Coronavirus (COVID-19 Outbreak) (65 Viewers)

Oct 3, 2004
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Whatsup Haytham! What you been up to? Besides necroing old threads lol
Wallahi Oz I am fine. Nice to see you still active as well. I hope life treating you well.

Since we're in a C0vid thread. I didn't sift thru the entire thing but how was the debate here?

I had a staunch Anti Vaxxer in my office since day one in 2020 said f*ck masks and f*ck needles. And he used to openly shame people for wearing a mask and engage in heated debates often getting aggressive.

Anyway he is in complete la la land now and telling everyone "I told you so..hahaha all you triple vaxxers how you doing? I'm un vaxxed un masked, caught the flue and I lived to prove all of you are sheep."

To be clear. I'm not a pro vaxxer. But I'm definitely filed under the hypocrites that said in March 2020 "I hope they develop a vaxx for this."

Then when the Vax was put out, I was like fuuuuckkk that I ain't getting the jab. My wife, a hypochondriac herself, got upset and I eventually took "1 jab" as in...I didn't take the follow up one of the "1st jab". I'm proudly half vaccined LOL.

I got c0vid three times btw. And I'm fine. Suffered the basic body aches and headaches with low fever (38C).

In light of what we learned, with hindsight 20/20 ...what are all of your thoughts on lockdown? The vaxx? The government's police state approach to making staging indoor mandatory, mask mandatory and vaxx's mandatory?

I'm not trying to be Alex Jones, but I'll be damned wasn't it suspicious as fuck?

My ex boss resigned on the eve of c0vid and joined Sanofi. Pure fucking luck and she made a killing in bonuses thanks to the pandemic (plandemic?).

RIP to all the people who died in C0vid. even my dad ex cancer patient with a very weakened immune system got it twice and survived it. He's in his 70s. And was a Marlboro red smoker all his life. (He's been smoke free for about 15 years tho). On the other hand my friends dad, also an ex cancer patient got C0vid and died within a week of it. :(

I genuinely don't know what is the right opinion on this but my take is: Yes it is a real virus. It has different impacts in different people. The vaccine for it is legit. It shouldn't be mandatory. A mask should be worn in case, but again not mandatory. Did we need to lock down the entire planet? I ....don't think so.
 

swag

L'autista
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Sep 23, 2003
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Wallahi Oz I am fine. Nice to see you still active as well. I hope life treating you well.

Since we're in a C0vid thread. I didn't sift thru the entire thing but how was the debate here?

I had a staunch Anti Vaxxer in my office since day one in 2020 said f*ck masks and f*ck needles. And he used to openly shame people for wearing a mask and engage in heated debates often getting aggressive.

Anyway he is in complete la la land now and telling everyone "I told you so..hahaha all you triple vaxxers how you doing? I'm un vaxxed un masked, caught the flue and I lived to prove all of you are sheep."

To be clear. I'm not a pro vaxxer. But I'm definitely filed under the hypocrites that said in March 2020 "I hope they develop a vaxx for this."

Then when the Vax was put out, I was like fuuuuckkk that I ain't getting the jab. My wife, a hypochondriac herself, got upset and I eventually took "1 jab" as in...I didn't take the follow up one of the "1st jab". I'm proudly half vaccined LOL.

I got c0vid three times btw. And I'm fine. Suffered the basic body aches and headaches with low fever (38C).

In light of what we learned, with hindsight 20/20 ...what are all of your thoughts on lockdown? The vaxx? The government's police state approach to making staging indoor mandatory, mask mandatory and vaxx's mandatory?

I'm not trying to be Alex Jones, but I'll be damned wasn't it suspicious as fuck?

My ex boss resigned on the eve of c0vid and joined Sanofi. Pure fucking luck and she made a killing in bonuses thanks to the pandemic (plandemic?).

RIP to all the people who died in C0vid. even my dad ex cancer patient with a very weakened immune system got it twice and survived it. He's in his 70s. And was a Marlboro red smoker all his life. (He's been smoke free for about 15 years tho). On the other hand my friends dad, also an ex cancer patient got C0vid and died within a week of it. :(

I genuinely don't know what is the right opinion on this but my take is: Yes it is a real virus. It has different impacts in different people. The vaccine for it is legit. It shouldn't be mandatory. A mask should be worn in case, but again not mandatory. Did we need to lock down the entire planet? I ....don't think so.
Nice seeing you back at least for this, sir.

Yeah, I had Covid once or twice.

That said, everybody is dunking on hindsight. Which is completely ingenuous. One of my best friends was head of the county hospital's surgery ward, and he told me how much all the docs in the early days thought they were going to work to die and bring that home and kill all their families. For real. We didn't know much of anything. Remember that was in the days they told people not to wear masks, because they couldn't probably put them on properly and they didn't have enough to go around for medical teams.

People with hindsight whine about six-feet distances, closed schools, etc. now. Worse is that they drone on like they survived the holocaust because someone at the entrance to Target told them to put on a mask. Complete snowflakes considering that a million Americans are dead.

A lot of people lamented the horros of "lockdowns" as if they survived China in 2021 when they bolted families into buildings for months, when in reality all they did was stay in their homes for a couple of weeks with an OK to go out and exercise.

Was there over-reaction? Assuredly. The costs of under-reaction aren't arguably better.

Was the jab a good thing? Absolutely. At least for self-protection. Even before Covid, it's always the case that vaccines are tested for infection but not transmission. Why? It's faster to reach statistical significance and there are far fewer problems with controls in a randomized control trial.

So it infuriated me when folks like the Biden administration said if you get a shot you don't have to wear a mask. As if talking to a child and offering them a cookie. When the actual science suggested that was nonsense, because one is more for infection and masks primarily for transmission. Then you know policy is trying to behavior hack society rather than speaking truthfully.

Point is that everyone, well intended or not, got into the manipulation game with this.
 

Seven

In bocca al lupo, Fabio.
Jun 25, 2003
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That said, everybody is dunking on hindsight. Which is completely ingenuous. One of my best friends was head of the county hospital's surgery ward, and he told me how much all the docs in the early days thought they were going to work to die and bring that home and kill all their families. For real. We didn't know much of anything. Remember that was in the days they told people not to wear masks, because they couldn't probably put them on properly and they didn't have enough to go around for medical teams.
Both of my parents are physicians and my mother is part of some type of flu task force, which was initially founded in response to the Mexican flu back in 2009. I distinctively remember her calling up relatives to warn them this might be extremely dangerous a couple of weeks before we went in lockdown.

Back then I also worked for a law firm that did almost exclusively medical liability cases and I was basically in and out of hospitals for meetings with doctors and nurses and stuff. The mood became more grim every day. Again, this was before the pandemic actually reached us, but there was real fear this might wipe out part of our society.

It's easy to point fingers afterwards and say there was an overreaction. At the time though most doctors were very worried.
 

Wings

Banter era connoiseur
Contributor
Jul 15, 2002
21,543
Caught covid for the first time. I didn't even know I had it. I was in NYC for a week & when I got back home some colleagues had tested positive. I took a test and it was positive.
Luckily I was completely symptom free but I self isolated for 8 days. Finally am negative & can go out!
 

Alex-444

Senior Member
Sep 5, 2005
29,896
Caught covid for the first time. I didn't even know I had it. I was in NYC for a week & when I got back home some colleagues had tested positive. I took a test and it was positive.
Luckily I was completely symptom free but I self isolated for 8 days. Finally am negative & can go out!
I thought he was gone
 

Fab Fragment

Senior Member
Dec 22, 2018
4,069
Caught covid for the first time. I didn't even know I had it. I was in NYC for a week & when I got back home some colleagues had tested positive. I took a test and it was positive.
Luckily I was completely symptom free but I self isolated for 8 days. Finally am negative & can go out!
Glad to hear that you're feeling good.

BTW, didn't you know that there is no such thing as COVID-19? And even if there is COVID-19, then only the Democrats get it!
 

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