Does 4,000,000 cases and 150,000 deaths still qualify as a "mediademic"?

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Re: Does 4,000,000 cases and 150,000 deaths still qualify as a "mediademic"?

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BoSoxGal wrote:
Fri Jul 09, 2021 3:06 pm
Why won’t people just get vaccinated?!
Because freedumb!

But also:
According to experts, there are a variety of reasons: lack of access to vaccines, a refusal to see Covid-19 as a threat, concern about the vaccines’ side effects, little trust in the vaccines or the institutions behind them, and belief in at least one of several different conspiracy theories. Some of these reasons overlap and compound; for example, if someone doesn’t see Covid-19 as a big threat, they might decide the vaccine isn’t worth the side effects.

People in some of these categories might be persuadable while others might not. The most resistant are likely going to be really hard to move over at this point, staying at around 15 to 20 percent of the population from poll to poll. But between these hard noes and the already vaccinated are a lot of people who have shown signs of movement before — enough to put a real dent in the fight against Covid-19.
More here.
GAH!

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Re: Does 4,000,000 cases and 150,000 deaths still qualify as a "mediademic"?

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My FIL insists it’s a hoax even though it killed his sister.
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.

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Re: Does 44,000,000 cases and 700,000 deaths still qualify as a "mediademic"?

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Re: Does 4,000,000 cases and 150,000 deaths still qualify as a "mediademic"?

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I thought it was going to go away with the heat in April?
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Re: Does 4,000,000 cases and 150,000 deaths still qualify as a "mediademic"?

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Everywhere I go now it is 'mask optional' I see lots with and lots without. I don't see any social confrontations about the issue either way. The last time i Was in the barbershop, I was the only one wearing a mask while waiting and nobody said anything to me about it. Among the people I have ordinary conversation with, there has been consistent observation that the near universal mask has observably reduced to next to nothing, common colds and the 'regular' flu. (Wearing glasses and a mask also tend to keep fingers generally away from face.)

So I am continuing with the mask I am even considering a fourth 'jab'. I am well into geezerdom age group. It has been 8 months since my third shot.
Am going on a plane trip in mid-April, about a 2.5 hour trip each way, not counting time in the air terminal.

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I was in three places today that are now mask optional (as of two days ago); every adult was wearing a mask. Perhaps sanity will prevail...
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SA has recognized people are voting with their faces - new rule: masks indoors in public places; masks optional outdoors.

And we can now safely stand 1 metre apart rather than that silly old fuddy-duddy 1.5 metres.

Mass outside gatherings still limited to a couple of hundred - except outside sports stadiums can now go up to 20,000 as long as everyone can show proof of vax or neg test taken 24 hours before. Or something like that.

Incidentally, at the moment it's less onerous for us to enter the UK (vax certificate only) than the USA (neg test the day before boarding flight).
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No mask mandate here, but if there is a polite request on a shop door, then I'll oblige.,
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Have you been declared plague-free yet?
Okay... There's all kinds of things wrong with what you just said.

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My experience is similar to Gob's; for the most part mask mandates no longer exist and I generally do not wear one except in three circumstances : when required by law/regulation (public transport, healthcare setting, etc.), when requested to by the business owner (although I may choose not to enter the business instead), and in places where distancing becomes difficult/impossible (Like a crowded theater). FWIW, except maybe in a bank ( :D ), it doesn't bother me if others choose to wear a mask.

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Crackpot wrote:
Thu Mar 24, 2022 11:54 am
Have you been declared plague-free yet?
I have!
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Re: Does 4,000,000 cases and 150,000 deaths still qualify as a "mediademic"?

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Just about all the mask mandates here are gone...finally.

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