Hey, this is for you:
That’s how it is here
Same
The governor of Colorado has had about enough covid, as well.
“You don’t tell people not to go outside with a loaded machine gun without a safety and then shoot it everywhere randomly.”
Yes, that is a metaphor for COVID and a mask, except the loaded no-safety machine gun is magically created for the victim and the scenario repeats itself.
I didn’t say it was a good metaphor.
Hopefully this will be applicable to omicron:
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If it’s a metaphor for COVID then they must be rubber bullets I think
A jacket is such a bad analogy. If I got outside without a jacket, it doesn’t make other people cold.
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Well, I did say “shooting randomly,” (like breathing) not aiming. So, wing someone, they’re down for a stretch, but before they know they’re winged, they magically get a gun that also shoots randomly.
Yeah, that’s a better metaphor!
preliminary indications are that it is.
The guy who wrote that Atlantic article is uber lucky and doesn’t even know it.
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I’ve already heard ranting in the medical community about it. It comes across as a big fuck you.
I liked his interview. Echoes my feelings. Copy pasted for those that don’t click links.
Interview
Ryan Warner: We often ask listeners to submit questions and for the last few months, the majority have asked why you won’t impose a statewide mask mandate. We’ve recently seen a surge in cases and a shortage of hospital beds . Is there anything that would prompt you to return to a statewide order?
Gov. Jared Polis: Our top goal is always to follow the science, and there was a time when there was no vaccine, and masks were all we had and we needed to wear them. The truth is we now have highly effective vaccines that work far better than masks. If you wear a mask, it does decrease your risk of getting COVID, and that’s a good thing to do indoors around others, but if you get COVID and you are still unvaccinated, the case is just as bad as if you were not wearing a mask. Everybody had more than enough opportunity to get vaccinated. Hopefully it’s been at your pharmacy, your grocery store, a bus near you, [or at] big events. At this point, if you haven’t been vaccinated, it’s really your own darn fault.
Warner: It has been about a year since the first doses of vaccine arrived in Colorado. You see the arrival of the vaccine as the end of mask mandates statewide. That’s your position?
Gov. Polis: We see it as the end of the medical emergency. Frankly, people who want to be protected [have gotten vaccinated]. Those who get sick, it’s almost entirely their own darn fault. I don’t want to say that nobody [will get the virus if they’re] vaccinated, but it’s very rare. Just to put it in perspective, of the about 1400 people hospitalized, less than 200 (or 16 percent) are vaccinated. And many of them are older or have other conditions. Eighty-four percent of the people in our hospitals are unvaccinated, and they absolutely had every chance to get vaccinated.
We’re talking, as you indicated, a year since the vaccines [became available]; everybody has had the chance to get vaccinated. And at this point, I think it’s almost like they made a deliberate decision not to get vaccinated. I still encourage everybody who hasn’t been vaccinated to get protected. And for those who are, make sure to get that booster after six months. The data shows it’s important and very likely even more so with this omicron variant.
Warner: And with that variant — which seems to spread quite easily — that does not change your mind about a mask mandate?
Gov. Polis: The data we have so far shows that the vaccines do hold up well against the omicron variant. Obviously, if that changes, we want to look at what other techniques we could use to reduce the spread of the virus. We want to see what new information emerges about the omicron variant and how well vaccines and natural immunity hold up to it.
…skipped part about healthcare worker getting mean tweets…
Warner: It’s lovely of you to celebrate a health care worker, but if you will address the meat of her concern, which is if you are going to do everything in your power, make masks mandatory statewide.
Gov. Polis: That’s the kinda thing I didn’t hesitate to do in the emergency. The emergency is over. You know, public health [officials] don’t get to tell people what to wear; that’s just not their job. Public health [officials] would say to always wear a mask because it decreases flu and decreases [other airborne illnesses]. But that’s not something that you require; you don’t tell people what to wear. You don’t tell people to wear a jacket when they go out in winter and force them to [wear it]. If they get frostbite, it’s their own darn fault. If you haven’t been vaccinated, that’s your choice. I respect that. But it’s your fault when you’re in the hospital with COVID.
Omg I just read this. So sad on so many levels.
No, it’s not.
That is less so an interesting an insightful article and more just some guy who really wants to tell people that he is ignoring COVID protocols and hasn’t got sick.
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He is obviously an extreme case (unsurprisingly from a rural area), but clearly COVID is eventually just going to be endemic. If we’re lucky Omicron may be the first real variant where it’s best described as such.
Not to say I won’t get a booster. I get a flu shot every year. But I don’t wear a mask to prevent flu.
I’m assuming he’s a typical case of like maybe a quarter of america rather than an extreme case.
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I was just wondering if he grows all his own food or if he/his wife had their groceries delivered or they seriously never took their kids to the store in 2020 when pretty much all stores required masks.
I couldn’t finish the article.