Rockinghorse Winner <Rockinghorse@amgen.com> wrote in
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> On 2021-12-11, a322x1n <void@void.void> wrote:
>> It didn't have to be this way. Anti-vaxxers are killing America and
>> the world, bit by bit:
>>
<https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-year-after-first-u-s-shots-pandemic-
hallmarks-re-emerge/ar-AARHhoR?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531>
>>
>> <https://tinyurl.com/kmewu2xk>
>>
>> A year after first U.S. shots, pandemic hallmarks re-emerge.
>> By Andrew Hay, Shannon Stapleton and Peter Szekely - Yesterday, 3:10
>> PM.
>>
>> TAOS, N.M. (Reuters) -Nearly a year after COVID-19 vaccines were
>> first administered in the United States, the country is returning to
>> many of the hallmarks that defined earlier pandemic life: mask
>> mandates, mass vaccination sites, crowded hospitals and a rising
>> death toll.
>>
>> Amid hope that humanity would soon get the upper hand on the
>> coronavirus, New York City intensive care unit (ICU) nurse Sandra
>> Lindsay received a dose.
>> https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-vaccines-distributi
>> on/
>> race-against-time-first-americans-vaccinated-as-u-s-death-toll-passes-
>> 300 000-idUSKBN28O1TQ of Pfizer's just-approved vaccine last Dec. 14,
>> becoming the first inoculated U.S. resident.
>>
>> Since then, more than 200 million others - more than 60% of the U.S.
>> population - have gotten at least two doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech or
>> Moderna vaccines or one Johnson & Johnson's single-shot inoculation,
>> according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
>>
>> Despite that triumph of modern science, the country's death toll
>> continues to mount. Since the first dose was administered, nearly
>> 500,000 more people have died of COVID-19, with the country expected
>> to cross the 800,000 mark next week, according to a Reuters tally.
>>
>> Both infections - approaching 50 million since the start of the
>> pandemic - and deaths have been rising in recent weeks, especially as
>> colder weather in northern states pushes activities indoors, allowing
>> for easier virus transmission.
>>
>> Resurging infections on Friday prompted New York Governor Kathy
>> Hochul, a Democrat, to temporarily reimpose
>> https://www.reuters.com/world/us/new-york-governor-says-masks-will-be-
>> req uired-businesses-without-covid-19-2021-12-10 a requirement for
>> face coverings inside businesses and venues that do not require proof
>> of vaccination.
>>
>> "We shouldn't have reached the point where we are confronted with a
>> winter surge, especially with the vaccine at our disposal, and I
>> share many New Yorkers' frustration that we are not past this
>> pandemic yet," Hochul said in a statement.
>>
>> Mask mandates, which Republican governors mostly eschewed as
>> government overreach, were a common infection-prevention tool for
>> many Democratic governors during the pandemic's worst surge, which
>> began during the year-end holiday season of 2020.
>>
>> Combating the virus has been complicated by its more aggressive
>> mutations, including the currently dominant Delta variant and
>> fast-spreading Omicron, which was first identified last month and has
>> already been detected in nearly half of the 50 states.
>>
>> The politicization of vaccines and hesitancy of many Americans to get
>> the shots has also helped keep the pandemic going, usually with more
>> deadly results, experts said.
>>
>> Video: Dr. Amesh Adalja: Healthcare workers ‘burned out’ from
>> hospitalizations that could be ‘avoided by a simple vaccine’
>> (MSNBC)
>>
>> In New Mexico, hospitals are reaching record capacity levels as
>> unvaccinated patients fill ICUs.
>>
>> In one of the Southwestern state's hardest-hit hospitals in San Juan
>> County, critical care beds filled up as fast as patients were
>> discharged or died. Dr. Erin Philpott said eight of her patients had
>> died in the last week, most of them unvaccinated.
>>
>> "It's sometimes hard to even feel because it's so much and it's
>> constant," Philpott said.
>>
>> "You can see the rooms fill up right after, and you don’t have a
>> second to pause and just process all this loss." Philpott added that
>> many of those dying from COVID-19 at San Juan Regional Medical Center
>> were in their 30s and 40s, and mostly male.
>>
>> Around 94% of COVID-19 deaths at the hospital are among the
>> unvaccinated. "It feels like it's impossible to keep seeing this and
>> dealing with it," said Philpott. "I think that's why half the staff
>> have gone."
>>
>> Nurse Patricia Thomas stood by a dead patient she had treated, a
>> white sheet over his body, a picture of his family at his feet. His
>> relatives made the decision to take him off life support. He was not
>> vaccinated. He had five children and 12 grandchildren.
>>
>> Choking back tears, Sanders said: "We took the tubes out and let them
>> hold his hand while he passed comfortably. Today was pretty hard
>> because it’s my third one this week."
>>
>> 'FUEL FOR THIS FIRE'
>>
>> As with other states with early high vaccination rates like Vermont,
>> Rhode Island and New Hampshire, immunity has waned in New Mexico,
>> pushing these states toward the top of rankings for new cases.
>>
>> The state's Democratic governor, Michelle Lujan Grisham, pushed
>> vaccinations early in 2021 to try to limit hospitalizations.
>>
>> "The fuel for this fire, our case counts, is unvaccinated
>> individuals,” New Mexico Acting Health Secretary David Scrase told
>> reporters. "Our hospitals are in a really grave situation."
>>
>> Three out of four COVID patients in the state are unvaccinated,
>> officials said. The same was true for Michigan, dealing with one of
>> the nation's worst outbreaks.
>>
>> In Connecticut, health officials this week said unvaccinated people
>> are five times more likely to get infected with COVID-19, 12 times
>> more likely to be hospitalized and 16 times more likely to die.
>>
>> Shortly after the Omicron variant was detected in New Jersey,
>> Governor Phil Murphy this week reopened one of the state's previously
>> shuttered mass vaccination sites in an effort to encourage residents
>> to get booster shots.
>>
>> Most of the large vaccination sites that states opened early this
>> year to speed inoculations have closed.
>>
>> The CDC estimates that about one-fourth of Americans have gotten
>> additional booster shots so far. They have now been authorized for
>> https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/us-fda-aut
>> hor izes-pfizerbiontech-booster-16-17-year-olds-2021-12-09 everyone
>> age 16 and up.
>>
>> Another symbol of the early pandemic, the contaminated cruise ship,
>> also re-emerged this week.
>>
>> On Monday, Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings said a South African crew
>> member suspected of having the Omicron variant was among 17 cases of
>> the virus detected on a ship that disembarked in New Orleans over the
>> weekend.
>>
>> In March 2020 when relatively few cases had been reported in the
>> United States, the cruise ship Grand Princess was held at sea for
>> days before being allowed dock in Oakland, California. Its 2,400
>> passengers were sent into quarantine at military bases after tests
>> revealed 21 positive cases of the coronavirus.
>>
>> (Reporting by Peter Szekely in New York and Andrew Hay in Taos, New
>> Mexico; Additional reporting by Shannon Stapleton, Caroline Humer and
>> Roshan Abraham; Editing by Donna Bryson, Bill Berkrot and Jonathan
>> Oatis)
>
> Freedom is messy. It would be so much simpler to force people to do
> what you want.

Yes, it's so much easier to allow people to drive 90MPH through a
school zone, or dump their garbage on your lawn, or burn down anything
they wish.

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