Antivaxers are using Freddie Mercury, who died of AIDS, to mock people trying to stay safe during a public health crisis.

(December 29, 2021 at 4:58 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Antivaxers are using Freddie Mercury, who died of AIDS, to mock people trying to stay safe during a public health crisis.

It's even sadder when you consider they can't be original about making signs

These idiots have managed to drive an ER doctor to quit his job:

Quote:After more than three decades as a physician, the Q maniacs have succeeded in driving me out of providing care to patients. I, like many of my colleagues, am moving into medically-adjacent work, where we can continue to apply our training and decades off knowledge without ever having to come in contact with sick people.

I've been able to deal with the years of patients who attended Google Medical School, and the hours wasted explaining things such as why cinnamon cannot be used to treat diabetes, or that garlic and beetroot can't treat HIV. And Lord save me from essential oils.

COVID and Q finally proved to be the one of amateur "experts" that was too much for me.

More details, including the case that finally broke him here.

I think my family and I have the omicron, and this is good news. I was hoping we would get it. If you're going to catch a variant, this is the one you want. I mean, we're probably all going to catch covid eventually anyways, so I consider us lucky to have caught an extremely benign variant. I got the vaccine, but definitely don't need to worry about getting any booster shots now, ever (not that I was going to take the booster anyways), and I've talked my mother out of getting the booster shot. Not worth the risk.

My symptoms are pretty mild. Common cold symptoms with diarrhea, dizziness, and slight nausea. My dad had it pretty bad for a day or two throwing up and feeling pretty crappy, but it's not so bad now, and now we're going to have gained natural immunity, so hooray!

And Natural immunity is inconsistent and omicron is still dangerous lol

(January 6, 2022 at 9:17 pm)Irreligious Atheist Wrote: I think my family and I have the omicron, and this is good news. I was hoping we would get it. If you're going to catch a variant, this is the one you want. I mean, we're probably all going to catch covid eventually anyways, so I consider us lucky to have caught an extremely benign variant. I got the vaccine, but definitely don't need to worry about getting any booster shots now, ever (not that I was going to take the booster anyways), and I've talked my mother out of getting the booster shot. Not worth the risk.

My symptoms are pretty mild. Common cold symptoms with diarrhea, dizziness, and slight nausea. My dad had it pretty bad for a day or two throwing up and feeling pretty crappy, but it's not so bad now, and now we're going to have gained natural immunity, so hooray!

Such a small message, yet so much bullshit.

(January 7, 2022 at 2:51 am)Deesse23 Wrote:

(January 6, 2022 at 9:17 pm)Irreligious Atheist Wrote: I think my family and I have the omicron, and this is good news. I was hoping we would get it. If you're going to catch a variant, this is the one you want. I mean, we're probably all going to catch covid eventually anyways, so I consider us lucky to have caught an extremely benign variant. I got the vaccine, but definitely don't need to worry about getting any booster shots now, ever (not that I was going to take the booster anyways), and I've talked my mother out of getting the booster shot. Not worth the risk.

My symptoms are pretty mild. Common cold symptoms with diarrhea, dizziness, and slight nausea. My dad had it pretty bad for a day or two throwing up and feeling pretty crappy, but it's not so bad now, and now we're going to have gained natural immunity, so hooray!

Such a small message, yet so much bullshit.

You don't think pretty much everyone is going to get covid eventually, vaxxed or not? Covid is here to stay. Might as well get the weakest variant. Vaccines are not going to end this thing. Time to accept that.

Vaccines won't totally put an end to COVID, but they will, especially if you're boosted, reduce the severity of the symptoms. And while the symptoms are less severe, vaccine or no, there's also the fact that Omicron is a Hell of a lot easier to spread. So, odds are, it'll take far fewer virions to transmit it to anybody. Therefore, you could more easily transmit it to your mother, and it's more likely that she might end up drawing the short end of the stick and get more severe symptoms, especially if she's elderly, and especially if she has fewer vaccinations. And even if it's going to end up becoming endemic, that doesn't mean we should stop bothering to take precautions.

Also, with breakthrough cases becoming more and more prominent, especially as new variants come into being, how sure are we that if you get it now, you'll never have to deal with it again?

(January 7, 2022 at 5:00 am)Rev. Rye Wrote:



Vaccines won't totally put an end to COVID, but they will, especially if you're boosted, reduce the severity of the symptoms. And while the symptoms are less severe, vaccine or no, there's also the fact that Omicron is a Hell of a lot easier to spread. So, odds are, it'll take far fewer virions to transmit it to anybody. Therefore, you could more easily transmit it to your mother, and it's more likely that she might end up drawing the short end of the stick and get more severe symptoms, especially if she's elderly, and especially if she has fewer vaccinations. And even if it's going to end up becoming endemic, that doesn't mean we should stop bothering to take precautions.

Also, with breakthrough cases becoming more and more prominent, especially as new variants come into being, how sure are we that if you get it now, you'll never have to deal with it again?

Sure, I may get it again in the future, but I'll take that chance with a 99.9 % chance of survival, and I've had two shots plus the infection, so I'll be safe for a good while. I'm not taking a new shot every 3 months for years to come. That's not what I signed up for when I took the initial shots. My mother only really has headaches from it. Minor symptoms. You still think she needs the booster at this exact moment when getting infected gives you better immunity? Sure, it might give you slightly better protection if you get the booster after getting infected, but imo it's overkill and not a necessity, and with a possible bad reaction to the vaccine, it's not worth it for the slightly better protection it provides when you're already sitting in such a good spot, since you already have better protection and immunity than people who've just gotten the 2 shots and the booster. Maybe in 10 months or a year it might make sense for her to get another shot, but not anytime soon.

I suspect the normalization of COVID isn’t going to be much different than influenza: It’ll become a seasonal thing and you’ll get your shot every year. Some of the people inoculated will still fall ill and some of those will die. 

Boru