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It’s not getting worse. The treatments are now good enough that your chance of dying is extremely low if you’re vaccinated. Honestly starting to wonder why peop

It’s not getting worse. The treatments are now good enough that your chance of dying is extremely low if you’re vaccinated. Honestly starting to wonder why people are so worried.

adrianN 5y ago
I'm worried about being in a traffic accident and not getting timely treatment because all nearby ICUs are already filled beyond capacity with Covid patients.
csense 5y ago
The media makes money, the drug companies make money, and politicians get political benefits if people are afraid.
- elihu 5y ago
  People are still dying at a rate of about a thousand a day due to Covid in the U.S.. The vast majority of those people are unvaccinated, but still a death is a death, and a thousand deaths a day is definitely newsworthy even if (or even especially if) it was avoidable.
- rcpt 5y ago
  That happens without covid to
ReptileMan 5y ago
Two years conditioning from the media also "taking it seriously" is tribe and class affiliation signaling.
- mdp2021 5y ago
  Very unclear. In spite of some propaganda trying to instil the epistemological blasphemy that called anecdotal phenomena irrelevant, "some of us know people directly" to have the notion that consequences should not be taken lightly. And this is valid for the bad-lottery tickets in both infection and vaccination. The risk averse have material for concern.
sweetheart 5y ago
My understanding is that the potential for long lasting Covid symptoms is not insignificant, vaccinated or not, and from what I’ve read of long covid, it should be avoided. The idea of facing issues with exhaustion and worsened mental health for months on end sounds like a nightmare.
- nradov 5y ago
  You can't avoid it. We'll all eventually be exposed. https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646 https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646
- throwaway1777 5y ago
  From what I’ve read long lasting symptoms are very rare too, but the longer this goes on the more we’ll know about the long term effects of both COVID and vaccines. It’s kind of like a chronic lyme disease thing though, it’s really hard to prove whats going on with some people.
- hajile 5y ago
  My whole family caught covid around 5-6 weeks ago. Kids had super-mild symptoms (way less than the flu). I had pretty mild symptoms, but have had a persistent cough (I've had that with some other colds though). My wife got hit pretty hard (no hospital though). She would up with a cough too, but the worst part has been headaches. Worst headaches of her life for almost 3 weeks. Thankfully, they seem to be getting more intermittent and less intense.
rich_sasha 5y ago
This is definitely true, but the world is still in emergency mode. This we can’t maintain forever. I’m all for vaccines and safety measures, but feel really burnt out by the situation.
landemva 5y ago
Chance of dying also low for children and for adults in decent health. It's the co-morbidities that really change the odds.

It’s not getting worse. The treatments are now good enough that your chance of dying is extremely low if you’re vaccinated. Honestly starting to wonder why people are so worried.

adrianN 5y ago

I'm worried about being in a traffic accident and not getting timely treatment because all nearby ICUs are already filled beyond capacity with Covid patients.

csense 5y ago

The media makes money, the drug companies make money, and politicians get political benefits if people are afraid.

elihu 5y ago
People are still dying at a rate of about a thousand a day due to Covid in the U.S.. The vast majority of those people are unvaccinated, but still a death is a death, and a thousand deaths a day is definitely newsworthy even if (or even especially if) it was avoidable.
rcpt 5y ago
That happens without covid to

ReptileMan 5y ago

Two years conditioning from the media also "taking it seriously" is tribe and class affiliation signaling.

mdp2021 5y ago
Very unclear. In spite of some propaganda trying to instil the epistemological blasphemy that called anecdotal phenomena irrelevant, "some of us know people directly" to have the notion that consequences should not be taken lightly. And this is valid for the bad-lottery tickets in both infection and vaccination. The risk averse have material for concern.

sweetheart 5y ago

My understanding is that the potential for long lasting Covid symptoms is not insignificant, vaccinated or not, and from what I’ve read of long covid, it should be avoided. The idea of facing issues with exhaustion and worsened mental health for months on end sounds like a nightmare.

nradov 5y ago
You can't avoid it. We'll all eventually be exposed. https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646 https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/94646
throwaway1777 5y ago
From what I’ve read long lasting symptoms are very rare too, but the longer this goes on the more we’ll know about the long term effects of both COVID and vaccines. It’s kind of like a chronic lyme disease thing though, it’s really hard to prove whats going on with some people.
hajile 5y ago
My whole family caught covid around 5-6 weeks ago. Kids had super-mild symptoms (way less than the flu). I had pretty mild symptoms, but have had a persistent cough (I've had that with some other colds though). My wife got hit pretty hard (no hospital though). She would up with a cough too, but the worst part has been headaches. Worst headaches of her life for almost 3 weeks. Thankfully, they seem to be getting more intermittent and less intense.

rich_sasha 5y ago

This is definitely true, but the world is still in emergency mode. This we can’t maintain forever. I’m all for vaccines and safety measures, but feel really burnt out by the situation.

landemva 5y ago

Chance of dying also low for children and for adults in decent health. It's the co-morbidities that really change the odds.