Jesus wept.
Jesus wept.
In the past year I’ve been a good Doobie and got so many of those shots you’re supposed to have. Granted I haven’t gotten this year’s flu shot. I just go to the Little pharmacy in Hermann, Missouri and insurance pays, fine, and if they don’t pay that’s fine too. The shingles shot was so important that I didn’t care if Insurance covered it, and it didn’t.
As far as pandemic travel, I’ve said it before here and I’m gonna say it again: the adamant mask wearers and blue political ticket voters are still traveling across the country. For pleasure. I simply do not understand it.
last last summer I was vaguely planning a trip in a car and thought of all the ways that I could avoid going into food stores and etc. But in the end it was just too much trouble. But I am not a blue ticket voter. It just seems incredibly hypocritical to me to be lecturing the world about pandemic behavior while traveling across the country in pleasure trips.
It shouldn't be a political issue--why is it?
All the blue voters I know have been very, very careful and are not traveling. It seems all the rabid anti-maskers are militantly red, but that's just my impression.
A Chicago alderman owns a well known restaurant (Ann Sathers) on the night side. A blog broke the news that he had been allowing a small number of regulars to dine inside. That has been forbidden in Chicago since sometime in October. He’s looking at a minimum of a $10K fine. He seems to have reluctantly apologized.
I don’t care if my insurance pays for the vaccine or not but I am getting it as soon as I can. We miss travel so much.
Why is it a political issue? Because so many of you break everything down to blue and red.Originally Posted by JaneV2.0
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler." ~ Albert Einstein
I'll get the vaccine, but I'm skeptical of its lasting efficacy. So what about the 40% of people who won't get it?
I don't think that explains it. How did it get to be an issue over which we are divided? I think you have to blame Trump, who early on decided he wasn't going to wear a mask, so I guess that made it political. But why would so many risk their own health to prove a point?
Covid became a political issue the day Trump said it was a hoax or that it would just go away and his followers believed it. I don't think we concocted it here and my interpretation of the common news reports is that it has been politicized. I'm not even sure how to categorize those who think mask mandates or other social distancing are an interference of individual liberties and dumb, but I suspect that can be defined by political leanings, and theoretically could affect my health and well being.
Anecdotally, my circle of acquaintances comes from across the political spectrum. I think just in the past couple of months everyone has been more cautious, but previously there were general differences in the definition of "safe behaviour" strongly related to political leanings.
But, we're beating a dead horse.
Yup, it's always the "other" guy.
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer." Mahatma Gandhi
Be nice whenever possible. It's always possible. HH Dalai Lama
In a world where you can be anything - be kind. Unknown
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