Are We Ther Yet wrote:Clyde_Style wrote:thebuzzardman wrote:
This entire pandemic, I was fortunate to not encounter many deniers or people affected.
My son's GF's family, or part of it, rolls a little holy and conservative, so they aren't fans.
She's vaccinated though.
Basically, she's trying to educate herself at college and acquire distance from them.
My son's going to commission in the Army and she's studying nursing, so pretty sure she sees that as the ticket out.
My daughter eventually got back to her HS retail kind of job, some of it before vaccine was available for her age, but dodged the bullet there - obviously we had her be as cautious as possible - and now she's vaccinated.
But just recently one of her friends came down with Covid. Vaccinated? Nope. And guess what? After that girl got it, her mom RAN for the vaccine. So that tells me that family, no one probably had it.
My youngest isn't eligible, by age, for the vaccine, yet the county decided we have to have full attendance. Which I was (sort of) ok with until Delta variant. Doing the school at home thing kind of sucked, but I fear Covid is going to tear ass through a middle school. Fingers crossed. Again, most people around here are compliant, so the knock on effect shouldn't be too bad, but i'm concerned about long term health implications for the younger kids, my kid especially, of course.
Other than that, most of the people in my circle are reasonable, responsible people. Oh, my aunt's BF up in NYC. Runs a little to right of center/wingnutish territory. Didn't get the vaccine. Got real sick (he'd be oldish). Still whoofs right wing sh*t on Facebook, on the brief occasions I check out what is going on with The Ministry of Disinformation.
You’re overall somewhat better off in a more Northerly locale than mine. I don’t have family here so my perceptions are from the streets here and as you would expect the more vocal people publicly are anti-vaccine. The rest get vaccinated and go about their business.
Like you, I have compassion fatigue for the unvaccinated. If you die because you’d rather push conspiracy theories or you’re too stupid to get vaccinated, then my heart does not go out to you.
New Zealand looks like the place for me now
I got mine because I am high risk with recently discovered pulmonary nodules in my lungs and emphysema...among other things. I am high risk and need to protect myself against the severity of Covid. Prior to that...I wasn't going to take the shots. I haven't been sick since December 2019. I was deathly ill that month and lost the month of work. I haven't been exposed to my knowledge in all of that time until last week. My daughter came home and tested positive for the Delta. I had received my first dose of Pfizer a week before. Lucky me. So far I haven't had any symptoms. I haven't left my house since. Everyone I know has been warned.
My kid... wasn't vaccinated. She was sick for like 3 days but...mostly fever and fatigue. Lost sense of taste and smell. Feels much better now. Hasn't left her room except bathroom trips since either. Told everyone she knows. Turns out it is at her job...a cardiologist office!!She's not the only one home because of it. 4 people tested positive for it...three vaccinated. Only two showed any symptoms so far.
The vaccine doesn't seem to be slowing the disease down. It is keeping the hospitals from overflowing and nursing homes from filling up with body bags.
Sorry about your kid
As of a few weeks ago, 99% of covid hospitalizations were unvaccinated people so the vaccine does work for most people. It’s just math at this point. If everyone vaccinated the pandemic would end as mutations would slow and then subside
I do not understand though how anyone who works in a medical setting did not get the vaccine. Why didn’t your daughter vaccinate?
RIP mags
