Yes, we do live in a very
strange world.
Over the weekend, I read a story which both made me laugh and made me very sad at the same time.
Yes, it has come to this …
A dentist in Italy faces possible criminal charges after he attempted to receive a coronavirus shot in his prosthetic arm.
A nurse in the northern city of Biella said she could tell right away that something was off when a man presented the limb for the shot late last week.
According to news reports and was originally in the Italian newspaper Corriere, della Sera, the nurse said, "When I uncovered the arm, I felt skin that was cold and gummy, and the color was too light.”
She said she initially thought the 57-year-old man was an amputee and had mistakenly offered her the wrong arm for the shot. She lifted his shirt and saw a silicone arm.
"I understood immediately that the man was trying to avoid the vaccination by using a silicone prosthetic, into which he hoped that I would inject the drug,” the nurse told the publication.
The nurse said the man acknowledged he did not want a vaccine, but he wanted to obtain a "super" health pass, which as of yesterday, is required to enter restaurants, cinemas, theaters and other venues in Italy.
He had already been suspended from work because of his refusal to get vaccinated, which Italy requires for all medical personnel.
The nurse said the man was "courteous," and left the vaccination center after the failed attempt.
"We stopped and reflected, and we understood that this wasn’t just a surreal situation, but a real attempt at fraud,’’ the nurse said.
And yes, like here in the U.S., there is a lot of hesitancy to get the shots, whether it be the first shot or the third booster shot.
According ot the article that I read, while Italy's vaccination rate is relatively high at 85 percent of the currently eligible population ages 12 and over, people in the age range from 30 years of age to 59 years of age ihave rejected getting the shots the most, with nearly 3.5 million of people in that age range still not having received even their first doses.
Yes, the world is nuts, and the panic that has been created by the coming of the omicron variant has made people even loonier.
And while our officials who go through chapter and verse on this variant tell us that there is no need to panic, you have to be brain dead not to see that their daily reports about this variant are, in fact, making people panic, even though by all accounts, while it is more transmissible, for most who get it, the symptoms last for a few days and go away quickly.
The latest salvo comes from Mayor Bill deBlasio of New York City, who without consulting with business leaders, has declared a mandate where ALL workers in New York City must get the shots.
I don’t see how this is enforceable with about a quarter of a million companies based in New York City and about 4 million workers, but this latest political grandstanding—which is so tied into his run for governor that it is pathetic that he is trying to pull the wool over the public’s eyes—is the latest mandate that doesn’t create substance, it creates panic.
But I am convinced that many of our elected officials want just that, and since New York City voters had the audacity to vote this eel into office not once, but twice, well, you do get what you pay for, don’t you?
And then there is Eric Adams, his elected successor, who proclaimed that he was against such mandates when he was running for mayor, but when he won, he went against his own proclamations and said that he wasn’t totally against them, but would “study” them.
Yes, he will study them when he is counting his bit coins and smoking his pot--yes, these personal obsessions came out about him after he was elected into office--but again, you get what you pay for.
I got my shots because I wanted to get the shots, and I still feel that is the way to go, do what you feel is best for YOU.
I do feel that they do actually do something to help protect you against the scourge, and if you want to believe the statistics—which I don’t fully believe, as under-reports and over-reports of the virus have been rampant since day one—they are somewhat protective, but will not prevent you from getting the virus as they were originally advertised, and continue to be advertised, as “vaccines.”
I have not yet gotten the booster shot.
Right now, I feel that a booster—and with the Pfizer shot, it is not really a booster in the sense of what the word means, it is a third shot—is unnecessary for at least me.
In fact, there is talk that the shots will be tweaked to better protect us against the variants, so why should anyone get the current shots today when there are better shots coming right around the corner?
If I want to take a booster, I want to take the best one available, so I will wait … and see. I am not completely sold on the so-called booster shots just yet, but I don’t want yesterday’s model if I do get one, I want the newest and best preventative to at least somewhat shield me against the variants.
Yes, this world has gone bonkers.
The bottom line is that I think that we are going to have to learn to live with this virus. People will get it, people will not get sick from it, people will get a little sick, people will get very sick, and people will die from it.
Over the weekend, I read a story which both made me laugh and made me very sad at the same time.
Yes, it has come to this …
A dentist in Italy faces possible criminal charges after he attempted to receive a coronavirus shot in his prosthetic arm.
A nurse in the northern city of Biella said she could tell right away that something was off when a man presented the limb for the shot late last week.
According to news reports and was originally in the Italian newspaper Corriere, della Sera, the nurse said, "When I uncovered the arm, I felt skin that was cold and gummy, and the color was too light.”
She said she initially thought the 57-year-old man was an amputee and had mistakenly offered her the wrong arm for the shot. She lifted his shirt and saw a silicone arm.
"I understood immediately that the man was trying to avoid the vaccination by using a silicone prosthetic, into which he hoped that I would inject the drug,” the nurse told the publication.
The nurse said the man acknowledged he did not want a vaccine, but he wanted to obtain a "super" health pass, which as of yesterday, is required to enter restaurants, cinemas, theaters and other venues in Italy.
He had already been suspended from work because of his refusal to get vaccinated, which Italy requires for all medical personnel.
The nurse said the man was "courteous," and left the vaccination center after the failed attempt.
"We stopped and reflected, and we understood that this wasn’t just a surreal situation, but a real attempt at fraud,’’ the nurse said.
And yes, like here in the U.S., there is a lot of hesitancy to get the shots, whether it be the first shot or the third booster shot.
According ot the article that I read, while Italy's vaccination rate is relatively high at 85 percent of the currently eligible population ages 12 and over, people in the age range from 30 years of age to 59 years of age ihave rejected getting the shots the most, with nearly 3.5 million of people in that age range still not having received even their first doses.
Yes, the world is nuts, and the panic that has been created by the coming of the omicron variant has made people even loonier.
And while our officials who go through chapter and verse on this variant tell us that there is no need to panic, you have to be brain dead not to see that their daily reports about this variant are, in fact, making people panic, even though by all accounts, while it is more transmissible, for most who get it, the symptoms last for a few days and go away quickly.
The latest salvo comes from Mayor Bill deBlasio of New York City, who without consulting with business leaders, has declared a mandate where ALL workers in New York City must get the shots.
I don’t see how this is enforceable with about a quarter of a million companies based in New York City and about 4 million workers, but this latest political grandstanding—which is so tied into his run for governor that it is pathetic that he is trying to pull the wool over the public’s eyes—is the latest mandate that doesn’t create substance, it creates panic.
But I am convinced that many of our elected officials want just that, and since New York City voters had the audacity to vote this eel into office not once, but twice, well, you do get what you pay for, don’t you?
And then there is Eric Adams, his elected successor, who proclaimed that he was against such mandates when he was running for mayor, but when he won, he went against his own proclamations and said that he wasn’t totally against them, but would “study” them.
Yes, he will study them when he is counting his bit coins and smoking his pot--yes, these personal obsessions came out about him after he was elected into office--but again, you get what you pay for.
I got my shots because I wanted to get the shots, and I still feel that is the way to go, do what you feel is best for YOU.
I do feel that they do actually do something to help protect you against the scourge, and if you want to believe the statistics—which I don’t fully believe, as under-reports and over-reports of the virus have been rampant since day one—they are somewhat protective, but will not prevent you from getting the virus as they were originally advertised, and continue to be advertised, as “vaccines.”
I have not yet gotten the booster shot.
Right now, I feel that a booster—and with the Pfizer shot, it is not really a booster in the sense of what the word means, it is a third shot—is unnecessary for at least me.
In fact, there is talk that the shots will be tweaked to better protect us against the variants, so why should anyone get the current shots today when there are better shots coming right around the corner?
If I want to take a booster, I want to take the best one available, so I will wait … and see. I am not completely sold on the so-called booster shots just yet, but I don’t want yesterday’s model if I do get one, I want the newest and best preventative to at least somewhat shield me against the variants.
Yes, this world has gone bonkers.
The bottom line is that I think that we are going to have to learn to live with this virus. People will get it, people will not get sick from it, people will get a little sick, people will get very sick, and people will die from it.
Sort of like the flu.
But I do feel that down the line, it will be treated as any other respiratory disease, as our scientists will come up with medicines that will help us deal with this thing as we deal with—but can’t yet wipe out—things like the flu and the common cold.
But will the world go completely off its axis until that time comes?
But I do feel that down the line, it will be treated as any other respiratory disease, as our scientists will come up with medicines that will help us deal with this thing as we deal with—but can’t yet wipe out—things like the flu and the common cold.
But will the world go completely off its axis until that time comes?
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