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Old 07-31-2021, 02:48 PM
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Originally Posted by Byte1 View Post
New information is always interesting to me, BUT I would also appreciate it if they would give the positive along with the negative.
For instance, a friend of mine was about hysterical about the spike in Covid cases this month. I found it interesting, BUT since he seemed to be hyperventilating I decided to look up a figure that everyone should be able to appreciate. Turns out that the death rate in his state for the whole month was less than ONE DAY in the past Jan.
Maybe the Delta virus is less deadly.
Maybe the vaccination is making the virus less deadly.
Who knows? Instead of crying about how dark it is in the tunnel, how about thinking about that light that we can see at the end of the tunnel and keep on trucking towards it?
There has always been a HUGE loud honking enormous obnoxiously sickly sweet overbearing positive, that has been utterly rejected by the anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers:

The vaccines, masks, hand-washing, and social distancing can all...
(say it with me, kids)
(drumroll)

REDUCE RISK.

That's right. These simple steps can reduce your risk of dying to a disease that causes you to choke to death on your own mucus.

But wait, there's more!

With these handy dandy steps, you will also reduce your risk of surviving that disease, but living with permanent lung and/or heart scarring for the rest of your life!

And that's not all!

Get these simple solutions now, and we'll toss in a reduced risk of spreading the disease to your loved ones, at no extra cost!


See? Awesome news. Now watch the deniers deny it, and blame politics.