When Will You Get The COVID19 Vaccine?

[gnadfly]

BTW, outside the casinos in LV its a different story. Low traffic, shops boarded up, restaurants at low capacity. All the results of Governor mandates. The place my brother took me for lunch was beautiful. Less than 20 people for a place with a capacity of 400. Which was good because the owner, the chef and one other person was working. Help wanted signs all over the place. In Caesars, there was a 64 yo guy working at Starbucks. It was him and some Asian chick.

[Tiny]

Originally Posted by gnadfly

BTW, outside the casinos in LV its a different story. Low traffic, shops boarded up, restaurants at low capacity. All the results of Governor mandates. The place my brother took me for lunch was beautiful. Less than 20 people for a place with a capacity of 400. Which was good because the owner, the chef and one other person was working. Help wanted signs all over the place. In Caesars, there was a 64 yo guy working at Starbucks. It was him and some Asian chick.

You think I'm paranoid, many people in Las Vegas really are. I visited a good friend there back in October. I ring the door bell, he opens it and then scampers away to another room. There's an N100 mask (100% filtration efficiency for something or the other) laying on his couch. He yells at me to go put it on. So I do and then walk over to the room where he's sitting. And then he still keeps a distance of 15 feet while we're visiting. He is overweight and diabetic, but still that was a little extreme.

I'm surprised they haven't opened up more by now. It doesn't sound any different from October, based on your observations.

[Levianon17]

Originally Posted by Tiny

You think I'm paranoid, many people in Las Vegas really are. I visited a good friend there back in October. I ring the door bell, he opens it and then scampers away to another room. There's an N100 mask (100% filtration efficiency for something or the other) laying on his couch. He yells at me to go put it on. So I do and then walk over to the room where he's sitting. And then he still keeps a distance of 15 feet while we're visiting. He is overweight and diabetic, but still that was a little extreme.

I'm surprised they haven't opened up more since October.

Hahahahaha............ That's pretty fucked up. I would have stayed fifteen minutes and let him have his space, dam.

[GastonGlock]

Originally Posted by Tiny

I visited a good friend there back in October. I ring the door bell, he opens it and then scampers away to another room. There's an N100 mask (100% filtration efficiency for something or the other) laying on his couch. He yells at me to go put it on. So I do and then walk over to the room where he's sitting. And then he still keeps a distance of 15 feet while we're visiting. He is overweight and diabetic, but still that was a little extreme.

Yeah, it seems like a quarter or a third of the population are gonna need some therapy for how absolutely pant-shitting afraid this whole ordeal has made them.

I have a coworker who is going out to meet a friend for the first time since March last year. She's been cooped up in her house by herself with her cats for the last 14 months. She'll go on walks around the block, but always with a mask on, and has been getting all her groceries delivered. Mind you, she's been vaccinated since late February, and she STILL wears her mask everywhere due to the miniscule chance she could still catch it.

It's fucking ridiculous.

[Lucas McCain]

Originally Posted by GastonGlock

I have a coworker who is going out to meet a friend for the first time since March last year. She's been cooped up in her house by herself with her cats for the last 14 months. She'll go on walks around the block, but always with a mask on, and has been getting all her groceries delivered. Mind you, she's been vaccinated since late February, and she STILL wears her mask everywhere due to the miniscule chance she could still catch it.

It's fucking ridiculous.

I was watching the Hawks/Knicks game on TV earlier this evening. There were 15,000 people at Madison Square Garden. I think they were required to wear masks but most of them had them pulled down to cheer and/or to yell at the referees.

I know that they are opening up events though that a lot of teams just make you prove that you have been vaccinated and you get to sit in a certain section with other vaccinated people. I guess it is just to make them feel safer from dealing with reckless motherfuckers like me who have no intention of ever getting vaccinated unless my employer requires it.

[gnadfly]

Originally Posted by GastonGlock

And now Fauci has changed his tune on whether or not the virus was engineered.

Correct. I trust Ark Senator Tom Cotton when he said the virus came out of Wuhan almost a year ago. The media has been playing word games: engineered, isolated, escaped, unleashed, whatever. And *dont forget this* calling everyone who disagreed with them "a conspiracy nut."

Originally Posted by Tiny

You think I'm paranoid, many people in Las Vegas really are. I visited a good friend there back in October. I ring the door bell, he opens it and then scampers away to another room. There's an N100 mask (100% filtration efficiency for something or the other) laying on his couch. He yells at me to go put it on. So I do and then walk over to the room where he's sitting. And then he still keeps a distance of 15 feet while we're visiting. He is overweight and diabetic, but still that was a little extreme.

I'm surprised they haven't opened up more by now. It doesn't sound any different from October, based on your observations.

It was fairly nice last week. There are so many fat, out of shape, drug addicted older people on the street its shocking that 5 people don't die every day and trip over them.

Its not the mayor that's keeping the city locked down, it's the Governor.

Originally Posted by GastonGlock

... Mind you, she's been vaccinated since late February, and she STILL wears her mask everywhere due to the miniscule chance she could still catch it.

It's fucking ridiculous.

In Vegas, if you aren't wearing your mask you're swearing that you been vaccinated. Fuck that. Herd Immunity.

I swear women want to wear a mask because they don't have to put on make up or make eye contact. Its the next step of always having the cell phone to your face even though you aren't talking to anyone. Burkas are next. Many women will welcome them. I can already hear "Burkas keep us safe."

[Strokey_McDingDong]

Originally Posted by gnadfly

I swear women want to wear a mask because they don't have to put on make up or make eye contact. Its the next step of always having the cell phone to your face even though you aren't talking to anyone. Burkas are next. Many women will welcome them. I can already hear "Burkas keep us safe."

This was a weird thing to say LOL.

I like asian girls. I also like boba.

You're gonna see me at the boba bars, awkwardly standing by myself, trying desperately to build up the courage to talk to a woman, enjoying my boba tea.

[dilbert firestorm]

whats boba?

[rexdutchman]

Therapy that's sadly true and fucking funny ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

[Yssup Rider]

Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

whats boba?

Originally Posted by rexdutchman

Therapy that's sadly true and fucking funny ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!

[gnadfly]

Originally Posted by dilbert firestorm

whats boba?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubble_tea

Sold at Pho restaurants. Please don't ask what pho is.

[GaGambler]

Originally Posted by GastonGlock

Yeah, it seems like a quarter or a third of the population are gonna need some therapy for how absolutely pant-shitting afraid this whole ordeal has made them.

I have a coworker who is going out to meet a friend for the first time since March last year. She's been cooped up in her house by herself with her cats for the last 14 months. She'll go on walks around the block, but always with a mask on, and has been getting all her groceries delivered. Mind you, she's been vaccinated since late February, and she STILL wears her mask everywhere due to the miniscule chance she could still catch it.

It's fucking ridiculous.

HAHA, She's a lot more likely to catch something from her nasty ass cats. lol

Someone should tell her about all the diseases she can catch from her cats and REALLY fuck up this woman's life. lmao

Sorry to be so harsh, but since we "can't fix stupid" we might as well get some entertainment from all the stupid people out there.

[Tiny]

The Indian variant B.1.617 is now in the USA. The bad news is supposedly it's 50% more contagious than the British variant, which is now the most common source of new COVID cases in the U.S. Lots of people in India are dying from this and the hospitals are overloaded.

The good news is that the Pfizer vaccine, for one, is very effective in preventing infection from the Indian variant after the second injection.

If you haven't gotten the vaccine yet and you have a choice, Pfizer might be the best bet. It works reasonably well against the South African variant too.

[gnadfly]

More panic porn. VARIANTS! The numbers are going down in the US. Herd immunity is reached. You've made it a year without dying. You're "safe."

Now get ready to pay those student loans and mortgage backlogs. That's the next crisis.

[Tiny]

I was speaking to someone today who works with me. He's Hispanic, in his early 70's and has a lot of cousins. He said this year, 2021, so far six of his cousins have died, four of them from COVID. Two of the four died in April. They could have gotten vaccinated in January or February if they'd gotten on the stick, and they'd still be alive.

COVID deaths are still averaging 550 per day. That's 200,000 per year, which currently makes COVID the 3rd leading cause of death in the USA after heart disease and cancer, and just (barely) ahead of accidents. Yes, the infection and death rates have been declining. Yes, it's possible we won't have another wave. But with people free to travel to and from the USA and with a large percentage of the world's population still suffering mightily from the disease, is it wise to remain unvaccinated?