There's Your Problem or How Covid Wins.

 


It's a Covid Rogues Gallery. Arizona, Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Indiana, Michigan, North Dakota and Montana. All of those states have banned or blocked vaccine mandates. 

Mandates requiring shots cover at least 12 million people, according to a Times survey of every state and the nation’s 100 largest cities. At least 8 million people employed by state or city governments must get vaccinated. In every state, even those that have banned some vaccine requirements, at least some people are mandated to be vaccinated because they are members of the military or federal employees, two groups totaling some 4.1 million people.

Millions more would be covered by federal requirements for health workers, employees of large private companies and federal contracting employees. Portions of those mandates have been stalled in court over the past several weeks. A new requirement in New York City for on-site employees at all of the city’s approximately 184,000 private businesses to get vaccinated by late December would cover hundreds of thousands of additional people. Many private companies across the country have also instituted their own vaccine rules.

Statewide mandates tend to be most popular along the West Coast and in the Northeast, whereas states banning some mandates tend to be clustered in the South.

If Covid had a Guy Fawkes Day it would be the Christmas-New Year holiday. This is expected to blow up America's (and ours, probably) Covid case numbers.  A lot of people are struggling with Covid fatigue and want to let their hair down. We'll see the results by this time next month.

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  1. GyorDecember 18, 2021 at 5:59 PM

    Basic human psychology. Lockdowns were never long term solutions, you just can't expect folks to do them every Christmas. Those pro lockdowns and mandates etc..., just refuse to deal with the realities of human nature. And we know don't know for how long Corona will be around for, it could be decades or more, which doing early lockdowns would completely destroy our wah of life and our quality of life. I'll take a case of Corona over that, I'm double valued and plan on getting the Plant based Canadian one for my next Vax, got to support made in Canada 😇

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    1. The Disaffected LibDecember 19, 2021 at 8:11 AM

      I agree that "we can't go on like this" Gyor.

      I have spoken to a few doctors (I now have a few) about the healthcare system and the anti-vaxxers. Some think they should be assessed at least part of the costs when they wind up in intensive care. Some think they should be left to their own devices period.

      A couple of months ago I lost my younger brother to cancer. He had one of those cancers that are considered survivable "if detected in time." Mark fell victim to Ontario's Covid nightmare that clogged up the entire system. Tests that previously were completed within a month or two now dragged out for several months. A misdiagnosis compounded the delay. By the time it was all sorted out this "treatable" cancer had metastasized to Mark's liver and lungs. He underwent some sort of thermonuclear chemo but, after a promising start, it failed. The cancer reached Mark's brain.

      My brother's oncologist was angry. Mark wasn't the first patient he had lost to the clogged healthcare system. He said there was no way anyone could definitively blame one death on these anti-vaxxers but he added that, overall, they were responsible for the uptick in deaths among cancer, heart and other patients with serious but treatable diseases.

      How do we hold them responsible for the deaths they leave in their wake?

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