STEAM ROOM FOR ANGER

I have come here to yell. One of our dear stage iv sisters, in the midst of dealing with her own progression and treatment change, is caring for her sister who is in a nursing home dying of metastatic breast cancer. And now, one of the STAFF at the NURSING HOME has tested positive for covid. Bet you $100 this stupid, selfish person is not vaccinated. And now the sisters may not be able to visit properly because of this.

🤬 All healthcare staff members need to be vaccinated.

Anyone who hasn't been vaccinated due to a valid concern of vaccine side effects needs to reevaluate their risk of exposure to the Delta variant. It's more infectious and likely result in worse symptoms. At least vaccinations are controlled events. You can prepare for side effects from vaccination.

USC just Released a study that I’m sure surprises no one -there were many more unvaccinated people going to bars and going to indoor large events also the unvaccinated are much less likely to wear a mask at these events even though we’ve had a voluntary wear a mask if you’re not vaccinated. Of course now we have a mask mandate regardless of vaccination status which I must say everybody here is sighing with relief because no one ever trusted the unvaccinated to mask up. a whole Lotta stupid going on

I feel very bad for anyone who is hospiced, hospitalized, nursing homed and facing lifeall alone due to stupid choices of others.

The hospital in Elko County, Nevada is begging its citizens to get vaccinated and wear a mask. Only 26% is fully vaccinated.

Here in Backassward Central, aka Missouri, the state attorney general, who is as rotten as Gubner Evil Goober Parson, is filing a lawsuit AGAINST the mask mandates in some school districts. Fuck him, with a Sequoia log covered in fire ants.

Ooh Alice! I'd always heard sideways with a cactus, but the fire ants are a nice touch!

I haven't lived in MO since 1984, but yeesh, I hear you, and I'm sorry. Hope sanity and sense of obligation toward others return at some point in my lifetime.

I'm a (mostly) retired nurse. I spent most of my time from January to May volunteering to give vaccinations. In the very beginning, it was heartwarming to give our elderly citizens their shots. They were so grateful. "You've given me my family and freedom back."

Fast forward to today, where self-centeredness, zero concern for one's fellow man, and an arrogant sense of immortality reigns. "I won't get COVID, but if I do, it will be like the flu. I'm not worried. My healthy immune system will protect me." In these, the unvaccinated, the virus replicates and mutates and becomes more infectious for EVERYONE. This is the crowd that beats the drums of personal freedom, unconstitutional mandates, junk science.

OK. Exercise your personal freedom. Don't take the vaccination. STAY HOME. You're not welcome at schools, restaurants, sporting events, concerts, church, public transportation, stores.

It seems to me that in the past, during other severe public health crises, communities were eager to work together toward a common good. Mothers stood in long, long lines with their children, grateful to be receiving polio vaccines. People wore masks and helped their neighbors during the Spanish flu. Today, though, we have airplane passengers assaulting one another over requests to wear a mask. Conversations in social media deteriorate into name-calling, taunting, sometimes threats.

What have we become?

sbelizabeth - I share your anger and frustration at the utter selfishness of those idiots who reject vaccination. They put the rest of us at risk without a second thought. As for those contemptible individuals who invent and disseminate vaccination conspiracy theories, I can't put into words what I'd like to do with them.

Take care.

Rosiecat - What I would like to do to the anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists? Vax, mask, and turn off their WiFi.

Betrayal - People unable to do their part is why we need mandates. For your husband, I recommend a phrase I used when I stepped between a friend and her stalky-ex who wouldn't let her leave: "Back the F*CK Up!". I had to repeat and step forward each time, but it worked. I'm under 5' so I need to be more forceful. 😁

Pretty clever of Delta Air. Rather than issue a vaccine mandate or pay incentives, they're recouping some of the $$$ paid out. Employees have to provide proof of vaccine to stop the automatic premium of $200 each month. Vaccinations are free. Do the math.

There should be medical exemptions, but those need validation. There are too many people deciding themselves that they can't take the vaccine. I read someone claiming diabetes makes him susceptible to the vaccine. Puh-lease! Diabetics are one of the viruses faves.

wrenn - I think there should be a medical exemption for the insurance surcharge (not a worry here in Canada). While the cases are rising, those unvaccinated for health reasons should stay home since anti-vaxxers/anti-maskers are not. Here non-essential services require the vaccine passport.

There's no mask mandate? 🤬

The mask mandate for transit in BC just came back effective today. For a while everyone was pretending covid was over. I'm not happy with our PHO at all..... days before putting the mask mandate back she was at a football game taking unmasked selfies with strangers. Last fall she wrote an op-ed saying masks were bad just days before institiuting a mask mandate. She's a flippety floppity gongshow.