Inshallah

It was soooooo nice

And people were SO understanding about like... ventilation.

I was in LA and Atlanta this year and I saw masks in both places.

😩

It was so crazy to me because it is how I gauge risk and I was just like welp since I can't I guess I live in this N95 mask (which is why I was worried about running out)

If you count the original series as 1 shot, I think I'm approaching double digits (some paid out of pocket)

( I *really* hope that it is clear I'm not shitting on disabled people but the US social "Safety" net" such as it is)

I'm, unfortunately, not rich enough that risking being disabled by covid works in my cost benefit analysis.

I do not understand people who don't get that my concern is not death, but being too disabled to work in a country with poor social programs for those who cannot work

LOL first block for someone telling me that masking is bad.

Vaccines save lives.

Period.

A tiny number of people will suffer severe long-lasting effects from vaccination. But way way more people will live long fruitful lives because of it.

Acceptable loss is how many soldiers can die in this war for oil to enrich oil companies before the public revolts?

Thinking in terms of people means thinking, paradoxically, in cost benefit terms. How many people will this action kill versus how many will it save.

No i mean that's fair. If you're keeping your kid at home for a full year, versus sending your kid into a daycare with 30-40 other kids - the risks aren't the same.

So let's contrast that to Mexico City where I was this year.

I knew it was going to be covid-friendly because the weather is pretty mild so it's just pretty easy to eat outside.

Waaaay more mask wearing. And nobody yelled at me to take off my mask or asked why I needed it. Unlike England

Even going to like half a dozen drugstores.

In London almost no one wore masks.

Masking isn't universal NYC but in London it was so rare that when I saw someone in a mask it marked them as a tourist (the one exception was when I saw a play on the West end (some of the servers wore them)

Another not so fun thing I learned when I was in the UK last year - the covid boosters are functionally inaccessible to most people.

And they no longer do wastewater tracking of covid infections.

And when I was concerned I was running low on N95s I could not find anything but a surgical mask

Also when I say "don't give" I do not mean it's completely inaccessible in every country in Europe.

I mean it's not part of the standard vaccine schedule.

I talk about it a bit here. I think in Denmark's case the concern is suggesting too many vaccines will increase vaccine hesitancy.

IT IS TRUE!

I think it's worth pointing out that most of the US measles outbreaks began with unvaccinated travelers going overseas.... often to Europe.