I will move into the 65 and over cohort in a week. Can't wait.
Poll: Will you take the Covid vaccine?
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#842Those who think the economy will recover should at least read this book
https://www.amazon.com/Crisis-capital-effectiveness-useless-...
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#843Earlier quoted context omitted.
You're the kind of guy who doesn't wear a seatbelt and speeds through red lights to protest the government telling you what to do? Or are you smart enough to understand why it's important that we have rules that mandate certain behaviors? (Not that getting vaccinated will actually be mandatory.)
Mandatory seatbelts happened slowly, not in an emergency, after years of debate and clear scientific research. You can't compare that to the current situation with COVID-19. Remember that we've accelerated testing so much that we literally don't even know yet if these vaccines actually provide a mortality benefit: there just isn't enough data yet. You can't even compare this situation to other uses of vaccines. Not t…
And those who volunteered to wear seatbelts before they were mandated were safer than those who refused. And saved society money and their friends and family grief by not dying in a preventable way.
So wear your seat belt, get your vaccine when offered, and when we’re finally able to safely go into restaurants, please do not annoy the hostess with long rants about how it’s your civic duty to not wear pants because the government mandates it. She’s not going to care about the political theory — she’s just going to need you to leave.
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#844Those who think the economy will recover should at least read this book https://www.amazon.com/Crisis-capital-effectiveness-useless-...
Could you expand some, for the rest of us who didn’t read the book and can’t draw any conclusions based on your statement and the summary on the amazon page?
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So if the strains change every year because the virus mutates so much then the current strain wouldn't be so common. It's basically what happens with the flu. Also a new strain can be more infectious, which I believe was the case with the mink strain.
The current strain is very common. If you haven't noticed, it's actually a pretty big problem.
There are multiple strains. And in various parts of the world it's a differents strain that is common.
I'm not telling anyone else to get it, I'm just stating I am going to wait and see if the problem is actually solved before acting like it.
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this is exactly it. based on my demographic, i'm going to be one of the last in line. I'm not going to be trying to jump ahead in that line because i'm not an asshole and i know other people need it more than I do. but also I'm a little bit of an asshole, so i'm kind of reassured to know that hundreds of millions of people will have gotten it before me, and if there are any issues there will have been plenty of time…
The other half of it, for the early days at least, is the fear of lining up with hundreds of people who are more likely to be high risk people. Putting yourself in higher risk. My pharmacy does COVID testing but only if you show no symptoms. The gov health networks tell symptomatic people to be tested in hospital set up centers. But high risk people are still high risk people, whether they are showing symptoms or not…
CVS does a complete no touch COVID testing via the drive thru.
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#848I'm surprised to see such a high percentage of "NO" responses. I'm genuinely curious to understand why
I know it's not the answer you're hoping for, but some people have medical issues which make taking any kind of vaccine too dangerous.
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Even 90 days is a bit optimistic; people have been reinfected soonwr than that. You can rely on 30 days pretty safely. 90 days is stretching it.
This again. When will it stop? Yes some people get reinfected. These are extremely rare. Usually it is because of the weakened immune system. Others should be fine for months: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/370/6521/1227 https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4257
I just keep pointing out that this is, in fact, how vaccines work, and hoping for the best.
To whom it may concern: vaccines simulate the process triggered in the immune system by recovery from infection. They don't float around in your body for years: they create immunity the same way the disease itself does. More or less: obviously you don't get sick!
Which is great, I hadn't been that sick in ten years, it was pretty awful. Please get vaccinated if you haven't gotten COVID. If you have, well, maybe you want to do it just in case? I do not.
A lot of misinformation out there...
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The current strain is very common. If you haven't noticed, it's actually a pretty big problem.
There are multiple strains. And in various parts of the world it's a differents strain that is common. I'm not telling anyone else to get it, I'm just stating I am going to wait and see if the problem is actually solved before acting like it.
But you did say it would be "useless" if there were different strains and now you are saying "there are multiple strains".
I haven't seen anything about the current vaccines not being effective to what is already out there. If that is true then what you are saying is wrong, because the fact that the vaccines can treat what is now filling up hospitals and killing thousands per day means they are the opposite of useless and in fact one of the most valuable things in existence right now.
Even the regular flu shot was recommended as being more important this year so that there would be less spread and less to deal with.
> I'm just stating I am going to wait and see if the problem is actually solved before acting like it.
No, that isn't what you said. That might be what you are trying to claim now that you said something ridiculous.