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Jan's avatar

Risk reduction is the "name of the game": socially, I do feel awkward being the lone mask in many situations, but it's just not worth getting sick. A close friend didn't mask on a flight due to embarrassment, and is now quite ill with Covid--that's a no brainer for me (and his primary care provider)--it's the social situations that are so difficult to navigate right now, for me.

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Another reason for the bad and worsening respiratory virus season this year… we know that COVID causes immune dysregulation. My guess is that we’re seeing the effects of a population-level decline in immune system health.

Also, we shouldn’t be surprised that there’s been low uptake of COVID vaccines, given that the Biden Administration “declared the pandemic over” (*snort*) and the CDC director herself— Maskless Mandy— parades around without any kind of respirator on. We are seeing zero good respiratory hygiene behavior from our “leadership” to model. People are getting attacked and mocked for wearing masks.

Also, I am in a lot of COVID cautious groups where parents cannot find places that will vaccinate their kids for COVID. Pharmacies would vaccinate kids under 5 while the pandemic emergency was going on, but with the end of it, pediatricians won’t order COVID vaccines— no pediatricians in my area in Georgia will carry COVID vaccines and never have, and I live in the 2nd largest city in this state— and pharmacies won’t vaccinate kids under a certain age. Many parents who WANT this protection for their kids simply can’t find anyone willing to vaccinate their children.

This Administration and the CDC have messed up this entire rollout and this entire pandemic. What we are seeing is the effects of their shoddy handling of every facet of the pandemic. It shouldn’t be a surprise. You can draw a direct line from their public proclamations and their behavior to the downstream effects we are seeing now. Idiocy.

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