mopgoblin on 30/5/2022 at 23:11
I dunno, I've never heard from anyone how they died after not getting the vaccine
Pyrian on 31/5/2022 at 04:21
We got vaccinated and got heavily exposed from a young, unvaccinated family member, and didn't get it at all (no symptoms, several negative tests, including sensitive PCR tests). Update your anecdotes accordingly.
faetal on 31/5/2022 at 10:16
Anecdata is pointless generally, since it can't be validated in any way.
I can say I know someone whose cancer was cured by the vaccine, but that doesn't mean that the vaccine cures cancer, or can cure cancer.
Tocky on 31/5/2022 at 15:11
Also you have to remember that your body is fighting off the dead vaccine covid the same as it would live. Some people do not have the hyper immune response. I do. Every vaccine of any type has me feeling like crud for a day or so no matter what. The 17 in one shot the Airforce gave had me shivering in front of a heater in July.
Never got any of those 17 things though.
lowenz on 2/6/2022 at 08:29
Quote Posted by Thor
Masks being nearly useless aside
Please, just use a hazmat suit.
lowenz on 2/6/2022 at 08:32
Quote Posted by Thor
Lmao where did you hear that, selective science scientist of house "consensus"? From when I still followed this bs a few months ago, studies showed quite the opposite.
Opposite for who doesn't get an impairment of the immune system. It's not only about the "right antibody", it's way more complex. If you got the right (?) antibody "thanks" to the infection but other components of the immune response go fubar 'cause of the infection your theoretical "perfectly matched immunity" is worthless.
Same for who can achieve the matching after
weeks of infection......you got the right antibody eventually, when you're in ICU.
The antibody creation+selection process is totally random if with no memory: there's NO "intelligence" in the process.
Azaran on 8/7/2022 at 17:26
There seems to be a general apathy about Covid right now, with public measures and mask mandates lifted, at least in my area. It's like, 'well, vaccines are out, and less people are dying, so we can forget about it'. That's the impression I'm getting.
We were supposed to have gotten Omicron-specific boosters a while back, but so far they're still using the original ones.
It seems the reality of long covid still hasn't sunk in.
In 2020 there was a real sense of emergency, and that got us vaccines in record time. Now it seems governments and researchers are resting on their laurels, and the population are content to walk around with masks off in indoor public spaces.
I could be wrong, but if this virus had, let's say, twice the impact it has had, I'm almost certain we would have already found either an effective treatment, or finally perfected a pan-covid vaccine. Politicians and scientists would be scrambling to stop society from collapsing, and we would have a major breakthrough
Starker on 9/7/2022 at 07:54
It is no longer an emergency, now it's just a regular disease that we have to learn to manage. The emergency measures were only in place to buy us time until we have a vaccine and/or good treatments for it and to reduce the load on healthcare systems. And we do have vaccines now that are highly effective in preventing serious illness and death, we have some effective treatment options outside of putting people on ventilators and hoping they get better, and we have gotten much better at treating the disease itself.
mxleader on 12/7/2022 at 03:44
I got the Vids on my birthday last week. I was visiting family in WA State and I started to feel super crappy the day I turned 50. I have the Pfizer vaccine but hadn't received the booster. I'm pretty sure I got it from some coworkers who had it and discreetly started working from home. within the first two days I did a video appointment with my doctor and got a script for PAXLOVID and have been choking down those pills for five days. I think they are helping but it's difficult to say. The dizziness, brain-fog and physical exhaustion are the biggest symptoms. The brain-fog came on about the same time as my vision kind of blurring for a few days. I really only realized the vision problem when I borrowed my brother's car to go get the script and was swerving across lanes and got uncomfortably close to a large 4x4 truck in the lane next to me. The best part was spending most of my vacation sleeping on an air mattress on the floor of my brother's cramped little house. It could be worse though I guess. Also, I don't recommend catching the virus.
