Same for me.
My university is requiring students, faculty, and staff to be vaccinated prior to classes this fall. Testing and vaccinations available to enrolled students prior to the start of class. So far, the “proof” is an attestation, and there are the usual exemptions.
By testing, are they testing for signs of a previous vaccination? That is, looking for whatever antibody markers show up after vaccination? Or just testing to see if they are Covid negative?
No idea. I have worked remotely since March 2020 so I’m not following the details. I’ll look next time there’s a missive.
There’s at least one thread about this event:
Okay, testing is only for asymptomatic people at the moment. It’s a nasal or saliva RT-PCR.
“At this time we’re not aware of any cases connected to the Obama party,” Tisbury health agent and boards of health spokesperson Maura Valley told the Daily Mail. “It’s a little too early and the only way we’re going to know is through comprehensive contact tracing.”
At Fairway on East 86th Street in NYC on Saturday:
This grocery store has two levels, street level and below street level. Everything I wanted was on the lower level, accessible by a staircase or by an elevator.
No problem. I walked downstairs, got everything I needed and was heading upstairs to pay. I walked past the elevators. One was right there, empty and open. I got in. Why not?
A woman gets in, right behind me. She was (a) not wearing a mask and (b) has a dog with her (which is not permitted in NYC stores, except for service dogs, but the rule is almost never enforced).
I don’t say anything, but I get off the elevator.
She is not happy. She says “why won’t you ride on the elevator with me?” I say, quietly and politely, “no mask, and a dog, I’m not comfortable, no problem, I’ll walk.”
She goes batshit crazy, shouting all kinds of stuff at me. Whatever, the doors close, I walk up the stairs.
Unfortunately, I encounter her again on the line for checkout. She’s ranting and raving, and actually complaining to the manager.
Things she said:
Limousine liberal with his long hair
He hates animals*
Hypocrite
Go vote for Biden!
Etc.
She was a fit, healthy-looking woman, expensively turned out, expensive hair, a bit younger than me, maybe 50 or 55. Absolutely not someone you’d peg as a loon, or Covidiot, by looking at her.
Absolute psycho.
* I don’t. But admittedly I don’t love dogs in grocery stores. Once bitten, twice shy, and I don’t get into small enclosed spaces with dogs I don’t know, or whose owners I don’t know. Just my thing. And I consider that to be absolutely reasonable.
It’s certainly a mark of her insanity that she would give a second thought to anyone not wanting to share an elevator with her. I mean, how does this impact her in any way whatsoever?
I would guess that she knows she’s being an idiot, she knows she’s doing something wrong, and her guilt makes her poised to defend her FREEDUMS with great vigour. She was just looking for an excuse - any excuse to vent. If it wasn’t you, it would have been some other person giving her a sidewise glance.
What did she expect the manager to do? Refuse to let you buy anything? Ban you from the store? Give you a firm fingerwagging?
To firmly designate you as the abnormal one, and her as the right-thinking, normal one.
Well, what DID the manager do? Don’t keep us hanging!
In my ideal world, kicked her ass out of the store and banned her.
Who knows. I didn’t care. I paid for my stuff and left.
I really didn’t care. I don’t live in that neighborhood, and I don’t shop at that store often. I was in the neighborhood that afternoon, realized I had to pick up some stuff, and the store was there.
Also, I put this in the Covidiot thread, but it might have been the dog thing that set her off. You have no idea how insane New Yorkers can get about their dogs.
I knew Mike Rowe had gone (or perhaps had always been) right-leaning, but this is still disappointing that he’s a Covidiot. I know, he’s just a TV guy but still…Mike Rowe's Dirty Lies - The Bulwark
I’m so disappointed in Rowe. I hope he reads that article you linked and takes it to heart.
Mike Rowe fired back on Facebook.
TL;DR: the Bulwark author is a bit confused. He’s not anti-vaxx and anti-mask; he’s explaining why others are anti-vaxx and anti-mask.
PhDs have been notably slow in discarding their reluctance to get vaccinated, compared to the less educated.
“Hesitancy held constant in the most educated group (those with a Ph.D.); by May Ph.D.’s were the most hesitant group.”
Thanks. Perspective is everything.
Thank you for the clarification. I feel a bit better about him now. Is the Bulwark generally a trustworthy site?