Your continued fallacy is your belief that because I am not going to these gatherings, it means I am not affected by those who do.
Not sure if I posted here about my fun trip to the ER a few weeks back. It was a complete shit show. The "Waiting room" was now a bunch of spaced chairs outside the ER. For a while I thought this mostly was about COVID prevention. I later found out that this was because the actual inside waiting room area was now being used for 8 beds stacked next to each other. I was put in an overflow ER in a tent in the parking lot, which was actually pretty nice if a little cold - it was where they were putting patients who were non-critical and didn't need to be on full crash watch.
Eventually I did go inside for a few tests - they had a bed in the doctor's break room, in the hallway, etc... the COVID or COVID possible patients were in a separate area and using up most of the traditional ER rooms, that's why so many traditional patients were splayed into any random area they could find - I mean there was a guy on a bed that was basically squeezed into the area where the nurses do admitting work - he had had a heart attack and there wasn't even a ER room for him.
I did manage to get out without getting COVID after 8 hours - because these folks are pros. They isolated very well, masked everyone up. The reason heart attack guy was just in a hallway and not in a room, the rooms were saved for anyone who had to be intubated because they would have no mask for that process.
But yeah I was there for 8 hours and we never really figured out what was wrong. Primary guess was my knees and ankles just blew up from prednisone withdrawal after a very bad case of poison oak. In a normal situation that trip goes maybe 2 hours, do blood work, rule out a couple things, send me home with some serious anti-inflammatories and cross my fingers.
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