Us pipe smokers and COVID vaccine

That's interesting. Will you fess up?

And, I have read in the past that in the UK, professing smokers were put at the back of the list on things such as knee replacements and hips.
If they were so careless about their health, they did not deserve consideration.

Wife and I got registered today too. No eta though. Went to the doctor Wednesday and when he came in and saw me wearing my mask, he said "you know those don't work, don't you?". I said "but everyone in your office is wearing one!". He said, "Strange, isn't it".

Wife got her vaccination today, being a pharmacist and all. I get to wait until some unknown date in the future unless the national guard comes up with extra doses. This means she gets to do the grocery shopping for now...lol.

The mask thing really isn't as contradictory or "unknown" as people make it out to be. The full story is pretty straightforward:

Early in the pandemic, the public was advised not to wear masks based on the concern of creating a PPE shortage for medical personnel, and an incomplete analysis of data.

It turns out that most western research had focused on the mask's ability to protect the wearer specifically, instead of their ability to slow the overall spread of disease. Research in Asia had taken a different approach and thus medical organizations there had recommended them for years. This is why, if you've done any traveling in the last 15 years (especially during flu season), you've likely seen Asian people wearing masks.

Once more comprehensive data analysis was done by organizations like the CDC and WHO, the value of masks in protecting the entire population was recognized, and thus the change in policy.

When I first received instruction credentials years ago, I was taught that learning is defined as "a change in behavior as a result of experience." It does not seem productive or logical to criticize experts who revise a position based on new data. That's pretty much how science works. As a human construct, it cannot be perfect, but it's the best we've come up with, demonstrably better than "gut feelings" and such.

A doctor not understanding how masks work... oh boy. Sure hope he's not a surgeon. 😉

I'll be sure to tell my M.D. that some guy who flies a plane in Washington says that he is stupid. Thanks, man,

I completely get that. All I'm saying is that it would be nice if they even told the public that in their announcement.

Over here it went straight from 'masks don't work' to 'you must wear a mask'. A small addition of 'after more research, we now realise that there is a benefit to wearing masks, therefore you must wear a mask' would, in my opinion, have helped the public understand. As a scientist, I understood, but many were confused.

If masks don't work, why do pathologists wear them preforming autopsies?
They certainly are not concerned about passing their germs to the patient.

And bacteria.

I probably should start looking into some of this stuff. Sometimes I forget I'm in my 50s, now, and don't hear things directed at my age group as directed at me.

I think I may very well have had COVID, already, though. Jan. and Feb. and into early March of last year, I had some kind of cough I just could not get rid of. Coughed so hard I bruised a couple ribs.

What do they call the person who's last in their class at West Point? The Class Goat.

What do they call a doctor who graduates last in their class?

(Just had to add that. There's a lot of dumbass people out there - including doctors)

Heard they were revamping the Vacine list and asking Democrat or Republican, one party will have a long wait.!9

That's OK.  One party will likely refuse to get it anyway.  Win/win.

It’s all good.

A person I know that has been working on operation warp speed was notified today by an executive directive that it will now be referred to as “operation”.
I am sure that from here on out the media will be breathless on how well everything is being conducted to fight the virus.