COVID-19: Chapter 9 - OMGicron

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Those kids are gonna have amazing 5G reception…and immunity from malaria.

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I can understand it from the perspective of someone in their early twenties. You think you’re invjncible, not really thinking about the fat-tail implications for your life if you end up with long-covid or die. I probably would have been resistant or hesitant when I was 20

This should cut both ways though. If you’re young and stupid and not scared of Covid, you wouldn’t be scared of the vaccine either. Its just laziness and/or self centered attitudes that would prevent this person from bothering to get vaxxed.

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Thinking back to why I didn’t get flu shots despite my Mom’s nagging, the reasons were: Catching the flu is rare for me, only a couple times in my life, and I didn’t care if I caught it.

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Well dodging the flu shot for those reasons is actually also purely selfish and lazy, just with lower consequences for everyone else.

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These are actually reasons why you should get the vaxx.

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Meh, you’d think it would cut both ways, but it doesn’t. Maybe if the framing around vaccinations was such that you masculinity would be called into question for being afraid of it, but that’s not how I’ve seen it play out anywhere. People are seen as being terrified of the virus and running to the vaccine/masks/lockdown as the weak/scared/feminine response, so getting the vaccine, putting on a mask, etc gets seen as a threat to your masculinity.

So far no symptoms from the booster, same as the others, not even a sore arm. Just call me Covid Mary.

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Uh-oh

I mean we’d knew it would drop but that’s a huge decrease. Seems to hold up on preventing hospitalization though.

I’m sensing another wave if people aren’t getting their boosters.

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Ebola and Malaria vaccines within about a year of each other should really help.

My racist trumper qbert #savethechildren nephew (early 20s) and his girlfriend (early 30s) both have covid. I disowned him last year when he went down the qanon rabbit hole so haven’t spoken to him. What I can gleam from his facebook posts is that he feels like death and has lost his sense of taste and smell. I’ve gotten a few updates from my mother but they’re filtered through her inability to listen closely or remember stuff.

Regardless, I’m hoping he or his gf end up in the hospital for a few days for a good scare and hopefully that brings him back from the qanon bullshit. I doubt it, but I can hope.

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Delta remains king of the jungle. As we hypothesized itt, even though mu may have had some edge amongst the immune, it got outcompeted by The big D.

In the U.S., and likely in many upper-middle-income and all high-income countries, the price will be determined by the market.

Would love to see an explanation or definition of this particular market mechanism by this author.

40x what it cost to make is really cheap if it’s referring to marginal cost

Melbourne has the world record of most days in strict lockdown so any anti government protests now talks about free Australia. Of course they don’t know 3 other states have practically zero cases and no restrictions.
Also if it wasn’t for Queensland which is basically Florida with more deadly creatures then Australia would have 90%+ vaccination rates before the end of the year.

I dunno. A lot of deadly idiots live in Florida

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The price is based on the supply of lobbyist dollars and the demand for $500 lunches.

I know it’s from the “BEE BEE CEE” and so its legitimacy is in doubt, but only 6 likes for this is the most Unstuck thing ever.