Yup, you don't want to lose your personal freedom to stupid Covid. That would be a really stupid thing to do. Why I got my vaccine and wear mask indoors and outdoors.
Future generations should refer to Australia’s protocols as a shining example of what to do in a pandemic. MOO. I can only hope that the division in my own country will be a good discussion of sociology for the history books.
Well, I’ve had Covid AND spent six days in the hospital on O2 at age 75 in February. I was given every drug Trump got and I’m fortunate to be here. Is that really the way I’d want to get natural immunity to Covid? What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger? Seriously folks? Was that true of smallpox and polio? And what about those who end up with “long Covid” or die of Covid in their 30s and 40s with no chance to get “longer lasting and stronger protection”?
I’m not crazy, and if the study is correct that my “natural immunity” is stronger than offered by the vaccine, I’m not willing to gamble my health and what’s left of my life on having had Covid and hoping my immunity holds up. I got my two jabs in May and I will get a booster when offered. And I don’t just care about my own health. I care about others with whom I may come in contact. And I care about not becoming a human petri dish creating the next and worse variant.
Vaccinations have saved my generation from death and serious illness since childhood. Some of you younger ones might not be here if your parents had not been vaccinated as children. But now there are children losing parents who refuse the vaccines against Covid. One of the men who died in my county this month was 49 with two kids, unvaxxed. Every day someone in my county dies in their 40s of Covid, probably a parent. So much for freeeeeeeeedom.Those poor kids.
ETA: Yes, I realize the Israeli study recommends one shot for those who have had Covid because the natural immunity is so great. But in my community, one of the worst Covid counties in the country right now, people are arguing against getting any vax at all because they are confident in their immune systems (without having even had Covid). So most of my post is through that lens, not just referring to the Israeli study.
(google tells me this is a small school district with 3570 students total. Southern Minnesota)
COVID-19 outbreak in Albert Lea schools leads to mask mandate
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Albert Lea Area Schools had 36 cases of COVID-19 and 290 students in quarantine just five days after classes started on Aug. 19, far outpacing infections at the start of the last school year.
The district did not have a mask requirement, but one will start on Monday in grades six-12, where most of the cases originated.
"I just had no idea that it was going to take off like it did so fast," Superintendent Mike Funk said. "That was a surprise."
Well, I’ve had Covid AND spent six days in the hospital on O2 at age 75 in February. I was given every drug Trump got and I’m fortunate to be here. Is that really the way I’d want to get natural immunity to Covid? What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger? Seriously folks? Was that true of smallpox and polio? And what about those who end up with “long Covid” or die of Covid in their 30s and 40s with no chance to get “longer lasting and stronger protection”?
I’m not crazy, and if the study is correct that my “natural immunity” is stronger than offered by the vaccine, I’m not willing to gamble my health and what’s left of my life on having had Covid and hoping my immunity holds up. I got my two jabs in May and I will get a booster when offered. And I don’t just care about my own health. I care about others with whom I may come in contact. And I care about not becoming a human petri dish creating the next and worse variant.
Vaccinations have saved my generation from death and serious illness since childhood. Some of you younger ones might not be here if your parents had not been vaccinated as children. But now there are children losing parents who refuse the vaccines against Covid. One of the men who died in my county this month was 49 with two kids, unvaxxed. Every day someone in my county dies in their 40s of Covid, probably a parent. So much for freeeeeeeeedom.
ETA: Yes, I realize the Israeli study recommends one shot for those who have had Covid because the natural immunity is so great. But in my community, one of the worst Covid counties in the country right now, people are arguing against getting any vax at all because they are confident in their immune systems (without having even had Covid). So most of my post is through that lens, not just referring to the Israeli study.
