Coronavirus in Massachusetts (house, tenant, private school)

[msRB311]

Life has to go on for people. not to mention there's a whole slew of other things that will likely kill people aside from covid (cancer being the main one)

[jbgusa]

Originally Posted by msRB311

Life has to go on for people. not to mention there's a whole slew of other things that will likely kill people aside from covid (cancer being the main one)

And one that often was left untreated during the "pandemic."

[msRB311]

Originally Posted by jbgusa

And one that often was left untreated during the "pandemic."

Yes, I know quite a few people who have had cancer/tumor diagnoses in the past year. cancer is just scary. It doesn't seem to matter how healthy you are, it can get you. Thankfully there's more being done to detect it earlier and treat it, but still not something you want to get.

[redplum33]

Originally Posted by lrfox

What are you even refuting?

Your recollection. Mr Dee's also.

Originally Posted by lrfox

Nobody said "everyone had been vaccinated by March 2021." They said "people were being vaccinated" and that's 100% accurate.

In context, it was far from accurate.

Originally Posted by lrfox

By March 2021, the vaccine rollout was moving right along. The 100 Millionth vaccine in the U.S. was administered in March of 2021 and the number of Americans getting the shots had started to surge.

Most people weren't eligible to get vaccinated until mid-April. People on here were devising schemes to get around the eligibility requirements. Again, one member was willing to pay $1000.

Originally Posted by lrfox

The point, at least as I interpreted it, was that March of 2021 was a good point to start looking at changing gears in how restrictions were handled - not that everything should have been lifted by March of 2021. Considering the rapidly growing availability of vaccines and the synchronous rapid decline in cases/hospitalizations/deaths from the January 2021 peak, that's not an unreasonable thought.

March of 2021 was not "a good point to start looking at changing gears in how restrictions were handled". Too many unknowns, hardly anyone was "fully vaccinated", and it wasn't even clear if the vaccines were effective.

And in hindsight, it would have been an absolutely horrible time...with the Delta variant around the corner. During an approximate one month span in Spring of 2021, it took out over 4 million people in India.

[redplum33]

Originally Posted by msRB311

Life has to go on for people. not to mention there's a whole slew of other things that will likely kill people aside from covid (cancer being the main one)

Originally Posted by jbgusa

And one that often was left untreated during the "pandemic."

Originally Posted by msRB311

Yes, I know quite a few people who have had cancer/tumor diagnoses in the past year. cancer is just scary. It doesn't seem to matter how healthy you are, it can get you. Thankfully there's more being done to detect it earlier and treat it, but still not something you want to get.

If you have cancer, the last thing you need is to get covid. All of this talk about covid being like just a cold or the flu, that's not how it works if you're immunocompromised.

[msRB311]

Originally Posted by redplum33

If you have cancer, the last thing you need is to get covid. All of this talk about covid being like just a cold or the flu, that's not how it works if you're immunocompromised.

Cancer is bad with or without covid

[redplum33]

Originally Posted by msRB311

Cancer is bad with or without covid

Covid makes it much worse. A person with treatable cancer can easily die if they get covid.

And it's not just people with cancer. People with diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, smokers, etc. I'm talking about people who likely have a lot of good years left, but not if they get covid.

[msRB311]

Originally Posted by redplum33

Covid makes it much worse. A person with treatable cancer can easily die if they get covid.

And it's not just people with cancer. People with diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, smokers, etc. I'm talking about people who likely have a lot of good years left, but not if they get covid.

There are things you can do to prevent high blood pressure, obesity, smoking...you can do all the right things and still get cancer.

[redplum33]

Originally Posted by msRB311

There are things you can do to prevent high blood pressure, obesity, smoking...you can do all the right things and still get cancer.

Yes, but that's kind of irrelevant.

[redplum33]

msRB, recently you said something about people in nursing homes go there to die. Well yeah, but...of natural causes, not covid.