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Well for the town ordinance it’s rote learning of some prior concept. But yes-at some point logic has to prevail. Regarding the LTC facilities-that’s more complicated. It’s a quasi healthcare facility so SOP is being followed. Also, are all the employees vaccinated? Maybe risk to residents is low but can these employees easily spread the virus to all the locations they work? Many of these people have 2 or more jobs-they are often grossly underpaid.

Totally agree but the town has the ordinance so why fight it...

My friends in my age cohort have all been vaccinated as have all of my friends who I met through my career. When we get together as in last Monday night to see the dud of the NCAA final game, everyone checks in and since we’re all vaccinated the host home gives the ok for no masks. What I don’t get are people across the street from me covering up as they pass within 50 feet. With that said, maybe they’re like me and figure the other person is paranoid and cover up. I won’t humor those across thee street-it’s too absurd but passing on the same side I’ll mask up for the passing moment. My philosophy now that we’re vaccinated fully for the past month is to not worry. My wife has resumed her child care gig working Fridays. For the past several I’ve been home getting my CE hours. I’ve had no issues with the kids-boutique service with one set of siblings-but I admit I was annoyed when I found out one of them was “at the end of a cold”. Friday. But I’d have been annoyed 5 years ago too. Who wants a cold?

I’m sorry you experienced that. In my fairly narrow world, certain signs have 2 possible origins-disease that is missed or unexplained. It’s easier not to miss disease with the amount of high tech available but at the same time tons of providers don’t even want to consider the fact that they’re wrong. That is unacceptable to me. In my years being an older provider with tons of experience, I questioned myself much more than I did decades ago. Like everything else, youth is wasted on the young.

I don’t see that. mRNA is an established methodology. It makes total sense that the 2nd shot should result in a stronger reaction-the trials showed that. It doesn’t seem that there are reactions that would be unexpected TBH. But there is a subset of the population that reacts to everything including placebos. We also have routine patients that present with symptoms with no physical basis. Sometimes evaluating the gain in the game or the real mental conditions driving the behavior is revealing. The old word was malingering.

We know how that usually ends don’t we...

74 right now. What a great day!

Hopefully not made up over the summer

Of course! But certain trends should be studied further. The question is do the results make a difference? If women actually are more susceptible to a reaction but all recover in a day or 2 what is added other than knowing what we already suspected? There are a ton of unknowns. Why do some young people not react at all? Why do some high risk old people have strong reactions? How much is psychosomatic?

Yeah who knows? I have a friend who so far (10 years) has beat stomach cancer. He’s 80 and was sick for 2 days after Moderna shot #2. Women react more than men I think at least that’s most people’s observation.

You want more kids?

I think those of us with milder symptoms have crappier immune responses..lol.

We wheel after Saturday

Small country but most people including those occupied and oppressed ignore the authorities. It’s also densely populated. I think it’s a reasonable example. No one at any checkpoint is checking temperatures...lol.

Not sure....but it’s concerning. That said-the early returns say this is rare.

I hope for her sake that happens!

Yeah wtf is going on there? Vaccinated people have gotten covid and apparently 3 died?

Regarding people who had had covid getting vaccinated-it is increasingly clear that doing that confers “super immunity” based an ab tests. Also, there is anecdotal evidence that long haulers that are with difficult symptoms get relief from vaccination. Time will tell

The way it seems is the chances of a severe case once vaccinated is very low (MI notwithstanding). So logically that should be a reasonable factor in places not testing so often.

I don’t know about anyone else but I’ve taken the approach of caution but not to an unnecessary level.

That’s great! Onward to society!

As Trump would say...look at your 401k!

33 is not young. It’s likely that he’s been in the sport since childhood. Mothers, don’t let your children grow up to be football players....

That’s not it. That was fairly recently. The year I’m thinking about was ridiculously bad. I could probably tolerate it now with more free time but it was infuriating then!

That doesn’t seem bad. The wheel of rhea HOF is Memorial Day weekend sometime in the mid 2000s. 40s and wet.