I helped medevac a person just this week, they died a few days later. Covid. No vaccinations. Early-60s, male, not especially overweight, "acceptable" health history.
I think they thought it was all over too. Ooops.
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I helped medevac a person just this week, they died a few days later. Covid. No vaccinations. Early-60s, male, not especially overweight, "acceptable" health history.
I think they thought it was all over too. Ooops.
I wear a mask to the stores, half the time I don't know what the law even is anymore, but I think the "cost" of wearing a mask to the store (for what an hour maybe) is very low, so why not. I weigh getting covid as worse than that, no I don't mean dying, I mean being sick for say if I'm unlucky a couple weeks with a small potential of it becoming long covid that lasts a great deal longer. But what about everything else? Yea plenty of things may be harder than wearing a mask an hour in the supermarket. Just that decision is an easy one for me.
The claim is probably crossing the line into straight up misinformation. Immunity doesn't exist for this (I mean if we get nasal vaccines or something maybe, but currently). Infections don't provide it either. And vaccines may wane as does infection acquired protection probably. And what maybe only 1/4th of the population is triple vaccinated. If they are counting double vaccinated as vaccinated that's incorrect.Quote:
The claim is that 90% of the population is immune, either from contracting the virus or being vaccinated. That's not really true. Vaccination seems to prevent more severe infections, but is not exactly immunity.
More like: with triple vaccinations or infection there is decent immunity from the worst short term consequences for a period of time at any rate.
I read a piece a while back that there is no clear point when a pandemic becomes endemic. It becomes endemic when we decide to stop revolving our lives around it.Quote:
Originally Posted by rosarugosa
All the nervous people can relax because the health officials will undoubtedly try to reimpose restrictions in the fall when cases of this seasonal respiratory virus start trending up again. It won't be as easy to scare people this time though. There will be more resistance, and by then we should have many more scientific studies showing the complete uselessness of things like most masks. This opposition will slow things down until after the November election.
There are still many wearing masks in stores around here, and DH and I are among them, having done pretty much the same cost/benefit analysis as you did. The grocery store will never be my happy place of optimal comfort no matter what, so wearing a mask in stores isn't a burden for us.Quote:
Originally Posted by ApatheticNoMore
We, too, wear masks when out in public. I see no reason to stop. Those who aren't wearing masks- that's why I wear one. No sense getting exposed to who knows what.
Your choice but I hope you don't have young children you are teaching to be afraid of fellow human beings, or to identify themselves as potential disease vectors. This is very damaging psychologically. We have enough body shaming without kids being afraid of their breath or other normal parts of their bodies.Quote:
Originally Posted by nswef
I think the idea that fellow human beings are not to be feared is debatable!
The thing I have noted throughout the last five years including Covid years is a general "I don't wanna" attitude concerning all sorts of choices...this is what we are teaching our children.
Covid protocols, even according to the liberal New York Times, were largely wasted efforts:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/09/b...ue-states.html
COVID 19 has been an ordeal.
This week in my county there were just 3 new cases.
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Belissimo!
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