garlichead
Über Member
Good points for sure.
How is the corona virus affecting you?
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My DIL was vaccinated, twice, and then gave up on the mask. 3 weeks ago, she got Covid.
This morning I was giving a class to a language student - he was also vaccinated, twice. He got Covid last week.
A guy who lived down the road didn´t get vaccinated and died of Covid within 5 days.
We´re very much not out of the woods yet, so I still think it´s necessary to take precautions.
As for Covid Passports - it was inevitable. I can imagine they will be enforced more and more, and any kicking, screaming and throwing tantrums will be irrelevant, thank goodness. If that´s what is needed to take the pressure off the health services and getting the world economies back on track, it´s a small unselfish price to pay.
This morning I was giving a class to a language student - he was also vaccinated, twice. He got Covid last week.
A guy who lived down the road didn´t get vaccinated and died of Covid within 5 days.
We´re very much not out of the woods yet, so I still think it´s necessary to take precautions.
As for Covid Passports - it was inevitable. I can imagine they will be enforced more and more, and any kicking, screaming and throwing tantrums will be irrelevant, thank goodness. If that´s what is needed to take the pressure off the health services and getting the world economies back on track, it´s a small unselfish price to pay.
Oh - I am thinking this must be an on-line class? I hope so!
For sure, we can all catch Covid when double vaxed and we can also carry it without knowing and pass it to others. The main point is that the vaccine minimises serious illness and death.
ThatDude
Quo Fata Ferunt
I went into D.C. last night to get a few shots of the "In America: Remember" installation that is going up. Each flag represents a life, and each flag has the info and a quick story of the deceased person it represents. I posted it to my IG with a simple message of "a lot of people quietly contemplating. A virus doesn't care about your politics". Well that sure triggered some people.
This isn't even the half of it. They are still recruiting volunteers to help fill and place the flags. The pics don't do justice to the size of this field of flags.
"It's just the flu, bro"
D.C. Nights by Jono Kenyon, on Flickr
This isn't even the half of it. They are still recruiting volunteers to help fill and place the flags. The pics don't do justice to the size of this field of flags.
"It's just the flu, bro"
It's just the total count. Comparable or not, it is still a milestone.
Honestly, I don't think it is possible to come to any conclusions in a comparison of two virus pandemics 102 years apart.
CD
And, as a resident of the Great, totally unrestricted State of Texas, the Ontario restrictions are better than NO restrictions.
CD
garlichead
Über Member
We've had restrictions in restaurants from the very beginning, the most restrictive actually. No restrictions don't make much sense, if that's true.....Texas has no restrictions wow. Even Sweden had some restrictions.
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Zero. In fact, public schools in Texas are even prohibited by Executive Order to require vaccinations or masks for teachers or students.
Well, actually, individual businesses can require masks, but not vaccines (that will be going to court before long). Hospitals can also require masks, but can not require vaccines for employees (again, see ya' in court, Governor).
CD
garlichead
Über Member
What is there argument, they must have one. Ok, so vaccinations and masks are not required but can teachers and students wear masks or get vaccinated if they want?
GadgetGuy
(Formerly Shermie)
A woman was reported to have died from covid-19 after being fully vacinated!!! How in the world does THAT happen?!!!! 😱
Yes, they can. The argument is "personal freedom." It is all political. "Don't tell me what to do with MY body -- unless I'm a woman, and... you can fill in the blanks on that.
One problem with no mask mandates in schools is that children don't have the maturity to make that personal decision, and the parents won't be there to make it for them when they are in school The kids will go with peer pressure.
The argument from MOST people in Texas is that, because a minority of Texans are anti-vax and anti-mask, we all have to go back to wearing masks, not going to restaurants to protect ourselves, and protect the unvaccinated from the spread of this new Delta variant that is killing them, and filling up Texas hospital beds.
CD
Any particulars other than "a woman?" It's possible, but extremely unlikely. Fewer than one percent of Covid deaths in the US are fully vaccinated people.
People read stories like "Fully Vaccinated Woman Dies of Covid," out of context, and some figure, the vaccinations don't work. Then they tell their friends, "See, those vaccinations don't work."
CD
garlichead
Über Member
Right ok. Only freedom, that's it? How many children have died in Texas 17 and under of covid?
(CNN) A Texas couple who landed themselves a rare night out with friends says it was cut short when the restaurant kicked them out for wearing face masks, which they say they wore to protect their immunocompromised 4-month-old son.
Natalie Wester and her husband, Jose Lopez-Guerrero, joined a group of friends at a restaurant and bar in Rowlett, about 20 miles northeast of Dallas, on September 10.
"We are new parents and in the middle of a pandemic, we don't really get out a whole lot," Wester told CNN. "But that Friday night, my mom happened to be available to watch our son. ... Living in a pandemic, being isolated and away from others is a big deal for our mental and social health."
Their infant has cystic fibrosis, they said, so they have taken precautions to stay safe and do what's best for their family, and that includes wearing a face mask in public except when drinking or eating.
CD
Natalie Wester and her husband, Jose Lopez-Guerrero, joined a group of friends at a restaurant and bar in Rowlett, about 20 miles northeast of Dallas, on September 10.
"We are new parents and in the middle of a pandemic, we don't really get out a whole lot," Wester told CNN. "But that Friday night, my mom happened to be available to watch our son. ... Living in a pandemic, being isolated and away from others is a big deal for our mental and social health."
Their infant has cystic fibrosis, they said, so they have taken precautions to stay safe and do what's best for their family, and that includes wearing a face mask in public except when drinking or eating.
CD