My state lifted the mask mandate and opened all venues to 100% capacity. Although I've received both my shots, I'm not going anywhere near a theater for the time being. A stranger next to me, maskless and unvaccinated? No thanks.
My son-in-law got the second test shot of the COVID vaccine and he felt sick like a dog. Definitely NOT the placebo. High fever and very weak but breathing not affected.
My son-in-law is in a test group. He's getting his second shot this week. He said the first one hurt like hell. I shouldn't think that was a placebo.
At some point, with vaccines and masks in place, I will welcome life as it evolves.
Now I can actually say I've known a COVID survivor and a COVID casualty.
For those who still think this is just like a flu that only kills people you don't know.
200,000+ and counting.
And we'll be counting well into next year.
Idiocracy.
I expected nothing less from them. Soon to follow, all the other major opera companies in the USA. We really won't get back to normal until 2022, no matter what xxx says.
I joined a Zoom meeting last week and an epidemiologist who knows Dr. Fauci, and is currently working on the manufacture of the vaccine, described all the components going into the vaccine and their purpose; the timetable (lucky if we had by Christmastime, lucky if we had by early 2021); then...
My wife and I are in our 70s. We are subscribers to the Dallas Opera and to the Houston Grand Opera. We are not renewing our subscriptions even though both institutions are hopeful that they will be presenting production in the Fall. We shan't risk our health. We also visit museums in Dallas...
It's good to hear from a scientist and from someone who can actually be factual and not anecdotal. I wish to hear more from you in this vein...just sticking to FACTS and SCIENCE, while avoiding politics! How refreshing!