Well, at least some of us have had lots of time to evaluate different PPE, get accustomed to avoiding environments where aerosolized transmission is likely if not assured and wearing PPE when one must be present in such spaces - that would be the only saving grace from having an epidemic let alone a pandemic of a flu virus following so closely on to COVID.
We were more cautious than anyone I knew personally (not online) during the most active years of the pandemic. We continue to wear well-fitting PPE during travel, etc., and make strategic decisions about big indoor gatherings. But we have middle school and older kids and I can't imagine limiting their lives again in the way that we did for Covid. My personal lack of appetite for this makes me very nervous about it all.
Totally agree with your assessment that Michigan seems like ground zero, but this is because public health is actually functioning and reporting there. Kind of like how Covid variants seemed to be coming out of South Africa for a while, simply b/c they had great surveillance. Will be interesting to see how the Finnish vaccinated farmworker data plays out like canaries in a coal mine. Has anyone followed Louisiana’s lead and installed placards with the Ten Commandments in dairy farms? Is that use of scarce taxpayer dollars better than funding public health as a societal benefit?
I share the same sentiment. I couldn’t think of a worse time than having an epidemic let alone a pandemic right now.
Well, at least some of us have had lots of time to evaluate different PPE, get accustomed to avoiding environments where aerosolized transmission is likely if not assured and wearing PPE when one must be present in such spaces - that would be the only saving grace from having an epidemic let alone a pandemic of a flu virus following so closely on to COVID.
We were more cautious than anyone I knew personally (not online) during the most active years of the pandemic. We continue to wear well-fitting PPE during travel, etc., and make strategic decisions about big indoor gatherings. But we have middle school and older kids and I can't imagine limiting their lives again in the way that we did for Covid. My personal lack of appetite for this makes me very nervous about it all.
Agreed. My kids missed out on so much, and I won’t do that to them again unless it is truly life and death.
Totally agree with your assessment that Michigan seems like ground zero, but this is because public health is actually functioning and reporting there. Kind of like how Covid variants seemed to be coming out of South Africa for a while, simply b/c they had great surveillance. Will be interesting to see how the Finnish vaccinated farmworker data plays out like canaries in a coal mine. Has anyone followed Louisiana’s lead and installed placards with the Ten Commandments in dairy farms? Is that use of scarce taxpayer dollars better than funding public health as a societal benefit?