Ouch, I feel for you. My new neighbor has hearing loss, and I can see that it’s tough for her too.
I’m guessing that the difference between you and that cashier is that you aren’t snide or mean to the masked person about it. (At least I hope you aren’t!)
I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to doubt your experience. I mentioned it only to offer a good-faith reason why someone might struggle to hear someone wearing a mask who everyone else can hear, which is what you described.
I usually don’t bother explaining my situation to anyone. I just end up guessing at what I think they might have said (usually wrong), or by asking them to repeat themselves a lot.
It’s never occurred to me to ask someone to remove their mask for me, because I don’t think I would do it for them.
Less than 2% of eligible people have gotten updated Covid booster shots, 3 weeks into the rollout.
“The fact that this booster came out days before Biden said the pandemic is over is a huge mixed message," he said. "Now it’s going to be that much harder to convince those at risk who are on the fence to get a booster.
Public communication about availability of the new booster has been sadly lacking where I am. I tried for months to get a second booster but kept getting told it was only for people over 50 or 55, either way, not for me. I kind of gave up, figuring I’d hear or read about it when it was available.
Just learned today from an acquaintance, not the newspaper or anything, that I could’ve gotten the latest booster by now.
I think the low numbers might be a lot of people like me: eager but discouraged by months of denial.
I don’t mean to vilify the CDC or anything, but they’re so shit at this stuff.
my healthcare provider doesn’t even offer them. and apparently i’m on my own for a flu shot as well. yet it’s one of the giant national healthcare providers
i suspect, like me, people got used to the fact the companies were so involved these last few years, and suddenly they’re not. having to make an appointment for an important vaccine at my local, run down looking pharmacy. it’s unexpected, and feels… wrong
eta,: @ClutchLinkey: same. ( i should’ve scrolled down!)
We were waiting for the updated booster but then in July we were told we shouldn’t wait so we got the current booster at that time. Now we’re waiting until closer to the holidays.
I wonder how many other people are like us and the closer it gets to the holidays we’ll see more people getting the booster.
We will be getting the flu shot in a couple weeks.
People are still dying of COVID in Canada, more so than even last year. So far in 2022, the country has seen 14,727 COVID deaths, more than 350 more than in all of 2021.
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Navarro [of University of Michigan’s Center for the History of Medicine] points out that several U.S. jurisdictions, such as San Francisco, lifted their restrictions too soon during the deadly Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918. While largely spared by the first wave early that year, and despite plenty of warning, San Francisco got slammed with more than 4,000 cases by mid-October, less than a month after the virus is suspected to have arrived in the city.
I have to wonder if (and it may be sub-conscious/emergent property of the larger political animal) the political angle here is to let the anti-mask/vax go unopposed until the public turns decidedly against them.
never having gotten life saving medical care at costco - or any other big box store for that matter - are these, you know, medical professionals? or are people just plopping themselves down on the register conveyer belt to be treated, scanned, and bagged up by the cashiers?
oh god. don’t tell me it’s self checkout. what do you even do with the needle afterwards?