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[brewens]

1. That's why I'm still hiding out. I lost a lot of weight and really improved my health the last

few years. More than I ever thought I could. I'm not screwing it up now. I hope we're in the clear before long. Getting messed up now wouldn't be as bad as being the last guy killed in a war, but you get the idea.

[L. Coyote]

2. K & R

[pwb]

3. I wonder if the people who got the expensive cocktail like trump

and vaccinated people who got Covid will still suffer down the road. People I talk to that had it are tired and feel weak still. All ages too. This thing will be with us for a while, killing us for a while longer.

[Tickle]

4. over a year later

and my girlfriend still can't smell or taste. My brother still has lung issues and is now on an inhaler among other things. It's covid forever once you get it

[SoonerPride]

5. It all depends on one's risk tolerance.

I am perfectly capable of evaluating the risk to my health.

It is almost nothing.

Statistically insignificant.

I am at more risk driving a car.

[PSPS]

12. So others must submit to your "evaluation" of their risk from your behavior?

[SoonerPride]

17. No they are free to wear N95 masks or stay home until the end of time.

Who says I am forcing anyone to do anything?

[2 Meow Momma]

6. It's definitely not over. I've been extremely careful for 2 years but I caught it.

I have no idea how. I have KN95 masks and I use them. I must have slipped up somehow.

Anyhoo, I am feeling very sick. I thank the goddesses that I got boosted. I’m overweight, 65, and have type 2 diabetes. I fit the profile exactly of people that have lost their lives to this tiny virus.

[Walleye]

11. I wish you a speedy recovery

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

7. The long term economic impact...

of this pandemic is going to be crushing for decades.

[PSPS]

14. Only if people continue deciding that they're "done with it" and keep pretending.

[IrishAfricanAmerican]

18. No...

as of now it already will be. If we get a couple of more waves it will be just that much worse.

[LastDemocratInSC]

8. My wife is an ICU nurse and works with Covid patients.

She is often assigned to the Covid step-down unit at her hospital. That's where patients are moved when they're discharged from the ICU but need to begin rehabilitation of some kind. The complications and long term effects of Covid can be severe. She says that for most who need rehab their lives will never be the same. They will probably never recover the physical capabilities they had and they will be at risk for future complications.

It's a dangerous disease.

[maxsolomon]

9. I guess you're calling me out? You're calling someone out.

We do have to learn to live with it. It is not going away.

Are there DUers who say "it's not that bad?" Do you mean those who say Omicron cases have generally been milder? They have. I know many people, all boosted, who have contracted it and recovered quickly. This is also what the initial information on the strain reflected. This doesn't mean that there have not been serious cases that have resulted in deaths, particularly among the Unvaxxed, of which there are very few on DU.

Also, I admit it: I'm "done" with Covid. I'm exhausted by 2 years of this. I want it to be over. That doesn't mean it is going to be over, or that I'm going to start kissing strangers at a GQP fundraising event.

Your OP is attacking Straw Men.

[PSPS]

15. Yes, "it is not going away" as long as people insist on behaving selfishly.

[Tomconroy]

10. No one in the study had been vaccinated.

I'm not done with Covid but I'm done with mandates that don't encourage vaccination.

[uponit7771]

13. Do they have any number on those who are catch it and are vaxed? I'm sick of the studies of the

... vaxed as if the unvaxed aren't living a whole different world of risk.

Yeah, we DO have to live with C19 cause even if 100% of the planet was vaxed it wouldn't jump in a space ship and fly away.

Its just if you get it get the watered down version of it not the cause you heart failure version of it

[PSPS]

16. "we DO have to live with C19 cause even if 100%" -- Um, you mean like polio? Smallpox?