Subj : RE: Pandemic
To : Bob Roberts
From : Derision
Date : Tue Feb 23 2021 08:40 pm
Re: RE: Pandemic
By: Bob Roberts to MRO on Mon Feb 15 2021 12:12:28
> How to stop Covid from spreading. It's the same as any other respatory
> virus.
>
> - Vaccinate
> - Masks
> - Social Distancing
> - Contact tracing
>
> Your theory that it needs to "run its course" is hogwash.
Amen. I'm in healthcare and it's horrifying how many people are balking at just the first of those options. Like, people willing to leave their jobs to avoid vaccination (it has become a condition of employment, as personnel here are in contact with vulnerable populations).
I've been vaccinated now. Yeah, that second shot sucked and I felt like crap for 36 hours but... it's not COVID. People seem to think that this is a new vaccine that's been rushed through, when we've had this vaccine for years. We developed it to fight SARS back in 2009 and, since COVID is a SARS variant, it just required a little tweaking. But I'm seeing people believing that they're guinea pigs for "big pharma" on this, and that this vaccine will make them have seizures for no reason, or will somehow make things worse. Even the nurses that administered my shots were like, "Eh, I'm going to wait this one out." Incredible.
When you can't get past step one, and people are actively fighting mask mandates and contact tracing is considered a privacy invasion... I don't see how any of this is going to end quickly. And that's depressing as hell, because we've already lost over half a million people in the US alone.
Yikes.
AJ
Vaccinated. Still wearing a mask. Still distancing.
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