Scuzz
1732
So I found out today that my neighbors have all had Covid now. The parents have both had the shots but their 20 something son refuses. The father is a school teacher and believes he got it the first day of school from a student he talked to that later tested positive. The wife probably got it from him. The son had it in March.
I thought all us Gen X’ers were total champs at not giving a fuck.
My wife’s school district started back up this week. Kids are getting tested, but some parents are refusing to let their kids get tested. Today this showed up outside one of my wife’s elementary schools.
There aren’t the curse words to properly encapsulate the rage I feel right now.
Scuzz
1736
At least they are not in front of the local school board yelling out their idiocy.
If nothing else, Ecuador is quite serious about vaccinations and mask mandates, everyone gets a vaccine as soon as they possibly can, and everybody wears masks, even outdoors in the streets. There isn’t anything like an anti-mask or anti-vax resistance here.
Is most of the anti-mask, anti-vax idiocy a matter of transposing other issues, like anger at not being able to be racist, sexist, and homophobic 24/7 in public without getting called on it, or something? I mean, how can you get that worked up about basic public health measures, unless there is a lot of other stuff really driving it?
Alstein
1741
Very much this- you scratch an anti-vaxxer/COVID denier (note: this is different than someone who disagress on policies but can accept things with sufficient evidence and operates in the same realm of facts) and you will 99% of the time find a racist or transphobe.
There’s no testing, reporting, tracing or quarantining in our local school district in Iowa. Sick kids need doctor notes this year too, no reason, I’m sure.
Welcome to hell. Happily I have no contact with kids directly, but today is the end of the first week of school. Called my doctor for my quarterly visit and was informed we will be doing it via phone again.
End of the first week of school for my kids too. Fortunately masking and proper distancing are required in classrooms, and kids testing positive must quarantine. I still worry because, well, COVID, but I’m hopeful. I do agree that being in class is good for the kids and hopefully with proper precautions everything will turn out fine. Guess we’ll see.
ddtibbs
1744
My son (potentially immunocompromised from a bone marrow transplant) got the Pfizer booster today. My work is trying to get us Moderna boosters some time in October. Still waiting to find out what the J&J situation will be for the wife.
CraigM
1745
Probably a good call though, I can’t imagine you relished going to the germ repository right now.
CraigM
1746
Oh I hear you. I would be inventing new ones as we speak.
Honest to god if I caught the person doing this in the act? I may or may not end that night in jail.
Scuzz
1747
Here it is somehow political. Ecuador didn’t have Trump.
There has been plenty of politics and human nature. Restaurants and bars opened before they should have because of protests and the threat of civil unrest. Before the vaccinations began to flow to many people, there were scam operations selling fake vaccines, giving people vitamin IV drips, etc. Once the vaccinations began to arrive, politicians broke the rules to get them themselves, or to get them for friends or family members. The former health minister is in Miami now, where he fled from prosecution after he away caught sneaking his mother into an early vaccination site. There is a huge ongoing investigation into a very wealthy and prominent family who apparently operated a black market in masks and PPE and tests and, eventually, vaccines.
At the same time, what there is is a healthy respect for Covid among most people. I still see parties and things like that — there were 20+ middle-aged and older people gathered at a dinner party in the terrace apartment across the street from my own last night, and there is a rooftop nightclub I can see from my bedroom terrace that has been going strong for months — but otherwise people want vaccines and they wear masks.
Scuzz
1749
Human nature will operate without politics. The good, bad and the ugly.
As much as I enjoyed going without a mask for awhile it probably would have been better in the long run if those kinds of restrictions had been maintained. That little taste of freedom has made returning even harder.
C wanted to get her hair cut today so we took a walk to the place where she gets it cut — a one person operation, just her and the woman who cuts it, nobody else in the place. Next door is a pizza / Italian restaurant and it was completely empty so I decided to go inside for a beer and wait for her there. It was fine, I think, a big open place with just me and the owner. I felt bad about just ordering a beer so I looked at the menu and ordered some garlic bread knots. For $2.50 I figured there would be a couple but when they came it was like a dozen of them lol. I ate them all anyway. They were great, but then I had to put on my mask for the long walk home and the garlic nearly killed me.
But did you get attacked by vampires? I would think not!
