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Comment was by Joan Denoo on March 1, 2021 at 5:24am

Grinning Cat, I am very relieved you did not suffer serious difficulty with the virus and that you have no lingering effects. 

Are you now immune? 

Are you, or did you get a shot? 

Comment was by Joan Denoo on March 1, 2021 at 5:22am

Ian, the one who said, "We must accept more deaths as the price of reviving the economy."

Where is it written that reviving the economy is more important than preventing deaths? 

From where does that speaker get his/her information? 

Perhaps we need to learn to live simpler lives, take better care of ourselves and each other, and get off the money-making machine, or at least throttle it down. 

Or, perhaps we need to learn to live in houses we can afford, drive cars that fit our budgets, take fewer expensive vacations, and find ways to entertain ourselves that cost less money. 

Oh! I forgot, don't get sick or injured!!! 

 

Comment was by Chris B on March 1, 2021 at 5:20am

You're right, Joan, it's good sense to follow the rules. The neo-fascists in this country are spreading the story that Covid comes from a lab and is designed to suppress people... They're getting crazier every day.

Comment was by Joan Denoo on March 1, 2021 at 5:11am

I could never understand all the fuss about having to wear masks; it made good sense to follow the guidelines and utter nonsense to reject them. Doctors, nurses, caregivers have to wear them all the time, and they do with knowledge of the consequences to refuse to wear them.

Those who care for the sick do everything they can to stop the spread of germs and viruses.

I grew up in the days when polio was rampant, some were put in iron lungs; tuberculosis often resulted in the ill-one going into a sanatorium; measles, before vaccines could result in middle ear infection, pneumonia, as well as encephalitis, inflammation of the brain. 

Those who did not live in those days seem to assume we have always lived free of diseases; their ignorance can cause harm to others. They act self-righteous to refuse the guidelines when in fact they are fools. 

Comment was by Mrs.B on March 1, 2021 at 3:54am

And I'm fine with that. Lots of fun masks now.

Comment was by Stephen Brodie on March 1, 2021 at 3:09am

 Ian Mason I suspect that after the full rollout of the vaccine most country's will have to make the decision to balance deaths versus the normalising of the economy and social life like we do each year with the flu virus. I remember 2017 where the flu nearly overwhelmed the Health service. But I don't think we will ever go back to what it was like before the pandemic hit. Mask wearing and social distancing are here to stay.

Comment was by Ian Mason on March 1, 2021 at 2:47am

Denmark starts opening up a bit today. There are still hot-spots which will remain mostly closed though. The Social Democrat government admits it's an 'experiment' and Danish TV's resident doctor has called it 'a controlled third wave.' The option remains to close down again is things get bad.

For once one of the opposition leaders (conservative wing, 'Farmers' Party) has been honest about his point of view and said that 'we must accept more deaths' as the price of reviving the economy. The more they slide down in opinion polls, the more outrageous they become.

Comment was by Grinning Cat on March 1, 2021 at 1:52am

Joan, I don't think I have long-term effects. When I had the infection it felt like a nagging cold; I was extremely lucky. I might not have known except that the friend I was exposed to developed symptoms, got tested, was positive, and let me know, so I called my own doctor's office, which set me up with a test the next day at a drive-through center in a nearby medical building parking garage.

(In the "divided by a common language" department, we associate "surgery" with being cut open, not with a doctor's office, and for some reason we don't use simple, concise, direct terms like "lift" and "car park".)

Comment was by Joan Denoo on February 28, 2021 at 11:42pm

Stephen Brodie,  I like the "lockdown rules" for England, they are descriptive, specific, concrete, easy to understand, and doable. We had no such information available to us in the US. Too many people did not know what to do or why. Some didn't want to do the sensible thing, for whatever reason, others did not know the sensible thing. 

Comment was by Mrs.B on February 28, 2021 at 11:24pm

Sounds like you're as safe as possible, Joan.

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