Covid shot mandate, here it comes

[BudT]

https://abc7ny.com/nyc-vaccine-passport-requirement-mandate-covid/10926728/

Next step...........soon, to your door with the needle. Don't ya just love the commies doing this crap. Hair sniffer to the rescue, shut up and take it peon.
BudT

[togor]

They won't come to my door.

Out of curiosity, how many here did/would/will get the shingles vaccine? That's no picnic either.

[dryheat]

I've gotten two shingles shots. The first one was kind of a failure it turned out but I never got shingles.

[BudT]

Getting a shingles shot is just like getting a China disease shot, it ain't on my bucket list. But anyone that wants them can have them it's their decision.

[jon_norstog]

My wife and I did the whole social distance/mask thing and didn't get sick. We got the shots when they became available. Our son, who works in a hospital, got the Moderna shot and got sick as a dog next few days. Turned out he was already infected with the 'rona and it just hadn't shown up as symptoms. He said he's never been that sick in his life. Daughter, son-in-law got the shots. Grandchildren are too young, but they were OK last school year.

The virus is coming back stronger than ever, your choice what to do 'bout it, but this is a serious disease. Good luck!

jn

[Mark in Ottawa]

I truly don't understand the resistance by some governments and a lot of individuals to getting vaccinated. Yes, it is your right not to get vaccinated but is it your right to get infected and then infect others?

Here in Ottawa where I live, about 83% of people over 12 years of age have had at least one shot and almost 75% are fully vaccinated. At this point, our hospitals have no patients who have COVID, the number of new cases per day is less than 5 and the total number of known cases in the city is only 42. Basically vaccines work.

[togor]

I truly don't understand the resistance by some governments and a lot of individuals to getting vaccinated. Yes, it is your right not to get vaccinated but is it your right to get infected and then infect others?

Here in Ottawa where I live, about 83% of people over 12 years of age have had at least one shot and almost 75% are fully vaccinated. At this point, our hospitals have no patients who have COVID, the number of new cases per day is less than 5 and the total number of known cases in the city is only 42. Basically vaccines work.

It's worse than that, sadly. We have leaders who reject any/all actions to flatten the curve, including masks and distancing, all in the name of "freedom". As in freedom to die, freedom to kill or cripple others. There's a nihilism to it that is downright ugly at times. Maybe if the virus was 10X more lethal it would silence the nihilists, or convert them. Who knows with a mutation or two we might get that.

[m1ashooter]

Folks I had to go to the ER last Sunday night I was doubled over with abdominal pain, it durned out to be pancreatitis, three days later I was able to go home. Here is the real story. I was dropped off at a large hospital which has between 50 an 80 chairs in the ER.. When I was there last July it was almost empty. So I go in and see it packed with sick people in masks and wrapped in blankets. I turned around and left and went to a ER hospital which is out of network. After they figure out what is wrong with me they say they have to keep me a few days and have special permission to use a room they don't normally use. The Doctor then tells me that there are no empty beds in Houston because of the blow up in Covid. Those people at the other hospital were all waiting a bed. I read one news report that said a man at the county hospital had to wait 30 hours for a bed. The reasons for this mess are many. Most of it is self choice by the person, Blacks and Hispanics are lag far behind in Houston getting the shot, then the illegal aliens flooding across the border to Houston isn't helping and on top of that a shortage of nurses. Many have left to easier gigs. Beware all.

[lyman]

It's worse than that, sadly. We have leaders who reject any/all actions to flatten the curve, including masks and distancing, all in the name of "freedom". As in freedom to die, freedom to kill or cripple others. There's a nihilism to it that is downright ugly at times. Maybe if the virus was 10X more lethal it would silence the nihilists, or convert them. Who knows with a mutation or two we might get that.

keep in mind that this particular virus has been politicized to death, on both sides, and used as a political tool,

some, as in more than you likely know, have grown tired of all the BS, and are ready to get on with their lives, and are tired or the finger pointing, misleading charts, and data that cannot always be trusted

[togor]

m1ashooter:

Sorry to hear about your bout with pancreatitis. From what I have heard it is really really tough. I had a friend who lost his pancreas to it(!), literally. He spent 3 months in a drug-induced coma while they pumped him full of antibiotics to fight the sepsis. At his "welcome home" party, his doctor was there, said he was in the 100% mortality bracket for awhile. He felt a bad pain one evening, they put him in a coma right away, and 3 months later he wakes up a type I diabetic and has to take enzymes to properly digest his food. But he's still here!

Sure, people can be done with the virus, but that doesn't mean the virus is done with people. Sometimes folks just have to do what needs to be done, and usually that works best if it is by choice, and not compelled. At least in the USA, that has been our way. But we've gone several generations now without something like this coming along, so some people just can't get it. So now even in "freedom-loving" places on the map, 19th-Century rules are getting a fresh look, if things get bad enough. Back then, even in America, they did not mess around if the sickness was bad enough.

[Johnny P]

At least the 360,000 people in the U.S. that died from the virus passed on with the knowledge they didn't have to worry about a government conspiracy or side effects from a vaccination.

Biden is going for herd immunity by sending all the infected illegals to every part of the U.S. Once everyone has the virus we will have achieved herd immunity.

[Sandpebble]

keep in mind that this particular virus has been politicized to death, on both sides, and used as a political tool,

some, as in more than you likely know, have grown tired of all the BS, and are ready to get on with their lives, and are tired or the finger pointing, misleading charts, and data that cannot always be trusted

Wife and I have lost members of the family... recently... to covid . The last two were 68 and 37 years old. The 37 year old died on Fathers day leaving a 4 month old and 2 year old behind. He caught the disease from his father in law who believed a couple of shots of Tequila a day was equal to any vaccine .... he died as well.

This all happened in South America so there were no Democrats or Republicans to point a finger at . All the wife and I know is that loved ones are dead .

When did Americans become so stupid that we would allow a disease to become a political tool ? we need only look back four and a half years

Daniel Gomez suffered and died a victim of stupidity, and ignorance on Fathers Day .

My own Father will not get the vaccine , nor will he acknowledge the deaths on my wife's side of the family ..... he still believes the disease is a Democrat hoax ...

...... probably because he he spends 12 hours a day with his face welded to the fox news channel

[lyman]

Wife and I have lost members of the family... recently... to covid . The last two were 68 and 37 years old. The 37 year old died on Fathers day leaving a 4 month old and 2 year old behind. He caught the disease from his father in law who believed a couple of shots of Tequila a day was equal to any vaccine .... he died as well.

This all happened in South America so there were no Democrats or Republicans to point a finger at . All the wife and I know is that loved ones are dead .

When did Americans become so stupid that we would allow a disease to become a political tool ? we need only look back four and a half years

Daniel Gomez suffered and died a victim of stupidity, and ignorance on Fathers Day .

My own Father will not get the vaccine , nor will he acknowledge the deaths on my wife's side of the family ..... he still believes the disease is a Democrat hoax ...

...... probably because he he spends 12 hours a day with his face welded to the fox news channel

pebbles,

sorry for your loss,

I also personally knew folks that passed from Covid,

one guy was waiting on the shot to become available, and caught it from his wife (who was also not able to get the shot yet)

both are older than I ,,

sad is that our state, governed by D's, were at one point , at the bottom of distribution of the shots,

and our governor is a doctor,,

as far as stupidity by Americans, that goes back way way more than 4 years, way way back,

[togor]

Virginia is currently tied with Colorado among the states for 13th best fully vaccinated rate, at 55%.

But by all means fault must be found so blame them for something they already rectified, a slow start.

[Johnny P]

It has become the norm in the United States to "let someone else do it". If someone lived their life devoid of contacting others there is reason enough not to get prescribed vaccinations, but most want to continue their lives of mingling with those that got the vaccination, or, let someone else do it. The vaccine provides both individual and community protection, as most diseases that are vaccinated against are spread from person to person.