[Leica] IMG: Difficult days

[Jeffery Smith]

Every year, half of my friends with graduate degrees refuse flu shots because the had one that gave them the flu, as in that day. The flu virus doesn’t produce symptoms in a few hours after exposure. There is an incubation period. And a vaccine doesn’t confer protection in a few hours. If they did get the flu, they were exposed before getting the vaccine. Makes no difference. Not negotiable. Vaccines cause the disease, and there is no changing their minds. As long as there are superstitious or paranoid people, there will be COVID-19.

JLS

> On Dec 16, 2020, at 5:36 PM, Don Dory via LUG <lug at leica-users.org> wrote:
> 
> I don't want to be a wet blanket,  this virus will be with us forever.
> The black plague is alive and well in praire dogs, influenza kills around
> 60000 people a year in the US etc.   We just have to adopt new ways of
> living and invest in ever better medical everything.
> 
>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2020, 4:21 PM Tina Manley via LUG <lug at leica-users.org>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> I hope she will be one of the first to get vaccinated and that she will be
>> able to go back home.  It will make such a difference in the world when
>> this plague is gone!
>> 
>> Best wishes to your mom and you.
>> 
>> Tina
>> 
>>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 4:30 PM Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I had to visit my mother in her nursing home for the first time in a
>>> couple of months, and unbelievably forgot my camera, so had to use my
>>> old iPhone 5S. I'll upgrade next year at some stage, and get a roughly
>>> similar sized phone with a better camera. Her nursing home is only four
>>> km away as the crow flies, but I don't have a flying car, despite all
>>> the promises of my childhood tv programmes. Very disappointing really.
>>> Traffic was very heavy, ominous really, as the closetted world emerges
>>> and goes shopping for Christmas. What frightening jump in plague figures
>>> will greet us in the early weeks of January?
>>> 
>>>  As for my soon to be 97 year old mother, she was in her usual vehement
>>> fettle, as I met her, not in her room as before, but in one of a row of
>>> garden sheds set up in the basement car park of her nursing home. We
>>> were separated by a full perspex screen that split the shed, and each of
>>> of us had microphone and speakers. The shed was tarted up like Santa's
>>> grotto and was a somewhat  incongruous situation as she complained long
>>> and very loudly about being imprisoned by this virus, expounding about
>>> how she was spending the tail end of her life like the Count of Monte
>>> Cristo, and most definitely wanted to go home. Sadly, that's impossible
>>> with the current plague. She's perfectly sharp intellectually, but,
>>> following a fall late last year, needs someone to keep an eye on her. We
>>> had someone calling in very day, but then the pandemic hit.
>>> 
>>> It's difficult being charged with the other member of our family diarchy
>>> with looking after the best interests of a rational adult. Anyway, she's
>>> not the Count or even the Countess of Monte Cristo, but maybe has a
>>> claim to be the Countess of Mounting Tinsel.
>>> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/DouglasBray/Xmas+2020+FF+Mum.jpg.html
>>> 
>>> Douglas
>>> 
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