04-25-21, 12:53 PM | ||
Join Date: Jun 2009
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I think these things have some very unfortunate side effects, as humans need physical and face-to-face connection with other humans for sociability, music, learning, all the other arts. I think many people in developed nations have been living with the misperception that modern medicine has made us nearly impervious to infectious disease, while people in the developing world have always lived with the reality that this isn’t true. The pandemic has also hopefully made some of us more aware that choices that we make every day, every year as individuals and as a group, have consequences to our individual and collective health. |
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04-25-21, 01:32 PM | |
Join Date: Mar 2007
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It won’t for me. I’ve lost most of my friends either over political or COVID matters.
I had my oil changed this week. I put on my mask and walked up to the building. There was a sign on the door saying that you had to remove any masks that might be in your vehicle for the safety of the service technicians, so I went back and took all my masks out of my jeep. Then I walked back to the building, went inside and saw that none of the employees were wearing masks except for a couple who had them around their necks. I wanted to smack them all. |
04-25-21, 02:04 PM | |
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: TX Panhandle
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I don't know if it will return to normal for me. Out here in the Texas Panhandle the pandemic has been over for months - if you ask any of the unmasked hoards that we have living here. Many older folks I see are still wearing a mask, but almost all of the younger folks I see are not. I know many who say they will not get vaccinated. Despite having enormous numbers of cases back in November and December - with super high hospitalization rates and death rates necessitating morgue trucks in the hospital parking lots - I don't think we will get to herd immunity - people just don't take it seriously. The irrationality of supposedly educated people - including at least one doctor I know - is totally beyond me. I truly think for them it's all political and the determination that no one can tell them what to do.
Our public school board voted to make masks optional the first part of April and we are starting to see the consequences from that action - an outbreak at the intermediate school down the street from my house has quarantined upwards of 150 students and resulted in at least 8 positive cases of CoVid, including 2 teachers who were supposedly fully vaccinated. The school district is trying to keep it hush-hush. It's disgraceful. Carol |
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