lock downs and masks are not to eliminated getting the virus only to delay getting it
Yes.
I just flew a week ago to California and will fly back to Newark end of 1st week of December.
I meet with all my family members & their friends and my friends and with the exception of one older sister we, all of us, are only masked when out at shops and eating places. I am staying with a brother who golfs twice a week with two separate groups - they are all not masked during their time together.
A sister of mine goes to a church that only stopped having full indoor services March to May. They have had full indoor services since May. Zero Covid cases in their congregation.
We have one nephew in a small Montana town and he, his wife and two kids all have had their individual Covid cases. Nothing serious any of them. Now they will be among the herd immunity when they go stay with my brother here during Christmas.
Isolation kills the immune system and makes one weaker when they finally do contact something hazardous.
Your total immune system is BUILT day by day as the body encounters millions of possible harmful pathogens and tests out possible responses against them as needed. Responses to new things are built initially by drawing on combinations of responses already learned. Sometimes some folks have sufficient immunity before they meet something new. THEY are the ones who have the least severe responses to something new straight away.
I say to everyone, get out and build up your immune system by giving it the opportunities to develop.
I’m grateful that the Pilgrims put their trust in God and not in their government. Although they didn’t all make it, some not even to these shores, enough did and here we are.
Felt sniffly Nov. 03.
Was informed Nov. 09 by coughing, headachy family friend that she had tested positive (her husband and child tested negative?!).
Tested positive (throat swabbing) on Nov. 10 (wife and child tested negative?!)
Received written mandatory order from German authorities (Health Dept.) for whole family to self-quarantine Nov. 12 (have already been in "home-office" since March). Quarantine to extend till Nov. 13 or 48 hrs after last symptoms (whichever is later).
Continued feeling sniffly, moderate post-nasal drip and resultant cough till about Nov. 20.
Resumed working ("home-office") today, Nov. 23.
As a 60-year-old, all I can say is: Big deal!
Regards,
I’m a 56-year-old divorced father of six, grocery trucker, with a pre-existing condition. I’ve worked 52-60 hours a week since the scare started. I think I might have had COVID-19 right before it hit the news. If I didn’t, I may get it in the future. Then again I might not. But if I do, I’ll probably feel lousy for a while then be over it. On the other hand, there’s a small chance it could kill me. That would be a drag, because I really was counting on living forever.
My eldest son got it a few months ago. Ten days later he was back on top. He’s in a public-facing job. Another son is starting an online business at this time. Two other sons are full-time college students who live with me. They’re computer wizards, so it frankly works better for them to do their classes online. The two in high school are doing well enough online.
So we’re weathering the scare and shutdowns pretty well in the present moment. This crap isn’t going to go on much longer, though, without generating a recession or depression. I’m not tolerant of wrecking the economy from which my young people (and everybody else) must extract a living. This whole crackpot scheme is a freakish amplification of the mentality that safety socialists and Nervous Nellies have always had. I knew there’d come a day when society would be unwise enough to give them real power, but I really had hoped that it wouldn’t be within my lifetime.
I am pushing 60 and I have some risk factors. I risk it every day I go to work and treat covid patients.
To ask the question is to answer it.
There is no such thing as a world without risk, you have to evaluate the pros and cons based on your own situation, and act accordingly, which of course, isn’t news to you.
But our elites, and the bawling sheep who listen to them have come to believe, or act as if they believe in two things that can’t be fully true:
1) they know what measures can be taken to “stop the spread” of the virus
2) there are no negative consequences to the list of things that will “stop the spread”.
But I think you asked a fair question: what are other FReepers doing?
Me, I’m going to work, and living my life as normally as possible, but avoiding needless exposure. No no indoor dining, no movie theaters (even if they were open), but we really didn’t do that much of those things before the ‘Rona. Oh, and we’re having Thanksgiving. Governor Newsome can pound sand.
I already am defying the law and no complying. I’m 65. I’m told, although I disagree, that I am in the highest most extreme risk category.
Listen, our generation survived polio, measles (which I’ve had twice), german measles, chicken pox, and various other maladies. Personally, I’ve had malaria, dengue fever, and cancer. They now want to scare me with a little virus which in my category has a 99.5% SURVIVAL rate?
Live your life.
Great post.. ty
Sadly— generations of Americans have allowed DC to practice financial pedophilia for so long, that the answer is obvious...
FREEPers are a different breed. we would all give our lives for our offspring to taste and live in AMERICA...
But non FREEPers have just refused to believe that anything other than their immediate political interests mattered.
blind to the creep of evil in their own schools, media, etc... they have allowed themselves to be tricked, or angered into literally destroying themselves and their own families....
We have refused to see the evidence in front of us... the corruption has feasted far too long.
our own youth believe they are royalty. Entitled to sit back and do nothing; they do not create or earn anything— but yet they expect to do as they please as others feed them, house them, care for them...... and yet they claim to hate their own country for slavery....
WOW
Also, if you're 65 and healthy, you probably won't even notice that you have COVID, if you actually get it, which you won't.
Frankly, this is a stupid question to begin with, because it is predicated on the notion that COVID is some unusually dangerous, contagious, deadly "disease". It isn't. Like many people, I am really tired of having to live the lie that is face diapers and social distancing and arbitrary "lockdowns", ALL of which are clearly ineffective, since COVID supposedly continues to run rampant after nearly 9 MONTHS of doing all this stupid crap. You know what the reality is? COVID was never anything more than a bad flu, and the alleged "massive surge in cases" is nothing more than industrial grade b.s. resulting from the widespread use of testing which is known to be ridiculously inaccurate.
But by all means, let's keep living the lie. Before much longer, I'm sure people like me will be getting locked up for simply suggesting that COVID is a huge steaming pile of propaganda and bullsh*t.
YES!and I am in the high risk category.
I’m 82 and wife is 82.
We have no problem interacting with our younger relatives.
They have severe concerns interacting with us.
Yes
yes
COVID isn’t the killer the propaganda makes it out to be.
For such a massive deadly killer, tens of millions have had to be tested just to find out if they have it. How stupid is that?!
Many children are suffering from the inadequacy of online learning, but I don’t see how my going out to restaurants and shopping malls is going to get the schools open any sooner. If anything, because California is on a county-by-county tier system the more the virus spreads the less likely the schools are to re-open.
So though this is probably not the answer you were asking about, I’m willing to forgo the gym, cut my own hair, avoid indoor dining, buy Christmas gifts online, avoid in-person gatherings with anyone outside my immediate family, wear a mask, and socially distance so the children can go back to normal life sooner. And so the elderly people I might come in contact with do not catch the disease from me (healthy young people like me are more likely to be asymptomatic carriers). And so that I am not saddled with large hospital bills and missed days of work should my case not be so asymptomatic.
I realize this probably isn’t going to win me any popularity points with many Freepers. I know that many of my elders and “betters” would rather that I go back to “normal life” ASAP either because they are struggling business owners or because it would reassure them to see young people out partying. But just as calling a tail a leg does not make it so neither will young people pretending the virus does not exist make it disappear. I wish we could go back to the way things were in 2019 but that’s not the world we live in right now.
Also not all of us young’uns are natural party animals. I avoided bars and drinking-centric parties even before COVID was a thing because drinking for the sake of getting drunk just seemed pointless to me.
In a heart beat.
And i would risk my own life stopping “them” from preventing.. We The People.. from living a “normal” life (free) I have worn a mask about 3 times in public.
So, no one feels bad ...and to avoid unnecessary confrontations... i wear my mask around my chin and or mouth.
Everyone over 65 has the ability to protect themselves if they’re still mobile and live alone, or as couple.
I recommend they do so.
Make your own choices.
Just found out my 19 month old grandson has Covid, as well as his mom’s ex husband and his wife, and the mom of my former brother-in-law. Our prayer list is growing. God is able and willing.
It’s a false choice. Everybody is getting it. Man is NOT God. I learned that when I was five from the deadly chickenpox.