Who robbed me? I paid nothing for the vaccine. I know that if I had not gotten the vax I would be dead by now. The vax is the blessing we need to get out of this mess but some people just don't know a blessing when they are handed one on a silver platter.

@MyTVC15 ok, have a nice day

We have a severe shortage of school bus drivers right now. Many died before the vax came out, other quit., In our district a major road was washed out in a flood so the bus driving thing is even more complicated. Some kids don't get home until pretty late. Oh, yeah and I'm talking primary school where all the kids are 12 and under and cannot be vaxed yet. And oh, yeah, we have an active covid cluster. But we are still there everyday.

@MyTVC15 Sounds like hell. So glad I got out before Covid.

@TomMcGiverin at least my district has a mask mandate, some schools don't and I'm talking New Hampshire, not Florida.

@MyTVC15 The ones in Iowa don't, at least for now, thanks to our Repub guv, Covid Kim Reynolds. Most of the local school boards want to have mask mandates, but she issued a statewide order prohibiting that. So much for the old Repub policy of supporting local control, as it only applies, for them, when it suits their purpose and policy. That bitch is always saying, "I trust Iowans to do the right thing", but she won't honor that when it comes to school boards choosing to do the right thing, instead she says it must be up to the personal choice of parents, instead of allowing school boards to choose to order masks and protect all of the kids in their district. What a lying, hypocritical bitch! And the pity is that her latest poll numbers show she has approval ratings over 50% and will easily get relected in a year. Iowans are mostly stupid and this state has become North Mississippi.

@TomMcGiverin The Department of Health in NH is not contact tracing school clusters. That in one thing that bothers me.

@MyTVC15 Iowa gave up contact tracing long ago, thanks to Reynolds. She has the same attitude as Trump, put business and profits ahead of lives and public health, and just let the virus spread thru everyone until we reach herd immunity, if ever, by the vast majority of people getting infected.

@MyTVC15 I just got a phone call from the latest, in a series the last few years, new manager of the local bus company I used to work for. I quit and retired three years ago and they are so desperate that he called me to see if I was interested and eligible to come back and drive for them again. I told him I let my CDL expire and I have no interest in coming back, as I have heard from other drivers still working there how much the conditions have changed with Covid and how complicated the job is now. He thanked me for my time and I wished him luck, he's going to need it. He says I worked with him before I quit, but I don't remember him.

@TomMcGiverin Sort of coincidental. [gpb.org]

@MyTVC15 Even with all the windows open, which will not be possible in a couple weeks after it gets colder here, the ventilation in the buses is poor. As far as masks, shit, you can't even get all the kids to stay in their seats, much less keep their masks on, and in my district, the schools can't even require masks in school or on the bus, thanks to our governor.

I knew when Covid hit that it would scare away all of the older drivers, at least the ones who didn't need the money really badly.

I wish the cops that are quitting would turn in their pensions too.

The military gave a lot of guys, including my husband, hep-c with their vaccination air guns. Viet Nam vet were hit the hardest with it. And yet, he and I were got our covid vaxes as soon as we could.

@creative51 you are welcome to try and dispute any of the claims made, but fwiw i didnt mean to say that out loud anyway

@creative51 making a good life choice there, you are......

@creative51 ok no offense meant, but that seems like an easy out to avoid facing the truth? “flatten the curve” is absolutely the best one can hope for with a “corona”virus, which propagates worldwide in 90-120 days now, near as i can tell, unless one is in a bubble or on a deserted island.

but i mean bam post yourself as superior if you like, too; you don't have to address any facts around me if you don't wanna…

“Billions of dollars at stake for vaxx makers” now, with boosters and whatnot; surely a coincidence though huh