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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on May 16, 2021 18:28:41 GMT -5
Like teen persuasion , today was the first time we've been back to church, in person, since everything was shut down in March 2020. It felt great to see old friends again, even if we had to figure out who they were behind their masks. An old senior friend still hasn't been able to get the vaccine for herself, so I hope she can get it soon. Does she need help navigating appointments? Can you offer to help her? One of the women we go to SLAP with lives in a retirement community and as she was fairly computer literate, she was the go to person for scheduling appointments in her community....long before she was eligible to get one herself.
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Post by zibazinski on May 17, 2021 5:11:38 GMT -5
I got mine at the hospital I volunteer at. DD was opposed to me getting it but finally said if I insisted on traveling, then I should as a courtesy to anyone I encountered. I had the two dose Pfizer. No problem with either shot. I don’t have any underlying health issues except my covid weight which was easier to gain than lose! I live in Florida and our governor has said no more masks required. Our mayor and some other mayors are still trying to enforce it but it’s not working for them. I still wear in crowded places and if I feel concerned. My health is my responsibility to care for. Because our under 12 group is still not vaccinated yet, if I’m around kids (rarely) I wear a mask. What’s kind of funny is that parents who willingly took the vaccine are hesitating about getting it for their children. Because of the non FDA approval. I’m glad I’m not a parent of young children now. I’m not faced with that choice.
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Post by azucena on May 17, 2021 6:58:40 GMT -5
I did my homework over the weekend and am now on board with vaxxing DD12. Part of it was that I just stopped reading anything covid-related for my own mental health.
Church will likely go mask free next weekend, so we will stop going again until DD8 can be protected. We got 4 Sundays back in person and were starting to feel normal. Too bad they don't seem to care enough about the kids. Masking for an hour at church shouldn't be a hill to die on.
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Post by wvugurl26 on May 17, 2021 7:22:04 GMT -5
I've been cautioned about my immune system before by my allergy doctor. Wearing a mask inside to a store for a few minutes is not going to kill me. Plus my two weeks post second vaccine isn't until Tuesday.
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on May 17, 2021 7:38:10 GMT -5
I got mine at the hospital I volunteer at. DD was opposed to me getting it but finally said if I insisted on traveling, then I should as a courtesy to anyone I encountered. Why was she opposed? Doesn't she work in healthcare?
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Post by chiver78 on May 17, 2021 7:41:16 GMT -5
We're still getting 10-20 deaths a day attributed to covid in our state and most of them are people age 70 and above, yet the state has an 87% vaccination rate for age 65+ and we've been through that age group for a long time, so all well past the two weeks post second shot. I'd really love for them to start reporting vaccinated vs. not with the data. I will repost the statistics from my area. 0.016% of vaccinated people have tested positive for coronavirus. Of those, 13% required hospitalization, and 1% died. Anecdotally, I have not seen a single fully vaccinated patient in the ICU. All of our patients who had coronavirus in the last 6 weeks have been unvaccinated.Please keep posting your statistics. here, FB, wherever you find yourself on social media. I thank you for it. people aren't going to change facts simply because they keep repeating false ones. This is going to be a little rambling, I apologize. Last weekend, I lost a friend to COVID. he had been in the ICU since late March. he had been steadily improving, even coming off the ventilator....until last Saturday. Things went horribly wrong very quickly, and he passed overnight. This past Saturday was his wake/funeral/celebration of life. On my way home from the gatherings (masked, outdoor except funeral home, socially distant) I came across a group of unmasked local yahoos waving Trump2020 flags and holding up traffic - like they did pretty much every weekend last summer/fall. I could only see red at these asshats behaving as they were, after having just buried a friend to this virus they don't believe exists. When I got home, I posted a rant about it, with a big 🖕🖕🖕 toward the group. an acquaintance who is a now-former FB friend decided to pick that specific time and place to argue misleading COVID numbers. AYFKM? this is a guy who's been railing against MA restrictions the entire time, and has been loud and proud to say he and his wife aren't vaxxed and won't be, and that he won't let his kids get vaxxed either. ya know what buddy? GFY.
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Post by pulmonarymd on May 17, 2021 8:22:48 GMT -5
I will repost the statistics from my area. 0.016% of vaccinated people have tested positive for coronavirus. Of those, 13% required hospitalization, and 1% died. Anecdotally, I have not seen a single fully vaccinated patient in the ICU. All of our patients who had coronavirus in the last 6 weeks have been unvaccinated.Please keep posting your statistics. here, FB, wherever you find yourself on social media. I thank you for it. people aren't going to change facts simply because they keep repeating false ones. This is going to be a little rambling, I apologize. Last weekend, I lost a friend to COVID. he had been in the ICU since late March. he had been steadily improving, even coming off the ventilator....until last Saturday. Things went horribly wrong very quickly, and he passed overnight. This past Saturday was his wake/funeral/celebration of life. On my way home from the gatherings (masked, outdoor except funeral home, socially distant) I came across a group of unmasked local yahoos waving Trump2020 flags and holding up traffic - like they did pretty much every weekend last summer/fall. I could only see red at these asshats behaving as they were, after having just buried a friend to this virus they don't believe exists. When I got home, I posted a rant about it, with a big 🖕🖕🖕 toward the group. an acquaintance who is a now-former FB friend decided to pick that specific time and place to argue misleading COVID numbers. AYFKM? this is a guy who's been railing against MA restrictions the entire time, and has been loud and proud to say he and his wife aren't vaxxed and won't be, and that he won't let his kids get vaxxed either. ya know what buddy? GFY. You didn't run them over? According to some people, you would have been within your right to do so for holding up traffic. Next fall and winter will be interesting. With the number of unvaccinated adults, and if it is not yet released for younger children, it will likely spread again, and the data would suggest it will be disproportionately the unvaccinated who will be affected. We shall see.
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Post by tractor on May 17, 2021 9:25:14 GMT -5
I just lost a coworker to COVID over the weekend...53 years old, refused to get vaccinated.
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Post by Lizard Queen on May 17, 2021 9:30:15 GMT -5
I did my homework over the weekend and am now on board with vaxxing DD12. Part of it was that I just stopped reading anything covid-related for my own mental health. Church will likely go mask free next weekend, so we will stop going again until DD8 can be protected. We got 4 Sundays back in person and were starting to feel normal. Too bad they don't seem to care enough about the kids. Masking for an hour at church shouldn't be a hill to die on. My church went mask-free this weekend, and I feel the same way. Granted, it is mostly oldsters that attend, but if they don't care about the kids, then they will have no one left when the oldsters die out.
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Post by Miss Tequila on May 17, 2021 9:52:46 GMT -5
I just lost a coworker to COVID over the weekend...53 years old, refused to get vaccinated. That is so heart breaking. I can only hope that her death will convince people she knew to get vaccinated.
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Post by pulmonarymd on May 17, 2021 10:17:45 GMT -5
I just lost a coworker to COVID over the weekend...53 years old, refused to get vaccinated. Another preventable death. Everyone who dies and is unvaccinated will have died unnecessarily. Tragic
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2021 12:16:15 GMT -5
Around here I keep hearing the argument that people are dying after they are vaccinated. Yep, they are dying OF OTHER THINGS! There's a viewing tomorrow for an acquaintance who died last week. She was vaccinated. She died from recurrence of the cancer that she'd fought for 15 years. Another person died over the weekend after being vaccinated - having a stupid driver changing lanes without looking slam your motorcycle into a concrete wall is usually fatal. Coincidence and causation start with the same letter, and that's where the similarity ends.
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Post by The Walk of the Penguin Mich on May 17, 2021 14:03:28 GMT -5
Around here I keep hearing the argument that people are dying after they are vaccinated. Yep, they are dying OF OTHER THINGS! There's a viewing tomorrow for an acquaintance who died last week. She was vaccinated. She died from recurrence of the cancer that she'd fought for 15 years. Another person died over the weekend after being vaccinated - having a stupid driver changing lanes without looking slam your motorcycle into a concrete wall is usually fatal. Coincidence and causation start with the same letter, and that's where the similarity ends. But dontcha know that all death certificates are marked covid, even if you died from cancer? /s
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Post by NastyWoman on May 17, 2021 14:31:26 GMT -5
Well, I got my wish: in CA, the land of fruits and nuts, they have decided to keep the indoors mask mandate in place for at least another 4 weeks to give us a chance to get further along in the vaccination process. I sincerely mean this btw despite the fact that in this county ~75% of the eligible people have received at least one dose and 52.4% are fully vacinated. Also, our test positivity rate is now down to 0.7% but why risk losing this good place to be by tossing masks too soon...
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Post by jerseygirl on May 17, 2021 14:39:06 GMT -5
Met friend for lunch at Short Hills Mall in NJ We’re both fully vaccinated YAY So happy to see her, she’s 85 and deaf and so much easier to communicate in person. Walked through the mall, probably 50% fewer people than usual but haven’t been there in past 2; months except once 2 weeks ago Everyone wore masks and signs at store snd mall entrance except one woman with daughter. Woman had weird snarky look on her face - idiot!
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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2021 15:04:39 GMT -5
I just spent 2 hours getting a girly tune-up, mani/pedi plus brow and lip wax. All staff and clients were masked. I figured Monday at 1 would be a slow day but it was a zoo - pent up demand I guess. I took mine off for about 2 minutes to get the lip done and then back on it went. The vaccination numbers for Texas are between 35% and 50% of the population, depending on area and who's reporting. This salon is pretty awesome, with a strong repeat clientele, so they don't need to cater to unmasked patrons. You don't want to piss off a woman using strong chemicals, sharp utensils, and hot wax on your body.
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Post by TheOtherMe on May 17, 2021 15:12:39 GMT -5
Around here I keep hearing the argument that people are dying after they are vaccinated. Yep, they are dying OF OTHER THINGS! There's a viewing tomorrow for an acquaintance who died last week. She was vaccinated. She died from recurrence of the cancer that she'd fought for 15 years. Another person died over the weekend after being vaccinated - having a stupid driver changing lanes without looking slam your motorcycle into a concrete wall is usually fatal. Coincidence and causation start with the same letter, and that's where the similarity ends. But dontcha know that all death certificates are marked covid, even if you died from cancer? /s My sister tried to tell me that she personally knew of 3 people who had died and the death certificates said covid when they died of something else. However, she couldn't tell me who these 3 people she knew personally were. Too much Faux News with her hubby.
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Post by TheOtherMe on May 17, 2021 15:13:25 GMT -5
Well, I got my wish: in CA, the land of fruits and nuts, they have decided to keep the indoors mask mandate in place for at least another 4 weeks to give us a chance to get further along in the vaccination process. I sincerely mean this btw despite the fact that in this county ~75% of the eligible people have received at least one dose and 52.4% are fully vacinated. Also, our test positivity rate is now down to 0.7% but why risk losing this good place to be by tossing masks too soon... I wish my governor had a brain.
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Post by thyme4change on May 17, 2021 15:23:37 GMT -5
Well, I got my wish: in CA, the land of fruits and nuts, they have decided to keep the indoors mask mandate in place for at least another 4 weeks to give us a chance to get further along in the vaccination process. I sincerely mean this btw despite the fact that in this county ~75% of the eligible people have received at least one dose and 52.4% are fully vacinated. Also, our test positivity rate is now down to 0.7% but why risk losing this good place to be by tossing masks too soon... I am hoping living in a blue area will provide some extra protection. Talked to a friend yesterday that lives in a red area, not too far away and she said she has had friends cut her off because they are afraid she will shed the vaccine and harm them. She said she is afraid to tell anyone she is vaccinated. I will take the warning and avoid going to that area.
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Post by billisonboard on May 17, 2021 15:31:04 GMT -5
Well, I got my wish: in CA, the land of fruits and nuts, they have decided to keep the indoors mask mandate in place for at least another 4 weeks to give us a chance to get further along in the vaccination process. I sincerely mean this btw despite the fact that in this county ~75% of the eligible people have received at least one dose and 52.4% are fully vacinated. Also, our test positivity rate is now down to 0.7% but why risk losing this good place to be by tossing masks too soon... I am hoping living in a blue area will provide some extra protection. Talked to a friend yesterday that lives in a red area, not too far away and she said she has had friends cut her off because they are afraid she will shed the vaccine and harm them. She said she is afraid to tell anyone she is vaccinated. I will take the warning and avoid going to that area. If it meant idiots will social distance, I would wear a large scarlet V.
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Post by Spellbound454 on May 17, 2021 16:22:36 GMT -5
On the Indian variant......We have got 6 people in hospital who have had one dose of vaccine and one frail person who has had two doses. All the rest are unvaccinated people, who were eligible but chose not to be vaccinated..... (some now in ICU) If that doesn't tell you to get off your arse and go for a jab.... what does?
Still watching and waiting to see what happens...... Government seems a bit nervous until we get more clarity. Our pathway to opening up could be delayed.
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Post by haapai on May 17, 2021 17:03:08 GMT -5
On the Indian variant......We have got 6 people in hospital who have had one dose of vaccine and one frail person who has had two doses. All the rest are unvaccinated people, who were eligible but chose not to be vaccinated..... (some now in ICU) If that doesn't tell you to get off your arse and go for a jab.... what does? Still watching and waiting to see what happens...... Government seems a bit nervous until we get more clarity. Our pathway to opening up could be delayed. Wait a moment. I'm completely willing to accept the first clause bolded - "All the rest are unvaccinated people" but my eyes cross and my head hurts when I read the second part -"who were eligible but choose not to be vaccinated."
Hasn't the UK been restricting the vaccine much more stringently than the US? Not all adults have been eligible -- just those over the age of 35(ish) or medically vulnerable. Are you sure that every single one of "the rest" is either old enough to have gotten at least one jab or has a condition that would have made them eligible?
And how many are there in hospital?
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Post by Lizard Queen on May 17, 2021 17:10:16 GMT -5
Great, now Meijer is letting the vaccinated go unmasked, which means the asshole antivaxers will too. Not that my kids come with to the store too much, but still. My state is #2 in the country andy county is #2 in the state. We couldn't wait a couple more weeks?
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Post by haapai on May 17, 2021 17:30:39 GMT -5
Great, now Meijer is letting the vaccinated go unmasked, which means the asshole antivaxers will too. Not that my kids come with to the store too much, but still. My state is #2 in the country andy county is #2 in the state. We couldn't wait a couple more weeks? Welcome to my world, except that I spend 40 hours a week there. You're only there an hour or so a week and you could probably get curbside pickup. (Have you noticed how much more prominent the signs for curbside pickup have become?)
I am not looking forward to the end of this vacation. I fully expect none of my coworkers to wear masks before the store opens or in any of the back rooms -- even if company policy requires employees to mask and distance regardless of vaccination status.
The first person that I will encounter when I return will be the second-highest ranking person in the store -- someone over the age of fifty who angrily exploded this winter when the first vaccine got an EUA. "I ain't taking anything they offer" were the words out of his mouth, if I recall them correctly. He'll be the one taking my temperature. I'm not expecting him to be masked when I return and I am not foolish enough to believe that his lack of a mask means that he has been vaccinated.
Thank goodness I got my second dose four weeks ago! I'd be in a fetal position otherwise. I'm in a much better position in many ways than most of my unvaccinated coworkers but I am still seething with anger. My coworkers and probably a few of my managers are going to treat me like crap for continuing to wear a mask, especially since they know that I am fully vaxxed.
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Post by Lizard Queen on May 17, 2021 17:40:37 GMT -5
Great, now Meijer is letting the vaccinated go unmasked, which means the asshole antivaxers will too. Not that my kids come with to the store too much, but still. My state is #2 in the country andy county is #2 in the state. We couldn't wait a couple more weeks? Welcome to my world, except that I spend 40 hours a week there. You're only there an hour or so a week and you could probably get curbside pickup. (Have you noticed how much more prominent the signs for curbside pickup have become?)
I am not looking forward to the end of this vacation. I fully expect none of my coworkers to wear masks before the store opens or in any of the back rooms -- even if company policy requires employees to mask and distance regardless of vaccination status.
The first person that I will encounter when I return will be the second-highest ranking person in the store -- someone over the age of fifty who angrily exploded this winter when the first vaccine got an EUA. "I ain't taking anything they offer" were the words out of his mouth, if I recall them correctly. He'll be the one taking my temperature. I'm not expecting him to be masked when I return and I am not foolish enough to believe that his lack of a mask means that he has been vaccinated.
Thank goodness I got my second dose four weeks ago! I'd be in a fetal position otherwise. I'm in a much better position in many ways than most of my unvaccinated coworkers but I am still seething with anger. My coworkers and probably a few of my managers are going to treat me like crap for continuing to wear a mask, especially since they know that I am fully vaxxed.
I understand. I have a friend who works there. She was a cashier, but switched to being a shopper, which makes her feel safer. She is obese and still unvaccinated, but that is due to some severe allergies. She says she will get vaxed, but the allergies give her pause. I worry about her.
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Post by Opti on May 17, 2021 18:54:46 GMT -5
Great, now Meijer is letting the vaccinated go unmasked, which means the asshole antivaxers will too. Not that my kids come with to the store too much, but still. My state is #2 in the country andy county is #2 in the state. We couldn't wait a couple more weeks? Welcome to my world, except that I spend 40 hours a week there. You're only there an hour or so a week and you could probably get curbside pickup. (Have you noticed how much more prominent the signs for curbside pickup have become?)
I am not looking forward to the end of this vacation. I fully expect none of my coworkers to wear masks before the store opens or in any of the back rooms -- even if company policy requires employees to mask and distance regardless of vaccination status.
The first person that I will encounter when I return will be the second-highest ranking person in the store -- someone over the age of fifty who angrily exploded this winter when the first vaccine got an EUA. "I ain't taking anything they offer" were the words out of his mouth, if I recall them correctly. He'll be the one taking my temperature. I'm not expecting him to be masked when I return and I am not foolish enough to believe that his lack of a mask means that he has been vaccinated.
Thank goodness I got my second dose four weeks ago! I'd be in a fetal position otherwise. I'm in a much better position in many ways than most of my unvaccinated coworkers but I am still seething with anger. My coworkers and probably a few of my managers are going to treat me like crap for continuing to wear a mask, especially since they know that I am fully vaxxed.
I am so sorry, that sounds awful. Luckily I am in healthcare so masks are required except for the break room.
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Post by zibazinski on May 17, 2021 21:22:06 GMT -5
I got mine at the hospital I volunteer at. DD was opposed to me getting it but finally said if I insisted on traveling, then I should as a courtesy to anyone I encountered. Why was she opposed? Doesn't she work in healthcare?
Yes, that’s why she was opposed. She actually works in Infectious Disease. DS has it but DD will not. Her fiancé was forced to get it or he couldn’t fly.
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Post by pulmonarymd on May 18, 2021 5:46:12 GMT -5
Why was she opposed? Doesn't she work in healthcare?
Yes, that’s why she was opposed. She actually works in Infectious Disease. DS has it but DD will not. Her fiancé was forced to get it or he couldn’t fly. That makes zero sense. Whatever her thinking, it is completely illogical. And if she works in infectious disease with those ideas, I have significant concerns
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Post by TheOtherMe on May 18, 2021 8:24:35 GMT -5
IMO she needs to get out of health care if her thinking is that screwed up.
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Post by minnesotapaintlady on May 18, 2021 9:46:36 GMT -5
Why was she opposed? Doesn't she work in healthcare?
Yes, that’s why she was opposed. She actually works in Infectious Disease. DS has it but DD will not. Her fiancé was forced to get it or he couldn’t fly. I think she chose the wrong profession.
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