Yeah. Way too many people are like "my state says I can go to the gym, therefore going to the gym is safe!" And there are a lot of red flags for me in the LW's letter. Skipped going to family thanksgiving? The general national advice was "please, please don't go to family thanksgiving." Gyms, regardless of state law, haven't been safe in any state in the union since September. And social gatherings, outdoors or otherwise? There are not safe otherwise social gatherings, either, and the LW's cavalier mention of the otherwise makes me think they are not taking the virus seriously. And the fact that LW's friends and family are planning these gatherings makes me confident that Partner doesn't (and shouldn't) trust their carefulness levels either.
All of which makes me annoyed that Prudie has skipped what to me is the elephant in the room: Partner works in medicine. Every risk LW takes can be passed on to patients. (Is partner a lab tech in a safe environment, or a nurse on a NICU? This makes a difference, obviously -- but still, if partner's been vaccinated it presumably means they have at least some exposure to and from patients.)
Here's another question: has Partner explained to LW that all of the vaccines allow people to transmit disease, as of current knowledge? Does LW think that vaccinated partner can't transmit disease to patients and colleagues?
Here's another question: has Partner's job meant Partner's seen Covid patients or the side effect: overwhelmed hospitals and doctors? Doctors who are dying of exhaustion or suicide? Patients dying from lack of beds? If so, Partner might have a reason to be way more careful than LW understands. Can LW and Partner talk about this?
I have to say, reading between the lines it reads like Partner's sense of a "lack of respect for his front-line health work" is because LW has lack of respect for his front-line health work. They've clearly had this conversation many times, and yet LW at no point in any way engages with the obvious arguments that Partner is almost certainly making.
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All of which makes me annoyed that Prudie has skipped what to me is the elephant in the room: Partner works in medicine. Every risk LW takes can be passed on to patients. (Is partner a lab tech in a safe environment, or a nurse on a NICU? This makes a difference, obviously -- but still, if partner's been vaccinated it presumably means they have at least some exposure to and from patients.)
Here's another question: has Partner explained to LW that all of the vaccines allow people to transmit disease, as of current knowledge? Does LW think that vaccinated partner can't transmit disease to patients and colleagues?
Here's another question: has Partner's job meant Partner's seen Covid patients or the side effect: overwhelmed hospitals and doctors? Doctors who are dying of exhaustion or suicide? Patients dying from lack of beds? If so, Partner might have a reason to be way more careful than LW understands. Can LW and Partner talk about this?
I have to say, reading between the lines it reads like Partner's sense of a "lack of respect for his front-line health work" is because LW has lack of respect for his front-line health work. They've clearly had this conversation many times, and yet LW at no point in any way engages with the obvious arguments that Partner is almost certainly making.