My granddaughter, and probably my son & his wife have COVID

[MissMillie]

Lily is 4. Looks like she caught it at a play date w/ her cousin.

Son & his wife are fully vaxxed and boosted.


I'm suffering from COVID fatigue.

My mom had it, and although she tested negative before she died, I firmly believe that it damaged her already sick heart enough to hasten her death.

This all could have been over by now if people had acted differently--and if we had had better leadership.

[onecaliberal]

1. Nothing good can happen here any more because there are too many nazis everywhere.

I’m so sorry, I hope your Grand baby and kids recover.

[CrispyQ]

2. I look at our numbers at the beginning of June & compare to today & it makes me sick.

We were approaching a 7-day average of 10,000 new cases a day for the entire nation at the beginning of June. Now, Arizona does 10K cases every few days. I wish someone in every state had kept track of covid cases like marybourg did. The Arizona home page is quite telling.

https://democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1038

[StarryNite]

10. I live in Arizona and count on marybourg to post daily on our numbers.

[llmart]

22. I can tell you what my records show for Michigan.

I've been keeping a notebook since the beginning. On June 2nd, Michigan had 287 new cases from the day before. This past week,we averaged between 6,000 and 8,000 new cases. We have had a total of 25,080 deaths since the onset.

[CrispyQ]

28. Horrific backslide! We were well on our way.

The CDC lifted the mask mandate too soon, IMO. My own county has gone back to mask mandates, but the stores no longer police it like they did last year, when many stores had someone at the door making sure everyone was masked. Not anymore. Unmasked people are allowed in, although my husband tells me they avoid eye contact.

[femmedem]

32. The New York Times has a daily covid tracker with excellent graphs.

You can check your county or state and see the daily cases, hospitalizations, deaths, seven-day case averages, and graphs that show how the data has changed over time. Just google New York Times covid-19 tracker and your county and it comes right up.

Here's mine. You can see how severe the recent spike in my section of Connecticut is. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/new-london-connecticut-covid-cases.html

[Claustrum]

3. I am sorry for you and your family member. I hope they will recover without any complications.

Unfortunately, COVID was always going to keep coming back unless the whole world is vaxxed. If a variant pops up anywhere in the world, it would travel to everywhere rather quickly and it's bound to have a variant that's resistant to the previous vaccines. Given, the impact would be a lot less if the republicans took COVID seriously. Less spread = less death = less variants.

[peacefreak2.0]

4. I'm sorry, Miss Millie.

Your plate has been full for quite a while.

[Jim__]

5. I hope their cases are mild - it sounds like they took the proper precautions.

[DURHAM D]

6. Not getting vaccinated is just another way to proudly vote for Donald Trump

over and over again.

[MissMillie]

8. Well, my granddaughter is too young for vaccination

Which makes me wonder why she was out on a play date. (Which makes me hate myself because I'm insinuating that there is blame to be cast... )

Lily is an only child. After more than a year and a half, I can understand the desire to get the kids out socializing.

[orleans]

24. plenty of parents have been letting their kids do play dates

i work around a lot of kids and this has been going on since last year after that initial lockdown in illinois ended.
i've had kids in my classes tell me they had covid, or that they weren't in one of my classes because they had to quarantine, even having play dates while doing one of my zoom classes with a friend!
(this was before kids were able to get vaxed -- but even with the under five age group there were still plenty of play dates going on)

i don't know what people were thinking, or what they continue to think.

a couple tweenagers (one was absent one week, the other three weeks) were out with covid after they had gotten their first shot. i think a lot of people/teens feel they are safe after that one shot. they are not.

i'm sorry about your mom and what you're going through with your family.

[SCantiGOP]

7. The world is looking like a damn zombie movie

with unvaxxed idiots staggering around.

[LoisB]

9. Oh, poor baby. I hope it is mild and she recovers quickly and fully with no long term effects. I

am so sorry.

[SheltieLover]

11. Healing vibes on the way to you & yours, MissMillie💓💓💓

[bluestarone]

12. Just want to send you POSITIVE VIBES missMillie.

Especially for your Grand daughter. I'm sure those that are boosted will be fine! Take care there!

[Tommymac]

13. Thoughts with You. I hope you don't mean President Biden's leadership has been at fault here.

TFG and the Rethuglican Party of Insurrection are the reason this is still a thing.

President Biden and the Democrats have been doing everything they can to alleviate the mess - but until the unvaxxed and unmasked idiots relent this is going to be with us for a long time and will mutate to who know;s what extent.

[leftstreet]

15. Sarcastic jokes about testing kits isn't leadership

And that came right from the WH press secretary

Letting the CDC drop a mask requirement when Delta was already circulating isn't leadership

It's not necessarily about Biden but those agencies and people around him who could do a better job representing his plans

[Tommymac]

16. Please link press secretary comments in context.

I have not seen those.

But you are suggesting the President Biden is not doing enough. I disagree strongly.

It is not the administration's fault that crazy people LEFT and RIGHT are refusing to get vaccinated for un scientific reasons.

It is not the administration's fault that Covid and mask wearing was politicized by TFG.

Are you saying Dr. Fauci is wrong? He has made mistakes, but admitted them. He is THE EXPERT on this. I trust his judgement, I trust President Biden, I trust the Democrats dealing with this problem

I do not trust those on the fringes that believe in junk science and causes promoted by ignorant celebrities and QAnon sources.

[leftstreet]

19. Seriously?

You're so well informed, I'm surprised you hadn't heard about it. Major gaffe for the WH

If you don't like this particular link, just google the story

Link to tweet

?s=20

[Tommymac]

25. Sarcasm not needed or appreciated.

I don't see every story. That is why I asked for the link.

[AkFemDem]

23. I'm triple vaxxed but...

Given the HUGE % of people I know who are fully or even fully plus booster vaxxed, who have since gotten Covid I’m not sure that refusal to vax is why it’s still spreading. It seems to me the best argument for vax at this point is a significant decrease in risk of serious illness/death, but it’s not going to stop spread.

[MissMillie]

26. No, not Biden

Infectious Disease 101: test, trace, isolate.

TFG pretty much skipped all of them.

And the rest of the GOP mocked Fauci for pushing mitigation efforts.

[yellowdogintexas]

27. TFG make a big noise about stopping the testing

Remember this one: If there is no testing, there will be fewer cases.......
I lay it all on him and his total ineptitude

[Tommymac]

29. Thanks for the clarification. Again, wish you well.

[electric_blue68]

14. Oh, dear. I hope they all easily recover fully!

[Rebl2]

17. Hope your

granddaughter recovers quickly.
Our local children’s hospital on 11/22 said they had 153 positive cases. On December 6, the number of positive cases had jumped to 426 positive cases. I didn’t read how many were in the hospital though.

[Wingus Dingus]

18. Hope they all do fine!

[brer cat]

20. I hope your granddaughter has a mild case

and recovers quickly. Sending healing vibes to your family.

[PJMcK]

21. Better leadership

Trump.

DeSantis.

Abbott.

Noem.

Totally lacking in "leadership." I don't understand how anyone can look to these clowns for leadership.

I hope your family will be okay and I'm very sorry to hear that your mother passed away.

Covid fatigue afflicts all of us.

[RandomNumbers]

30. I am sorry for your situation. But - your assumption might be false.

I despise the "vulgar talking yam" (thanks Charlie Pierce) as much as anyone here.

But many countries with decent leadership - or at least not nearly as pathetic as TFG - are really struggling, still, with the covid variant rebounds. Would the USA having its shit together have made enough of a difference in how this played out around the world? I seriously doubt it.

Yes, there would be fewer dead and maimed (long covid) here, any maybe a lower curve. But we don't matter as much to the global picture as some might want to think.

I think we should continue to loudly blame TFG for his many, many failures. But downplaying the inherent danger of this virus - beyond anyone's ability to predict or control - will only confirm in some people's mind that Biden / Dems are just as incompetent. Which we know is not true. But in both cases we need to attribute a large part of the damage to the nature of the problem.

[MFM008]

31. I just dont care

Anymore.

[femmedem]

34. What? You don't care that her vaxxed family and too-young-to-be-vaxxed granddaughter

caught covid?

I can understand compassion fatigue for the unvaxxed, but for Miss Millie's family?

Are you ok? I'm asking seriously because I'm wondering if you're responding that way because you are suffering from a major depression.

[MFM008]

35. no

i dont care about this virus at all anymore.
done.
no probably not doing well at all.

[femmedem]

38. I'm sorry to hear you're not doing well.

Although it doesn't surprise me, partly because your response sounded like it was coming from pain and also because so many people are suffering. The isolation is awful, especially for people who live alone.

I wish I knew what to say, but I hope it helps a little to know that someone heard you.

I have to ask because I lost someone dear to me who died by suicide: are you having thoughts of hurting yourself?

[iemanja]

33. I'm so sorry, Miss Millie.

I do care.

[malaise]

37. You've had a rough time with Covid

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[mahina]

40. Good luck to your grandbaby and family