Conavirus......

[ApatheticNoMore]

Apparently 50% of the global adult population has received at least one dose of vaccine. That that has happened in less than a year is a remarkable accomplishment. Hopefully that pace will continue.

Hooray! I wonder how much it's helped along by countries with huge populations and their own vaccines and vaccination programs like China. India also has it's own vaccine but I don't know how fast distribution is going there. But hooray regardless.

[Yppej]

A customer was saying he has an iffy employment situation as he does not want to get vaccinated. If his union does not get the mandate stopped he will quit and go elsewhere. His daughter-in-law might drop out of community college rather than get the shot.

There is still a lot of vaccine hesitancy and resistance and I don't see mandates getting us to herd immunity. Better to accept that covid is endemic and live with it.

[flowerseverywhere]

My neighbors 46 year old son just died of the corona virus. Two children 11 and seven. The parents look like they have aged twenty years and they look like beaten dogs with their heads down when they bring the dog out. I don't know the circumstances and of course will not ask, but he looked like a physically fit guy when I saw him a few months ago.
He lived in Tampa in the anti science anti mask freedumb state of Florida .

My dental hygienist told me when she went to take her 11 year old to get vaccinated there were protesters screaming at her that they were going to inject her daughter with fetus materials and they were unsafe. Also, that God would take care of her. To be honest, if that is the solution he or she has not done too great of a job so far.

[happystuff]

My condolences to your neighbors and his family. Any age is too young to lose a father or a child.

[Teacher Terry]

Flowers, that’s so sad. My friend’s daughter said she was going to quit college if she had to be vaccinated. In the end she got the vaccine and we were all happy because she has 3 kids that need her.

[sweetana3]

I wonder how many of those protestors are evangelical "Christians"? They have given over their ability to think for themselves to others.

We were just told our neighbor had a breakthru case. Thankfully it was mild. Again, way too close.

[pinkytoe]

I can't get my head around why there has to be such drama and complication over vaccination issues. I am closing in on six months since second Pfizer vaccine and haven't yet scheduled the booster. Our state has opened up boosters to all adults. I keep wondering if we will be advised to keep getting them every six months so I do understand suspicions about their diminishing effectiveness.

[Yppej]

Some people in the Biden administration have quit over the push to get everyone boosted before the FDA could determine the efficacy of this. It's politics over science.

Let's do something, anything - any random cloth face covering, unauthorized boosters, throw trillions of dollars in stimulus around. We must be seen to be doing something even if it's not the right thing! Let's not think through the inflationary or other ramifications. Act first, think later!

[ApatheticNoMore]

Or if you wait until all the data is in, it's too late. Definitely the case with a fast moving virus. So it's the states pushing vaccination faster the the Fed gov at this point.

[Yppej]

And the CDC finally admits herd immunity won't work:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/med...d=winp1taskbar

Now how many months will it take until my Board of Health accepts this reality? Or will they never, and want us to wear masks forever (my guess)? I already gave them an article on this at their last meeting but I doubt they will read it. They kept postponing voting on minutes because one member couldn't even get around to reading them. Then the minutes had errors in them - like I said "per pupil expenditure" and they wrote "people expenditure" which made zero sense.

Very frustrating dealing with these people and they have so much power over me.

Heard on NPR this morning that public health officials are losing more and more credibility because of the nonstop restrictions and when a new variant or a new virus arises no one will pay any attention to them.