@tybin I used to read Dr. Mercola's articles occasionally, but after a while I concluded that too many of his ideas were quackery.
Would that I had your abilities for that level of compassion, @coyote. I don't, I'm afraid. I went beyond anger several months ago, passed through actual antipathy, and finally reached the nirvana of apathy about them. The same information I have had and have used to protect myself as best I can is also readily available to them. If they choose to remain intentionally uninformed, that's their problem. In my view, the ones who maintain such attitudes and remain willfully ignorant in the face of the facts deserve what they get. I'll bid them good riddance, and I'll do everything in my power to ensure that they don't take me with them.
"Nirvana of Apathy". That is an interesting description and sounds largely, but not fully, Zen.
@ana I used to read his articles too - then he progressed in to making all of his recommendations to be handled by buying his products. He became quite commercial and out there with it. His partner , Erin,got whacky with it too.
Came across this today, re influencers being approached to spread misinformation on social media. I'll bet you dollars to donuts this is also happening here in the US.
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-57928647
It so happens that we will be flying on Delta
and while you are up there, you could have a nice, cold glass of Corona beer.
The CPO's of Delta and Corona must be really...PO'd
An article about people getting third shots of COVID vaccine (some covertly, some not):
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/29/science/covid-vaccine-booster-third-shot.html
THe article also notes that Israel is going to be giving 3rd Pfizer shots to people over 60 as long as it has been at least 5 months since they got their second shot. I would not be surprised if this practice spreads to other countries.
My dad told me that my aunt who is a Trumpist finally got vaccinated due to peer pressure where her friends avoided her. Eventually, my cousins and grandma will get vaccinated. I will still distance myself from them as I do not want to live with toxicity in my life.
At a meeting with my new boss that included my Superintendent and a few others, my Sup asked my new boss what the district we poached her from was doing for school next year about masks, distancing, etc. Her words are exactly what the rest of them up here are going to do. "Unless it's required by the health department, which isn't going to happen, we're going back to pre-pandemic operations next year. No masks. No distancing. Etc."
I am incredibly happy I don't have any "in person" sessions planned until January, because this feels like a recipe for disaster. On the one hand, yes, I'm aware that right now COVID doesn't affect most (note word MOST) children the way it affects some adults. But it's transmissible and those children live with someone (and looking at the numbers for my county, it's probably an unvaccinated person)
I mean, I get it, we all need school to be normal again, especially the kids - but for the love of Zeus at least require and enforce mask wearing and keep up on the extra cleaning.
@dannyboy Unfortunately, Delta IS affecting kids. Tremendously. Pediatric ICUs in several states are full. Under 12s can't get the vaccine, and all the people in their life who won't get the vaccine are putting their life at risk for ideology. The situation is just horrific. I'm grateful my daughter's school is small, highly progressive, and the kids all look at masking as a way to express themselves (charter art school kids are the best, I swear). I'm much more concerned about my son, returning to college classes in a state that is as red as can be. He's already lost one year and one athletic season, and this is his senior year. My heart hurts at what he's lost in the past 18 months. Elementary schools especially need to keep those mask requirements tight and protect those kids, knowing the kids' families may not be protecting anyone.