Until it affects me..,,,,,
Never had the flu shot no memory of ever being sick backed up by a record of never having missed a day of work. Not one day in the last decade for certain.
skip the hype and the mass hysteria reports.. That stuff sells online subscriptions; I concentrate on medical reports from actual Doctors who deal with infectious diseases
But considering we're not talking about 'the flu' then why would you be impressed with
an attendance record? I was not born in Canada, dont know if it makes a difference
but when i was young every time i got the 'FLU shot' for our famous Canuck flu i got
seriously ill.. No fun, so i stopped getting 'em.. never been sick since. i'm very
resilient in this regard as well.
This, this is not the flu! its not a common cold, and if you have underlying respiratory
conditions it can really hit you hard.. Had pneumonia before? or are diabetic, RUN!
I was diagnosed with rhinitis at the end of summer. Shortness of breath is one
of the resulting effects with this virus. I just cant take any chances. Weather or
not I 'think' i would get sick, i'm taking this shit pretty seriously.
still, there are PLENTY of people on my faceBook feed that have been running their mouth
for the better part of 2 months acting like its a hoax made up by the Chinese Gov't to keep
everybody inline in Hong Kong. Or they think its all about (1) getting rid of trump or (2) cancelling
the election or (3) forcing a market crash.
the real funny bit is now it has become very clear for at least half the time they've been
calling it a hoax, the virus was already Stateside and making the rounds, just like everywhere
else around the world. Strangely enough the FB jokes suddenly hit a wall. I wonder why.
The big reason to be worried about Covid-19 is that you can be contagious while not being sick. So you can be passing the bug around and not even know you're a danger to other people, which makes the ability of this virus to spread rapidly pretty high.
That is exactly why people are 'suddenly' quiet about it, just a month ago they were
cracking jokes, posting up random comparison numbers swearing nothing is gonna
happen period, when in reality its very likely their fvcking neighbor is already sick,
but they just dont know it yet. Over 3000 people got back on the stupid cruise ship
after it had come back from 'abroad' and they're suddenly confused. Just dumb.
I think, the biggest issue about venturing into 'another' country which has no centralized
Med. Healthcare system n' every state / care facility randomly makes things up as
they go along is you have no idea what people's traveling habits are. You go to a gas
station, take off your gloves n' punch in your PIN number then grab that pump
n' happily fill up your tank.. Well then, if you took off your helmet, now you're fvcked!
you'll ride to the next town and repeat.. in 2 weeks you could be sick and you've
just spread the stupid virus back into Canada where your kids / friends / family eat.
If you are not actually sick you wouldn't think anything of going to work. But you cant
possibly know how anybody else even in your own family will react. You could be
responsible for their death. That is scary as fvck to me.