Did you pass the test or not?

@SW-User I hear you. I use a computer but don't know anything about them. I TRUST that the professionals do.
And with the speed I can understand some concern. But the speed was a result of many years of testing and developing mRNA technology which was an enormous breakthrough. The world dodged a huge bullet due to that work in advance. They were ready to go when the bell rang. Countless deaths were avoided. It's why I'm thankful for really smart, dedicated people.

@Ynotisay Thanks. I knew nothing of the background you speak of re mRNA technology. I'll have to look it up.

But, yes, no doubt that a lot of good work is always being done by a lot of dedicated people.

@Ynotisay To that crowd, "do your own research" means "watch 10 hours of videos by some crank on YouTube that I'm embarrassed to link for you."

@WillaKissing Don't blame folks for not drinking your Cool Aid. Enjoy your governmental poison, fool.

Blame Obama for ordering Fauci to develop covid under his first term and them, then ordering Fauci to give the research to China to further with a 2.5 million grant.

@HootyTheNightOwl well, that rhetoric turned out to be over inflated, didn't it?

@Activitykittens On the basis of someone dying from something other than Covid19???

I'd say that it went much better than you killing her because you were too paranoid about chips in the vaccine to join the queue with those of us who cared about more than just ourselves during the pandemic and went out working through the worst of it, given the fact that there would have been no hospital staff or ambulance drivers had we all just refused to get the vaccine "because I don't want no chips in me".

@HootyTheNightOwl they literally let COVID infected nurses come in to work, while keeping those that hadn't had the vaccine at home despite whether or not they had natural immunity

But I get you're emotionally triggered by the issue, so I'll leave it there

@Activitykittens I think that depends very much on where in the world you were. The UK had it especially bad with lockdowns, lost school time, etc. While here in Norway we had no lockdowns and schools simply arranged for class sizes to be halved, and hence allow for greater distance between students in the class room, by having children work at home every second day.

The excess death rate during the pandemic in Norway was negative yet we never had a lockdown just bans on large gatherings and restriction on the number of people you could invite into your home at one time. I continued to visit cafés and shops throughout the time but hair dressers, nail bars, physiotherapists, and similar hands on jobs had to shut down for a couple of months.

@ninalanyon sounds like heaven 😭

@Activitykittens A lockdown can't happen in Norway because freedom of movement is a constitutional right and the last time it was infringed was during the war when Norway was occupied. A couple of MPs did suggest an amendment but they didn't get any support.

But Norway is a high trust society, we trust the government to have our best interests at heart and leave epidemiological decisions to those trained in the subject (mostly) and the government trusts us to behave well (also mostly). In the UK where solidarity is a dirty word and no one trusted Boris and his cronies as far as they could be thrown it was all very different.