High school classmate just lost a son to covid. A new father. A young man, the age of my youngest. Now they're trying to raise the money for a funeral.
that is awful
co-worker lost a client 51 yo
appeared he was in good health with a few extra pounds
Up until birth a foetus is part of the mothers body so her choice. And that choice does not affect the health and safety of other people. Your body your choice ends where your choice is a threat to my safety.
High school classmate just lost a son to covid. A new father. A young man, the age of my youngest. Now they're trying to raise the money for a funeral.
High school classmate just lost a son to covid. A new father. A young man, the age of my youngest. Now they're trying to raise the money for a funeral.
High school classmate just lost a son to covid. A new father. A young man, the age of my youngest. Now they're trying to raise the money for a funeral.
âWeâre really seeing a lot of echoes of the smallpox era,â said Elena Conis, an associate professor and historian of medicine at the University of California, Berkeley. âMandates elicit resistance. They always have.â
The roots of U.S. vaccine mandates predate both the U.S. and vaccines. The colonies sought to prevent disease outbreaks by quarantining ships from Europe and sometimes, in the case of smallpox, requiring inoculations: a crude and much riskier predecessor to vaccinations in which doctors rubbed live smallpox virus into broken skin to induce a relatively mild infection that would guard against severe infection later. They were a source of enormous fear and anger.
In January 1777, George Washington mandated inoculations for the soldiers under his command in the Continental Army, writing that
if smallpox were to break out, âwe should have more to dread from it,
than from the Sword of the Enemy.â Notably, it was in large part the
soldiersâ desires that overcame his resistance to a mandate.
âThey were the ones calling for it,â said Andrew Wehrman, an associate professor of history at Central Michigan University who studies the politics of medicine in the colonial and revolutionary eras. âThereâs no record that I have seen â and Iâve looked â of any soldier turning it down, protesting it.â
Buoyed by the success of the mandate, Washington wrote to his brother in June 1777 that he was upset by a Virginia law restricting inoculations. âI would rather move for a Law to compell the Masters of Families to inoculate every Child born within a certain limitted time under severe Penalties,â he wrote.
This piece shows no awareness that all known vaccines against Covid-19 are non-sterilizing ...
As pointed out in the "superhuman" article below, they're hopeful that vaccinated people who subsequently become infected ("breakthrough") do achieve a sterilization level of protection. It's not known, yet, whether this will prove to be the case but I expect some preliminary findings will be released soon. But the key is that vaccinated people don't die at anywhere near the rate that unvaxxed people do, so I really really don't understand the hesitancy. If they then do contract covid, it will be milder than otherwise, and *may* be the thing that gives them and us that ideal level of protection.
None of this wishful thinking, even if it all comes true, could justify the vaccine only approach we have now; and neither does that graph below showing lower hospitalization rates among highly vaccinated states. It actually makes my point, delta is very dangerous, and just wait til you get a load of mu, which seems to evade the existing vaccines entirely and will likely become the dominant strain by Christmas under current policy. Talking only about vaccines, but not about the need to improve ventilation and wear masks, looks a lot like mass murder to me.
Where is the talk about therapies for the infected and the natural immunity of the infected survivors ?
In the end, this being America, is what matters most ...
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"My body, my choice." You're either all in or you're not. There can be no exceptions. That would be like saying someone is a little bit pregnant. No such thing as a little bit pregnant. You're either pregnant or you're not.
And just for the record, I am pro - choice and vaccinated ...
None of this wishful thinking, even if it all comes true, could justify the vaccine only approach we have now; (...)
I don't think anybody has a vaccine only policy/approach. See protection/prevention. Of course when it comes to others actions listed (such as wearing masks), it becomes very difficult for some people...
This piece shows no awareness that all known vaccines against Covid-19 are non-sterilizing ...
As pointed out in the "superhuman" article below, they're hopeful that vaccinated people who subsequently become infected ("breakthrough") do achieve a sterilization level of protection. It's not known, yet, whether this will prove to be the case but I expect some preliminary findings will be released soon. But the key is that vaccinated people don't die at anywhere near the rate that unvaxxed people do, so I really really don't understand the hesitancy. If they then do contract covid, it will be milder than otherwise, and *may* be the thing that gives them and us that ideal level of protection.
None of this wishful thinking, even if it all comes true, could justify the vaccine only approach we have now; and neither does that graph below showing lower hospitalization rates among highly vaccinated states. It actually makes my point, delta is very dangerous, and just wait til you get a load of mu, which seems to evade the existing vaccines entirely and will likely become the dominant strain by Christmas under current policy. Talking only about vaccines, but not about the need to improve ventilation and wear masks, looks a lot like mass murder to me.
This piece shows no awareness that all known vaccines against Covid-19 are non-sterilizing (as expected for a coronavirus) unlike the smallpox and polio vaccines. Last I heard, the delta strain was 2.0 times more contagious than the wild type in un-vaccinated people, and 1.8 times as contagious in the vaccinated. Not nearly good enough. So the "vaccine only" approach can't work. We need masks, quarantines, testing, school closings, and income support, or we can expect five to seven waves of death over 15 years. We are now in the second wave. It has been obvious for four months that delta was coming. Now mu is coming with no public plans to do anything about it, like develop a new vaccine. Let's be careful out there.
As pointed out in the "superhuman" article below, they're hopeful that vaccinated people who subsequently become infected ("breakthrough") do achieve a sterilization level of protection. It's not known, yet, whether this will prove to be the case but I expect some preliminary findings will be released soon. But the key is that vaccinated people don't die at anywhere near the rate that unvaxxed people do, so I really really don't understand the hesitancy. If they then do contract covid, it will be milder than otherwise, and *may* be the thing that gives them and us that ideal level of protection.
Note: I edited the title as not to offend those who may be unvaccinated.
This piece shows no awareness that all known vaccines against Covid-19 are non-sterilizing (as expected for a coronavirus) unlike the smallpox and polio vaccines. Last I heard, the delta strain was 2.0 times more contagious than the wild type in un-vaccinated people, and 1.8 times as contagious in the vaccinated. Not nearly good enough. So the "vaccine only" approach can't work. We need masks, quarantines, testing, school closings, and income support, or we can expect five to seven waves of death over 15 years. We are now in the second wave. It has been obvious for four months that delta was coming. Now mu is coming with no public plans to do anything about it, like develop a new vaccine. Let's be careful out there.
