On July 30, 2021, all Covid restrictions imposed by executive order for North Carolina ended.
Three days later on August 2nd, in response to the Delta variant causing a surge of coronavirus cases, Wake County and the City of Raleigh reinstated mask wearing requirements for government facilities and other public venues.
Here we go again.
I have reached the limits of my patience.
If we were required to wear properly fitted N95 respirators that actually protect against aerosol transmission, I could understand.
Instead, it is acceptable for people to wear of requiring people to wear masks that are ineffective (eg. bandanas, surgical masks, cloth masks). It is also common for people to wear them under their noses or even under their chins!
What are we doing here?
Does anyone in public health or government think that everyone in the public buys this theater?
I see that hospitalizations for Covid-19 are rising rapidly this month. North Carolina went from 500 the first week of July to more than 1300 the first week of August.
My understanding is that the only thing that works in minimizing infections, severe disease and hospitalizations is vaccines.
Yet nobody in the government is requiring vaccinations.
To enter 1st grade required an entire series of vaccines.
To register as a freshman for college, I had to get booster shots.
There was no debate. There were no exceptions.
Why?
Because vaccines work. Because these institutions were unwilling to have unvaccinated people potentially cause an outbreak on campus. Because some bureaucrat, somewhere, wrote a law in the distant past.
So give me a break with the local rules on indoor dining, social distancing, wearing a mask between bites of food, wearing ineffective masks and all of the other half measures imposed locally.
Either require vaccines or do nothing.
The charade of ineffective masking, temperature checks and screening questions has become too tedious.
Wearing a mask is not a political statement for me. I’ve complied with all of local requirements without protest. I don’t give the screeners and mask sentries any guff because they don’t make the silly rules, they just have to enforce them
It’s not difficult to wear a mask.
What’s difficult is doing something that is clearly ineffective for 18 months, seeing it finally come to an end and then see it startup 3 days later.
When I was in sales, I learned by observing more experienced sales reps and through trial and error.
When something worked, I did more it. When something didn’t work, I stopped doing it.
It was a very pragmatic approach.
-
- I didn’t pray for sales.
- I didn’t count on luck.
- I didn’t believe in superstitions.
Most sales occurred because we had a product (or service) that someone wanted, it was priced competitively and we were in the right place at the right time to offer it to the buyer.
Sometimes the buyer didn’t want what we sold, but needed what we sold. In those cases, they usually still purchased from us if all of the factors lined up.
My job was to be present and take the actions that moved the sale forward.
Vaccines are like this.
They work. Nobody loves getting a shot but none of us to get sick from Covid-19 or live through a never ending pandemic.
So let’s be pragmatic. Strip away the BS.
Either mandate vaccines or let the chips fall where they may,