Makes you think
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Do your own research!
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Surprisingly, the “unmasking the surgeons” article and quotes appear to be genuine. I guess we should suspend all mask usage until we can figure out what the hell is going on.
A friend of mine replied that we need a Santorum-like campaign to coin a new word meaning “research”, but in the sense of just googling stuff and reading Facebook posts.
#FacebookUniversity
I didn’t count how many Covid positive patients came through my ED last night, but I took care of 3 directly. All young-ish, one got monoclonal antibodies, all went home.
Ironically, last night and the night before have been the least-busy nights in at least the last month or two. Probably because of the holiday. As recently as last Tuesday, it was hell on wheels.
I imagine the Tuesday night after the holiday will be rough. Thankfully I’ll be off for that one.
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Got the third shot at 4:15pm yesterday. Was mostly fine through the rest of the day, little tired (likely unrelated) and arm was slightly sore. Woke up at 4:30am uncontrollably shivering and with a splitting headache. Finally made my way out of bed at 8 to take a baseline temp for the day and it was 99.9, so not too bad. Felt a few degrees higher overnight. Still have a bad headache and sore all over my body, very similar to my experience post shot two but not quite as bad currently.
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Lets lighten things up in here. This is an actual serious post by actual people that I assume are able to tie their shoes and manage to get dressed in the morning:
Dangerous to humans or your business
Small business owners suck.
– Small business owner
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Maybe I’m the one being excessively cautious, but I see headlines like this and just go “WTF are people thinking??”
Edit: I know, I know, they’re thinking, “I’m young, I’m invincible, and if anything goes wrong I know where the feed store is.”
Movie theatres here still are only selling to like half capacity and it’s a great experience.
Have to be fully vaxxed too.
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Wrong link? I mean, I know superhero flicks aren’t for everyone, but this seems like the wrong thread to talk about, or the wrong link got pasted.
I’m not going to crap all over vaxxed people who want to go the movies.
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Sorry my point wasn’t clear. Delta still tearing shit up, hospitals overrun, and also we’re breaking holiday box-office records seems incongruous to me. Maybe I missed the memo about how theaters are considered “safe(r)” now but ~15 people a day are still dying in my county. Even fully vaxxed I think I’d need about a 6-seat buffer to be comfortable sitting near strangers for two hours. I wouldn’t trust they’re all really vaxxed and the masks are coming off for eating and drinking as soon as the lights go down.
I’m not trying to judge anybody who’s made a different risk calculation and wants to see a movie. It just seemed like another sign that people refuse to acknowledge the severity of what’s really happening.
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I’m still avoiding theaters, but I get why people are going back to them now.
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Got it. I totally wasn’t following. I would not begrudge people who were vaccinated and going to a masked theater, but I would estimate there aren’t actually many of these, given how much they need concession sales to make money.
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I think someone posted that they were able to rent out an entire theater in Manhattan for $200 to watch a movie (max 20 people IIRC). Seems like you can pull off a pretty safe theater experience if you’re willing to splurge a bit and have some friends/family that want to see the same movie.
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I’m fully vaxxed and going to movies with my mask on. I’m not going to avoid doing things I enjoy for years to (mostly) protect the unvaccinated. As far as I can tell me driving in Boston where I live is more dangerous to other people than this
I’m aware of hospital capacity arguments and will adjust behavior if there is any danger there or a new variant etc. but I’m not doing the isolate game any more. I’ll eat outside if it’s available etc, but not going out of my way more than I need to
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I thought we came to the conclusion that herd was impossible with delta, and being fully vaxxed is as protected as any of us will ever be?
If you’re in a blue state where hospitals aren’t over flowing I think going out is ok, especially if you have a booster.
I guess you could hold out until kids under 12 can get vaccinated, but I definitely don’t judge fully vaxxed people living their lives.
Obviously still wear masks and take basic precautions
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Yeah the biggest sketch thing I’ve done is go fully vasked, masked to the New England Aquarium (masks also enforced here). No idea what some of those parents are thinking, there were a ton of <12 year olds there, and if they were between 1 and 5 most of them their parents weren’t making them wear masks. They had limits on entry and I tried hard to avoid any place with kids, though obviously they will run right at you lol
Though the kids are more of a threat to their unvaxxed relatives to themselves.
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