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Johnny2X2X

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17. My cousin is a head nurse on a Covid floor in the local hospital
Mon Mar 21, 2022, 12:04 PM
Mar 2022

Says the same thing, the elderly have been vaccinated and boosted at a very high rate. When you look at the data, unvaccinated people ages 35-64 are being hospitalized at twice the rate of fully vaccinated people over 65.

So it's relatively younger antivaxxers who are mostly the ones getting sick and dying. It's a pandemic of choice mostly now.

And risk factors are still at play too. And the crowd that always seems to ask about Covid deaths, "Yeah, but did they have comorbidities?" are usually totally oblivious to the fact that if being overweight is a comorbidity, 74% of the country has a comorbidity. I've had people say that stuff to me with a straight face while they're sitting there at at least 35% body fat and 70 pounds overweight. I pull no punches, "Dude, you have a major comorbidity, you're way way overweight, so you're saying if you die from Covid it won't be as big of a deal because you're not in shape?" There's still this idea that Covid is mostly killing people with one foot in the grave already, that's simply not the truth, it's mostly just killing the unvaccinated, that's the biggest factor on who will be killed if they get Covid, vaccine status.

Still masking up in public... Wounded Bear Mar 2022 #1
Outdoors? maxsolomon Mar 2022 #22
I wear a mask outdoors in public. Iggo Mar 2022 #25
Only if there are a lot of people around... Wounded Bear Mar 2022 #30
same here. niyad Mar 2022 #2
Sadly, even a mild breakthrough case can be fatal MineralMan Mar 2022 #3
It's true. phylny Mar 2022 #5
Yes. My father died of COVID pneumonia. MineralMan Mar 2022 #10
Good idea. GoodRaisin Mar 2022 #4
My wife's 93 year old right wing aunt is taking Ivermectin. Emile Mar 2022 #6
My next door neighbor died while taking Ivermectin. Johnny2X2X Mar 2022 #7
They are truly in a death cult! Emile Mar 2022 #8
In Her Defense (sort of) RobinA Mar 2022 #18
Bingo! Johnny2X2X Mar 2022 #20
I wonder what long term Ivermectin does to a human body? We may find out, as it seems riversedge Mar 2022 #11
CDC numbers on deaths and hospitalizations vaxxed vs vaxxed Johnny2X2X Mar 2022 #9
Covid is a threat to me. I care for my 96 yr old mom and I am riversedge Mar 2022 #12
Even at 96, vaxxed and boosted gives her a lot of protection Johnny2X2X Mar 2022 #16
I see your point and I remain vigalant and glad you do also. But bodies get riversedge Mar 2022 #19
At 96, a lot f things are risky Johnny2X2X Mar 2022 #23
Of course, get the vaccines and wear the masks, as so many here state, when I went... SWBTATTReg Mar 2022 #13
I have a friend who's a respiratory therapist spinbaby Mar 2022 #14
Crazy and totally unnecessary, isn't it? A simple yet effective means to avoid death, but yet... SWBTATTReg Mar 2022 #15
My cousin is a head nurse on a Covid floor in the local hospital Johnny2X2X Mar 2022 #17
Did someone say Covid has gone away? maxsolomon Mar 2022 #21
I don't know that anyone we'd listen to has said phylny Mar 2022 #24
Just because reported deaths have shrunk to about a thousand a day nitpicker Mar 2022 #26
Actually, most store staff are still masking around here nitpicker Mar 2022 #27
For me it's still the 3 Ws nitpicker Mar 2022 #28
I thought handwashing was just always good sense, not particularly for Covid. CTyankee Mar 2022 #29
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