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Whats Covid? Why People at Americas Hardest-Partying Lake Are Not About to Get VaccinatedAt the Lake of the Ozarks, vaccines are shunned, masks are mocked and the long-term consequences take a back seat to the time at hand.
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In a county designated a Covid hot spot, in a state with one of the lowest vaccination rates in the nation, and in a region where hospitals are nearing capacity as the Delta variant takes hold, Erin, a bartender at Backwater Jacks, couldnt be in a more vulnerable position. She interacts closely with hundreds of maskless customerssometimes on a single day. She knows most of them are probably not vaccinated. And she doesnt care. She isnt either.
Im living, breathing proofIve not been sick once. Ive been as hands-on as you can be with people from everywhere, Erin said, as a motorboat thundered to the dock and another group of customers climbed out. Like others who spoke for this article, she asked to go only by her first name. She said shed heard a rumorcommon among vaccine skeptics but also plainly falsethat more people are dying from getting the vaccine this week.
Personally, Erin added, I feel like my immune system is doing a good job, so why pump it full of something that we dont really know what it is?
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Among the few who admitted to getting vaccinated, some described being shamed by friends or family.
One woman, Brittany Hanlon, who wears a mask while battling cancer, said she was heckled for doing so while walking through a Wal-Mart. Take off your mask! two women shouted at her as she tried shopping. The women told her, that the mask was making them uncomfortable, Hanlon recalled, which I dont understand. Its not like I was doing anything mean or inappropriate, I just had a plain black mask on. An employee at the Ha Ha Tonka State Park Visitors Center, in the Lake of the Ozarks area, Hanlon says she wears a mask while interacting with roughly 600-700 people a week there. She is typically greeted with sneers and requests that she remove it.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2021/07/27/ozarks-lake-covid-unvaccinated-500784
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Talk of the vaccine draws scoffs, laughs and even cussing among the clientele. Mask-wearing, which is recommended for those not vaccinated, was virtually non-existentand, in conversations with a flow of customers over two days, its clear that many are not vaccinated.
Wingus Dingus
(8,059 posts)If Covid took them all out, our nation's collective IQ would go up by a bunch. I'm not rooting for that. I swear.
dalton99a
(81,656 posts)Fuck them. Let them die.
SMC22307
(8,090 posts)Not proud of it, but it is what it is.
Mariana
(14,861 posts)never stop them from going to the hospital when they discover they can't breathe.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)engraved on their tombstone.
StClone
(11,690 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,722 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Celerity
(43,632 posts)roamer65
(36,747 posts)I love going for a swim.
-Delta.
Lulu Latech
(29,098 posts)Just Sayin......
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Thtwudbeme
(7,737 posts)I was miserable; it was awful talking to these people.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Hekate
(90,913 posts)SMH
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)The fact that so many of them can take NO precautions and remain unvaccinated and virus free is kind of disturbing. It lends credibility to their argument that their "healthy immune system" can fight this thing off.
Even though most of them aren't healthy by a long shot and are staying virus free through some kind of miracle. Either that, or their bodies are so polluted that no virus could possibly survive in them. I really wish they would start dropping like flies and this whole thing would start falling in place.
I don't know why some healthy people get it and die, and then some really unhealthy people don't get it, or get it and live, but there just doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it. It just isn't making sense.
Hugin
(33,222 posts)That we'll start hearing about in a month or so.
Way more virulent and leathal. Ironically, a virus with the same attitude about masks and vaccines as these derps. A real chip off of the old blockhead that will be.
I guess they feel left out. The authorities BETTER name this one OZARK, because, there's no doubt where it will originate.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I really just want all these losers to just disappear.
LisaL
(44,974 posts)Area is a hot spot for covid.
https://www.ky3.com/2021/07/09/lake-ozarks-area-considered-new-hot-spot-covid-19-cases/
Ace Rothstein
(3,195 posts)A significant number of people will never have symptoms. Not everyone who gets COVID dies from it, as much as DU says otherwise.
Strelnikov_
(7,772 posts)Didn't know 'DU' had an official position.
Thanks.
hatrack
(59,594 posts).
Enter stage left
(3,400 posts)Until now!
Sorry misery, you'll never see another dollar from me. We typically spend from $500- $1200 for a 6-7 day stay.
Fuck you fools.
Skittles
(153,243 posts)I don't get it.
Hugin
(33,222 posts)What do I know? I prefer a clean bowl.
leftyladyfrommo
(18,874 posts)Dollar City. They are huge tourist traps.
Lots of people here have cabins at Lake of the Ozarks.
It's turning into a death trap.
North Shore Chicago
(3,339 posts)who feels the need to get in a huge bathtub with 500 others.
I drive through affluent Chicago suburbs and see more than one public pool that are assholes to elbows. All on the sidelines, few masks (if any)
I shake my head and say to myself, "Self? is this the end?"
tanyev
(42,642 posts)Roisin Ni Fiachra
(2,574 posts)They don't get vaccinated, and they joyfully spread the virus among themselves, exponentially.
Liberal In Texas
(13,597 posts)vaccinated might not be able to cope with when it gets widespread.
Johnny2X2X
(19,213 posts)There are places overseas where Covid is spreading among billions of people, the new mutations will likely come from places like Indonesia, India, or Bangladesh. Not a lot we can do to stop that.
Sure, there's a small chance the next dominant variant comes from some place like Lake of the Ozarks, but it's more likely all those people are doing is killing themselves and their loved ones.
Liberal In Texas
(13,597 posts)kick our vaccinated asses will arise.
Just because other countries are having trouble vaccinating their populations doesn't mean we shouldn't worry about what's happening here in the US.
Chainfire
(17,671 posts)Tommy Carcetti
(43,220 posts)greenjar_01
(6,477 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,755 posts)Never heard of Russian Roulette, I guess. Sooner or later, the loaded chamber comes around.
Treefrog
(4,170 posts)Strange.
joetheman
(1,450 posts)LiberatedUSA
(1,666 posts)That is meth country right there.