Originally Posted by
dwai
druff I love you and you're a good guy but I don't want your fox news outrage porn.
you have bought into this pandemic hook line and sinker from day one. even after it became clear it wasn't even deadly. you skew numbers to make it seem like people from 35 to 45 is a huge difference. IT'S NOT.
you're a relatively healthy guy in your 50s(I know I'm early) and you're not fat, you'll be fine, you've been playing both sides of the fence on this since 2021, you have 2 vaccines and a booster, you don't get to call anything out. you are a covid casualty
COVID is the third highest cause of death for people 45-54, and not a distant third. In the past year, it was just a little bit behind heart disease.
Compare that to kids and people under 30, where COVID deaths are incredibly rare, and thus there should be no panic.
I'm using raw numbers here, not quoting the biased political takes, as both sides are wrong about COVID. The right is largely trying to make COVID look like a non-issue and a non-danger, whereas the left is largely trying to incite constant panic as a means to win elections and bring on unrelated social change.
This is why I got three shots myself (something the left has been urging), yet am totally against vaccine mandates and masks in schools for kids (a position the left hates).
I also think cloth masks are a bullshit security blanket, and lockdowns just hurt the economy and don't work.
This isn't talking out of both sides of my mouth. This is following the data and using common sense.
Saying, "I don't need no vaccine, my immune system works fine!!!" isn't common sense, when almost everyone dying of COVID presently is unvaccinated. That's ignoring the obvious data.
Saying, "WE MUST VACCINATE AND MASK OUR KIDS IN SCHOOL FOR SAFFFFFFEETTYYY!!!" also isn't common sense, as we have tens of millions of kids in elementary schools, none of whom are vaccinated, and not a single student-caused school outbreak in 3 months.
I refuse to buy into either side's idiocy, and I'm thinking for myself here.
This is the logic I use to convince other conservatives my age to get vaccinated. They are constantly battered over the head with lies from the left/media, and they think, "Well, I know I'm being lied to, so the vaccine must also be bullshit, just like my conservative friends are telling me."
I tell them that the left is full of shit with a lot of their COVID dogma, but they happen to be right about the vaccine thing.
Again, just follow the data and you'll get the truth in a lot of this.