re: Coach got the Rona

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So you think proper leadership should tell healthy young men to have something injected into their bodies that nobody knows what could cause later in life? All over a virus with a 99.8% survival rate?

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Yes, that is exactly what they think. They are hurt because they can't go twitter and virtue signal about their team being ____% compliant.

In changing my tune on Covid but I think kids are fine. As for you and me, my wife has seen 33 years old dude with no known preexisting conditions clinging to a ventilator. She sells ventilators for a company on the public market called Viemed. A 33 year old on a ventilator should hit home so now I’m fully vaccinated.


As for the self righteous fricktards in March 2020 that called me an a-hole for being healthy but not self quarantining even though I had to raise a family they can still frick themselves.

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So you think proper leadership should tell healthy young men to have something injected into their bodies that nobody knows what could cause later in life? All over a virus with a 99.8% survival rate?

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I'm all about personal choice, but you should consider both sides of the equation when you make that choice.

First, 99.8% survival rate is REALLY, REALLY, REALLY bad. Death rate is actually 1.67%. It's not Ebola at 50%, but Ebola is a lot harder to catch (which is why it's largely contained).

I found a NY Times article that says the average American knows about 600 people (LINK ). At 1.67%, that means that, on average, we all know 10 people who have died of COVID.

Ourworldindata.org reports 113,635.34 confirmed COVID cases per million people and 1,896.79 COVID deaths per million people is the U.S.. With a population of 633 million, that's 36.8 million cases and 632K deaths.

In contrast, for the 2017/2018 flu season, the CDC reported 44.8 million symptomatic cases of flu with 61K deaths.

Is it possible that COVID vaccines could cause unforeseen complications in later life? Sure. But what are the long-term impacts of COVID? No one know that either. Remember that shingles is caused by a reactivation of the chickenpox virus that you may have contracted as a child.

While getting vaccinated is a choice, the question you might want to ask is not "do I trust the vaccine?" Instead ask, "who/what do I trust LESS: the vaccines, science, and the pharmaceutical companies OR a virus and disease that has existed in humans for less than 2 years and China (with all that may imply)?" Like the song says, "if you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice."