with colleagues, 2) it ensures employee productivity, and 3) it allows for spontaneous idea sharing and problem solving.
“The pandemic has changed the traditional office environment in many ways – possibly forever – yet a majority of employers are indicating they see real value in employees continuing to interact face-to-face,” said Nate Wade, Project Co-Lead and Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives at Arizona State University’s College of Health Solutions.
Additional survey findings include:
- The top three challenges companies are facing in returning employees to the physical work environment are 1) employees not wanting to return to in-person work, 2) safety of employees, and 3) cost of making workspace safe for employees.
- 84% of employers indicated that they would allow Covid-19 vaccinations to be administered to their employees at their facility if supplies were available.
- Half of employers reported an increase in the use of available company resources related to mental health since the pandemic began.
ASU will field one more phase of its Covid-19 Workplace Commons — Keeping Workers Well survey in summer 2021. Employers of all types, sizes and geographic locations are invited to get involved and sign up to participate in the next survey at ASUcovidcommons.com.
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If Liberals won't go to the science, I'll bring the science to liberals.
Texas, Florida Reporting Fewer Coronavirus Cases Per Capita than Key Blue States with Mask Mandates
Both Florida and Texas, two states serving as the model for reopening their economies and forgoing statewide mask mandates, are continuing to report fewer new cases of the Chinese coronavirus than key blue states, such as Michigan and Pennsylvania, both of which have shown no signs of easing their respective mask mandates.
Meanwhile, Texas, which has remained open for over a month, recorded 68.4 new cases of the virus in the last seven days per 100,000, or 19,844. Florida, which has remained open for months and never once had a statewide mask mandate, reported 170.2 new cases of the virus per capita, or 36,545 in the same time frame.
While the two separately are less than Florida per capita, there were weeks showing the Sunshine State consistently reporting fewer new cases per capita than New York City alone.
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Canadian economist Douglas Ward Allen recently ran a cost-benefit analysis of lockdowns. The trade-off hardly seems worth it.
Weeks later, COVID-19 cases and related deaths continue to fall in Texas and other states that lifted restrictions, including Mississippi and Oklahoma. Meanwhile, many states with restrictions have seen a resurgence of the virus, including Michigan, Minnesota, and Pennsylvania.
Costs and Benefits of Lockdowns
Why states without restrictions are currently faring better than states with restrictions is unclear. But a recently published economic study may offer a clue.
Canadian economist Douglas Ward Allen, the Burnaby Mountain Professor of Economics at Simon Fraser University, suggests the ineffectiveness of lockdowns may stem primarily from voluntary changes in behavior.
His study does not stop there, however.
Caplan argues 10 months seems like a conservative estimate. Another way to think of this is that people would be willing to sacrifice 2 months of life to avoid a year of lockdowns. This estimate seems reasonable, due to the violence, job loss, business failure, and substance dependencies fostered by lockdowns.
If a year of lockdowns means losing an equivalent of 2 months of life per person, multiplying that 2 months over the entire population of Canada (37.7 million people) gives a cost of 6.3 million years of life lost.
If COVID-19 lockdowns made the death rate 10 percent lower, that would be equivalent to 22,333 years of life saved. Compared to the loss of 6.3 million years, this trade-off hardly seems worth it.
As more data are made available giving a complete picture of the effects of lockdowns, a long-established truth about tradeoffs observed by Nobel Prize-winning economist Ronald Coase is becoming apparent.
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Breitbart News Case Closed
Facts vs Finction
If COVID-19 lockdowns made the death rate 10 percent lower, that would be equivalent to 22,333 years of life saved. Compared to the loss of 6.3 million years, this trade-off hardly seems worth it.
Seems worth it to me Buddy vs YOUR DEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
For a guy who can't figure out how to clean a slit glass
PS Florida Has the Third largest Covid19 infection rate more than 10% of the state 2.2million infected 36,000 dead Americans hardly a success story
Mississippi ranks 50 in Vaccinations pretty poor ROOKIE what's wrong with your state?Last edited by bsm2; 05-02-2021, 12:24 PM.Comment
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Facts vs Fiction
The Florida Department of Health says the number of known cases of COVID-19 in the state rose by 5,419 Saturday. According to the state's daily update, the total number of cases in Florida since the pandemic began is now 2,238,937.
The number of Florida resident deaths has reached 35,239, an increase of 78 since Friday's update. In addition, a total of 698 non-Floridians have died in the state.
The number of new cases and deaths reported each day does not necessarily reflect the day that the case was confirmed. The state says some private testing labs dump large batches of test results which include cases from previous days, and data can take days or weeks to validate. Stats for today and previous days will likely change in the future as the state reviews more cases and updates retroactive data.
The state's number of deaths represents permanent Florida residents who have died from COVID-19.Comment
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Wear a Mask like Science Tells You
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