Oregon announces a mask mandate tomorrow, most likely.
“The number of hospitalized COVID-19 positive patients has surpassed the previous pandemic high set back in November. This is alarming and an urgent call to action if you have not yet been vaccinated. All three COVID-19 vaccines are extremely effective in preventing severe COVID-19 infection leading to hospitalization. Vaccination remains the best way to protect yourself against COVID-19 and to keep the virus from spreading among our loved ones, our friends and neighbors and our communities,” said Patrick Allen, Director of Oregon Public Health Authority."
The bolded part boggles my fucking mind. I know it has been expressed already, but still. To think we have more infected people now, months after the opportunity to vaccinate happened. I've posted numerous times that I try to be sympathetic to the stupids and only hateful to the politicians/influencers. I think somewhere in this past week I've run out. Reading the stories posted here by Trauma Babe and Bama and then the ones I see from medical personnel on reddit doesn't help. Seeing folks on this board get breakthrough infections and have to worry doesn't help. Read a tweet about a kid who had appendicitis but couldn't get it treated in a timely fashion because of the effect of covid patients on his ER. Kid develops sepsis and now has to be on a special diet/regimen for the rest of his life. Because of anti-vaxxers. That doesn't help either.
I'm to the point where I may re-watch that CNN clip of that regretful Dad and yell obscenities at the dude instead of feel bad for him as I previously did. I think I'm done. Fuck each and every single person who can medically get the vaccine but has made a choice not to do so, no matter their reason. In my locale, we're not out of ICU beds, we're just of medical personnel to treat people because they've quit in droves. Maybe I can volunteer to shove a ventillator do-dad down someone's gullet.