Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

Ah, you did well so, your case is typical of everyone else. Well reasoned! Go on and hold onto the narcissism too. The really sick people are out of sight and out of mind!

 

We are there! Biden has kicked COVID’s spiked butt!

 

Not everyone else just typical for 99% of everyone else who got it, 78 million people.. you must be cursing the 250 million that didn't get it at all or at least never reported it.

 

My coworker and his family had to cancel spring break vacation due to wife and 1 of their 3 kids catching Covid this week. First I’ve known in a few weeks.

 

Get ready for a crowded spring break: Every Tampa Bay public school and USF have off

 

Pasco County schools are self insured. Blue Cross says that Covid claims from unvaccinated employees cost the system $11 million, that all must figure some way to pay.

Have not seen other stories of the unvaccinated making others bear the burden of their decision through the shared risk pools that is our insurance system, self insured or not, but it stands to reason that this is not the only such system bearing these costs, which will be borne by all

Pasco schools take $11M hit - Tampa Bay Times

 

Covid mandates have at least revealed who the true authoritarians in our society are.

 

Really because we wouldn't want insurance to bear the cost of others life choices.
All those preventable diseases and risky behaviors that result in injury.

 

Insurance bears the costs of most choices, but none so voluntary and indefensible as vaccine refusal. And in certain instances such as smoking, we require, to the extent possible, the individual to bear greater cost. And smoking is addictive, not simply stupid. But alas, won’t happen with vaccine refusal, because one political party proudly stands for the stupid

 

LOL!

This was funny. A good laugh in the morning is much appreciated.

 

You really can’t control your narcissism. There is is again. You can’t even grasp what the problem is with your reasoning. The idea that because a high percentage of people had mild cases, the so called small percentage who had serious cases prices something about the disease.. It is the close to 1 million dead Americans, more hospitalized who survived, and more who got sick (not just colds, but fevers etc) who you dismiss so cavalierly because you were fortunate not to have a bad experience.

 

So, Florida Department of Health convenes the Great Barrington Declaration doctors to announce Florida’s public policy against vaccinating kids. Where were they before Biden kicked COVID’s butt?

 

And we have yet another study showing masks don't work. Masking kids was just next level wrong. People won't admit they were wrong on masks and likely never will, instead they will try to say they weren't for or against them.

Unravelling the Role of the Mandatory Use of Face Covering Masks for the Control of SARS-CoV-2 in Schools: A Quasi-Experimental Study Nested in a Population-Based Cohort in Catalonia (Spain) by Ermengol Coma, Martí Català, Leonardo Méndez-Boo, Sergio Alonso, Eduardo Hermosilla, Enric Alvarez-Lacalle, David Pino, Manuel Medina-Peralta, Laia Asso, Anna Gatell, Quique Bassat, Ariadna Mas, Antoni Soriano-Arandes, Francesc Fina-Aviles, Clara Prats :: SSRN


"Face-covering mask mandates in schools were not associated with lower SARS-CoV-2 incidence or transmission, suggesting that this intervention was not effective."

 

Cases declining, but there are still cases. If I get sick, at least I have the test kits President Sleepy Joe sent me! Winning!

 

Healthy kids don't need to be vaccinated. Data is out there. Stop watching MSNBC for 2 minutes and read the studies. Let's see who was right all along, the CDC or the GBD doctors? GBD doctors by a mile. But you know this as does everyone. You know it but won't admit it.

 

You left out the next sentence of the study and didn’t explain what it compares or reviewed.

 

Actually mine wasn't mild. 3 days of 102 degree fever followed by 10 days of 99.
I know your life has been consumed by covid for 2 yrs. It must be hard that every day you become more irreverent to the world around you.

 

I am not going to engage in a repetitive circular with you discussing the data that has been repeatedly posted upthread. The GB doctors promoted herd immunity in the early days when we didn’t know how to treat the virus and it was entirely novel. Even with vaccines and mitigation, there are still close to 1 million dead now. How many dead from herd immunity when the disease first spread? We are relatively fortunate here that there was early mitigation until medicine developed treatments and then vaccines. We are fortunate that the Delta mutation struck when a good percentage of the population was vaccinated. The Great Barrington doctors are fools.

 

The CDC defines that disease as “mild.” Getting sick like that really is not. And my life has not been consumed by COVID. More egocentric narcissism by you. Someone who keeps informed and actually cares about others isn’t “consumed.” One can again see that it is impossible for you to understand the suffering of others. It reeks from every one of your posts. You don’t even mention those discussions in the posts. It always comes back to you because that is all you read. So, you dismiss that discussion with an insult for those who actually care about others. And if you actually pay attention, you would notice that I have repeatedly posted about being near the end of the pandemic.

 

I dismiss the discussion because it's nothing more than a CDC circle jerk for a small group of you.
The world has moved on from covid. It's a back burner issue. I feel for those that lost their life savings because of lockdowns. I feel for those who lost their jobs because of mandates and yes losing a loved one is tough but it happens every day for one reason or another, it's part of life.