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Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Twirling Time, Jan 21, 2020.

  1. RickStain

    RickStain Well-Known Member

    I'm really starting to wonder if, through no fault of their own, health-care workers were a huge part of community spread. Get it at work, bring it home, spread it through the community. Community brings it back to the hospital, more of your co-workers get it, cycle continues.

    Thus vaccinating them is really knocking the legs out from under this thing, even though they make up a small portion of the population.
     
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  2. Spartan Squad

    Spartan Squad Well-Known Member

    That makes sense. I also wonder if a lack of a January/February get-together holiday helped in this too. Weather sucks, not many places to go, not much of a reason to have huge gatherings stopped the spread too. But vaccinating hospital workers plus older people KO’d both the sources of spread and the biggest population heading to the hospital probably has been a huge boon to helping the drop in numbers.
     
  3. Jerry-atric

    Jerry-atric Well-Known Member

    I think that another reason for the drop is that a large percentage of non-careful people have now already had COVID 19, especially after the holidays. Those left are increasingly more careful, by percentage. This feels like it makes sense to me.
     
  4. Jerry-atric

    Jerry-atric Well-Known Member

    There is no way it is 8 to 1. That would mean 230 million infected in the United States.
     
  5. BTExpress

    BTExpress Well-Known Member

    Makes a heck of a lot more sense than people getting it at Hobby Lobby.
     
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  6. lakefront

    lakefront Well-Known Member

    Yes, that was my big worry with my daughter. Then when her hubby went back to work and I started babysitting again I was really freaking worried about me.
     
  7. lakefront

    lakefront Well-Known Member

    Hubby got his first shot yesterday, sore arm later in the day and also today. We drove from Murrells Inlet, SC to Summerville, SC. about 1hr40min. Gave us a chance to see a different part of the state. Picked up a bookcase from fb marketplace in Charleston. Went to Trader Joes in Charleston. Good day all around, as usual the 2 week clock starts again as it does every time we go out. He is set for the next on on March 20. Moderna.
    So my little bubble of my Sister, her hubby and mine will all have their shots finished up soon. I feel like it makes me safer but not sure that they know details on that yet.
     
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  8. goalmouth

    goalmouth Well-Known Member

    Still have to tell people to back the fuck up waiting in supermarket and food pickup lines.
     
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  9. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

  10. maumann

    maumann Well-Known Member

  11. Jerry-atric

    Jerry-atric Well-Known Member

    “We” haven’t, but the virus has. Mistakes were made, especially by “Drumpf.” But all 500K deaths are not due to “human error.” Mother Nature is a force to be reckoned with.
     
  12. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

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