I see very few people without masks on a daily basis. I know it's not as black and white where either you wear a mask or your don't (wearing it properly and all the time is key), but as much as I've seen idiots try to make wearing a mask a political thing, I don't actually see them in person at the grocery store, the malls, at a clinic, etc. So they do exist but they have to be in a certain area of the country or of a state. i imagine it's the uneducated southern states and the rural population. I imagine that, but the videos I see on the internet are taking place in California, namely in LA County. Or New York. Or Pennsylvania. lol Florida. Texas. Dumbasses live everywhere but the most popular instances of freakouts over masks have all been from the more populous states.
My friend is an intern at a hospital in North Dakota. He said it had been rather tame there in regards to COVID and they only saw a few patients here and there. The hospital still followed protocol and they were good. Until he got real sick last week and was sent home. The week prior to that, the incidents started increasing sharply and while my friend was at home resting, it really blew up. He got his results back and he was negative but there can always be a false positive.
Sucks about your coworker. I don't know anyone affected quite like that, where it takes a partner, then affects them, and likely affects their career as well as the rest of their life. But I do know that the long term effects of infection aren't known 100% as yet. But there is a 27 year old MLB player who may have permanent heart disease because of damage to his heart muscle. Likely a result of COVID, which he tested positive for a few months back and "recovered" from. He has withdrawn from participating in this season and it's possible his career is over, too. If true, his life is likely permanently changed as well. Lots of viral and bacterial infections can permanently affect the heart and lungs, so it's not unprecedented. But there's this lag period of treating/curing/preventing this virus that we're in right now where we don't have the vaccine for it nor do we know how quickly one must receive a vaccine after infection in order to prevent long-term damage. In addition to heart and lung damage, one other concern is fertility, especially in males because the receptors that COVID can bind to are also found in our nuts. It can colonize and lay dormant in your scrote and either damage them or reactivate at a later date.
Ain't that a bitch?
