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> When I think of getting a vaccine... I just do it as a part of normal life That's exactly my point. You aren't thinking, you're just following. > What happe
by hunterb123 5y ago
> When I think of getting a vaccine... I just do it as a part of normal life
That's exactly my point. You aren't thinking, you're just following.
> What happened to thinking of other people?
My point as well. It's the same "think of the children" argument that was being discussed above.
That itself is not a reason. People have immunity. The curve is flattened, the goal posts have been moved out of the stadium.
- duxup 5y agoWhat does any of that mean? You're talking about "aren't thinking" but most of your posts just involve nebulous throw away phrases like "People have immunity"... clearly you know that phrase doesn't mean anything right? In the meantime we can all see for ourselves actual impact, real things, in areas where vaccination rates are low. These aren't nebulous concepts like your phrases, they're real.
- hunterb123 5y agoReal things? Please point to the real things. Case numbers! Case numbers! Hospital rates are NEARLY at capacity!!!! Yeah that has been said over and over. Things are fine. Go outside of the city, noone respects this stuff and hasn't the whole time, noone is dying more than usual. Worry about cars and obesity if you want to make a difference.
- jazzyjackson 5y ago:/ just because rural folks don’t care the hospital is full doesn’t mean the hospital isn’t full
- hunterb123 5y agoNot at all what I said. The hospital isn't full. Show me a single hospital that is OVER or AT capacity. All the fear mongering articles say is the ICU is at 90%~ They are always around that number. Show me the percentage of covid patients in that ICU. Show me the normal number of the ICU. Worry about obesity if you want to stop the number one and two killers of humans and relieve our healthcare system.
- KittenInABox 5y agoCan you just go to r/nursing and read the 100x stories of nurses saying "I'm actually not an ICU nurse but my floor has been converted to an ICU floor" or "We have 4 nurses for 30 covid patients and I want to scream"?
- hunterb123 5y agoAnecdotes on Reddit. Great source. Don't believe anything you read on Reddit, especially anecdotes.
- KittenInABox 5y agoMaybe go to your local hospital and ask then among their own nursing social circles? They're the people who would have first-hand understanding of how full the ICUs are. I'm not saying I believe everything I read on Reddit, but I know r/nursing is a longtime subreddit of mostly medical people and has a history of being as such for a long time. If I wanted to know what the actual medical field is dealing with day to day, I think a community with a history of being where healthcare people talk about what they're dealing with day to day is a pretty good bet.
- hunterb123 5y agoI have been to the hospital 3 times already and it's fine. My sister is a nurse and she hasn't had a covid patient in over a month. I guess Reddit only gets one type of anecdote. I doubt the other side gets voted up and probably even removed.
- duxup 5y agoAre you saying "Case numbers! Case numbers! Hospital rates are NEARLY at capacity!!!!" isn't real?
- zucked 5y ago> The curve is flattened, the goal posts have been moved out of the stadium. How are you quantifying that? The original intent of flattening the curve was to avoid overwhelming the healthcare system and here we are... overwhelming the healthcare system(s) again. A quick check of capacity of ICU beds in the SE USA shows that on average, hospitals are running 92% capacity(1). Obviously you want right-sized ICU capacity, but I doubt 92% is a comfortable margin. (1)https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-hospitals-near-you.html https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/covid-hospitals-...
- hunterb123 5y agoYou would need to know the normal margin and the % that covid patients are taking for that to be significant.
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