Anybody want a Corona?

[macphisto]

Antifa/BLM tactics. I like.

[verb_to_trust]

ya get tested so you know if you should put on a mask, ya goose

Masks don't work

[tree_]

i like wearing a mask... still don't understand all the hoopla

[Bi_3]

Well, I tested positive on Monday. (Fully vaccinated since early April)

It was basically a mild cold for me: sore throat and some nose stuff and is pretty much over at this point.

That simultaneously sucks and is good news. Focusing on the good, I'm glad to hear it was over quick.

Yeah it was really no big deal. The worst part was telling people I've been around in the last week and them needing to go get tested. Thankfully it was only 4 people and they're also vaccinated, so hopefully they'll all be okay too.

About 3 weeks ago my wife and I had a really bad "cold" that lasted about a week. We are fully vaccinated so it didn't register it could have been COVID. But it was runny nose and chest congestion which weren't symptoms (traditionally) of COVID. I'm now reading that the Delta variant has these symptoms, so now I'm thinking we may have had it as well.

How many hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of vaccinated people thought exactly like this? I certainly would. Taking waning immunity into account, which will only accelerate, the 'breakthrough infections' rate is potentially in the double digits.

But just like 4/5, it was nothing but a cold. What would it have been had we not been vaccinated? Breakthrough cases are one thing, but how many breakthrough cases are leading to hospitalization and death?

I don't know how we would know that given that we don't know how quickly immunity is waning. We can say what it is right now, but it's going to be changing day-to-day as the people who were in the first round of shots lose their protection. The more vaxxed people who get infected, the higher the count (not necessarily rate) of vaxxed people who will be hospitalized and die. So whatever it is today is potentially the best it will be until we get boosters out there or until we get some level of natural herd immunity through cases like 4/5 went through where he's been vaxxed and overcame infection.


This was just published today:

Study found the Pfizer vaccine was only 42% effective against infection in July, when the Delta variant was dominant.

[BurtReynolds]

What is the end game here?

[verb_to_trust]

What is the end game here?

987 days to flatten the curve!

[verb_to_trust]

i like wearing a mask... still don't understand all the hoopla

Not taking the bait here tree

[macphisto]

[BurtReynolds]

i like wearing a mask... still don't understand all the hoopla

i hate wearing a mask... still don't understand all the hoopla either

[spike]

ya get tested so you know if you should put on a mask, ya goose

Masks don't work

Rand Paul, ladies and gentlemen.

[verb_to_trust]

ya get tested so you know if you should put on a mask, ya goose

Masks don't work

Rand Paul, ladies and gentlemen.

Do you wear an n95?

[surfndestroy]

A hesitancy opinion piece. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news ... ntin-kisin

[surfndestroy]

seems like completely rationale people there

Things we have learned from antifa and BLM. Maybe not the right things but that's what was taught along the way.

[BurtReynolds]

A hesitancy opinion piece. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news ... ntin-kisin

No you don't get it. The problem with covid, like literally everything else in existence, is racist MAGA hats.

[surfndestroy]

A hesitancy opinion piece. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news ... ntin-kisin

No you don't get it. The problem with covid, like literally everything else in existence, is racist MAGA hats.

Does the MAGA hat have the same power as the one ring to rule them all in Lord of the Rings?

[Stickman]

Great throwback

[B]

A hesitancy opinion piece. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news ... ntin-kisin

"The same people who told you Brexit would never happen, that Trump would never win, that when he did win it was because of Russian collusion but also because of racism, that you must follow lockdowns while they don’t, that masks don’t work, that masks do work, that social justice protests during pandemic lockdowns are a form of “health intervention,” that ransacking African American communities in the name of fighting racism is a “mostly peaceful” form of protest, that poor and underserved children locked out of shuttered schools are “still learning,” that Jussie Smollett was a victim of a hate crime, that men are toxic, that there is an infinite number of genders, that COVID couldn’t have come from a lab until maybe it did, that closing borders is racist until maybe it isn’t, that you shouldn’t take Trump’s vaccine, that you must take the vaccine developed during the Trump administration, that Andrew Cuomo is a great leader, that Andrew Cuomo is a granny killer, that the number of COVID deaths is one thing and then another … are the same people telling you now that the vaccine is safe, that you must take it, and that if you don’t, you will be a second-class citizen."

I don't think that the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Food and Drug Administration, or the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices told us ANY of those things.

But I agree. Political polling is inaccurate and Critical Race Theory exists, so medical science doesn't work anymore. Excellent point.

[BurtReynolds]

A hesitancy opinion piece. https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news ... ntin-kisin

"The same people who told you Brexit would never happen, that Trump would never win, that when he did win it was because of Russian collusion but also because of racism, that you must follow lockdowns while they don’t, that masks don’t work, that masks do work, that social justice protests during pandemic lockdowns are a form of “health intervention,” that ransacking African American communities in the name of fighting racism is a “mostly peaceful” form of protest, that poor and underserved children locked out of shuttered schools are “still learning,” that Jussie Smollett was a victim of a hate crime, that men are toxic, that there is an infinite number of genders, that COVID couldn’t have come from a lab until maybe it did, that closing borders is racist until maybe it isn’t, that you shouldn’t take Trump’s vaccine, that you must take the vaccine developed during the Trump administration, that Andrew Cuomo is a great leader, that Andrew Cuomo is a granny killer, that the number of COVID deaths is one thing and then another … are the same people telling you now that the vaccine is safe, that you must take it, and that if you don’t, you will be a second-class citizen."

I don't think that the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Food and Drug Administration, or the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices told us ANY of those things.

But I agree. Political polling is inaccurate and Critical Race Theory exists, so medical science doesn't work anymore. Excellent point.

You completely missed the point. Classic B

[E.H. Ruddock]

Well at least now China or Russia know that if they were to release a virus that killed at a higher rate than COVID, it would be successful as we've shown them that half of our country won't believe it does anything.

[BurtReynolds]

Well at least now China or Russia know that if they were to release a virus that killed at a higher rate than COVID, it would be successful as we've shown them that half of our country won't believe it does anything.

And whose fault is that?