Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with a girl who saw Ferris pass-out at 31 Flavors last night. I guess it's pretty serious.

 

I prayed on it & I'm comfortable and didn't need some bubble-assed celebrity's anecdotal evidence to enter the picture

 

But celebrities are validating the feeble minded enough to kill vax momentum.

 

“Babe, I didn’t bang that stripper last week, it’s the vax!”

 

Drugs?

 

Nicki Minaj listening to her Trinidadian cousin's friend for medical advice is like listening to Nicki Minaj for medical advice.

 

So sad and unnecessary. And almost unbelievable -- if we hadn't heard of similar things before.

Both parents dead of COVID-19 or complications from it. Five kids, ranging in age from 7 down to three weeks old, are left behind.

California couple die of covid, leaving five kids behind. Their newborn is 3 weeks old.

 

The vax mandate for restaurants, gyms, etc., became official today in NYC. Though we have been asked for proof a vaccination a couple of times, including yesterday when we went to lunch. Happy to do it.

I stopped in the drug store today where I was vaccinated in March/April. Had not seen anyone in the vax area for a long time. Today, there were six or seven of the dozen or so chairs filled in the vax area where you wait to make sure there’s no allergic reaction. And two in the vax line at the pharmacy counter.

Purely anecdotal, of course. But happy to see the mandate might be having a real effect on those who were either hesitant, couldn’t be bothered or were just lazy about it.

 

And the mom was a NURSE! (He was a teacher). Dammit. As the sister-in-law said, "I don't know of anyone who has died of the vaccine but I know people who have died from the virus." Yep that about sums it up.

 

And I'm bordering on not caring. My friend bore twins this May, Mother's day, and had taken the vaccine earlier, while pregnant as a teacher. Two, healthy, hardy kids. I know everyone's situation is different, But this reads as pure neglect on the parent's part.

 

SI’s Ross Dellenger, writing for Time:

In normal times, the ICU is a dreadful place.

Sickness lingers like a fog. You can feel it, sense it, even hear it—the machinery pumping, the alarms ringing, the nurses scrambling.

In pandemic times, the ICU is chilling. Death lives here.

Medical staff members wear green biohazard suits, face shields, latex gloves and shoe coverings. Strips of red tape—“ISOLATION,” they read—mark the windows and doors of individual rooms.

Behind each is a patient who cannot breathe on their own, kept alive by a ventilation machine that is connected to an invasive tube running down their windpipe and into the lungs. Each room is almost identical: a person, some on their stomachs and others on their backs, sedated and paralyzed, roughly a dozen patches and pipes protruding from them, blankets hiding their naked bodies.

Most of them will not make it out of here, the nurse tells me. In fact, at this particular ICU on the Southern Gulf Coast, COVID-19 patients needing a ventilator have a fatality rate approaching 100%. Over the last year, hundreds of them spent time here. Seven of them survived.

“I wish people could walk in my shoes for a day,” the nurse muffles through a mask.

The nurse is nice, but blunt. She’s frustrated like so many in the medical community, she says. In this ICU, there are 25 patients battling COVID-19. She pauses before finishing the thought: 24 of them are unvaccinated.

That includes the patient before her, the one with braided red curls, pale skin, the one with rosaries draped over her bedside, lying flat on her stomach, her left ear and cheek exposed, a tube inserted in her mouth filling her lungs with oxygen.

She is in her 40s, a mother to a teenager. A wife to a husband. A daughter to an 81-year old mom. A sister to three older siblings. A friend to hundreds.

And an aunt, a godmother and a kindred spirit to one lucky nephew.

Me.​

I Didn't Want to Push My Aunt to Get the Vaccine. Now I Live With Regrets