We're All Going to Die

I know this will be an unpopular opinion around here but if former President Trump doesn't run again, I want DeSantis to be 47. I like how he runs my state.
 
(Side note that is clearly me joking)...while I do like the guy and know it's an Irish or Italian thing...I don't really trust people who have 2 capital letters in their last name.
 
In Arkansas, more than 6,200 people have died of COVID-19. More than 3,000 new cases of COVID were reported today. Hundreds of students and school personnel in Arkansas have COVID-19 – but four months ago the state's Governor signed legislation banning mask mandates in schools. Today a Circuit Judge issued a preliminary injunction against the ban. Sanity has prevailed!


 
I could be very wrong abt this but in general don't kids have a much lower rate of infection?
 
The Mayo Clinic says the rate of COVID-19 infection among children 12 and younger is hard to determine because of a lack of widespread testing of children and the prioritization of testing of adults. But children who are infected "typically don't become as sick as adults and some might not show any symptoms at all." Okay, fine. And then today this news came out:

 
In this bonkers world where facts don't matter anymore it's important to trust places like Mayo for medical info and AP and Reuters for news.
 
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There is a saying, "Live and learn." There is now also a corollary, "Don't learn.....and die."

GOP official who mocked masks and vaccine dies from virus
Texas Republican official H. Scott Apley, a raging critic of masks and the vaccine, died in the hospital from COVID-19.

 
I have a friend who just got back from Cancun and he tested positive. He is fully vax'ed with Pfizer and feels fine. It's still scary. He has a wife and young son so he's isolating from them and those 2 are living in a hotel for a week.

It seems like everything will be cool but it's nerve-racking.
 
Nothing here guys?

Gotta say he is gonna pull through but I'm scared for my boy Tyler. He's a F'ing dad.
 
Hope your friend makes it through okay.

The virus is ravaging the communities around here. I know quite a few people with it right now.

Might be the same with you guys, but I've seen how the death toll impacts a smaller community. People who died, wife's great aunt, guy who grew up across the street from me, a former coworker around my age, our old superintendent of schools, a friend from school, and so on. We were just going about our business in 2019 not knowing a deadly pandemic was about to change everything. It's crazy.
 
"We're All Going To Die," dumb dodo edition. And he just happened to live in Florida! This story could fit in three threads. Dick Farrel had worked at WFLN, WDJA and Newsmax. He called Dr. Anthony Fauci a "power tripping lying freak” and referred to masks as "face diapers" and "face panties." He said no one should get the coronavirus vaccine. He changed his mind after he was hospitalized.

 
I think we all know Fauci is kinda a good guy but everything is political now.

You think Jonas Salk had to put up with this shit?
 
This is gonna be a thing we talk about as grandparents and our grandkids will think of it as a story...back then we had this thing that made people super sick and killed a bunch of people...."ok old man" they will say.
 
"We're All Going To Die," dumb dodo edition. And he just happened to live in Florida! This story could fit in three threads. Dick Farrel had worked at WFLN, WDJA and Newsmax. He called Dr. Anthony Fauci a "power tripping lying freak” and referred to masks as "face diapers" and "face panties." He said no one should get the coronavirus vaccine. He changed his mind after he was hospitalized.

He lived free and no tyrants took away his rights! That's the important take-away from this.

The other take-away is that vaccination rates are going up again.

Most people at the airports and planes were wearing their masks. Nobody seemed to be acting stupid about it. The number of people wearing masks in the hotel, stores, and other public places was encouraging. Even though I'm vaxed, I wore a mask in those places too.
 
The COVID-19 death toll has surpassed 39,600 in Florida. One church pastor apparently didn't hear the Governor's message that people shouldn't wear masks or be vaccinated.

6 members of a Florida church died of COVID-19 in 2 weeks. Today the church held a vaccination clinic.

 
Ouch. Well I went to my first live rock show last night. I took along my deaf brother, his first show for obvious reasons, and we ran into a girl he graduated with. He had his mask on the whole time, I did not. I feel bad now. Also we beach housed it last weekend with our neighbor and his 13 year old boy and 11 year old girl. I also feel bad about that decision. Friday afternoon I felt a little sore throat and mild runny nose. I've had these a few times this year as if something was about to break but doesn't. I'm flying wednesday to LA to visit my grand folks and an uncle. I feel bad about that as well. I canceled a work day at the hospital because I feel weird. I'm considering canceling this trip if I don't feel normal by tuesday. The rub is they're real old and health situation is day to day. I feel I need to visit now and not wait. It's stressing me out.
 
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