re: Hey Baws, Covid check in

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Keep on building roadblocks for people, and soon, you’ll be stuck behind one

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Of all the bad takes I’ve seen this has to be the worst.

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This this thread full of bad takes.

I just don't understand the animosity towards vaccines. I think you are fool not to get vaccinated. I get its a personal medical choice and I have issues with the erosions over civil liberties with these mandates, but I think you are an idiot for not getting vaccinated. Yeah it doesn't prevent you catching it but it is effective at mitigating the symptoms, shortening the duration, and keeping you out of the hospital. Its not perfect but it is the best line of defense we have at the present. Your chances at having an adverse reaction from a vaccine are far, far less than COVID.

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But to call someone selfish because they aren't wearing a mask if fricking ludicrous.

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My selfish comment had absolutely nothing to do with masks. It had to do with OP coming on here to start a thread boasting about not having severe complications from a virus that has killed 600k+ Americans. Instead of counting his blessings and being grateful this virus spared him and his mother, he makes a post in a mocking fashion while also displaying ignorance to the fact that it has taken down thousands of people that also thought they were healthy. It's disgusting, but has been par for the course across boards on this site. And that's not even counting the healthy people that have had severe complications and face long term health effects from it. All for clout on the internet. Pathetic.

But come back with your tired and lame response about me wearing 2 masks, something I've never done.

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Of all the bad takes I’ve seen this has to be the worst.


This this thread full of bad takes.

I just don't understand the animosity towards vaccines. I think you are fool not to get vaccinated. I get its a personal medical choice and I have issues with the erosions over civil liberties with these mandates, but I think you are an idiot for not getting vaccinated. Yeah it doesn't prevent you catching it but it is effective at mitigating the symptoms, shortening the duration, and keeping you out of the hospital. Its not perfect but it is the best line of defense we have at the present. Your chances at having an adverse reaction from a vaccine are far, far less than COVID.

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Reasonable but everyone has a different situation and mine is to clearly not get the vaccine. People can be upset about it and or try and take away my freedoms however, that will only end poorly for them as history has shown.

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Again, I couldn't care less if you get it or not.(COVID or the vaccine) But if you think it's a hoax or you wanna let your immune system handle it, then keep that same energy the whole time and stop overwhelming healthcare workers cause you're a fake tough guy

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Dude, please STOP. If you haven't been reading I AM one of those heathcare workers and find your take pretty damned disgusting.

From the start, the misinformation about this illness that's been spread by virtually everyone has created a situation where people can very reasonably not trust the institutions we normally rely on. Lest you forget, one year ago both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were saying you couldn't trust a vaccine developed by the Trump administration. Biden said it would probably be dangerous to take.

Fauci's said it wasn't airborne, you didn't need masks, kids don't need masks, you can take your masks off, you need to double mask, the vaccine is all you need, you won't need boosters, you're going to need boosters. His 'advice' changes faster than Alabama springtime weather.

Trump said it's just the flu.

Everyone said "shut down 2 weeks to stop the curve."

The CDC said it came from bats, no way it escaped from a lab. Now, guess what, now even they say it may have escaped a lab.

I can go on a long time with examples. Here in Alabama we had doctors going on TV crying about how bad it was when it wasn't bad at all, so now nobody believes them when it's actually gotten bad.

Now throw in that everyone's on social media which is nothing more than a cesspool of bad takes and intentionally spread misinformation.

The shock would be if there WEREN'T large numbers of people with a huge level of distrust - and when we don't trust something, we default to a position of not fixing what's not broken. It's a totally understandable reaction. If I wasn't in the job I have, I'd very likely be one of them because I'm distrusting by nature.

So instead of calling names (and you're acting like the same internet tough guy you just accused them of being) and outright telling them to just go home and die, how about taking the position that as I said earlier it's OK to have concerns about a vax but make sure you're making a true informed decision before deciding to not get it because covid's really bad out there now.

As another poster said, your logic leads down a pretty bad path. We responded to an accident last week where 2 guys went through the windshield of their delivery truck. I guess we should have left them lying in the yard because they weren't wearing their seat belts?

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Reasonable but everyone has a different situation and mine is to clearly not get the vaccine.


So you are willing to take your chances with COVID but not with a vaccine?

This is the sort of reasoning I find baffling....but whatever.

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I’ve had Covid, recovered, have antibodies confirmed by test. There is 0 reason for me to get the vaccine and add any more risk to that situation. The vaccine will do nothing for me. I don’t see how that is baffling.

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That's not what they said. They both said they would listen to the recommendations from health experts on the vaccine and not Trump. Nothing unreasonable with that.

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You're parsing words to defend them Spleen and you know it. Saying you "won't trust Trump on vaccines" is exactly the same as saying you won't trust a Trump vaccine. Biden even went a step further and strongly suggested the FDA was approving the vaccines under political pressure from Trump and no vaccine should be rushed out without going through the FDA approval process - which as we know Phizer only got full approval in the last week or so and neither Moderna nor J&J have yet.

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I wouldn't listen to either of them over health professionals.

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Nor would I and I'm vaccinated but their actions stoked the fear and they should be ashamed.

ETA - I'm not trying to make this a R vs D. Trump's minimizing the threat certainly played a very big role in establishing the 'Covid ain't real' clan. His hands aren't clean either.

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You're parsing words

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Here is what Harris said at the VP debate. If you think I'm the one parsing words in regards to her comments, then we'll just agree to disagree.

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If the public health professionals, if Dr. Fauci, if the doctors tell us that we should take it, I’ll be the first in line to take it. Absolutely. But if Donald Trump tells us that we should take it, I’m not taking it.

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I'll concede that some of Biden's comments were more pointed and sowed distrust in the process. I will say that most of his comments were actually calling for more transparency in the process.

Oh, and since there are others who cannot understand a figure of speech when it is appropriately used, "selling" did not mean that you were hocking or receiving money from a product. You were telling us what you did for your health as if to say - "it works for me... maybe you should try it too."