Our health unit posted some infuriating stats this week........ honestly I sat there reading them - twice! - and all I could do was shake my head.
Our numbers in our lil town have been climbing and climbing - in our town! Everywhere else the numbers are falling - hells bells our provincial totals - for the whole province! - have been dropping - yesterday we had only 306 new cases.
The head doctor of our health unit came out and (in my words) scolded our lil town. He pointed out we had the highest numbers of new cases in the whole unit.... AND... the lowest number of vaccinations. Everywhere else the numbers are over 80% double vaccinated.......... here? only 69%.......... we have so many anti-vaxxers here and so many conspiracy theorists. It's so damn discouraging.
How stupid can people be??!!! Our one hospital is filling up quickly - they are cancelling some surgeries... and people are saying - believe it or not - well it's flu season it's to be expected!!
So I stay home - no eating out in restaurants - no movie date nights ........ it's discouraging.
Anyone else feeling discouraged?? or has life improved in your corner of the world?
It's improved some here. But there are still so many anti-vaxxers with such stupid ideas and such big mouths. Nick and Mollie have been able to get their boosters. I'm waiting on Moderna. Once I get it I'm going back out. If I accidentally infect an anti-vaxxer, then that will be just too damn bad.
ReplyDeletePK - you're lucky you can get 'boosters' we not allowed to......... I might feel better if I got one.......
DeleteOH and I have tried commenting on your blog on a few times recently and I get this blogger icon with a red line through it.... whatever that means :(
I appreciate you coming by and trying. I haven't changed anything so I don't know what is happening. But sometimes it won't even let me comment on my site and I have to go to another browser to make it work.
DeleteIt's terrible here! We were doing so well, right from the beginning and then they got stupid and the numbers are climbing daily. I'm disgusted.
ReplyDeletePenelope - glad to know I'm not alone with my disappointment/disgust
DeleteHonestly, I have been shaking my head at your stats. We're lucky here in B. - 92% vaccination rate! Highest in the province. If you and your Sir want a date night - you could come here1 We have some AMAZING restaurants! Buell Street Bistro is wonderful and has a GORGEOUS courtyard and the weather is still nice enough to sit out. The Noshery serves amazing food. If you like Italian the Mill Street restaurant and you CANNOT beat Boboli (but for lunch only)_= BEST soup I've ever tasted and amazing sandwiches!
ReplyDeletethanks for the suggestions selkie - I may suggest it.... we just both so desperately need some feeling of normalcy right now
DeleteHi Morningstar, I am currently working on our covid response here and I can vouch for the number of stupid people out there, argh! Anti vax rallies, people breaching borders etc. At the moment the virus is only in certain parts of the country so travel in and out of these areas is restricted, but it doesn't stop some!
ReplyDeleteIt won't be long before it spreads out of these areas, the numbers are fluctuating.
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Roz
Roz - discouraging isn't it?? It all seems so simple to me - vaccinate - wear a mask - wash your bloody hands and life could return to some form of normalcy
DeleteAlthough the delta variant infects even the vaccinated the symptoms are so mild, in the vaccinated, that hardly any of the people in hospitals, here in Belgium, are vaccinated. And every news report that I have heard read or seen, from a hospital ICU unit here, has stated that no one in the unit had been vaccinated. It is harsh of me, but I can't help but feel that nature is culling the stupid, from the herd
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I agree Prefectdt - there is a fair amount of culling going on......
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