Same here no helmet law. Being a two wheel junky Bicycles & Motorcycles most my life.
. Hikers get lost in Hawaii & have to get rescued. Going into unknown treks with no water. I've hiked plenty these days a charged smart phone & solar phone charger go with me .No, there is no limit I know of. But she didn't candidate again. It looks like she could have made the race some more times.
There are other consequences of packing people into stadiums, Pittsburgh dad's weekly reflections on the most recent Steelers' game (home opener loss to the Raiders) he pointed out the following, I'm paraphrasing: It was a mistake to allow fans back in the arena, Ben is old, and old people don't like loud noises!"
I have a friend who runs a popular music club near Washington DC. A few months ago they limited admission to those people who are vaccinated. Despite all the angry comments they received form the local mouth breathers, their decision has really been a good one for their business. It turns out that vaccinated people are more willing to buy tickets and pack into a club to hear their favorite live act when they can reasonably believe they are not sitting next to the unvaccinated.
Name calling and put downs aside, I think society needs to understand why people aren't getting vaccinated. There is not one reason. I am willing to go out on a limb and say some people are not for very stupid reasons, ergo, yes, it makes them look stupid. This has been studied to some extent. According to the online news organization vox.com, these are the top reasons:
Fortunately, serious cases among children and young adults are very rare. Delta has been claimed to be more dangerous for the young, probably from just being more contagious, but even delta carries very low risk.
What makes you qualified to determine it's 'complete bull'? Unless you're an expert in public health, I'd suggest you listen to those who are. Not me, but this is what they're saying. We've seen exactly the same dynamic around seatbelt use in the 80s and condom usage when AIDS first appeared. Do you have any evidence that your preferred method of public shaming works, or does it just feel cathartic. How are you any less selfish?
I'm sure that is very little solace to the parents of the 500-or-so children that have died in the US from covid so far, and that number will only grow. However, as a percentage of the population, you are correct, it is still rare, no argument there. Yet don't discount the relative risk that children bring to communities as potential vectors of the disease, especially with the push to return them to school. This is exceptionally true in places like Florida and Texas where the idiot governors are putting their own political ambitions above all as they tried to prevent schools from having mask mandates. Parents with underlying health conditions or that are caretakers to vulnerable elderly people I know had very mixed feelings about returning their children to school and not because of the risk to the children themselves, but the potential to undo all the precautions they took in the previous year to protect the vulnerable members of their households. I had mixed feelings myself returning my own kids, particularly the one too young to get inoculated, to in-person studies. Be that as it may, I could not envision them having another year like the one prior, kids need to go back, at least that is the opinion I came to and so far still hold. Of course this could all change rapidly, if the numbers get really bad <oh please no>, kids might be returning to cyber at-home learning whether we like it or not and it may not be a parents' choice.
You're missing my point. I agree with you that people who refuse the vaccine are making the world a worse place for entirely selfish reasons. My point is that so are you. If you actually cared about increasing vaccine uptake, you wouldn't loudly proclaim your judgment on a public forum. Go ahead and vent all you want in private among others who you're certain share your sentiments. But public shaming will only solidify resistance among any unvaccinated lurkers who might be reading this. You are playing a small part in prolonging this pandemic by selfishly indulging in a puritanical desire to shame bad actors publicly. I share your anger with their behavior, but your method is entirely counter-productive if the goal is to get more people vaccinated.
