Kolek planning to go pro
Exactly! If you want to be protected, get vaccinated. If not, assume the risk. It's really that simple.
Except for the people who either can’t take the vaccine for health reasons or for whom it’s less effective as they may be taking immuno- suppressive drugs. I have already seen posts on TripAdvisor from people trying to decide what to do. On the other hand there is a guy who planned a multi-family trip to Hawaii under their current guidelines who is now saying he will cancel if they don’t remove those same guidelines - so he was good to go with those guidelines before but isn’t now, which makes no sense at all.
The best thing for public health at this point is getting higher levels of vaccination. Supply is now > demand and there are active efforts to meet people in their communities to offer vaccines. Additionally states that have accelerated vaccines are ready for this. Finally level of spread is getting crushed. I know this may seem abrupt or scary and people need to warm up to it, but it’s time. Here is a helpful Twitter thread trying to argue against the various criticisms https://twitter.com/dleonhardt/status/1393243493473079299?s=21
It was good until this: "Plus, there is no clear reason to believe these new guidelines will actually cause the unvaccinated to stop wearing masks. "Reading my locals FB feed, Next Door, etc., as well as watching the news interviews shows that the anti-vaxxers, hoaxers, et. al. are ripping their masks off the minute this was announced and are proudly strutting through stores maskless and unvaccinated. To believe other behavior is foolish and naive and shows one has not paid attention in the last year+.
Texas Rangers host a sellout crowd for Opening Day with no Covid-19 restrictions. According to the article I read it was also the first time attendance restrictions were not in effect for any major sporting event in the United States:https://www.fox4news.com/sports/texas-rangers-host-near-sellout-crowd-for-2021-home-opener-with-no-covid-19-attendance-restrictionsDefinitely not something I'd feel comfortable attending but it obviously wasn't a concern for a lot of people.
Right. But the alternative is what? Have them go unvaccinated for <insert time here> and have them rip off their masks then. Maybe they could have waited until the end of the school year at most. But this was inevitable at some point.
My sense of smell is still messed up 6 months in.
Sorry to hear that, tower. I know quite a few folks who have been affected for many months, in some cases almost a year. Loss of smell, loss of taste, terrible headaches, lethargy and rapid heartbeat have been the main maladies. Damn this virus!
https://mobile.twitter.com/SquawkCNBC/status/1396797176647278598The idea it was a lab leak is becoming fairly mainstream at this point. Tom Cotton, Pompeo, and Trump look to be correct when they were saying this a year ago.Fauci.....again wrong
Fauci lied. People died.