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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
This week has me feeling a bit like I’ve fallen down a rabbit’s hole. Politics aside, the mixed messages on COVID are other worldly. More people seem to be out and about. There’s more traffic on the road, more cars in parking lots outside of restaurants and stores. More invites from friends to get together, with social distancing of course. Yet cases are on the rise, and The Presidents gets it which proves no one is immune. Then he gets an experimental cocktail and seems to indicate this is a cure and we should not be afraid. I guess he thinks it’s all over and It’s no big deal. Yet the cocktail contains stem cells, which will be interesting to see how that plays out with Pro-lifers who clearly will have to abstain right? And it’s experimental so not available to us. And the cost was tens of thousands, and we don’t know that he’s out of the woods yet. And contrast that with the video of the sobbing nurse who is furious at his indifference in social distancing because she has done chest compressions on hundreds of patients and knows this is not a joke for anyone else. Occasionally I pop on to one of the talk radio stations and am always amazed at the lies and vitriol that is allowed, and encouraged there. Having isolated and been so careful for so long to see the leader of our country speak and act with such indifference is another example of the parallel lives In other worlds some of my fellow Americans seem to be living in. Move over Peter, I guess I may be here awhile.
October 11, 2020
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How is the coronavirus pandemic affecting your life right now? Tell us about your experiences, feelings, and thoughts.
Well, nothing happened too much other than my daughter getting her COVID booster two days ago but I do have some thoughts… So today the CDC has backtracked their “you don’t need to wear a mask indoors if you are vaccinated” advice because infection rates and hospitalizations have spiked due to low vaccination rates in many places of the USA due to the Delta variant taking over. So a lot of unvaccinated people took advantage of the previous recommendation and now the whole country is paying the price. In my province, 80% have had their first vaccination while 57% have had their second booster. So while we are seeing some increase in overall new cases, it’s minuscule compared to the increase seen to the south of us in the States. This tells me two things- 1. Overall, there are a lot of idiots/poorly informed people in the USA. This is slowing down getting past the pandemic in North America. This has helped confirmed to me that I no longer want to support that country via purchases or tourism dollars in the future. 2. Unlike the polio epidemic, there is a lack of public feeling that as a cohesive whole, we can beat COVID by getting everyone possible vaccinated. What’s happened other than a whole lot of misinformation out there to cause this? Or are people getting less concerned overall about their community as time goes on? This is a truly nasty virus. It’s not going away any time soon and if more people will admit that and act appropriately, we may make some more headway. Vaccinations and continuing to have public health measures in place are the only way the world community is going to get over this, despite the fact some people think wishing it away is going to help.
July 28, 2021