You can't do this to me. We all saw the people collapsing on the streets in China. I wrapped my house in plastic. I wore a full body hazard suit and gas mask for two fucking years. I survived the COVIDOCALYPSE and have the TEAM PFIZER tattoos to prove it! DON'T TAKE THIS AWAY FROM ME!!!
What do you mean, survived? The COVIDOCALYPSE isn't over yet! You're still wearing your masks, right? And are you scheduled for your next booster shot yet? We're not safe yet!!!1!
In my age group, since I have no underline issues I am almost immune to it. I even had it and all I had was a couple of days of feeling low energy and some flew like symptoms.
I said that to a friend that is triple vax and even vaccinated his 7 years old daughter and he tried to convince me that because I'm 8 pounds overweight according to some BMI it means I'm at risk for covid. He actually pulled out his phone to show me that I'm overweight according to a BMI app. I thought it was funny.
Almost everyone should be thinner than they are now. I was not overweight but I thought if I lost any weight I'd look gaunt & malnourished.
During the tyrannical lockdowns over a flu I ate better, worked out more and lost 20lbs of weight. Turns out I looked a lot better. Almost every American could stand to drop some weight.
I worked at a FedEx hub for the entire coof emergency when I was 58-60-years old, I did not wear a mask there (lax enforcement by supervisors, god bless 'em), and have not yet contracted the disease. Of course FedEx was "essential." In fact we were continually swamped and frequently understaffed.
I would not believe it existed were it not for the fact that 3 or 4 co-workers out of a team of around 100 got sick with it, none serious or fatal.
I caught it just last week and it knocked me down for said week. But it was just being sick for a bit, and I've already bounced back. It's ridiculous the way people treat it like the plague.
This is correct. For anyone under 45 it was basically the equivalent or less than the flu. Lethality only spiked at age 65 and/or if you had comorbidities. Overall it was worse than the flu primarily because it was a new strain, and new is always worse, but just 3-4 months in most of the damage had been done. There was no excuse for it to last 2 years or result in all the absolutely insane policies that it did. Sweden was the only country that handled it correctly AFAIK.
"I'm sorry — I just disagree," says Dr. Anthony Fauci, the White House's medical adviser, and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. "The severity of one compared to the other is really quite stark. And the potential to kill of one versus the other is really quite stark."
Dare not take away this virus that made me rich, famous and beloved beyond my wildest dreams.
It’s also especially fun since he of all people should have access to statistics to illustrate precisely just how stark those differences should be. And yet he just says Covid bad, flu less bad.
To me it felt less lethal but way more transmissible, so it was able to reach those that whose normal behaviour would escape the flu.
I think more than anything, the response is what resulted in more deaths, if we had the same response during the Spanish flu, Europe would have seen Black plague death tolls.
Sars-Cov-2/Covid-19 was circulating in various places in 2019 with no apparent elevated death profile in those places. It was only after the governments declared "emergency" and started trying to isolate people and ration healthcare that deaths went up.
Fact: It's always been less risky than flu.
You can't do this to me. We all saw the people collapsing on the streets in China. I wrapped my house in plastic. I wore a full body hazard suit and gas mask for two fucking years. I survived the COVIDOCALYPSE and have the TEAM PFIZER tattoos to prove it! DON'T TAKE THIS AWAY FROM ME!!!
What do you mean, survived? The COVIDOCALYPSE isn't over yet! You're still wearing your masks, right? And are you scheduled for your next booster shot yet? We're not safe yet!!!1!
In my age group, since I have no underline issues I am almost immune to it. I even had it and all I had was a couple of days of feeling low energy and some flew like symptoms.
I said that to a friend that is triple vax and even vaccinated his 7 years old daughter and he tried to convince me that because I'm 8 pounds overweight according to some BMI it means I'm at risk for covid. He actually pulled out his phone to show me that I'm overweight according to a BMI app. I thought it was funny.
BMI is a joke, know who counts as overweight by bmi about every ufc fighter, professional athlete, and on and on.
BMI is useful as a rough guide to where your weight should be. 99% of people are not professional athletes.
This, plus God only knows how many professional athletes are on steroids or growth hormones.
No it’s really not, it’s a metric of size despite muscle and the opposite of what any realistically healthy person would achieve
Waist–hip ratio is a much better indicator, imo. That said, don't expect things to change until Seventh Day Adventists stop controlling the narrative around nutrition.
Almost everyone should be thinner than they are now. I was not overweight but I thought if I lost any weight I'd look gaunt & malnourished.
During the tyrannical lockdowns over a flu I ate better, worked out more and lost 20lbs of weight. Turns out I looked a lot better. Almost every American could stand to drop some weight.
I worked at a FedEx hub for the entire coof emergency when I was 58-60-years old, I did not wear a mask there (lax enforcement by supervisors, god bless 'em), and have not yet contracted the disease. Of course FedEx was "essential." In fact we were continually swamped and frequently understaffed.
I would not believe it existed were it not for the fact that 3 or 4 co-workers out of a team of around 100 got sick with it, none serious or fatal.
I caught it just last week and it knocked me down for said week. But it was just being sick for a bit, and I've already bounced back. It's ridiculous the way people treat it like the plague.
I did some research on your friend.
This is correct. For anyone under 45 it was basically the equivalent or less than the flu. Lethality only spiked at age 65 and/or if you had comorbidities. Overall it was worse than the flu primarily because it was a new strain, and new is always worse, but just 3-4 months in most of the damage had been done. There was no excuse for it to last 2 years or result in all the absolutely insane policies that it did. Sweden was the only country that handled it correctly AFAIK.
Dare not take away this virus that made me rich, famous and beloved beyond my wildest dreams.
It’s also especially fun since he of all people should have access to statistics to illustrate precisely just how stark those differences should be. And yet he just says Covid bad, flu less bad.
“But let’s shut down the world for two years and poison the majority of the population anyway.”
Liars and traitors all.
To me it felt less lethal but way more transmissible, so it was able to reach those that whose normal behaviour would escape the flu.
I think more than anything, the response is what resulted in more deaths, if we had the same response during the Spanish flu, Europe would have seen Black plague death tolls.
Sars-Cov-2/Covid-19 was circulating in various places in 2019 with no apparent elevated death profile in those places. It was only after the governments declared "emergency" and started trying to isolate people and ration healthcare that deaths went up.
Check out the breakdown here: https://pandauncut.substack.com/p/were-the-unprecedented-excess-deaths
Those people at my workplace are still catching it, too.
If I didn't have to pick up their slack it would be funny.
:P