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As the Delta variant spreads amongst the unvaccinated, The Atlantics Ed Yong shares his reporting on how the variant and skepticism is spreading in Missouri. Aired on 07/16/2021.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Rhiannon12866
(203,030 posts)We're having enough serious issues in this country right now that we need to deal with, but this shouldn't be one of them! There is a solution, but too many people are rejecting it - and it could kill them.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Rhiannon12866
(203,030 posts)And the nearest county - just down the road - is only at 53%! There are more vaccination sites than I can keep track of, it doesn't cost anything and most are now taking walk-ins! Not to mention the current influx of tourists from states across the country - and the mask mandate that we've had for over a year has just been lifted just in time for tourist season! Everything that was closed last year has opened with a vengeance, advertising and inviting everyone to come!
And it's not like we have no cases in this area, we're aware of them because they're on the front page of the paper. Wednesday the headline said "COVID Is Not Finished" and the lead article told about the recent outbreaks - and deaths. What does it take??
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Surrounding counties, likely in the low 30s!
And, yes, cases are going up quickly!
Before CDC repealed mask recommendation, there were days with 23-30 new cases. Now near 200/day.
And this governor has decided to use tax $ to offer $250 rebates to anyone who visits one of a few metro areas in the state & stays overnight 2 or 3 nights!
Really, who in their right mind would travel during this deadly mess? Yup - anti-vax mask holes mostly.
No words for the stupid.
Can they not see what is happening around the world?
Rhiannon12866
(203,030 posts)Don't any of these people ever catch any of the news?! What's going on now has to be impossible to ignore - even this small town newspaper regularly has it on the front page!
And you know that I identify when it comes to the tourism! Just as this pandemic is making a resurgence, everything's "opening," masks are no longer required and there are plans for all kinds of celebrations and festivals that didn't take place last year!
I did post a thread in the New York Forum which will apply to practically no one on DU, but it's a local news story about a couple of vaccine clinics being brought to more rural parts of the county which is a bit of good news. I sure hope that people show up!
Warren County setting pop-up COVID-19 vaccine clinics next week
https://www.democraticunderground.com/106826357
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Great idea for vax clinics! I just responded to that post to give it a kick.
Joe had sent a ream of FEMA folks earlier this year to this area. They closed up 6 wks early be cause so few takers.
Rhiannon12866
(203,030 posts)Though I only know 2 DUers who live in the county - both I've known for years - and of course they were both vaccinated months ago, at about the same time that I was - as soon as the vaccine was available around here. I just hope that people take advantage, I know that there have to be plenty of "anti-vaxxers" in these parts, but if they read the headlines they deserve to be scared...
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)I just cannot wrap my head around the mindset that ignoring facts will change things.
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Rhiannon12866
(203,030 posts)They were talking that about that on MSNBC tonight, there no longer seems to be objective truth. I thought about posting a video from MSNBC tonight which featured a woman who heads up a health center in Mississippi and has been successful in convincing a lot of people to get the vaccine. But I can't see anyone trying this with anyone but family. I managed to convince my brother, but I wouldn't suggest trying it with anyone who's hostile, let alone strangers.
I know that the older gentleman I spoke about would never listen to me over his daughter who's a nurse. *sigh* And there was another guy there who I suspect may be a Trumper - since when he heard me talking about the vaccine, he immediately got angry, saying that he wouldn't "be a guinea pig." People are dying thanks to TFG and his ilk poisoning minds with crazy conspiracy theories.
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)No calls for truth. No compassion. No common sense. No appropriate sense of decorum. Among many magats anyway.
I wouldn't argue with othdrs either.
Rhiannon12866
(203,030 posts)But I am obviously paying attention, so I share what I learn. I told the older gentleman that 99.5% of those who get Covid are the unvaccinated. I can't imagine what his nurse/daughter told him, but I can't compete with that. I do know that two of the others there got the vaccine after I said that I'd gotten it and that it was now available locally - and I did drive my reluctant brother myself.
My former boss used to say to me "You can't save the world," though it was when I was rescuing the snapping turtles they wanted to dispose of when I had a summer job at an amusement park. But I try to do what I can for my small part of it, I think it's important to do at least that much.