We're All Going to Die

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is vehemently opposed to mask mandates. He issued an executive order banning schools and government agencies from requiring masks. The number of children with COVID-19 has more than quadrupled in the past month and hundreds of parents have pulled their kids out of school rather than risk them getting infected. The ban is being challenged in court. Meanwhile, how many students and teachers will become infected? How many will die? And why does Abbott not care?

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I decided to re-read the first dozen pages of this thread for old times sake.
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It’s interesting how things changed over the first 8 weeks of this, and now we’re 20 months in and have seen and learned a lot.

It’s also amazing to see how many people out in the world are still trying to deny that it’s a real thing. I think he threadnis named appropriately.

The charts are also interesting to see.
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In Ontario, starting on 09/22, in order to go to a theatre, sporting event, gym or almost any non-essential service, you will need to be vaccinated. If you are medicaly exempt from vaccination, you need to provide proof and have a negative covid test within 48 hours.

Not surprisingly, the number of vaccination appointments have spiked since this announcement.
 
HecticArt said:
I decided to re-read the first dozen pages of this thread for old times sake.
We're All Going to Die
It’s interesting how things changed over the first 8 weeks of this, and now we’re 20 months in and have seen and learned a lot.
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Without rereading it, I remember that I was of the mindset that people were being alarmists about the virus. I was writing it off as something that wouldn't affect us. But I am capable of observing reality and reacting appropriately.

IdRatherBeSkiing said:
In Ontario, starting on 09/22, in order to go to a theatre, sporting event, gym or almost any non-essential service, you will need to be vaccinated. If you are medicaly exempt from vaccination, you need to provide proof and have a negative covid test within 48 hours.

Not surprisingly, the number of vaccination appointments have spiked since this announcement.
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Right now, we're going through a shit-show here in Maine. The governor has mandated that all healthcare workers be vaccinated by October (meaning they should be starting now). This includes EMS and nursing home workers. They will be closing some nursing homes because they're going to lose employees, which they're already short on. About 10% of healthcare workers just don't want to get it. They're protesting and everything. It's crazy.
 
scotchandcigar said:
Without rereading it, I remember that I was of the mindset that people were being alarmists about the virus. I was writing it off as something that wouldn't affect us. But I am capable of observing reality and reacting appropriately.


Right now, we're going through a shit-show here in Maine. The governor has mandated that all healthcare workers be vaccinated by October (meaning they should be starting now). This includes EMS and nursing home workers. They will be closing some nursing homes because they're going to lose employees, which they're already short on. About 10% of healthcare workers just don't want to get it. They're protesting and everything. It's crazy.
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We have the same protesters up here. But obviously a good chunk of them have decided they don't want to give up their gym or theatre or restaurant trip. We also have same mandate for health care workers already (by 10/31).

My employer also has mandated as they are federally regulated and the federal government has mandated all federal government employees be vaccinated. He also included federally regulated industries.

They are also projecting 9000 new cases a day worst case by October. Right now it has crept up to about 800 per day. Mostly unvaccinated.
 
How are nurses and doctors still getting away with not getting it?!?! It's not even fall and the numbers are up. What will december bring with the holidays?
 
George Washington, commander of the Continental Army, viewed smallpox as "the most dangerous enemy." On February 6, 1777, he ordered all his troops to be vaccinated. In 2021, we have idiots such as Jim Jordan, Greg Abbott and Ron DeSantis complaining that mask mandates and mandatory vaccinations are "un-American." Uh, no, they really aren't. And the Constitution gives the federal government the authority to protect public health.

Next week the 1st District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee will decide if DeSantis' ban on school mask mandates is legal. He is confident his ban will be upheld – and students and teachers will continue to get COVID-19. According to data released yesterday by the American Academy of Pediatrics, children accounted for 26.8% of new COVID cases in the week ending September 2. Ron DeSantis doesn't care. How sad.

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scotchandcigar said:
The news has really become the Darwin awards. Tonight's national news was all about hospitals and schools full of dying unvaccinated people.
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I don't feel bad about the hospitals or the adults who are unvaccinated and dying. The schools and kids on the other hand are not able to be vaccinated (and why is the trialing of the vaccine in that age group taking so long?) so have no defense.
 
Darwin Awards is about right. Unfortunately they are taking out innocent people and kids with their stupidity. They shouldn’t go to hospitals when they get it. They should have to go to their own communes of freedom to ride it out with other like-minded fools.
 
IdRatherBeSkiing said:
I don't feel bad about the hospitals or the adults who are unvaccinated and dying.
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It's tying up hospital rooms, doctors, and nurses. Not to mention that all these "constitutional rights" dopes on ventilators are needlessly taxing our health insurance system. These are the same people that protested against universal healthcare. The hospitals should treat stupidity as a pre-existing condition and deny coverage.
 
scotchandcigar said:
It's tying up hospital rooms, doctors, and nurses. Not to mention that all these "constitutional rights" dopes on ventilators are needlessly taxing our health insurance system. These are the same people that protested against universal healthcare. The hospitals should treat stupidity as a pre-existing condition and deny coverage.
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That came out wrong. I meant the dopes who are in the hospitals. I think those unvaccinated should be de-prioritized for any covid care.
 
scotchandcigar said:
It's tying up hospital rooms, doctors, and nurses. Not to mention that all these "constitutional rights" dopes on ventilators are needlessly taxing our health insurance system. These are the same people that protested against universal healthcare. The hospitals should treat stupidity as a pre-existing condition and deny coverage.
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Exactly. I feel bad for the hospital workers that have to put up with this shiz, and I feel really bad for the people that need the beds that can't get them.
IdRatherBeSkiing said:
That came out wrong. I meant the dopes who are in the hospitals. I think those unvaccinated should be de-prioritized for any covid care.
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I qualify "dopes" as those that are buying into the political weaponization of the pandemic. I know that there are a lot of people with legitimate issues & concerns that haven't gotten their jabs. I think that the politicians and media personalities that are spreading the misinformation should have to prove that they haven't been vaccinated and then have to work in the hospitals without PPE to prove to the rest of us that we've been duped by the other side.

That would put an end to all of this nonsense pretty quickly. We will find out for sure who is right and who is wrong. It's just science.
 
HecticArt said:
I know that there are a lot of people with legitimate issues & concerns that haven't gotten their jabs
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Nice to see this once in a while. Now that I have confidence, I'm glad to be joining 'team protected'.

This is the propaganda that pisses me off. And I used to go to this guy for health advice (his older health articles are great), but I think he's lost it over the last few years...

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I'd want to confirm he actually made the post. There's a lot of cutting/pasting going on, and people who use someone's name to make a meme. But it's a ridiculously idiotic collection of statements.
 
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