I didn't wait at all. I got vaccinated as soon as possible.

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Mmm, tasty fish. Quack.

"we have the most people who are too dumb to get it, so it keeps spreading."

Sadly that is true for most of the world who's already having access to the vaccine.

Your country just got access to it?!? I had it in like... March (whenever it was immediately available in Tennessee)! And I'm the ""conservative"" here!

That's true, to a point. Delta doesn't stop with the current vaccines. Pfizer for sure doesn't work. Moderna "might" last 6 months. Get vaccinated you tards. Unless you're too much of a pussy to survive a little wussy shot with "evil RNA". [You see, THATS how you market to conservatives.]

But viruses were always going to mutate. This was going to happen from the very start. We're already up to "Delta Plus" and "Lambda" viruses.

Ironically, the day after I posted that I received a text to say that I could book my vaccination appointment already, even though I shouldn't be eligible for some time yet. I had my first injection today, and have my second booked in for the end of the month.

Definitely.

KrampusHack is coming up this December! 3 whole weeks to hack something together and make a present for someone!

It's suddenly very quiet... is everyone too tired to post because of TINS?

Avoid the COVID Delta Blues, get vaccinated (not you I j)

Typical vaccines include proteins and other substances that triggers an immune response. This prepares the immune system to more easily detect the viruses in the future.

The new vaccines (Pfizer and Moderna) don't include the proteins. They include the instructions (mRNA) for the immune cells to make the protein themselves.

Is it 100% for everyone, no.

It's something that you need to work out for yourself. Do you risk it or risk the virus instead?

COVID-19 was always going to be something that killed a bunch of people while the survivors gradually gained some sort of immunity and defense mechanisms and over the course of many years it finally become something like a common cold. Protective measures only exist to help minimize deaths by allowing people more time to get vaccinated for some "unnatural" immunity.

Unlike the variations in the early 20th century that were killing healthy 20 year olds at a higher rate, COVID-19 is killing people that are already at a general risk of dying. So yes, the total number of deaths have measurably increased, but it's at the same distribution. i.e., +5% of 1 year olds are dying as well as +5% of 80 year olds. (I'm making up the percentage.) So a lot of old people are dying; still not many young people are. So because of this distribution, it's pretty easy to know if you are at a substantial risk of dying. Because most people aren't, it's very hard to get people to take precautions to protect others. USA has a very selfish, individual based society.

The conspiracy theories are stupid. Anecdotal stories are irrelevant. What happens to 2 out of 15 people you know closely isn't indicative of any nationwide trend.

The facts are the vaccines are as safe as other optional daily activities that most people do. One has full FDA approval. I believe the J&J one is based on some pretty archaic technology.

From the CDC, "During this time, VAERS received 6,968 reports of death (0.0019%) among people who received a COVID-19 vaccine." That is the total number of people who died after receiving a vaccination without any causation implied. It includes people who go on to die from completely unrelated causes like a car crash. I highly doubt that number is any higher than the number of deaths you'd expect from a control group.

But the thing with conspiracies is that facts are just part of them. If you believe COVID-19 vaccinations are fakes then you believe everybody who reports an adverse reaction is telling the truth and anybody who reports anything contrary is a liar.

Yes, some people have directly died from vaccinations. Everything we put into our body has some risk associated with it. Ultimately it comes down to base level of risk we personally accept and statistical probability.

Everybody in at-risk groups should get vaccinated for COVID-19. Personally it provides the best odds of not dying from it. I don't have the report handy, but I know in one particular geographic area that had around 50% of the population vaccinated only had less than 0.5% of COVID-19 deaths from vaccinated individuals. If it didn't work, you'd expect a 50-50 split (with some variation depending on self-selectors). And I've not ever seen any health agencies report anything to the contrary.

If you're not in an at-risk group then it just comes down really to how effective you believe it will be in preventing you from infecting others who are at risk, and how much you even care about that.

But because the numbers have turned into video-game like obsession, it's going to be hard for a lot of people to ever put COVID-19 behind them. At some point, we really will just have to accept the fact that a lot of people don't care if they die from it and the risk that it poses to children is sufficiently small that there's nothing we need to force upon parents. To me, that point is probably after this winter.

"Global" pandemic? Don't make me laugh. Everyone knows the Earth is flat. If there were such "germs" the great A'Tuin need only wipe the surface with an anitbacterial wipe.

Lot of nonsense.

On the brightside, everyone who doesn't get vaccinated means less traffic on the roads