Coronavirus Thread: Worldwide Pandemic

[Godless Socialist CEO]

Just found out one of my best friends' brother was very anti-vaxx. He died this morning in the ICU.

If anyone reads this and isn't vaxxed, and is also on the fence and can be swayed, please just do some heavy thinking on it.

Christ man, I feel for ur friend

 

[88m3]

NYC Public Schools Will Only Conduct Random COVID Tests On Unvaccinated Students This Fall

Parents are going to love this

 

[TheDarceKnight]

Christ man, I feel for ur friend

Thanks man. Me too. This one hits close to home. My friend is definitely less outspoken but I'm pretty sure he's not vaccinated. I hope this is a wake up call for him. I checked out his brother's posts, and his last 3 posts are all aggressively anti-vaxx.

Today is the closest to home this thing has hit in terms of things feeling like I'm living in an Onion article.

 

[newarkhiphop]

 

[88m3]

NPR Cookie Consent and Choices

Texas Governor Issues Order Banning Local Vaccine Mandates


signed today

 

[Hood Critic]

NPR Cookie Consent and Choices

Texas Governor Issues Order Banning Local Vaccine Mandates


signed today

He's an idiot but certain school districts and counties are still going against his orders because they know it will help save lives.

 

[TheDarceKnight]

NPR Cookie Consent and Choices

Texas Governor Issues Order Banning Local Vaccine Mandates


signed today

Serious question. I'm not asking a rhetorical one here. Does he not realize that he's killing off his base? Is the right-wing virtue signaling worth is that much to him?

 

[acri1]

Serious question. I'm not asking a rhetorical one here. Does he not realize that he's killing off his base? Is the right-wing virtue signaling worth is that much to him?

Well to be honest, it's not like they aren't already voluntarily dying for the sake of right-wing virtue signaling anyway


Sucks for the kids down there, it's going to be an ugly school year.

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

My governor got ran out of a town hall the other day after being called a p*ssy

 

[Eternal Tecate]

EDIT: Israel is hardly 'ultra-vaxxed'. They are still hovering right around 60% vaccinated. They're being talked about like a pinnacle of vaccination, but they aren't nearly where they need to be, and 60% just doesn't justify The Daily Beast making an article title like this that will understandably scare people. Canada, Belgium, Iceland, Denmark, Chile, and Uruguay all have higher vaccination rates at this point. We should be looking at countries with 70% + vaccination rates, not Israel. Israel started celebrating and re-opening pretty early.

Just to add some positivty, they have a few more interesting factors.

They got people vaxxed faster, and waited less time between the 1st and 2nd shots in Israel. They likely didn't wait long enough between shots #1 and #2. They also gave boosters likely too fast. And when reading the article, most of the people being hospitalized are still over 60 years old, and/or have multiple other co-morbidities.

Fully vaxxed still people are still overwhelmingly not going to the hospital or dying from this thing, even the Delta variant. There are more breakthrough cases than we hoped for, but the vaccine is still preventing serious complications, illnesses, and death. And it's still the best tool we have to fight this thing right now.

There's also this: Israel's COVID-19 vaccine boosters show signs of taming Delta

Media had me thinking Israel was 90%+ vaxxed this whole time

 

[newarkhiphop]

 

[FAH1223]

We nearly at 200,000 cases a day

 

[iceberg_is_on_fire]

We nearly at 200,000 cases a day

People are selfish. All we had was one job. Now, stupidity is going to kill so many people. I get my booster in October, can't wait.

 

[MushroomX]

We nearly at 200,000 cases a day

We are.

"*COUGH COUGH* Just Sinuses."

 

[douche]