Are you guys going to get your new boosters?
they are specially formulated for the variants going around now...
Nah, I had omicron, and even if I get it again, it was just like a cold for me. From what I understand, the study for this modified vaccine involved 8 mice... that is really a shoddy study, I'm not even sure I would call it research. It does not inspire confidence in me at all. I don't want to be saying this but it really makes me question whether I should be trusting what's going on. If someone can convince me that the 8 mouse thing is fake news or something, then I still wouldn't get it, because my opinion is that it is time to stop freaking out about this thing. We have a new endemic disease, and it's time to face that. Maybe we'll all get it 3 or 4 or 5 times until we build enough natural immunity to stop getting it. Or maybe we'll all get it once a year like the common cold. Either way, it just doesn't scare me, especially after getting it the last time. Most colds I've ever had were worse. Well the level of intensity of sickness was comparable, but colds usually linger longer. If it was still like alpha or delta, I might feel differently. I'd rather roll the dice with getting omicron again than I would with getting a vaccine which I don't
believe is going to hurt me, but which I really don't know for sure, nor do I know about down the line, Again. I don't think I'm gonna drop dead but over time, the picture is looking less pretty to me. Its looking more and more like a cash grab. And I really do wish I wasn't saying this right now.
I've decided to say fuck it, we have a new yearly virus. Used to be colds and flu, now it's colds, flu, and covid. So I'm going to continue to wash my hands and be conscious, if someone wants me to wear a mask, I have no problem with that at all, but I basically act like I always have during flu season.
Have any of you seen that Netflix movie Kumare? About the guy who pretended to be a guru and made a documentary about it? Well (SPOILER ALERT), at the end of the movie when he revealed himself to his group of followers, the majority of them did snap out of it immediately. Some were angry for being misled. Some were grateful for the lessons. On the whole, most people accepted that this was a well constructed sham. However, a small number of people still saw him as a guru. Nothing would change their minds. In the post-doc interviews, some even said things like (I'm paraphrasing), "Even though HE says he's not a guru, God has clearly made him a guru to teach us." They still have icons of him in their homes and everything.
That was a great movie, super interesting. I hadn't thought about that for a while, thanks.
I was immune compromised for 4 of the past 10 years. You know what I did? I hid in my home and if I was going to go somewhere I planned my activities very carefully. When cold/flu season came, I couldn't have visitors in my home. I avoided public contacts. I took responsibility for the fact that I was immune compromised due to the drugs I was on. Do you think I started an awareness campaign telling everyone to go get a flu shot? NO. People are not responsible for getting injections to keep ME safe. That is my job. And that has always been pandemic policy... quarantine the vulnerable. I knew from day one when they wanted to quarantine the healthy that something was seriously wrong.
Good point. That's how people have always treated flu season in the past, even really bad ones. I'm thinking about the bird flu and swine flu scares. How many people even changed anything about how they went about their lives? I didn't, other than washing my hands and staying away from people who looked sick. I would have quarantined myself if I got sick. Immunocompromised people surely changed their behavior. And everyone was fine with that setup.
I supported it all at the beginning. It was a new and frightening disease. People were dying. I lost an aunt and cousin to alpha (or maybe delta). We didn't know how it was going to play out. Now we're 2+ years in, and things have changed, a lot.