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Originally Posted by OtinG
Once again I’m totally embarrassed by, and angered at, some of my fellow Texans. Over the past few days they have basically held two major sporting events that were both packed shoulder to shoulder with fans, most of whom were not even wearing masks.
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They may be about one month early in moving to big events. However, the days of big controlling government forcing people into lockdown are rapidly coming to an end.
Covid is bad (rapidly moving to "was bad"). The government made it worse by killing jobs, forcing small businesses to close, locking people away inside nursing homes to decline and die, etc. But we survived despite government actions, not because of them. Now we have the vaccine and very shortly everyone who wants to be vaccinated will have been given the chance. Once that occurs, there will be no more of this "control the population" stuff from government no matter how hard they try.
The recent large events in Texas were maybe a tad premature. However, enough people have already been vaccinated, including just about all of the high risk population, that the only people who might be negatively affected by these events are the people who attended. And that was their choice - if they suffer because of it, that's the result of their choice. I do not feel that many "innocent" people will be negatively affected. Let's hope that number is zero.
However, the gates are opening, and people are not going to stay locked inside and they're not going to continue wearing masks much longer. The government will try to scare us into doing exactly that with reports of "new variants" and such, but they will fail. At this point in time, where we are with the vaccinations, I view covid as being no worse than the seasonal flu. People get very sick and die from the flu every year. So it will be with covid. But covid's days as a planet-wide disaster pandemic are coming to their end.
I've been fully vaccinated, second shot was over a month ago. "They" say I should still avoid travel. But "they" can't tell me why. So I will travel. I recently had to fly for a funeral. Three planes total. Every one of them was packed to the gills. Every single seat was booked - window, aisle, middle. Evidently a lot of vaccinated people agree with me on questioning why we should not travel at this point.