COVID-19 (artist formerly known as Wuhan strain novel Corona virus)

Bat scratch fever.

 

LOL

 

It’s been over an hour... why does this post not have 150 likes??

 

Might be turning the corner. Keep putting on more steam with vaccines.

 

Vaccines are starting to fall off, but I'm hoping it doesn't matter, and 50% adults doubly vaccinated + cases is enough to hit herd immunity.

 

I don't know many people that aren't vaccinated, at least

 

At work, I'd say only 10% are vaccinated.

 

What is their reasoning? Do you think they could be convinced? I run into people who think there is like aborted fetus tissue in the vaccine. It is tough to undo the damage of decades of bullshit chain mail and rumors.

 

Get mine Monday and not really excited

 

I would say 80% of the people I know are vaccinated. But I run in a very much older crowd many times.

 

There are a lot of factors. Time is probably one, in that a lot of our non-management workers are hourly, work more than one job, and might not think they have time.

Our operations group has said our employees can go get it during work hours. But I don't know that executives approved that as paid time.

There are some who don't trust the newness of this vaccine, including one I work pretty closely with, who is also a first responder, and passed on the option to get it early. And he's got at least one impressionable young guy under him who probably won't get it.

And nor will his wife, who works in HR...

It's a lot of pockets of resistance, for no reason.

 

It wasn't that bad for me. I am sure you will be ok.

 

Thanks Kesling. Geez

 

I can get it during work hours, but it is too much of a hassle (for me) to time code for it, request it, and then I feel bad because I am going well out of my way travel-wise to get it, on work time... So I just took a personal day. Not like I've used much vacation in the last year. Some people are more stingy with their own time, though (which is good, I should be).

 

I really worry for folks who are refusing. Virginia is opening up significantly on May 15th, and probably about all the way by the end of June. Adults that go out and about like normal that aren't vaccinate seem extremely likely to get it between June and September, because there is just no way 50% vaccinated and maybe 10 % previous case but not vaccinated is going to do it, when people are gathering in groups of 100, bars are open, etc. Hope I'm wrong, but we may see a post-vaccine surge. Hope no new variants spin out of it.

 

See, this is all bullshit. Time coding, marking, analyzing. We are so obsessed with tracking what the workers are doing all the time. Especially for something as important as this.

 

And it is readily apparent people will NOT be willing to keep wearing masks much longer. Folks who are vaccinated are increasingly refusing.

 

At my work, it is absolutely necessary for us to track our time. I hate it, but it is indeed necessary. There are too many discrete projects that need to be tracked and billed separately, and we are in dire need of staffing up which requires work data to do it correctly... That being said, this is why I really shouldn't take personal days for COVID-related stuff because we kind of should know that too for planning purposes.

 

In an ideal situation, the optimum solution for my workplace is having a couple of nurses come by and vaccinate anyone who wants it on a particular day. We've done that for flu. But obviously, people aren't in the office like that anymore and also most of the vaccines' storage requirements makes that impractical.

 

Our work is a study in haves and have nots. I can leave, for whatever reason, whenever I want. But other folks have to have their every second accounted for, in some way.

Now, I have a keys to the building, all the codes to get into whatever area I want to be in, and am also pretty high up on the IT security side, despite that not being my area, so I'm not like an everyday employee. But still. I show up at 9:15 drinking coffee, and watch folks getting checked out because they came in at 8:02 too many times...