That I could stop worrying about COVID after getting vaccinated.
There’s a giant chasm between the popular perception of COVID and the empirical reality.
The damage is cumulative, even from a-symptomatic infections in vaccinated people. It undermines your immune system, gives you brain damage, and eats away at your cardiovascular health. It leaves its mark on every organ in the body. It disables people regardless of their previous health and fitness.
And oh yeah
COVID literally shrinks your brain.
None of this is privileged information. It’s all there in publicly accessible studies for those who have eyes to see.
What caused me to change my mind: exposure to scientific facts that contradict the ‘vax and relax’ narrative.
Is there a better solution available than vaccinating that should be promoted instead? Should we all stay in lockdown in fear for rest of time? At some point the how abysmal life is in lockdown will inevitably overcome the health risks of interacting with other people otherwise we may as well just stop having a society.
No rational society would have responded to COVID with anything less than an eliminationist strategy.
And it wouldn’t have taken half as long.
Yes there’s still a better solution now even as an individual in this denialist dystopia, than not taking precautions and knowingly spreading a virus that’s stupefying, disabling, and killing people at scale.
Personally I find stochastic murder and maiming of strangers via breath of death distasteful, but figure out your own morality.
It might be worth mentioning that catching Covid after being vaccinated is still a safer experience than catching Covid without the vaccine. Even if you get sick, it’s more likely to be milder than without the shot.
I think people are conflating your comment with vaccine denial, thus the downvotes. If you’re not arguing against getting the vaccine, it might help to clarify that.
It’s just not the magic bullet people have been led to believe it is.
It doesn’t fully protect against any of the above and there’s no way updated vaccines can keep up with the rate COVID is mutating, but it’s far better than not getting vaccinated.
That I could stop worrying about COVID after getting vaccinated.
There’s a giant chasm between the popular perception of COVID and the empirical reality.
The damage is cumulative, even from a-symptomatic infections in vaccinated people. It undermines your immune system, gives you brain damage, and eats away at your cardiovascular health. It leaves its mark on every organ in the body. It disables people regardless of their previous health and fitness.
And oh yeah
COVID literally shrinks your brain.
None of this is privileged information. It’s all there in publicly accessible studies for those who have eyes to see.
What caused me to change my mind: exposure to scientific facts that contradict the ‘vax and relax’ narrative.
And so?
Is there a better solution available than vaccinating that should be promoted instead? Should we all stay in lockdown in fear for rest of time? At some point the how abysmal life is in lockdown will inevitably overcome the health risks of interacting with other people otherwise we may as well just stop having a society.
No rational society would have responded to COVID with anything less than an eliminationist strategy.
And it wouldn’t have taken half as long.
Yes there’s still a better solution now even as an individual in this denialist dystopia, than not taking precautions and knowingly spreading a virus that’s stupefying, disabling, and killing people at scale.
Personally I find stochastic murder and maiming of strangers via breath of death distasteful, but figure out your own morality.
It might be worth mentioning that catching Covid after being vaccinated is still a safer experience than catching Covid without the vaccine. Even if you get sick, it’s more likely to be milder than without the shot.
I think people are conflating your comment with vaccine denial, thus the downvotes. If you’re not arguing against getting the vaccine, it might help to clarify that.
I’m for getting the vaccine.
It’s just not the magic bullet people have been led to believe it is.
It doesn’t fully protect against any of the above and there’s no way updated vaccines can keep up with the rate COVID is mutating, but it’s far better than not getting vaccinated.