That’s the beauty of the board. We can disagree respectfully and we are all entitled to be wrong sometimes. I’m not going to go long winded on a reply to your post because I think you largely address a different point than the one I was trying to make.
Everyone is of course welcome to take the ‘flu shot’ if they feel like doing so every year in the hope that the medical community has guessed right. My point was that if you need a new shot year after year, and the shot isn’t even close to guaranteed immunity, then it really isn’t a ‘vaccine’ as the word has been commonly used in our lifetimes, is it?
My secondary point was that people placing their hope in a covid vaccine are probably in for a disappointment. It’s not going to come out anytime soon and when it does it isn’t likely to be any more accurate than the ‘flu shots’ currently available. We’d be better off continuing with the smarter social interaction, hand washing and masks. But hey, if you like the 30-40% odds you mention (no idea if those are accurate numbers or not) it’s none of my business.
We're not far off on this. All the above on par.
I totally agree that the hope for a magic cure vaccine is probably just that. Which I specifically mentioned that the real mitigation probably involves treatment rather than vaccination or cure. I agree as well that its probably pandemic new normal and also that the wearing of masks in cnclosed public places, at work, school etc, it needs to be the new normal, and no reason not to. I welcome that its become more acceptable here now to be wearing a mask, which should have been the case anyway. I've had so many colds, respiratory infections etc in my life, and I'm prone to it because of having some degree of asthma. allergies amd prior infections and reduced immunity due to work stress and being exposed to populations where people are often sick. Had I gone to work even a few years ago with a mask I would have been instructed to take it off or go home, you're making people nervous.
NA has had a long insane disdain for this type of PPD prevention. I welcome that the world may shift to more preventative use of masks which limits not only Covid-19 but the flu, cold, any other respiratory contagion as well. For a respiratory sufferer I am thankful that society will have to be more accepting of people's choice to wear masks. Also thankful that the NA expectation to come to work in any state, no matter how sick, that puritanical hubris, is probably dead and gone. That's the world I've lived in here my whole life. A work world that makes you feel like a villain for simply phoning in sick when you are sick.
It's interesting in our area we've had a LOT less pollen flying around from the Poplars though. Hopefully the folks that have those trees are cutting them down.
I think the other two larger items have been analyzed and beaten to death, don't you? The depressed economy and COVID simply aren't focused on enough, and we should just forget everything else out there. Might as well let all the roads and buildings crumple too.
