How many times have you had Covid?

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Anonymous wrote:Until I saw this post, I hadn’t thought of COVID all week. Amazing. It’s like it never happened and we’ve all returned to our senses. Remember when people thought we were all going to die any time we left the house? Let’s not do that ever again, mmkay?

You have to be one of the more delusional and/or ignorant posters I have seen in a long time.

More Americans died from COVID than ANY US war. More than one million died of a disease that did not exist five years ago.

And you think we all over-reacted??

This is Memorial day weekend. How many ceremonies will be held, and statues laid with wreaths to honor our war dead. Think of the most devastating war in your mind.

MORE people died of COVID than any of our wars, Let that sink in (those of you who don't even see it in your rearview mirror???)

COVID isn't a warring enemy. In war, bombs don't care who they kill. Old, young, everyone in between. The people who died of COVID were disproportionately elderly and in poor health. Hugely so. The vast majority of COVID deaths were among people with significant comorbidities. Huge, enormous overlap. Given we're now two full years post the peak COVID deaths, a good chunk of the people who died of COVID would have died by now of something else. By contrast, COVID wasn't killing classrooms of kids or people out shopping at supermarkets when a stray bomb fell on it.

I'm 42 in excellent health and no known health problems. The odds of dying from COVID is next to none. Like the vast, vast, vast, vast majority of people who get COVID, it will be nothing more than a pesky feverish cold for a few days and then back to normal.

Probably the saddest outcome of COVID isn't the elderly and sick who lost a bit of life they otherwise would have lived, but the younger people who had no reason to fear COVID but who have become damaged by COVID fears that they are not able to accurately and pragmatically measure the risks.

This is a very good point. It is sad how unnecessarily warped young people have been.

It would be if it were not full of lies.

What lies? I imagine this is a pointless question as some people are determined to believe COVID is a serious threat to everyone and we're all at risk of death or long covid or whatever and will come armed with their highly selective, often based on skewed data, stats or twitters to prove a point. Meanwhile, in the real world out there - life goes on. Most people have long left COVID behind. That tells you something.

That many people cannot understand science, especially if they want to live life like it's 2019?
That most people can not have empathy for a situation until it directly affects them?

Life could still go on with some modifications that keep everyone much safer, but wont as long as majority want to be an ostrich.

I think the biggest lesson learned from Covid is the fact that the majority of people do not have empathy unless it’s a situation that directly affects them. This is essentially why the planet is ultimately doomed- either by climate change or another pandemic.

The same could just as easily be said of the people that wanted restrictive covid measures to continue without regard for the impact they had on others.

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Anonymous wrote:Until I saw this post, I hadn’t thought of COVID all week. Amazing. It’s like it never happened and we’ve all returned to our senses. Remember when people thought we were all going to die any time we left the house? Let’s not do that ever again, mmkay?

You have to be one of the more delusional and/or ignorant posters I have seen in a long time.

More Americans died from COVID than ANY US war. More than one million died of a disease that did not exist five years ago.

And you think we all over-reacted??

This is Memorial day weekend. How many ceremonies will be held, and statues laid with wreaths to honor our war dead. Think of the most devastating war in your mind.

MORE people died of COVID than any of our wars, Let that sink in (those of you who don't even see it in your rearview mirror???)

COVID isn't a warring enemy. In war, bombs don't care who they kill. Old, young, everyone in between. The people who died of COVID were disproportionately elderly and in poor health. Hugely so. The vast majority of COVID deaths were among people with significant comorbidities. Huge, enormous overlap. Given we're now two full years post the peak COVID deaths, a good chunk of the people who died of COVID would have died by now of something else. By contrast, COVID wasn't killing classrooms of kids or people out shopping at supermarkets when a stray bomb fell on it.

I'm 42 in excellent health and no known health problems. The odds of dying from COVID is next to none. Like the vast, vast, vast, vast majority of people who get COVID, it will be nothing more than a pesky feverish cold for a few days and then back to normal.

Probably the saddest outcome of COVID isn't the elderly and sick who lost a bit of life they otherwise would have lived, but the younger people who had no reason to fear COVID but who have become damaged by COVID fears that they are not able to accurately and pragmatically measure the risks.

This is a very good point. It is sad how unnecessarily warped young people have been.

It would be if it were not full of lies.

What lies? I imagine this is a pointless question as some people are determined to believe COVID is a serious threat to everyone and we're all at risk of death or long covid or whatever and will come armed with their highly selective, often based on skewed data, stats or twitters to prove a point. Meanwhile, in the real world out there - life goes on. Most people have long left COVID behind. That tells you something.

That many people cannot understand science, especially if they want to live life like it's 2019?
That most people can not have empathy for a situation until it directly affects them?

Life could still go on with some modifications that keep everyone much safer, but wont as long as majority want to be an ostrich.

I think the biggest lesson learned from Covid is the fact that the majority of people do not have empathy unless it’s a situation that directly affects them. This is essentially why the planet is ultimately doomed- either by climate change or another pandemic.

The same could just as easily be said of the people that wanted restrictive covid measures to continue without regard for the impact they had on others.

NP. +1000

I'm aware there are still some paranoid people (like the woman who accused me of "cutting in line" during opening at Trader Joe's, while she waited 15 feet from the entrance outside in a mask), and nearly hit me with her basket.

You do you if you're scared, but leave the rest of us alone to continue living life.

Most of us have decided that we value our quality of lives, and don't want to waste any more time doing useless things like masking. Over time, it's clear that masks just don't work. I say that as an elementary teacher who's around grimy germy children all day every day.

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Anonymous wrote:Until I saw this post, I hadn’t thought of COVID all week. Amazing. It’s like it never happened and we’ve all returned to our senses. Remember when people thought we were all going to die any time we left the house? Let’s not do that ever again, mmkay?

You have to be one of the more delusional and/or ignorant posters I have seen in a long time.

More Americans died from COVID than ANY US war. More than one million died of a disease that did not exist five years ago.

And you think we all over-reacted??

This is Memorial day weekend. How many ceremonies will be held, and statues laid with wreaths to honor our war dead. Think of the most devastating war in your mind.

MORE people died of COVID than any of our wars, Let that sink in (those of you who don't even see it in your rearview mirror???)

COVID isn't a warring enemy. In war, bombs don't care who they kill. Old, young, everyone in between. The people who died of COVID were disproportionately elderly and in poor health. Hugely so. The vast majority of COVID deaths were among people with significant comorbidities. Huge, enormous overlap. Given we're now two full years post the peak COVID deaths, a good chunk of the people who died of COVID would have died by now of something else. By contrast, COVID wasn't killing classrooms of kids or people out shopping at supermarkets when a stray bomb fell on it.

I'm 42 in excellent health and no known health problems. The odds of dying from COVID is next to none. Like the vast, vast, vast, vast majority of people who get COVID, it will be nothing more than a pesky feverish cold for a few days and then back to normal.

Probably the saddest outcome of COVID isn't the elderly and sick who lost a bit of life they otherwise would have lived, but the younger people who had no reason to fear COVID but who have become damaged by COVID fears that they are not able to accurately and pragmatically measure the risks.

This is a very good point. It is sad how unnecessarily warped young people have been.

It would be if it were not full of lies.

What lies? I imagine this is a pointless question as some people are determined to believe COVID is a serious threat to everyone and we're all at risk of death or long covid or whatever and will come armed with their highly selective, often based on skewed data, stats or twitters to prove a point. Meanwhile, in the real world out there - life goes on. Most people have long left COVID behind. That tells you something.

That many people cannot understand science, especially if they want to live life like it's 2019?
That most people can not have empathy for a situation until it directly affects them?

Life could still go on with some modifications that keep everyone much safer, but wont as long as majority want to be an ostrich.

I think the biggest lesson learned from Covid is the fact that the majority of people do not have empathy unless it’s a situation that directly affects them. This is essentially why the planet is ultimately doomed- either by climate change or another pandemic.

The same could just as easily be said of the people that wanted restrictive covid measures to continue without regard for the impact they had on others.

Defensive much? No one is talking about restrictive measures for all- this response just highlights your narcissism and lack of empathy for making this all about YOU. What actually is a huge lack of empathy when it comes to Covid is the disregard for the vulnerable and the willingness to throw them under the bus because you don’t want to wear a mask at the oncologist’s office. No one has asked you to stop “living your life” but to have a little respect for people who are way less privileged than you. Next.

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Zero times that I have known about.

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I presume everyone in my family has had it. Though DH the only one who tested positive and had symptoms.
I’ve not had it to my knowledge. Neither of our two kids had it either. Despite being in school with random testing.

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Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe the number of relatively young people I know, or am hearing about who suddenly have had small clots. They’re having strokes, heart attacks, kidney damage caused by small closet. Some of them died. Most have had treatment and survived but who knows what the long-term effects are going to be. These are young people. No mostly not in their 20s, but 30 to 50-year-olds. Non-smokers, good health, not people you would expect to suddenly have a small stroke or a heart attack. I am in my late 50s and have not experienced this level of hearing about people with clotting issues before. I don’t know that it’s due to Covid, but honestly it would make a lot of sense.

How do you know all these people? Are your friends and family all obese and unhealthy? I’m 42, with a large circle of family, friends, and coworkers, and no one has had a stroke or long covid or anything else serious. I know 3 people masking regularly at this point. One of them just got covid anyway, and he said it was basically a cold.

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Zero times. I don’t mask or socially distance. My T cells are just better than yours.

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Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe the number of relatively young people I know, or am hearing about who suddenly have had small clots. They’re having strokes, heart attacks, kidney damage caused by small closet. Some of them died. Most have had treatment and survived but who knows what the long-term effects are going to be. These are young people. No mostly not in their 20s, but 30 to 50-year-olds. Non-smokers, good health, not people you would expect to suddenly have a small stroke or a heart attack. I am in my late 50s and have not experienced this level of hearing about people with clotting issues before. I don’t know that it’s due to Covid, but honestly it would make a lot of sense.

I don’t believe you

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Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe the number of relatively young people I know, or am hearing about who suddenly have had small clots. They’re having strokes, heart attacks, kidney damage caused by small closet. Some of them died. Most have had treatment and survived but who knows what the long-term effects are going to be. These are young people. No mostly not in their 20s, but 30 to 50-year-olds. Non-smokers, good health, not people you would expect to suddenly have a small stroke or a heart attack. I am in my late 50s and have not experienced this level of hearing about people with clotting issues before. I don’t know that it’s due to Covid, but honestly it would make a lot of sense.

I don’t believe you

By “know” PP means people that she has read about online in Covid crazy forums.

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Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe the number of relatively young people I know, or am hearing about who suddenly have had small clots. They’re having strokes, heart attacks, kidney damage caused by small closet. Some of them died. Most have had treatment and survived but who knows what the long-term effects are going to be. These are young people. No mostly not in their 20s, but 30 to 50-year-olds. Non-smokers, good health, not people you would expect to suddenly have a small stroke or a heart attack. I am in my late 50s and have not experienced this level of hearing about people with clotting issues before. I don’t know that it’s due to Covid, but honestly it would make a lot of sense.

How do you know all these people? Are your friends and family all obese and unhealthy? I’m 42, with a large circle of family, friends, and coworkers, and no one has had a stroke or long covid or anything else serious. I know 3 people masking regularly at this point. One of them just got covid anyway, and he said it was basically a cold.

I know several people from high school, college, and extended family that had heart attacks or strokes in their 30s or 40s, many who seemed relatively healthy before the event. Though, all of these happened before the pandemic.

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According to trumpet idiot antivaxers we should all be dead

2021 trumpets said anyone vaccinated would be dead in Two years .

Given those morons who did not vax died at a higher rate and clearly two years we all still on this board typing away.

Winning is glorious

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Anonymous wrote:Until I saw this post, I hadn’t thought of COVID all week. Amazing. It’s like it never happened and we’ve all returned to our senses. Remember when people thought we were all going to die any time we left the house? Let’s not do that ever again, mmkay?

You have to be one of the more delusional and/or ignorant posters I have seen in a long time.

More Americans died from COVID than ANY US war. More than one million died of a disease that did not exist five years ago.

And you think we all over-reacted??

This is Memorial day weekend. How many ceremonies will be held, and statues laid with wreaths to honor our war dead. Think of the most devastating war in your mind.

MORE people died of COVID than any of our wars, Let that sink in (those of you who don't even see it in your rearview mirror???)

COVID isn't a warring enemy. In war, bombs don't care who they kill. Old, young, everyone in between. The people who died of COVID were disproportionately elderly and in poor health. Hugely so. The vast majority of COVID deaths were among people with significant comorbidities. Huge, enormous overlap. Given we're now two full years post the peak COVID deaths, a good chunk of the people who died of COVID would have died by now of something else. By contrast, COVID wasn't killing classrooms of kids or people out shopping at supermarkets when a stray bomb fell on it.

I'm 42 in excellent health and no known health problems. The odds of dying from COVID is next to none. Like the vast, vast, vast, vast majority of people who get COVID, it will be nothing more than a pesky feverish cold for a few days and then back to normal.

Probably the saddest outcome of COVID isn't the elderly and sick who lost a bit of life they otherwise would have lived, but the younger people who had no reason to fear COVID but who have become damaged by COVID fears that they are not able to accurately and pragmatically measure the risks.

This is a very good point. It is sad how unnecessarily warped young people have been.

It would be if it were not full of lies.

What lies? I imagine this is a pointless question as some people are determined to believe COVID is a serious threat to everyone and we're all at risk of death or long covid or whatever and will come armed with their highly selective, often based on skewed data, stats or twitters to prove a point. Meanwhile, in the real world out there - life goes on. Most people have long left COVID behind. That tells you something.

That many people cannot understand science, especially if they want to live life like it's 2019?
That most people can not have empathy for a situation until it directly affects them?

Life could still go on with some modifications that keep everyone much safer, but wont as long as majority want to be an ostrich.

I think the biggest lesson learned from Covid is the fact that the majority of people do not have empathy unless it’s a situation that directly affects them. This is essentially why the planet is ultimately doomed- either by climate change or another pandemic.

The same could just as easily be said of the people that wanted restrictive covid measures to continue without regard for the impact they had on others.

Defensive much? No one is talking about restrictive measures for all- this response just highlights your narcissism and lack of empathy for making this all about YOU. What actually is a huge lack of empathy when it comes to Covid is the disregard for the vulnerable and the willingness to throw them under the bus because you don’t want to wear a mask at the oncologist’s office. No one has asked you to stop “living your life” but to have a little respect for people who are way less privileged than you. Next.

Do you really not see the irony of telling me that I’m the one making this all about me when you’re the one expecting everyone else to change their behavior for your benefit?

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Anonymous wrote:According to trumpet idiot antivaxers we should all be dead

2021 trumpets said anyone vaccinated would be dead in Two years .

Given those morons who did not vax died at a higher rate and clearly two years we all still on this board typing away.

Winning is glorious

And according to the covidians, we should all be dead from covid or post-covid complications. Or, at least, civilization should have collapsed as hospitals and morgues overflowed and long Covid left people unable to work.

It turns out a lot of people are incredibly bad at understanding risk.

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Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe the number of relatively young people I know, or am hearing about who suddenly have had small clots. They’re having strokes, heart attacks, kidney damage caused by small closet. Some of them died. Most have had treatment and survived but who knows what the long-term effects are going to be. These are young people. No mostly not in their 20s, but 30 to 50-year-olds. Non-smokers, good health, not people you would expect to suddenly have a small stroke or a heart attack. I am in my late 50s and have not experienced this level of hearing about people with clotting issues before. I don’t know that it’s due to Covid, but honestly it would make a lot of sense.

How do you know all these people? Are your friends and family all obese and unhealthy? I’m 42, with a large circle of family, friends, and coworkers, and no one has had a stroke or long covid or anything else serious. I know 3 people masking regularly at this point. One of them just got covid anyway, and he said it was basically a cold.

1 friend from college.
1 college friend's younger sister.
1 colleague.
1 neighbor.
1 brother in law.

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Anonymous wrote:I cannot believe the number of relatively young people I know, or am hearing about who suddenly have had small clots. They’re having strokes, heart attacks, kidney damage caused by small closet. Some of them died. Most have had treatment and survived but who knows what the long-term effects are going to be. These are young people. No mostly not in their 20s, but 30 to 50-year-olds. Non-smokers, good health, not people you would expect to suddenly have a small stroke or a heart attack. I am in my late 50s and have not experienced this level of hearing about people with clotting issues before. I don’t know that it’s due to Covid, but honestly it would make a lot of sense.

I don’t believe you

By “know” PP means people that she has read about online in Covid crazy forums.

https://www.science.org/content/article/covid...-year-after-recovery

In an analysis of more than 11 million U.S. veterans’ health records, researchers found the risk of 20 different heart and vessel maladies was substantially increased in veterans who had COVID-19 1 year earlier, compared with those who didn’t. The risk rose with severity of initial disease and extended to every outcome the team examined, including heart attacks, arrhythmias, strokes, cardiac arrest, and more. Even people who never went to the hospital had more cardiovascular disease than those who were never infected.