This is so sad and unnecessary. If you want to be protected, get vaccinated. If you don't, don't get vaccinated.
The vaccinated are tacitly arguing against themselves: If vaccines are so good, why are you scared of an unvaccinated person? Does that mean the vaccinations don't work?
It's really not an issue of stopping the spread - there a…
This is so sad and unnecessary. If you want to be protected, get vaccinated. If you don't, don't get vaccinated.
The vaccinated are tacitly arguing against themselves: If vaccines are so good, why are you scared of an unvaccinated person? Does that mean the vaccinations don't work?
It's really not an issue of stopping the spread - there are tons of people who are fully vaccinated getting Covid, and in fact I fear them more, as the symptoms tend to be light - so they spread it more easily, not realizing they have Covid.
Because there are only so many hospital beds to go around. Mothers will still continue going into labour, car crashes will still happen, people will continue to get cancer, etc.
The health care system can and will crash and burn if it gets continually swamped with covid patients. In order to maintain a functional healthcare system, the options are:
1) lockdowns/quarantines (the Australian way)
2) "no soup for you" policy for the unvaccinated (i.e. no vax = no treatment)
3) vaccine mandates
That said, the biggest covid spreader is recirculated air. Spending time outdoors is the best way to flatten the curve, and there's no particularly good reason why we can't have natural antibody exemptions to vaccine mandates. Antibodies are antibodies.
"only so many hospital beds to go around" - oh, puhleeeze.
Yours was the argument 18 months ago for the "two weeks to flatten the curve" lockdowns and business closures, etc. "We have to do this to prevent the hospital system from collapsing!"
The hospital system not only wasn't overloaded...many were ghost towns. Layoffs. Closures. Everyone waiting for the flood and surge...that never came.
Furthermore, we keep being told that if we get the jab and then we get the Chinese virus, we may be asymptomatic or we may only have mild symptoms. Nothingburgers.
So where, exactly, are all these hospitalizations supposed to come from, if all you vaxx fanatics will only get mild symptoms at worst and everyone who already has natural immunity is even more protected than you vaxx fanatics are? (I'll tell you where: they're coming from people who are being *harmed* by the vaxxes.)
Please, please try a new argument. Your current hospital bed one has already been thoroughly debunked.
"It helps that Florida doesn't have snow on the ground. Here in Alberta, Canada, we fully went back to normal for summer. No mandates, no lockdowns, no masks. It was a great few months.
Then it got cold out, people stopped doing anything outdoors, and the cases spiked. We had to bring in vax mandates because our hospitals were all putting up No Vacancy signs.
Even in the <50 crowd, a very small percentage of people get seriously sick, and when you have tens of millions of people, that small percentage is enough to flood the healthcare system. Hence, I'm 30 years old and double-jabbed, but I'm not really on board with boosters every 6 months for the next forever."
I read the whole thread, pal. The feeble reintroduction of the "hospital bed" canard indicted the whole thread.
"We had to bring in vax mandates because our hospitals were all putting up No Vacancy signs." Were they all nonvaxxed covid patients hospitalized BECAUSE of covid?
Of course, yes, there are reports like these:
"Tallia says his hospital is 'managing, but just barely,' at keeping up with the increased number of sick patients in the last three weeks. The hospital’s urgent-care centers have also been inundated, and its outpatient clinics have no appointments available.”
From UAB:
"Dr. Bernard Camins, associate professor of infectious diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, says that UAB Hospital cancelled elective surgeries scheduled for Thursday and Friday of last week to make more beds available"
These are always disturbing:
“We had to treat patients in places where we normally wouldn’t, like in recovery rooms,” says Camins. “The emergency room was very crowded, both with sick patients who needed to be admitted”
"In CA… several hospitals have set up large 'surge tents' outside their emergency departments to accommodate and treat … patients. Even then, the LA Times reported this week, emergency departments had standing-room only, and some patients had to be treated in hallways.”
MO is hurting:
"In Fenton, Missouri, SSM Health St. Clare Hospital has opened its emergency overflow wing, as well as all outpatient centers and surgical holding centers, to make more beds available to patients who need them. Nurses are being “pulled from all floors to care for them, “it’s making their pre-existing conditions worse,” she says. “More and more patients are needing mechanical ventilation due to respiratory failure”
South of Los Angeles. No respite there:
"From Laguna Beach to Long Beach, emergency rooms were struggling to cope with the overwhelming cases… and had gone into 'diversion mode,' during which ambulances are sent to other hospitals.”
When they turn ambulances away - you know something is afoot:
“Hospitals across the state are sending away ambulances, flying in nurses from out of state and not letting children visit their loved ones for fear they’ll spread… Others are canceling surgeries and erecting tents in their parking lots to triage the hordes of… patients.”
Warzone:
“There’s a little bit of a feeling of being in the trenches. We’re really battling these infections to try to get them under control,” McKinnell said. “We’re still not sure if this is going to continue …”
Texas:
"At Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, waiting rooms turned into exam areas as a medical tent was built in order to deal with the surge of patients. A Houston doctor said local hospital beds were at capacity. Dr. Anthony Marinelli says they've seen a major spike in… cases. It's so overwhelmed the community hospital that they've gone on bypass at times -- that means they tell ambulances to bypass this ER and find another.”
Overwhelmed:
“Dr. Atallah, the chief of emergency medicine at Grady, says the hospital called on a mobile emergency department based nearly 250 miles away to help tackle the increasing patient demand. At 500-plus patients a day you physically just need the space to put a patient in.”
“We’ve never had so many patients,” said Adrian Cotton, chief of medical operations at Loma Linda University Health in San Bernardino County.”
Outdoor triage:
“...at least one hospital has set up an outdoor triage tent to handle the overflow of people” “In Long Beach, hospitals have started visitor restrictions. In the South Bay, a conference center has been transformed into an ambulatory clinic.”
No in-person visits. Things are serious:
We have signage set up all over the hospital to inform patients that, if they have any family members with even signs of symptoms, not to visit” “Loma Linda emergency physicians are seeing about 60 more patients a day than usual, Cotton said. About 150 patients have so far been treated in the tent, which is staffed according to the number of people inside. It’s expected to be up [for months].”
Big increases
“As the main emergency room gets full, patients are moved to the tent. For example, a patient who comes in with a broken arm is likely to be treated inside the tent, he said. Visitor restrictions have also been implemented. The county saw a 300-percent increase”
“Overflow tents also have emerged in San Diego County hospitals. Though they haven’t pitched tents, most hospitals across Southern California have set up overflow areas inside their facilities.”
Oh, did I forget to mention that those reports are ALL from the 2018 flu season? Sorry. My bad. Seems the more things change, the more they stay the same.
So maybe "hospital overload" IS a tired, lazy excuse to fall back on to mandate that OTHERS submit to being jabbed with experimental drugs.
Vaccines are optional, but anyone who doesn't get vaccinated, and who gets sick with covid, gets turned away from hospitals. No vaccine = no soup for you. That will completely solve the hospital crowding problem without mandating anyone get jabbed.
Sound like a fair compromise? We can call it vaxapartheid.
Now, about your infantile, debunked, predictable lament about hospital bed shortages:
You say that now that the weather has turned cold and shitty in Alberta, everyone is packing together inside where the virus can spread. Everyone - most of whom are vaxxed - are packed indoors and spreading the virus. And that's why hospitals are No Vacancy.
But last year, amid the lockdowns and business closures and shelter-in-place orders...everyone was ALSO confined indoors, where the virus spreads sooooo easily. And last year, NO ONE was vaxxed.
And yet...when NO ONE was vaxxed and everyone was sheltered indoors...the hospital didn't even come close to being overwhelmed. Instead, it was the opposite. Hospital closures, layoffs, tented areas wholly vacant and unused. Everyone indoors, literally no one vaxxed, hospitals were fine.
But NOW, everyone indoors (in Alberta), and most of those people vaxxed...and the hospitals are in crisis.
Ahhh, the totalitarians eventually expose themselves. "You will comply, or else."
Here's an additional option: Everyone knows that smoking is bad for your health. So let's turn away from hospitals EVERYONE who needs hospital care because of their choice to smoke.
And another: Everyone knows that diets high in fatty foods are bad for your health. So let's turn away from hospitals EVERYONE who needs hospital care because of their food choices.
And another: Let's turn away from hospitals EVERYONE who needs hospital care because they were speeding and got into an accident.
See, to you totalitarians, freedom is a threat. Free societies are threats. Constitutional republics that protect the rights of minority groups are threats. To you despots, ANYONE who doesn't toe YOUR line is to be shunned, denied services, denied their humanity.
You people are contemptible cretins about whom, if you lived in America, I would say "you are NOT my countryman."
The difference is we don't need to worry about everyone getting lung cancer at the same time, or all having strokes within a week of each other, or all crashing their cars within the same 30 day window.
If covid infections were going to be spaced out over the course of decades, then hospital overcrowding would be a non-issue.
Health care systems are designed and funded to take care of a very, very VERY tiny % of the population requiring medical attention at any particular point in time.
Novel viruses fuck with that program, because they have the ability to make way too many people way too sick in way too short of a window for the health care system to handle. So when a novel virus kicks off a pandemic, that leaves 4 choices:
1) let the health care system crash and burn (especially if people are congregating indoors)
2) vaccine mandates
3) no soup for you if you're unvaccinated
4) lockdowns and quarantines like they're doing in Australia.
If it helps, I'm not exactly thrilled with any of the 4 options, but we've got to bite the bullet and pick one. If you hate door #2 so much, then I thought you might prefer door #3.
Because it was thoroughly debunked by real life. But yeah, let's use it again as leverage. There's still plenty of uninformed people anxious to be scared again with lies.
So you're the first person who has made a logical case: Reducing hospital cases.
We don't have to have a hospital disaster. Here in Florida, we had a rough summer, but implemented aggressive treatment with monoclonals (we were by far the most aggressive state) and it had a dramatic impact. I know many, many people who got the monoclonals early and Covid was a non-issue (and Covid is now a complete non-issue in our state, knock on wood). And by the way, it was rough for 6 weeks, when hospitals were overflowing. But then it came back down to a murmur.
Lockdowns are deadly for morale, health and the economy; unvaccinated apartheid ("no soup for you") is a horrific idea straight out of a dystopian madhouse; and mandates are pointless for those who have already had Covid, or under 50, where Covid is generally a bad flu.
When it's cold and shitty out, people congregate indoors, which means transmission, which means either vaccine mandates or hospitals start putting up No Vacancy signs. That's exactly what happened here in Alberta, in September 2021.
If my math is right, that's.....2 months ago, not 21.
That is wholly irrelevant to the fact that the lockdown/shelter-in-place/shutter-all-businesses diktat ostensibly to prevent the health care system from being overwhelmed to the point that people were dying BECAUSE it was overwhelmed was completely pointless, useless, and needless.
Remember, the alleged point of the draconian shuttering of human life in the first quarter/half of 2020 wasn't just to prevent hospital overload; it was to prevent deaths FROM hospital overload, deaths that otherwise wouldn't have happened.
Not only were hospitals NOT overloaded, in many cases they were UNDERloaded to the point of closures and layoffs.
So nice try with the red herring about where I live (pffff, as if hot places don't have incompetent, tyrannical, stupid governors), but the fact is, the hospital bed argument failed then and it fails now.
In hot places, people spend more time outdoors. Covid transmission happens more or less exclusively indoors, so a huge factor in hospital overloads is cold weather (nothing makes people stay inside like -40 temperatures).
Yes, because hospital No Vacancy signs is a brand-new phenomenon. Never happened before. We need to force-jab experimental drugs into sovereign people because this is a once-in-humanity crisis.
It helps that Florida doesn't have snow on the ground. Here in Alberta, Canada, we fully went back to normal for summer. No mandates, no lockdowns, no masks. It was a great few months.
Then it got cold out, people stopped doing anything outdoors, and the cases spiked. We had to bring in vax mandates because our hospitals were all putting up No Vacancy signs.
Even in the <50 crowd, a very small percentage of people get seriously sick, and when you have tens of millions of people, that small percentage is enough to flood the healthcare system. Hence, I'm 30 years old and double-jabbed, but I'm not really on board with boosters every 6 months for the next forever.
Well as you pointed out, it's all about the air. Florida is now in its outdoor weather pattern, while the north is in the indoor weather pattern. And Covid spreads through the air...
This is so sad and unnecessary. If you want to be protected, get vaccinated. If you don't, don't get vaccinated.
The vaccinated are tacitly arguing against themselves: If vaccines are so good, why are you scared of an unvaccinated person? Does that mean the vaccinations don't work?
It's really not an issue of stopping the spread - there are tons of people who are fully vaccinated getting Covid, and in fact I fear them more, as the symptoms tend to be light - so they spread it more easily, not realizing they have Covid.
Because there are only so many hospital beds to go around. Mothers will still continue going into labour, car crashes will still happen, people will continue to get cancer, etc.
The health care system can and will crash and burn if it gets continually swamped with covid patients. In order to maintain a functional healthcare system, the options are:
1) lockdowns/quarantines (the Australian way)
2) "no soup for you" policy for the unvaccinated (i.e. no vax = no treatment)
3) vaccine mandates
That said, the biggest covid spreader is recirculated air. Spending time outdoors is the best way to flatten the curve, and there's no particularly good reason why we can't have natural antibody exemptions to vaccine mandates. Antibodies are antibodies.
"only so many hospital beds to go around" - oh, puhleeeze.
Yours was the argument 18 months ago for the "two weeks to flatten the curve" lockdowns and business closures, etc. "We have to do this to prevent the hospital system from collapsing!"
The hospital system not only wasn't overloaded...many were ghost towns. Layoffs. Closures. Everyone waiting for the flood and surge...that never came.
Furthermore, we keep being told that if we get the jab and then we get the Chinese virus, we may be asymptomatic or we may only have mild symptoms. Nothingburgers.
So where, exactly, are all these hospitalizations supposed to come from, if all you vaxx fanatics will only get mild symptoms at worst and everyone who already has natural immunity is even more protected than you vaxx fanatics are? (I'll tell you where: they're coming from people who are being *harmed* by the vaxxes.)
Please, please try a new argument. Your current hospital bed one has already been thoroughly debunked.
Maybe try reading the whole thread first champ.
"It helps that Florida doesn't have snow on the ground. Here in Alberta, Canada, we fully went back to normal for summer. No mandates, no lockdowns, no masks. It was a great few months.
Then it got cold out, people stopped doing anything outdoors, and the cases spiked. We had to bring in vax mandates because our hospitals were all putting up No Vacancy signs.
Even in the <50 crowd, a very small percentage of people get seriously sick, and when you have tens of millions of people, that small percentage is enough to flood the healthcare system. Hence, I'm 30 years old and double-jabbed, but I'm not really on board with boosters every 6 months for the next forever."
I read the whole thread, pal. The feeble reintroduction of the "hospital bed" canard indicted the whole thread.
"We had to bring in vax mandates because our hospitals were all putting up No Vacancy signs." Were they all nonvaxxed covid patients hospitalized BECAUSE of covid?
Of course, yes, there are reports like these:
"Tallia says his hospital is 'managing, but just barely,' at keeping up with the increased number of sick patients in the last three weeks. The hospital’s urgent-care centers have also been inundated, and its outpatient clinics have no appointments available.”
From UAB:
"Dr. Bernard Camins, associate professor of infectious diseases at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, says that UAB Hospital cancelled elective surgeries scheduled for Thursday and Friday of last week to make more beds available"
These are always disturbing:
“We had to treat patients in places where we normally wouldn’t, like in recovery rooms,” says Camins. “The emergency room was very crowded, both with sick patients who needed to be admitted”
"In CA… several hospitals have set up large 'surge tents' outside their emergency departments to accommodate and treat … patients. Even then, the LA Times reported this week, emergency departments had standing-room only, and some patients had to be treated in hallways.”
MO is hurting:
"In Fenton, Missouri, SSM Health St. Clare Hospital has opened its emergency overflow wing, as well as all outpatient centers and surgical holding centers, to make more beds available to patients who need them. Nurses are being “pulled from all floors to care for them, “it’s making their pre-existing conditions worse,” she says. “More and more patients are needing mechanical ventilation due to respiratory failure”
South of Los Angeles. No respite there:
"From Laguna Beach to Long Beach, emergency rooms were struggling to cope with the overwhelming cases… and had gone into 'diversion mode,' during which ambulances are sent to other hospitals.”
When they turn ambulances away - you know something is afoot:
“Hospitals across the state are sending away ambulances, flying in nurses from out of state and not letting children visit their loved ones for fear they’ll spread… Others are canceling surgeries and erecting tents in their parking lots to triage the hordes of… patients.”
Warzone:
“There’s a little bit of a feeling of being in the trenches. We’re really battling these infections to try to get them under control,” McKinnell said. “We’re still not sure if this is going to continue …”
Texas:
"At Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, waiting rooms turned into exam areas as a medical tent was built in order to deal with the surge of patients. A Houston doctor said local hospital beds were at capacity. Dr. Anthony Marinelli says they've seen a major spike in… cases. It's so overwhelmed the community hospital that they've gone on bypass at times -- that means they tell ambulances to bypass this ER and find another.”
Overwhelmed:
“Dr. Atallah, the chief of emergency medicine at Grady, says the hospital called on a mobile emergency department based nearly 250 miles away to help tackle the increasing patient demand. At 500-plus patients a day you physically just need the space to put a patient in.”
“We’ve never had so many patients,” said Adrian Cotton, chief of medical operations at Loma Linda University Health in San Bernardino County.”
Outdoor triage:
“...at least one hospital has set up an outdoor triage tent to handle the overflow of people” “In Long Beach, hospitals have started visitor restrictions. In the South Bay, a conference center has been transformed into an ambulatory clinic.”
No in-person visits. Things are serious:
We have signage set up all over the hospital to inform patients that, if they have any family members with even signs of symptoms, not to visit” “Loma Linda emergency physicians are seeing about 60 more patients a day than usual, Cotton said. About 150 patients have so far been treated in the tent, which is staffed according to the number of people inside. It’s expected to be up [for months].”
Big increases
“As the main emergency room gets full, patients are moved to the tent. For example, a patient who comes in with a broken arm is likely to be treated inside the tent, he said. Visitor restrictions have also been implemented. The county saw a 300-percent increase”
“Overflow tents also have emerged in San Diego County hospitals. Though they haven’t pitched tents, most hospitals across Southern California have set up overflow areas inside their facilities.”
Oh, did I forget to mention that those reports are ALL from the 2018 flu season? Sorry. My bad. Seems the more things change, the more they stay the same.
So maybe "hospital overload" IS a tired, lazy excuse to fall back on to mandate that OTHERS submit to being jabbed with experimental drugs.
There is, of course, another option.
Vaccines are optional, but anyone who doesn't get vaccinated, and who gets sick with covid, gets turned away from hospitals. No vaccine = no soup for you. That will completely solve the hospital crowding problem without mandating anyone get jabbed.
Sound like a fair compromise? We can call it vaxapartheid.
Now, about your infantile, debunked, predictable lament about hospital bed shortages:
You say that now that the weather has turned cold and shitty in Alberta, everyone is packing together inside where the virus can spread. Everyone - most of whom are vaxxed - are packed indoors and spreading the virus. And that's why hospitals are No Vacancy.
But last year, amid the lockdowns and business closures and shelter-in-place orders...everyone was ALSO confined indoors, where the virus spreads sooooo easily. And last year, NO ONE was vaxxed.
And yet...when NO ONE was vaxxed and everyone was sheltered indoors...the hospital didn't even come close to being overwhelmed. Instead, it was the opposite. Hospital closures, layoffs, tented areas wholly vacant and unused. Everyone indoors, literally no one vaxxed, hospitals were fine.
But NOW, everyone indoors (in Alberta), and most of those people vaxxed...and the hospitals are in crisis.
Gee. Ain't that odd.
You seem to have forgotten what a "lockdown" was. People were confined in the sense of they couldn't gather in groups.
Mystery fucking solved.
Ahhh, the totalitarians eventually expose themselves. "You will comply, or else."
Here's an additional option: Everyone knows that smoking is bad for your health. So let's turn away from hospitals EVERYONE who needs hospital care because of their choice to smoke.
And another: Everyone knows that diets high in fatty foods are bad for your health. So let's turn away from hospitals EVERYONE who needs hospital care because of their food choices.
And another: Let's turn away from hospitals EVERYONE who needs hospital care because they were speeding and got into an accident.
See, to you totalitarians, freedom is a threat. Free societies are threats. Constitutional republics that protect the rights of minority groups are threats. To you despots, ANYONE who doesn't toe YOUR line is to be shunned, denied services, denied their humanity.
You people are contemptible cretins about whom, if you lived in America, I would say "you are NOT my countryman."
The difference is we don't need to worry about everyone getting lung cancer at the same time, or all having strokes within a week of each other, or all crashing their cars within the same 30 day window.
If covid infections were going to be spaced out over the course of decades, then hospital overcrowding would be a non-issue.
Health care systems are designed and funded to take care of a very, very VERY tiny % of the population requiring medical attention at any particular point in time.
Novel viruses fuck with that program, because they have the ability to make way too many people way too sick in way too short of a window for the health care system to handle. So when a novel virus kicks off a pandemic, that leaves 4 choices:
1) let the health care system crash and burn (especially if people are congregating indoors)
2) vaccine mandates
3) no soup for you if you're unvaccinated
4) lockdowns and quarantines like they're doing in Australia.
If it helps, I'm not exactly thrilled with any of the 4 options, but we've got to bite the bullet and pick one. If you hate door #2 so much, then I thought you might prefer door #3.
Great point on hospitals. This topic was big during the “15 days to avoid the spread”but has not been used as leverage as it should be.
Because it was thoroughly debunked by real life. But yeah, let's use it again as leverage. There's still plenty of uninformed people anxious to be scared again with lies.
So you're the first person who has made a logical case: Reducing hospital cases.
We don't have to have a hospital disaster. Here in Florida, we had a rough summer, but implemented aggressive treatment with monoclonals (we were by far the most aggressive state) and it had a dramatic impact. I know many, many people who got the monoclonals early and Covid was a non-issue (and Covid is now a complete non-issue in our state, knock on wood). And by the way, it was rough for 6 weeks, when hospitals were overflowing. But then it came back down to a murmur.
Lockdowns are deadly for morale, health and the economy; unvaccinated apartheid ("no soup for you") is a horrific idea straight out of a dystopian madhouse; and mandates are pointless for those who have already had Covid, or under 50, where Covid is generally a bad flu.
Yeah, "reducing hospital cases" was a logical argument...21 months ago. It was thoroughly debunked by real life. It's a desperate argument now.
Depends - you live somewhere hot don't you?
When it's cold and shitty out, people congregate indoors, which means transmission, which means either vaccine mandates or hospitals start putting up No Vacancy signs. That's exactly what happened here in Alberta, in September 2021.
If my math is right, that's.....2 months ago, not 21.
"Depends - you live somewhere hot don't you?"
That is wholly irrelevant to the fact that the lockdown/shelter-in-place/shutter-all-businesses diktat ostensibly to prevent the health care system from being overwhelmed to the point that people were dying BECAUSE it was overwhelmed was completely pointless, useless, and needless.
Remember, the alleged point of the draconian shuttering of human life in the first quarter/half of 2020 wasn't just to prevent hospital overload; it was to prevent deaths FROM hospital overload, deaths that otherwise wouldn't have happened.
Not only were hospitals NOT overloaded, in many cases they were UNDERloaded to the point of closures and layoffs.
So nice try with the red herring about where I live (pffff, as if hot places don't have incompetent, tyrannical, stupid governors), but the fact is, the hospital bed argument failed then and it fails now.
In hot places, people spend more time outdoors. Covid transmission happens more or less exclusively indoors, so a huge factor in hospital overloads is cold weather (nothing makes people stay inside like -40 temperatures).
Your reading comprehension is dogshit.
Yes, because hospital No Vacancy signs is a brand-new phenomenon. Never happened before. We need to force-jab experimental drugs into sovereign people because this is a once-in-humanity crisis.
Well...maybe not.
https://covidreason.substack.com/p/i-was-wrong-i-need-to-rethink-this
“This is a once-in-humanity crisis “
Real. ALL of humanity!!!
Not small poxes, not the plague…..
This why people stop listening this is not even remotely true
You do understand that I was being sarcastic, right?
Tired missed the ‘sarc’
No worries, I just needed to protect my rep!
It helps that Florida doesn't have snow on the ground. Here in Alberta, Canada, we fully went back to normal for summer. No mandates, no lockdowns, no masks. It was a great few months.
Then it got cold out, people stopped doing anything outdoors, and the cases spiked. We had to bring in vax mandates because our hospitals were all putting up No Vacancy signs.
Even in the <50 crowd, a very small percentage of people get seriously sick, and when you have tens of millions of people, that small percentage is enough to flood the healthcare system. Hence, I'm 30 years old and double-jabbed, but I'm not really on board with boosters every 6 months for the next forever.
Well as you pointed out, it's all about the air. Florida is now in its outdoor weather pattern, while the north is in the indoor weather pattern. And Covid spreads through the air...
Yeah, a sensible approach to covid would look something like this:
1) get everyone to spend as little time in crowded indoor areas as possible (outdoor weddings, outdoor church service, etc.)
2) get/stay healthy. lose weight, don't smoke, get enough sleep. Minimize comorbidities
3) vaccine mandates, BUT allow options for negative PCR tests (1x/week) and/or positive antibody tests (2x/year) as substitutes
no words just this https://twitter.com/i/status/1480924225259151373
I have several vaccinated friends who tested positive. Symptoms are mild.