[golfing eagles]

Originally Posted by PennBF

It is amazing how many respondents have found excuses to justify planting a major and serious Virus treatment in the center of an active area and in a building that is where they will treat a total of 300 patients a day. We even have some that try to justify it as the
one being treated would not move about the area at the stores and restaurants? Of course there is still the point they have not as yet ruled out the virus spreading in the air thus one of the reasons for the push for masks. Those who think this is OK and work to find reasons to believe this is just business as usual and disregard any concern about placing a serious medical facility in the center of an open population should visit the ICU at the hospital to get an idea of what their future looks like.

It's amazing how many times I have to post the same thing.

So to repeat from the last page:
I don't know. If they are responsible they won't. If they tested positive they are supposed to self-quarantine and wear a mask if they must go out for essentials, of which the monoclonal therapy would qualify. But if they go out "shopping, eating and drinking at Brownwood", they will go out and do that everywhere else as well. So once again, better they are treated than not.

You are not at risk because people who tested COVID positive are outdoors in the same town square. PERIOD.

Yes, "they" have ruled out the virus spreading "by air"
The virus is NOT airborne and that is NOT the reason for masks.

However, the longer we have a significant percentage of people who go unvaccinated, the more likely a mutation might make the jump to become airborne, and then we're in a whole new ballgame.

[Byte1]

Originally Posted by PennBF

It is amazing how many respondents have found excuses to justify planting a major and serious Virus treatment in the center of an active area and in a building that is where they will treat a total of 300 patients a day. We even have some that try to justify it as the
one being treated would not move about the area at the stores and restaurants? Of course there is still the point they have not as yet ruled out the virus spreading in the air thus one of the reasons for the push for masks. Those who think this is OK and work to find reasons to believe this is just business as usual and disregard any concern about placing a serious medical facility in the center of an open population should visit the ICU at the hospital to get an idea of what their future looks like.

How exactly is this effecting your lifestyle? Other than being scared, does this process of attempting to save lives really bother you that much? In the past 8 years, I have been to Brownwood only once, so whether they treat Covid patients or leprosy patients has no effect on my lifestyle. I have two other village squares that I can use IF I so choose. Sorry, but unlike some hysterical types on here, I find this a positive in the process of relieving the populace of the covid threat as well as the stress on some that feel the gov is not doing enough.
How do I see this thread? As a utility to justify and promote mass hysteria.
KUDOS to the governor for initiating this great idea!

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by Byte1

…………On top of that, you insist that anyone that does not agree is portrayed as some uneducated redneck?

LOL. If the shoe fits……….

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by Number 10 GI

I remember posts on this forum complaining about all the people who were at the restaurants setting at the bar with no masks. They were going to spread the virus causing mass deaths from Covid infection. I haven't seen any data to back up this claim. The death/hospitalization rate has been quite low for TV. Seems like some have to spread baseless paranoia and hysteria.

Deaths and hospitalizations in The Villages has been low because the vaccination rate is HIGH. That is a no brainer.

[Penglobal]

Lets face it folks, everyday you step-outside your cubicle of safety(house), you are potentially exposed to those who have been exposed to or currently have COVID. You might as well learn to live with these viruses for the coming years as COVID will mutate and continue to spread.

[tvbound]

Since Florida just reached an all-time high of daily covid deaths, counting all the way back to when this damned thing started, I would think that the addition of another effective way to fight it would be encouraged. Particularly given the average age of the residents, even though it seems vaccinations (and masks?) are being more embraced in TV than in a lot of other areas of FL.

[Number 10 GI]

Originally Posted by coffeebean

Deaths and hospitalizations in The Villages has been low because the vaccination rate is HIGH. That is a no brainer.

All those claims that there would be mass deaths were posted before the vaccines were available.

[Altavia]

Nice to have an option.

But - will people afraid of a vaccine get an experimental monoclonal antibody treatment?

[tophcfa]

Perhaps I am missing something, but common sense tells me it would be a much better idea to focus resources and efforts on preventing people from contracting Covid than to attempt to treat it with an experimental antibody?

[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by tophcfa

Perhaps I am missing something, but common sense tells me it would be a much better idea to focus resources and efforts on preventing people from contracting Covid than to attempt to treat it with an experimental antibody?

How much more can be done to convince people to be vaccinated? What would that additional effort look like?

For a whole lot of people, that ship has sailed; attempts at treatment are all they have left.

[CFrance]

Originally Posted by Robbie0723

Nice to have an option.

But - will people afraid of a vaccine are going to get an experimental monoclonal antibody treatment?

Judging by all the non-vaccinated who are inundating the hospitals right now, I would think they would. I wonder if a lot of them aren't afraid of the vaccine so much as they are afraid of government controlling their lives.

[Eg_cruz]

Agree ………there are a 100 better places to choice from.

[Mrprez]

Love it! You go Gracie!

[Bogie Shooter]

Sad but, the anti-vaxer community is getting smaller every day.

[Happydaz]

If I were locating a monoclonal antibody center I would look to place it in a medical office, a hospital, or a building off by itself with adequate parking. I would not locate it in a Village square. Putting this center in the Barnstorm Theater in Brownwood does not, in my opinion, look like such a good idea. People who need treatment like this more than likely are unvaccinated. Their families may be unvaccinated as well. They could live anywhere in the area and now we are having them come into Brownwood accompanied by their close relatives. What do you think these other family members will do while waiting for the patient to get their treatment? Maybe shop in Brownwood? Go to a restaurant? This is a concentrated number of Covid exposed people from all over the area walking around Brownwood. My wife has ruled out going to Brownwood for shopping or eating. My wife’s concern is very high and some of our neighbors are also very concerned. I have tended to downplay the risk as there are Covid positive patients everywhere and I only visit Dunkin' Donuts once a week, but upon thinking about what my wife has said, I plan to get coffee elsewhere from now on. Why expose myself to additional risk if I don’t have to?