Congratulations, anti-vaxxers! You murdered 232,000 Americans with your nonsense.

[Hamish Howl]

You are making a false equivalency that contracting COVID is an immediate death sentence. This is factually not the case.

Yes. We only arrest drunk drivers because EVERY SINGLE TIME someone drives drunk, they smash into a minivan and kill a family of 5.

UNNNNNNNNNNNNNG. Jesus. The stupidity exposure here is physically painful.

 

[X Factor]

Most people felt unwell for a day or two after being vaccinated, common reaction to any vaccine. Some people had no reaction to the vaccine at all. Doesn't mean it didn't work. NO ONE ended up on a ventilator simply from getting the Covid vaccine.

I don’t disagree. I’m not making any claims about the vax being poisonous or deadly or anything. Many vaccines have uncomfortable side effects and that doesn’t mean they aren’t good or necessary but that comment was in response to someone deriding the notion of “getting sick to avoid getting sick,” when, in fact, that’s actually relatively common.

 

[Hamish Howl]

Considering that the outbreak claimed the lives of two friends and two neighbors in my age group in the first weeks....I am THANKFUL for only feeling shitty for a day

I lost a couple of employees that were literally irreplaceable, leaving aside the fact that they were also my friends and colleagues.

 

[Fearandloathing]

Yes, because REAL MEN expose themselves to viruses to show everyone how tough they are.

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Real tough guys like this have stunt men pretend for them.

 

[Jessie C]

Just those places or anywhere where you're around other people?



Well. At least you're honest.

I got the initial vaccine but have not had any boosters. I guess I'm a murderer.

Only if you have an active case of it and you don't quarantine, and you breathe on someone who dies because they caught it from you.

 

[Fletch]

No one ever said it would require 100% participation, but because of the antivaxers, not nearly enough were vaccinated to eliminate it.

Covid will never be eliminated. It will be with us forever.

 

[X Factor]

Sure it was. But that doesn't mean the person had covid. MRNA doesn't work that way.

So you felt shitty for a couple of days. Beats dying.

So you’re saying that getting sick to avoid getting sick was actually an effective strategy.

 

[Hamish Howl]

Covid will never be eliminated. It will be with us forever.

We had a chance to eliminate it, like we did with smallpox, but the right wing losers couldn't act right.

 

[Hamish Howl]

So you’re saying that getting sick to avoid getting sick was actually an effective strategy.

If you have the vax, can you transmit covid to someone else strictly by virtue of the shot?

 

[Fletch]

Because those are the places you will most likely run into sick people.

But masks dont protect the wearer. Seems you libs learned nothing from the pandemic

 

[Bodecea]

Yes. Those who aren't up-to-date on their vaccinations who are infected are now spreading it to others.

At least not Delta anymore.

 

[Ginger Ale]

Do you still mask up around people?

I do during an outbreak of Covid or the Flu, (mainly winter in crowded places) although I masked before Covid so, doesn't hurt my mind at all, and I don't panic about breathing in a mask. You can thank Japan for my training.

I haven't been sick with anything in ten years, including Covid. I've never had Covid.

The masks work better than the vaccine, and I've also had vaccines for flu and covid. Why? Because it costs me money to get sick, and spread it around to my employees and we service older age communities, so we keep them in mind.
Most of them love it when we wear a mask and little shoe booties to fix their plumbing. Even the Republicans. Go figure.

I think that most republicans get vaccines and the older ones wear masks when Covid is high, I think a few stupid self conscious MAGA's don't and they're loud. Loud enough to influence people and as it looks, kill some people. Very sad indeed.

 

[Hamish Howl]

But masks dont protect the wearer.

You're correct. The idea is that people masking are protecting each other, not themselves.

I realize this is a completely alien idea to MAGA freaks.

Seems you libs learned nothing from the pandemic

Again, I realize this is a completely alien idea to MAGA freaks.

 

[Bodecea]

But masks dont protect the wearer. Seems you libs learned nothing from the pandemic

Masks weren't there to protect the wearer...they were to protect those around the wearer...same as doctors and nurses wearing them during operations. How many times does this have to be pointed out?

 

[Fledermaus]

vaxxing does not stop/inhibit transmission

It does reduce it.

 

[Josie]

At the moment, just those places, because those are places sick people are likely to go.

Nope. I'm going with the science on this. The study dealt with people who had no vaccinations at all.

I thought the science said that you need the boosters?

 

[Fletch]

We had a chance to eliminate it, like we did with smallpox, but the right wing losers couldn't act right.

False and stupid on every level. Spreading disinformation just to further your political hatred is all you seem to have.

 

[Hamish Howl]

I thought the science said that you need the boosters?

I don't know how to make this any clearer:

I AM TALKING ABOUT THE STUDY LINKED IN THE OP. IF YOU WISH TO TALK ABOUT SPECULATIONS OR DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES, YOU ARE FREE TO START ANOTHER THREAD.

 

[Hamish Howl]

False and stupid on every level. Spreading disinformation just to further your political hatred is all you seem to have.

So you're saying we didn't wipe out smallpox?

REALLY?

 

[Fletch]

You're correct. The idea is that people masking are protecting each other, not themselves.

I realize this is a completely alien idea to MAGA freaks.

Again, I realize this is a completely alien idea to MAGA freaks.

No, you just learned it from me but cant bring yourself to admit it. You think masks protect uyou. They dont. And the protection they offer others is severely limited. But keep spreading your hate and disinformation.

 

[eohrnberger]

Yes. We only arrest drunk drivers because EVERY SINGLE TIME someone drives drunk, they smash into a minivan and kill a family of 5.

UNNNNNNNNNNNNNG. Jesus. The stupidity exposure here is physically painful.

Your fear mongering, excessive hyperbole, excessively exaggerated and desire to deny people choice and free will is 'physically painful', and harmful to civil rights.

Mind you that supporting the right to chose doesn't mean being an anti-vaxxer, nor does it mean being pro-vaccination either.
It simply means that each individual has a right to chose for themselves whether to vaccinate or not to vaccinate.

Why are you so frightened of people having a right to chose? A right to chose what's best for them?
Why are you so willing to squash individual's rights so readily?

Scratch a liberal, find a totalitarian, apparently.

 

[Hamish Howl]

No, you just learned it from me but cant bring yourself to admit it. You think masks protect uyou. They dont. And the protection they offer others is severely limited. But keep spreading your hate and disinformation.

I was posting here about this very thing in 2020. So your post is an outright lie.

You should attempt to be more honest. Integrity can actually give you a dopamine hit. Give it a shot.

 

[Ginger Ale]

But masks dont protect the wearer. Seems you libs learned nothing from the pandemic

Were did you hear that? They do, it's just more protection if everyone is wearing them. With a vaccine, and a mask, I've never got Covid and I only wear them now if I have to go to a place during an outbreak, and it's crowded, or close contact with other sick people.


They work even better against the Flu, and who wants that shit. I'm too old to want long Covid, or any complications and I'm married and my husband see's my face enough, I could care less what other people think.

 

[Hamish Howl]

Your fear mongering, excessive hyperbole, excessively exaggerated and desire to deny people choice and free will is 'physically painful', and harmful to civil rights

I don't think plague rats have rights.

They are not people, they are vectors.

 

[Bodecea]

So your strategy is to get sick to avoid getting sick.

That is GENIUS. You should get the Nobel Prize or some shit. They should carve your face on the back side of Mount Rushmore.

I remember being shown this in school in the 60s.