Shrug. Wearing a mask in Korea during flu season was pretty much the norm for elderly folks. I will never complain about 6 feet of space, and outside of the gym and the restaurants (the quality of which has declined so precipitously I barely go out to eat), wearing a mask isn't a big deal. The frustrating part is it's weeks away from being eradicated. And always will be. That's the fucked up thing about these bugs...they aren't some species that we can't control. If every host kills it without spreading it, it's done. The 1% statistic is misleading. Yes, it's fatal to a minority. That is still millions of people. And 10x the deaths are long-term health issues. So, now we're talking 1 out of 10 either dies or has permanent damage...which the taxpayer must pay for. So, yeah clamp down now, and bear that cost now, versus your health system being billions more expensive for the next hundred years. This isn't a cold that you shake off and get back to normal. Too many folks simply do not ever return to their previous level of health. The thing that keeps me up at night is the number of people who've had covid with reproductive issues...imagine being infertile because of this shit. The purpose of fighting this virus isn't just to prevent loss of life, it's to prevent detriments to quality of life. If it runs rampant, we'd have millions of newly disabled people, and as inclusive and supportive as we like to be, that's a HUGE issue. I've seen a few that are predicated on "herd immunity" of the unvaccinated and high percentages of vaccinated, and they aren't pretty in most places. The worst part is this is largely preventable now.
I don’t understand what’s so inconvenient about getting a shot, and then another one in say 6 months? My appointment literally took MAYBE 10 minutes, and I was able to schedule it at my convenience (they also took walk ins). Do you know what takes longer and is more inconvenient? Filling up with gas. We do that a lot more, and for some reason don’t question whether they’re micro chipping our trucks with 5G Bill Gays cancer in the fuel and yes I know it’s gates. iPhone autocorrect to gays. I’m leaving it
case in point: my lungs only finally cleared up a week or two ago to the point I can run 2-3 miles without gasping for air like trump on the balcony. CT scans and blood tests were all clear, showed it mainly affecting my liver (which also just recently cleared) and zero issues with my lungs. Yet, here we are. I’m very worried about all those on oxygen machines now who don’t have backup power for this winter when the lights go out in storms. dying from covid isn’t the worst part, for the individual, not family. If you’re dead you don’t give a fuck. The worst part, and I cannot possibly understate how emotionally draining it is, is living with the fucking side effects
My stepmother still refuses to get the vaccine and her boss told her that there's going to be company directive in the near future that they're going to be firing anybody that isn't vaccinated and she still is refusing to get it. At this point, I'm not sure we're going to take our kids around for Christmas because our youngest still isn't able to get the shot and even though we've been lucky up this point, my patience with people like her is running thin. And MAYBE if she can't see her granddaughters that will finally be the thing that pushes her over the edge. Probably not though.
Like I said before...when this first kicked off in March of 2020, we FULLY shut down. Even the petrochemical plants shut down to everything except maintenance and sent all other folks home, including construction. If you don't work in the industry, I cannot stress to you how unusual and costly that was. The last time I remember them evacuating the plants was when 9/11 was actively happening and no one knew how many terrorist planes were in the sky. If that level of shutdown didn't fix it...nothing will. We can't, as a society, sit in our basements for three months having robots deliver Postmates until the last bit of this virus runs its course. And even if we could, the country next door won't. So, IMO, the wisest course of action is to adapt the health care system and its capacity, promote vaccines and move on.
Wife and I got our boosters today at the VA. Feeling kinda crappy, but not as bad as the first two, yet.
I'll get the booster at some point before the holidays to keep the family safe, etc. I don't know if it matters in terms of protection since I've already had COVID, but it can't hurt I guess.
It would have been 7 months for us in a few days. I still don't feel as bad as the first two. Not great, not normal, but not too bad. You still have to have fall under some conditions to get it. I just told them I smoke, which I did, until recently starting the patch. Really hoping quiting sticks this time.
They’re telling us that, too. My second shot was May 26th, so I’ll get it shortly after Thanksgiving.
I got my Moderna booster about a week ago. I had zero side effects this time, which was kind of nice.
Pfizer has a new antiviral pill that has shown great results for preventing severe Covid. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/05/health/pfizer-covid-pill.html
Im curious to see if it gets emergency use authorization if the antivaxxers will boycott this too? I think therapeutics will be the real thing to help stamp it out. That is stop the crush on the medical system.
I'm betting they'll flock to it in droves, and claim that this pill is just the vaxx alternative they've all secretly been waiting for all along, unlike the sheep who all jumped like lemmings to get their DNA altering jabs. Anything for a "moral victory".
Already seeing some folk claim the pill is just ivermectin rebranded so they can sell it at a markup.
They've been taking blows to the head for 20 years and talked to Joe Rogan. What research have you done?