• traveler@lemdro.id
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    Why are we still talking about Covid? Shouldn’t we all have a good deal of immunity against it?

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        With so much vaccination, how does people don’t have immunity yet?

        Even if they were not vaccinated for a while, there’s always a percentage of immunity. The virus itself is not that deadly as well.

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            I did, hence i said:

            Even if they were not vaccinated for a while, there’s always a percentage of immunity.

            Sorry, but I’m not up to the fearmongering campaigns once again. The first response to Covid was totally out of measure in my opinion and they’re retrying it again.

            • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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              The first response to Covid was totally out of measure in my opinion

              what-the-hell

              Inconveniencing boomers consuming their sit-in restaurant treats until they started blockading hospitals and breaking into government buildings until those inconveniences were rolled back was “out of measure?”

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                I haven’t been around Lemmy for a few weeks and today is my first time seeing anyone from the Hexbear instance. I like you people.

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              Death is not the only negative outcome from Covid infection. When you consider the literature on Covid causing grey matter loss, prion disease, chronic vasculitis, cardiac disease, autoimmune disease, etc, you could argue death is actually one of the preferred outcomes.

              Immunity isn’t an on/off switch and the virus is mutating to escape immune detection. It seems like you do not have a solid grasp on the kinetics of vaccine and viral immunity, is there a question I can answer for you or would you like some resources that might help improve your comprehension?

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              Bruh.

              The curse of successful mitigation is skeptics will then say afterwards that ‘X was no big deal, look how few people died’

              Don’t be one of those.

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              We all knew you had already drawn your conclusion that this was “fearmongering” before seeing any facts.

              No one is going to logic you out of a position you didn’t use logic to get into in the first place.

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          Because immunity varies by disease.

          Chicken pox? Pretty much one and done. COVID? Falls off rapidly after 3 months, whether you catch it or get the vaccine

          Plus, every mutation is a dice roll on how much existing immunity will apply. It could be exactly the same as the last strain, or the old immunity might not help at all

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      covid exposure exacerbates my disability. my immune system freaks out and gives me months of debilitating migraines - it’s had me more or less stuck in bed for 6 months at this point. another exposure would cost me my wfh job. and that’s without infection - just exposure. pretending covid is over throws people like me under the bus.

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      1 year ago

      It isn’t as bad as 2020, but it isn’t as harmless as the flu. There are still going to be public health concerns.

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        also the flu is absolutely not harmless, we are extremely lucky that it’s seasonal (unlike covid)

        [note: this is not me saying covid is not harmless, it is extremely harmful]