August 4, 20214 yr The unvaccinated. Covid patient goes from 'invincible' to hospital-bed vaccine advocate Suzanne Ciechalski Tue, August 3, 2021, 10:18 PM An unvaccinated Virginia man who’s been hospitalized with Covid-19 is using social media to urge others to go out and get the shot. Travis Campbell, 43, has been in the hospital for more than a week with complications from the virus, which also infected his wife and two of their children. Image: Travis Campbell has been making Facebook videos and posts asking people to get vaccinated against Covid-19 after testing positive and being hospitalized for the virus. (Travis Campbell) "We just thought we were invincible and we weren't going to get it,” said his wife, Kellie Campbell. "And we’ve just been so busy, and we just moved, and we prolonged getting the vaccine.” Kellie Campbell said her husband tested positive on July 22 and got progressively worse. Eventually, he was hospitalized. She worries that he will be placed on a ventilator to help his breathing. "I mean, he couldn't catch his breath ... had fever, just lethargic, he ached, just one thing after another,” she said. "He started in a regular room, and then he went to a Covid ICU room, and now he's in the pulmonary ICU.” Despite his condition, Travis Campbell is adamant about making videos to share on Facebook encouraging others to get vaccinated now, his wife said. "I’m testifying to all my bulletproof friends that's holding out, it's time to protect your family, it's not worth getting long term lung damage or death please go get the vaccine,” Travis Campbell wrote in a July 25 Facebook post. Kellie Campbell said her husband is "all about other people” and doesn’t want others to have to deal with what he's going through. "He just doesn't want anyone to have to endure the pain that he has, and if a vaccine will help them, that's what they need to do,” she said. In a video posted from his hospital bed Tuesday night, Travis Campbell asked followers to consider whether they’d rather plan their own funerals and goodbyes or get vaccinated. "I hope to God that all my friends and family would not say, ‘Somebody hand me a piece of paper and a pen.’ That’s a sobering thought, of which I have done,” he said. As her family and doctors take her husband’s condition day by day, Kellie Campbell said her advice to others is to go out and get vaccinated immediately. "If you have to take time off work, if you have to miss out on something, you need to go get the vaccine, because we didn't, and look where we are now,” she said. "I mean, that should be your top priority. Especially not just for you, but your family members.”
August 4, 20214 yr Going to the Bank with work Friday. We only have a few here not vaccinated. I'll be fine tailgating with them, and sitting together-but figure I'll have my mask for the restroom if needed. Daughter and I are scheduled for a concert in Syracuse in a couple weeks. Outdoor seats but still-youngish crowd.
August 4, 20214 yr 5 minutes ago, DiPros said: Going to the Bank with work Friday. nice! i wish my work had cool field trips like that. i'm jelly!
August 4, 20214 yr 15 minutes ago, jsdarkstar said: The unvaccinated. Covid patient goes from 'invincible' to hospital-bed vaccine advocate Suzanne Ciechalski Tue, August 3, 2021, 10:18 PM An unvaccinated Virginia man who’s been hospitalized with Covid-19 is using social media to urge others to go out and get the shot. Travis Campbell, 43, has been in the hospital for more than a week with complications from the virus, which also infected his wife and two of their children. Image: Travis Campbell has been making Facebook videos and posts asking people to get vaccinated against Covid-19 after testing positive and being hospitalized for the virus. (Travis Campbell) "We just thought we were invincible and we weren't going to get it,” said his wife, Kellie Campbell. "And we’ve just been so busy, and we just moved, and we prolonged getting the vaccine.” Kellie Campbell said her husband tested positive on July 22 and got progressively worse. Eventually, he was hospitalized. She worries that he will be placed on a ventilator to help his breathing. "I mean, he couldn't catch his breath ... had fever, just lethargic, he ached, just one thing after another,” she said. "He started in a regular room, and then he went to a Covid ICU room, and now he's in the pulmonary ICU.” Despite his condition, Travis Campbell is adamant about making videos to share on Facebook encouraging others to get vaccinated now, his wife said. "I’m testifying to all my bulletproof friends that's holding out, it's time to protect your family, it's not worth getting long term lung damage or death please go get the vaccine,” Travis Campbell wrote in a July 25 Facebook post. Kellie Campbell said her husband is "all about other people” and doesn’t want others to have to deal with what he's going through. "He just doesn't want anyone to have to endure the pain that he has, and if a vaccine will help them, that's what they need to do,” she said. In a video posted from his hospital bed Tuesday night, Travis Campbell asked followers to consider whether they’d rather plan their own funerals and goodbyes or get vaccinated. "I hope to God that all my friends and family would not say, ‘Somebody hand me a piece of paper and a pen.’ That’s a sobering thought, of which I have done,” he said. As her family and doctors take her husband’s condition day by day, Kellie Campbell said her advice to others is to go out and get vaccinated immediately. "If you have to take time off work, if you have to miss out on something, you need to go get the vaccine, because we didn't, and look where we are now,” she said. "I mean, that should be your top priority. Especially not just for you, but your family members.” Oh look, another double chin got seriously ill. Shocker.
August 4, 20214 yr Ordered tickets for a trip to Colorado in September. Bought flight insurance. I don't have a good feeling about where we will be, COVIDwise.
August 4, 20214 yr 14 minutes ago, Toastrel said: Ordered tickets for a trip to Colorado in September. Bought flight insurance. I don't have a good feeling about where we will be, COVIDwise. Yeah. I'm still sitting on unused airfare. I'm afraid to book it.
August 4, 20214 yr https://www.fox13news.com/news/half-of-florida-covid-19-hospitalizations-under-55-96-unvaccinated Half of Florida COVID-19 hospitalizations under 55; 96% unvaccinated
August 4, 20214 yr 10 minutes ago, Boogyman said: https://www.fox13news.com/news/half-of-florida-covid-19-hospitalizations-under-55-96-unvaccinated Half of Florida COVID-19 hospitalizations under 55; 96% unvaccinated Who cares? Old, fat boomers can all die. This is America. We care about no one but #1
August 4, 20214 yr 12 minutes ago, Toastrel said: Who cares? Old, fat boomers can all die. This is America. We care about no one but #1 Did you have trouble getting onto that high horse after posting this? 42 minutes ago, Toastrel said: Ordered tickets for a trip to Colorado in September. Bought flight insurance. I don't have a good feeling about where we will be, COVIDwise. So you're traveling across state lines knowing damn well that the vaccinated can contract and spread coronavirus? You're a selfish grandma-killer. Only concern about #1. Gross.
August 4, 20214 yr 8 hours ago, DrPhilly said: If vaccinated parents need to mask out in public indoor places to protect their kids then they sure as hell need to mask at home to afford the kids the same protection. Not really, read what I just said. I agree that the communication was sloppy, but that position is backed by science. This is about risk mitigation, not elimination.
August 4, 20214 yr Mask at home to protect unvaccinated children? Talk about impractical... Does that make it impractical for vaccinated parents to mask while out in public, to protect unvaccinated children at home? No it does not. 7 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said: Not really, read what I just said. I agree that the communication was sloppy, but that position is backed by science. This is about risk mitigation, not elimination. Oh, you want risk elimination? Then kill yourself now, because you can't catch COVID if you're dead. No more risk. Otherwise, it's about what we can do to limit risk to ourselves and others.
August 4, 20214 yr 6 minutes ago, Dave Moss said: ???? Virtue signaling (ignorance is their virtue) to impress the dumbest people in the history of mankind.
August 4, 20214 yr 33 minutes ago, EaglesRocker97 said: Not really, read what I just said. I agree that the communication was sloppy, but that position is backed by science. This is about risk mitigation, not elimination. This one is going to be a matter of degree and detail. What the science says based on up to date data is that vaccinated people are protected very very well from contracting COVID and if they do get it the chances are near zero that they will become ill enough to need hospitalization. It also says that kids are very very unlikely to get seriously sick though they may indeed get COVID. The people that actually need the protection are the unvaccinated adults. That's what the science says. Of course there are going to be some exceptions with some kids getting seriously ill and of course there are adults with high risk situations. The science also agrees with that. Even if you want to lean on the very rare cases where kids or vaccinated adults do indeed get severe complications we can still agree the Director sheeted the bed with his communication which was my point. It seems we agree on that detail.
August 4, 20214 yr 23 minutes ago, toolg said: Mask at home to protect unvaccinated children? Talk about impractical... Does that make it impractical for vaccinated parents to mask while out in public, to protect unvaccinated children at home? No it does not. Oh, you want risk elimination? Then kill yourself now, because you can't catch COVID if you're dead. No more risk. Otherwise, it's about what we can do to limit risk to ourselves and others. Just because a parent is masked in a restaurant doesn't mean they can't contract COVID while doing so. The parents MUST wear masks at ALL times, kids too. That won't fully eliminate the risks as you point out but it is the only way to ensure the highest level of protection for kids. Additionally, when practical, parents should not the leave the house at all unless absolutely necessary and if they must the proper and rationale procedure is for only one to leave and to only stay out long enough to complete the necessary tasks of getting food, etc.
August 4, 20214 yr 13 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: Just because a parent is masked in an restaurant doesn't mean they can't contract COVID while doing so. The parents MUST wear masks at ALL times, kids too. That won't fully eliminate the risks as you point out but it is the only way to ensure the highest level of protection for kids. When practical, parents should not the leave the house at all and if they must the proper and rationale procedure is for only one to leave and to only stay out long enough to complete the necessary tasks of getting food, etc. You've contradicted yourself in this post. Troll!
August 4, 20214 yr 2 minutes ago, toolg said: You've contradicted yourself in this post. Troll! I'm just taking your logic and extending it. The point is that there is always a risk with everything. According to the latest science the risk to vaccinated adults and to kids of contracting COVID with serious consequences is very very low. That is what the science says. Of course everyone is free to determine how low is low to them.
August 4, 20214 yr It's not practical now Doc. The kids are going back to school soon. They are going to do activities too. Nobody is going to stay home. I hope this variant peaks early fall and perhaps we can enjoy the holidays. Unless kids start getting really sick then nothing is going to change. jmho
August 4, 20214 yr 3 minutes ago, DiPros said: It's not practical now Doc. The kids are going back to school soon. They are going to do activities too. Nobody is going to stay home. I hope this variant peaks early fall and perhaps we can enjoy the holidays. Unless kids start getting really sick then nothing is going to change. jmho Yes, I know. My apologies for my poor attempt at satire. My opinion is that the time is now to push forward and hammer home the need to vaccinate. It is the unvaccinated that are both the problem and the ones at risk. Note: There are always some exceptions and there should be some help for those people built in as well, e.g. special store hours, etc.
August 4, 20214 yr 8 minutes ago, DrPhilly said: My opinion is that the time is now to push forward and hammer home the need to vaccinate. No chance, man. This is the United States, not Sweden.
August 4, 20214 yr I guess KZ is safe for now. Quote Walmart’s vaccine mandate may be a sign of things to come The vaccine mandate movement is growing. Federal workers will have to get vaccinated or get weekly COVID-19 tests. Similar mandates are happening in California and New York. There’s also a long list of universities, hospitals and, increasingly, private corporations that are making the move, most recently Walmart. But there’s a catch: The company is going to require vaccines for corporate employees but not retail workers. Most employers have been doing what they can to encourage workers to get vaccinated. Now, virus variants are helping make their case. "I think delta has really been a game-changer,” said Lauren Rivera, a professor of management at Northwestern University. The pressure is building as companies move toward return-to-office target dates, Rivera said. Walmart’s target is Labor Day, and its office workers must be vaccinated by early October. But the company isn’t requiring this for most of its employees — staff at stores and warehouses. "My best guess is that they are afraid of losing workers,” Rivera said. There’s a labor shortage in retail, and a mandate could feel intrusive to front-line workers, said Gretchen Chapman, who researches vaccination behavior at Carnegie Mellon University. Many of them have been on the job since last March. "It might be seen as insensitive to institute a requirement where the greatest burden of that requirement falls on the very people who have paid the biggest costs so far in the pandemic,” she said. "They can sort of signal like, ‘Hey, we really want to keep our workers and our customers safe and do our part nationally, and so we’re starting at the top,'” she said. As one of the country’s largest private employers, Walmart has influence, not just on its more than 1.5 million associates in the United States, but on the service industry at large. "I’m certain there are a lot of other retailers paying attention to what they’re doing and vice versa,” said Vince DiGirolamo of market research firm Mintel. For now he thinks companies will keep taking baby steps. Walmart recently doubled its vaccine incentive for store workers to $150.
August 4, 20214 yr Was reading an article at lunch, and then reading the comment section. Holy cow. This one was good: Lol. no it isnt. the numbers are low. hospitals are empty. I just went to the Hospital last week here in Houston and it was empty. i was the only one there with covid Here's the article. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-delta-variant-is-ripping-through-the-unvaccinated-and-crowding-hospitals-in-florida-texas/ar-AAMVic8?li=BBorjTa While I certainly get some media outlets can over do it, if you look to the direct quotes of the people that are running the health care system in their area, why would they lie? Is this guy just making this ish up? Quote: "We have peaked above any previous wave and it is straining our system, our physicians and all of our clinicians," said Neil Finkler, chief clinical officer of AdventHealth's Central Florida division. "None of these patients thought they would get the virus. But the delta variant has proven to be so highly contagious that even the young and the healthy, including pregnant patients, are starting to fill up our hospitals."
August 4, 20214 yr 23 minutes ago, Dave Moss said: No chance, man. This is the United States, not Sweden. There isn't much issue here. There is a very small set of deniers or anti-vaxxer types but they don't appear to amount to much. Sweden now at 63% with one dose and 42% fully vaccinated as of Aug 3rd vs. the US at 59% and 50%. US still ahead on the fully vaccinated but it is only a matter of time. We started months after you did.
August 4, 20214 yr 2 hours ago, Toastrel said: Ordered tickets for a trip to Colorado in September. Bought flight insurance. I don't have a good feeling about where we will be, COVIDwise. make sure you bring a winter jacket, boots, gloves and a snow shovel
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