Love thy neighbor?
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This one!
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Loving God is fairly clear, but how do we love our neighbors as ourselves? The answer is in Christâs Golden Rule: âSo whatever you wish that others would do to you, do also to themâ (Matthew 7:12a ESV). We must behave toward others in the same way we want them to behave toward us. So, if we donât want people to sneeze or cough on us, we must not sneeze or cough on them. If I donât want someone to transmit disease to me, then I must do whatever I can to avoid transmitting disease to them. Asserting rights is all about me, but wearing a mask is all about my care and concern for the feelings and well-being of others.
Face coverings donât protect the wearer as much as they protect the people the wearer encounters. The apostle Paul summarizes the practical implications of a Christ-like ethic toward others: âDo nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of othersâ (Philippians 2:3-4 ESV).
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It was quoted here just a few days ago. I donât know it off the top of my head, but itâs pretty specific.
Edit: Yup, @anon87143080 got it. Sure, itâs for Leprosy, but considering that Leprosy isnât air- or particle-borne, weâll call it COVID-19 so the Bible doesnât look stupid.
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You are helping to prevent the spread. Donât worry, youâre fine.
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A Category 4 hurricane expected to make landfall on a state with low vaccination rates and high case numbers. What fallout will we see from contagious evacuees? Or since case counts are so high countrywide will we even notice?
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A little worried here, because my brotherâs family lives between Baton Rouge and New Orleans. Theyâll be fine to evacuate, but yes, the fallout is not going to be good.
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yeah, thatâs why i had that second part there. the study basically covers just the delta variant, so that could account for previous ( and potentially future ) reports that vaccination provides broader protection than infection
itâs definitely an interesting result. if six months down the line weâre still seeing the same, then great. maybe that can help future research improve the vaccines
in the meantime, i think itâs dangerous to think we know for sure about the whole course of covid from this one study. especially because people will say âsee natural infection is betterâ while discounting the risks and damage of the natural infection
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Off the top of my head (ahem), isnât that one transmitted via nasal mucosa?
Doesnât say I gotta love your neighbor, though.
Otherwise, where would it end? That would just be silly.
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Where does it end? It ends when we all love and care for each other.
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I spoke to a relative recently, and according to her doctor, she doesnât need a vaccine because she already caught a mild case of Covid, and therefore has natural immunities. My mind boggled so much that all I could say was, âthatâs interesting, every doctor Iâve heard talking about it says the opposite, that vaccines boost natural immunities.â
But she replied, âI trust my immune system, I trust my body.â I could only say, âI donât trust my immune system that much, Iâll take all the help I can get. I got both shots, and itâs fine, really.â But she doesnât want to listen⌠seriously, if her immune system didnât protect her the first time, how can she count on it to protect her from another infection? Whereâs the logic? Unfortunately, sheâs one of the more conservative members of the famiy, and sheâs inherited a good chunk of the family stubbornness. I can only hope sheâs right⌠i just wish sheâd get the shots.
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Trust but verify?
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Itâs funny that they trust their immune system when it comes to covid but when it comes to hepatitis or norovirus or e.coli not so much, as they would prefer people handling their food washed their hands after wiping their butt and didnât sneeze on their food and Iâll bet they would also like it cooked thoroughly.
Odd how they think.
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That would be reasonable, if she was more willing to look at the science and get her conclusions from that. But that doesnât appear to be the case, and I feel like thereâs only so far I can push the issue.
Sheâs made a few comments critical of Biden and positive about Trump. Funny thing is, she said she âknows not to get into it with Aunt ()â, whoâs fairly liberal and outspoken about it. She has no idea that Iâm considerably farther to the left than that aunt⌠yet. My family is very careful not to get into political fights with each other, and while some know Iâm âleft of center,â I havenât shared exactly just how left I am. At a guess, Iâm probably more âradicalâ than any of my relatives, so I keep much of my political leanings to myself.
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Thatâs communist talk.
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Okay Boomer, okaaay.
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Itâs funny because the narrative here is that the young made a huge sacrifice in the last year and a half for the old, rather than the other way around.
I think a very major part of it, from my observation, is that vaccineâs rarity made it extra desirable early on (the âfully vaccinated with Pfizer BioNTechâ flex on dating apps) and also that as restrictions ease there is less impetus to get vaccinated.
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