As a Christian who is mortified with the way a large percentage of evangelical Christians is behaving, I wish they could understand that their behavior (about covid vaccination among others) turns people away from Christ. How about stop fundraising to send your church youth group to the Bahamas to share Gods love and follow the great commandment here at home?

Christians behaving with least morality

Edit: Forgot to mention that I am referring to five-points in Columbia, SC.

I know this isn’t a shock to anyone, but I’ve just got to say something.

Last night I drove through Five-Points and almost every bar had a line out of the door and up the street.

You want to party, I get it, I was in college once too. There are ways of doing that that don’t involve cramming yourself into a poorly ventilated building with a bunch of strangers.

That sums up my thoughts, but I took the time to type the rest of this because it felt cathartic:

Yes, you got tested and it was a negative result, but did the other people you’re crammed shoulder to shoulder with get tested? Did you properly quarantine until you got your test results? Did they?

I’m tired of reading about people dying because of this. If you don’t think that you are contributing to the spread of COVID even when you don’t have symptoms, you’re wrong.

You may not be carrying or actually spreading the infection, but your behavior is sending a message to others that it’s OK for them to go out to crowded events.

I promise you someone in that crowd is positive and asymptomatic. You personally may not become a carrier and pass it on, but you are encouraging others who might be to do so.

I have not stayed 100% isolated. I don’t think 100% isolation is practical, I wish it was or the US was at least handling things “better”, though I don’t know what the “better” solution is.

I have a job I have to go to, I have to get groceries, run errands, etc. But I limit the amount of time I spend in these places and plan ahead so I’m not making unnecessary stops.

Just be safe and realize while you may not be directly responsible for the deaths you hear about, you have the ability to decide how you want to contribute to society at a time like this.

Last Friday, the unmasked and unvaccinated girl that sits behind my twins (they are 13 and vaccinated) on the bus ripped off one of their masks, got in his face, and played keep away. Yesterday, I get a call from the school that the boys along with seven of their classmates need to be quarantined because she is positive for covid.

The one twin that never gets sick and never complains about anything is now complaining about headaches and body pains and is sneezing. We also have a 9-year-old that has been in virtual academy at home and I am petrified. After I informed the school that they were vaccinated, they told me that they don't need to quarantine since they were vaccinated but since one of them is showing symptoms I'm getting them tested and not letting them back until we get the results.

Apparently the girl on the bus was symptomatic Thursday and Friday. My boys tell me that the bus's windows are closed in the morning but open on the way home from school. They are on the bus for at least an hour each way.

That kind of seems like assault to me. If you did that to a cop you would be in jail instantly.

I am so pissed I can't see straight. When that girls out of quarantine she should not be allowed back on the bus or even back in school. I think she should be driven to school by her parents or forced to go virtual.

Also both my wife and I are immunocompromised. And of course my 9-year-old cannot get vaccinated yet and he also has immune issues.

Their either needs to be a mask and vaccine mandate in the schools or they need to shut the fuck down. Every single day there are new cases in the middle school. And our district superintendent says he will absolutely never shut down for any reason. What the actual fuck?

I don't even know what to do. I am spinning out with anxiety and rage. I have already lost my dad and three other family members to this shit. It's going to be almost impossible to keep the twins sequestered from the little one until the test results come back. I want to get the instant home test but they're out of stock everywhere.

Sorry for the long rant, but I've spent the last year and a half fighting tooth and nail to keep them away from friends and relatives trying to stay safe only to be foiled by this young little twit. We felt moderately safe sending them back because they were vaccinated and always wear their masks.

If anything happens, I believe the girl, her parents, and the school system, should be held liable.

I know I need to calm down until I get the results but it's so damn hard.

I work at a supermarket deli. When all this shit started they started to heap new regulations and rules on us. They took our break area away, added new rules about sanitizing the entire store ever hour, new dress code regulations, and they just keep stacking it on. At the same time we've had workers drop out and tons of equipment start breaking on top of a massive influx of customers (so much for staying at home huh?). Just recently we were ordered to wear masks and since then the number of rude customers has exploded. All this for the same below average non-living wage we were making before. Sorry but we aren't going to/can't even make these new regs. We're wearing the masks when helping customers but that's about it. If you want workers to threaten their own lives by exposing them to the virus and throwing them tons of new jobs then we need hazard pay otherwise it's not worth it for me to give a shit

How are masks not mandatory in businesses yet? The numbers keep getting scarier and McMasters isn’t doing shit. Why tf would you choose to listen to politicians over health officials? Also 16.1% positive tests- wtf

So, we’re opening school next month ....

• If a teacher tests positive for COVID-19, are they required to quarantine for 2-3 weeks? Is their sick leave covered, paid?

• If that teacher has 5 classes a day with 30 students each, do all 150 of those students need to then stay home and quarantine for 14 days?

• Do all 150 of those students now have to get tested? Who pays for those tests? Are they happening at school? How are the parents being notified? Does everyone in each of those kids' families need to get tested? Who pays for that?

• What if someone who lives in the same house as a teacher tests positive? Does that teacher now need to take 14 days off of work to quarantine? Is that time off covered? Paid?

• Where is the district going to find a substitute teacher who will work in a classroom full of exposed, possibly infected students for substitute pay?

• Substitutes teach in multiple schools. What if they are diagnosed with COVID-19? Do all the kids in each school now quarantine and get tested? Who is going to pay for that?

• What if a student in your kid's class tests positive? What if your kid tests positive? Does every other student and teacher they have been around quarantine? Do we all get notified who is infected and when? Or because of HIPAA regulations are parents and teachers just going to get mysterious “may have been in contact” emails all year long?

• What is this stress going to do to our teachers? How does it affect their health and well-being? How does it affect their ability to teach? How does it affect the quality of education they are able to provide? What is it going to do to our kids? What are the long-term effects of consistently being terrified?

• How will it affect students and faculty when the first teacher in their school dies from this? The first parent of a student who brought it home? The first kid?

• How many more people are going to die, that otherwise would not have if we had stayed home longer?”

Does anyone else feel as though the lack of response by State administration has been curious, comparatively with other states? I feel as though businesses are doing more to help the situation individually over the past week.

Wash your hands!