Regardless whether people are getting vaccinated or not, there is a silver lining. The Renaissance emerged after the Bubonic Plague in Italy. So, just got to hold out a little longer and we’ll get some pretty sweet paintings out of this, you’ll see.
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Some officials are a bit slow on the take and don’t realize a 3rd of the country would gladly burn it down to “own the libs.”
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Talk about privilege.
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Is about questioning everything and considering everything.
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That is correct.
The CDC also had this to say about that death count:
For over 5% of these deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned on the death certificate. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 4.0 additional conditions or causes per death.
What they are saying here is that 94% of the deaths involved had on average FOUR comorbidities. So if you had heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and you were over 78 and then tested positive for covid after death, the death was labeled covid. IMO, dying WITH covid is very different than dying OF covid.
Source: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Comorbidities
Also interesting was that somehow cancer and heart disease deaths were reportedly way down last year. Did the lockdowns stop cancer and heart disease? Or were those deaths instead attributed to covid? It’s an interesting question…
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I got my second shot today.
I don’t really like having gotten the vaccine, and I would actually have preferred going without it. I never had any trouble with covid, despite having been very close… and I mean VEEEERY close to some who have had covid. I got tested in accordance with the rules and never got it. As far as I am concerned, I was immune from the get go.
The only reason I took the vaccine, was so that I no longer had to get tested to go to the gym, to go to work, to enter a bar, a restaurant. It was, quite frankly, bullcrap and I hated it.
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Fully vaccinated for COVID and everything else. My blood probably glows in the dark. No regerts!
Seriously, though, yes: I’m vaccinated. My teenager is vaccinated. My husband is vaccinated, and all of our parents are fully vaccinated.
My parents, who live in Arkansas and are as country, conservative, and Trump forever as they come…are both fully vaccinated. Viruses are not political and people who lived through polio and watching babies die of rubella don’t play around with this stuff.
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I got it because
1: I don’t want the chance to have major lung damage.
2: My mom is not in the best of health.
3: I care about my fellow man.
4: My home state of Texas is full of morons.
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I’m a fully vaccinated bovine with two shots of Pfizer, getting it as soon as I could get it back in late March and mid-April. It took a full week of searching once or twice every hour during the day and evening across six websites to finally get an appointment, and that was only after I fell asleep and did one set of searches at 1:30am before crawling into bed.
Unfortunately, I’m also one of those immunocompromised folks, so my doctors were adamant that I get the shots as soon as I could due to my high fatality risk if I were to get Covid. But my level of protection from the vaccine is likely much worse than most people. Some early studies on people like me with the sorts of drugs I need to take show a 50% - 80% reduction in antibodies compared to normal. I’m really hoping they announce the formal recommendation for a third shot for people like me very soon.
The worst part of my situation is that, despite being “fully vaccinated” (e.g., two shots plus two weeks following the final shot), I still have to act like I’m unvaccinated. That means I still need to avoid crowds and especially unvaccinated people as much as I can, always wear a mask outside of the home, only allow people into our house that are fully vaccinated and do not have high levels of exposure to the unvaccinated. Essentially, I’m pretty much still living in “lockdown” despite being vaccinated, along with everyone else in my household so that they can protect me.
Most annoyingly for me, I can’t visit with friends that have unvaccinated members of their family, namely because they have kids under 12 who aren’t eligible yet to get vaccinated. Also, it is not safe for me to eat at a restaurant inside or outside currently, and if we can’t get to herd immunity, possibly indefinitely. It’s a small thing, I know, but such a simple thing I never gave a second thought to before pre-pandemic
If you can get vaccinated folks, get it sooner than later, both for the sake of your own health and life and for those around you that could be impacted if you were to get Covid and spread it to them, like unvaccinated kids plus cows like me that have reduced levels of protection from the vaccines.
/moo 
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The definition of vaccine was recently changed to accommodate the new usage. Take that as you will.
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I think covid usually only killed the oldest and those who were already very sick. And that is what we may have seen in regards to cancer and heart disease patients. They were basically already in a state of total vulnerability, and then covid came and killed them before the cancer or heart disease could - thus death is linked to covid.
But as mentioned, covid usually only killed the oldest and those already very ill.
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Wow.
I literally replied to how that’s entirely incorrect
Everyone I know who got the Pfizer sailed through it. The second dose knocked me on my butt. I was SUPER sick for two days after the 2nd dose, but it disappeared after the second day. How’d it do for you?
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It is telling though that there have been other big anti-vaccine movements in history before this. When the smallpox vaccine came out groups sprung up against it as well, good thing they all failed. Man, imagine history repeating itself.
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Fully vaccinated since mid Feb due to working in healthcare. I’m also vaccinated against stuff I will never come across due to having been in the Navy.
Get vaccinated. It’s not that difficult. It takes a couple of minutes, and while you may get sick for a day or two after it’s not likely to kill you; whereas COVID19 will.
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You just don’t get it. You are responsible for you. I am responsible for me. The two are not interchangeable.
If you truly cared you would take care of yourself and not worry about what other people do, because the measures you go through would be enough to prevent anything anyway. But, you’d rather have power over someone else and how they live.
If you truly cared, you’d have been wearing a mask your whole life, cause that time you sneezed in the line at the grocery store probably infected someone and killed them. Instead of spouting off some nonsense for the last year.
Now, you just want to be seen as the caring person you so desire the rest of the world to see you as. “Look at me, I’m helping.” Which is about as helping as someone sending thoughts and prayers to the person’s family you killed with your sneeze.
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I’ve been vaccinated for EVERYTHING being a military dependent. We got sent overseas to lots of places, so I’ve gotten vaccinated for so many things. Typhus, yellow fever, dengue fever…it’s ridiculous.
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My wife and I got Pfizer and we were both down for the count for 2 days after the second dose, similar to you.
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UPDATED: Johns Hopkins Retracts Article Saying COVID-19 Has ‘Relatively No Effect on Deaths’ in U.S.
The link to the John Hopkins report about death comparasons between the years has been removed. So I will retract my earlier statement that overall deaths in the US did not increase last year. Weird.
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