Well, here's where we have the public health emergency and crisis management people get involved..

We don't know what the future will bring. If the numbers continue to drop and, as you said, only those who rolled snake-eyes get infected, and the hospitals don't get over-run, we may see all that go by the wayside.

I am optimistic enough to feel that we are now looking in the rear view mirror on this. Or, rather, vaccinated people are as the chance of a vaccinated person getting an infection is now 9000:180 MILLION, according to the news last night. And the majority of those actually were infected prior to getting the vaccine, so the number is far less.

And, Europe is now opening up to fully vaccinated Americans and I'm booking a flight to get a bratwurst soon!

For a year we have been told that wearing a mask doesn’t protect you, it protects others. If you have had your shots, if you wear a mask it won’t protect me since you’re already protected. And I shouldn’t need to wear a mask since you don’t need protection from me, because you’re already protected. So why does my “breathing” have you so agitated?!?

Covid is unique in that it resulted in a Pandemic and the death toll is incredibly high. Plus is it very contagious. So they are writing a new set of rulebooks on this.

You are correct about HIPPA. But, it is your choice whether to take part in whatever activity requires you to provide proof. So, the activity is purely optional.

It's interesting you mention vaccinations to visit other countries. I just found my shot record I had to carry everywhere in the past. I couldn't even board the flight with it.

Airlines are responsible for checking vaccination requirements of your destination before you board. I don't see any of that changing. As more and more countries require Covid vaccinations, it will become second nature for travelers to keep their cards with them.

I have read that each state has a depository of vaccination records that can be used. For what I read, this is how cruise lines will check for vaccine compliance, although you WILL have to sign a release form for them to check the state records. So, you may not need the card at that time.

We're still wearing baby shoes and taking baby steps right now!

Freedom lost
 

Thank you. You are so right. The current political climate is all about removing more and more freedoms. Hopefully more of America will wake up to this before America as we knew it in the past is gone forever.

Doesn't really make sense. It's the vaccines that changed the playing field. If changing the guidelines was the only thing needed to get people back to work; then they should have changed them a year ago.


I think the change in guidelines has more to do with the changing public sentiment than it has to do with science. Even some of the well-known hosts of the opinion programs on the cable news channels are questioning why masks are required. Changing the guidelines, IMO, demonstrates the manipulation the CDC has been conducting on the populace. Think about it. What has changed since November that makes fully vaccinated folks safe today but not back then? If the vaccines are effective (and I believe they are) there's no reason for anyone fully vaccinated to wear a mask at all.

It gets better -

Latest word from CDC says that vaccinated don't need to wear masks in most situations but that the non-vaccinated should continue wearing them.

And that we may see masks for a long time since some people are now very comfortable wearing them. uhh - not me. LOL

India has put cables and fencing over some spots in rivers to stop bodies from being thrown into the water and are burning piles and piles of bodies in the street.

I'm so glad our "conspiracy", never got as bad as their" conspiracy".

I think you mean 1.38 Billion, not Trillion. That many? That’s impressive!

If the unvaccinated don't wear masks they are putting only themselves at risk. The likelihood of a vaccinated person getting infected is extremely low

Maybe one of these

We've dropped down to #18 in the fatalities/million as well.

COVID Live Update: 161,923,080 Cases and 3,360,907 Deaths from the Coronavirus - Worldometer

And if you look at when we started vaccinations in November, we've led the world ever since in numbers of vaccines given for the population.

All that preplanning starting last July saved millions of lives - we're now shipping excess vaccination doses to India and elsewhere.

Good Job, America!

Been dining out for nearly the whole time since opened back up near a year now.

I’m with you all the way on your philosophy here. Wish there were more folks that could see the truth.

We are not the brainwashed..

Beside a blatent disregard for others, it doesn't take a math wiz to figure out that a 99% survival rate (many with serious lifelong neurological and other issues) would mean

3.28 MILLION AMERCANS DEAD

Apparently, that is perfectly acceptable to you?

Let them knock themselves out. I'm vaccinated.
Fauci et al said one reason the government lifted the mask mandate was to encourage people to get vaccinated, since the rate of vac is falling. "You can go here, and you can go there, as long as your vaccinated." However, I believe that most of the non vaccinated will take advantage of the new rule and still not get vaccinated. Unless someone's standing at the door asking for vac records (which could be fake anyway), I doubt it will change their minds about vaccinations. They'll go anywhere they want to.

But oh well... Let them infect each other!