A new COVID vaccine is due next month, but health experts and analysts say it is likely to be coolly received even as hospitalizations from "Eris", a variant of the Omicron form of the coronavirus, rise around the country.
I’m not saying that I love catching Covid because I can’t help but ignore public health guidance - it’s because I’ll be the only one to catch it out of a group of people every. Damn. Time.
I’m also not trying to get people sick, I work entirely remote and really only see friends and family - but won’t go anywhere socially if I’m sick with anything.
At the end of the day, you could live in an antiviral bubble filled with bleach but some random person could cough or touch something they interacted with and make your grandparents sick.
All you and your grandparents can really do is take precautions, and enjoy your loved ones.
Also, I’d say your comment is pretty disingenuous and condescending, it assumes the only way to not kill your grandparents is by getting vaccinated.
Unless they live in a vault, they’re gonna be exposed to everything life can throw at them. If you’re healthy, but still worried about being asymptotic you can take Covid tests, or if you’re their only caretaker you can wrap yourself up hazmat style, it’s not like everyone working at a hospital died to Covid exposure, or made 100% of everyone they interacted with sick.
I’m definitely pro vaccine, but it’s not some magic security blanket - It’s a risk mitigation tool at best
Did we not just go through the single largest pandemic of the century where 7 million people died? Saved by vaccines. And the lessons learnt from that are equal to “live in an antiviral bubble filled with bleach”. Wow.
We all want to get back to normal life. And are by getting vaccinated and not blowing off the concerns of those who are not quite as lucky as you.
How did you take any of my comment as anti vaccine or public health guidance??
You picked up on obvious sarcasm (hyperbole?) and got mega triggered and somehow didn’t glean anything else from my original comment.
In case you missed it, a single person taking the absolute maximum amount of caution isn’t going to offer 100% protection.
Get vaccinated, don’t go out if your sick, wash your hands and don’t be a dick. Good for pandemics, and regular life.
Not that hard, but clearly it’s far too much for some people. Which is why all the precaution in the world (and bleach) won’t beat out something like Covid as these precautions did for less contagious pandemics that were eventually (mostly) wiped out.
I was not suggesting you were making light of catching covid. I was acknowledging and joining in your little joke.
I never claimed this is the only step I take towards not killing my grandparents. Nor that that’s the only benefit I or the people around me get from my being vaccinated. I also wear a seatbelt and don’t drive drunk, but stating that doesn’t mean I’m claiming I am thus immune from car crashes.
Either you don’t know what the word “disingenuous” means, or you’re just being rude.
Dude, idk how your original comment reads as joining in on the joke, maybe my reading comprehension sucks but all I’m seeing is condescending and sarcasm
I personally vaccinate because I love my grandparents and would like to avoid killing them.
(Not saying your love of having covid is less valid than my love of my grandparents, just offering another perspective for readers. Love is love ❤️)
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Same! See to it that they also get vaccinated and they don’t forget it. You can still transmit!
I’m not saying that I love catching Covid because I can’t help but ignore public health guidance - it’s because I’ll be the only one to catch it out of a group of people every. Damn. Time.
I’m also not trying to get people sick, I work entirely remote and really only see friends and family - but won’t go anywhere socially if I’m sick with anything.
At the end of the day, you could live in an antiviral bubble filled with bleach but some random person could cough or touch something they interacted with and make your grandparents sick.
All you and your grandparents can really do is take precautions, and enjoy your loved ones.
Also, I’d say your comment is pretty disingenuous and condescending, it assumes the only way to not kill your grandparents is by getting vaccinated.
Unless they live in a vault, they’re gonna be exposed to everything life can throw at them. If you’re healthy, but still worried about being asymptotic you can take Covid tests, or if you’re their only caretaker you can wrap yourself up hazmat style, it’s not like everyone working at a hospital died to Covid exposure, or made 100% of everyone they interacted with sick.
I’m definitely pro vaccine, but it’s not some magic security blanket - It’s a risk mitigation tool at best
Did we not just go through the single largest pandemic of the century where 7 million people died? Saved by vaccines. And the lessons learnt from that are equal to “live in an antiviral bubble filled with bleach”. Wow.
We all want to get back to normal life. And are by getting vaccinated and not blowing off the concerns of those who are not quite as lucky as you.
How did you take any of my comment as anti vaccine or public health guidance??
You picked up on obvious sarcasm (hyperbole?) and got mega triggered and somehow didn’t glean anything else from my original comment.
In case you missed it, a single person taking the absolute maximum amount of caution isn’t going to offer 100% protection.
Get vaccinated, don’t go out if your sick, wash your hands and don’t be a dick. Good for pandemics, and regular life.
Not that hard, but clearly it’s far too much for some people. Which is why all the precaution in the world (and bleach) won’t beat out something like Covid as these precautions did for less contagious pandemics that were eventually (mostly) wiped out.
Ok you got really defensive there, settle down.
I was not suggesting you were making light of catching covid. I was acknowledging and joining in your little joke.
I never claimed this is the only step I take towards not killing my grandparents. Nor that that’s the only benefit I or the people around me get from my being vaccinated. I also wear a seatbelt and don’t drive drunk, but stating that doesn’t mean I’m claiming I am thus immune from car crashes.
Either you don’t know what the word “disingenuous” means, or you’re just being rude.
Dude, idk how your original comment reads as joining in on the joke, maybe my reading comprehension sucks but all I’m seeing is condescending and sarcasm