I joined the Trials and proved the vaccine. I worked the car lines when jackasses were showing up without masks, and I didn’t punch any of them. I gave big piles of money to kids who couldn’t eat because of this miserable plague. But now I am running out of gas, I just don’t see an end to this, and there are so many a$$holes who just don’t get it. My daughter is a RN, and she is dead on her feet, trying to keep these stupid f#cktards alive, I want to tell her to just let them go, but I can’t.
Unfortunately, a lot of folks past childbearing age had to be sacrificed to allow the virus to get crafty enough to attack younger folk. Now with the help of those who care more about personal rights than responsibility, nature can tackle thinning the gene pool.
One note of thanks to those of the stubborn persuasion: I made some decent money on funeral home stock this year after it became blatantly obvious that science and actual expertise were being ignored!
That’s the tough part…having the hospital ICU’s full of unvaccinated folks when there are people who actually need medical attention for other critical things.
If your daughter is burned out she can become an agency nurse and make $3 to $4k per week before overtime. Earning enough money in 3 months to put a down payment on a rental property is pretty motivating.
At least Covid doesn’t have as high of a mutation rate as HIV… we’d all be toast because vaccines would be useless. We’ll eventually get through this round and be able to watch a launch at Space X!
It ends when this becomes endemic. The vaccines are working - and thanks for going first on that. Most of the rest of the measures aimed at slowing this down have done little or nothing. Delta is a LOT more contagious than the first round, so it’s hitting the unvaccinated hard. Once this wave is done, there should be few left who are vulnerable. At least few left close together, so transmission slows way down.
There is a least some reason to hope that for each region the wave of delta infections passes quickly - on the order of 3 or 4 weeks. Then we’re in better shape until something even more transmissible than Delta comes along. Which fortunately is a high bar, so we may get some time to recover.
Not the perspective many will want to hear, but I think we need to start thinking about a new normal. My sense is we need to start thinking in terms of a 3-7 year timeframe where society continues to evolve to something closer to what we knew as normal.
People are people, and folks not getting vaccinated are no different than those who choose to smoke/vape, drive under the influence and/or not wear seatbelts.
What that normal looks like is up to each individual/business to define. As with a capitalist democracy, the best ideas will likely be the ones people gravitate towards. Reality likely will lead us to whatever’s easiest and has the highest social/influence/media exposure…
I normally don’t wade into these discussions but I too am just fed up. I found out yesterday that a good friend and her husband refuse to get the vaccine. They believe in some government plot of some da*n thing. I told her she’s putting others in jeopardy and she said “I wear my mask all the time”. Good for her.
Truth is it will be a Darwin situation soon. They will start stacking up the deceased like cord wood out back of the mortuary. (They’ve already asked FEMA for refrigerated trucks.) People that think this is a personal rights issue are just not informed. It affects public health and public rights.
It is amazing to me how many ask for the vaccine when they become infected and the vaccine is not effective. What happened to their objections then?
I feel very sorry for those in emergency care especially and health care in general. They are the true heroes in this pandemic for continuing the fight after infection. They deserve a break. I believe that hospitals will soon turn Covid patients away just like was done in India. Go home and suffer alone they will say. There are very few ICU beds remaining in the five county area surrounding Dallas.
Personally, I had cancer surgery in December of last year, but it was almost not possible due to Covid patients monopolizing the beds. I pity the poor patients who’ve had their surgeries cancelled this time due to the selfishness of the anti-vaxer people.
There should be an economic cost to them for not getting the vaccine like horrendously expensive insurance or being disallowed from eating out or just a plain old ass whooping in my opinion. How about this economic incentive?
There may be some valid reasons for not getting vaccinated, but they would have to be a medical one for me to agree that they can’t be vaccinated.
Such is life in these United States I guess. I’ve told my friend I don’t want to see her in person until she’s vaccinated.
Why do they always show up at the ER and head for the ICU? Shouldn’t they be at their naturopath’s office, holistic healer’s clinic, or their farm feed store alternative medicine dispensary?
Why do they complain about Big Pharma yet show up at its feet begging for healing?
What happened with all the conspiracies? They sure are willing to put it all to the side once they feel sick.
It’s part of what causes people to believe such conspiracies. They don’t have personal exposure and live in an echo chamber. I don’t blame the people not getting themselves vaccinated for the fear of it; I blame that we are tolerant of organisations and people that spread the FUD which brings these people down the rabbit hole. The intolerance paradox is rampant here.
As soon as vaccines are FDA approved, and approved for kids, they will be required for things like public schools and public colleges/universities, just like the MMR and DTAP and meningitis and chicken pox vaccines. Many private schools, and employers will follow suit where they’re able. It will turn from something you can avoid because it’s not FDA approved to something that will severely limit your options if you refuse it. At that point there will either be a massive uptick in vaccinations, or a massive uptick in people dropping out of their jobs and homeschooling their kids.
The “public health ExPeRtS” who push back against the vaccine will find something else to do. Many have just this week begun new careers as military strategy experts.
This is all gotten pretty personal for me. My wife is at the hospital waiting for her infusion as I send this. She had the Pfizer vaccine. Got my fingers crossed the moderna that I had will allow me to escape but who knows.
Read an interesting Forbes article discussing vaccination rates in healthcare workers. Appears to this layman, the closer you are to treating hospitalized patients, the more likely the vaccination. Move away to other staff or out of the hospital to nursing homes, private offices, etc., the rates start dropping. One reason for non-primary folk to avoid: the vaccinated caregivers get the more hazardous assignments directly involved with “currently sick with symptom” patients. Kind of a “learn to use a parachute” so you can be “thrown out of a perfectly good plane” situation.
