Or dart board.
Yes, because for many, protecting themselves either comes down to never leaving their homes, or relying on others to take on some sacrifices to help protect them (getting vaccinated, providing spaces for social distancing, regular testing). And thatās, evidently, asking too much.
My God, there are people HERE who have lost family members who took all precautions to protect themselves. Heartbreaking that they have to deal with people who think that their loved oneās death was their own fault for not doing enough to āprotect themselves.ā
Iām out.
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YES. my father was totally incapable of protecting himself while in a nursing home. many elderly people rely on others to take care of them, so they cannot protect themselves.
NYC where I live. There were very few precautions in the 2nd half of 2021 until omicron became a thing. then briefly had mask mandates again, but now back to very few precautions and people are getting used to not wearing masks at all.
in 2020, the entire city was shut down outside of essential businesses, so that was a vast difference in 2021.
My father is immuno-compromised. No one looking to enact regulations to force others to protect him prior to COVID, and he does fine.
And yes, I do know people who lost loved ones from COVID; and my heart goes out to them. I have relatives in retirement communities that have precautions in place to protect themāwhich I agree with and observe whole heartedly.
But to place those same restrictions when I go to the the store? (FTR, during these mandated restrictions, if a business posted that a mask was required, I did mask up. That doesnāt mean that I have to either like it or agree with.)
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I think we have different definitions of the word āfewā
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That most people were educated enough to protect themselves from COVID is a claim where āmostā seems like it is doing a lot of work to represent what was barely a majority. For the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, they still had quite a bit of work to do, and what, 40% of the severe effects of COVID has happened since the vaccines became readily available?
A lot of āeducationā also came from bad sources of information. āYay we have vaccines and you had a chance to get oneā didnāt seem like a valid hard stopping point for the CDC.
isnāt 2 years older now āa fewā?
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A couple is 2. A few is at least 3, no more than 5. This is common knowledge, folks.
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Yes. My mother was immune compromised and needed help from others to live her life. She needed people in her home, in person. She did all the things she was capable of doing, but ultimately needed to rely on her aid, and on community transmission. When community transmission spiked, they both caught covid. The aid had a cold. My mother died in pain and fear.
I wish the two of you the best of luck. Covid is a really really shitty way to die.
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dictionary.com disagrees with you
I secretly thought this about myself. Iāve been very careful, but I had also gone to unmasked weddings and dined at a couple restaurants.
Then boom, seems like it was a super spreader event this weekend and here I am with a positive result. I almost didnāt even test because I dont feel that bad. Iāve taken many tests in the past and they were always negative so I was quite shocked to see the solid line on my test this morning.
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if you arenāt very sick, and stay not very sick, you may have a lot of natural immunity to this.
First, again, my deepest sympathies for you. I would not
Out of curiosity, did your mother tend to go out in public often?
I agree with putting protocols in place in situations like your momās; but I donāt see the governorās office (or the Presidential Cabinet) as the proper source to force these protocols to be in place for the general public.
Thanks.
No, rarely. She almost certainly caught covid from her aid, who DID go out in public.
There are limits to how much a human being can isolate.
What my mom didnāt do is wear an N95 mask 24/7, at home. And honestly, if covid hadnāt been such a horrible death, she might have been fine with having caught it. Iām sure there are lots of other deaths that are even worse. But she cried out in pain every time we touched her (and she wasnāt strong enough to move herself after covid triggered a pre-existing condition so she had to be touched and moved a lot). And she lost the ability to speak, or understand what was happening, when covid attacked her brain, so she just lived in a world of pain and fear at the end.
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you canāt put protocols in place for just vulnerable people since they donāt live in a vacuum. with omicron, they are at extremely high risk of catching it because they donāt have the ability to live isolated as a healthy person does and itās more contagious. i think my father thus far got lucky because he got the booster in the right time period to be the most immune to it when he was exposed to it by his nurse, probably plus his prior infection of covid classic, so he didnāt get omicron thus far. hopefully he continues to not get it, but we have other nurseās aids helping my father these days, and we can just hope none of them bring it to him.
hopefully all these nurses aids already had it themselves.
itās the most vulnerable people who are often also the most at risk of catching it because they simply cannot isolate, while iām at low risk of catching it because i easily can.
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Nancy Pelosi exits the virgins club for that other club. She was around Joe Biden unmasked yesterday. Apparently covid is rampant in Washington. How long until Joe Biden exits our becoming more exclusive club by the hour?
Nancy is asymptomatic at this point.
I assume sheās fully vaccinated and all that, yes? I guess Iām just looking for data points for my this-is-why-I-continue-to-wear-a-mask-stance.