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WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?

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Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #3255 on: November 01, 2021, 12:13:27 PM »
Isn't the current theory that the vaccine is to " stimulate an immune response to create antibodies " in other people ?

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Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #3256 on: November 01, 2021, 12:21:14 PM »
Get the vaccine to protect other people and to protect your employer from paying out sick pay.
Sounds like a solid messaging approach. 15 days to slow the spread wasn't effective either. 

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Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #3257 on: November 01, 2021, 12:52:24 PM »
15 days to slow the spread wasn't effective either.
Because you assholes refused to do it.

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Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #3258 on: November 01, 2021, 12:53:47 PM »
Of course the discussion has ignored kids getting The COVID and, while not impacting them, the possibility of passing it along to others who can be adversely impacted. But, hey, it is all about "me, me, me" these days.

If author Tom Wolfe were still alive, he could write a nice long essay for NY magazine about the current crop of whiny conservatives. 
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Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #3259 on: November 01, 2021, 01:09:10 PM »
Because you assholes refused to do it.

Agreed. It wasn’t exactly a quality effort.
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Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #3260 on: November 01, 2021, 02:43:09 PM »
Get the vaccine to protect other people and to protect your employer from paying out sick pay.
Sounds like a solid messaging approach. 15 days to slow the spread wasn't effective either.

if someone can't add 1+1 and get 2, there isn't any way to properly message integral calculus

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Effective pandemic control is done at scale with the law of large numbers, we aren't trying to prevent individual infections or deaths, we are taking specific steps that will reduce the numbers in the aggregate, which means that any individual will be less likely to get sick or die, but the total number sick and dead won't be zero.

But we have a lot of dumb people. People who don't get infected or have asymptomatic cases, think that the countermeasures were a waste of time because what was the big deal? People who get very sick or have loved ones die think the countermeasures didn't work. Both groups are incorrect.

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Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #3261 on: November 01, 2021, 02:49:12 PM »
Because you assholes refused to do it.

it was a stupid idea that wasn't going to work anyway

Trump was a fucking moron for even suggesting that we do the 2 week pause of the economy
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Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #3262 on: November 01, 2021, 03:07:32 PM »
Because you assholes refused to do it.

LOL. It didn’t even really spread to many parts of the country until considerably later, so outside of the dense metro areas that were already being widely impacted in March, 15 days was never going to do much in those other places.

I’m sure the people calling the shots were well aware of this, but knew that saying “2-3 months to stop the spread” wasn’t going to be palatable.

The 2-3 months it turned into did slow the spread to other parts of the country and gave medical professionals some time to refine breakthrough treatment procedures such as bleach and hydroxychloroquine.
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Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #3263 on: November 01, 2021, 03:43:39 PM »
so, the vaccine doesn't work then?

I know it can be hard for you on this topic, but don't be obtuse.
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Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #3264 on: November 01, 2021, 03:44:35 PM »
Not true. The vaccines stimulate an immune response to create antibodies for a virus.
A virus attacks your body.

I guess you could roll with the concept of the vaccine can have "side effects" but a virus does not - because a virus has "effects", not "side effects"

I understood him as referencing something else.
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Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #3265 on: November 01, 2021, 03:46:22 PM »
Get the vaccine to protect other people and to protect your employer from paying out sick pay.
Sounds like a solid messaging approach. 15 days to slow the spread wasn't effective either.

Except that it is to protect yourself and other people, especially those who cannot get the vaccine.
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Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #3266 on: November 01, 2021, 03:47:18 PM »
If author Tom Wolfe were still alive, he could write a nice long essay for NY magazine about the current crop of whiny conservatives.

The thing is, they are not truly "conservatives" as we knew them.
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Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #3267 on: November 01, 2021, 03:49:08 PM »
medical professionals some time to refine breakthrough treatment procedures such as bleach and hydroxychloroquine.

Ok, I laughed.
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Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #3268 on: November 01, 2021, 04:11:30 PM »
Sorry, I was unable to respond earlier. I was busy riding on a private jet to the Glasgow climate summit.
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Re: WTF is the deal with the caronavirus?
« Reply #3269 on: November 01, 2021, 04:58:11 PM »
Sorry, I was unable to respond earlier. I was busy riding on a private jet to the Glasgow climate summit.

Did you get a few winks in before landing?

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