01-02-2022, 01:52 PM
(01-02-2022, 11:20 AM)C_T_Russell Wrote:https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care...infections(01-02-2022, 11:07 AM)Lilith7 Wrote: Its always so interesting that some just cannot cope with pink hair, & that its virtually the first thing mentioned whenever someone wants to put the boot into Siouxsie Wiles, attempt to discredit her & minimise whatever she says.All i hear as the "official" response is that you will be "better off" if your vaxxed and catch omicron, I feel thats a debatable opinion, from the data coming out there currently seems to be little to do difference in severity of symptoms between those vaxxed and unvaxxed who have caught it.
The reality is that being vaccinated makes excellent sense - & NZ isn't just 'lucky'. Most of us have understood the dangers of covid & done the sensible, reasonable thing & got the vaccination.
Despite the 'experts' making various wildly silly claims about being vaccinated, including one that the 'vaccination makes you magnetic'.
Most of those vaccinated aren't 'petrified of covid', but they may well be petrified of the idiots  among the anti vaxxers who don't mind placing others at risk, since they'd have extremely good cause for that.
Ive got (vaxxed) friends who dont even want vaxxed people to come near them if they have been in contact with unvaxxed people.
What about when they are shopping at the supermarket?
ÔÇ£Because people who are vaccinated have had some immunity, some antibodies, a majority of these breakthrough cases are going to be asymptomatic or mild,ÔÇØ said Dr. Sanghavi. ÔÇ£According to the data, reported by CDC and other publications, it seems like around 25% to 30% of the patients who have had breakthrough infections are completely asymptomatic.
Additionally, ÔÇ£what youÔÇÖre seeing predominantly is 80% of the patients who have the Omicron variant are unvaccinated and are needing hospitalization,ÔÇØ he said. ÔÇ£That is the reason why everybody should get vaccinatedÔÇöbecause even if you are immunosuppressed and get a breakthrough infection, that infection would be mild as compared to a regular infection.ÔÇØ
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/c...accination
"Breakthrough coronavirus infections can cause mild or moderate illness, but the chances of serious COVID-19 are very low, especially for people who are not living with a chronic health condition.
The COVID-19 vaccines are very effective in keeping you from having to go to the hospital, being put on a ventilator or dying due to severe coronavirus disease, including COVID caused by the delta coronavirus variant."
https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-ne...w-rcna9469
"Early evidence suggests that for most people, at least those who are up to date on their Covid vaccines, omicron appears to cause milder illness that can resemble the common cold, another form of the coronavirus.┬á"It is clear that if you're vaccinated, particularly┬áif youÔÇÖve had a booster, omicron tends to produce milder infections," said Dr. William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
"What we haven't seen yet is a substantial body of information about what omicron will do in unvaccinated people," he added.
Indeed, at least one person who was not vaccinated is reported to have died of omicron."
in order to be old & wise, you must first be young & stupid. (I'm still working on that.)