I think we are on our own when it comes to Covid.

[leftyladyfrommo]

At least in KCMO we seem to be
I bet that no one will be wearing a mask here soon. If you're vaccinated you should be ok and life will get back to pretty normal

If you aren't vaccinated and you get sick? Well. You got plenty of warning. Deal with it.

[VarryOn]

1. Yep. Decisions have consequences, anti-vaxxers...

And some decisions have bigger ones. Let’s add not getting the shot to that list.

Others include trying meth the first time, hitting your gf, not stopping when she says “no”, telling your wife she talks to her mother too much, and introducing a handgun to a bank transaction.

[RegularJam]

2. To an extent.

Vaccinations are readily available. The solution is readily available.

[progree]

3. Minneapolis: have received at least one dose: whites: 71%, Hispanics: 35%, Blacks: 28%,

71% of white people living in Minneapolis have received at least one dose. It falls to 35% for Hispanic people, and 28% of Black and African-Americans,

5/14/21

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2021/05/14/despite-end-of-mandate-many-minnesotans-not-ready-to-drop-the-masks/

Something is not quite right in my mind with the common DU narrative that people who are not vaccinated by now deserve their fate.

I don't know how to explain this. I don't have a car, but vaccination openings are widely available (practically every hour of the day everywhere) at numerous pharmacies and community vaccination sites within walking distance or one bus / rail trip (not this take one bus and then wait 35 minutes to take another and then another crap). The community sites are walk-in.

The city and county are doing some things like mobile clinics, but not enough. Seems like there ought to be a squad of volunteers with tablets or something that help people set up appointments and get to them.

Edited to add another statistic that comes to mind: a guest on the PBS Newshour last night (5/14/21) said only 36% of the American population is fully vaccinated (yes, this includes children). The percentage for African Americans is 28%.

[Pinback]

5. Agreed. I have a similar reaction -- see my previous post in this thread.

Just as with any communicable disease, the risk spreads outward from each carrier, with results that are impossible to predict but likely to increase the number of cases and deaths.

While I don't have much empathy for anti-vaxxers in general, I do have concern for their current and future victims.

[Pinback]

4. You and every single individual you come in contact with.

Every single unvaccinated person who refuses to wear a mask and stay six feet away from others is risking the health of every other person in their household, every cashier they interact with, every person they sit next to or stand in line next to, etc. And they are risking the health of everybody each of those contacts encounters.

For those of us who are fully vaccinated, the risk is minimal but not zero. With so many others who haven't yet been vaccinated, the behavior of the anti-vaxxers puts us all at risk for future variants of the virus, as well as continued circulation of the existing virus and its existing and future variants. When our current vaccine immunity subsides in a few months, we'll again be at high risk until we get our booster shots (which we're hoping will be effective).

All this is to say nothing of the global effects of COVID carriers circulating among the general population, spreading the virus to create more asymptomatic and symptomatic carriers worldwide.

So it's not quite as simple as just saying, "Not vaccinated? Go ahead and die -- not my problem."

Fortunately, many U.S. businesses are starting to require proof of vaccination to enter as a customer or work as an employee, as reported in these stories:

• Denver Bar Requires Proof Of COVID Vaccination To Drink Inside Without Face Mask - https://news.yahoo.com/denver-bar-requires-proof-covid-041314592.html


• Most U.S. companies will require proof of Covid vaccination from employees, survey finds - https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/29/most-us-companies-will-require-proof-of-covid-vaccination-from-employees-survey.html

[leftyladyfrommo]

6. Shots are readily available here so the people who

haven't got them.probably just won't get them. I think most seniors got shots as soon as rhey could. Most of us remember polio and mumps and measles and whooping cough. Young people didn't have to live through all those because schools required vaccinations