You are in luck. This is my last post and some of you will celebrate that. Too many PhD's, too many scientists---you've read it on this thread. But here is the latest, no BS. The Delta variant is much, much worse than anyone in the medical profession expected it would be. The number of cases in the US has increased by about 1000% in the past few weeks [and will be about 150,000 today], hospitalizations have increased by about 500% in the past few weeks, and deaths, which went down to about 50 or less per day, appear to be going up to around 700 today with dramatic increases predicted for the next few weeks. The number of cases involving children will be about 100,000 for the past week. Almost every school in the US that opened with no mask mandates has had so many positive cases that they are reevaluating their protocol. Some of you have "buddies" [never named, never defined by specific location] who work in the medical profession and you have stated that they say there is no big deal. BS. Find one single ICU worker anywhere, and mention, if not their names, the hospital where they work and I promise you the ICU is experiencing an explosion of Covid. As of today, 90% of positive cases are unvaccinated and 99.2% of hospital deaths are unvaccinated. Sadly, the kids are getting clobbered. The vaccination is not approved for them so they are the targets for this virus.
Believe what you want. You may think that I'm one of those draft-dodging, National Anthem kneeling "liberals." BS on that. I was a USMC infantry platoon commander when many of you were shitting your diapers. I hunt a lot, I can't stand the lack of respect for our flag, I think there should be a national draft of some sort so young people are required to put in a small part of what those before them put in [like died in combat], but my academic background will not allow me to sit in silence. Talk to ANY board certified MD or ANY PhD specializing in infectious disease and ALL of them will tell you that the Delta variant is the meanest SOB this nation has EVER faced, and a lot of you just laugh it off. And, the Lambda variant is on the way. Is it all a giant conspiracy with all medical doctors, all medical researchers, and all medical professionals in the USA meeting in secrecy and spreading a lie? Give me an F-ing break!!
I have asked Steve to remove me from this forum. I can stand a lot of BS, but this is too much.
Semper Fi, and good hunting to all.
Adios.