I got it for the first time (well first positive test) on Thursday. I’m doing fine now about to go camping until Sunday. My biggest symptoms were vomiting the first day and a very very stiff neck for like 4 days. Vaccinated with Pfizer and boosted once with moderna, but I will be getting a booster this winter
The problem is that tenths and hundredths of a percent overwhelm our hospitals and put us all at far greater risk. It's a big problem.
I can’t believe you’re asking it either. Do you know what site you’re on right now? Do you see the things people post here? We were told these things repeatedly from every authority with a platform. The president himself said it, along with other politicians. The literal mechanism for shaming and attacking anyone who questioned the vaccine was those exact reasonings you listed. You’re going to pretend none of this happened or those claims weren’t made? Short term memories bro.
This isn’t true. Those aren’t the age groups that required hospitalization. Not in any actual way. We live in a society where people go to the hospital for every sneeze or stubbed toe already. When you have a media telling the entire country they are are going to die if they catch Covid, you are going to have droves of people showing up at hospitals that don’t need to be there. There has been no culpability for the fear campaign that took place.
Yes. Same story with basically our whole basketball program (many who got tested, and all who were tested had the flu, even though some of the conservatives swear the test was wrong) as well as most of my shop (who were not tested). Everyone was sure they'd already had it in February and would be immune. No vaccines, no masks, etc... very conservative group. Afterall, nobody they knew had died... Then a few months after vaccines were available and most hadn't been vaccinated it swept through our shop. Kept several people out for months, sent many to the hospital, and killed the owner's 30-some year old son. He was a good guy. But adamantly believed the "COVID Hoax" conspiracy. I miss him. His young wife and 3 year old son miss him more. I hate anti-science and anti-expertise propaganda.
Of course I do, I as well as others have countered pretty much everything you've said in the thread. Pretty much par for the course, you show up, say something outlandish, countered at every turn...then you simply disappear for a while, the reappear and repeat the same thing over and over.
Again you're not making sense and still exaggerating grossly...and you discount Fox news and the Trump fanatics who refused to accept the science and refused to get vaccinated...and then proceeded to die, why is that?
It’s good of you to give credit to those here who are trying to have meaningful conversations. Grouping yourself in with them is a stretch. I as well as others, like Bill Gates and stuff, have extremely important philanthropic duties and can’t just play around on here all the time.
Here in the US we don't get enough care. Our hospitals were not overwhelmed by fit and healthy people. That's simply not a problem we've had But having a worse case that lasts longer increases the odds of somebody passing it on to a more susceptible person. Do that a couple hundred thousand times and you have a HUGE problem. There are 73 million Americans under the age of 19. .04% of those is 292,000 people. And if they each infect a couple people, who also infect a couple people... A lot of people in those more vulnerable age groups are going to be in serious trouble. https://www.osfhealthcare.org/blog/...nfected,Pharmacy Operations at OSF HealthCare.
That's not true, and you know it...I've asked you multiple times to document/support the claims you've made but you either can't or won't. Did you by chance also go to Wharton College? Sorry, but just saying something without facts does not by default make it true,... the onus is on you. And "philanthropic duties"?...I find that extremely hard to believe. And don't look now, but you're "grouping yourself in with Bill Gates"?...that's "a stretch". ...I gotta go.
Bill Gates doesn't get a lot of respect and I completely understand why. Most every product Microsoft ever made sucks. That said, he knows way the fuck more than most of us about communicable diseases. He's a layperson, sure, but he's a very well educated (and I don't mean his one year at Harvard) layperson. He's spent a lot of years talking to experts in the field. Elon Musk doesn't get a lot of respect and I completely understand why. He's a useless amoral douchebag. barfo
I think they both know far more than the average layperson about the things they are passionate about. But I don't trust either of them as much on these issues as I would a real scientist. Musk has done some incredible things for humanity as well. Things that wouldn't have happened nearly as quickly without his influence. But yeah, everything you said about him is true. And Bill Gates has his skeletons as well. He's just more personal about it
F' Elon Musk...he initially pulled me in with Tesla and Space X, then quickly pushed me away, first with Starlink and then Twitter/X.
Starlink is the best satellite Internet in the world... By a wide margin. To the point that whole countries rely on it for their national defense. Dude has some issues, but his contributions honestly can't be overstated. He's absolutely changed the world for the better.
