Covid News Around the World One Year Later

[Joseph457]

Wearing of mask is actually frustrating .

[Gil Boyd]

You imagine having to wear one for a whole 12 hour shift in hospitals currently!
Scars on staff faces caused by the masks and sweating that will take time to heal

[Ovidio]

When I serve at the vaccination centre, 8 hours with the mask are worse than the pain in the back. That says it all…

[mrclark303]

A few weeks ago I wrote about a young mother of two who was in our ICU, ventilated with lab confirmed Covid19. The back history is that she had no comorbidity issues except that she and her immediate family had not been vaccinated and if her husbands attitude is an indicator, he thought that mask wearing was an infringement on his freedom. He created quite a stir because he was required to wear a mask to enter the hospital. She presented at the ED with flu symptoms and was isolated per protocol and a nasal swab was taken and she tested positive for Covid19. Her symptoms were relatively mild and she was sent to an isolation floor and put on covid protocol. She deteriorated quickly and was sent to the ICU on an HHC (heated high flow cannula) but after a few days it became necessary to ventilate her. Her condition waxed and waned on a daily if not hourly basis. Despite everyone's best efforts she died at the end of this week. This ridiculous nonsense was and is avoidable. Two motherless children, a family lost their daughter/wife/aunt etc for foolish, ludicrous, ill-advised reasons.

I wonder what her husbands thoughts on vaccination are now ....?

It's just depressing, I don't personally know anyone who has refused the vaccine, or at least admitted it....

[USGI]

It's just depressing, I don't personally know anyone who has refused the vaccine, or at least admitted it....

There are plenty around my "neck of the woods." A couple of near-by counties have percentage vaccinated rates in the low 30's and 40's. Most large vaccination centers are now beginning to close. - Bob

[Ovidio]

Today, in the morning, I received an SMS from the ministry of health. There was a long code and a link to the site of the ministry.
In 1 minute I could download my Covid green pass. As a QR-code and as a printable pdf in Italian, English and German language.
I was almost moved… We Italians are used to always fight it out with public offices. Never a simple, trouble-free procedure.
I just can’t believe it was that easy.
Tomorrow, when I’ll wake up, I’ll check to see if I dreamed…

[ssgross]

We Italians are used to always fight it out with public offices. Never a simple, trouble-free procedure.
I just can’t believe it was that easy.
Tomorrow, when I’ll wake up, I’ll check to see if I dreamed

Maybe you got your bribe in earlier than everyone else?

[Aragorn243]

They are ramping up the fear again. Variant D, the Indian one I believe is now going to kill us all. Or if it fails, it will develop into one that will.

Not sure who's coming up with this one but it has even the conservative guys talking about it. Meanwhile, the left is now openly admitting to everything they mocked for a year when Trump said it.

[Ovidio]

No need to bribe anybody. We are quite a different country than many imagine outside.
It’s just that the public employee unions think the jobs are there for those who fill the positions and not for the public, aka citizens.
So we often have such bad service, that we’re pleasantly surprised when things go the right way.
Here, in the North East, things go in a very good way at local level, but that “green pass” is a state thing, that’s why I was surprised.
By the way, I checked today. It is real

[Ovidio]

Today, I helped at the vaccination centre from 7:15 to 13:15. A friend of mine covered me until 14:00, because I had to go do the RO at our small arms range. With the heat we have right now, I am ending the day on a fairly low note, though I liked every moment of it.
Almost every moment…
Talking to my wife, I came to know a few things I had been feeling, but not really realising.
What did this frigging pandemics do to teenagers?
I live in a town of 15015 people. Fairly big and scarcely populated. My “hamlet”, a portion of the town, is less than 1000 people all in.
Among the friends and/or classmates of my 15 years daughter (I’ve got another boy, 18 and another girl, 11) there are two girls who turned anorexic. One, athlete of the year in 2019 for gymnastics, is so bad, that she refuses also water and is being forcibly fed and hydrated.
The other one has been treated and is trying to get out of it, but is literally “transparent” right now. A third one, just seized and refuses to see people, to wash, to interact… We know them all. I feel so bad about them.
Lots of kids find it terribly difficult to get out of home again.
The suicides have increased a lot too, although no official stats are released.
I must admit that I’m horrendously worried now, hearing about possible new lockdowns because of that damned delta variant.
Does it make any sense to kill the new, emerging generation to save older people, among whom I include myself?
I don’t think so.
I don’t want to accept any further lockdown for my kids…
Am I ready to fight for it?
Maybe… I am starting to think about it…
I never felt so…uncertain. So much like standing on unstable ground…
Do you hear anything like this over there, where you are?