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Post by rov on Dec 21, 2021 9:15:30 GMT -5
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Post by phoenixrisingALJ on Dec 21, 2021 10:04:53 GMT -5
A Washington Post article - not a Washington Times article…..
EDIT NOTE by PIXIE: I changed the title of the thread to reflect the appropriate newspaper. Pixie
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Post by carrickfergus on Dec 21, 2021 11:44:06 GMT -5
^ Quite right (I almost didn't open this after seeing the title). While parts of the article are poorly worded and somewhat inflammatory, it does seem to be directly aimed at the acting COSS, who's focusing on increasing program access to under-served communities.
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Post by rp on Dec 22, 2021 21:43:55 GMT -5
I think this article was driven, in part, by one of the reps that is quoted in the article. She has a particular reputation for refusing all telephone and OVH hearings. Why would she do that if she is worried about claimants being served in a timely fashion? Just sayin….
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Post by Gaidin on Dec 24, 2021 12:44:13 GMT -5
I think this article was driven, in part, by one of the reps that is quoted in the article. She has a particular reputation for refusing all telephone and OVH hearings. Why would she do that if she is worried about claimants being served in a timely fashion? Just sayin…. Yeah. That and certain senators who see an easy attack on public unions. The some employees will work remotely five days a week nonsense is just bait for people who hate public employees. There is no reason for a writer to have to come to the office more than once or twice a month. I'm sure they aren't the only category of employees like that. I do think we're about 12-15 months from a tsunami of new cases hitting hearing offices. The field offices will reopen. When they do many of the people like those mentioned in the article that haven't been able to get their claim filed will. Right now the pipeline is so cleaned out that when they start moving it won't take long to get to us. |
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Post by foghorn on Jan 12, 2022 16:42:21 GMT -5
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Post by nylawyer on Jan 12, 2022 17:01:13 GMT -5
The agency is going to have to come up with some pretty specific guidelines because otherwise this will be the new fibromyalgia.
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Post by foghorn on Jan 12, 2022 17:15:31 GMT -5
As the studies are talking organ damage, it should be more discernible than fibromyalgia. It's comparatively early days. More difficult cases will be the decrease in cognition cases, though perhaps brain scans may show organic changes that would assist in an objective diagnosis.
Larger issue then would be the degree of proof required, as a full blown neuropsych exam can be quite expensive.
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Post by nylawyer on Jan 12, 2022 17:30:47 GMT -5
It's going to be the cases alleging fatigue or as you point out neurocognitive decline with no objective evidence (other than the original COVID test) that concern me.
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Post by jagvet on Jan 12, 2022 18:13:30 GMT -5
I have a friend who got COVID in June. She recovered completely including restored taste, except for a limited taste/smell problem. Certain food smells now induce severe nausea. They are 2 or 3 normal things that she had enjoyed. The one I remember her mentioning is peanut butter. Her doctor says it is long-term COVID. I saw a thumb paralysis in an OHO case. We don't fully understand this disease, and I tend to agree with John Stewart about its origin.
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Post by Gaidin on Jan 12, 2022 20:22:11 GMT -5
I have had three long COVID cases that were partially favorable. In each case there was an enormous difference before and after the COVID hospitalization. Two of them were cases filed prior to the COVID diagnosis for nondisabling issues.
I have also seen a small number of less meritorious claims (and expect to see many more in the years to come) but some of these folks have the symptomology I expect from a CVA. I expect that there will be multiple OCEPs on the issue in the coming years.
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Post by hamster on Jan 18, 2022 10:48:02 GMT -5
Checking in as SAFE!  |
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Post by nylawyer on Jan 18, 2022 11:19:58 GMT -5
Is that out of the Onion? Because I am pretty sure I have the facilities to quarantine 2000 hamsters, I have to assume the entire city of Hong Kong could handle it. Granted, it would be plus or minus about 200 hamsters when quarantine was done depending on whether they chose to breed or eat each other. |
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Post by foghorn on Jan 18, 2022 12:40:45 GMT -5
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Post by nylawyer on Jan 18, 2022 14:24:35 GMT -5
I'm not springing for the hamsters.
Or the hamster chow.
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