Another person I know has flu symptoms, after his vaccinated sick roommate tested positive for Covid. The media dump of "99.9% of all vaccinated people haven't had Covid" stories gives vaxxed a wildly mistaken sense of being bullet proof. July breakthrough cases were about 20%.
This brings the total of people I know up to 25? 26? I've now lost count. I'm in Los Angeles.
The trouble with that widely publicized 99% number is that it is CRAZY misleading. To count how many vaccinated people are included in total Covid cases from beginning of pandemic --most cases from before vaccines were widely available-- obviously means most cases were unvaxxed.
Then to further complicate reporting, CDC is officially only tracking hospitalized or dead vaccinated cases. Since May.
This not-so-subtle push to oversell vaccines to somehow make vax hesitant to get vaccinated is NOT WORKING. The vaccines save most from hospitalization and death. That's a huge and accurate selling point. Insinuating it stops all infections is just causing more infections.
Saying 99% of caused have not gotten Covid is as meaningless as saying 98.1% of all unvaxxed have never gotten Covid--which I think is accurate?
One if my vaxxed sick friends said "I don't know how I got it if vaccines are 99% effective." This is the result of bad reporting.
By constantly reinforcing the idea that the vaccinated are 99.99whatever protected, is SPREADING DELTA. Public health spokespeople need to fix this before these miraculous, lifesaving BUT NOT PERFECT vaccines are rendered useless against a variant WE created.
Its an easy math problem to figure out how many total vaccinated have been infected by Covid it's similarly easy to show how many total unvaxxed have gotten Covid & come up with a larger but similarly tiny overall number. These tell us nothing about current risk or spread.
Please #GetVaccinated. It is the BEST defense against serious disease. But do everything else in your power to avoid getting sick. #WearAMask --N95 or better. Lay low even though it's a bummer. Any infection brings a significant risk of long covid & organ damage.
Forgive my auto correction typos in this thread. I hurriedly wrote it because I don't want any more vaccinated people to assume they can't get Covid. We are in a huge wave of a variant that is worse than previous ones. Vaccines alone can't stop this, & were never intended to.
To beat back Covid we must vaccinate the majority, suppress and contain spread, contact trace and use all mitigation strategies available including universal masking & proper ventilation.
Please be safe. 🙏❤
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Since I know so many people with breakthrough cases, I am hearing a lot of anecdotal from people I trust. Over half are having concerning post-illness issues: loss of smell/taste, cognitive issues, heart irregularities, high blood sugar/blood pressure, clotting problems. Others:
3 found doctors to give Ivermectin & say they feel back to normal. 1 who got sick this week says so far it's just like a bad cold.(They were fairly recently vaxxed, too.) Most report continued fatigue, feeling wiped out, "still run down." Ages are 20s-60s. #WearAMask
Do not @ me, or call me antivax or say I'm lying. In last 6 or so weeks I've known 24 who got breakthrough Covid. Most are MRNA. The number is so high because they gave it to families/roommates. It made me take notice because I could hardly believe, based on what we were told.
I keep thinking about what climate change related health crisis will be like. Pfizer will no doubt come up with a daily lung drug & CDC will advise lung drug users to start smoking, especially in public, because we don't want to make non lung drug users doubt lung drug efficacy.
President Pete, after campaigning on following the climate science (and narrowly defeating Ivanka) will make sure to insist we will NOT limit the economy, and that all schools WILL STAY OPEN including the ones now underwater.
Doctors on the front lines will find that a generic drug long used for allergies oddly helps many with climate related lung issues.
Twitter, Facebook & YouTube will ban all users who mention this.
"...research also shows that even if masking is required in all schools, if there no other mitigation strategies, she still expects 40% of elementary school students to be infected within three months."
This (as well as rise of faux-populist Trump) is what happens when DNC manipulates primaries to ignore base, squash the left & wking class, & support/promote only centrists. #NotMeUs saw this coming from miles away because we'd been on the ground talking to voters since 2016.
When I asked one Obama voter about other candidates during 2020 Sanders campaign, she told me Harris was "like new Coke. You can't try to fool people that she's like Obama any more than you could fool people to drink new Coke." I've never forgotten that.
I really really really really worry about midterms.😲
So, if I were the president, here's what I would do about Covid:
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1. Pay people to get vaxxed. This is cheapest, fastest way to get numbers up. Consider it another stimulus tied to vaccinating. (and retroactive!) If corporate America balked, I'd tell them to sit down.
Next, I'd just completely stop trying to squash ivermectin. Other countries use it for Covid. Pretending half the country doesn't know about it (& possibly already have it) is dumb. Drs use drugs off-label all the time. It has a 40 yr safety record. We need all weapons for delta.