Official Thread: Coronavirus "COVID-19"

[Canesfan2020]

Originally Posted by SD-[Inc]

That’s because of antivax movement. It is like the flu if you are fully vaccinated. Death rates among non-vaccinated people from Omicron infection are nearly 20x those that are vaccinated. So only dumb people die and for the rest of us, it is like the flu.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7104e2.htm

Until there is a definitive answer on the vaccine proventing long covid issues covid isn't the flu.

This forum is like going to a doctor's office where it's just people searching WebMD and hoping for the best

[Ziklitschli]

Originally Posted by SD-[Inc]

The #1 failing of the modern Internet is that it tricks dumb people into thinking they are smart.

Exactly what science does to people tbh. Scientists can't even decide whether tomatoes are good or bad. Just look at benzodiazepines, or proton pump inhibitors, the milions of doses, years of prescriptions, dozens of studies and how long it still took for the knowledge of true harm and danger to get to the public. Most people treat science like religion now, holding similar sense of superiority out of knowing the ultimate truth, and just as misguided.

I'm not even about vaccines here, just answering the general sentiment. I actually talked my father into vaccination, because I thought that covid is a direct threat to him. I'd also strongly consider if it was still as annoying as the initial variants. I do think though, that with such complicated subject as human body, a new ish technique, the real time change of the illness, the politics and billions of dollars at stake, all those studies are just shots in the dark.