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You're incredibly wrong. The vaccine is safe. It works. And it's the only tool that will end the pandemic. What does someone need to say to you for you to star
by malcolmgreaves 5y ago
You're incredibly wrong. The vaccine is safe. It works. And it's the only tool that will end the pandemic.
What does someone need to say to you for you to start caring about other people?
Or is this some bogus "the man is making money!" lines of thought? You realize that the vaccine makers have already made their money...right? They're all been paid to make the vaccines: that's why they're free at point of distribution. You getting a shot doesn't get them any richer. In fact, you can help big pharma make more money by getting sick. When you are slowly suffocating to death as your lungs fail, in your panic, you'll absolutely ask for anything to be out into your body for the hope that you won't die in agony (there's no treatments or cures, so it'll be a crap shoot).
Though, maybe you will avoid the same end as so many other Americans...
I'm glad you said that you won't get hospitalized because you have said that you refuse to be vaccinated. Because, honestly, while I hope that you don't die of this extremely preventable disease, I also hope that you don't waste other people's time. I have family that work in the ER. They've been doing this for over a year now: they exhausted themselves trying to save people before there was a way to prevent COVID.
Now....after having to interact with increasingly hostile patients (because only the unvaxxed are getting sick enough to be hospitalized) they don't really have any patience anymore. t
They're tired of seeing scared unvaxxers coming in, being angry, and demanding the vaccine as they're dying. Only to get more hostile as they have to explain to them that there's no cures, no treatment, and that it's way too late to get vaccinated. They're past the point of empathy for people that can't even do the bate minimum to take care of their own health.
And, by the way, the unvaxxed are the only ones dying of COVID now. At worst, vaxxed folk come into the ICU for a day or two; never need a ventilator. The unvaxxed come in incredibly sick; more and more I get reports that young (20-40) are getting deathly ill. And, even more shocking, delta hits kids much harder than alpha: they're saying in droves now too. It's no longer a disease of the elderly and feeble anymore.
I've heard enough horror stories to say with sincerity that I hope you don't get vented. It's a terrible way to die: to have your last days on earth be around strangers looking down at you through masks and goggles while you're physically unable to speak. Slowly suffocating to death as a machine works increasingly harder to force air into your decaying lungs. Once you go on a vent, your chances of survival are depressingly low.
Good luck.
- jjav 5y ago> And, by the way, the unvaxxed are the only ones dying of COVID now. At worst, vaxxed folk come into the ICU for a day or two; never need a ventilator. Strictly speaking that's not 100% true, there have been covid deaths of fully vaccinated people. I personally know of one here in CA. Of course, these are few and far between, nearly all the deaths are unvaccinated people, so the rest of your points stand.
- ghoward 5y agoYou're about as wrong as me. > The vaccine is safe. How can we know that without long-term studies? > It works. Yet its effectiveness is decreasing with each new variant. > And it's the only tool that will end the pandemic. COVID is endemic now. Nothing will "end" the pandemic. > You realize that the vaccine makers have already made their money. They're all been paid...right? You getting a shot doesn't get them any richer. First off, no, my decision is not about making Big Pharma more money, but you are simply wrong here. Yes, they have already made money making some amount of doses, but if I get the vaccine, that adds to the demand, which raises the price, which causes them to make more and sell more, which makes them more money. > I hope that you don't die of this extremely preventable disease. I hope you don't get vented and have your last days on earth be around strangers looking down at you through masks and goggles while you're physically unable to speak +because, you know, there'll be a giant tube in your throat). I have already made the decision that if I get that sick, I won't get treatment because I did not get the vaccine. So talking about how I don't care about people is entirely wrong as well. I care about people, so I won't take the hospital bed. Also, I care about their rights, so I will die on that hill. Also, I suspect that I've already had COVID. I thought it was a cold at the time. So I don't think getting the vaccine would do me any good.