Anybody want a Corona?

[lennytheweedwhacker]

How did your surgery go, lenny?

They're still operating.

[macphisto]

How did your surgery go, lenny?

They're still operating.

Oh wow. Praying 4U.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

How did your surgery go, lenny?

They're still operating.

Oh wow. Praying 4U.

Thanks, brother. I'll send one up for your wife as well.

[macphisto]

How did your surgery go, lenny?

They're still operating.

Oh wow. Praying 4U.

Thanks, brother. I'll send one up for your wife as well.

What room will you be in post op? Might come down there and knock your block off.

[Leatherhead]

While we're talking about unseatbelted car passengers, now is a good time to revisit (under a slightly different lens) the seatbelt/vaccine analogy.

To be clear I always wear my seatbelt and I am triple-vaxxed. Not doing these things is foolish.

Anyway, my decision to wear a seatbelt around my body is about MY safety. It has no bearing on anyone else driving the streets along with me. Their decision to seatbelt or not will matter only to them if we get into an accident. I'm doing nobody but myself any favors or disservice either way from a physical safety perspective.

To argue differently, replacing seatbelt with vaccine, is pure folly. You have to do some pretty creative arithmetic to make the case that my decision whether or not to put a vaccine in my own body makes any difference to the next person as to whether or not they'll contract and/or become ill from Covid. You get a vaccine to protect YOURSELF. Period.

Which is why your rules about being vaccinated to enter a restaurant, barber shop, etc., make no sense.

of course getting the vaccine is to protect yourself. there is also a side effect of if you dont get covid you cant then spread it to someone else. you can do something for selfish reasons yet still help out the greater good.

Edit: Nevermind, I think I read that wrong the first time.

Seat belt laws reduce the number of serious injuries/death by about half. That care and the resources needed aren't free. Strain on the healthcare system is one reason for the seat belt laws and now the vaccine push.

An unbelted passenger can very easily seriously injure a belted passenger during a crash.

[BurtReynolds]

What if the unbelted person was really fat?

[LetMeSleep]

Don’t let covid turn you into an asshole, LMS.

I’ve always been an arsehole, mate.

[Bammer]

While we're talking about unseatbelted car passengers, now is a good time to revisit (under a slightly different lens) the seatbelt/vaccine analogy.

To be clear I always wear my seatbelt and I am triple-vaxxed. Not doing these things is foolish.

Anyway, my decision to wear a seatbelt around my body is about MY safety. It has no bearing on anyone else driving the streets along with me. Their decision to seatbelt or not will matter only to them if we get into an accident. I'm doing nobody but myself any favors or disservice either way from a physical safety perspective.

To argue differently, replacing seatbelt with vaccine, is pure folly. You have to do some pretty creative arithmetic to make the case that my decision whether or not to put a vaccine in my own body makes any difference to the next person as to whether or not they'll contract and/or become ill from Covid. You get a vaccine to protect YOURSELF. Period.

Which is why your rules about being vaccinated to enter a restaurant, barber shop, etc., make no sense.

of course getting the vaccine is to protect yourself. there is also a side effect of if you dont get covid you cant then spread it to someone else. you can do something for selfish reasons yet still help out the greater good.

Edit: Nevermind, I think I read that wrong the first time.

Seat belt laws reduce the number of serious injuries/death by about half. That care and the resources needed aren't free. Strain on the healthcare system is one reason for the seat belt laws and now the vaccine push.

An unbelted passenger can very easily seriously injure a belted passenger during a crash.

You guys I abandoned the seatbelt argument immediately, ok?

[Stickman]

More Americans Are Hospitalized With Covid Now Than at Any Other Point of the Pandemic

[B]

Thank God Omicron is a milder form of COVID.

[spike]

[4/5]

Hospitalizations with covid are not the same thing as hospitalizations for covid.

[spike]

Kick them out if they’re there with covid!

[4/5]

Or maybe take the scare headlines with a grain of thought. Either way.

[simple schoolboy]

Hospitalizations with covid are not the same thing as hospitalizations for covid.

I do enjoy that this distinction went from a deranged conspiracy to accepted wisdom over the course of a few weeks.

[spike]

One can be both wary of covid while also disagreeing with how the media portrays it. Crazy, I know.

[BurtReynolds]

One can be both wary of covid while also disagreeing with how the media portrays it. Crazy, I know.

When are you gonna start?

[spike]

Hospitalizations with covid are not the same thing as hospitalizations for covid.

I do enjoy that this distinction went from a deranged conspiracy to accepted wisdom over the course of a few weeks.

At the end of the day, the healthcare system is under strain either way you slice it.

[spike]

One can be both wary of covid while also disagreeing with how the media portrays it. Crazy, I know.

When are you gonna start?

[B]

Or maybe take the scare headlines with a grain of thought. Either way.

I'd support better reporting. If we've got millions of broken arms who happen to have COVID we need to change a great number of behaviors.