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You are failing to consider the spread to vulnerable populations where the symptoms are fatal. Omicron is not mild, people with vaccines have mild symptoms due
by beardedwizard 5y ago
You are failing to consider the spread to vulnerable populations where the symptoms are fatal. Omicron is not mild, people with vaccines have mild symptoms due to its efficacy. All these kids come home to families with parents and grandparents. They also have young siblings.
- Invictus0 5y agoI keep seeing this Boogeyman argument of "vulnerable populations". Vulnerable people are welcome to get vaccinated and isolate and take all the extra precautions they want for themselves; we're 2 years into the pandemic at this point and they should have figured out how to make it work by now. It's not a good argument for shutting schools because it's argument by hypothetical outlier.
- cultofmetatron 5y ago[flagged]
- chasd00 5y agoWell to be fair vulnerable populations are not the center of the universe either.
- akomtu 5y agoTopologically, we are a sphere: its center is everywhere and its boundary is nowhere.
- dude187 5y agoEveryone is the center of their own universe. It's time to stop putting up with infringements on our freedom, which we've had two years to show they do nothing anyways.
- _bohm 5y agoI encourage you to go compare the plots of cases and deaths in NYC over the past 3 weeks and reconsider this statement.
- mixedCase 5y agoThe flu had the same property at different rates. What are the numbers you are expecting for people to start treating it like the flu?
- mcguire 5y agoNew York State Flu Tracker (https://nyshc.health.ny.gov/web/nyapd/new-york-state-flu-tracker https://nyshc.health.ny.gov/web/nyapd/new-york-state-flu-tra...): 5075 new cases this week (2227 in New York City).
- mlindner 5y agoSo we're down to 10x the flu, the previous poster's question still stands though.
- parkingrift 5y ago[flagged]
- kaba0 5y agoVulnerable population is like half of the population.
- parkingrift 5y agoSame statement still applies. World must go on. We have vaccines now.
- ryan93 5y agoThe vaccine is free
- Dma54rhs 5y agoGet vaccinated, lose weight. We're two years into pandemic and only fools haven't gotten the message.
- ipaddr 5y ago[flagged]
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- ipaddr 5y ago
- pianoben 5y agoThere is no vaccine for children under five. As long as we've got children in our lives, we all need to go out of our way to protect them - even those of us with masks and vaccines are getting Omicron.
- fourseventy 5y agoNo I'm not. Look at the data. Where are all these supposed deaths?
- denton-scratch 5y agoCOVID deaths are recorded as "deaths within 28 days of a positive COVID test". Omicron has only been around since November, and only became huge in late December. Give people time to die.
- bagacrap 5y agoand ~everyone has had the opportunity to get a vaccine so...
- denton-scratch 5y ago> Omicron is not mild Anecdotally, I understand it can be pretty nasty - not "like a winter cold", more like bad 'flu (the anecdote relates to an antivaxx family).
- bally0241 5y agoI just got it along with family (both vaxxed and unvaxxed, there was no noticeable difference in symptoms). It was somewhere between a 'common cold' and the flu. Not fun, but definitely not something to panic about (understandably everyone will have a different reaction depending on their current state of health). However, I think we've reached the point of diminishing returns on any sort of intervention (they've all failed). Masking is ineffective, lockdowns and social-distancing are ineffective, and the vaccines are ineffective (at least w.r.t. to preventing transmission). We can continue to tear society apart aiming for a 0% safe zero-covid society (which we will never achieve), or get on with our lives and live with the risk.
- spookthesunset 5y agoIt’s a shame this is downvoted because you are completely right. Covid ain’t going anywhere. Society needs to move on.
- rhinoceraptor 5y agoAll the interventions we've done have been too-little, too-late. Telling people they're safe with a cloth mask when the virus transmits via airborne respiratory particles is obviously insane. We should have used war time powers to mass produce N95s and rapid tests, and mailed them to everyone with instructions on fit-testing.
- unyttigfjelltol 5y ago>vaccines are ineffective (at least w.r.t. to preventing transmission). From where I sit, anecdotally, vaccines have been highly effective. The messaging around them is weak. The choice and recentness of vaccines and boosters is having a big impact on severity of infection, and there's a world of difference between an asymptomatic never-tested-positive exposure and a 3-day flu. The CDC has a problem in their marketing department that has generated so much confusion.
- StanislavPetrov 5y ago>You are failing to consider the spread to vulnerable populations where the symptoms are fatal. In New York Cuomo killed many of these people early on.