A friend’s wife was just telling me that people of color are more likely to be effected by covid…
… Which means they need it more than I do…
… NY says they have an algorithm to determine who needs it most / gets it first, which undoubtedly prioritizes minorites…
… Sooooooo looks like I’m going to be checking my white privilege when it comes to the vaccine…
ALSO:
everyone should be apprehensive about this.
after how consistently and completely we continue to be lied to about everything and how pretty much only the conspiracy theories have been correct all year I will be waiting until it becomes an inconvenience to not have the vaccine.
I personally am not looking to take the vaccine. Conspiracy or not, how the hell do you produce this vaccine in 6 months and claim it to be over 90% accurate, while having the flu vaccine around since the mid 40s and we still can’t get it right, and have what… a 40 or so % accuracy. lol
Not to mention the speedy process to produce this, what long term side affects are we looking at? I’m sure that’s undetermined since we don’t have any long term trials yet.
I am by no mean an anti-vaxxer but I am someone that cares about my long term health and really have no trust in our Government at all. The Government that once did the Tuskegee Experiment.
Also bothers me so much that we can produce a vaccine in record time but we can’t come up with anything that can take care of the thousands that continue to die every single year from Diabetes and instead charge them an arm and leg to get their insulin to survive.
We care about someones life until we find we can make a killing off them just to keep them alive instead of making a cure, which I’m sure can be done. (Possibly has been done but wont continue to make them Millions and possibly Billions)
I will get the vaccine after seeing what happens to other people. My great friend is an ER physician downtown at one of the hospitals, he plans on getting the vaccine, if he does I most likely will.
i also dont understand the purpose of the vaccine when there are so many proven treatments for covid.
for example:
I’m worried we won’t be given the choice. But I’ll hold out as long as I can for many of the same reasons as already stated.
#mybodymychoice lol
It can’t be that hard to fake a covid card
Yesssss
LoL virtual driving school!
That reminds me of the time I was 15 arguing with my dad that Gran Turismo on PS2 could teach someone how to drive.
Speaking of Canada:
“On the one hand, they make sense because we’re asking Canadians to get vaccinated as a public health act, an act for their community and therefore, if there’s injury it makes sense to compensate them for it,” he said.
“On the other hand, it does create this impression injuries happen and require compensation.”
What is the percentage of people that will have an adverse effect from the covid vaccine vs any other vaccine? If there’s compensation than I imagine it must be higher.
I don’t think we can reasonably say just yet. And that’s the problem.
I’ve had two family members pass away from covid now in the last week, an Aunt and Uncle (much older), and now I’d say of the people I associate with, I can name more that have had it than not, some were effected horribly, some barely noticed it.
My grandfather just got admitted at 3am this morning after confirmation on Monday and a fever that won’t go down, my parents and i have been up all night, I took a personal day.
It’s down to my parents, brother and I who haven’t had it. I still have friends stop in my house, 5 total, but now I wear masks around everyone when they’re in my home.
My pregnant cousin was temporarily put on a ventilator and luckily she recovered, her husband was in super bad shape but pulled through also.
I’m pretty paranoid now, i just wear my mask everywhere.
Sorry for your loss and good luck to your grandfather. Crazy how hard it’s hitting your family when the majority of people get it and recover within a week or so at home.
My next door neighbors got it and passed it to their daughter and son in law. They got it from a friend who had gone to a 50 person wedding that a bunch of people got it from.
Both of them recovered fine at home, though one needed some special inhaler. Both said it felt like someone had just beaten the shit out of them and were down for a little over a week.
That really blows, best of luck to you and your family…
Sorry to hear @ubengineering. There have been advances in how the genomic makeup can lead to a higher or lower chance of adverse covid reactions. You could start with a gene sequence test (23andme, etc) so you’ll at least have the info to be able to compare with the know risk factors. This might be able to give your family and yourself a little peace of mind.
COVID news for Buffalo. I wonder where these numbers are coming from:
As people of many professions increasingly telecommute during the age of the pandemic, many are relocating to small or medium-sized cities, either close to their original homes or in low tax states. Places like Louisville, Buffalo, Burlington, Little Rock, Tulsa, Greenville, Knoxville and Syracuse are all seeing population influxes of nearly double their 2019 rates or better.
https://thehill.com/opinion/finance/530040-is-this-the-end-of-cities-in-america
