Watching the news on tv

[Rosiemac]

I’m here in Spain but still continue to watch tv news coverage from home. Life is certainly moving on but covid is still up there in the news. Jobs for example, shortage of employees and vaccinations. It never ceases to amaze me how the older generation embraced the roll out of the jab and are patiently waiting to be told when they’ll get their booster jab and on the other side of the coin, there are many people who are still refusing it. 18 months of watching people at hospitals in Italy, India and many other places showing people dying and still the message hasn’t got through. In Northern Ireland a mother and daughter who worked together as domiciliary carers died in the same hospital in the past week or so. Neither had been vaccinated. Now Both are DEAD. There’s no going back. Two hard working women are no longer alive because they caught coronavirus and their bodies couldn’t fight it, unvaccinated for reasons best known to themselves , gone. As simple as that. Life is over and people are still living in a fool’s paradise believing all sorts of stories that people have told them and now too frightened to get the jab. It breaks my heart and at times I time that perhaps if the vaccination had been mandatory many people would be alive still.
Again in NI, we had a young man aged 46 who was a local politician, double jabbed but died of of covid a few days ago. We have a very dear friend who has underlying health issues. It otherwise slim, fit and healthy who was blue lighted to an ICU unit in Belfast a couple of days ago. Now ventilated with chronic pneumonia and his wife who also had covid and very poorly couldn’t even have any family or friends support her during this Nightmare week. Hundreds of people are praying for him snd yesterday he began to show a little improvement which has given us all great hope.
I’m telling you this because it’s so easy to become more relaxed having had our jabs but the dangers are still out there.
My daughter over to London last weekend to visit her sister and was horrified that people weren’t wearing masks. It’s like there was never a pandemic. At home,almost everyone wears their mask and have to wear them if shopping… the same as here in Spain.
If they don’t start wearing masks again soon, watch out for another rotten lockdown.

[Army of stars]

The ignorance and stupidity amazes me,but it comes from the top....Boris and his band of bozos claim to have "followed the science"especially regarding the wearing of masks and social distancing,and yet in the commons yesterday shoulder to shoulder no masks baying like children at a panto,the pictures go out live worldwide,grow up you morons and set an example,football stadiums now full theatres and cinemas open...a disaster in the making...i hope not.

[Rosiemac]

You are so right. We should be eradicating Covid.
Most of the people who you saw in the Commons have already had covid! So many of them caught it last year and as nobody knows for sure, you’d like to think they have an immunity.
I haven’t had it but sadly believe it’s only a matter of time.
We are due to return home to NI on 3/10/21 but my daughter is concerned about the ridiculous number of people who have it. Not so long ago, I didn’t know anyone who’d had it but I can’t say that now. My sister and her husband both had it a few weeks ago and survived it,thankfully. One of our dearest friends is on a ventilator and hovering. People seem to think that being double jabbed means they are immune to it but as we know, that’s not how it works. The vaccine isn’t preventing us from getting Covid, how I wish it did. Most of life has returned to normal but the danger is still out there waiting for us. Thankfully, Covid infections here seem to be low so we may stay a little longer in the safety of this area. Is it is it is it

[crummy]

And we still can't get it through to some people that wearing a mask protects others.

It will not protect you but stops YOU from giving it to other people.

In other words wearing a mask is a selfless thing to do to protect other people. Not wearing a mask is a VERY selfish thing to do as you can infect others.

How hard is that to understand?? (by listening to people it must be VERY difficult for some)

[Sheff_Blade]

Sorry but I have to disagree about mask wearing. Yes it does protect other people but with the majority having had their vaccinations it is absolutely essential that life, and the economy, gets back to normal as quickly as possible. No amount of mask wearing will eradicate COVID, it's here to stay, and will continue to kill people just like flu and pneumonia, for many years to come. The majority of people in the UK, certainly around where we live, are fed-up of the masks and restrictions, and very few now wear them in shops, pubs, restaurants, or on even public transport. Despite some 'expert' predictions, there has not been another wave, though winter will undoubtedly bring the usual surge, just like it always does.

[Brandyboy]

Good post S_F, echoing sentiments of by millions of people, especially here in Spain.

At least the general public can get a respite when it's possible, but many, many people, especially in the bar and restaurant business, have no respite at all, and it's now becoming a problem for many people that I know.

As well as having to wear one in the stifling heat that we are experiencing at the moment, many customers complain that they can't hear the staff very well, especially for the hard of hearing, as it's surprising how much masks muffle the voice.

It will be a day of celebration when masks are no longer mandatory, but that day is an unknown factor at the moment unfortunately.

[Retire1day]

Measles is till around, vaccine available since 1963:

According to the best evidence we have, measles makes its appearance somewhere between the 11th and 12th Centuries when the measles virus diverged (separated) from the rinderpest virus (a sort of measles of cattle that has been eradicated through vaccination). This probably happened when cattle herders spent just a little too much time with their cattle somewhere in the Middle East.