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[olds442jetaway]

I am glad I started this thread. It already has opened up our eyes a bit. Thanks guys for participating. By guys of course I mean both guys and gals.

[billryan]

Canada ordered four hundred million doses last fall, far more than they needed. They decided to order from European drug makers because they did not trust the trump administration to allow American companies to export the vaccines.
Now they are in a bad situation because the European companies have both run into distribution problems and are being pressured to keep the doses in Europe.
The US is in a bind because while we have some extra doses, do we give them to our immediate neighbors, or do we send them where they are most needed. Canada is mostly coping with the virus, while India is a raging wildfire.
Which country is more deserving? Which country is in more desperate need?
I'm thankful I don't have to make these decisions.

[rockinrobin]

Robin I have never heard of a spread that long between the first and second shot. May I ask what state you live in? The science varies, but with a spread that long I would be concerned about the first shot protection lessening before you ever get the second. In Ct the first and second shot are scheduled 3 to 4 weeks apart.

I live in Florida and my 2nd shot was 4 weeks after the first. I was asking Case why theirs was so far apart. I would have same concerns that you mentioned.

[rockinrobin]

Last month, the US sent 2.5 million doses of vaccine to Canada and 1.5 to Mexico. I know that they are helping out India which is in dire straits. We still have a lot of Americans here that need to be vaccinated, but many probably won’t be which is unfortunate.

[olds442jetaway]

I just heard on the news that LA County is down by more than 50% on the numbers of people getting vaccinated. This is going to come back and bite us in the behind there are also surges in the Pacific Northwest which all will work their way down into California and other states it’s still a huge mess My best friends daughter and son-in-law are both nurses at Yale they work with kids with cancer and also in the ICU and on Covid floors not only are the young people now starting to fill up the ICU they are going on ventilators and some of them don’t make it people just aren’t getting the message or if they are getting it they are ignoring it

[rockinrobin]

I think they are just ignoring it, Olds. They think they are invincible and it’s “just the flu”. I heard a doctor in Texas interviewed yesterday say that he has worked over 400 straight days with COVID patients. He said that, yes, numbers are down, but as you said, it is the under 40 group he is now seeing and that they are coming in very sick and many on ventilators. It just seems senseless.

[Tedlark]

I am glad I started this thread. It already has opened up our eyes a bit. Thanks guys for participating. By guys of course I mean both guys and gals.

I'm a bit confused as to the direction this thread has taken: there is already a thread on COVID-19 vaccines and yet this thread has morphed into a discussion about the COVID-19 vaccines.

Not one mention of what someone had for lunch today, what brand of deodorant they use, Diet Coke or Diet Pepsi, sausage or pepperoni (or shrimp), if they are due (or overdue) for a haircut, do they still own a video tape player, the NFL draft, shopping for a new car, gardens that have been planted, the Kentucky Derby, Memorial Day travel plans, graduation celebrations, favorite brand of sunglasses, rib eye t-bone or strip, american or cheddar or swiss on burgers, pro wrestling - real or fake, the list is endless.....

[billryan]

And now it has morphed into a complaint thread. Strange how that works.

[Tedlark]

And now it has morphed into a complaint thread. Strange how that works.

My post was in no means a complaint but rather, an observation. What's the Bisbee nightlife like? Any good restaurants there? Employee or 1099 worker? See how easy it is.....

[OTABILL]

I an praying they don’t bring back indoor smoking. If they do, I’m done. Perfect way to spread these airborne varient viruses with exhaled smoke never mind the stench of it and disgusting behavior that goes with many of the smokers leaving piles of ashes,butts everywhere, and holding the cigarettes at eye level between two fingers so the smoke goes right into your eyes.

I pray that smokers discover how truly BAD cigarettes are for them and they quit before its too late.

As I have previously posted over the past few years, my wife developed and then passed away from lung cancer. We both were convinced that second hand smoke in casinos was the major contributor. So far in Arizona, the vast majority of casinos no longer allow indoor smoking. Hopefully, they will not go back. As far as I am concerned, smokers who Indiscriminately blow smoke around others are as culpable in putting folks at risks as drunk drivers.