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Covid Is NOT Over Yet: A Plea To America!

- An open letter to Americans to not let up on the fight against COVID

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Dear America: Covid is NOT over yet!

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Apparently, some people are tired of wearing masks every day, tired of social distancing, tired of washing their hands a gazillion times per day, and everything that has come with our abruptly altered lifestyles from more than a year of the coronavirus pandemic.

Covid is not over

Apparently, some people have presumed that 93 million Americans (or a mere 28% of the population) being fully vaccinated means the coronavirus has miraculously disappeared — and that we are now free to turn the calendar back to pre-March of 2020 and return to living our former lives as carefree as a bird.

Apparently, some people have convinced themselves that the 95% efficacy rate of the Pfizer vaccine means it’s now impossible to contract the coronavirus and that the leftover 5% chance of ever getting it is meaningless.

However, it’s time to stop kidding ourselves, folks, and time for a double-dose of reality.

Covid is NOT over yet, and it’s high time we all stopped acting as if it is!

covid is not over

Walking the streets of New York City, I can’t believe all the people I see who are maskless.  There are those who wear the mask over their mouth while leaving the nose completely exposed (forgetting that their mouth can be closed, but the nose remains permanently open as it expels tiny droplets of air filled with germs).  Then there are those who have a mask but wear it on their chin as if it were some sort of decorative accessory to their outfit.  Then, of course, there are those who simply refuse to wear a mask at all — either because they foolishly believe the pandemic is over or never believed it in the first place.

In fact, the Covid deniers and those who make a half-baked attempt at “maybe” wearing a mask out of public safety are equally as bad.

While sipping coffee and smoking shisha recently in the Arabian desert, I overheard an American couple telling a French couple that the coronavirus reaction has been “overblown” because “it’s only the flu.”

How uninformed and ignorant, all at the same time.

Scientists have dedicated literal decades of their entire lives to the study of viruses and pandemics.  Yet, some yahoo American with a high school diploma is convinced they know better than the experts and that everything they’ve been told about the virus is wrong.

covid is not over

So, here’s the truth, folks.  The only way to truly defeat the virus and to get us all back to some sense of normalcy in our lives is to reach herd immunity.  The only way to reach herd immunity is for the majority of us to get vaccinated and for us all — in the meantime — to maintain safety protocols (wearing masks, social distancing, etc.) until herd immunity is obtained.  Cutting corners now by refusing to wear masks and skipping the vaccine is only setting us back further from our ultimate goal.

So, WAKE UP, AMERICA!  Covid is NOT over yet.  We can’t “wish” it away but we can take responsible measures to defeat it for good!
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Sincerely,
A concerned fellow citizen of the world.
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“Public health officials have told us that we are in a race between Covid-19 vaccines and the virus. But in order for us to win, we need a much longer track. With a slight decline in new infections—likely the result of a combination of the vaccine rollout and seasonal population immunity— and the advent of spring, there is a natural desire to return to regular business and social life after a brutal and desperate winter. But our public health officials are telling us differently. Theirs is a united message, ‘This is no time to relax!'” – Forbes

 


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Hey America: Covid is NOT over yet!

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Mr.BD

Let the church say amen. (I stole that from Truthiz) 🙂

Truthiz1

BD, it’s all good with me! 🙂

Last edited 3 years ago by Truthiz1
Truthiz1

DJ, I applaud you on your genuine effort to Save. Lives!

In fact your plea should extend to the whole world because it is indeed the whole world that needs to hear it! SEE the tsunami of COVID cases rising again resulting in thousands upon thousands of deaths.

India is in full-blown panic mode now because they let their guard down way too early and way too too fast. That could easily be Us if WE, aren’t more careful and take this deadly virus more seriously!

Last edited 3 years ago by Truthiz1
Mr.BD

You are right Truth. People all over the world need this message. I have not been able to travel in a while but I see it on the news in other countries. Also a lot of it going on here is white privilege. Even though it is not just white people doing it. They think they do not have to follow the rules. Plus everybody wants to race back too fast and not believe what the experts are telling them. I got my vaccine so I am not playing around. And I wear my mask too.

Truthiz1

“SOS messages, panic as virus breaks India’s health system” NEW DELHI (AP) — Dr. Gautam Singh dreads the daily advent of the ventilator beeps, signaling that oxygen levels are critically low, and hearing his critically ill patients start gasping for air in the New Delhi emergency ward where he works. Like other doctors across the country, which on Monday set another record for new coronavirus infections for a fifth day in a row at more than 350,000, the cardiologist has taken to begging and borrowing cylinders of oxygen just to keep his most critical patients alive for one more day.   On Sunday evening, when the oxygen supplies of other nearby hospitals were also near empty, the desperate 43-year-old took to social media, posting an impassioned video plea on Twitter.  “Please send oxygen to us,” he said with folded hands and a choked voice. “My patients are dying.”    India was… Read more »

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The Atlantic: India considered itself to be “in the endgame” of the pandemic just a few weeks ago. Now it is the global epicenter. The country recently surpassed the devastating milestone of more than 345,000 new COVID-19 cases in a single day, the biggest total recorded globally since the pandemic began. What is taking place in India isn’t so much a wave as it is a wall: Charts showing the country’s infection rate and death toll, which has also reached record numbers in the country, depict curves that have shot up into vertical lines. Public-health experts aren’t optimistic that they will slope down anytime soon. India’s outbreak is an enormous tragedy for its own people, but it’s also a catastrophe for the rest of the world. Ninety-two developing nations rely on India, home to the Serum Institute, the world’s largest vaccine maker, for the doses to protect their own populations,… Read more »

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