Coronavirus Thread: Worldwide Pandemic

Macallik86

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CrimsonTider said:
No one has ever said the vaccine was 100% effective

and vaccinated people testing positive isn’t a public health concern
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Technically, testing positive is not a health concern for the regular, everyday vaccinated person, but, what it is currently insinuating is a huge public health concern for the population that is unvaxxed and/or immuno-compromised... in fact, this is potentially the worst case scenario. I think the scope is just starting to hit people over the last few days.

So the cliff notes are with the original variant, the viral load was low AF for vaxxed people so who gives AF about masks. Get vaxxed and you can go maskless and return to a normal lifestyle.

However, we learned this week that the Delta variant's viral load sometimes has 1,000 times more virus than the original strain. Individually, for an everyday vaxxed person, it doesn't affect them because a vaxxed person has the cheat code in their body to fight off the virus.

In terms of spreading the virus though, it means that it is likely that a very large % of vaccinated people have (or will get) the Delta variant which is the most contagious version thus far (as contagious as chicken pox), all while being less restricted in terms of masking or socializing. Basically, millions of people were given the OK to live a super-spreader lifestyle.

What makes it worse is that, vaxxed people are more likely to be asymptomatic (or less likely to feel the need to get tested if they are mildly symptomatic). That means the spread is more invisible a la pre-contact tracing days.

Of course, someone against vaccines will try to take this out of context and say getting vaxxed is pointless, but in actuality, your best bet by far at this point is getting vaccinated, because your chances of getting the virus are probably worse now than they've been in over a year & I'd imagine it will pick up steam as the weather cools down and people move back indoors. Additionally, kids are more susceptible to Delta/long-covid, so anyone under 12 is also at risk whereas before they were seen as being off-limits.

It is interesting to see where things go from here. I took a look and we did have a similar run up of cases in July last year but I don't think we are anywhere close to hitting the summer peak at the moment. In fact, if we are on this type of trajectory in the summer when things are supposed to slow down, then how are we gonna cope when things cool down in a few months?
 
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I haven't been on here since the first few hundred posts of this thread. I'm just venting to say that I'm fukking furious today. Two of my friends from high school have died in the past 4 weeks from Covid, and the most recent probably had the delta variant.
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I spent March 2020 to April 2021 only with 6 feet of my girlfriend, another couple that co-habitate and work in biotech and were being super careful, my mom, and a few times my dad and his fiance. I was crazy diligent to protect my loved ones, I didn't eat inside a restaurant until vaccinated April 2021, and I did everything as asked.

I've given anti-vaxxers a pass, because I totally understand not wanting to put something that's not FDA approved in your body.

But god damnit. The reality of having to go back to masks and living more like 2020 mostly due to people that just didn't want to do either of those things is infuriating me today.

And I understand that some people legitimately can't get vaccinated and want to be. I feel sorry for them. But:pacspit: this pandemic and :pacspit: everyone that's not doing their part to get us through this faster.
 
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