Rant... you can’t fix stupid

[Devan S.]

https://www.cdc.gov/ticks/data-summary/index.html#:~:text=In 2018%2C state and local,Reported Tickborne Diseases%2C U.S.&text=Reported Tickborne Diseases%2C U.S.,-Lyme Disease (confirmed

 

The CDC reports confirmed tick borne illness just like COVID, flu, heart disease, heart attacks, basically anything. 
 

And no most people don't get a tick bite and run to the hospital they generally have to actually fall ill from it. The same can be said about a lot of things COVID included. Believe it or not you were likely a statistic whatever year you were tested. 

 

Again my point being tick bites would be a significant issue IF we were seeing 200k+ new cases of tick born illnesses everyday but were not. 

 

[Al Agnew]

19 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

So 1 in 100 are dying.  And of those infected, probably only 1/10 of those are actually dying strictly because of the Covid.  

Don't ya think that's a more realistic way to look at it?   

So if 1000 people got bitten by ticks, how many do you think might be near fatal?     At least 1 right?     Yeah.

So what were you saying? 🤔

So yeah, tick borne illnesses are causing hospitals to be operating at capacity and past capacity, wearing down the health care workers in them as well as putting them in constant danger, causing most hospitals to put holds on all elective surgery procedures because they don't have the bed space, etc.  If "only" 1 in 100 are dying, there are still a heck of a lot of people getting sick enough to need hospitalization.  THAT'S the more realistic way to look at it.

By the way, I've been bitten by more than a thousand ticks in my life.  I ain't gotten sick yet.  But I'd still just as soon not get bitten by a tick.

[MOPanfisher]

If half the US population get infected with COVID 19 and it is 1% lethal, my math says that results is 1.5 Million deaths.  I will admit to be fairly cavalier about me getting covid, however yesterday I attended the funeral of a very good friends father who passed away after spending 2 weeks on a ventilator.  I can be cavalier about myself but I don't want to think about how I would feel.if I thought I was the one who gave it to someone else.  I wear my mask when around other folks more to protect them.  My wife is a school nurse so she gets to see and be exposed to several, including sending the entire basketball home to quarantine.  The two school nurses wear the N95 masks and the other nurse is currently in quarantine after testing positive.  It is a small gesture to do to protect someone else.  Also keep sanitizing your hands whenever you pump gas, go into a store to buy a coke, smokes, biscuit whatever.

[fishinwrench]

34 minutes ago, Al Agnew said:

 

By the way, I've been bitten by more than a thousand ticks in my life.  I ain't gotten sick yet. 

And thousands have tested positive for Covid without ever being sick.  

 

Maybe tick bites are the vaccine.   Could it be that all the people dying from Covid haven't had enough tick bites?  

[Mitch f]

Question: if the new vaccines work, and everyone who wants to get a vaccine gets one, should they still be concerned about non mask wearers?

[snagged in outlet 3]

Around here you don’t get in very many places without one. In fact I’m not sure of anywhere you can walk into without one.  

[Al Agnew]

23 minutes ago, Mitch f said:

Question: if the new vaccines work, and everyone who wants to get a vaccine gets one, should they still be concerned about non mask wearers?

Good question, Mitch.  It appears the vaccines are somewhere around 95% effective, and near 100% at keeping you from getting as severe a case even if you still get infected.  But from a societal point of view, until the disease gets down to a level where it's easy to contact trace and the hospitals aren't under any pressure, I would think that mask wearing should continue.  

 

[Mitch f]

Well I bought some Pfizer a few weeks ago so I’m wanting it to keep going up, but it seems they ran into a distribution challenge. My daughter had some ModeRNA a month ago and sold when it started going nuts. 

[gotmuddy]

I need a hat that says I've already had covid so I don't have to wear a mask. 

[FishnDave]

My wife talked to a friend of ours in mid-November.  He mentioned he’d had Covid but had recovered.  He either wasn’t over it or caught another strain...  We found out today he died of Covid 4 days ago. He’d just turned 62.