COVID-19 - On the Ground

[twocoach]

Here's what some international people have actually said about the reputation of the US:

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2 ... eputation/

At least it has improved a bit since Trump left:

https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2021 ... -to-biden/

[PhDhawk]

I think the surest signs of low intelligence are when someone uses the same cliches, catch phrases or sayings repeatedly, or, makes dogmatic statements about subjective things.

[Sparko]

I think the surest signs of low intelligence are when someone uses the same cliches, catch phrases or sayings repeatedly, or, makes dogmatic statements about subjective things.

It's like they say, you can't make a vaccine without breaking a few eggs. It is what it is. We think, therefore, we lazy.

[sdoyel]

Get vaccinated.

[Deleted User 89]

https://www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/ ... eId1702667

and...

https://www.sciencemagazinedigital.org/ ... eId1702705

and...

https://healthline.com/health-news/even ... impact-you

[sdoyel]

[Cascadia]

Oregon and Washington officially reopening today.

I believe only New Mexico and Hawai’i are the last two states who haven’t.

[Deleted User 89]

from NatGeo:

One of my earliest memories involves noticing a weird mark on both my parents’ upper arms. It’s a small circular scar, no bigger than a dime, that also decorates the limbs of some of my aunts and uncles. Why don’t I have one, too, I wondered, and what does it mean? If you were born before the 1970s, dear reader, you probably know the answer: That scar is a badge of honor conferred by the smallpox vaccine. (Above, getting the vaccine in Paris in 1942.)

Smallpox is frequently cited as the only infectious disease humans have managed to eradicate, with the World Health Organization certifying the achievement in 1980. That’s thanks to a global vaccination campaign the WHO started in 1967. No matter how it was administered, the smallpox vaccine left a crater-like scar in the skin because it involved delivering a live version of a related pox virus into the body. The skin around the injection site could then get damaged and scab over, leaving a scar.

In the U.S., an especially bad smallpox outbreak from 1899 to 1904 led many establishments to ask to see a person’s scar as a type of early vaccine passport, History.com reports. Echoing today’s shenanigans with doctored CDC cards, the anti-vaccination holdouts of the early 1900s even went so far as to “forge” their scars using nitric acid, according to the Los Angeles Times. But with advancements in vaccine technology and intensive eradication efforts, the world saw the last natural case of smallpox in 1975—three years before I was born. I got my childhood vaccines for just about everything else (except chicken pox, which went on to play a starring role in what my family lovingly calls “the vacation from hell”), but I’m part of the incredibly fortunate generations that are now spared the threat of smallpox.

The twist in this tale is that for years some combination of complacency and misinformation has been driving down vaccination rates for a variety of other preventable diseases. Brazil, once a vaccination powerhouse, has seen rates plummet since 2015, to the point that it lost its WHO certification for eradicating measles in 2018. That’s only gotten worse in the age of the coronavirus.

As Jill Langlois reports for us, the pandemic may have many adults clamoring for a COVID-19 vaccine, but it has prevented many parents from taking their children in for vaccinations against other diseases, amplifying the existing problem. It’s an extreme example of a worrying trend all over the globe, one the WHO started warning us about last summer.

I may not have that smallpox scar, but I appreciate that my parents wear theirs with pride. I fervently hope that one day soon we’ll be able to add to the list of diseases wiped from circulation rather than lamenting resurgences of deadly pathogens we have the power to stop dead in their tracks.

[japhy]

Talking to one of my younger partners today in office. Let's call her D. She went to a conference 3 weeks ago and shared a room with a peer who will call T. When they get to hotel D asked T if she was vaccinated. She told her "yes", so D relaxed. D is "also" vaccinated. D has breakfast with another person in their industry group this morning. Did you hear about T? No what's up? She got one of the new variants of covid right after the conference and has been hospitalized and out from work very sick ever since. D remarked but she was vaccinated. It turns out T was telling people she was vaccinated and not wearing a mask because of that, but lied about her vaccination. Luckily D has not been ill but she is pretty livid. Not only did the person who expose her to covid lie about her vaccination but also never disclosed to her afterwards that she may have exposed her to covid.

All of this after I came back from Grinders and was the only person in the place wearing a mask. Mind you D herself is not wearing a mask at the office and she knows others in the office have not been vaccinated. So I had to point that out to her while wearing my mask in the office.

Both women are in their mid to late 30's and in extremely good health and both are competitive athletes. So it is getting the young and healthy in this case. And putting them down for a considerable length of time. No idea yet what long term effects T will have.

I was walking into Miller's Pub on Saturday on Wabash. The manager looked at me "You don't have to wear that mask". Me: "No, but I am going to". Him: "But you don't have to". Me: "Yeah, I'll decide that not you."

[PhDhawk]

Well, I think the moral of the story is you shouldn't have to share a room with someone when you go to a conference.

[TDub]

"But i get to decide that, not you".....i like that.

[Overlander]

"But i get to decide that, not you".....i like that.

I got asked by a convenience store clerk here in Plano why I was wearing a mask this weekend.
I told him I blame the education.

[Deleted User 887]

Had a co-worker wearing a mask AND a face shield in the office today. He is fully vaccinated and everyone in the office is/was fully vaccinated.
This is the same guy who attended a wedding in Florida two weeks ago - sans mask. I just don't get it.

[JKLivin]

Had a co-worker wearing a mask AND a face shield in the office today. He is fully vaccinated and everyone in the office is/was fully vaccinated.
This is the same guy who attended a wedding in Florida two weeks ago - sans mask. I just don't get it.

Sounds like the dingy SJW retired public school teacher in my church who insists on wearing a mask, despite the fact that she and everyone else there are vaccinated.

She stood up and made a big announcement that she was going to continue to wear a mask “because I love you all, and until we’re all safe, nobody’s safe!” SMH.

[CrimsonNBlue]

I hate it when dumbasses think about my well-being.

[TDub]

I cared about your well being when i got the damn shot. Why do we also need to wear masks in perpetuity (barring active sickness, be it a cold. The flu, whatever...sure wear your mask then).

[Deleted User 863]

I haven't worn a mask since getting fully vaccinated other than to get on rides at Disney World.

[JKLivin]

I hate it when dumbasses think about my well-being.

She’s vaccinated. I’m vaccinated. Everyone around us is vaccinated. What is the point of wearing the mask other than virtue signaling?

[Deleted User 863]

I hate it when dumbasses think about my well-being.

She’s vaccinated. I’m vaccinated. Everyone around us is vaccinated. What is the point of wearing the mask other than virtue signaling?

Well, because the vaccine doesn't work very well against the new variants apparently.

[CrimsonNBlue]

I cared about your well being when i got the damn shot. Why do we also need to wear masks in perpetuity (barring active sickness, be it a cold. The flu, whatever...sure wear your mask then).

No one said she had to wear a mask.