WEBVTT - Tamika's Thought of the Day: Vaccines 0:00:02.560 --> 0:00:07.960 My thought of the day because you know Poblin. So 0:00:08.039 --> 0:00:10.760 you know, the last few weeks, UM, there's big debate. 0:00:10.800 --> 0:00:14.920 There's even protests happening because Mayor Deblasio, the mayor of 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:18.600 New York City, our city that we live in, UM, 0:00:18.680 --> 0:00:24.759 has said that beginning August thirteen, the rules have now 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:30.440 changed to UM. If you go to a restaurant and you, uh, 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:33.120 First of all, they don't care about masks. They're saying, 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:36.600 you have to prove somehow that you're vaccinated. I haven't 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:38.879 even really looked into how you're supposed to prove it, 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:42.160 but you have to prove that you're vaccinated in order 0:00:42.159 --> 0:00:45.919 to be able to do in restaurant dining, in room dining, 0:00:46.240 --> 0:00:49.760 and some other things in this city. UM. And you know, 0:00:50.200 --> 0:00:53.760 September a month or so later, it's going to be 0:00:53.880 --> 0:00:56.560 mandatory to the point that the health Department will be 0:00:56.600 --> 0:01:00.120 out checking the restaurants and I guess walking up to 0:01:00.200 --> 0:01:03.279 your table saying let me see your paperwork or let 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:07.200 me see I don't know what, but they're trying to 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:09.759 prevent COVID. But I don't think I'm spreading. You can't 0:01:09.760 --> 0:01:14.559 prevent They've already, like I just this one these things 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:17.000 just don't make sense. Well, you can't. You can reduce it, 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:20.920 reduce it, you can reduce it, but I don't think 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:25.320 just what. Well, first of all, mask definitely have reduced 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:28.800 the spread of absolutely, because we know it from our 0:01:28.840 --> 0:01:32.440 own homes. We know if I'm from our own homes. Absolutely, 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:38.200 I know from my own life and from others around 0:01:38.200 --> 0:01:42.240 me that people, even people who are caring for a 0:01:42.280 --> 0:01:46.319 person who has COVID, right, even folks in the medical field, 0:01:46.520 --> 0:01:49.559 they wear their masks and these and by the way, 0:01:49.880 --> 0:01:53.640 mask are not a new phenomenon. The way that we 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:57.720 are wearing masks now is probably not healthy. I agree, 0:01:57.760 --> 0:02:01.280 it's not healthy for you, but man as they're not new. 0:02:02.160 --> 0:02:06.280 Medical professionals have been using masks to prevent the spread 0:02:06.400 --> 0:02:11.119 of viruses and other things forever, and so we know 0:02:11.600 --> 0:02:15.840 that when people first, when doctors and nurses were coming 0:02:15.880 --> 0:02:20.040 into contact with COVID patients before they figured it out, 0:02:20.240 --> 0:02:23.440 they were getting sick like crazy because they didn't know. 0:02:23.880 --> 0:02:26.440 And then when they realize, oh shoot, I have to 0:02:26.480 --> 0:02:29.680 wear my mask, and I might need the what's the 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:33.000 you know, the blue one, and then something else to 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:37.160 cover it and not just the fancy ones. Then you 0:02:37.200 --> 0:02:41.120 started to see a reduction in the amount of healthcare 0:02:41.200 --> 0:02:45.040 professionals who again, your doctors doing your I don't know, 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:48.320 maybe I'm just making up something. The doctor may have 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:51.280 come in on a g Y N appointment and usually 0:02:51.360 --> 0:02:54.200 they don't wear their mask until they actually start to 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:56.280 examine you. But they don't come in the room and 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:58.040 they talk to you. They want to sit down, have 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:00.680 a good conversation, how you doing this, and that it's 0:03:00.720 --> 0:03:03.799 good to see you out of that baby. Shake your hand, 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:06.480 because that was the thing doctors used to shake your 0:03:06.480 --> 0:03:09.079 hand and then the next thing, you know, you touch 0:03:09.160 --> 0:03:11.239 your face, you rub your eye, and that's how you're 0:03:11.240 --> 0:03:16.079 spreading things. But once we knew about social distancing, wash 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:19.680 your hands were your mask. It began to reduce the 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:22.280 amount of people in the health care profession and in 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:26.359 other places that we're getting COVID. Now, does that mean 0:03:26.400 --> 0:03:30.480 that it's gonna totally stop it? Absolutely not. But I 0:03:30.600 --> 0:03:34.920 know that your chances of transmitting COVID to another person 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:38.360 or any virus, when you have washed your hands and 0:03:38.440 --> 0:03:41.640 you have something that's protecting you and that person. It's 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:44.360 just common sense that the dot the virus is not 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:47.280 gonna jump through the mass. That's just not realistic. Well, 0:03:47.360 --> 0:03:49.960 I'm not saying they jumped through the mask. That's most 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:54.360 of these masks don't prevent everything from going through anyway. 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:56.480 So if you're talking to the mask and and it's 0:03:56.520 --> 0:04:00.920 coming off the side anyway. Yeah, but that's why even 0:04:00.960 --> 0:04:02.480 if you if you look at the average person with 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.040 the mask when you talk, there's places that the air 0:04:05.080 --> 0:04:06.960 can go through. That that's why you can steal within 0:04:06.960 --> 0:04:09.280 a mask. You don't go out a d but do 0:04:09.320 --> 0:04:12.480 you still have air pockets within the mask. It doesn't 0:04:12.520 --> 0:04:15.640 realize that you can catch I didn't say it completely. 0:04:15.840 --> 0:04:20.000 I never I never used the word completely. I said reduces. 0:04:20.360 --> 0:04:23.039 So that's like you can catch something when you have 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:27.200 on a condom, but the chances of it being transmitted 0:04:27.400 --> 0:04:29.840 is less. So if it was a hundred percent or 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:33.280 without the condom, you put the condom on, you might 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:36.520 be down to or even less than that. So I'm 0:04:36.560 --> 0:04:40.479 saying that it is there is a reduction based upon mask. 0:04:40.760 --> 0:04:43.960 But I'm saying in this situation, they're not even asking 0:04:44.000 --> 0:04:46.960 people to wear masks, right, They're saying you have to 0:04:47.000 --> 0:04:50.080 be vaccinated. But the problem is that we know you 0:04:50.120 --> 0:04:53.880 can still catch COVID if you're vaccinated. So I am 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:59.920 so very confused as to what we're doing, and sometimes 0:04:59.920 --> 0:05:02.800 of stitutional or civil rights or some ship is being 0:05:02.880 --> 0:05:05.880 violated by telling folks they can't go sit in a restaurant. 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:09.960 I'm trying to understand why we've gotten so comfortable asking 0:05:10.000 --> 0:05:12.760 people about their little hipper stuff, right, because there was 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:16.680 supposed to be hippa laws that prevent you from being 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:19.920 able to ask another person. It's like asking me, are 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:23.440 you on birth control? Like, I don't know. I don't 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.080 know if I have to answer that question, especially if 0:05:26.360 --> 0:05:30.040 you and I are not engaged in something that like 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.159 you know what I'm saying, like, And I think that's 0:05:33.160 --> 0:05:36.160 why it's not the mandates. I think these are threats, right, 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:38.320 and they keep saying them, and I don't think they 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:42.719 constitutionally can stand up. It's like, you know, concerts have 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:44.720 been said, oh you have you have to have this, 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:46.159 and you have to have that, and a lot of 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:48.720 people I know ain't going in showing no nothing. They're 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:51.040 having their tickets, they're asking you a question, or they're 0:05:51.040 --> 0:05:53.920 telling they're putting up broadly that you need to have 0:05:54.279 --> 0:05:56.520 these things so that you think, well, I gotta let 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:58.520 me go get it. And and and that's a it's 0:05:58.520 --> 0:06:01.080 a it's a trick. It's really like a trick because 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:03.279 they're not really I can't see you walking to the 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:05.440 restaurant they asking you for a vaccine, but they're going 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:08.520 to because they haven't seen I haven't seen yet with 0:06:08.680 --> 0:06:10.920 that's happening, well not yet, because I mean New York 0:06:11.000 --> 0:06:14.120 is gonna be the first city that has ever happened then. 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:17.800 But at the same time, my thing is, I am 0:06:17.880 --> 0:06:23.400 so torn because on one side, I completely understand that 0:06:23.480 --> 0:06:29.359 you have workers, You've got healthcare providers, you essential workers, 0:06:29.400 --> 0:06:32.919 as they say, You've got people out here who can't 0:06:32.960 --> 0:06:37.080 afford to get sick, or like me, if you feel 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:39.960 that you can't afford to get sick, then you need 0:06:40.000 --> 0:06:43.360 to take the vaccine. You can't. You can't tell somebody 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:45.680 else who don't feel like they can't afford. If I 0:06:45.680 --> 0:06:48.719 feel like my immune system is way stronger than everybody else, 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:51.720 I probably get sick once every five years with a 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:54.279 cold for two days, and you're gonna tell me that 0:06:54.320 --> 0:06:58.760 I'm just saying. I'm just saying, Okay, you probably seen. 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:00.880 But for the most part, I don't really get sick 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:04.160 like and if I do get sick, immediately my immune 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:07.560 system fight at all. So you're telling me that because 0:07:07.640 --> 0:07:12.080 you feel like you're susceptible, that I need to take 0:07:12.080 --> 0:07:14.440 a vaccine. No, you need to take the vaccine. Well, 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:16.960 but but, but, and and and every time we have 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:20.760 this conversation, we always go back to and I'm charging 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:26.280 our entire team with us finding professionals that can talk 0:07:26.360 --> 0:07:32.520 with us about this topic. Because now we here's the issue. 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:37.920 You haven't experienced the mutation of viruses. You also have 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:42.640 not experience having diabetes and also having a virus. So 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:45.920 you want to assume that someone who has studied it 0:07:45.960 --> 0:07:49.840 to the perspective, to the extent that they got diabetes 0:07:49.920 --> 0:07:53.000 person at the table. They have a mycen person who's 0:07:53.000 --> 0:07:56.560 pretty healthy. At the table. They have another person who 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:58.600 you know, it might not be you know, may not 0:07:58.720 --> 0:08:02.200 be diabetes and all of that, but they obese or 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:05.240 they have different issues. And those people are coming together 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:08.560 and working with this professional who has studied viruses. I 0:08:08.600 --> 0:08:11.760 want to assume that that person has a little bit 0:08:11.800 --> 0:08:14.960 of a step above in terms of knowledge. Then we 0:08:15.080 --> 0:08:18.680 then we then we do so all suggest in the 0:08:18.720 --> 0:08:21.440 medical field, you have so many different people that have 0:08:21.600 --> 0:08:26.720 different I understand that, but that, but that my studies 0:08:26.760 --> 0:08:29.080 tell me this, and other person will my studies say this, 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:33.480 But that's my point. My point is. My point is 0:08:33.600 --> 0:08:37.240 that when we as people who haven't studied it, we 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:41.280 don't have certain health concerns, we don't have everybody sitting 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:45.400 at the table. I think that what is responsible is 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:48.959 to have somebody there who may be able to provide 0:08:49.040 --> 0:08:53.640 perspectives that can help deal with a wide array of individuals.