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sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Sun Dec 19, 2021 10:37 am

W. Kevin Vicklund wrote: ↑Sun Dec 19, 2021 8:22 am Michigan now has 6 confirmed cases, might be all are imported. The second and third case were in an epidemiologist and her adult daughter, both boostered, who went to a wedding in Wisconsin. Everyone had to be fully vaxxed (boostered if eligible) and wear masks at the wedding, but at the reception people took off their masks to eat and then started dancing. Epidemiologist was taking video on her phone, realized few people were still wearing masks, and immediately left. It was too late. Several people that attended are symptomatic and have tested positive.

I think about situations like that every time someone goes on and on about how careful they're being and then plans a trip, or attends an event or hangs out with people they haven't seen in a year or does something else that isn't absolutely necessary. Then blames the state for not clamping down harder or other people for not getting vaxxed or whatever other excuse they have for doing what they want to do. If you're going to family gatherings, or holiday parties, or vacations or whatever else, you're not really doing all you can, except possibly exposing yourself and others.

3 friends sick with covid just this week because of a family event or a work function where everyone was triple vaxxed and being "safe" by doing everything but staying the fuck home.

Notaperson wrote: ↑Sun Dec 19, 2021 11:16 am

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Sun Dec 19, 2021 10:37 am

W. Kevin Vicklund wrote: ↑Sun Dec 19, 2021 8:22 am Michigan now has 6 confirmed cases, might be all are imported. The second and third case were in an epidemiologist and her adult daughter, both boostered, who went to a wedding in Wisconsin. Everyone had to be fully vaxxed (boostered if eligible) and wear masks at the wedding, but at the reception people took off their masks to eat and then started dancing. Epidemiologist was taking video on her phone, realized few people were still wearing masks, and immediately left. It was too late. Several people that attended are symptomatic and have tested positive.

I think about situations like that every time someone goes on and on about how careful they're being and then plans a trip, or attends an event or hangs out with people they haven't seen in a year or does something else that isn't absolutely necessary. Then blames the state for not clamping down harder or other people for not getting vaxxed or whatever other excuse they have for doing what they want to do. If you're going to family gatherings, or holiday parties, or vacations or whatever else, you're not really doing all you can, except possibly exposing yourself and others.

3 friends sick with covid just this week because of a family event or a work function where everyone was triple vaxxed and being "safe" by doing everything but staying the fuck home.

As I just pondered in another thread....what was the point of getting vaxxed and boosted if we're expected to continue staying the fuck home? I'm struggling with this because I'm supposed to fly to FL this week to see family I haven't seen in two years.

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Sun Dec 19, 2021 11:21 am

Notaperson wrote: ↑Sun Dec 19, 2021 11:16 am

sugar magnolia wrote: ↑Sun Dec 19, 2021 10:37 am

I think about situations like that every time someone goes on and on about how careful they're being and then plans a trip, or attends an event or hangs out with people they haven't seen in a year or does something else that isn't absolutely necessary. Then blames the state for not clamping down harder or other people for not getting vaxxed or whatever other excuse they have for doing what they want to do. If you're going to family gatherings, or holiday parties, or vacations or whatever else, you're not really doing all you can, except possibly exposing yourself and others.

3 friends sick with covid just this week because of a family event or a work function where everyone was triple vaxxed and being "safe" by doing everything but staying the fuck home.

As I just pondered in another thread....what was the point of getting vaxxed and boosted if we're expected to continue staying the fuck home? I'm struggling with this because I'm supposed to fly to FL this week to see family I haven't seen in two years.

So you don't die when you get it?

Notaperson wrote: ↑Sun Dec 19, 2021 11:16 am
As I just pondered in another thread....what was the point of getting vaxxed and boosted if we're expected to continue staying the fuck home? I'm struggling with this because I'm supposed to fly to FL this week to see family I haven't seen in two years.

p0rtia wrote: ↑Mon Dec 20, 2021 2:49 pm 18,000+ reported cases today. Merry COVID Christmas, Florida.

Just learned about the passing of a dear friend of mine who was double vaxxed last winter but got Covid in November before he got a booster shot. Devastating news and a reminder to please protect yourself and those around you.

Notaperson wrote: ↑Mon Dec 20, 2021 5:17 pm

p0rtia wrote: ↑Mon Dec 20, 2021 2:49 pm 18,000+ reported cases today. Merry COVID Christmas, Florida.

Well, I guess that settles it. Trip to Florida cancelled.

COVID-19 becomes Arizona's leading cause of death

“That makes COVID-19 the leading cause of death in our state, ahead of both heart disease and cancer,” LaBaer said, adding that it doesn’t include people who died from other causes that went untreated because the medical system was overwhelmed by COVID-19 patients.

On a shorter, more recent time frame, the state’s death count has also risen to a notable level. Its seven-day death rate was ranked second in the country behind Montana, as of Friday, with nearly 7 deaths per 100,000 people, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Oklahoma

Coronavirus Cases:
689,800
Deaths:
11,336

Through their contracted private PR firm @Saxum_US, @HealthyOklahoma told me today they will are not planning to hold any press briefings this week going into Christmas.

The count updates the October estimate that 140,000 minors had lost caregiving adults to the virus, and is four times more than a springtime tally that found nearly 40,000 children had experienced such loss. In a 9 December report titled Hidden Pain, researchers from the COVID Collaborative and Social Policy Analytics published the new total, which they derived by combining coronavirus death numbers with household-level data from the 2019 American Community Survey.

The death toll further underscores the daunting task facing schools as they seek to help students recover not just academically, but also emotionally, from a pandemic that has already stretched 22 months and claimed more than 800,000 American lives. It’s an issue of such elevated concern that Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, on 7 December, used a rare public address to warn Americans of the pandemic’s “devastating” effects on youth mental health. An accompanying 53-page report calls out the particular difficulties experienced by young people who have lost parents or caregivers to the virus.