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Mr.Bill

(24,716 posts)
Sat Aug 21, 2021, 02:15 PM Aug 2021

So, without going into a whole lot of detail,

All the younger people in my extended family are finally getting vaccinated since they and most of their children have gotten very sick, have lingering symptoms and one of them has been in the hospital for a month. It's gotten to a point where the few of us who haven't gotten sick are the ones who have been wearing masks for 18 months everywhere we go and have been vaccinated.

Probably just a coincidence.

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So, without going into a whole lot of detail, (Original Post) Mr.Bill Aug 2021 OP
Amazing how many people have to learn the hard way. tanyev Aug 2021 #1
The scary thing is when I was their age Mr.Bill Aug 2021 #2
My wife and I had a similar coincidence. Xoan Aug 2021 #3
Same here. The only people getting sick around me are anti-democracy Rs ffr Aug 2021 #4
Wish we had a national mask mandate in place. KS Toronado Aug 2021 #5
The only people against it dianaredwing Aug 2021 #7
Would they ever.... KS Toronado Aug 2021 #11
there's a lot of people for it ! me too ! monkeyman1 Aug 2021 #6
Indeed a heluva coincidence... Wounded Bear Aug 2021 #8
Almost half of the anti-maskers/vaxers that I know have had it. JanMichael Aug 2021 #9
My favorites are my two grandchildren Mr.Bill Aug 2021 #10
"There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observating. struggle4progress Aug 2021 #12
Man I love Will Rogers dianaredwing Aug 2021 #13

tanyev

(44,311 posts)
1. Amazing how many people have to learn the hard way.
Sat Aug 21, 2021, 02:19 PM
Aug 2021

It's good that they're finally doing it, though.

Mr.Bill

(24,716 posts)
2. The scary thing is when I was their age
Sat Aug 21, 2021, 02:23 PM
Aug 2021

I probably would have been just like them.

I'm old enough and have led a good enough life to not be afraid of dying, but it scares me that if I caught the virus I could have to live the rest of my life with some very inconvenient symptoms. At least I won't have to live 70-80 years like that as some of them may have to.

ffr

(23,072 posts)
4. Same here. The only people getting sick around me are anti-democracy Rs
Sat Aug 21, 2021, 04:02 PM
Aug 2021

...who don't wear masks properly when they are wearing them, but prefer to not wear them. I get the impression they think this pandemic is a joke still, since they joke around about who's not wearing a mask in front of whom, like the virus will cut them a break again if they contract it a second time. One was in ICU for two weeks. He's back to his same old ignorant self with his piggy nose sticking out from above his mask at every juncture that I see him.

One immediate death in our staff, one extended at this point. That's something to snicker about.

KS Toronado

(19,325 posts)
5. Wish we had a national mask mandate in place.
Sat Aug 21, 2021, 04:07 PM
Aug 2021

This Delta surge that's starting up isn't going to be pretty for anyone. The quicker we mask up as a country,
the quicker we can slow it's spread, and an added bonus is saving lives, maybe one of your loved ones.

dianaredwing

(406 posts)
7. The only people against it
Sat Aug 21, 2021, 04:42 PM
Aug 2021

would be the same base base that are against everything else. Give them something new to rant about. They'd forget those 'poor women in Afghanistan' in a New York second if Biden issued a national mask mandate.

JanMichael

(25,166 posts)
9. Almost half of the anti-maskers/vaxers that I know have had it.
Sat Aug 21, 2021, 04:48 PM
Aug 2021

The people masking? Not one that I know of so far.

Mr.Bill

(24,716 posts)
10. My favorites are my two grandchildren
Sat Aug 21, 2021, 04:52 PM
Aug 2021

in their early 30s who were saying this time last year that after November 3rd, no one will even be talkling about the virus anymore.

They're talking about it now that they've had it. So have their children, but fortunately their symptoms weren't too bad. I do worry about the long term effects on someone who is two years old. We know very little about that.

struggle4progress

(119,840 posts)
12. "There are three kinds of men. The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by observating.
Sat Aug 21, 2021, 06:31 PM
Aug 2021

The rest have to pee on the electric fence for themselves."

-- Will Rogers

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