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Diez
Moderator
Apr 14, 2005
70,776
Do you not remember how bad it was a year ago without vaccines? Even now, unvaccinated people are getting absolutely wrecked by Covid. And it’s not just about being hospitalized or dying, I know a few people who had long Covid and it basically ruined a year of their lives.

PS don’t believe in anecdotal evidence, but this subreddit is an excellent reality check.
www.Reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward
Interestingly i remember it being less deadly, vax is not the way out of this.
 

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ALC

Ohaulick
Oct 28, 2010
46,524
Do you not remember how bad it was a year ago without vaccines? Even now, unvaccinated people are getting absolutely wrecked by Covid. And it’s not just about being hospitalized or dying, I know a few people who had long Covid and it basically ruined a year of their lives.

PS don’t believe in anecdotal evidence, but this subreddit is an excellent reality check.
www.Reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward
lmao this is great

 

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Ohaulick
Oct 28, 2010
46,524
Why? If he's young he's right. And it's not hubris, it's facts. I'd consider the reply to be stupid.

Tell that 800.000 people :scared:
people who say survival of the fittest in the 21st century are fucking retarded. At that point, what’s the point of hospitals, medicine, etc?
 

DAiDEViL

Senior Member
Feb 21, 2015
64,580
people who say survival of the fittest in the 21st century are fucking retarded. At that point, what’s the point of hospitals, medicine, etc?
I'm all for getting the elderly and risk groups vaccinated, and If I'd belong to that group I'd have gotten the jab a long time ago.

Guy here referred to a young healthy person and got as reply the 800.000 death tally, as if the young were dropping dead like crazy from this when it couldn't be further from the truth.
 

Post Ironic

Senior Member
Feb 9, 2013
42,253
Why? If he's young he's right. And it's not hubris, it's facts. I'd consider the reply to be stupid.

Tell that 800.000 people :scared:
You are still far more likely to be hospitalized by Covid as a young person than to get any sort of serious vaccine side effects. Doesn’t mean you should be forced to take it, but it’s still a fact.

Median age of both hospitalization and death plummeted during delta waves, mostly because the elderly had the highest vaccine uptake rates. Hospitalizations and deaths soared in the 19-49 and 50-64 age groups, compared to initial waves. And almost exclusively in the unvaccinated.
 

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Ohaulick
Oct 28, 2010
46,524
I'm all for getting the elderly and risk groups vaccinated, and If I'd belong to that group I'd have gotten the jab a long time ago.

Guy here referred to a young healthy person and got as reply the 800.000 death tally, as if the young were dropping dead like crazy from this when it couldn't be further from the truth.
if we had medication for Covid, I’d agree but we don’t and the best way to curtail spread is mass vaccination, it’s pretty simple
 

Post Ironic

Senior Member
Feb 9, 2013
42,253
I'm all for getting the elderly and risk groups vaccinated, and If I'd belong to that group I'd have gotten the jab a long time ago.

Guy here referred to a young healthy person and got as reply the 800.000 death tally, as if the young were dropping dead like crazy from this when it couldn't be further from the truth.
How many of these are there in ‘murica though? Things like obesity and diabetes and smoking and the like being significant markers for increasing risk. 34 million people in the US have diabetes… I think the number is similar for smokers… the adult obesity rate in 2020 was 42.4% which is insane. I imagine quite a few of those “Herman Cain Awards” are going to anti-vax, anti-mask, anti-restrictions folks who think Covid isn’t a big deal because they have a strong immune system and are healthy young people when the reality is anything but.
 

DAiDEViL

Senior Member
Feb 21, 2015
64,580
How many of these are there in ‘murica though? Things like obesity and diabetes and smoking and the like being significant markers for increasing risk. 34 million people in the US have diabetes… I think the number is similar for smokers… the adult obesity rate in 2020 was 42.4% which is insane. I imagine quite a few of those “Herman Cain Awards” are going to anti-vax, anti-mask, anti-restrictions folks who think Covid isn’t a big deal because they have a strong immune system and are healthy young people when the reality is anything but.
Yeah, you might have a good point there.
Who knows what they consider healthy.
 

campionesidd

Senior Member
Mar 16, 2013
16,787
How many of these are there in ‘murica though? Things like obesity and diabetes and smoking and the like being significant markers for increasing risk. 34 million people in the US have diabetes… I think the number is similar for smokers… the adult obesity rate in 2020 was 42.4% which is insane. I imagine quite a few of those “Herman Cain Awards” are going to anti-vax, anti-mask, anti-restrictions folks who think Covid isn’t a big deal because they have a strong immune system and are healthy young people when the reality is anything but.
A lot of them are from their 40s and 50s. And yes, that’s very young because average life expectancy in developed countries is well above 80+
 

Post Ironic

Senior Member
Feb 9, 2013
42,253
Yeah, you might have a good point there.
Who knows what they consider healthy.
Definitely not attacking your choice or point of view. I’m a-ok with people choosing not to get vaccinated. I considered the same for myself for several weeks before ultimately deciding I was fine with getting vaxxed.

This part isn’t directed at you but I just find the arguments that the vaccines are ineffective/useless as a reason not to get them beyond silly. Every single analysis/study has shown they’ve made a huge difference in hospitalization and death rates compared side by side with unvaccinated populations. Personal preference is a fine reason to not get vaxxed. No need to make up nonsense to justify it. Unfortunately even things like getting vaccinated have entered our culture wars and that just sends everyone off the deep end into the absurd.
 

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L'autista
Administrator
Sep 23, 2003
84,749
How exactly did vaccine help when you have crashed medical system? Huge chunk of people took the vaccine. Situation with the hospitals is exactly the same like before. If so many people took the vaccine then how come hospitals aren't at 50-60% capacity?
People think lockdowns didn't help because the virus didn't vanish. If you take that standard, pretty much everything we do is going to be a failure.

Does that justify doing nothing?

Not if you don't want your ICU visits to be in the next country over.

Point is it would be way worse if people didn't take the vaccines, hard as that may be to believe.

Always been a dream of mine to move abroad and start a new life somewhere.

Now with just over 24 hours left in my home country, I feel heartbroken leaving. It's like there's a black hole in my chest.

Has anyone ever felt this way when moving countries? Man, I'm gonna miss my family.
Bummer. Sorry you feel that. As someone who did that 3.5 years ago, it was one of the best moves I ever made in my life. Yes, I missed home ... I'm back in the US for the first time in two years right now ... but then again I was never "heartbroken". And that wasn't so much the dumpster fire going on in the US as much as being driven my curiosity in a new culture where I didn't yet belong but wanted to learn.

Some of that might depend on how you identify yourself. Some expats cling to their former countries and identities in an exaggerated way, which is why you get Mexico NT fans in the US who are as loco as they come. Even if the people in Mexico would now think they're a bunch of half-gringos.

My advice? Figure out what feels like home for you, where you can make it. You may find that you're not fully home in your new country, visit back and also feel you're not fully home there either. The classic immigrant experience.

Coming back here after two years has been good, but it has been more of a re-entry experience than I expected.

I would say that you can always return home for a visit but due to the carbon rationing to come that's not gonna be possible for much longer. So get those goodbyes in properly.
Yeah, being here for two months, I've treated this visit as "being a tourist in my former life", and it's pretty much playing out that way.

Get money out of vaccines put it into makeshift facilities to address capacity. Forego completely the vaccine model, encourage all types of treatments and let the population develop natural immunity. The message should be your way out of this is being fit not vaxxed.
100% agreement in the multi-pronged approach. Any country that banks its national health security solely on vaccines is gonna get beyootch slapped. Single measures always have weaknesses and failures. A 10-foot wall is only as good as the lock on the door to get in. Or the nearby sales of 12-foot ladders.

There needs to be aggressive testing. There needs to be community adherence. There needs to be social conveniences that allows sick people to function without infecting tons of other people (paid sick days, access to health care, etc.). There needs to be better treatments for people who do come down with it to minimize impact. There needs to be consideration also for economics, mental health, ongoing health care concerns like cancer tests and treatments, and things like functional education. People also need options for getting exercise and having some measure of socializing. Invest in dynamic capacity in ICUs and the health care system in general.

And while people who get ill shouldn't necessarily be criminalized, they need to be segregated. And plans need to be fluid, dynamic, clear at the time, and people need to STFU when rules need to change.

Too much personal responsibility
It's funny how people want the freedom to do whatever they want, but with no consequences nor responsibilities when bad things happen.

Do you not remember how bad it was a year ago without vaccines? Even now, unvaccinated people are getting absolutely wrecked by Covid. And it’s not just about being hospitalized or dying, I know a few people who had long Covid and it basically ruined a year of their lives.

PS don’t believe in anecdotal evidence, but this subreddit is an excellent reality check.
www.Reddit.com/r/HermanCainAward
Reddit is for troglodytes. My life is richer for not spending a minute more in that clickhole.
 

Fred

Senior Member
Oct 2, 2003
41,113
People think lockdowns didn't help because the virus didn't vanish. If you take that standard, pretty much everything we do is going to be a failure.

Does that justify doing nothing?

Not if you don't want your ICU visits to be in the next country over.

Point is it would be way worse if people didn't take the vaccines, hard as that may be to believe.



Bummer. Sorry you feel that. As someone who did that 3.5 years ago, it was one of the best moves I ever made in my life. Yes, I missed home ... I'm back in the US for the first time in two years right now ... but then again I was never "heartbroken". And that wasn't so much the dumpster fire going on in the US as much as being driven my curiosity in a new culture where I didn't yet belong but wanted to learn.

Some of that might depend on how you identify yourself. Some expats cling to their former countries and identities in an exaggerated way, which is why you get Mexico NT fans in the US who are as loco as they come. Even if the people in Mexico would now think they're a bunch of half-gringos.

My advice? Figure out what feels like home for you, where you can make it. You may find that you're not fully home in your new country, visit back and also feel you're not fully home there either. The classic immigrant experience.

Coming back here after two years has been good, but it has been more of a re-entry experience than I expected.



Yeah, being here for two months, I've treated this visit as "being a tourist in my former life", and it's pretty much playing out that way.



100% agreement in the multi-pronged approach. Any country that banks its national health security solely on vaccines is gonna get beyootch slapped. Single measures always have weaknesses and failures. A 10-foot wall is only as good as the lock on the door to get in. Or the nearby sales of 12-foot ladders.

There needs to be aggressive testing. There needs to be community adherence. There needs to be social conveniences that allows sick people to function without infecting tons of other people (paid sick days, access to health care, etc.). There needs to be better treatments for people who do come down with it to minimize impact. There needs to be consideration also for economics, mental health, ongoing health care concerns like cancer tests and treatments, and things like functional education. People also need options for getting exercise and having some measure of socializing. Invest in dynamic capacity in ICUs and the health care system in general.

And while people who get ill shouldn't necessarily be criminalized, they need to be segregated. And plans need to be fluid, dynamic, clear at the time, and people need to STFU when rules need to change.



It's funny how people want the freedom to do whatever they want, but with no consequences nor responsibilities when bad things happen.



Reddit is for troglodytes. My life is richer for not spending a minute more in that clickhole.
Haha! 3 years in, and thats exactly what happens to me. I come back to the UAE where i grew up and lived most of my life, and don't fully feel at home anymore. Even though I usually go back to the house where i grew up. If you told me this is how i'd feel 3 years ago, I'd tell you thats impossible.
 

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