Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

In a couple years…we might have a real issue. And the reason being our idiot public health officials mandated a new drug for people who were at low risk and was not that effective.

If only people understood how terrible this has been handled. From messaging. To dictates.

Public health officials have done so much damage to medicine over the past year plus it is palpable!

Unfortunately I think we will see a big decrease in mmr vaccination rates (a lot of vaccination rates) because of these public health officials. I hope I am wrong. But we will see. Most should all be fired for incompetence.

 

Yeah, the solution to the actual outbreaks was to mandate. But, of course, you had no problem with that back then. The narcissism of the anti-vax movement found more ripe grounds to spread on the political right than it did on the political left. And, of course, the problem isn't the narcissism of people who actually understand contagion and the notions of likelihoods pretending like they don't because it is inconvenient to do so, but the experts doing exactly what we have done for decades for doing it to the new anti-vaxxers.

 

Desperate for attention. I think I've blocked two or three people over my decades on GC. Blocking that person who gives the funny ratings made this thread much more readable.

 

Either does he

 

At least they got a t-shirt.

 

This is kind of perplexing. It seems to me people such as yourself are against the very idea of handling the situation. Anti restrictions. Anti shutdowns. Anti mandates. Anti masks. Anti vaccines. Best I can tell what you and your buddies are advocating is basically do nothing and let things run their course.

 

No, he didn’t say do NOTHING. He’s said everyone should lose massive amounts of weight and end obesity before catching Covid while have no measures in place to slow the spread. Sounds reasonable.

 

Good point. But isn't anybody in Goverment suggesting you should put down that Angry Whopper a massive unconstitutional intrusion on individual liberty? I mean, like.....freedom??

 

Some of this is correct. Some is not.

I am not anti vaccine. I am anti mandates. I could care less if you want to wear a mask. Mandating kids wear them is wrong and will negatively affect their development imo. It does not do anything to slow the spread. Lockdowns have caused more damage than was necessary. Shutting down schools will be the biggest public health disaster of my lifetime. So many kids were harmed by that idiotic decision. The poorest harmed the most. I am all for a community shutting down for a short period if it is necessary. But to shut the entire country or even state down because one community has a surge and might need to for a short period is just plain stupid.

 

Voluntary community shutdowns. That should work well.

 

Some of you guys remind me of Klobuchar. Complaining about sitting next to a maskless Ted Cruz while sitting maskless across from maskless Jake Tapper.

 

It reminds me of all the elite events where they all have no mask on but all the servers and guards masked up. We are a county of cowards now. Some states demand students (who are very low risk across the board) to be masked but go out to dinners and events themselves unmasked.

 

Wuhan lab leak 'now the most likely origin of Covid', MPs told

Not that anyone should be surprised. MIT and Harvard's scientists also suggest the virus was engineered.

 

“The two-shot Pfizer course may offer 70% protection against being hospitalized with the variant that is driving the country’s fourth wave of infections”

Pfizer Stops 70% Omicron Hospitalizations in South Africa Study

 

It's all political theatre. Complete joke. The truly funny part is a lot of posters on here believe the crap they spew. After being wrong for almost 2 years you'd think they'd wise up LOL.

 

It is the way it should have been handled. If your community is surging to a point that measures need to be taken then they should. If a school has an outbreak…shut the school down. Don’t shut the schools down that do not need to be. Not hard and a lot less damage would have been caused.

 

But instead what we got was schools with a quarter of their students and faculty out for covid trying to stay open.

 

The current total case numbers for Alachua County for this school year are 5% of students and 5.25% of all staff.

Go GATORS!
,WESGATORS

 

Yes, but they weren't evenly distributed. Alachua county and Marion county don't make it easy to see numbers on a daily or weekly basis by school. In St Johns county, Mill Creek Academy had a quarter of its students out for covid in early September. Freedom Crossing Academy (these are both K-8 schools) had about a fifth of its students out for covid around the same time. Other schools in the county had a quarter of the cases with similar enrollments.