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Old 03-06-2021, 09:33 AM
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Originally Posted by PugMom View Post
so here's my quandry: the vax are out & being dispersed, so why are 'elected officials' saying we need more masking up until 2022? (yes-i heard an 'official' say this. am trying to keep posts non-political so as not to close the thread) we have been told we need the vax, then all will be well. it feels like they move the goalpost a lot. we get the vax but STILL need to mask up. meanwhile we see same folks out & about with their own families & their own restaurants, after scaring the beejeezus out of everybody with the gloom & doom talk.. they lie on the facts, the NUMBERS, yet still feel they can preach as experts on a subject only recently known to man.
I don't know where to start. Some of your conjecture is true. There are facts we have known for a long time about all viruses and that and scientist knowledge of the Corona Virus and it's ability to change each time it inhabits an organism is vague but true. Knowing what you don't know is part of overall knowledge and there are no pat and proven answers. It is a germ. It doesn't have morals. Our bodies have never met it and it kills older people. At MY age, one in ten will die if the catch it. We know that 95% of people who have died in the United States were over fifty. Apparently something about aging makes us all more vulnerable. I personally knew FIVE people who died from this virus and two of them were frequent posters on this forum. It is wise to be very careful.

95 Percent of Americans Killed by COVID Were 50+
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