4 ms·

I was concerned hugging, shaking hands and kissing would be going away due to the pandemic but it seems to have survived... so far: even if for one year or more

I was concerned hugging, shaking hands and kissing would be going away due to the pandemic but it seems to have survived... so far: even if for one year or more it was gone. People were all fist bumping or elbow bumping instead of the traditional hand shake or kiss but now it seems to be going back to kisses (at least between french / belgians / russians for those that I know). Hand shakes are back too. Or, well, they were before the Omicron variant. Because seen that the vaccines either aren't working or are working for a very short duration of time (half the people in ER due to Covid are fully vaccinated), it looks like it's another round of lockdowns / scare tactics. The only clear thing is they're non-sterilizing vaccines: what's not even clear is if they're vaccines at all (I got my shots btw, but apparently I'm in the threadmill now for shots every 9 months...). I don't know if people hugging / kissing / shaking hands can survive several years of pandemic fearmongering.

germinalphrase 5y ago
You think they’re giving people placebo shots?
chaoskanzlerin 5y ago
> (half the people in ER due to Covid are fully vaccinated) I'm sorry to derail, but [citation needed]
- technothrasher 5y ago
  Even if poster was correct, absolute numbers mean nothing. You have to look at rate of hospitalizations between the vaccinated and unvaccinated. Every measure I've seen has shown a much higher rate of hospitalization in the unvaccinated.
ripe 5y ago
> the vaccines either aren't working or are working for a very short duration of time Citation needed. That's an extraordinary statement. The vaccines (at least the ones we have in the US) have very high efficacy and are probably responsible for hundreds of thousands of lives saved to date. For example, Pfizer-BioNTech is 90-95%: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines/Pfizer-BioNTech.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different...

germinalphrase 5y ago

You think they’re giving people placebo shots?

chaoskanzlerin 5y ago

> (half the people in ER due to Covid are fully vaccinated) I'm sorry to derail, but [citation needed]

technothrasher 5y ago
Even if poster was correct, absolute numbers mean nothing. You have to look at rate of hospitalizations between the vaccinated and unvaccinated. Every measure I've seen has shown a much higher rate of hospitalization in the unvaccinated.

ripe 5y ago

> the vaccines either aren't working or are working for a very short duration of time Citation needed. That's an extraordinary statement. The vaccines (at least the ones we have in the US) have very high efficacy and are probably responsible for hundreds of thousands of lives saved to date. For example, Pfizer-BioNTech is 90-95%: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines/Pfizer-BioNTech.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different...