How will everyone react when Covid is no longer an issue? What do you think we will learn from this experience? Are there new pandemics in our future?
Stay safe, everyone! This past year has been very stressful for all of us.
Cannot wait until 2020 is over! Hopefully 2021 will be much happier for all of us.
Feeling sad over everyone who has died with Covid and for the loved ones that are grieving their loss. God bless all of you.
There wasn’t a suitable category so I selected medications, closest to the vaccine category that I could find.
I am the type of person that if I need some medicine for whatever, give me the old tried and true meds that have been around for decades. Example, Dramamine has been on the market since 1949. This one kid, me, took it whenever my parents went on a road trip, which was quite often. There was always a museum somewhere in the U.S. that they hadn't seen :P
At this point in time, I will see what the scientists say after they have their covid vaccine shots, and see what my primary doctor recommends.
Remember the sugar cubes? What was that one? Polio, maybe?
Where’s Alva. our nurse? Or any other nurses other that remembers the sugar cubes? Now I am curious.
I had mumps, measles and chicken pox as a kid. I remember mom making us eat and drink behind each other so we would all get it.
Plus the neighborhood moms would send their kid over to whosever house had a kid with mumps, measles or chicken pox so their kids would get it because childhood diseases are dangerous for some adults like pregnant women and so on.
When my daughter got her vaccinations before kindergarten my MIL couldn’t be around her because her oncologist said it was not good for her to be exposed to it having treatments for her non Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Medicine is fascinating!
I heard an article on NPR saying that doctors prefer the tried and true antibiotics, plus the cost is outrageous for new drugs to be developed.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/imz-managers/downloads/COVID-19-Vaccination-Program-Interim_Playbook.pdf
if they do not have proof of the vaccination.
It could get so insane that the authorities may try detaining people in a FEMA quarantine facility if they refuse to have the vaccine.
On the other side of the spectrum, the FDA is so used to being in control, profiting from 10 year delays to approve pharmaceuticals and vaccines, that a government delay of approval for vaccines will be experienced in 2021.
Of course, I do not believe these conspiracy theories, at all. Not one bit.
I am not a conspiracy theorist.
But I read what some people are thinking.
Not everyone will react the same, or in a civilized manner. imo.
Good points. I am not a conspiracy theorist either.
I understand that our minds wonder in these stressful times. It feels like we are living in a sci-fi movie or novel.
Our generation hasn’t lived through a pandemic before so we are feeling new emotions.
I think the one thing we can all agree on is wanting it to be over.
I am completely shocked that some people don’t even believe COVID-19 is real. It boggles my mind that some assume it is a hoax.
That’s good news to hear.
Can you share a bit more details about the vaccine?
If you don’t feel it’s appropriate to share what your friend said, I understand.
I think many people are excited about the COVID-19 vaccine and just as many are concerned about it being produced so quickly among other things.
We KNEW when he was doing the first chemo, that it was just buying him time. To be on on the 'ground floor' of an amazing CURE rate of upwards of 90% was incredible with Harvoni.
I am a cancer survivor, DH is a diabetic transplant patient who had 2 heart attacks. Both of us are 1st line patients. Both of us will get the COVID vaccine as soon as it's available.
Our SIL is an MD/PhD with his PhD being in the field of vaccines. He HAD covid, so I asked him if I could get 'his' dose of Covid vaccine. He laughed and said "Won't work that way, but if I can pull ANY strings, you guys will be front of the pack".
And 40% of the population will NOT get vaccinated. That's just the way it rolls.
I hope 2021 brings about calm, peace and more love for everyone for their fellow man--and a cure for Covid. But worse than Covid, to me, is the unkindness and anger I see in our world. That, to me, is more heartbreaking than any virus.
202 for me was a sad, lost year. I had just clearead cancer and came down with shingles. 2 months of yuck--wasn't too bad, but sure wasn't fun...then COVID. I've been in isolation of some kind for almost 20 months. Can't take a lot more!
You have had more than your share of heartache! I certainly hope 2021 is better for all of us.