Don't want to bring the COVID thread back to the top Just have a question.

We've had several mini-bursts of Covid in the past year. The vaccine is 94% effective though, so it's just a matter of time before it gets snuffed out for good. Keep your booster shots up to date. Mask up and make sure you are following social distancing protocols. I think you may be in a higher risk class, so you may want to consider an N95 mask. A bubble if you want maximum protection.

 

It’s going around at my work.

 

A combination of the media losing interest and fear of the deranged anti-vaxxers like Q here.

My vaccinated and boosted wife got it for the third time last month. She works in a school.

 

Good thing she took at least three shots! They really worked well. I am sure you believe she would have been on deaths door if she had not taken them…

 

NIAGARA FALLS! Slowly, I turned. Step by step...

 

I think what Okee’s condescending post misses is that COVID is no longer a novel disease and is not being treated like one. It was long suspected by most scientists that we’d have COVID with us indefinitely. So it appears.

 

Okee’s post misses nothing really. We botched this thing. And trying to blame the insanity in this being a novel virus does not pass the smell test.

We just had a poster tell me that if we did not spend the money/do the lockdowns/all the insane things we did. That we would lose 5-10% of our population. They then tried to back up and say that 5-10% was based on the early days of Italy. Which is even more ridiculous considering we knew case fatality rates and ages of those dying. Any public health official/epidemiologist worth anything could see this. But we silenced those who tried to get reality out (Great Barrington Declaration for example). The censoring to push the propaganda was at a crazy level. And they cried wolf so bad that now we could have a real problem if we do end up with a serious disease one day. The few destroyed and caused generational damage to the trust in public health.

 

maybe let’s leave this thread to medically backed covid info. It might actually help some people. We know you’re an anti vaxer. Maybe we can get a few other inputs.

 

How well did your natural immunity work out for you?

And election denier. Tells you ALL you need to know. Lock your doors.

 

I know a few (3) people that had never had it that got it in the last 4 weeks. The newest strain is apparently taking down a lot of the people who had been seemingly immune up to this point.

 

A 16 year old kid I work with got it last week. Had to be hospitalized for several days but is back home now. Not the demographic you expect to be hit hard by Covid but hit hard he was.

 

I think this point is a bit orthogonal to 51’s question, which I took to be about media coverage today.

As for point, I don’t think you and I are going to agree because we seem to have fundamentally different approaches to decision making under uncertainty. You seem to value outcomes over process, and I am the opposite. If someone babysits my kid and I come home to find the kid happily playing in the street, I’m not happy about this. Even though the kid is fine, this outcome doesn’t justify the bad process. Now maybe after living somewhere for years, you come to understand your street is simply not dangerous for play. But let’s imagine it’s a novel street none of us has been on. What precautions should we take? What if we have scientists telling us the last 10 streets were all safe, so you shouldn’t worry about this one? Frankly, I’m just not going to be ok putting my kid in the street in this scenario, regardless of the science. The stakes are too high.

Again, I realize you don’t employ the same approach to risk management. For you, it was clear evidently from day 1 that this novel disease could not be harmful. That’s possible, but I don’t have as much faith in empirical science, as this kind of science is simply difficult to get right. We’ve made all kinds of mistakes in this arena, eg suggesting margarine is better than butter, only to realize we hadn’t yet the data to make such a claim. I am happy to accept that your approach is not without merit. Sometimes we have to trust our scientists. However, I don't think my approach is without merit either.

 

Sure. If you looked at the data. You would have known what the censored said in the beginning was correct.

 

No different than those that took the shot. And the disease itself was very mild. Unlike many of those who took the shot. But that really is not why…

 

I forgot about shelter-in-place. That is one step between an N95 and a bubble he could take. I did not mean this to be condescending. I'm a Dr. Fauci fanboy.

 

How do you know you got Covid ?