nosuchreality
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irvinehomeowner said:morekaos said:Unlike many of you, I have, and my family has had, both H1N1 and now COVID. We are just fine?have a wonderful weekend! >morekaos said:No, I have never denied it exists?not only have I experienced it but I know many many many who have had it?.I just think our reaction was overblown and they can?t let it go.
Good for you.
Remember I lost a cousin and her daughter lost her mother and couldn?t even see her before she died.
We?ve lost several friends to this.
Maybe when someone close to you isn?t ?fine? after getting Covid, you?ll be more wary.
I also caught H1N1 back when it was going around, and it was not fun, which is why I would rather not get Covid.
Yea, I don't see anybody volunteering to get Polio or saying meh about it as rationale for not getting the vaccine. Polio though, is actually more mild than covid. Roughly 3/4s (72%) or so are asymptomatic with no impacts. another quarter (24%) have mild no real impact. Roughly 1-5% develop meningitis but are treatable with no long term impacts. Roughly 0.1-0.5% develop a paralytic condition, and only about 10% of the partially paralyzed die, aka 0.01-0.05% let's round up, Polio is 99.9% survivable. You might just limp a little like FDR, it'll build character.
We all can take risks, just like in cars, you know, those multi-thousand dollar vehicles that have massive regulatory requirements for safety on them, that have massive rules for enforcement for safety when operating them, that will have your removal of privilege to drive one if you are caught violating the safety rules, bad enough or frequently enough, including imprisonment and financia ruin if you really f-up, that require you to carry minimal financial protection, that have trillions of dollars of safety in them from bumpers to crumple zones, to collapsible steering wheels, seatbelts, airbags, traction control, window that don't turn into daggers when broken and not to mention an entire code laws to manage the use of and insure that safe parameters of operation on the roads and highways.
Maybe $200 tickets are in order.