Yeah, why on earth would someone want a booster? I mean... what could possibly go wrong by not having one?!
I've done some of this, and some of it I have not. We don't mask in public. We did initially though. We don't go out to dinner, unless it's fast food, but rearely eat there (two small kids). I got the shot during the Delta phase, as it seemed deadlier and my work was going to force me. I haven't gotten a booster since. I don't generally go into large crowds. Haven't flown since COVID. Same for my wife. Neither of us have tested positive yet. We're practically the only people we know. That said, I type this as we all have some sort of upper respiratory cold/sinus issues. We'll test, as we've been diligent about testing, but I don't think it's COVID.
LOL. People can be so damn ridiculous thinking any vaccine will guarantee you can't get sick. If that was the case then nobody would have ever got the flu or pneumonia in the past decades. It helps minimize your risk, but nothing is guaranteed. One thing is clear though. People who refused to mask or vaccinate got Covid or died more than people who didn't. I know for a fact that my relatives and friends who were Trump loving non-believers of masking spread that virus like wildfires. Some got lucky, and didn't end up hospitalized or dead, but some they infected didn't. Its even worse when a few were nurses. I just have to shake my head at people so enamored in a cult that they would put vulnerable people they attend to, or visit at risk because of their ignorant and bullheaded stance.
The issue with the pandemic is people being paranoid about every respiratory issue I suggest sinus rinse , that will help keep most issues away Masking for prevention is more of the height of pandemic behavior the people you see masking now are people who have Covid and are wearing it not to spread it They still go out and do stuff @AroundTheWorld
for a zoomer? nothing The risk of harm from catching covid for an unboosted zoomer is well understood to be very low. Whereas the long term risk of continual boosters is unknown. a total failure of basic risk calculation and cost/benefit analysis Why would you inject yourself with something if it isn't needed?
I'm in SIngapore now and was just in Australia and New Zealand. Masks aren't required any of those countries anymore. They are still encouraged and you still see more people wearing mask in those countries than in the US. Going into NZ and Singapore vaccination was a requirement to get in but they didn't check when I flew into NZ. Before they would issue my boarding pass for Singapore I did have to show proof. [Edit]On Singapore you’re still required to wear a masks on public transportation.
Who knew politics kills. This isn't the typical and known 'red district die more than blue district', easily explained away with vaccination rate. It's adjusted for age, vax rate, and other demographic data. Can politics kill you? Research says the answer increasingly is yes. - The Washington Post Researchers say the result of this growing polarization is clear: The nation’s overall health profile is going from bad to worse. Americans can expect to live as long as they did in 1996 — 76.1 years, with life spans truncated by higher rates of chronic illnesses, deaths in childbirth and covid. “I’m not doing this research to be partisan, simplistically supporting one party or another,” said Nancy Krieger, a social epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and a co-author on one of the two studies. “This is about looking at the behavior of different actors, some of whom have a lot more power than others to set standards, make demands and allocate resources.” Harvard researchers analyzed data on covid-19 mortality rates and the stress on hospital intensive care units across all 435 congressional districts from April 2021 to March 2022. They also examined congressional members’ overall voting records, how they voted on four coronavirus relief bills, and whether the governor’s office and legislature of a state were controlled by one party. The study, published this month in the Lancet Regional Health-Americas, found that the more conservative the voting records of members of Congress and state legislators, the higher the age-adjusted covid mortality rates — even after taking into account the racial, education and income characteristics of each congressional district along with vaccination rates. Covid death rates were 11 percent higher in states with Republican-controlled governments and 26 percent higher in areas where voters lean conservative. Similar results emerged about hospital ICU capacity when the concentration of political power in a state was conservative. The findings cannot be explained away as features of the economic and social conditions of the people who live in various congressional districts, Krieger said. This is “somehow above and beyond the demographics of the district [that members] represent. It’s suggesting that there is something going on through political processes associated with the political voting patterns of elected officials,” she said. ... The October report found that if all states implemented liberal policies on the environment, gun safety, criminal justice, health and welfare, labor, mar1juana, and economic and tobacco taxes, more than 170,000 lives would have been saved in 2019. On the flip side, if states went with conservative versions of those policies, there would have been about 217,000 more deaths that year — “the equivalent of a 600-passenger airplane crashing every day of the year,” the study said.
Damn liberal drivel. Always trying to use facts and stuff. "Don't you try to confuse me with studies and research!"
"Quite clear" to someone who either seeks out stuff like this on Twitter or gets it in his Twitter feed. It could be argued that folks that continue to post tweets from random people, when we all clearly know their position on COVID, and those tweets don't shed any new light on COVID, have mental issues as well.
The risk of COVID for someone in their 20’s is low but not nothing. The risk of the vaccines isn’t non 0 but much lower than getting Covid.
This is questionable. There are quite a few countries which do NOT recommend the mRNA vaccines for people under 49 due to their assessment of the risk/reward ratio. For old people, I think it is clear - they should get the shots.
As @rocketsjudoka mentioned, the risk of harm for the unvaccinated/unboosted may be lower for younger people in general, but there are still risks... like myocarditis.
Got Covid for the first time ever after coming back from Europe. Fully vaxxed (Moderna), no boosters. Cough and congestion, no fever. Fine after two days. Isolated according to CDC guidelines and timeline. No biggie. Will never wear a mask again unless I am sick, or maybe flying on a plane. I knew early masks would do very little to slow the spread for an illness this contagious. Non N95s do almost nothing, and even an N95 with the way people pull, touch, and grab would negate its effects. Also knew since day one the vax was a pre-emptive therapeutic, never bought into the exaggeration that it would prevent transmission or prevent infection. Don't get me wrong, pre-emptive therapeutics have its advantages, and when Delta was really getting people bad, it likely kept some folks out the hospital. I just dont understand the people that considered it a wonder-shot, and the people that continue to blindly mask like it is some sort of adult binky.
Also, it could be argued that it's a sign of mental issues when someone specifically goes out of their way to seek out a fellow posters voter registration card and then post a copy on the BBS without asking permission first.
Have you had it for 2 days and feel fine? Or had it and felt fine after 2 days? Because when I got it, I thought I was making it out aight after 2 days of mild stuff, then the symptoms changed somehow and it got worse not better. Eventually (about 7 days in) I'd lose taste. I was double-V'd.
