Maybe kids should also be responsible for taking care of their alcoholic and drug addicted elders who refuse to take care of themselves. Because there is a way the elders can protect themselves - it's called vaccination!Originally Posted by bae
Maybe kids should also be responsible for taking care of their alcoholic and drug addicted elders who refuse to take care of themselves. Because there is a way the elders can protect themselves - it's called vaccination!
Our 2 neighbors across the street have recently recovered from Covid. Husband is 58 and wife is 70. She was sicker than him and in the hospital for a few days, but they are both doing OK now. I think they are vaccinated, but I'm not sure. We like them and they like us, although we are not close, but we are careful to avoid any discussion of politics because we are not on the same page at all. I found out today that another neighbor, whom we really don't know at all, just died of Covid at age 37. He was a correctional officer and was certainly not obese, although I know nothing about his medical history.
It’s undoubtedly true that at least some kids drive their parents to drink.
I've known and read of people who have had breakthrough infections, but I've not know or heard of anyone who for sure had both shots plus the booster.
But the adults have to be responsible. There were definitely times I thought a drink would help, but I decided against it because I knew if I started I might not want to stop.
According to a study in Colorado vaccinated but not boosted people are 3.3 times more likely to wind up in the hospital with covid and 2.4 times less likely to test positive. And boosted people are 9.7 times less likely to test positive than completely unvaxxed people.
https://coloradosun.com/2021/12/07/c...pitalizations/
The bigger gap is between unvaccinated and vaccinated. But let's keep hogging the doses so variants keep cropping up around the world. Because it's not like one of those variants will evolve to evade our vaccines completely, and leave us in worse shape than if we'd shared, right? I mean we've got it all figured out, right?
Bar, if you want to live with your parents and daughter you can do so but most people enjoy their own domain. Past generation had no choice.
Since I posted, I've read that the 37 YO corrections officer was in good health, worked out regularly, had no pre-existing conditions, but was not vaccinated. His family wanted this info made known in hopes it will encourage others to get vaccinated. He leaves a 6 YO child behind.
In 35 states there was an increase in the 7-day average number of new cases, following Thanksgiving.
I think this was primarily due to family get-togethers for Turkey Day. Christmas festivities this year will bring more people together indoors.
I don't mind passing on Xmas and New Year's gatherings this year. Let there be more eggnog for everybody else. Maybe next year, if we are lucky.
In this neck of the woods now there is good snow cover for XC skiing or snowshoeing. Instead of sitting around waiting for the time we all sing "Auld Lang Syne", we could go out in the sparking snow and make tracks!
When I was younger, I wore a CD player with headphones and listened to Chopin Mazurkas while skiing, and I would stop on hilltops to listen to the wind sighing in the needles of red pine trees.
Now, in my riper years, maybe Morten Lauridsen!
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