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View Poll Results: What is your Covid vaccination status? | |||
I’m fully vaccinated and it’s been over two weeks. |
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18 | 21.95% |
I’m fully vaccinated but it’s been less than two weeks. |
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8 | 9.76% |
I’ve had my first shot of two. |
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20 | 24.39% |
My first shot is scheduled. |
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10 | 12.20% |
I’m qualified, but I haven’t been able to schedule a shot yet. |
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4 | 4.88% |
I’ve not yet qualified or it’s not available here. |
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16 | 19.51% |
I’m still undecided. |
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3 | 3.66% |
I won’t be getting it. |
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3 | 3.66% |
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Except if the reason was less people getting tested for the flu you wouldn't expect the positivity rate to be less than 1% of the usual rate, you'd expect it to be higher than the usual rate.
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The CDC already issued an interim guidance about this.
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I would strongly consider wearing a mask in future years during flu season if the research bears out. I know this is something that already happens in Japan and I would be interested in their research as well. |
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I suspect you may end up seeing people voluntarily doing the same if/when COVID is sufficiently close to no longer a thing now that COVID's kinda shattered that taboo. |
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OTOH, looking at 2020, the number of deaths from non-Covid related causes did not decrease according to most of the studies I've seen. From one study at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the only demographic that showed a drop in deaths was females between ages 5 and 14. Another story in the New York Times from Dec. 2020 that was headlined 2020 Was Especially Deadly. Covid Wasn’t the Only Culprit. though as the story says, some of those deaths may have been due to Covid-19 being misdiagnosed. While finding stories and studies suggesting the the number of deaths due to non-Covid-19 causes was higher than normal, finding a somewhat reliable source suggesting the opposite was the low calorie option. So stating that there was a decline in deaths due to other causes seems to be a statement at variance with reality. |
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Got my second shot (Moderna) today.
I'm very disappointed. In the neighboring county they're giving out lollipops with your second shot. My county is no fun at all. |
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The numbers presented for people killed by covid alone are low. The numbers presented for people killed by covid with other co-morbidities are high. That's not saying covid did not kill people. How in the world can you come up with that connection and become outraged at me for stating this simple and well known fact? It is quite true that you can say, "They had this other condition but without covid they would not have died". Perfectly true. You can also say, "They had covid, but without this other condition they would not have died." Perfectly true also. Covid is a big contributor to death. I have never said otherwise. But in the majority of cases, it requires some other factor in combination to be fatal. Not in every case, but in most of them. It is vitally important to take covid out of the equation since it is such a big contributor. Your outrage is misplaced. I think you feel I have a position on this that I most certainly do not. |
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If someone with diabetes catches Covid, they might die within a month. If they had not gotten Covid, they would likely live a few more years or even 10-15 years. There are ways to manage pre-existing conditions when Covid is not present. |
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Allegedly, if you had an active COVID infection and you died of something definitely not COVID, like, say, an airplane losing an engine that hits and crushes you, statistically that'd be a COVID death.
That sounds extremely wrong to me, so don't quote me on that. |
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Saying that that's someone who died with COVID not from COVID is like saying that a stab victim died with a stab wound not from a stab wound - because their proximate cause of death was blood loss. |
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