Is COVID-19 Fatigue Contributing to the Surge?

[TexasTowelie]

If there is one thing that probably sums up how everyone in this country feels as we have crossed over into the year 2022, it would be that everyone is sick and tired of dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic.

COVID-19 has become such a daily part of our lives, that we can’t do anything without taking COVID-19 into consideration.

Whether shopping at the grocery store, sending a child to school, going to work, attending a social event, or visiting family members, the impact of COVID-19 has changed the way we live.

Considering that COVID-19 isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, should we be concerned that many people have chosen to take their chances with COVID-19 versus what they consider to be the inconvenience of getting back to normal with their daily lives?

Read more: https://forwardtimes.com/is-covid-19-fatigue-contributing-to-the-surge/

[Tickle]

1. Normal is never coming back

but Jesus is. 🤦‍♀️

It’s a tea shirt I saw

[underpants]

2. Posting from another thread.

AND! no really ladies and gentlemen it's FREE!!!

Free to you directly anyway.

Imagine trying to sell this screenplay:
There’s a deadly disease in which you may die face down, with a tube down your throat and ALONE but thanks to decades of planning and research a preventative treatment is produced and distributed historically fast. It’s free. Takes maybe an hour of your time. Massive operations are set and these people are just waiting for your to show up. You can even get it at the corner drugstore on your way home. But a sizable part of the population are manipulated and so blindly allegiant to one person - to their own sources of information- that they reject this free fast treatment only to perpetuate the disease and the disease mutates and rages on mostly amongst this small part of a population.

[Earth-shine]

3. No question about it. People I know - liberals - who were careful last year

are not taking the same level of precaution this year.

Case in point - yesterday my wife and I were at a bday party for a 63-year-old friend.

It was intended to be an outdoor event.

It started to rain as the party began. Everything was moved inside the house, which is like a small bungalow.

We just went home, but the other dozen or so guests just took it in stride and went inside.


OTOH, I went food shopping yesterday before the party. Everyone was masked in the store.

[tanyev]

8. Yep, I'm hearing "You have to live your life" more now from people who used to be very careful.

They're still more careful than the average anti-vaxx maskhole, but they're doing a lot more things than I would be comfortable doing.

[Klaralven]

4. Yes - school is in person and some after school activities have resumed

Adults and kids are generally masked, but less careful about how many are together and how close.

NJ has just over 20,000 cases per 100,000 population or 20%. Those are PCR confirmed cases, so the actual percentage with asymptomatic cases, mild cases not tested, and cases tested with at home tests is probably more like 40%.

https://www.nj.gov/health/cd/topics/covid2019_dashboard.shtml

[SallyHemmings]

5. Yes

The virus is plowing through my tribe. All who are eligible are vaccinated. The cherubs are masked up in school. They are being responsible but got snagged anyway. Blessedly, no hospitalizations & no deaths.

Frustrating.

[Groundhawg]

6. I'm vaxed and boosted and live my life totally normal

I changed things for awhile but It doesn't affect my life now in any way.

[Johnny2X2X]

7. Too many people are incapable of long term thinking

America is known for being fly by your pants risk takers. Also known for procrastinating and having to cram to prepare for meetings or exams. People just can't see past their own noses too often.

So people look around and see many other people just going about their days without any precautions and it's too easy to follow along. Masking protects others from you more than you from others, so the increased safety of that is hard for people to process because it's not necessarily themselves they are protecting.

This is the new normal, Omicron is going to burn through everyone in the country and then hopefully this subsides some. But Covid is here to stay. All we can do is keeping getting the latest vaccines and hope enough of our fellow citizens do. If this is here year after year, people unvaccinated people are going to get it over and over and over until it kills them.

[luvs2sing]

9. I think so.

Hubster and I are still pretty locked down, but we did live dangerously and had two v2+b friends over for Christmas dinner. Many of our “careful” friends are doing things they wouldn’t have done a year ago.

We’re dying of boredom, but it’s better than the alternative.

[stopdiggin]

10. the answer is, "without question."

and administrators and health officials will need to build this in to their efforts responses. (and actually, this is something that we've known from the start - there is a limited amount of cooperation and compliance built in to the equation ...)

[Emile]

11. Republicans must have found out about Bill Gates using the vaccine to exterminate them!