InTheLongRun

Back to topic. I just finished watching Laurie Garrett's interview on CNN. (Author of "The Coming Plague") Definitely knows her stuff and I encourage everyone to watch it. She expresses the issues very clearly: some of my takeways this virus may plague humans indefinitely (40 years later for example there is still no vaccine for HIV) There is no guarantee a vaccine will be successful and even if it were it would have to be available to 45 billion people to adequately control this as it is not virus avoidable simply by changing sexual practices) Whatever my thoughts on what could have been done to avoid the widespread infection earlier, we are truly in Nightengale days of our tools being sanitation and social practice. Period. Anyone who refuses to comply with what are truly a minimum of inconvenience such as masks and keeping distance from people I truly have no use for about now.

Sounds like your Mom did a class A job with you guys. I too hope the valet gets better - and isn't among the 37million people to lose their health insurance in the past few years.

I hear Aretha Franklin singing Chain of Fools.... https://youtu.be/0jzqx4Mf4lE Then again, these people have their own private medical staff, ventilators and fresh plasma full of covid antibodies at their disposal. The rest of us not so much.

Yes. In the latest Covid FrontLines article here the ICU RN was describing patients exhibiting established covid symptoms and testing negative with the swab assay and then they'd test a bronchoscopy sample and it would be positive.

Nothing wrong with being your own best audience ?

Exactly right. I don't listen to Fox or the Whitehouse or even my portfolio manager now. I go right to the sources like Forbes and Fortune and see what their experts are saying.. And they agree with you. Truly I really don't want to be a raincloud but I just don't see how burying your head in the sand is helpful. Best to be realistic and prepared.

I think it's moronic, for many reasons.

It's not just you. I had the same thoughts exactly.

Solid Advice. These questions are a wonderful quick way of determining if you're looking at what the Europeans call " a good opportunity to shut up"

Thank you, Rose Queen, BSN, MSN, RN !

Right. We're done. Can someone please tell me if there's an option to ignore someone so you don't see their posts and how you enable it?

Considering you didn't answer either question directly, we can only do deductive reasoning from what you have said.

So, the fact that we're in the midst of an established, highly contagious pandemic is irrelevant to you as far as changing your behavior for the protection of yourself and others then?

So you admit that you feel it's your right to infect other people with a virus that can cost them illness, financial impairment or even death?