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Originally Posted by Swoop
If you are healthy the chances of you dying from Covid are extremely low.
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And the chances of you surviving with new health problems you didn't have before is high.
Meanwhile:
My sister's had asthma for a couple of decades, and has to use steroid medications to manage it. As a result of the steroids, she is overweight. She took the recommended precautions: wore a mask when she left the house, stayed home as much as possible, washed her hands, social distanced when she left her house. She ended up sick, diagnosed with COVID-19. She took precautions, but it seems her housemate chose not to take those precautions. He was sick as well. My sister now has more damage to her lungs, and it took her over a month to recover as much as she has from the virus. It's unknown whether her lung damage will heal.
But hey she lived, right? And her housemate got to exercise his freedom to choose whether or not to be masked when he left his house and went to friends and family, right? Even though - if HE had worn his mask, kept a social distance, didn't go socializing with friends and family in close quarters without masks, and didn't listen to the Qonspiracy horsecrap, she wouldn't have gotten sick at all.
Someone else I know wasn't so "lucky." They're dead.
A few other people in my family all got sick and have recovered completely, but they were out of work for a couple of weeks, had to use their paid sick time. One was in the hospital and wasn't allowed any visitors at all and since they were on an upper floor, they didn't even have the opportunity to have loved ones sit outside the window so they could talk.
The "inconvenience" of having to wear a mask is a trivial insult to anyone who has had to endure the fall-out of being sick, subsequent physical damage to their organs, using up sick time and being out of work (and you know when you return to work you now have 2 weeks of stuff to deal with piled up on your desk, because you weren't there to do it).
The only reason I'm not vaccinated yet is because it's not my turn in my community. I don't want to be "inconvenienced" with the possibility of getting sick and having to isolate from other people. I don't want to be "inconvenienced" with the possibility that I - and everyone else in the family - has to miss my cousin's wedding because too many of us are NOT vaccinated and she won't risk us all getting sick and will therefore postpone the reception or simply not have one at all and keep the wedding restricted to her, her fiance, their parents, and the rabbi.
So for those reasons - because I don't want to even THINK about being inconvenienced anymore, I will get the vaccine when it's my turn.