Speaker 1: My thought of the day because you know Poblin. So
Speaker 1: you know, the last few weeks, UM, there's big debate.
Speaker 1: There's even protests happening because Mayor Deblasio, the mayor of
Speaker 1: New York City, our city that we live in, UM,
Speaker 1: has said that beginning August thirteen, the rules have now
Speaker 1: changed to UM. If you go to a restaurant and you, uh,
Speaker 1: First of all, they don't care about masks. They're saying,
Speaker 1: you have to prove somehow that you're vaccinated. I haven't
Speaker 1: even really looked into how you're supposed to prove it,
Speaker 1: but you have to prove that you're vaccinated in order
Speaker 1: to be able to do in restaurant dining, in room dining,
Speaker 1: and some other things in this city. UM. And you know,
Speaker 1: September a month or so later, it's going to be
Speaker 1: mandatory to the point that the health Department will be
Speaker 1: out checking the restaurants and I guess walking up to
Speaker 1: your table saying let me see your paperwork or let
Speaker 1: me see I don't know what, but they're trying to
Speaker 1: prevent COVID. But I don't think I'm spreading. You can't
Speaker 1: prevent They've already, like I just this one these things
Speaker 1: just don't make sense. Well, you can't. You can reduce it,
Speaker 1: reduce it, you can reduce it, but I don't think
Speaker 1: just what. Well, first of all, mask definitely have reduced
Speaker 1: the spread of absolutely, because we know it from our
Speaker 1: own homes. We know if I'm from our own homes. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I know from my own life and from others around
Speaker 1: me that people, even people who are caring for a
Speaker 1: person who has COVID, right, even folks in the medical field,
Speaker 1: they wear their masks and these and by the way,
Speaker 1: mask are not a new phenomenon. The way that we
Speaker 1: are wearing masks now is probably not healthy. I agree,
Speaker 1: it's not healthy for you, but man as they're not new.
Speaker 1: Medical professionals have been using masks to prevent the spread
Speaker 1: of viruses and other things forever, and so we know
Speaker 1: that when people first, when doctors and nurses were coming
Speaker 1: into contact with COVID patients before they figured it out,
Speaker 1: they were getting sick like crazy because they didn't know.
Speaker 1: And then when they realize, oh shoot, I have to
Speaker 1: wear my mask, and I might need the what's the
Speaker 1: you know, the blue one, and then something else to
Speaker 1: cover it and not just the fancy ones. Then you
Speaker 1: started to see a reduction in the amount of healthcare
Speaker 1: professionals who again, your doctors doing your I don't know,
Speaker 1: maybe I'm just making up something. The doctor may have
Speaker 1: come in on a g Y N appointment and usually
Speaker 1: they don't wear their mask until they actually start to
Speaker 1: examine you. But they don't come in the room and
Speaker 1: they talk to you. They want to sit down, have
Speaker 1: a good conversation, how you doing this, and that it's
Speaker 1: good to see you out of that baby. Shake your hand,
Speaker 1: because that was the thing doctors used to shake your
Speaker 1: hand and then the next thing, you know, you touch
Speaker 1: your face, you rub your eye, and that's how you're
Speaker 1: spreading things. But once we knew about social distancing, wash
Speaker 1: your hands were your mask. It began to reduce the
Speaker 1: amount of people in the health care profession and in
Speaker 1: other places that we're getting COVID. Now, does that mean
Speaker 1: that it's gonna totally stop it? Absolutely not. But I
Speaker 1: know that your chances of transmitting COVID to another person
Speaker 1: or any virus, when you have washed your hands and
Speaker 1: you have something that's protecting you and that person. It's
Speaker 1: just common sense that the dot the virus is not
Speaker 1: gonna jump through the mass. That's just not realistic. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm not saying they jumped through the mask. That's most
Speaker 1: of these masks don't prevent everything from going through anyway.
Speaker 1: So if you're talking to the mask and and it's
Speaker 1: coming off the side anyway. Yeah, but that's why even
Speaker 1: if you if you look at the average person with
Speaker 1: the mask when you talk, there's places that the air
Speaker 1: can go through. That that's why you can steal within
Speaker 1: a mask. You don't go out a d but do
Speaker 1: you still have air pockets within the mask. It doesn't
Speaker 1: realize that you can catch I didn't say it completely.
Speaker 1: I never I never used the word completely. I said reduces.
Speaker 1: So that's like you can catch something when you have
Speaker 1: on a condom, but the chances of it being transmitted
Speaker 1: is less. So if it was a hundred percent or
Speaker 1: without the condom, you put the condom on, you might
Speaker 1: be down to or even less than that. So I'm
Speaker 1: saying that it is there is a reduction based upon mask.
Speaker 1: But I'm saying in this situation, they're not even asking
Speaker 1: people to wear masks, right, They're saying you have to
Speaker 1: be vaccinated. But the problem is that we know you
Speaker 1: can still catch COVID if you're vaccinated. So I am
Speaker 1: so very confused as to what we're doing, and sometimes
Speaker 1: of stitutional or civil rights or some ship is being
Speaker 1: violated by telling folks they can't go sit in a restaurant.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to understand why we've gotten so comfortable asking
Speaker 1: people about their little hipper stuff, right, because there was
Speaker 1: supposed to be hippa laws that prevent you from being
Speaker 1: able to ask another person. It's like asking me, are
Speaker 1: you on birth control? Like, I don't know. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I have to answer that question, especially if
Speaker 1: you and I are not engaged in something that like
Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying, like, And I think that's
Speaker 1: why it's not the mandates. I think these are threats, right,
Speaker 1: and they keep saying them, and I don't think they
Speaker 1: constitutionally can stand up. It's like, you know, concerts have
Speaker 1: been said, oh you have you have to have this,
Speaker 1: and you have to have that, and a lot of
Speaker 1: people I know ain't going in showing no nothing. They're
Speaker 1: having their tickets, they're asking you a question, or they're
Speaker 1: telling they're putting up broadly that you need to have
Speaker 1: these things so that you think, well, I gotta let
Speaker 1: me go get it. And and and that's a it's
Speaker 1: a it's a trick. It's really like a trick because
Speaker 1: they're not really I can't see you walking to the
Speaker 1: restaurant they asking you for a vaccine, but they're going
Speaker 1: to because they haven't seen I haven't seen yet with
Speaker 1: that's happening, well not yet, because I mean New York
Speaker 1: is gonna be the first city that has ever happened then.
Speaker 1: But at the same time, my thing is, I am
Speaker 1: so torn because on one side, I completely understand that
Speaker 1: you have workers, You've got healthcare providers, you essential workers,
Speaker 1: as they say, You've got people out here who can't
Speaker 1: afford to get sick, or like me, if you feel
Speaker 1: that you can't afford to get sick, then you need
Speaker 1: to take the vaccine. You can't. You can't tell somebody
Speaker 1: else who don't feel like they can't afford. If I
Speaker 1: feel like my immune system is way stronger than everybody else,
Speaker 1: I probably get sick once every five years with a
Speaker 1: cold for two days, and you're gonna tell me that
Speaker 1: I'm just saying. I'm just saying, Okay, you probably seen.
Speaker 1: But for the most part, I don't really get sick
Speaker 1: like and if I do get sick, immediately my immune
Speaker 1: system fight at all. So you're telling me that because
Speaker 1: you feel like you're susceptible, that I need to take
Speaker 1: a vaccine. No, you need to take the vaccine. Well,
Speaker 1: but but, but, and and and every time we have
Speaker 1: this conversation, we always go back to and I'm charging
Speaker 1: our entire team with us finding professionals that can talk
Speaker 1: with us about this topic. Because now we here's the issue.
Speaker 1: You haven't experienced the mutation of viruses. You also have
Speaker 1: not experience having diabetes and also having a virus. So
Speaker 1: you want to assume that someone who has studied it
Speaker 1: to the perspective, to the extent that they got diabetes
Speaker 1: person at the table. They have a mycen person who's
Speaker 1: pretty healthy. At the table. They have another person who
Speaker 1: you know, it might not be you know, may not
Speaker 1: be diabetes and all of that, but they obese or
Speaker 1: they have different issues. And those people are coming together
Speaker 1: and working with this professional who has studied viruses. I
Speaker 1: want to assume that that person has a little bit
Speaker 1: of a step above in terms of knowledge. Then we
Speaker 1: then we then we do so all suggest in the
Speaker 1: medical field, you have so many different people that have
Speaker 1: different I understand that, but that, but that my studies
Speaker 1: tell me this, and other person will my studies say this,
Speaker 1: But that's my point. My point is. My point is
Speaker 1: that when we as people who haven't studied it, we
Speaker 1: don't have certain health concerns, we don't have everybody sitting
Speaker 1: at the table. I think that what is responsible is
Speaker 1: to have somebody there who may be able to provide
Speaker 1: perspectives that can help deal with a wide array of individuals.