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Topic	Ronald McDonald House EVICTS Family of 4 y/o with CANCER cause they're UNVAXXED
adjl 01/25/22 11:04:35 AM #51:	BigRhinoX posted... If the vaccine is preventing people from catching and spreading it. How come the vaccinated are still catching it at crazy rates? adjl posted... the vaccine-avoidant strain that's running rampant right now (which is overwhelmingly the primary culprit for breakthrough cases) Please try to keep up. BigRhinoX posted... Why check constantly for something you dont have symptoms of? Because asymptomatic transmission has been a major problem with Covid since day 1. If case numbers are low enough that individual exposures can be readily identified, it's generally only going to be worthwhile to test if you've been exposed or if you have symptoms, but when case numbers are too high for that (as they currently are in every province), regular asymptomatic testing is extremely valuable for catching cases early and limiting the number of other people they infect. BigRhinoX posted... If you look at the numbers in Canada in youd see that a vast, VAST majority of the deaths are people over 80 (the life expectancy) 61% is not a "vast majority." Even then, Canada has generally done a pretty good job of keeping Covid under control, including excellent vaccine uptake. That has improved overall outcomes because hospitals have been more able to treat those that are able to recover from serious cases, which in turn means that most of the deaths are going to happen among those that are too vulnerable to recover. By contrast, 52% of US deaths have been among the 75+ crowd. Of course, that's without even considering how dumb it is to look at Covid only in terms of deaths. ICU cases are extremely debilitating (my coworker's friend had to learn how to walk again), non-ICU hospitalizations aren't exactly great either, and long Covid has put quite a few young people on disability indefinitely. To say nothing of concerns about infecting older people, since most of us that aren't serial killers don't like killing people just because they're old. Is Covid an instant death sentence for everyone that looks at it? Of course not. Is it nevertheless a serious enough issue that taking precautions against it is a good idea? Absolutely. It's just a vaccination, dude. No need to be so afraid of it. BigRhinoX posted... Im going to assume in your 20s or younger https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7690-how-old-are-you Given the trends in the age of this site's userbase, that's not a very sensible assumption. That poll is 2.5 years old, but given how its results have been shifting over the years, I expect the mean has pretty much just gone up by 2-2.5 years since then. By and large, the only people still using GameFAQs are the people that have been doing so for well over a decade. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts. <cite>adjl posted [p:962061782] in Ronald McD... [t:79850808]...</cite> <quote>BigRhinoX posted... </cite> <quote>If the vaccine is preventing people from catching and spreading it. How come the vaccinated are still catching it at crazy rates?</quote>adjl posted... </cite> <quote>the vaccine-avoidant strain that's running rampant right now (which is overwhelmingly the primary culprit for breakthrough cases)</quote> Please try to keep up. BigRhinoX posted... </cite> <quote>Why check constantly for something you dont have symptoms of?</quote> Because asymptomatic transmission has been a major problem with Covid since day 1. If case numbers are low enough that individual exposures can be readily identified, it's generally only going to be worthwhile to test if you've been exposed or if you have symptoms, but when case numbers are too high for that (as they currently are in every province), regular asymptomatic testing is extremely valuable for catching cases early and limiting the number of other people they infect. BigRhinoX posted... </cite> <quote>If you look at the numbers in Canada in youd see that a vast, VAST majority of the deaths are people over 80 (the life expectancy)</quote> 61% is not a "vast majority." Even then, Canada has generally done a pretty good job of keeping Covid under control, including excellent vaccine uptake. That has improved overall outcomes because hospitals have been more able to treat those that are able to recover from serious cases, which in turn means that most of the deaths are going to happen among those that are too vulnerable to recover. By contrast, 52% of US deaths have been among the 75+ crowd. Of course, that's without even considering how dumb it is to look at Covid only in terms of deaths. ICU cases are extremely debilitating (my coworker's friend had to learn how to walk again), non-ICU hospitalizations aren't exactly great either, and long Covid has put quite a few young people on disability indefinitely. To say nothing of concerns about infecting older people, since most of us that aren't serial killers don't like killing people just because they're old. Is Covid an instant death sentence for everyone that looks at it? Of course not. Is it nevertheless a serious enough issue that taking precautions against it is a good idea? Absolutely. It's just a vaccination, dude. No need to be so afraid of it. BigRhinoX posted... </cite> <quote>Im going to assume in your 20s or younger</quote> https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/poll/7690-how-old-are-you Given the trends in the age of this site's userbase, that's not a very sensible assumption. That poll is 2.5 years old, but given how its results have been shifting over the years, I expect the mean has pretty much just gone up by 2-2.5 years since then. By and large, the only people still using GameFAQs are the people that have been doing so for well over a decade. --- This is my signature. It exists to keep people from skipping the last line of my posts.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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