Question of the Day - 18 April 2022

While the intent might have been different the way the question was phrased and your answer was not in my mind political. I have my views but I also sometimes just want to know so I can make an informed decision on my comfort level. I come here for advice on Vegas and gambling, not on medical stuff. So I appreciate the simple answer

If your job requires that you come in contact with multiple customers during the course of the day, you should be vaccinated. Period. And any employee who refuses should be wrapped in chains and tossed into Lake Mead. (Of course, they won't drown--the lake's too low.)

The politicization of this issue is precisely why vaccination rates are still so low--or for that matter, why vaccine mandates are even questioned. You don't see that attitude in regard to, say, speed limits or seat belt laws. Public safety shouldn't be a political issue, or even debated for that matter.

And since, as far as I'm aware, no one has exploded in flames or turned into a newt after being vaccinated, why not get the shot already? It takes a few minutes, it's free, and it infringes not at all on your precious FREEDUMB.

NAB April 24-27 requires vaccine status or 48 hour proof.  Radio and TV networks are all vacc and booster mandatory, along with all broadcast stadium and arena workers.   Let's say if you have come from an Asian country hard hit or you come from a country that treats its citizens different, I could see where this info could be helpful.  NAB has 40+ countries this year.    

While I look forward your jocular comments,I find your latest utterance to be asinine and totally off base. I hope you are not serious! Especially in your comparison to speed limits!

The new message on Covid-19 precautions in the U.S.:  It’s your call.  As treatments, vaccines and widespread testing help dent the worst outcomes as the virus continues to spread, the response is becoming more tailored to people’s own health and appetite for risk.  Health officials are leaving it up to people to assess if they need booster shots, whether to wear a mask and how long to isolate after a positive test.  Restrictions could return if Covid-19 cases surge again—some universities and cities have restored mask mandates recently—but many measures are being left more to individuals.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/officials-adopt-new-message-on-covid-19-behaviors-its-your-call-11650200403?st=rndmpnyeg5qe7c0

By reading Lewis's comments, I always thought he was partisan, harsh, cantankerous, but never realized how uneducated, frankly naïve he was, reading such a completely ignorant post:

"If your job requires that you come in contact with multiple customers during the course of the day, you should be vaccinated. Period." 

Obviously he is not aware, per the CDC & any virologist that people who receive the shot can spread COVID as much as those who didn't receive the shot. It's to protect YOU to some degree, NOT OTHERS. Facts are inconvenient I know for the partisan but to read someone like Lewis posting something so blatantly ignorant and false on this forum needs a dose of science and reality.

"The politicization of this issue is precisely why vaccination rates are still so low--or for that matter"

Says the individual who was on an obsession of "orange man bad" for so many years on this forum, the definition of "politicization", on a forum that should have nothing to do with politics.  

A vaccine is supposed to "produce immunity to a specific disease by causing the formation of antibodies". This shot does not. It weakens your natural immune system for the invasion of variants and other potentially deadly diseases.  

#1) If you are concerned about being exposed to the uninjected, you better stay in your safe space.
#2) Kevin's lack of knowledge about Corona is legendary.

From where did Joseph come across the 'information' (not) that he posted?  Yikes!

Kevin isn't wrong.  It generally cannot be known whom anyone will come in contact with at a concert, in line for a concert.  Like the flu vaccine, it is the Covid vac is significantly protective and able to significantly lessen the severity of illness if one takes the shot but still gets the illness.  If I have the flu and stand in line behind you at a concert, the chances are higher that you will be exposed and possibly get sick with the flu.  Hopefully I have had the flu shot and both of us will come out better; if both of us have had the shot, even better.  Why take a chance?

Candy 

I guess it was inevitable that my stating that getting vaccinated is a matter of personal and public responsibility would result in a number of personal attacks.

Shoot the messenger all you want, folks, but not getting vaccinated is irresponsible and should be punished, just like driving 100 mph on the freeway (and yes, I'll use that analogy quite often, since it's very applicable).

We don't know exactly how many have died as a result of exposure caused by unvaccinated people, but it has to be in the hundreds of thousands. But, FREEDUMB!

"I guess it was inevitable that my stating that getting vaccinated is a matter of personal and public responsibility would result in a number of personal attack"

"We don't know exactly how many have died as a result of exposure caused by unvaccinated people"

Wow. No, WOW. 

Once again, saving "the public" has nothing to do with your or anyone taking the shot or not, no difference. There's nothing "responsible" as studies and science show no difference in virus shedding amount. If you want to feel special to others, feel important and want to think you are saving humanity, well, have fun with that while ignoring reality and science. 

"Hopefully I have had the flu shot and both of us will come out better; if both of us have had the shot, even better."

Candy, "hopefully" isn't science. Again, shot or no shot for covid, same amount of virus is shed. If you want the shot, great, get it. But to agree with Kevin those taking the shot are saving others is ignorant and science says no.

aka circus clown

The earth is flat because I say so club, welcome. Can't accept reality, science, formulate an intelligent comeback, so throw out a non-sequitur response. 

Entertainment and humor exists in the comments after all. :)

"Circus clown" is apropos. There is no need to expound.  

I am surprised more companies aren't having mandatory vaccinations because eventually that government covid money is going to dry up and then it will be on the health insurers to charge for it. As we've all seen with corporate owned casinos, they do not like to spend more money than they have to on employees or customers, so I wonder how that will figure into health insurance rates and the penny pinching ways of corporations.

It’s a good thing the original answer included a request to avoid making this political. 😵‍💫

My experience at G2E this past October was that they were requiring everybody to have proof of vaccination. I don’t recall if they also did daily temperature checks. Upon arrival, you showed your proof of vaccination, and they put on a wristband.

The wristband they used was not your typical tear resistant paper band. It was more of a fabric ribbon loop with a plastic anchor that would easily tighten but not loosen. It was designed to be worn for the duration of the show and would survive washing, showering, pool use, etc.

Toward that end, it worked fine.

However, after the show was over, I started playing with mine. While I could not get it any looser, I was able to manipulate it and eventually work it off of my wrist, and then back on. 

In other words, in my case at least, I could’ve taken it off and give it to somebody who had the same or small wrist size.

Y. M. M. V. 

While it may be true (or not) that once a person has Covid they may shed as much of the virus whether vaccinated or not the simple fact remains that the vaccinated person is much less likely to be infected and spreading in the first place.  Your claim is a red herring and irrelevant.