Patient dies amid speculation of local COVID spike
(CNS): On Saturday, 3 December, the Health Services Authority reported one COVID-related death in a patient with severe comorbidity, bringing the local death toll in relation to the virus to 37. The news of the latest loss of life comes against significant anecdotal evidence that COVID-19 is spiking in the community, with many people at home sick. But the government is no longer reporting case numbers on a regular basis, releasing older data on a monthly basis and reporting only deaths in real time.
With tourists returning to the island in significant numbers, as cases spike across the United States, Cayman is also facing what appears to be another wave of the virus.
CNS has contacted health officials about the latest figures and Chief Medical Officer Dr Nick Gent said the focus remains on the number of hospitalisations and deaths, and the demographic characteristics of who these are occurring among.
“The testing data is no longer consistent over time,” he told CNS. “This is as both the public perception and behaviour has changed, as well as the removal of policy measures which previously ensured the majority of symptomatic cases, and many asymptomatic cases, were captured in testing data. As we head into the winter respiratory season, like other respiratory illnesses, there will be an expected increase in COVID-19 transmission.”
He said that hospitalisations and deaths are stable, so there is no indication of an increase in the severity of COVID-19 in the community, while it is expected that transmission will likely increase. “We are seeing an increase in other influenza-like illnesses circulating in the community,” he noted.
Public Health authorities last reported cases to WHO in mid-November, reflecting the first two weeks of that month, when around 196 positive cases were detected. The next official numbers are expected to be released in the next edition of Spotlight later this week.
Dr Gent urged people, especially the elderly and immunocompromised, to get vaccinated or boosted as Cayman has a choice of shots.
“Both the Moderna (bivalent) and the Pfizer boosters are on island, and I encourage our elderly and immunocompromised, as well as their caretakers and healthcare workers, to get boosted if they have not yet done so,” he said. “As it has been said often, research has shown us that recommended booster doses, along with the two primary doses of the vaccination, will keep people out of the hospital, so my recommendation remains the same: get vaccinated and boosted.”
Meanwhile, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus is warning that neglecting the spread of COVID-19 will create the perfect conditions for a deadly new variant to emerge. On a visit to Brussels, where cases are also spiking, he said Friday that while about 90% of the world’s population now has some level of immunity to SARS-CoV-2 due to prior infection or vaccination, the gaps in testing and vaccination are continuing to “create the perfect conditions for a new variant of concern to emerge that could cause significant mortality”.
See the local vaccination schedule for the COVID-19 fall booster programme here.
The seasonal flu vaccine is also available at Public Health, and it is recommended that both the COVID-19 booster and flu vaccine be taken together.
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Dear Dr Gent: on the Moderna bivalent, how many doses of mRNA-1273.214 are left, expiry, and when will HSA switch to newer mRNA-1273.222? Are the Pfizer doses soon-to-expire monovalent, or the newer bivalent doses? Other than making room in the freezer, is there any point in giving out obsolete monovalent vaccine courses? Can we donate/gift those and bring in the latest versions please?
@9:44:
One of the reasons for ending the regular Covid press conferences in favour of releasing sadly lacking, largely uninformative and woefully untimely updates is to avoid having to address hard questions from the media. This way they can control the entire narrative, keep the public in the dark about the inconvenient truths regarding Covid and Long Covid and their impacts, and have a venue dedicated exclusively to the unchallenged and unquestioned dissemination of their own propaganda.
Compared to the C.I government update–that essentially said little more than: “So sorry, we had one death, and beyond that we don’t know squat about what is going on in the country regarding Covid–this is a typical Bermuda government update:
https://www.gov.bm/coronavirus-covid19-update
The amount of timely hard data enables the media to present to the public this level of information in regard to the Covid situation in Bermuda.
http://coronavirus.bernews.com/1-death-56-positive-24-active-4-in-hospital/
https://www.gov.bm/coronavirus-covid19-update
Awareness is essential to keeping the people on board with Covid safety and prevention. C’mon Sabrina! We deserve a hell of a lot better than your mindless propaganda and cheer leading. Get serious for godssake! This is not a football match, this is about the health of the people you have a duty to serve. So serve or get out of the way!
I went to get my Covid Autumn Booster and to my utter shock and dismay I was advised that the Cayman Brac vax clinic has RUN OUT of the bivalent Moderna vax which is the recommended booster!
To add insult to injury, and something that gives a lot of credibility to the comments here that HSA admin are being negligent in regard to protecting the Cayman Brac population against Covid, the Moderna vax booster nor ANY Covid vax (or flu vax) will be offered again in Cayman Brac until sometime next year! The vax schedule for Grand Cayman continues regularly right through until the end of the month.
How can this even be possible??
This is just as the island is approaching the height of potential covid and flu super-spreader events and circumstances, like…… holiday programmes, frantic last minute Christmas shopping, school functions and parties, private functions, government functions, a large influx of people from off-island, church Christmas functions and programmes, dining out, Santa functions, big family gatherings, and New Year’s parties.
If you travel to/from Cayman Brac, there is: waiting in crowded ticket lines (and outgoing immigration lines if you plan to leave the islands), sitting for hours in crowded airport departure lounges, sitting in packed airplanes squeezed together like sardines, crowding together with people from who-knows-where in incoming immigration lines, bunched together like ants on a gumdrop jockeying for position as your bags come out. And if I recall correctly about past press coverage, Cayman Brac was said to have a higher percentage of vulnerable persons among the more aging population.
I am sitting here just gobsmacked at neglect like this being thrown on to Cayman Brac.
No one you know. I wear mine properly and still quite often. I have diabetes, high blood pressure and an autoimmune issue. I work in a building with many people and I have not had Covid. Indeed I have not had even a cold in the last 3 years.
And your point is?
Every single one of your conditions is reversible with diet and exercise, but I bet you opt to take the easy route and take the drugs for the rest of your life.
@6:48:
While it may be possible for some people to reverse type 2 diabetes, most of the people who reversed their type 2 diabetes lost 30 pounds or more. So we must assume that 9:38 is at least 30 lbs overweight or your proposal is not likely to succeed. And it must start early on. Thus, your suggested interventions may not work with “every single case”.
Research indicates that somewhat more than half of patients can effectively use diet and exercise to control blood glucose levels without medication. Thus, not “every single” patient responds. And we again must assume; this time we must assume that 9:38 has not already tried diet and exercise.
In regard to HBP, some forms of HBP are idiopathic and some are difficult to control even with medication, so there is no magic bullet (natural or otherwise) that will work with “every single case” of HBP.
Lastly, there is no body of medical research that leads to the conclusion that “every single case” of autoimmune disorders respond to ANY intervention, much less natural ones.
Ofc, HSA.ky, the official public portal for info, does not show any vaccine schedule beyond 3 days from now. Are we not paying people? Is there a labour strike happening that we don’t know about?
@9:28:
If you live in Grand Cayman be happy that you will have been presented with several opportunities to attend a vax clinic this month. In Cayman Brac, this month–and for a good number of months–the Covid vax has only been offered for FOURS hours per MONTH! Two hours for two days per month. And all during what are ordinary working hours. All the while babblers like Sabrina and Dr. Gent brainlessly crow about how critically important it is for everyone to be up to date with their Covid vax. Ha! What pathetic jokers they are! I sure cannot tell it is a priority by looking at the availability of the Covid vax on Cayman Brac! They should be ashamed of themselves.
Further to @7:40:
Note on the Cayman Brac vax clinic schedule (see link below), the Moderna booster is available for a whopping TWO HOURS in December! And this is during ordinary working hours for most Brackers. The date is now passed. If you missed it, too damn bad. No more opportunities this month. See ya next year! PATHETIC!!
[ Link to the Brac vax clinic schedule: https://www.hsa.ky/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/December-2022-Vaccine-Schedule-1.2.pdf ]
There is an epidemic of cancers, a hidden epidemic of missed cancer cases, an epidemic of young and people in their prime dying from cancers…
We just buried a dear friend, young mother, 34…from healthy to 4 stage of colon cancer at the blink of an eye..
❓HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN IN 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣2️⃣? WHAT SCIENCE HAS BEEN DOING ALL THESE YEARS? WHY THERE IS NO TASK FORCE TO PREVENT AND CURE CANCERS?
They’ve managed to produce seemingly out of nothing COVID tests and vaccines, administer 12B jabs, all in less than 2 years…
YET, CANCER DIAGNOSTICS ARE STILL IN ITS RUDIMENTARY STATE AND TREATMENTS ARE STILL BARBARIC, AND a FIVE-YEAR SURVIVAL RATE IS THE ONLY ACHIEVEMENT.
WHY?
❓Why do we accept this and make no demands on WHO to address the cancer epidemic?
❓Why do doctors continue misdiagnose cancers, especially among young people?
❓Why zero attention is given to cancer prevention? Scans do not constitute preventative measures. It is said that between one-third and one-half of cancers can be prevented through avoidance of known risk factors. What about poisoned food, air and water?
There must be ALREADY less invasive, more affordable tests for cancers that EVERY doctor knows about. In fact such tests do exist, yet doctors are not requesting them, especially for young and seemingly healthy who, in their opinion, just having anxiety and panic attacks.
Blood tests that indicate potential cancers do exist. There are several stool tests available for colon cancer screening. How often urine cytology is ordered? How often a patient with neurological manifestations is tested for Paraneoplastic Antibodies occurring as a result of malignancy?
YOUR DOCTOR WILL SAY: “PARA what?” or “THERE IS NO INDICATION FOR THESE TESTs”…then we bury our loved ones after they went through the torture of cancer treatments and false hopes.
Cancer kills and kills fast and dying from cancer is very traumatic for a patient and his loved ones. False hopes followed by return of cancer- THIS IS ALL we have today, in the year 2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣2️⃣!
❓Why with so many technological achievements there is still no cure for cancer? Maybe Cancer is a lucrative business? Maybe scientists and doctors are focusing on a diseased organ when cancer is a SYSTEMIC disease? Why breakthroughs in cancer research remain on academic level and not reaching clinical practice? All these fundraisers money that go (I hope so) for cancer research supposed to benefit living breathing suffering cancer patients, not to continue finance researchers indefinitely. How many cancer patients receive treatments in academic centers? How many cancer patients have access to the latest breakthroughs in technology and treatments? Let me guess…
So please stop being obcessed with COVID, with masks, it is not COVID you should be huffing and puffing about. It is CANCER. Majority of people who die with COVID have cancer and or other degenerative diseases. COVID alone, if someone had bothered to find out, probably kills no one. COVID is just a catalyst of death from cancer and other comorbidities. Improper treatments and sedations may also kill an otherwise healthy person with COVID.
Too much emphasis on word pop and emoji splash for me 8:12, – didn’t get more than a 1/4 of the way through it, just sayin
Wow…easily distracted, eh, 11:19?
ADHD?
and if I am does mean that your post isn’t intended for people like me ? 🤷🏻♀️
a cure for cancer is far more elusive than infections by virus or bacteria. there are multiple causes. I do however agree that better screening for early detection needs to improve
you’re a little to frantic on the keyboard 8:12. For a start covid is a virus and there’s a thing called clinical trials before any academics can start trying things out with patients. That’s all I have time for, you’re a little too much all over the place to add more.
well clearly it hits close to home and he’s hurting. show some compassion and let him vent.
Condolences on your terrible loss. Alas, there is no government task force to replace self advocacy and education. There’s no cure for cancer, but we can head it off early and keep in remission sometimes. Anyone with an ancestral history of family medical issues of any kind, can now take a simple gene test to see if they carry the same markers that align with a known higher risk category, and then have that instruct personal vigilance and behavior modifications to hopefully prevent certain genetic traits from switching on. We are all our own task force, and stewards, even when the news is bad. No govt department is going to do that for us.
Masks will help. Simple common sense. There’s not just covid out there.
Chief Medical Officer Dr Nick Gent uses 67 words to say ‘basically we don’t have an effing clue whats going on.’
“The testing data is no longer consistent over time,” he told CNS. “This is as both the public perception and behaviour has changed, as well as the removal of policy measures which previously ensured the majority of symptomatic cases, and many asymptomatic cases, were captured in testing data. As we head into the winter respiratory season, like other respiratory illnesses, there will be an expected increase in COVID-19 transmission.”
oh yeah, the ‘vaccines’ will help us. The same vaccines that at this point have negative efficacy against recent strains and increase reinfection risk. look up real time Walgreens data on who tests positive for covid in US or most up to date research that proved ADE showing up in the vaccinated…
Logic…you know…that thing that people who think sometimes use instead of buying into and disseminating stupidity… would dictate that as vaccination rates rise, that a steadily increasing percentage of the break-through infections would be in people who are vaccinated. Once 100% of people are vaccinated, 100% of breakthrough infections, 100% of hospitalisations, and 100% of Covid deaths would occur among vaccinated people. Duhhhh…
it’s going around. keep your children home if sick and especially yourself! just be curious.
I was told today by Immigration, the granting of work permits is backlogged because of many people sick with covid
That’s a moratorium, coupled with incompetence. Ivan plays a part also.
said it before… no-one who is relatively healthy, under 70, who is vaxxed, will die from covid.
get vaxxed if you are risk.
Yet, as we approach Season 5, we should also appreciate that death isn’t the only yardstick for instructing reasonable precaution, calculated risk, and expecting minimum courtesy from others. We have several flavours of COVID, RSV, regular flu, Chicken Pox and common colds all circulating. It would be nice if sick people chose to stay home voluntarily, lest they kill someone in their wake of selfishness.
And those that are unvaxxed and relatively healthy will survive as well. However, those that are medically ill and is unable to be vaccinated is constantly discriminated against for employment. One could only wonder what is next with the national ID card?
“And those that are unvaxxed and relatively healthy will survive as well”— That is the truth!! My dad who will be 78 in February just had Covid. Sure he was down and out for a week but he survived. He is unvaxxed. But he is healthy. He walks everyday, even on -20 Celcius winter days, and eats from his own garden that he tends all summer long. Exercise and eat well, its not rocket science!
@1:28:
Death is not the only risk one faces from Covid. Post Covid sequelae is a real risk and can be quite devastating even after a mildly symptomatic case.
Yeh we heard you the other 70 times you copied and pasted the same comment, but you are still as wrong as the first time. You should get an IQ test, you might qualify for assistance.
ok…prove me wrong.
stats and facts are on my side.
No they are not. There are many documented cases of people much younger than 70, healthy, vaccinated and died of covid You don’t have to look far.
not in cayman.
@8:29:
Your problem is that you keep on harping as if Covid has only ONE potential outcome, mortality.
One more time for the s-l-o-w class: Post Covid sequelae is a real risk and can be quite devastating even after a mildly symptomatic case.
In regard to your tripe,
Starting off the list:
1. a 23-year-old fully vaxxed man who was double-vaccinated with no underlying medical conditions died according to NSW Health. There are more but since your statement says “no one”, one is sufficient for now. What happened? Why did your tripe not apply to him? Did your crystal ball cloud up? HINT: Try Windex.
Dr Gent urges people, especially the elderly and immunocompromised, to get vaccinated or boosted as Cayman has a choice of shots.
Dr. Gent, the impotent minister, and the HSA crew responsible for Covid are so out of touch with reality it is incomprehensible.
Awareness of the threat of Covid is an essential motivation for people to become fully vaccinated and engage in other protective measures. Government is keeping people in the dark about the threat. That is negligent beyond comprehension.
I have had people tell me that that they do not need to be vaxed because there are no cases of Covid being reported in the islands because reliable info is so hard to find
Focusing on just the tiny statistic of deaths and hospitalisations is to ignore the cost in suffering and loss incurred by those who get the virus.
Not making the public fully aware of the threat of Covid by way of timely and complete Covid stats lulls the populace into complacency. Such complacency makes people far less likely to engage in pro-active protective measures such as being up to date on vaxes, hand sanitising and covering coughs, etc.
IF Dr. Gent is to be taken for anything less than a an irresponsible charlatan, and he is actually serious about people being vaccinated, then– rather than spewing baxide gas–he needs to address the issue on Cayman Brac as well. Heretofore, the Brac vaccine clinic has been limited to a total of four hours per MONTH (!), on a total of only TWO days per month. The hours being solely during what are ordinary working hours for most working people. Seems this is the case for December, too. What the hell?
I also note that for Cayman Brac the current Covid and flu vax December schedule ends at December 10. As this is the height of respiratory virus season, why the hell are they not including days later in the month for the Covid and flu vaxes?
Moreover, the fall booster (Moderna) is only offered for TWO HOURS in December!
If uptake of the vax and boosters is falling off, I wonder why? According to there actions, Dr. Gent and HSA really do not seem to give a damn. The minister of health is AWOL on the issue, and government is ok taking a casual “What me worry?”, Alfred E. Neuman brain-dead approach and let people suffer.
Then there is the issue of totally shading the Cayman public about Long Covid. The health charlatans in charge refuse to even acknowledge that Long Covid exists much less address the issue.
And another thing…!
I see they are back to the Aston Rutty Centre clinic as the Brac Covid and flu vax venue? Why? The Public Health venue at the Faith Hospital Compound seemed to be a far more suitable place with a convenient location and a comfortable and spacious waiting area. The last time I went to the Aston Rutty clinic for a jab the waiting areas was packed with people crammed in seats with no spacing between and people were sitting literally shoulder to shoulder. I deem going to a vax clinic like that to be attendance of a potential Covid and influenza super-spreader event.
What a bloody worthless and pathetic showing from those responsible to protect our health! Sabrina: It is well beyond time for you to clean house and get things in order, then complete the job by resigning!
I doubt the health minister, the C.M.O as well as their hard-working staff are tricksters & con artists, but we get your message.
The front line HSA staff I have interacted with over the years indeed are generally good, diligent, and hard working people, but they depend on good leaders in order to do an effective job. The leaders are certainly falling well short in doing their their job relative to protecting us from Covid and post-Covid sequelae, and in regard to keeping the public properly informed. They are doing a half-fast job in all the areas noted in the 12:45 comment. Relative to those issues and the job the minister and the CMO are doing, the words impotent, neglectful, irresponsible, ineffective, uncaring, feckless and unworthy come immediately to mind. Feel free to add more. If this is the best they can do, I am quite less than impressed. We deserve better than a half-fast job when it comes to the health of our people.
Which vaccine prevents you from catching Covid
none. they never have. but you have a much better chance of not dying. honestly, I’m sick of seeing this post now on 2 years later. you lack the sense to look up the studies yourself so you are willfully ignorant.
If there are any, it is J&J or AstraZeneca, as they are viral vector delivery, much like the seasonal flu shot. Both of them are more likely to produce true immunity, as well as a robust T-cell response. However, I tend to think that both vaccines will not be effective against future variants of Covid.
This antigen-shifting is the reason that we have a yearly flu shot; not because the flu shot is not effective, but because it is a soup created to address the best guess of which of the seasonal viruses will be prevalent.
Some people ask that question because thay are stupid trolls. However, I shall assume that you are honestly seeking an answer so you can evaluate your need to get vaxed. Thus, I shall be happy to provide you with some basic schooling in the purpose of a vaccine. This is also an opportunity to reach others with similar questions. Plus this addresses the moronic trolls who ask similar questions out of hopeless stupidity.
From a clinical standpoint, there is no vaccine for any disease that is 100% effective in preventing an infection of the target illness. All vaccines share similar purposes. Like all vaccines, the purpose of the Covid vaccine is to initiate an immune response in the body so the person is better able to resist the virus. This response has a four-pronged benefit in regard to Covid:
1)Reduced chance of getting an infection;
2)Reduced chance of serious morbidity and hospitalisation from an infection;
3)Reduced chance of mortality; 4)Reduced chance of developing Long Covid.
Thus far, the multi-valent Pfizer and the multi-valent Moderna are front runners in the effectiveness among Covid vaccines.
An imperfect comparison is the wearing seat belts: They reduce the chance of incurring injury, reduce the chance of serious injury, and reduce the chance of death.
So now you know.
And what about the real harms to many and the potential harms to the billions of people who on their own would have contracted and fully recovered from a covid infection? Only a tiny percentage of those infected were and are at serious risk yet the vaccine was shoved down everyone’s throat because we were told it would protect others. Clearly that has come unraveled and now many are asking why did I take the risk on this new technology under duress and under false pretenses? Where are the studies comparing absolute risk reduction by age and health by our angelic trusted authorities? It’s been nearly 2 years. They are in denial. And who wants to speak up in the health services? The moment they do, they will quickly be maligned and potentially punished. Many wholly uncontroversial (prior to covid vaccines) renowned scientists and doctors around the world who have spoken out have had their reputations crushed and their careers threatened for speaking out and asking questions. We’re not allowed to talk about it. There’s a whole conversation happening outside of the narrative guardians control and it needs to be brought into the light and discussed.
@11:38:
According to a vast body of credible statistics, those who availed themselves to the best vaccines have consistently demonstrated a measurably increased degree of protection against serious morbidity and mortality in comparison to those not vaccinated. The statistics are backed by volumes of evidence by countless researchers all across the world.
What does this mean in reference to your “billions of people who on their own would have contracted and fully recovered from a Covid infection”? It means that among those billions would be people who were less protected and a greater total number of people who would have died or suffered injury from Covid. Not to mention increased suffering from post-Covid sequlae (Long Covid).
Also at issue is that naturally acquired Covid immune responses may be present for only up to MOL around 11 months following infection. But, like the vaccine-induced immune response, natural immunity begins to drop from day one post-infection. This is according to data provided by The Journal of Infectious Diseases. As those 11 months go by, people depending on natural immunity are increasingly more vulnerable to being infected again. Once their period of naturally acquired Covid immune response ends, how do you propose to protect these from Covid morbidity, mortality, and Long Covid?
The death rate among unvaccinated people is far higher than that among the vaccinated even though vaccinated people now make up a significant total number of deaths. Taken at face value, numbers tossed about by the anti-vax tin hatters may appear to indicate that vaccination does not make that much of a difference or puts people at greater risk. But this perception is commonly an example of an error in statistical analysis known as the Base Rate Fallacy. It is an illusion, but one that tin-hatters take advantage of to instill doubt in the mathematically non-savvy masses. In analysing the benefit of vaccines, one must consider not just the numerator but also the denominator of the statistical fraction. Meaning that you have to factor in the sizes of the vaccinated and the unvaccinated population pool. With vaccines widely available, where a majority of the population has been vaccinated, even if only a small fraction of vaccinated people who get C19 die from it, the more people who are vaccinated, the more likely they are to make up a portion of the dead. The same hold true for morbidity and hospitalisation numbers.
According to the CDC’s Epidemiology Task Force, stats mid-year 2021 indicated that unvaccinated people 12 years and older had 17 times the rate of Covid-associated deaths, compared to people vaccinated with a primary series and a booster of the top vaxes. Unvaccinated people had eight times the rate of death as compared to people who only had a primary series. A cross-sectional study of US adults hospitalized with Covid during January 2022 to April 2022 (during dominance of the Omicron variant), Covid-associated hospitalization rates were 10.5 times higher in unvaccinated persons and 2.5 times higher in vaccinated persons with no booster dose, as compared with those who had received their primary jabs and a booster dose. The evidence points out that Covid vaccines are strongly associated with prevention of serious Covid illness. Bottom line: Vaccines are effective and boosters increase the level of protection.
In addition to the death rates, a very sadly neglected issue here in the Cayman Islands–and among tin-hatters–is Long Covid. Each Covid infection carries with it a significant risk of persistent symptoms.
A cross-sectional cohort study was conducted in Spain at 2 urban hospitals and general practitioner centers from March 20 to April 30, 2020, among 360 hospitalized patients and 308 non-hospitalized patients with acute Covid 19 infections during the first wave of the pandemic. Follow-up was conducted 2 years later. The study reports the presence of at least one post–Covid symptom in almost 60% of hospitalized patients and over 67% of non-hospitalized patients 2 years after infection. Credible bodies of research indicates that receiving two jabs, with the last given at least two weeks before acquiring a C19 infection almost halved the odds of developing Long Covid symptoms compared with not being vaccinated. You truly need to cease neglecting to factor Long Covid into your dialogue.
Taken at face value we can conclude from mountains of credible evidence from many many research facilities across the globe that your fantasy of herd immunity as being a preferable choice is misguided at best and dangerous at worst, this due to the number of additional deaths, serious illness, and persistent Covid symptoms it would incur to adhere to that scheme.
Wearing a close-fitting medical grade mask when inside with others (eg: shopping, attending church, riding on a bus etc) and increasing fresh air into buildings helps lower the risk of catching Covid, flu and other airborne viruses.
Glad to see more people masking up. If it’s raining heavily, we carry umbrellas and drive more cautiously or stay home if we don’t need to travel. If Covidand flu are surging, slip on a mask and consider whether you want to be feeling horrible over the holiday season or passing it on to elders and babies.
Condolences to the family of the recently deceased.
Masks don’t work – no one ever wears them properly and doesn’t replace them when they should, rendering them pointless.
No one you know. I wear mine properly and still quite often. I have diabetes, high blood pressure and an autoimmune issue. I work in a building with many people and I have not had Covid. Indeed I have not had even a cold in the last 3 years.
Of course…
No mask at any time has ever lessened the likelihood of inhalation, or releasing into the air of a pathogen; no one on earth at any time has ever worn a mask properly; no one on earth at any time has ever replaced a mask when they should.
We get it.
The only thing rendered pointless is your ignorant comment.