[nick demis]

Originally Posted by scottiesrgreat@gmail.com

I truly feel sorry for you - to live with a head full of pure negativity and sorrow. I pray you find something, someone to help you thru your negative life and thoughts.

It is going to be a beautiful - sunny day - Spend time laughing and enjoying time with friends and family!!!! Watch the birds and wildlife play by the ponds!!! Enjoy gathering at the great events we have here at the Villages!!! Take that trip to visit your grandchildren or a friend you haven’t seen for years!!! Believe me, when the time comes - and you are really unable to do anything - you will have no regrets - only wonderful memories!!!

It is a great day to live and enjoy interacting - or just spending the day enjoying life by yourself.

Some people just want to spend the rest of their lives worrying with their heads buried in the sand. I don't try to stop you so don't demand that I do the same. Me, I want to enjoy life to it's fullest. That is one of the reasons we moved here.

[Leadbone1]

Originally Posted by popbaby2

Please wear a mask and continue precautions after getting your vaccination. You can still get covid-19 and pass it on. You would probably be asymtomatic.
Vaccination
1. WILL NOT Protect you 100%
2. WILL protect you from getting it bad and killing you

Pay attention to the SCIENCE!!!!!

This may be your science but it is not the science. I hardly ever wear a mask now and I can guarantee you once I’ve had my second shot in about 10 days and after the 14 day waiting period I will not be wearing a mask anywhere. If someplace tries to ask me to leave I will point out that they legally have no basis to do so. I don’t think it’ll happen as it is not happening now. There is no law mandating that. 95% of us are ready to get back to normal living. Then there’s always the 5% like you.

[GeriS]

Originally Posted by popbaby2

Please wear a mask and continue precautions after getting your vaccination. You can still get covid-19 and pass it on. You would probably be asymtomatic.
Vaccination
1. WILL NOT Protect you 100%
2. WILL protect you from getting it bad and killing you

Pay attention to the SCIENCE!!!!!

Yes, pay attention to science. Everything you say is wrong.

[GeriS]

Originally Posted by shut the front door

According to the government... If I get vaccinated: 💉💉💉

1.- Can I stop wearing the mask?
Government Response - No

2.- Can they reopen restaurants, pubs, bars etc and everyone work normally?
Government Response - No

3.- Will I be resistant to covid?
Government Response - Maybe, but we don't know exactly, it probably won't stop you getting it

4.- At least I won't be contagious to others anymore?
Government Response - No you can still pass it on, possibly, nobody knows.

5.- If we vaccinate all children, will school resume normally?
Government Response - No

6.- If I am vaccinated, can I stop social distancing?
Government Response - No

7.- If I am vaccinated, can I stop disinfecting my hands?
Government Response - No

8.- If I vaccinate myself and my grandfather, can we hug each other?
Government Response - No

9.- Will cinemas, theatres and stadiums be reopened normally thanks to vaccines?
Government Response - No

10.- Will the vaccinated be able to gather?
Government Response - No

11.- What is the real benefit of vaccination?
Government Response - The virus won't kill you.

12.- Are you sure it won't kill me?
Government Response - No

13.- If statistically the virus won't kill me anyway ... Why would I get vaccinated?"
Government Response - To protect others.

14.- So if I get vaccinated, the others are 100% sure I'm not infecting them?
Government Response - No

So to summarise, the Covid19 vaccine...

Does not give immunity.
Does not eliminate the virus.
Does not prevent death.
Does not guarantee you won’t get it.
Does not prevent you from getting it.
Does not stop you passing it on
Does not eliminate the need for travel bans.
Does not eliminate the need for business closures.
Does not eliminate the need for lockdowns.
Does not eliminate the need for masking.

So...what the heck is it actually doing? 🤦🏼*♂️🤷🏼*♂️

You are exactly right. What is it doing? Destroying our economy, businesses, peoples livelihoods, interactions with others. They used to put masks on slaves you know. If you can get enough people to be dependent on the government, you have complete control. You'd better do your research somewhere other than the MSM to find out what's in them.

[Leadbone1]

Why would you pay any attention to what the government says as they have been all over the place since this started. We are adults and need to do what we feel. Over the last year I almost never wear a mask anywhere and I guarantee you once I have my second shot of the vaccine, my mask will go in the trash for good. I’m not gonna walk around looking like an idiot for the rest of my life. Just heard on epidemiologists yesterday morning on TV say that 95% of the masks that people are wearing are worthless and nothing more than a psychological Comfort. I’m done with all of it

[Girlcopper]

Originally Posted by golfing eagles

And here we have another one. The vaccine will give immunity to about 95% of the people who get it. If you are in the 95%, YOU CANNOT GET THE VIRUS AND YOU CANNOT PASS IT ON
If you are in the 5%, It's like you never were vaccinated.

So again, I'll re-post what I wrote on another COVID thread-----

Why does this idiotic rumor keep spreading????? Again, I challenge ANYONE to cite a reputable source for this nonsense.

Think of it this way-----why would all the "experts" be pushing the vaccines as the method of obtaining herd immunity and ending this pandemic if the vaccines did not confer immunity. Why spend billions on vaccines that only prevent "death" in the 0.3% of the people who would actually die from it. In fact, in a cold-hearted but social Darwinian model, why keep people who can spread the virus alive?

Yet , on just about every COVID thread, some yahoo pops up with the "the vaccine only decreases severity of illness and reduces the chance of death" Use your brains, please.

Took the words right out of my mouth. Well stated. If some people feel the vaccine isnt worth it, then, dont get it and take your chances. The mask wearing is still mandated in stores because there is no way to announce that you had the vaccine. Even if they made a huge button you could wear stating, I was vaccinated, people would then complain about that. Ive already heard people arguing with workers in stores that they will not wear a mask because they were vaccinated. Stop acting like a spoiled child. Just wear the mask until its no longer mandated and stop the, it violates my rights, garbage.

[MandoMan]

Originally Posted by Byte1

Thank you. I guess there are those that the glass will always and ALWAYS be half empty.
Must be a lot of idiots out there if they are willing to get TWO shots, with miserable side effects, thinking that if they are around anyone infected that they will get infected but only get a little sick. Some folks should have to wear a sign that warns others that they do not use their brain to function day to day. It must be from Global Warming, I mean Climate Change, or is it Man Made Climate Change? Proof that some folks' wind mills have frozen solid, not just in Texas.

The vast majority of people have no side effects at all except for soreness at the injection site. I watched my girlfriend’s father die of COVID-19. (In FaceTime.) it was the worst three weeks of his life. And he didn’t go on a respirator. His wife nearly died. But now she has to go from a big fancy house to a nursing home.

[ithos]

Originally Posted by tsmall22204

So many experts. So much contradiction. I feel the best advice comes from the medical EXPERTS.

Which "medical experts"?

Highly regarded and credentialed medical professionals have conflicting opinions. Which ones do you believe?

The biggest problem that I have with the lockdown fanatics is their complete and total disregard for the unintended consequences of depriving citizens of their employment, education and liberty. It has resulted in more suicides, depression, domestic violence, bankruptcies, overdoses and student failures.


In the first quarter of 2020, one school district in Charles County, Maryland, saw a 72.7% increase in failing grades for students enrolled in high school, WTOP reported. Forty-two percent of students in Houston received at least one failing grade in this school year's first grading period, The Associated Press reported. This past year, secondary schools in Salt Lake City saw a 600% increase in the number of failing students, according to The Salt Lake Tribune.

US students failing at record levels; experts are wondering what to do

[Niferlou06]

We are in this mess together; so it's not just about one person....


"Even after both doses, it’s important to continue to take precautions.
Although getting vaccinated is an important step in protecting people from COVID-19, it does not mean they can stop practicing precautions such as masking, social distancing, and hand hygiene. Those measures are still critical as we continue to battle the pandemic. “Right now there’s so much COVID circulating, getting the vaccines doesn’t mean you can go back to life as before,” says Dr. Marks. “I think it’s important to continue to take all the recommended precautions, so you can protect yourself and others. Until we really get a decrease in the COVID that’s circulating, all of that remains necessary.”

[ldivens]

The science has been wrong the entire time. You have a 99.9% chance of recovery. If you are at risk stay home. Worry, fear and isolation are killing people and making them get Covid. That is science as well, many reports do your own research.

[kendi]

Originally Posted by Byte1

I've read one from Israel, but I am not an expert or even a medical professional. I have however, stayed at a Holiday Inn Express.
From what I got from the Israeli study, ingestion of the virus after being inoculated will kill the virus (spores?) so that you should not be able to contract the disease or communicate it to others.

If you ingest the virus the acids in your stomach will kill it. There was never a concern with that. Inhaling into the lungs or contamination through the eyes (which is connected to your nasal passage) was/is the issue.

[merrymini]

Just shut up about the virus and the masks, ENOUGH!

[Waltdisney4life]

Sell the fear !!!

[kendi]

Originally Posted by Leadbone1

Why would you pay any attention to what the government says as they have been all over the place since this started. We are adults and need to do what we feel. Over the last year I almost never wear a mask anywhere and I guarantee you once I have my second shot of the vaccine, my mask will go in the trash for good. I’m not gonna walk around looking like an idiot for the rest of my life. Just heard on epidemiologists yesterday morning on TV say that 95% of the masks that people are wearing are worthless and nothing more than a psychological Comfort. I’m done with all of it

Totally agree that 95% of masks are worthless.

[Jerseyborn]

From my nephew (ER physician in Massachusetts):

Interesting tidbits on covid 19

Studies pending peer review (per Fauci) show the following:

Pfizer and Moderna are effective vs SA and UK variants. SA may have less antibody that’s effective, but it’s still effective nonetheless.

The vaccine lowers risk of death by 99%. With half a million Americans dead from this, that’s enormous. It prevents the disease at a 95% clip. There are many, many people who didn’t die but have long term effects from covid. 95% prevention should limit the long hauler syndrome. And those who get the disease who’ve been vaccinated carry a far lower viral load as to potentially not be contagious. That would also lend credence to the theory that if you get the vaccine, you’re not going to be a “silent carrier”, something that hasn’t been debunked as of yet.

Very intrigued to see the data on this, but if the above is true and stands up to scrutiny, then my expectation is that we have the vehicle to stop this pandemic and eventually get back to normal. It will take a long time to do so as the manufacturing of the vaccine is taking time and the delivery on a state by state basis has been rocky. No data yet on how long the immunity from the vaccine lasts and I kinda don’t want to find that out anytime soon (that means that test subjects still show antibody to this day and onward).

Side effects have been limited to immediate post injection illness and usually resolve 24 hours post injection. I haven’t seen many case reports of autoimmune processes which have been reported at incredibly low rates with seasonal flu vaccines.

My only advice to everyone is we are in the home stretch, get your vaccine as quickly as you can and stay distanced until that time. Wait until two weeks post vaccine #2 and go from there. For now, us vaccinated need to mask up until the data is clear, reviewed and there’s a consensus on lack of transmission, but I expect that very soon. I look forward to a day when we don’t have to have covid on the brain for normal activities. Stay safe all