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Re: What vaccinated people should know about their risk from the delta varian

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Post by me_me_me » Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 11:17 AM UTC

goes_brrrrrr wrote: post #22

Zababa wrote: post #14

> They even went to a hockey game indoors with thousands of people. > Mostly, he felt frustrated. He’s a journalist—he’s pretty tuned in to the news. He knew breakthrough cases were possible, but he had seen many assurances that they were extremely rare and not that big of a deal. > He would have worn a mask at the hockey game, for example—even though no one was wearing a mask at the hockey game, and the Centers for…

The CDC says it's safe because they are trying to "nudge" the public into getting vaccinated with a positive incentive - getting rid of the mask. This whole pandemic the CDC proved that it cant think more than one step ahead. Just like it was advising against wearing masks because it was afraid of them being unavailable to health workers. So the CDC credibility will take yet another hit after it insisted so hard that…

Thats a really good summary, while I understand the good intentions and the fact that avg person is not capable of critical thinking and prone to selfish behaviour, using lies for their own good is short-sighted strategy that only backfired in long term.

Not only you have people that were breeding conspiracies like rabbits but now you gave them ammo.

Re: What vaccinated people should know about their risk from the delta varian

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Post by 13415 » Mon, Jul 26, 2021, 8:19 PM UTC

allturtles wrote: post #40

13415 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Maybe you're personally blessed with a super-strong immune system but what you're describing is not the usual common cold. A common cold takes around 9 days, and most people have to spend and are recommended to spend 3 of those in bed. Most common colds can develop into deadly pneumonia if you take them too lightly. A colleague of my girlfriend nearly died of one in 2018 because he ignored it and went out partying...

I don't know what to say except to appeal to my own experience. I've never heard of anyone I know being confined to bed by a common cold, nor getting pneumonia from one. 9 days maybe of lingering cough and sniffles, the worst of it is typically over in 3 days or so. > colleague of my girlfriend nearly died of one in 2018 because he ignored it and went out partying... Which suggests a mild illness? (The cold, not the…

Regarding the article: https://i.redd.it/q5i0qrwu3ld71.png

About what you said:

> 9 days maybe of lingering cough and sniffles, the worst of it is typically over in 3 days or so.

The mild Covid experience described in the article was 36 hours - your own words. So it was literally like a light cold, as the physicians also confirmed according to the article. You're lucky that you've never had to stay in bed with a common cold.

Re: What vaccinated people should know about their risk from the delta varian

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Post by allturtles » Tue, Jul 27, 2021, 1:08 AM UTC

13415 wrote: post #42

allturtles wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know what to say except to appeal to my own experience. I've never heard of anyone I know being confined to bed by a common cold, nor getting pneumonia from one. 9 days maybe of lingering cough and sniffles, the worst of it is typically over in 3 days or so. > colleague of my girlfriend nearly died of one in 2018 because he ignored it and went out partying... Which suggests a mild illness? (The cold, not the…

Regarding the article: https://i.redd.it/q5i0qrwu3ld71.png About what you said: > 9 days maybe of lingering cough and sniffles, the worst of it is typically over in 3 days or so. The mild Covid experience described in the article was 36 hours - your own words. So it was literally like a light cold, as the physicians also confirmed according to the article. You're lucky that you've never had to stay in bed with a comm…

Yes, my own words, but the worst of a cold and the worst of food poisoning (what OP compared the mild covid to) are, IMO totally different. The former is an inconvenience (headache, a bit tired, constantly runny nose), the latter is a totally debilitating state of never-ending vomiting and/or diarrhea. If you told me I was about to get a cold I would shrug, if you told me I was about to get food poisoning I would be dreading it.

There's no way we're going to come to a resolution of this discussion without additional data given our evidently very different experiences of what a cold is. All I can find is sources saying that colds are usually mild. But since this also called "mild covid", that resolves nothing.