Posted on 08/01/2021 2:22:06 PM PDT by DoodleBob
...The pandemic, these professionals say, is entering a dark new phase. Nearly half the nation rejects vaccines, goes maskless and sees virus restrictions as an assault on liberty. As cases rise again, scientists and doctors are grappling with the exasperating realization that the country has the means to tame this virus, but large parts of the population reject them.
"How much more energy and effort can the nation exert to save even more lives when Americans, given the options and tools to save themselves, aren’t doing it?” said James Hodge, director of the Center for Public Health Law and Policy at Arizona State University. “That’s a very different pandemic we’re facing.”
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Christopher Mason, who studies the genomic sequencing of COVID variants at New York’s Weill Cornell Medical Center, said... this resistance has driven colleagues to leave the field, exhausted by the past year and frustrated with the public’s rejection of vaccines.
“It’s the duration of the pandemic and the constant workload, but also the feeling of society’s disrespect of a vaccine that can prevent the very pandemic that we’re in,” he said. “Knowing that there’s a way to prevent it and they’re still saying ‘no thanks’ is just maddening to people working in health care.”
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Contact tracing has also seen significant improvements. But Larry Jones, executive director of the Missouri Center for Public Health Excellence, said that as cases increase, those infected become more difficult to identify, and tracing less effective...
“I keep hearing over and over, when we call and say ‘have you been exposed,’ they hang up the phone,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.com ...
I don’t believe Tokyo does.
In 1981, while using a phone booth, a perv drove by, got out of his car and flashed me, so yes, I have been “exposed”.
;D
Hey, Doctor Ding Dongs. You ever heard of triage? For COVID outbreaks, I believe it would go something like this: a bunch of hard COVID cases present at your hospital, and you don’t have enough beds. The people who tried to do the right thing (avoid crowds, stay away from other people, don’t go to crowded nightclubs, used hand sanitizer, etc.) get the express pass to ICU, whatever they need. People who lived ordinary lives no different from what they did before get a regular bed and get treated as best they can. People who obviously didn’t give a schnitt and acted defiantly by being deliberately careless get sent home with some HCQ, Ivermectin, Vitamins C and D, whatever can be had to see them through at home. And may they all pull through with flying colors.
You’re welcome.
Biteme and his commie minions can just go fk themselves
Stop calling Anthony Weiner, Hunter Biden, and Eric Swallwell. Problem solved.
1.) The vaccines are preventing much of anything
2.) The vaccine manufacturers do not even respect their own product. Maybe they should remove their legal immunity for their product and help remove some of the hesitancy out there.
Though, in reality, the case fatality rate is about 1.8% so 98.2% of the cases live, with a strong correlation between age and fatality rates.
If the elderly are slow payers, then maybe you're right.
My U.S. doctor asked me if I wanted the vax and I said no.
He said “that’s cool”. He didn’t lose his patience.
I’m guessing U.S. doctors aren’t a monolithic group.
This same blog describes Ivermectin as dangerous and unproven.
They have no credibility.
Just give every patient who presents with Covid the full Ivermectin protocol. Problem solved.
I propose a simple fix then. If a doctor recommends that an unvaccinated person receive the vaccine, and that person experiences an adverse reaction, that the doctor is then liable and their medical insurance be responsible for the costs of all medical treatments and disability caused by the adverse reaction.
“First, do no harm”
It's not disrespect: it's fear. Before CDC apparently pulled the VAERS death count, it stood at around 11,000. There are some 400,000 other effects reported to VAERS. In comparison, the H1N1 swine flu vaccine was pulled from the market after about 50 deaths.
As for me personally, knowing what I know now, I'm not sure I would have refused my Pfizer shots. In my case, a nasty case of COVID could trigger a resurgence of my dormant cancer (Hodgkin's Lymphoma). But I'm not getting any boosters until there is FDA approval for regular use. And every person should be able to make the choice for himself with this experimental shot which hasn't been approved for regular use by the FDA yet.
The Left won't stop ... not until they're made to stop by enough people saying "Enough already!!"
Delta has already beaten Fauci’s “Warp Speed” vaccine, and the stupid FedGov just ordered 200 million more doses of the same worthless “vaccine”.
Yep. It’s time for Irish democracy.
Whatever happened to “hesitation?”
US patients lose patience as they confront pharmaceutical sales personnel in white lab coats, posing as medical doctors.
Or HCQ/Zinc. BOOM!
I'm getting to the point that I almost want the pro-Mask/Poke crowd try to forcibly make people do what they want. The amount of violence in response would be epic. These people can say what they say, and propose what they propose, because they KNOW they are safe.
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