[Bill14564]

Originally Posted by thevillages2013

Most unvaccinated people who get Covid do not go to the hospital and recover just fine. No one wants to hear that though

Originally Posted by Petersweeney

Absolutely correct……99.95%

When a little over 1% of Covid cases result in death, it is impossible that only 0.05% of cases result in hospitalization.

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by thevillages2013

Most unvaccinated people who get Covid do not go to the hospital and recover just fine. No one wants to hear that though

They key word is “most”. Anyone, unvaccinated, who is willing to play Russian Roulette with their health is not thinking clearly, sorry to say.

Getting my Moderna booster in a couple of days.

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by askcarl

Being as a Booster shot has only been recommended just last week and not Approved by either FDA or CDC, response from both coming sometime this week, just what is this "Booster" shot you've taken?

Interesting.

Carl

My understanding is the booster shot is the same exact vaccine formula and the same exact dose of the original vaccine. I really wish the manufacturers would develop a vaccine that specifically targets all the variants that the virus has mutated so far, including Delta. Having said that, I will take what is being offered now.

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by Bill14564

Booster shots (third shots) of Pfizer and Moderna for certain immunocompromised individuals were authorized a few weeks ago.

Booster shots of Pfizer for 65 and older and probably some critical care workers are likely to be authorized soon.

Are you referring to FULL FDA approval for Pfizer booster shots?

[sallyg]

Thanks for posting.

[Bob.Betty]

A person can go to a number of articles, opinions, doctors, etc. etc. and find the information to support their own opinions. My wife and I (both boomers) do not (and will not) get flu shots, shingles shots, covid shot, or any other shot offered to us. We have both had covid and amazingly enough survived to tell about it. In fact I personally know many people including family members and friends who have had it....NONE of them died. A person must do what is right for them, you are exposed to many harmful things everyday.
Stay clear of the golf cart paths if you don't want to get run over.

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by drducat

Regeneron......monoclonal antibody treatment!!

I’m all for the Regeneron treatment for anyone who qualifies for it. It is a wonderful thing that there is a treatment that works for Covid.

Does this Regeneron treatment have FULL FDA APPROVAL like the Pfizer vaccine does? Just wondering.

[coffeebean]

Originally Posted by drducat

And a shot of what not is "Not Russian Roulette"??

The vaccines are the opposite of playing Russian Roulette. The vaccines SAVE lives, not kill ya.

[graciegirl]

Originally Posted by merrymini

I have known several people who got the virus and were unvaccinated. All recovered with no long term effects. The shots do help with symptoms but you can get it anyway. A very small percentage die, mostly people with physical issues, obesity, aged related issues. Over 98 percent recover! These stories always being to mind the people who sell their house in two hours. Yes, it can happen but usually doesn’t.

Most of us have people that we love, and then people that we really like. At our age that group is easily one hundred people if you count friends in your neighborhood, golf friends, and people married to people we see a lot.

Out of those hundred people, three will die from Covid. Three real people.

We have lived in our small Village of 52 houses for eleven years. It is separate from the others with swamp land and a busy road. Most of the homes have two people living in them and some have one. We gathered frequently at the mail drop to socialize or at Laurel Manor before the pandemic. We stop and chat when we see people out walking. In eleven years you really get to know your neighbors pretty well especially when everyone is retired. Our Village numbers less than a hundred people. One of our neighbors died of Covid.

Overall three percent of Americans have died from Covid, that is including all ages, but when you group older people alone, the number doubles.

It is a horrible death that can be prevented. Please get both shots. People love you.

[MrZero]

Originally Posted by lkagele

Sure. I am. Good therapeutic medicine out there that's safe.

Two neighbors, overweight, not in particularly good health and in their 70's just came down with COVID. They and their wives took the Regeneron treatment and all are just fine.

I'm over 65. No booster for me.

I, for one, am glad there are options. I'm vaxed, but would never insist anyone else get vaxed. It just rubs me the wrong way. Get the jab if you want or use the therapeutics if needed. But life needs to go on. Otherwise, what's the point?

[zendog3]

You forgot Stage 8. They release you from the hospital with a bill for $50,000 for your long stay in the hospital. But get ready, Stage 9 is coming, years of long Covid.

[Blueblaze]

I you think death by Covid is gruesome, you should see death by Cancer!

Odds of dying from Covid 19: 1 in 914

Odds of dying from cancer: 1 in 533

How come we don't post cancer panic-porn on this site for old folks, where nearly everyone is already vaccinated and immune to Covid, but at high risk for cancer, for which there is no vaccine?

I see people smoking in the Villages all the time. Shouldn't we be hounding them relentlessly to quit smoking? Think of all the black lung pictures we could post and endlessly comment on! We could have a "7 stages of dying from lung cancer" thread that would make Covid look like a bout of hay fever!

[Wyseguy]

Originally Posted by Velvet

Boomer, my daughter considers the vaccine a “medical procedure”. She would rather leave the country if mandatory vaccinations, than get vaccinated. Both of her parents taught at university and she also attended. Both of her parents are even ready for the booster so it is not our example. I have learned to respect her choice … with a broken heart. I pray and hope I never have to face the day when she will say to me, “Mom, I’ve tested positive”. If you have any words of wisdom for me, I am really listening.

You should respect her decision. It is easy for the "older" population to say let's take this rushed vaccine. Younger generation have many many (God willing) years ahead of them.

[La lamy]

Originally Posted by coffeebean

My understanding is the booster shot is the same exact vaccine formula and the same exact dose of the original vaccine. I really wish the manufacturers would develop a vaccine that specifically targets all the variants that the virus has mutated so far, including Delta. Having said that, I will take what is being offered now.

On the show 60 Minutes a couple weeks ago there was a great interview about the Pentagon project which aims to save soldiers from all types of foreign viruses. Here's a quote from the interview which can be found on line in its w=entirety:

"Dr. Modjarrad says in five years a single vaccine could defeat all coronaviruses: that means many common colds, the deadly strain causing this pandemic and thousands of others.

Bill Whitaker: Is that at this point-- a dream?

Dr. Kayvon Modjarrad: This is not science fiction, this is science fact. We have the tools, we have the technology, to do this all right now.

Bill Whitaker: And you think we can, at some point, inoculate the world against these killer viruses.

Dr. Kayvon Modjarrad: Killer viruses that we haven't seen or even imagined, we'll be protected against."

Pretty incredible stuff!!!

[Cheiro]

Originally Posted by John Mayes

Only my opinion…..you should respect her choice, (as I’m sure you would), the same as in other decisions she may make regarding her body.

This is not a circumstance to respect a choice where such a choice is a-clear-and-present-danger to everyone else.
The unvaccinated are responsible for the recent outbreak of the disease, it is their fault that the deaths have now exceeded the US deaths of the 1918 flu (675,000) and now stands at 680,000 (48,000 in Florida). The vaccine is not a choice it is the responsible thing to do.