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So I’m assuming all those who didn’t get the vaccine because it wasn’t approved will be lining up for it?
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So I’m assuming all those who didn’t get the vaccine because it wasn’t approved will be lining up for it?
No sorry, it’s messy.
Let’s call friend Amy and my daughter Bella.
A few days ago Bella’s sister became unwell, got tested and was positive. Whole family ily got PCR tests the next day and came back negative so Bella continued going to school. Yesterday evening Bella’s lateral flow test (kids are doing them twice weekly voluntarily) came back positive so she’s arranged a PCR for confirmation (but like I said I’d be surprised if it was negative - she’s living with a known positive case).
That day Amy spent most of the day with her including eating lunch (outside but unmasked obviously) and a car journey so she’s had pretty decent exposure only a few hours before she tested positive.
Plus, as you say she was around other kids at school - masked most of the time but not always.
This is all avoidable if we’d stuck to the isolation period for family contacts - it’s not exactly rocket science.
As toooldforthis said though it was all about keeping kids in school - but that’s a fairly shortsighted view if they start getting sick in decent numbers.
Well they never trusted the gov't anyways.now what are their excuses?
now what are their excuses?
You bargained with your life for $100 ?I was holding out for something like this,was also waiting some too just to make sure I felt safe taking it. Figured it'd happen even told my freinds they'll probably start paying $100 to get it... got my first shot last week though. Wonder if I still get the $$$
You paying her bills? It’s sort of crazy but I think back to all of the times we had sick coworkers right next to us. Or family members with a flu or sinus infection and we just knew we’d eventually get it and it was just normal?
Many places don’t have paid time off as an option. We wish everyplace of business was beyond rich to do that or have the government step in and help the workers. But reality is crazy and not so cut and dry. Would you be willing to pay $12 for a beer in order to give the wait staff proper PTO?
You bargained with your life for $100 ?
No, nothing like that at all, had every intention on getting the vaccine in May, taking myself off of UI and opening business back up, once my Dr. said I should be safe (I've had seizures since a child) typically its a new med that triggers it, also and they alway come in 2s one right after the other so I'd built up a little anxiety to it. Always knew I'd take it, just wasn't in a hurry to be first just in case...Then pops passed away from heart attack 4/23. Its literally just me now, brother and mom both passed in 2013 and I was spinning circles planning funeral,organizing things pops was a mess. I had 2 rental properties. Pops had five so overnight 2 went to 7, not sure you've had to go through something like that, I hope not... but before you know it 2/3 months pass before you can even start feeling like things are in order. Bills had to be changed or paid, he'd not filed taxes since 2019... some property taxes HAD to be paid, city inspector on my rentals decided June was good to inspect, it's 3in1 townhomes,I live in the bigger one and the other two I rent and anything more than 2 in Baytown is considered apt complex/multi family complex. So lots of rules have to be followed. I.e smoke alarms, fire extinguishers, exterminations all needed to be renewed mainly, they canceled them for 2020 because of COVID, many more tedious things still need to be done, I just was granted am extension yesterday. Otherwise it was looking like I was just going to have to eat the fine, each month until it was complete. Just one thing after another until I realized it's June already... then 6/17 my tenant and close, maybe best freind of over 20 years killed himself.
No real good reason I know, and didn't intend to go this long ever honestly. Just a series of events that led to it keep getting postponed, or just flat out forget. By July I was like at this point, might as well wait for an incentive to do it, knew it'd happen at some point I was even right on the amount of $100, but as Delta started getting stronger just decided to get it over with. Not sure how good that's going to do now though, with this Lambda supposedly being vaccine resistant, either way it needed to be done and was way past due. Just didnt think it'd be week after I got my first shot. govt cheese would start flowing. That and I live like a hermit, very anti social even before COVID. Doordash, Instacart, and Favor had it to where I'd maybe not leave home for weeks at a time. All of the tenants DD rent, I still video call my Dr's, lawyer court, basically everything. Even my man now takes cashapp, Venmo, or Zelle... and does no contact deliveries for $20 more. What's gonna irk me is after I get fully vaccinated I end up being one of the "break through" cases and contract it.
They should have just started with $100, I think many, many, more would have already taken it. Heck I've got a couple freinds that think they have to pay for it, and can't afford it even. I bet they'll be getting a shot tomorrow now. "]