Red Mosquito

Interesting the comparison between flu and Covid.

Dr. Birx 4 years later:

“What we’ve done wrong in public health is that we didn’t explain that the Covid vaccines were nothing like the childhood vaccines.”

“(The Covid) vaccine wasn’t designed to prevent against infection.”

“The messenger RNA vaccine should have been rolled out for the people who were at risk for severe disease.”

the identifying the risk for severe disease part is tricky. sure you have your elderly and those with already diagnosed maladies that make them high risk, but then you had plenty of seemingly very healthy people getting sick af from covid. so at the time, it really did seem sound to have everyone get the jab.

the doesn't protect you from infection part still baffles me. i was never under the impression that the RNA vaccine would do that, as it was made fairly clear from the jump, so not sure why so many did think so.

Hi everyone in 2025

spike wrote:the doesn't protect you from infection part still baffles me. i was never under the impression that the RNA vaccine would do that, as it was made fairly clear from the jump, so not sure why so many did think so.

I may be in the minority here, but I care little that they got it wrong about how protected you were with the vaccine

Rangi Guy wrote:I may be in the minority here, but I care little that they got it wrong about how protected you were with the vaccine

It’s good that you understand that they got it wrong, but people lost their jobs because they didn’t want to be injected with a rushed product that offered them little to no benefit.

Is anyone here worried about Long Covid?

nobody is worried about long covid as much as you're worried about people worrying about long covid

Matters wrote:Is anyone here worried about Long Covid?

I'm worried about it for people in my family. One of my parents had Covid and has had some lingering effects almost 2 years later.

Self wrote:nobody is worried about long covid as much as you're worried about people worrying about long covid

Nah

E.H. Ruddock wrote:

Matters wrote:Is anyone here worried about Long Covid?

I'm worried about it for people in my family. One of my parents had Covid and has had some lingering effects almost 2 years later.

Thanks for answering. I’d be interested to know what they are experiencing but also understand if you don’t want to go into it further.

I had COVID a few weeks ago. No fever, just stuffy, runny nose and a cough. But it was one of the wildest congested noses I ever had.

I still have a lingering cough from time to time, nothing major.

Seems Covid is weakened enough now that long Covid isn’t much of a worry anymore. Which of course means the anti-vaxxers will retcon the whole thing and claim long Covid was a myth all along.

Anyway, America has deadly measles to worry about now.

I had an appointment at the VA today and was surprised to hear they were still recommending Covid vaccines. I would have thought president Musk, DOGE, and RFK would have shut that down

E.H. Ruddock wrote:I had an appointment at the VA today and was surprised to hear they were still recommending Covid vaccines. I would have thought president Musk, DOGE, and RFK would have shut that down

They’re pretty confidant measles will take everyone out.