{"id":26615,"date":"2022-12-09T12:34:02","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T17:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=26615"},"modified":"2022-12-09T12:34:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T17:34:02","slug":"covid-isnt-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=26615","title":{"rendered":"Covid isn&#8217;t over&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;after going out to the grocery store wed and being almost the only person in a mask, I can&#8217;t believe that people are still not protecting themselves&#8230;.and the uptake rate of the latest vaccine booster is in the 25% range even in my age group and I can&#8217;t figure that out since the latest stats show that over 90% of the 500 deaths a day that are still occurring are people over 65&#8230;in an article I read today the hospitalization rate for children is the highest it&#8217;s ever been and the entire country is in the red of the highest cases there have ever been&#8230;so, what&#8217;s the deal? Are people just tired of the pandemic and think that if they ignore it the virus will go away? Whatever it is, I am not going to let my guard down with the possibility of long covid hanging over my head&#8230;so it looks like another year of isolation here as I do my best to not get this damn disease&#8230;.and I will be wearing a mask whenever I go out and I will continue to get boosted whenever new vaccines come out&#8230;covid is not over&#8230;and I will not delude myself that it is&#8230;maybe I shouldn&#8217;t complain&#8230;after all, the virus is killing more repubs than dems and if it keeps up thye may never win another election&#8230;sick, I know&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;after going out to the grocery store wed and being almost the only person in a mask, I can&#8217;t believe that people are still not protecting themselves&#8230;.and the uptake rate of the latest vaccine booster is in the 25% range even in my age group and I can&#8217;t figure that out since the latest stats &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=26615\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Covid isn&#8217;t over&#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2717],"class_list":["post-26615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-covid-19"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26616,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26615\/revisions\/26616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}