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Two Triple Vaccinated Israeli Doctors Infected with Omicron

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Re: Two Triple Vaccinated Israeli Doctors Infected with Omicron

#12

I thought vaccines work to stop the transmission/infection? Why should we get a vax or show a passport if the vax doesn't fucking work? How much Fauci cock can you suck on one given day?

Assuming you aren’t a troll, nobody has ever said that the vaccine was 100% effective and anyone who you may claim said so was lying.

And Fauci is nearly 80 I assume he would rather eat dinner at 4 PM and watch Jeopardy than have me fellate him

Re: Two Triple Vaccinated Israeli Doctors Infected with Omicron

#13

The media really needs to slow their roll, a lot. Two people having breakthrough infections for any variant is not at all unlikely, and this is absolutely not evidence that Omicron is more likely to lead to breakthrough infections. In fact it would only be actually newsworthy if Omicron _didn’t_ break through. And the pointless emotional fact that they are doctors, as if any virus considers ones CV. And the excessive…

Borderline? It's far beyond that by now.

Re: Two Triple Vaccinated Israeli Doctors Infected with Omicron

#14

The media really needs to slow their roll, a lot. Two people having breakthrough infections for any variant is not at all unlikely, and this is absolutely not evidence that Omicron is more likely to lead to breakthrough infections. In fact it would only be actually newsworthy if Omicron _didn’t_ break through. And the pointless emotional fact that they are doctors, as if any virus considers ones CV. And the excessive…

I disagree that COVID was a bane for the news industry - I think it’s been a great boon to them. People locked down in their apartments with nothing else to do but refresh news sites and Twitter and have their chosen news network tell them how the other side is making it worse, all against the backdrop of an election? This is modern media’s wet dream and they’ve pounced on it.

Re: Two Triple Vaccinated Israeli Doctors Infected with Omicron

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post #3

My favorite part is the invocation of counter-terrorism measures: Israel shut its borders to foreigners from all countries for 14 days on Saturday to try to contain the spread of Omicron and has reintroduced counter-terrorism phone-tracking technology to trace contacts of a handful of people who have likely been infected.

"Counterterrorism measures" is a weird way for Reuters to phrase it - gives the impression that what's "counter-terrorism" is the legal authority, when it's the technology that's "counter-terrorism". But perhaps I'm wrong about the most likely public reading.

(Specifically - the security services' surveillance systems are flipped on for the entire domestic Israeli cell network, and known infected people's cell phone tower data handed over to the Ministry of Health along with that of uninfected people they were near.)

Re: Two Triple Vaccinated Israeli Doctors Infected with Omicron

#16

I'm just glad that we have a mayor in San Francisco that obeys the facts and science and chooses to obey the indoor mask mandate inside our fair and not trashy at all city: https://twitter.com/libsoftiktok/status/1464870926634213378

Yes, London Breed is tool and represents the worst of “do as I say not as I do” culture but what does the mayor of SF have to do with Israel?

Seriously man, if you are going to troll, be better at it. Nuance is the oxygen of comedy

Re: Two Triple Vaccinated Israeli Doctors Infected with Omicron

#17
> The two doctors had received three doses of the Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine, and so far have shown mild COVID-19 symptoms, the hospital said.

The mildness of the symptoms is just as newsworthy as the fact that there are breakthrough infections. It has long been speculated that COVID-19 would evolve into more contagious but less virulent variants. Omicron may be one such variant. If it is, that's probably a good thing.

Wouldn't it be great if a vaccinated person could get omicron, have a mild illness, and then have even stronger immunity against other variants?

Re: Two Triple Vaccinated Israeli Doctors Infected with Omicron

#18

The media really needs to slow their roll, a lot. Two people having breakthrough infections for any variant is not at all unlikely, and this is absolutely not evidence that Omicron is more likely to lead to breakthrough infections. In fact it would only be actually newsworthy if Omicron _didn’t_ break through. And the pointless emotional fact that they are doctors, as if any virus considers ones CV. And the excessive…

Very few people have been talking about it responsibly throughout the course. It’s become a weird morality issue and anyone taking about it from that position is adding to the problem regardless of moral stance, and the morality isn’t even being done correctly focusing on the actual issues.

I guess it’s just a symptom of the attention economy and the bad state of education and ability for independent thought everywhere.

Re: Two Triple Vaccinated Israeli Doctors Infected with Omicron

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post #10

I thought vaccines work to stop the transmission/infection? Why should we get a vax or show a passport if the vax doesn't fucking work? How much Fauci cock can you suck on one given day?

give it a rest already...

Why don't you give it a rest already. We've put up with your NAZI BULLSHIT for THREE FUCKING YEARS now!

Re: Two Triple Vaccinated Israeli Doctors Infected with Omicron

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post #14

The media really needs to slow their roll, a lot. Two people having breakthrough infections for any variant is not at all unlikely, and this is absolutely not evidence that Omicron is more likely to lead to breakthrough infections. In fact it would only be actually newsworthy if Omicron _didn’t_ break through. And the pointless emotional fact that they are doctors, as if any virus considers ones CV. And the excessive…

I disagree that COVID was a bane for the news industry - I think it’s been a great boon to them. People locked down in their apartments with nothing else to do but refresh news sites and Twitter and have their chosen news network tell them how the other side is making it worse, all against the backdrop of an election? This is modern media’s wet dream and they’ve pounced on it.

Fuck I mixed up my banes and boons. In my defense I’m a tad drunk and ran out of cocaine
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