Painful One
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Please, for the love all all that is holy, wise up my dear friends!
With Love,
P.O
With Love,
P.O
... Im here with you Po !Please, for the love all all that is holy, wise up my dear friends!
With Love,
P.o.
I knew you were.... Im here with you Po !
hope youre keeping the pain dragons at bay
I am not anti vax.@Painful One, Hey girl! Haven’t seen you here for a while. I hope all is well in your land. I didn’t no you were anti-vax? Does that go for all vaccines, or just this one? The last conversations I remember having with you was when you got COVID last year and got pretty sick. I’m really glad to see you back here posting on bluelight! You were one of the first people here to me feel welcome in the bluelight community
I get where all of this vaccine hesitancy comes from. I was never too keen to get vaccinated, because I, like you, had a pretty good case of it last year, and I still haven’t found any information about how long the immunity lasts from actually getting the fucking virus in the wild. No one has given me a good reason why I should hurry up and get vaccinated when I probably had good old fashioned COVID antibodies anyway. I still haven’t got a good answer to how long those naturally gotten antibodies last, and why the need to get vaccinated right away! Does natural antibodies mean anything or not? No one has given a strait answer on that, because guess what, everyone is different. No one has given me a good answer on that, and you know why… this is a brand new virus and we don’t fucking know yet? How could we?
I did end up getting the J&J vaccine anyway when they dangled pretty good odds of winning a million dollars (which was really fishy anyway to have the government do that, but I love gambling for money)! My partner still hasn’t got vaccinated yet, but she’s not apposed to it (we had COVID together). She just thinks it’s a personal decision about her body, and she thinks that we are way more complexed than just one size fits all model to people’s individual health. She thinks that this is a different thing than say Polio. For her, she will not make decisions about her body based on fear. She’s not taking a stand, and she may change her mind tomorrow, but being shamed, or frightened to get the vaccine isn’t right either.
I am disappointed, but not surprised that boosters will be necessary, to feel protected and safe, but at fucking 8 months intervals. That’s really great news for the vaccine companies. They are getting real world data from a brand new pathogen that says that their vaccines work, but only about 6-8 months. Neat trick Big Pharm! This whole thing stinks to high heaven, and I can completely see why people don’t trust these vaccines, and think they are probably unnecessary. Now that Pfizer has full FDA approval, governments and private companies immediately started requiring vaccines. In New York City, now you can’t eat in a restaurant, or go to a movie without showing proof of vaccination. This is going to be the new normal from now on, and anti-vaxxers will either have to get vaccinated or they will no longer allowed in polite society. That will soon be the reality for people that have gotten vaccinated, they will need to show proof of boosters or they will be excluded from polite society. I just don’t see how this madness ends.
Yes, it speaks volumes about my character.
You are correct on that.
The threat of a seatbelt fine is not even what motivates me. It’s a very very worthwhile logical no brainier precaution.
Yeah, I know,i did not say, or imply, anything about your character.
a lot of people feel the same way about the covid vaccine.
alasdair
you went even lower than that and implied I have some sort of mental problem.
That language of “Experimental gene therapy OPERATING SYSTEM” that can be accessed from an outside source“ is their own words. Not mine.I don’t know anything about that, but I love you so much anywayWe have a lot in common if you remember, both of us have died and came back, and I’m a wizard and you’re a witch. I will agree that something definitely smells fishy, and smelling more fishy every day.
As for becoming sterile because I got the vaccine, I don’t know about that. Besides I already have 3 kids, and made myself sterile anyway after the last one by getting myself a vasectomy.
peace.absolutely not. i think you are reading something into my comments that is simply not there.
alasdair
I know! You’re telling me. (Not you, the folk saying).a lot of people feel the same way about the covid vaccine.
Interesting fun fact for you @ The Wizard of the Creek.I don’t know anything about that, but I love you so much anywayWe have a lot in common if you remember, both of us have died and came back, and I’m a wizard and you’re a witch. I will agree that something definitely smells fishy, and smelling more fishy every day.
As for becoming sterile because I got the vaccine, I don’t know about that. Besides I already have 3 kids, and made myself sterile anyway after the last one by getting myself a vasectomy.
I joked about this plain literary contradiction privately with a good member here today.New Normal?
Sounds like you don't fully grasp the political narrative surrounding parachutes! Wake up!Parachutes and vaccines are not the same thing. You make a choice to open a parachute based solely of your own violition. Doing so does not put political pressure on your society to conform to do the same as you and not use/open a parachute. Vaccine choice is not a choice that implies the same individualistic freedom of which our societies are based. If you choose not to open a parachute in this instance, you are being gaslighted into believing you are killing your friends, family and society at large. This stokes fear, paranoia and psychosis that forces compliance and submission, hence the imposition you will take it and do the "right" thing. Nevertheless, the underlying assumption is you will make a decision predicated solely on group psychology and the notion of complying with the masses and choosing to accept indoctrination into the belief systems that such masses have adopted.
It defies logic. A goal of totalitarian regimes that use similiar tactics though is to use illogical conclusions to thwart logical arguments. A lie can be way more convincing than the truth. We our more emotionally vulnerable to illogical conclusions which opens us up to a paradox of sorts that has us struggle to make sense of what is going on. And then, just on cue, another mind f*ck comes your way until you just surrender and seek to numb your thirst for challenging nonsensical input. This happens in abusive relationships all the time. Its usually the most nonsensical arguments your abuser has that gets you in the worst bind. Its the logical arguments you can counter because, yup, they are logical.
It is pretty simple. Bring a troll to a conference on physics and see what happens. No longer does it become about advanced topics of intellectual debate, now it becomes about a much lower and primitive impulsive set of behaviours that derail the debate but bolster the troll and his intentions. Do this en masse in society and you have a recipe for behavioural modification through manipulation, or essentially, brainwashing/coercive applied psychological techniques. All historical accounts of totalitarian regimes used the same techniques. Its also something Bernays pointed out in his infamous classic book on propaganda. Based on this book were observations taken from his uncle, Sigmund Freud who studied the behaviour of the masses along with Carl Jung too.
That's a non-response. And one that isn't very intelligent. It's a subtle form of submission masked using humour because you cannot return a reasonable argument to my challenging of the comparison between parachutes and vaccines. Fairly self deprecating and revealing. Cue your emotional response in return.Sounds like you don't fully grasp the political narrative surrounding parachutes! Wake up!
I've tried, you don't address any of the points, and just make everything about 'political narratives.' I am always down for intellectually stimulating conversation but this would not be that. With you it seems everything is about steering the conversation into something completely irrelevant. So why would I take the bait? It would just be a waste of time, for both of us.That's a non-response. And one that isn't very intelligent. It's a subtle form of submission masked using humour because you cannot return a reasonable argument to my challenging of the comparison between parachutes and vaccines. Fairly self deprecating and revealing. Cue your emotional response in return.
Sorry my friend.absolutely not. i think you are reading something into my comments that is simply not there.
alasdair
Infection and hospitalization rates in late July were five and 29 times higher, respectively, among unvaccinated people in Los Angeles County than the fully vaccinated, according to a new report out Tuesday from the CDC.
Why it matters: Hospitals and state health officials have been warning that the spike in COVID-19 hospitalizations is mostly attributed to unvaccinated adults.
The big picture: Still, the data, which shows one-fourth of Los Angeles infections were among the vaccinated, coincides with another CDC report out Tuesday that also shows the waning vaccine effectiveness against the Delta variant.
Between the lines: The two datasets out Tuesday add to the emerging evidence that protection from COVID-19 shots decreases over time.
- The CDC looked at a cohort of front-line health care workers and determined that vaccine effectiveness had gone down to 66%, independent of time since vaccination.
- Last week, the agency released initial reports on vaccine effectiveness including one on adults in New York with vaccine effectiveness declining from about 92% in early May to nearly 80% by late July.
By the numbers: Among the 43,127 COVID infections in Los Angeles County, between May 1 and July 25, about 25% were fully vaccinated, about 3% were partially vaccinated and about 71% were unvaccinated, the report shows.
Fully vaccinated people with COVID-19 were also less likely to be hospitalized than unvaccinated people.
The bottom line: The vaccine still protects the majority of people from severe illness, and breakthrough cases among the vaccinated are still rare.
- About 3% of vaccinated people were hospitalized, .5% were in an ICU and .2% needed a ventilator.
- Among the unvaccinated, nearly 8% were hospitalized, 1.5% were in an ICU and .5% were on a ventilator.
Go deeper: We're all going to pay for the unvaccinated
This study is all over the news. However, protection from the vaccine is definitely waning.
More controversially, insurance companies want to limit coverage for unvaccinated individuals treated for COVID (which I see as a money grab), and hospitals want to prioritize vaccinated patients over unvaccinated for admission to the ICU if beds are highly limited, which they are in an alarming number of stares. Their reasoning is that they want to allocate those resources to those who are more likely to survive.
Unvaccinated 29 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19, CDC study says
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Unvaccinated 29 times more likely to be hospitalized with COVID-19, CDC study says
The two datasets out Tuesday add to the emerging evidence that protection from COVID-19 shots decreases over time.www.axios.com