And a thriving Amtrak rail system!Like so many others, I am looking forward to putting this nightmare into the rearview mirror! Let us all take precautions to stay safe and healthy, and keep our vision of a pandemic free country with stable government and robust economy.
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Airlines are already on the hook for collecting numerous passenger details, including flying the passenger home on the next flight whenever they miss something, so the back end processing and protocols already exist. Representatives often make a big stink about this sort of thing but even large airlines risk insolvency if they refuse to comply. The threat of losing landing rights or being saddled with immigration related fines and penalties is usually enough to push most to cooperate rather than become a martyr over something minor.
Said by whom? Everything I've heard is that the experts expect the existing vaccines wll provide protection (subject to further research), but perhaps not the 95% efficacy.
Exactly.
Can you provide a credible reference for all the claims you make about the new mutations? Your claims appear to be completely at odds with everything I have seen in reputable journals.
I totally agree. I was watching the evening new, think CBS, they had an expert stating this. Now in hind sight, I should checked the person out, but I was just listening until I heard him mention the new strain. My wife heard a doctor discuss the Houston case briefly on local news saying about the same thing. I think we may have fallen in to the easy trap of the self proclaimed “experts”. Every TV network and TV station have their own paid experts. I did ask my personal doctor who said there isn’t enough known yet, except to always have my guard up and not relax my protection. He did say though much different from the flu, he would not be surprised to hear about a booster for the early vaccines in a couple years or so as researchers learn more about the vaccines that have been already devoloped.
How many weeks apart you get the two shots will depend on which specific vaccine you get. The dosage and space between the two shots is not the same for all of them.
You don't have to travel to Russia. Mexico has a significant order of the Gamaleya Vaccine, which is the brand name for what was developed as the Sputnik V vaccine. Surprisingly, Mexico has ordered very little vaccine from any US Company - just a very small order from Pfizer. Its other orders are from AstraZeneca, and two Chinese companies. Their largest order is with AstraZeneca.If you can travel to Russian, Sputnik 5 Vaccine is readily available and much safer according to Putin..
We are all getting tired of COVID and it's restrictions. And I think many of us want to see Amtrak come out of this with a 'reborn' service standard. Prior to covid things were beginning to sag as costs were cut... which encouraged revenue to go down.
I think a simple explanation for that is that in 2019 I was Select+. For 2020 I did not collect enough eligible AGR points to make anything so they applied the "soft landing" rule and gave me Select. Come 2021 I think they have just given everyone whatever status they had in 2020 due to the pandemic (unless they managed to better that in 2020 travels). Hence my Select status. Unless I collect enough eligible AGR points this year, I will most likely have no status next year.
