Neverending Covid-19 Coronavirus

Sonicpharmacist said:
School is starting soon. My younger son is 11, turns 12 in September, so he will be vaccinated soon. Until then he will be unprotected at school, except for his mask. Monday the school board is meeting, and one of the agenda items is whether or not to mandate masks for kids and employees. Needless to say, my wife and I are in favor of a mandate. We don’t want him to get Covid, and since I have asthma, I would prefer to not test my antibodies.

We have a strong contingency of anti-maskers here, and they’re planning on attending the meeting to make their opinions known, one of which is a coworker of mine who’s a pharmacist as well who no longer has school-aged kids. My wife and I now also plan on attending.

The reason things are worsening are because of the unvaccinated. Until children under 12 can get vaccinated, we have to rely on the grown-ups to do the right thing and protect them by getting vaccinated.

I found this the other day, apparently it came out when smallpox was rampant. Have we learned nothing as a society?
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My son turned 12 in July. We just got his first shot. He had no negative side effects at all.
My son also has Autism and ADHD and neither condition was exacerbated.
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So proud of my state right now.
Ugh, so my uncle passed last week from dementia. His condition had been getting much worse for a while. His kids (and him) are all anti vaxers and it's been fun trying to coordinate a funeral since both of my cousins came down with Covid. My mom is helping my aunt with all the paperwork, but she's refusing to be around my cousins because my dad is a transplant patient. It's been a mess.

Ugh, well at least we decided that Jazz Fest while we have record high infections might not be a great idea.

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Last week, the Rolling Stones announced that drummer Charlie Watts would not perform at the 2021 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival this fall.
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In Texas, the governor has a ban on mask mandates in schools.

Though some school districts, through a loophole issue mask mandates for students while on school busses following the CDC guidelines which calls for such mandates. This is in defiance of the governors order and he is expected to challenge it and try to withhold funding from school districts that mandated masks on school buses.
 
Houston and Austin are also doing mask mandates. That's 3 of the 4 largest school districts in Texas giving Governor Greg Abbott the finger. Not sure where San Antonio stands right now. My 11 year old is relieved that she can start school next Monday at her new junior high with masks again. She's the only one of us not vaccinated yet.
 
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Houston and Austin are also doing mask mandates. That's 3 of the 4 largest school districts in Texas giving Governor Greg Abbott the finger. Now sure where San Antonio stands right now. My 11 year old is relieved that she can start school next Monday at her new junior high with masks again. She's the only one of us not vaccinated yet.
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mask requirements indoors at SA universities, Joint Base, and for all city employees. all SA school districts are encouraging masks and vaccinations for eligible students, but no mandates.

I know the largest district is continuing to offer virtual classes for all grades below the age of 12 (also one of the wealthier districts, keeping up with the virtual classes is most likely not feasible for southside district without gov. funding, and they have greater numbers of students without internet access at home.)
 
Savannah Georgia reinstated their indoor mask mandate, but I was just there and no one told them -_-

It's all lip service, no one will do what they're supposed to do. We'll just cull the old and ignorant and callously deal with the few sick and dying child "consequences."

People suck.
 
bfly said:
mask requirements indoors at SA universities, Joint Base, and for all city employees. all SA school districts are encouraging masks and vaccinations for eligible students, but no mandates.

I know the largest district is continuing to offer virtual classes for all grades below the age of 12 (also one of the wealthier districts, keeping up with the virtual classes is most likely not feasible for southside district without gov. funding, and they have greater numbers of students without internet access at home.)
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San Antonio is suing Governor Abbott over his denial of their local control authority. Good. Dallas, Houston and Austin all need to do the same.

 
After 18 months of this and seeing whats going on in some areas it's scary to think if something "really bad" like a world wide Ebola for ie comes one day, they have made that movie a few times and it's not a pretty.
 
If anyone is looking for a calming voice regarding COVID, I suggest following Dr. Lucy McBride. I believe she sends out weekly emails that kind of help keep things in perspective. My wife discovered her because she is the sister of Walter Martin of The Walkmen.
 
As a hospital employee in a state that has done fairly well against Covid, we are seeing a dramatic increase in covid positive patients.

We had 13 of our 40 bed on our unit in Covid precautions on Sunday - the last night I worked.
I think that is the most we've had on our unit since this all started.

I don't know how many were vaccinated, but the 2 in my group were not.


I agree with this guy....and it is going to happen to a lot of other non-covid patients, as we are constantly full - and under staffed.

 
LeeVing said:
As a hospital employee in a state that has done fairly well against Covid, we are seeing a dramatic increase in covid positive patients.

We had 13 of our 40 bed on our unit in Covid precautions on Sunday - the last night I worked.
I think that is the most we've had on our unit since this all started.

I don't know how many were vaccinated, but the 2 in my group were not.


I agree with this guy....and it is going to happen to a lot of other non-covid patients, as we are constantly full - and under staffed.

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One of my good friends, his mom quarantined for 10 months, and then she spiked a fever and had to go in because she had cancer and an infection etc. Caught covid and died. He just had a baby, she's a year old, no time with grandma, grandma didn't get to enjoy the baby either, just ... gone. Because of exactly this. It's infuriating. The sheer cruel fucking selfishness of it.
 
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