If you chose not to mask and not to vaccinate, do one more thing not to do.
DO NOT GO TO A HOSPITAL IF YOU GET COVID. YOU ARE WASTING VALUABLE RESOURCES FOR THOSE OF US WHO NEED THEM.
I assume your post was meant to be satirical, but not everyone has the same sense of humour so humour needs to be pre-advertised as such.
If it wasn't humour. I don't have any doubt that masks help against air-borne diseases, or that the COVID vaccines work (although like most things, not perfectly); and I think that people who believe the fanciful COVID conspiracy tales to the contrary are probably just total morons, BUT if we were to ban anyone from medical attention because they made a bad/different choices, then most people in car accidents would be denied treatment, anyone who carried a couple of extra kilos would be turned away. In fact, it is unlikely anyone would be eligible for treatment if not making any bad life-style choices was a condition of treatment.
I have no problem seeing people thrown in the slammer for breaking health laws, or avoided because others think they represent a danger to them or their families by their inaction, but is quite another thing to deny treatment to a sick person, especially when they might die. History has shown us what happens when people become convinced that some other group of people are of lesser worth - and it is always ends up ugly.
No. I am tired of everyone debating all the possiblities of a favorable outcome when there is none. You might as well debate whether or not the size of a rain drop , in a thunderstorm are all of the same size and mass.
You have several choices.
1. Get the vaccine, and still be cautious, avoid crowds and the simple pleasure of dining on a meal out , cooked by someone else and even more so, you do not have to do the dishes afterward.
2. Get the vaccine and stay at home, trying to enjoy something cooked in the microwave and ordering your groceries online to be picked up or delivered, trusting that the kid doing the shopping knows enough not to put in bad produce in your sack.
3. Just wear the mask and hope for the best.
4. Neither get the vaccine or the mask, but do go to the local school board and give the finger (done on tape at the Ankeny, Iowa school board meeting in November) to everyone because the majority think your kid should wear a mask.
5. Neither get the vaccine or the mask, go everywhere and anywhere , stating " I will not be bullied into getting the vaccine or wear a hoax mask) as my dear friend and her husband said in December 2021. As a side note, She has covid, he is in the hospital since Dec 23, on a ventilator , failing kidneys and on dialysis, had his heart restarted twice.
6. Get the virus and gut it out at home, hoping for the best
7. Get the virus and gut it out at home and not do so well.
8. Get the virus and go to the hospital. Go to the ICU and the patient that needs his mitral valve replaced because it is shredded for some reason, has to go home because , Like Christ, there is no more room at the inn.
Now There are 8 choices, none of which are good. Some have the same outcome and some none of which are good. Now for me, I got the vaccine and the booster. I have 5 test kits sitting over by the security camera DVR. i have 50 N95 masks NIOS approved over on the desk (made in the USA and on the list that the CDC approves). And I still am staying at home as much as I can. Going to the doctor is an outing . I did go through the drive through at Jimmy John's (#2 with pickles). I hope that I stay well. Now if I don't I know that I have done everything possible to stay well.
Should I get the blasted virus with whatever variant, I can go to the hospital. Yeah, I have pre-existing conditions, anemia, asthma, diabetes type 2, high blood pressure and a Davis weather station from 2006. I really do not want an endotracheael tube down my larynx. I have inserted my share of those in folks who really needed them and I tell you what, Don't give mouth to mouth for someone who just ate a bowl of chili, have your partner do it.
So am I being sarcastic, yeah while the rest of you folks are being the opposite of it.
Get vaccinated. Avoid crowds, stay at home and encourage others to do the same thing. Maybe if we can reduce the number of positive cases, we can get back to whatever the new normal is, but we can be there. You don't want that, then Ihope Insurance companies come to their senses and charge more for premiums for the unvaccinated like they do for those who choose to smoke. Yeah they can find out. You get the vaccine, it is reported to the state health dept who turns it over to the federal government who does that stuff.
The shot is free, one of the only free things the government offers, other than the migraine you folks are giving me about now.
Now if I have offended you with my post, I do apologize, I didn't think you could read.
