Current Events > A 4 year old girl near Houston died of COVID this week

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littlebro07 posted...

at a much lower rate, and if they spread it to other vaccinated people, those newly infected people will only have mild symptoms (in most cases, obviously the occasional rare unlucky bastard will still end up in the hospital and/or die from it)

Why do people think vaccine = complete immunity

thats not what vaccines do

hmm given cases soaring we cant say a much lower rate, a slightly lower rate is closer to it, it does a wonderful job of preventing hospitalizations and deaths though, unfortunate that mutation is too fast to ever reach herd immunity, not sure what the next step will be, probably going to be an optional shot yearly in a year or 2 Id guess because covid is here to stay

hsvhighlife posted...

vaccinated people are spreading it too

They keep forgetting this.

Such a shame about the kid though. Pretty shocking that COVID took away a kid so young.

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littlebro07 posted...

at a much lower rate, and if they spread it to other vaccinated people, those newly infected people will only have mild symptoms (in most cases, obviously the occasional rare unlucky bastard will still end up in the hospital and/or die from it)

Why do people think vaccine = complete immunity

thats not what vaccines do

Yep, exactly. Very, VERY few hospitalized cases of vaccinated people in comparison to unvaccinated. Think I saw a stat that said 93% of hospitalizations from COVID are with people who have received no vaccine.

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lww99 posted...

maybe not this vaccine.

but others? Kinda yeah.

Nope. No vaccine has 100% efficacy. Other vaccines worked so well in a widespread manner because the overwhelming majority of the public took them.

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I honestly didn't know they were offering the vaccine to children that young. I had assumed it was 12 and up

Sat in on a conference involving doctors and the school district I work in. Doctors were coming out to the schools and offering parent approved vaccines to children recently, but it got shut down by stupid fucking parents due to threats of physical violence and the doctors being spit on several times by people I'm an angry mob.

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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/reported-paralytic-polio-cases-and-deaths-in-the-united-states-since-1910

Polio, for example... It's pretty clear when people started lining up to take the polio vaccine while polio was spreading. Also of note, people took the polio vaccine en masse and didn't wait for 670,000 people to die like people are doing with covid.

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CE is a microcosm for the world. I swear, I see the same exact type of people in real life that are as just as ill informed as some of the posters in this topic

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shockthemonkey posted...

Yeah they straight up dont understand how this works

They do. It's been explained dozens of times. They're deliberately putting their fingers in their ears and ignoring it, probably because fuck da libs.

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3PiesAndAFork posted...

They do. It's been explained dozens of times. They're deliberately putting their fingers in their ears and ignoring it, probably because fuck da libs.

we live in a country with like a third of the adult populace that literally can't read to a 7th grade level, a lot of folks just have no comprehension of much anything and even basic science is going to be hard to these type of folks.

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Patty_Fleur posted...

Please shut the fuck up

Its a valid point. Kids cant get vaccinated and we're just sending them out to schools, the biggest incubators of germs

littlebro07 posted...

this is one of the dumbest things Ive read all day

ScazarMeltex posted...

So that parents won't have the excuse to keep working from home if their kids are back in school. If people don't start returning to the office soon the commercial real estate will tank because no one is going to keep paying to rent their office buildings if everyone is working from home.

Yeah the crux of it is we're putting kids at risk so people can go to work; we're sacrificing our children for the economy. Yay

Punished_Joseph posted...

Its a valid point. Kids cant get vaccinated and we're just sending them out to schools, the biggest incubators of germs

Countries in Europe with the delta variant already have in person learning with great success

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ScazarMeltex posted...

So that parents won't have the excuse to keep working from home if their kids are back in school. If people don't start returning to the office soon the commercial real estate will tank because no one is going to keep paying to rent their office buildings if everyone is working from home.

Exactly. I, for one, am against letting children die for the sake of feeding the profits of some investors.

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Dathrowed1 posted...

Countries in Europe with the delta variant already have in person learning with great success

Probably because the adults have been vaccinated, greatly reducing the chance of spread to the unvaccinated. They call that herd immunity.

Funny that everyone was harping on that in the beginning, but as soon as it became known a vaccine is required for it...

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3PiesAndAFork posted...

Probably because the adults have been vaccinated, greatly reducing the chance of spread to the unvaccinated. They call that herd immunity.

Funny that everyone was harping on that in the beginning, but as soon as it became known a vaccine is required for it...

Well we have the capabilities to start doing RCTs on COVID and kids in schools. So we don't have to play guessing games, we can start doing real science on whether COVID is affecting schools the way people want to think or not

Many want to use these anecdotes but they have always said COVID hasn't affected kids the same. RSV is so far a bigger threat for them

I think Scandinavia still had schools open before large vaccinations

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littlebro07 posted...

at a much lower rate, and if they spread it to other vaccinated people, those newly infected people will only have mild symptoms (in most cases, obviously the occasional rare unlucky bastard will still end up in the hospital and/or die from it)

Why do people think vaccine = complete immunity

thats not what vaccines do

But I was told every vaccine before this one worked like that

By people that don't know

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