I just came upon the term #coviadictos.
Seems to be a term to slander vaccinated people in Spanish. Creative, but crazy.
Seems to be a term to slander vaccinated people in Spanish. Creative, but crazy.
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I like this, to my ears it sounds like some dead hard mafia-like gang.
Don't mess with me I'm a Coviadicto!
looks like #covidtacos to me
Just got boosted an hour ago.
Moderna.
I am waiting for the freight train!!!
Moderna.
I am waiting for the freight train!!!
Two hours to go. My legs started to ache first.
its very weird - my arm isnt even sore
Yeah it took longer for my arm to hurt after the booster and then it only hurt for two days.its very weird - my arm isnt even sore
26 hours since my booster.
Very mild sore arm and about an hour ago I realised my feet are freezing.
That's it.
Finally getting my booster tomorrow. Should be Pfizer.
Sounds nasty. Given your symptoms I would probably prescribe socks.
None to be had.
The Super Green Pass (fully-jabbed or recent recovery, negative tests not accepted) will be needed for:
https://www.thelocal.it/20220107/where-youll-need-italys-covid-vaccine-pass-from-january-10th/
I was watching some John Campbell videos earlier. A mate of mine was convinced Ivermectin was great for Covid and there's a conspiracy to hold it back by big Pharma.
So I watched some of John's video's and on the surface of it he looks legitimate. Has 'Dr' in his title which is a great start, and speaks well and looks sincere, but after delving into it all the conclusion I came to is he's just a bit of a chancer, his 'analysis' of data and medical studies is a bit of a joke in all honesty. I saw this one his did on Japan and Ivermectin and the argument he put across was embarrassingly weak.
It got me thinking, these sort of 'influencers' if you can call him that, or anyone basically who makes money from blabbing on the internet, are getting incentivised to take-up fringe/loony positions because they get way more traction - and this is evidenced by him making loads of Ivermectin videos. I find this quite frightening.
So I watched some of John's video's and on the surface of it he looks legitimate. Has 'Dr' in his title which is a great start, and speaks well and looks sincere, but after delving into it all the conclusion I came to is he's just a bit of a chancer, his 'analysis' of data and medical studies is a bit of a joke in all honesty. I saw this one his did on Japan and Ivermectin and the argument he put across was embarrassingly weak.
It got me thinking, these sort of 'influencers' if you can call him that, or anyone basically who makes money from blabbing on the internet, are getting incentivised to take-up fringe/loony positions because they get way more traction - and this is evidenced by him making loads of Ivermectin videos. I find this quite frightening.
Yup. And it’s a phenomenon that goes waaaaay beyond covid.
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The stats on ICU admissions are extraordinary really. Presenting them in terms of the rate per 100k of population is a good move as well. It's too easy to miss just how powerful the effect of the vaccines have been.
The vaccines come out looking all the more impressive when you remember that most people who know (or suspect) they're at risk will have been vaccinated and had boosters as soon as they got the offer. Which means that the unvaxxed in those ICU admission charts have mostly decided that they were fit and healthy enough not to need a vaccine.
How to breed and cultivate extremists 101
Almost like France then. Except here they are only including vaccination status in it.
My time for booster aint yet but is there big difference between Moderna vs Pfizer as 3rd shot?
What a tool (first time that phrase will ever be used about a video featuring Sajid Javid and not be in reference to Sajid Javid)
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UK churning out loads of great data about vaccine efficacy. Here’s a focus on people aged 65+ (i.e. the most at risk and the cohort in whom vaccines consistently work least well) Note the fairly steep drop off in protection vs symptomatic infection. Although also note that there is still some protection, providing a booster is taken.
Protection against serious disease/hospitalisation is excellent and long lasting. And worth bearing in mind that this is against a variant where hospitalisation rates are relatively low to begin with.
That is excellent news.
A colleague of mine is currently super pissed about this tweet from SC’s department of health and pissed at me because I simply responded “but are they lying?”.
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What’s their issue with it?
I suspect that it's the last sentence/suggestion.
Oh, no doubt, but I’m curious as to what their issue exactly is. Is the tweet too political, do they feel slighted for being a dumbass, etc.?
1) “they shouldn’t be blaming the unvaccinated”
2) “the vaccine doesn’t help prevent infection”
3) “I got vaccinated and still caught Covid”
I think #3 is really coloring his judgment, because I responded to #2 and he asked for data, so I sent it to him, to which he “called bullshit on it”… Okay big fella, feel free to publish your own…
I think that fundamentally we are in the "Don't tell me what to do, you are not my dad!" kind of phase.
I was wrong. About 3 did you ask him about his symptoms? Because it seems that many vaccinated people undervalue the fact that their mild or even asymptomatic infections are partially linked to being vaccinated. Some seem to think that a vaccine only works if they don't get infected which makes little sense when you are surrounded by the virus, it is going to get in at some point.
He’s all hung up on the fact that he got it at all… so since he got it that means more vaccinated people wouldn’t bring down the testing rate brought about by more infections. He is refusing to realize that even if the vaccine is 30% effective at preventing omicron infection (most recent number I’ve seen), that still means it is a reduction in cases vs people being unvaccinated.
Which is ridiculous, because he’s a damned social studies teacher and should know better.
Yeah, unfortunately there seems to be a massive misconception amongst certain people that if you get vaccinated but still get Cold, it somehow invalidates the vaccine. As opposed to looking at it from the POV that if you wasn't vaccinated your symptoms could have been (probably WOULD have been) much worse and could possibly lead to hospitalisation.
From a personal POV, both my parents were double jabbed (my mother actually had the booster as well) and they still both had Covid. But we chose to look at it from the perspective of "well, you were really rough with it, but just imagine how bad you would have been if you never had the vaccine". And the data seems to back that up.
From a personal POV, both my parents were double jabbed (my mother actually had the booster as well) and they still both had Covid. But we chose to look at it from the perspective of "well, you were really rough with it, but just imagine how bad you would have been if you never had the vaccine". And the data seems to back that up.
I’ve never understood why drop in protection from symptomatic infection gets top billing in these stories as opposed to protection against what actually matters which is hospital admission and death. The latter is always an incidental titbit buried further down in the articles to the point where few times friends have defended their choice not to be vaccinated based on those articles that they think evidence he vaccine doesn’t work anyway.
It probably will save your life but the big news is it’s not that effective against a runny nose
It probably will save your life but the big news is it’s not that effective against a runny nose
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That's sad to hear. It's common anti vax propaganda now. "You'll still get infected" "What's the point?" etc etc
Vaccines still offer protection against severe disease, which is the point. You're also less likely to get infected and even if you are infected, your infectious period is a lot shorter because you recover faster. Which is a bonus.
I hope your friend comes around eventually, Carolina Red
Even for me, I got PPM and I just got infected when I got back from my holiday in Thailand. I fully understand the risks and my lifestyle of booze morning, day and night didn't help either. I'm not complaining the vaccines didn't work. Just thankful I only got positive after I came home. Which in no small part is probably due to the vaccines in the first place.
A new version of a vaccine that works better with Omicron is on its way.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...08b72dc5e1d3d6#block-61dcd59e8f08b72dc5e1d3d6
https://www.theguardian.com/world/l...08b72dc5e1d3d6#block-61dcd59e8f08b72dc5e1d3d6
This thread is spot on:
I wasn't sure where to put it so if jokes aren't ok here I'll delete.
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Last I read a few days ago the UK government was still against the fourth dose of the vaccine.
My father has just been contacted by his GP's office and booked in for a fourth jab. He had cancer a few years ago and although he wasnt on the vulnerable list for dose 1 and 2, he was early to get the 3rd jab.
So did the government change their mind? Is the GP getting paid per dose?
My father has just been contacted by his GP's office and booked in for a fourth jab. He had cancer a few years ago and although he wasnt on the vulnerable list for dose 1 and 2, he was early to get the 3rd jab.
So did the government change their mind? Is the GP getting paid per dose?
It'll almost certainly be something that put him on the GP database vulnerable list. Maybe a drug he was prescribed during treatment, or for maintenance or a vulnerability it left him with. The list gets updated as they get new data in, but it sometimes throws up anomalies as well.
In principle anyone considered to be immune-compromised could appear on this version of the vulnerable list - in which case they are treating it as a fourth dose. If he's not sure why he's there, he could check with his GP or his hospital care team if he's still getting regular checkups.