The Boston Globe @BostonGlobe · Jun 14, 2021 Replying to @BostonGlobe For the past year, precautions taken to stop the spread of COVID-19 also helped stop the spread of other common viruses.
But as restrictions loosen, these viruses will reemerge, starting with colds later this summer, and the flu come fall and winter. http://bos.gl/CkXu38q Image The Boston Globe @BostonGlobe The @CDCgov recently issued a health advisory about increased cases of respiratory syncytial virus across parts of the southern U.S. — something they hadn’t seen since April 2020.
Since late March, cases of RSV have been on the rise in the South. http://bos.gl/CkXu38q
It’s all about the money. How many billions of dollars have mask manufacturers made so far?
Uh, nope.
It will probably cause our resident hysterical anti-vaxxers to go into a tizzy but Moderna has in Phase 1 trial a neutralizing vaccine against RSV.
Keyword phrase to deal with the lingering Kung flu: the experts can shove it.
My wife is a kidney-transplant patient and takes medicine to reduce her immune system. For years, she has taken precautions during flu season (and other seasons, too), including sometimes wearing masks in crowded places and washing her hands frequently. I support her by being cautious as well. THAT IS OUR CHOICE. Others can do what they wish - that is called freedom. If someone chooses to not take precautions and gets sick, that does not impact me.
Actually, wearing a mask on an airplane used to be of great benefit - we usually had the row of 3 seats to ourselves! People assumed that she was wearing a mask because she was contagious, so they sat elsewhere. That will probably change now, but...
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I’ve worn a mask 3 times for all of 10 minutes each in three stores that required them, that I have not gone back to since.
Old people, obese people, unhealthy people and the sandwich maker at Subway were the only cases of mask wearing that made sense to me. The sandwich maker stands right over your food talking so yeah, they can wear a mask forever as far as I’m concerned.
Like hell.
We have to get over the premise that we dare not ever get any illness….this notion of “if it saves just one life” is absurd. Babyish, and not considering the flip side.
COVID nor most flus, etc, have much of a death rate. It is not worth all the effort. About the same risks as driving down the road.
Sorry following 5th grad science. Masks cant stop slow down or prevent viruses. Now if the government want to provide me with an airconditioned bubby suit like the CDC has when they handle viruses, or they take the suits away and make them play with viruses with cloth masks, then I’ll wear them.
2 months from now in August masks will still be worn on cruises...
The war was never meant to be won. It was meant to be continuous.
Which will be because they are not being counted as COVID cases any more.
Last year at this time the hospital ER I work in was at near full capacity with Covid. I’ll never forget one night, in early June to be exact in the space of six hours we had four people expire from it.
Now we have had only two ‘’high risk’’ patients all month and that was two weeks ago.
Last night they were found to be negative and sent home. There hasn’t been a single Covid case since.
It’s over.
How about this:
You should wear a mask if it’s in your interest to do so, and society can compel you to do so if it’s in society’s interest to do so.
As I have often said the past 15 months, if Ebola were airborne we wouldn’t be having this conversation.