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Coronavirus (COVID-19) is too exciting for adults to discuss (CLOSED)

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ScarletInMyVeins said:
Let me get this straight. If I'm vaccinated for polio, and contract polio, does that mean I catch a mild cold?

My point is... Why get vaccinated if the vaccines don't work as they should?
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Don’t underestimate the power of the vaccine to restore confidence. Saw an old episode of MASH on MeTv the other night based on the the placebo effect. That’s not me suggesting the vaccine is not the holy grail, just that even if it isn’t, it will more than likely still work small miracles.
 
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ScarletInMyVeins said:
Let me get this straight. If I'm vaccinated for polio, and contract polio, does that mean I catch a mild cold?
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Hey nice strawman.

Even though that wasn’t the question you initially asked, polio is a different virus, likely behaving differently in nature and to a vaccine than the virus that causes COVID. So not an apples-apples comparison.

The data comparing unvaccinated/vaccinated rates of hospitalization and death has been readily available and is compelling. If someone doesn’t accept that, they are being willfully ignorant, obtuse, or both.
 
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ScarletInMyVeins said:
Let me get this straight. If I'm vaccinated for polio, and contract polio, does that mean I catch a mild cold?

My point is... Why get vaccinated if the vaccines don't work as they should?
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The county is just over 50% fully vaccinated now. The reports I’ve seen (npr.org) about recent Covid deaths have said that the unvaccinated now make up close to 99% of the deaths. The vaccines may not be perfect, they haven’t been claimed to be 100% effective, but something that drastically reduces my likelihood of death, or being seriously hospitalized, made sense to me.
 
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Here in the south, in the f*¢king parking lot of a hospital being supportive at 5am, I lost a former co worker (unvaccinated, of course) who came to work sick, coughing, and feverish (fever checks are anti redneck) and her 90+ Mom is in ICU and I'm periodically seeing my co worker's widow when he steps outside.

Meanwhile I'm trying to convince her supervisor who is asleep, and who replaced me, via an admitted assault of text messages......that contact tracing for who she interacted with is essential. As of yesterday he told employees to "check their temps and how they feel" before coming to work as usual.

It's a go¶¶amn wonder they're not all dead down here.
 
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Dr. Josiah Child was holding the line between chaos and order, as he described it, when COVID-19 brought him down.

Child, 56, an emergency medical physician at Los Alamos Medical Center who lives in Santa Fe, became infected in April 2020. Within days, the doctor was struck with a severe case of the illness caused by the coronavirus. He strove to understand the virus — even as pain shook his body and he coughed up blood — so he could better treat other coronavirus patients.

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/n...cle_e5e1bfc0-f543-11eb-9f90-5fa2d4a74433.html
 
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