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From: noway@nospam.com
On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 20:26:31 -0800, Bobbie Sellers
scrawled in blood:
>On 3/11/21 3:40 PM, Don Kresch wrote:
>> On Thu, 11 Mar 2021 08:04:28 -0800, Bobbie Sellers
>> scrawled in blood:
>>
>>> On 3/11/21 5:03 AM, Don Kresch wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 10 Mar 2021 19:53:32 -0800, Bobbie Sellers
>>>> scrawled in blood:
>>>>
>>>>> If anti-vaxxers die it may not be sad but families will cry
>>>>> mothers,sisters, wives and daughters weep while male relatives will try
>>>>> to keep a stiff uppper lip and avoid the tears. Even if you are a
>>>>> hopeless person someone will be affected by your death.
>>>>>
>>>>> Choose life and get vaccinated against the killer dieases.
>>>>
>>>> You mean a disease with a 99.96% survival rate?
>>>>
>>>> Doesn't sound like a very "killer" disease to me. Certainly
>>>> not on the level of ebola.
>>>>
>>>> Don
>>>> aa#51
>>>> o- DNRC
>>>> Jedi Slackmaster
>>>>
>>> Well survival numbers vary widely depending on age and initial
>>> conditions of the Individual. It also depends on wealth and access to
>>> truly modern medical treatment. 523,000 dead people,
>>
>> Of which, ACCORDING TO THE CDC SO THERE'S NO WHINING ABOUT
>> FAKE NEWS, only 6% actually died from it. The other 94% had an average
>> of 2.7 other contributing factors. Which means: about 31k actually
>> from the virus. Which, IIRC, is slightly less than what the flu kills
>> every year. So: yeah. Just not impressed.
>>
>> Also consider that there would be fewer deaths had places like
>> New York not *mandated* that old folks homes take covid patients.
>>
>>
>>
>>> Also anti-vaxxers tend to keep their children from getting vaccinations
>>> against things like Diptheria, which used to kill lots of
>>> children, They depend on Pro-vaxxers and the herd immunity that they
>>> develop to keep their children well.
>>
>> Herd immunity can happen in other ways.
>>
>> Don
>> aa#51
>> o- DNRC
>> Jedi Slackmaster
>>
>
>
> My ancestors survived the black death in Europe.
> I may have inherited some immunity but I do not play with ground
>squirrels in California. You are free to move into the distant
>countryside and try to develop herd immunity to all sorts of illnesses.
>But it will be hard on the children. Some number of my mother's sisters
>and brothers died of the Influenza around 1916.
Are you looking for pity?
>
> She survived fortunately for me. Otherwise 1937 would contain one
>less birthday. So did her older sister. I was sheltered in my youth and
>sick a lot of the time. That was the time of the Polio epidemic before
>the polio vaccine. It might not kill you but some of my HS friends had
>survived to be lame the rest of their lives.
Shame.
>
> In the 1950s I was lucky enough to get the Hong Kong Flu as
>it was named by the newspapers. Later on we would have more varieties
>of influenza with a fresh version due every year thanks to the sloppy
>duck tending of Asian livestock tenders.
Amazing how there was no lockdown, and people survived.
>
> Then we had the HIV-AIDs which decimated my list of friends and
>wiped out the survivors' lists of friends. People who ignored medical
>precautions and played like it was 20 years earlier young and old died.
And there was still no lockdown.
>
> So now we have Covid-19 and a large percentage of the population
>refuses to follow medically advised precautions and further refuses to
>take the vaccines. Big bunch of sissies afraid of needles. If they
>hold tight to these attitudes pretty soon their will be no Republican
>voters.
And there we have it: partisan bullshit.
You're part of the problem.
Don
aa#51
o- DNRC
Jedi Slackmaster
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