Good morning, sports fans! And welcome to Super Bowl Sunday! Time to hunker down with beer and chips and pizza and nachos and your buddies and enjoy what the sponsors who didn't pay for naming rights call The Big Game.
But wait, what's this? Why, could it be... Yes, it's those twin towers of terror, Chinese Death Virus and Medical Spokesmen to take a dump on the fifty-yard line of your day!
Medscape's cheerful report, "Superspreader Sunday: The Super Bowl with COVID Variants Afoot," would like you to know a few things:
After almost every major holiday in 2020 — Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Years — the United States had an increase in COVID-19 cases.
This Sunday, Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida — a venue that normally seats 65,890 fans and can expand to 75,000 — will be filled to about one-third capacity. The National Football League has announced the sale of 14,500 tickets; in addition, approximately 7500 vaccinated healthcare workers will attend as guests....
"I'm not so much worried about the 22,000 fans in attendance, some of whom will be vaccinated healthcare workers," Cedric Dark, MD, from the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, told Medscape Medical News. "I'm more concerned about the indoor parties happening all over the country."
And away we go!
Well, a lot of people have been getting vaccinated, so that should help.
And just because some of the attendees at the Super Bowl are vaccinated, it doesn't mean they are not infected, he pointed out. "They can still pass the virus on to others."
The variants are of grave concern. "Even though we are beginning to vaccinate, the virus is continually mutating. And the more it mutates, the more it may become vaccine resistant," Salemi explained.
How about mask compliance? It's in the 90-100% range, I'm told.
So far, the American population has shown a lack of enthusiasm toward changing behavior to protect others from getting sick, and that won't likely change for game day. "I have been given the vaccine, but I still wear masks and social distance. I don't want to risk infecting other people."
People who are not normally careful about taking COVID-19 precautions likely won't be more cautious just because it's Super Bowl day. "And some others may be even more relaxed for this event," Salemi said.
Individual behaviors are the fuel that keep the pandemic burning. "If we want this to end sooner rather than later, we have to put in the work," said Dark. He added that he hopes any Super Bowl parties will include only the people in that household's bubble. And if not, "they should be outdoors and people should wear masks."
Sure, an outdoor party! It's going to be 28 degrees here at game time. So we'll put up a tent with some electric heaters, and -- whoops! Now outdoors is indoors!
And there you have it! You selfish jerks, with your "lack of enthusiasm toward changing behavior to protect others from getting sick," all suck. You can't do anything right, so you're going to eat nachos with your drunk-ass pals and kill Grandma.
Over and over we get the message pounded into us: Stay home, avoid others, isolate, everything you're doing is useless, and COVID is now coming up with more variants so THIS IS NEVER GOING TO END. Let's have a look at this one sentence again:
The variants are of grave concern. "Even though we are beginning to vaccinate, the virus is continually mutating. And the more it mutates, the more it may become vaccine resistant," Salemi explained.
If this is true, there's simply no way to beat the bug. We can never have 100% compliance, and 100% will be necessary. We cannot endure lockdowns forever, neither economically nor emotionally. The vaccine was our only hope, but no, sorry, going to be useless in the long run. What do they expect us to do, really?
I don't think these chattering health types quite come to understand that a lot of us would rather take our chances with the virus than with them. A virus, even an evil coronavirus initially manufactured by the evil Chinese Communists, is going to run out of steam eventually, but the do-gooders who hate us will never run out of power. Their self-regard is like a perpetual motion machine.
I do not want to catch COVID-19. I know it's no joke; I have two acquaintances in the ICU with it right now, a third isolating with it at home, and I've lost touch with a fourth who already has COPD. I'm not in a high-risk group, but even if it didn't kill me, it would be a massive inconvenience. If my wife and I get it, who's going to take care of the dogs? Yesterday the canine idiots ran out in the street on me. If I can't handle them on full strength, no way can I deal with them while fighting a horrible flu. Plus, I have deadlines on Monday and Tuesday and another project after that. If I don't work I don't get paid, and if I miss deadlines I'll lose clients.
All the same, I'd rather get sick and never hear from our public health ninnies again if it were possible. Just a reminder, these jerks who want to ruin the Super Bowl for you (if the NFL and its players haven't done that already) were the ones who had no problem at all with the riots and looting over the summer. Until some disciplinary action is taken against the thousand-plus morons who said they were A-OK with masses of asses tearing up our cities last year, I see no reason why we should take any of them seriously.
Enjoy the game. Be as careful as you feel you need to be. Tell these spokesdopes to go play with their rectal thermometers. As for me, the NFL and its players ruined football, so I'll be avoiding everything as much as I can.
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