Is any one starting to mentally write off 2021 too? It might just be me.
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Is any one starting to mentally write off 2021 too? It might just be me.
Is any one starting to mentally write off 2021 too? It might just be me.
Per Dr. Fauci: "A vaccine is likely to be 75% effective. About 75% of people will take it. That means 50% of the population will be relatively safe. That's not enough for herd immunity. So the most vulnerable of the populations won't be protected." Me: "So maybe 2021 is gone also. Unless I go into Kamikaze mode and just say "F***k it." Choices. choices.
They have no idea what they are doing here yet. Wait and see, I guess.For me personally I'm not getting a rushed vaccine. I work at a school and Gov. Murphy said for Sept. that teachers and not students are required to wear masks. At the current rate of uptick in infections in the lower states I see another stay at home order coming before September in NJ. This is still the first wave and COVID combined with the Flu I see stricter mandates here in NJ.
This didn't age very well.Not at all!
I'm back to pretty much normal here. Seems like it is that way almost everywhere I go.
- I stopped at Wawa this AM on my way to work for a breakfast sandwich and it was more packed than I have ever seen it
- Traffic on my way home is as busy as ever
- At Advance Auto yesterday none of the employees were even wearing masks
- Numbers continue to drop even though things are opening back up
- Hospitals have admitted fewer people than they do with the flu each year
I'm done worrying about getting it. It's in the back of my mind and I still take reasonable precautions, but it isn't stopping me from living a normal life.
This didn't age very well.
Likewise, my (extended) family wants to get together for 4th of July - which would be a meeting of me (immune compromised), my brother (immune compromised) my father (immune compromised) my grandmother (92 years old, immune compromised, lung issues), and several sisters in law, all of whom work in healthcare, and one of whom is a medical resident who treats Covid-19 patients in NYC.
I'm one of the more optimistic people out there but this would be a hard and fast NO for me. Not even a second thought.
Not necessarily (assuming you mean the recent media coverage of the "cases spike"). Hospitalizations and deaths attributed to COVID (the numerator) are way down per 100,000 which is why you aren't seeing those numbers in the media. All the media is telling you is the case count (the denominator) is increasing. This is probably more attributable to the access to testing kits than anything else. If you're a herd immunity kind of guy this isn't a big deal. You would want the population (50 and younger) with the best chance of shrugging it off to get it. Plus I've read several hospital administrators say the patients they do admit now are significantly less symptomatic than in the early days, ie, less ICU beds and ventilators required. Again, these aren't things you'll see on the nightly news casts but are positives of the current COVID situation.
I'm very torn about all of this - it's certainly a complex problem for everyone involved. The fear-mongering and politicization by the media isn’t making it better.
We got together with my wife's family this weekend for her birthday. Just before, we found out her brother had had a huge house party with friends and strangers alike the day before. I'm immune compromised and my wife's sister has a child on a ventilator (unrelated to Covid) so my wife told her brother not to come - but it certainly creates tension.
Likewise, my (extended) family wants to get together for 4th of July - which would be a meeting of me (immune compromised), my brother (immune compromised) my father (immune compromised) my grandmother (92 years old, immune compromised, lung issues), and several sisters in law, all of whom work in healthcare, and one of whom is a medical resident who treats Covid-19 patients in NYC.
Further, my mother in law wants us all to come to the beach (Ocean City Maryland) while they're down there next week - in addition to crowds, people are being beaten to death in riots on the boardwalk.
All of this to say, it is exhausting having to worry anytime you commit to do something with other people. We are (mostly) social beings/pack animals so this new normal is deeply unsettling to a lot of people. I’m also in a job the necessitates travel and meeting people - before the pandemic this was 3-4 days a week up and down the east coast. I do have to worry if things don’t move toward re-opening my company may start to ask why they’re paying me. I can only do so much from home.
I’m very much torn, every day, between the “**** it” camp and the “play it safe” camp. I desperately want to go back to seeing people and living a normal life and earning my commission again, but I’m technically in the “high risk” category. I’m just glad it seems to affect kids less, I’d be a mess if my daughter was more at risk. We certainly can’t hide in our houses forever, so I’m just going to wear my mask and try to avoid obvious “red flags” like big gatherings/crowds as best I can and do things as normally as I can.
These are strange times, to say the least.
@caz ... you are very fortunate that several in your direct family have beaten Covid-19 without a poor result. Lancaster is a very hot spot right now.
Lancaster County takes top slot in per capita rate of new coronavirus cases in Pennsylvania
Increased testing and a larger portion of tests turning out positive for COVID-19 have pushed Lancaster County to the state’s stop slot in the rate of new coronavirus cases forlancasteronline.com