Posted on 07/06/2022 10:14:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Since the vaccines don’t stop the spread and are only barely effective against the latest variants, if this is true, that the virus is getting worse and worse, why isn’t Congress having a J6 style trial finding the origins of this un-naturally acting disease?
Who is responsible for unleashing this on us?
Unvaxxed wife and I had covid when it was about 50/50 delta/omicron here so we don’t know which one we had. She has it again now but who knows which one. Could be we had Delta before and she has omicron now. Could be we had Omicron 1.0 before and she has BA.4/BA.5 subvariant now.
I guess they’re still looking into whether having had omicron gives you immunity to BA.4/BA.5 subvariants. I’d be curious to know what gives immunity to what but I guess it doesn’t matter because by the time they figure it out, a new one will be going around.
Not worried about it because we know what to take.
Pretty much like the common cold or flu at this point. Ever evolving and people are just going to keep getting new strains every so often. Most will be mild and the only people that it will kill are the very old and/or unhealthy.
Wife works at a nursing home so she’ll probably get them all from now on but we’re separated so at least she won’t be bringing them all to me and the boy.
She’s on a mandatory 5 days off from work because of it. Don’t know how long companies can keep that up. Gonna hurt poor people if they have to take a week or two off every year with no pay.
It’s not going away so I guess the maskers will be masking for the rest of their lives.
Wife gets tested twice a week. Are they going to keep that up forever? Can’t be good having a swab shoved up to your brain every few days.
Crazy.
The problem with this analysis is that BA5 is still too new to have seen a big spike in cases yet. BA4 & BA5 account for a bit over 20% of the cases in the US now and rising. The vaccine and natural immunity do not seem to provide a whole lot of protection from BA5, some but not much. The worst problem is that BA5 causes an infection lower in the lungs similar to the original strain and Delta. Omnichron infected the upper respiratory tract and that was one of the reasons it was not as lethal.
You just have to do what you think is best for you. Wear a decent mask if you believe it will help or not if you think otherwise. Be a decent person and use care around older or compromised people. COVID is going to be here for awhile and unfortunately we are seeing some mutations now that are potentially more dangerous.
In Manhattan it seems like 1 out of 6 still wear masks outdoors although sometimes you can walk a few blocks and see no maskers. Indoors it’s about 50/50 depending on the venue. On the subway, where you are by law required to mask, about 20-25% do not mask.
After Asians, I would say the biggest maskers are black women, and old folks of all ethnicities. I’ve noticed that the white libs tend not to mask in restaurants or offices anymore, but those who do mask use the KN95. All of this was an improvement since March when it seemed like I was the only person walking around without a face diaper.
If COVID will kill you, so will pneumonia or a bad flu. If you are sick with all of the above stay home. The only people who obsess about COVID these days are germaphobes and blue state control freaks who are often the same people.
Most profound statement so far: “K95s are very rarely worn properly and have to be changed frequently.” I’ve seen K95s that look like they have been worn for weeks if not months. Vast majority of the maskaholics have no clue how to properly wear the mask.
I routinely wear P95s and P100s for work and I can assure you they have a limited life and require proper fitting before entering some areas. The K95s out in the real world are a F*CKING JOKE. Virtue signaling at it’s finest.
Actually what kills many people with COVID is the blood clots in the lungs and other parts of the body which is different than pneumonia or a bad flu. Comparing COVID to the flu just let’s the Chinese madmen who created this off the hook. COVID is a lot more sinister but luckily not super lethal so far.
The flu has been going around too. It’s summer, and so far a very hot one. Has anyone heard of the flu going around at this time of year before? I haven’t. In the Midwest here.
Stop testing healthy people and the irrational fear of the Fauci Flu will go away.
Some truth, some hysteria.
Still, according to the author it bodes very BADLY for those who’ve been jabbed AND ultimately get the virus anyway.
I’ll stack my natural immunity against the jabbed any day of the week.
In short we as humans will just have to learn to live with COVID - it’s one of many threats to those who are immunocompromised and will have to be treated as such. It’s sad that we as humans have to coexist with the living evolving organisms known as viruses but it is what it is. :(
“Stop testing healthy people and the irrational fear of the Fauci Flu will go away”
I wonder why everyone runs down to take a highly inaccurate test to show if they have the Wuhan or not? Why waste your time and effort? You are going to be treated, if needed, for whatever symptoms you have regardless of what strain you have. In the past everyone ran down to the doc and got their antibiotics and proudly proclaimed they had Influenza B or whatever.
I just call in sick and stay home till I feel better, just like I have done since I was a kid.
We also have more rationality and wisdom on this forum than one can find in most places on the vast Internet (evidenced by your post), which is what makes FR so valuable, if not essential to maintaining good mental health.
Cheers & continued excellent health to you, CM!
They misspoke - they meant to say "vaccine".
I had it the first time last August. While not bad, I had a low-grade fever and coughing, and it made me very tired. I had it again in February. All I had was a cough. This past week, my daughter and granddaughter tested positive. I have been around them constantly. I have nothing. I even took a test to confirm and it was negative.
did you use the “ihealth covid 19 antigen rapid test” that’s being distributed?...
No. It was one that my daughter picked up, I don’t remember what it was though.
read the box carefully to see where they’re made...
the “ihealth covid19 antigen rapid test” that is being distributed and states “fda emergency use authorization” is made in china...
with today’s technology women can pee on a device to test for pregnancy...
kinda strange people are being required to shove a chinese made product up their noses for these tests...
NH did the mask mandates for a while but had so many exceptions to who had to wear one that you had more people exempt than not.
These days, you are going to see more masks by far in the Upper Valley, where Dartmouth College is located. It’s liberalville up there.
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