Billyboy78 wrote: ↑2 years ago
NYGFan_Section208 wrote: ↑2 years ago
Billyboy78 wrote: ↑2 years ago
But if you weren't vaxxed or masked, it would. Our generation is going to have to learn to live with this. It's not going away any time soon. Unfortunately, we haven't been doing a very good job so far. Assessing risks is definitely part of it.
Egg-zachly. We need to learn to live with this...and allow people to live with it the way they want to...and not make everyone wear a mask just because it makes some people feel better.
I'll just end this by saying.....my daughter is an RN in a hospital in Pittsburgh. She has seen the horrors of what this disease does and I have seen what it has done to her. That's the main reason I have such strong feelings about it.
Seems a ton of talk about wearing masks but how long does this masking go on for? We heard that once vaccinated we could ditch the masks - but now they are back - I get the Delta variant reasoning but still.
I feel for the hospital workers, nurses, doctors.
People who were anti-vax have stories everyday who now say they should not have been antivax once they are dying or have their loved ones dying.
Even the best states are only 70-75% vaccinated among eligible. Why can't the government just say all must be vaccinated like when I was in elementary school? What changed?? Why can't the government, in conjunction with insurance companies, simply say we will not cover your hospital bills for COVID (could be $100,000 or far more if on ventilators) if you refused vaccination? Why can't medicare say we will cover as normal if you get vaccinated but if you refuse medicare will only cover 50% of normal if you refuse vaccination?
After all this time people have had all opportunities to get vaccinated. So as 208 seems to be saying, why should I mask, as a vaccinated person, to protect people who refused vaccination?
The original theme was "flatten the curve". Ultimately everybody is either going to be those vaccinated, those vaccinated AND got Covid, those who got Covid and never vaccinated and then those who never vaccinated and never got Covid - which will be a very small number in the long run.
So let the non-vaxers get Covid - the much more contagious Delta and future more contagious variants will make non-vaxers get infected - it's just a matter of time.
BUT, the longer we stretch out and flatten the curve by masking, masking and masking the more more chance we give Variants to reinvent themselves and represent danger to those who got vaccinations in the first place! What happens when the Variant can't be stopped by Moderna, Pfizer, J&J, Astra-Zeneca, N-cino and others
Best case - everyone get vaccinated - but not likely based on the vaccination slowness and reluctance now.
Those who are anti-vac then get Covid (anit-vaxers are probably anti-maskers to a high degree too) and then we hit herd immunity sooner - and put out the COVID fire for good. Dragging this out may be the worst thing we could do.
I think.
I'm exhausted by the duration of this ordeal. Everyone in my family and circle of friends have been vaccinated - I'd want it no other way.