I walked past a restaurant in my neighborhood last night

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Anonymous wrote:Pretty much everyone is recovering from COVID. People are tired with the constantly moving goalposts and I dont blame them. Now they are saying you should restrict travel and wear masks even after getting the vaccine? It's about control and the sheep are lapping it up.

It’s going to be really tough to convince people to keep up with restrictions once they get a vaccine.

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and why on earth should they? keep up with restrictions that is.

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Anonymous wrote:and why on earth should they? keep up with restrictions that is.

Because they don’t know if the vaccine does anything to curb transmission. You could get the vaccine, get COVID, and not get sick, but you may still infect others. It’ll be a long slow vaccine rollout, so we’ll still need to take precautions to avoid infecting others for a while.

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Anonymous wrote:A lot of places aren't enforcing the rules. I went for a haircut back in September (I know, I know....seemed reasonable at the time) and the salon was definitely not enforcing six feet of distance rules. Not even close. They have this long skinny table (like a dining or conference table) that they cluster the hair dryers or heating lamp things around, and people were seated around that. Not 6 ft. What's that, 3 max?

Sigh.

Yes! The same set up was at the salon I visited. There were 6 people seating at the table, and every station was occupied. Add to that all the staff and you get the picture. Not coming back until I am vaccinated.

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Anonymous wrote:and why on earth should they? keep up with restrictions that is.

Because they don’t know if the vaccine does anything to curb transmission. You could get the vaccine, get COVID, and not get sick, but you may still infect others. It’ll be a long slow vaccine rollout, so we’ll still need to take precautions to avoid infecting others for a while.

I can guarantee that this message will fall on deaf ears. People will get their vaccine, shrug their shoulders and promptly forget about the pandemic. They might have to wear a mask here or there, but as more and more people get vaccinated and just start walking into supermarkets or coffee shops without masks, those establishments will give up trying to enforce the rules.

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Anonymous wrote:When 99.98% of the people who get COVID don’t die or have any severe side effects, it’s hard for many people to get really worked up about COVID. And younger, healthy people have even better odds. They really aren’t at risk. Trying to get them to care about strangers they don’t know is hard over the long haul.

It’s a real hard sell to younger people, who are probably more at risk from dying in a traffic accident on the way to the bar than they are from dying due to COVID, to keep staying home indefinitely.

The message that you should sacrifice for others, with nothing in return, was always going to go over like a lead balloon. Especially in a society where the older generations (looking at you, baby boomers) would not be making any sacrifices if this was primarily a disease that killed young people.

This, 100 times! I have a friend whose 72 year old parents got Covid from hanging out in a bar. So, all the young people have to stay home but the boomers can go to bars?

This is a real thing and has been obvious since March and April. I left my condo in early April for a masked walk after about 5 weeks and it was like every person on the street was over 65. My Boomer parents have been decent, but it took a bit to get them there and they and their friends were way more risky than any of my friends in our 30s. And those were people on lockdown in NYC! Don't get me started on what my friends parents were up to in places like Florida and Texas...

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There are lots of people over 65 just living their lives too! And Congress doesn't want to pass any measures to support young people (college loan forgiveness anyone?) so younger people are tired of sacrificing for boomers when boomers don't seem to want to help out any of the younger generations.

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Anonymous wrote:and why on earth should they? keep up with restrictions that is.

Because they don’t know if the vaccine does anything to curb transmission. You could get the vaccine, get COVID, and not get sick, but you may still infect others. It’ll be a long slow vaccine rollout, so we’ll still need to take precautions to avoid infecting others for a while.

I can guarantee that this message will fall on deaf ears. People will get their vaccine, shrug their shoulders and promptly forget about the pandemic. They might have to wear a mask here or there, but as more and more people get vaccinated and just start walking into supermarkets or coffee shops without masks, those establishments will give up trying to enforce the rules.

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It is a tough sell- I have to get a vaccine and still act the same was I did before I got the vaccine? Plus you have all those antivaxxers pretending COVID isn't real, so I have to protect them too even after I get the vaccine? Not going to happen.

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I am more concerned that you have already taught your child to be judgmental and have anxiety over covid.

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We live in a country that won’t give aid to businesses. It helps if you rent in Trump Tower. Maybe you get financial help then.

Other countries support their people. That lets them fully close down and a biz doesn’t have to break the law to keep the bills paid.

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Same here in my neighborhood where the beer place is always full. It's very upsetting.

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Anonymous wrote:and why on earth should they? keep up with restrictions that is.

Because they don’t know if the vaccine does anything to curb transmission. You could get the vaccine, get COVID, and not get sick, but you may still infect others. It’ll be a long slow vaccine rollout, so we’ll still need to take precautions to avoid infecting others for a while.

I can guarantee that this message will fall on deaf ears. People will get their vaccine, shrug their shoulders and promptly forget about the pandemic. They might have to wear a mask here or there, but as more and more people get vaccinated and just start walking into supermarkets or coffee shops without masks, those establishments will give up trying to enforce the rules.

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It is a tough sell- I have to get a vaccine and still act the same was I did before I got the vaccine? Plus you have all those antivaxxers pretending COVID isn't real, so I have to protect them too even after I get the vaccine? Not going to happen.

I think the people who think covid isn't real will not get the vaccine. But I think some of the anti-vaxxer crowd do believe covid is real and will dwell in their basements forever because they can't handle the uncertainy of the possibility of covid or "unknown" vaccine side effects.

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Murderers, every single one of them.

There is no excuse now, after 300 000 have died and the mode of transmission is well known.

Agree. How frustrating and horrific.

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Sigh, this is why we can't have nice things.

My friends in New Zealand and Australia are living their best lives right now. And telecommuting to work in the IS, because they were smart enough to get out while the getting was good.

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IS = US.

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Anonymous wrote:Sigh, this is why we can't have nice things.

My friends in New Zealand and Australia are living their best lives right now. And telecommuting to work in the IS, because they were smart enough to get out while the getting was good.

Isn't is summer in Australia? The virus is seasonal. Summer was great here but we had to keep the narrative going because we had an election that had to keep the fear porn going.