Covfefe-19 The 12th Part: The Only Thing Worse Than This New Board Is TrumpVirus2020

[Swansong]

papa in law les was admitted to hospital and found to have Covid incidentally. Learning experience. No need to notify contacts. mr les was in car with him for a long time, unmasked. So with exposure you might want to be careful until you know if you got it, right? Nope. Oh, no big deal. No need to be careful. Only test if you have sx. Lots of people are getting it and are asymptomatic.

papa in law is getting discharged today- no follow up testing, no instructions on how to keep those in his home safe, nothing. He lives with an at risk, unvaccinated older person. WT F

I feel like I am living in an alternate universe. No one cares if there might be an at risk person in the home? No one cares you are sending a vector into the community with people who are at risk?

So on the one hand reading all sorts of stuff about the long term effects of Covid on brain, reinfection of covid has potential for significant irreversible consequences, long covid may affect 1:5 people and other little tidbits saying we really should be paying attention to this stuff. But the CDC seems to care only if the economy is good and if you land in the ICU or a coffin. The messaging from CDC sucks and my trained in Public Health self is feeling gaslighted- I know bad things are there but NO THEY AREN'T! We are FINE

This is 6 months old at this point but...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IggRHgrIXeg


Hey, We beat it, if it was ever even a thing, right?

[leswp1]

This is 6 months old at this point but...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IggRHgrIXeg


Hey, We beat it, if it was ever even a thing, right?

I keep waiting for all the people I know who died to pop out of the ground and say only kidding!! because they can't die from an imaginary disease

[Swansong]

I keep waiting for all the people I know who died to pop out of the ground and say only kidding!! because they can't die from an imaginary disease

Clearly it's all a false flag, or people that were going to die anyway and "they" just lied about the cause.

[ScoobyDoo]

Completely anecdotal but since I have now had my bout with the virus I figure I can pipe in.

My bout was pretty mild. A co-workers bout with the virus around the same time was horrid and with 104 degree temperature. I never even took my temperature cause I never felt that hot.

The delta between my co-worker and me? I'm vaccinated.

It was pretty disappointing to me that I finally tested positive. However, now that I have had it I am convinced I had it in March of 2020 as well, back before we were testing or keeping track or even knew about it cause the Orange ****wop kept it a secret. So, I've had it twice.

[MichVandal]

I’m still rather amazed by some of the excuses that I see for unvaccinated on the cruise board. Especially missing the entire point of what the vaccine is supposed to do.

At this point, for the unvaxxord, COVID is still one of the leading causes of death in the US, but never mind that.

[Kepler]

for the unvaxxord, COVID is still one of the leading causes of death in the US

Good.

[Handyman]

Yeah...I am all for letting Darwin take the wheel at this point.

[walrus]

I’m still rather amazed by some of the excuses that I see for unvaccinated on the cruise board. Especially missing the entire point of what the vaccine is supposed to do.

At this point, for the unvaxxord, COVID is still one of the leading causes of death in the US, but never mind that.

I think Disney is the only cruise line left requiring vax

[MichVandal]

I think Disney is the only cruise line left requiring vax

Thing is, destinations still require it. Kind of an easy out for the ships.

Still, the ships can’t take care of anyone who is serious- so when that happens, it will be interesting.

[Swansong]

Most countries won't let anyone disembark unless all passengers comply with vaccination requirements as well.

[dxmnkd316]

Most countries won't let anyone disembark unless all passengers comply with vaccination requirements as well.

Define most. A quick google search shows England, Spain, Portugal, Greece, France, Italy, Sweden, Ireland, Iceland, Norway, Costa Rica, Denmark, Austria, Netherlands, Poland, Mexcio, Switzerland, Czech Repub, and several other smaller countries have all fully removed entry requirements.


Pretty much just Canada, China, New Zealand, and a few others that require a vaccine.


Edit: Cool tool from Kayak
https://www.kayak.com/travel-restrictions?

According to Kayak, there's like a dozen countries that are open to vaccinated travelers but closed to unvaccinated.

Edit 2: This is surprising to me as well. I figured it was just countries with a sizable knuckledragging population like the US, England, etc.

[Swansong]

Interesting. When I said "most" I was thinking the Caribbean countries, where most US-based cruisers go. When I was researching this prior to Covid, the cruise companies were mostly informing passengers that "this cruise requires these, that cruise requires those" etc.

[Deutsche Gopher Fan]

Interesting. When I said "most" I was thinking the Caribbean countries, where most US-based cruisers go. When I was researching this prior to Covid, the cruise companies were mostly informing passengers that "this cruise requires these, that cruise requires those" etc.

Don’t underestimate the Swiss cruise market!

[leswp1]

Don’t underestimate the Swiss cruise market!

Totally off topic but listening to the Beeb about the drought in Europe- the Loire riverbed is dry in some places. Other rivers are having sig less water. I wondered about how they were going to deal with river cruises.

[Russell Jaslow]

Edit: Cool tool from Kayak
https://www.kayak.com/travel-restrictions?

Darn. I can't get into Yemen...