Contagion spreading among the vaccinated

Page 26 - Seeking answers? Join the AnandTech community: where nearly half-a-million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.

[DHT]Osiris

Lifer
Dec 15, 2015
17,535
16,881
146
Wow, you actually said something that makes sense. Yes, if everybody would quarantine for a certain amount of time, it would die out. I believe 2 weeks is not enough, but 4 weeks might just do it. Problem is, that is FANTASY. It simply isn't possible.
Oh it's possible, just unreasonable in our current society. Remember when the China govt was boarding people in their own homes and delivering food to windows? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Pohemi and Muse

eikelbijter

Senior member
Aug 27, 2009
535
304
136
edit: I think the number is around 36,000/year. Thats how many die from the flu and we dont blink an eye.
Thank you! That's exactly right. More than 40k die every year in car accidents. Blackangst1, and his name couldn't be more appropriate, is showing the danger of unrealistic expectations better than I could ever have.
 
  • Haha
Reactions: Pohemi

[DHT]Osiris

Lifer
Dec 15, 2015
17,535
16,881
146
Thank you! That's exactly right. More than 40k die every year in car accidents. Blackangst1, and his name couldn't be more appropriate, is showing the danger of unrealistic expectations better than I could ever have.
So let's be clear, you're accepting of innocents dying because some people refuse to do what others ask of them?
 
  • Like
Reactions: Pohemi

ch33zw1z

Lifer
Nov 4, 2004
39,838
20,433
146
You 'muricans and your bootstraps... I don't need your help buddy, I already said earlier I made it fine through this thing and will be fine, even if I can't make money as a musician, which I have for 30 years by the way, not an easy thing to do.

Good deal, so don't worry about the next year of masks and lockdowns while the 'Muricans don't get vaccinated.
 

Jhhnn

IN MEMORIAM
Nov 11, 1999
62,365
14,686
136
How would you define "over"? When, in your opinion, would it be ok to go back to normal? Don't say "when everybody is vaccinated" because that is not the question. What needs to be happening, or not happening in hospitals, in society before you think we can lift all restrictions and live like we did before Covid?

We have to beat back the pandemic until it's the same level of threat to public health as the flu. There's the hard way, disease & recovery, or the easy way, a much higher level of vaccination than at present in many parts of the US. That's the real choice, one that requires very little knowledge or research by the individual. The technical details are immaterial & over the heads of most Americans, anyway. There's nothing to understand other than the vaccines being proven safe & effective.
 

eikelbijter

Senior member
Aug 27, 2009
535
304
136
For me to accept that is to rely on hearsay, nothing substantive. Link me or remain untrustworthy.
Hearsay? I's written down, but whatever you want my friend. Here you go:
 

VW MAN

Senior member
Jun 27, 2020
677
861
136
The only reason I stated what I have done with my life is to illustrate that the suggestion from a poster here that he has some "bootstraps" for me was ludicrous and insulting. I'm not bragging buddy, or suggesting I'm better than ANYONE else.

Your hateful spewing of words does show how fucked, and I'm assuming you're American, the USA is. Nothing but name calling and putting people in boxes. Thank GOD I won't see you at a concert near you! ;-)
The only hate you see here is of your own making. Me being blunt and honest with you regarding how I see you based on your posts here is anything but hateful. Its blunt and honest.

Fuck off clown (that is also a blunt and honest statement in case you were unsure ;) )
 

eikelbijter

Senior member
Aug 27, 2009
535
304
136
We have to beat back the pandemic until it's the same level of threat to public health as the flu. There's the hard way, disease & recovery, or the easy way, a much higher level of vaccination than at present in many parts of the US. That's the real choice, one that requires very little knowledge or research by the individual. The technical details are immaterial & over the heads of most Americans, anyway. There's nothing to understand other than the vaccines being proven safe & effective.
After this Delta wave is over, it will be less of a threat than the flu, most definitely in LA County, but for the most of the country too. No matter how many more people get vaccinated.

We will come back to this thread at the end of next year, and if more than 20k Americans die in 2022 of Covid I will admit I was wrong.
 
  • Haha
Reactions: Pohemi

[DHT]Osiris

Lifer
Dec 15, 2015
17,535
16,881
146
We do it with other things...what makes covid so special?
My point is, we shouldn't. In the same way we find drunk drivers unacceptable, we should find people who are infected with transmissible viruses infecting others unacceptable. Hell, we do that with STDs, why not with the flu?

For YEARS I've taken issue with jackasses that come in to work while sick. People actually die that way.
 

eikelbijter

Senior member
Aug 27, 2009
535
304
136
The only hate you see here is of your own making. Me being blunt and honest with you regarding how I see you based on your posts here is anything but hateful. Its blunt and honest.

Fuck off clown (that is also a blunt and honest statement in case you were unsure ;) )
What happened to you Americans? ENDLESS name calling, from the ones who supported the Orange Clown, but also from those on the other side? "Fuck off clown" is not honest, it IS blunt and quite classless to be honest.
 
  • Haha
Reactions: Pohemi

Roger Wilco

Diamond Member
Mar 20, 2017
4,881
7,316
136
edit: I think the number is around 36,000/year. Thats how many die from the flu and we dont blink an eye.

I see a lot of eye blinking every year. News/health professionals/work/family are all telling me every year to get the flu shot.

And covid is poised to kill an order of magnitude higher than that every year if vaccines aren't given to the majority of the population.

We do it with other things...what makes covid so special?

It's killing way more people than the flu and mutating rapidly?
 

eikelbijter

Senior member
Aug 27, 2009
535
304
136
My point is, we shouldn't. In the same way we find drunk drivers unacceptable, we should find people who are infected with transmissible viruses infecting others unacceptable. Hell, we do that with STDs, why not with the flu?

For YEARS I've taken issue with jackasses that come in to work while sick. People actually die that way.
But vaccinated people are infecting others with transmissible viruses. Are they unacceptable?

By the way, I agree with you that sick people should stay home and not go to work. It's one of the big differences between my native Holland and the US. Why IS it different though? It's not a simple question to answer.....
 

[DHT]Osiris

Lifer
Dec 15, 2015
17,535
16,881
146
What happened to you Americans? ENDLESS name calling, from the ones who supported the Orange Clown, but also from those on the other side? "Fuck off clown" is not honest, it IS blunt and quite classless to be honest.
We're fucking angry because of egotists like yourself putting others at risk. Egotists are fucking angry because they don't get to do whatever they want without being derided, and they don't feel like they should be subjected to derision.
 

blackangst1

Lifer
Feb 23, 2005
22,902
2,359
126
What happened to you Americans? ENDLESS name calling, from the ones who supported the Orange Clown, but also from those on the other side? "Fuck off clown" is not honest, it IS blunt and quite classless to be honest.

Welcome to P&N. Namecalling and attacking the messenger are standard practice.
 
  • Haha
Reactions: Pohemi

ch33zw1z

Lifer
Nov 4, 2004
39,838
20,433
146
My point is, we shouldn't. In the same way we find drunk drivers unacceptable, we should find people who are infected with transmissible viruses infecting others unacceptable. Hell, we do that with STDs, why not with the flu?

For YEARS I've taken issue with jackasses that come in to work while sick. People actually die that way.

This x1000. The work til your dead, while sick, infecting others, is BS.
 

[DHT]Osiris

Lifer
Dec 15, 2015
17,535
16,881
146
But vaccinated people are infecting others with transmissible viruses. Are they unacceptable?

By the way, I agree with you that sick people should stay home and not go to work. It's one of the big differences between my native Holland and the US. Why IS it different though? It's not a simple question to answer.....
If they're sick and they know it? Yeah that shit's unacceptable too.

It's different because there's more egotists in the US, and we've coddled them for too long.
 

soundforbjt

Lifer
Feb 15, 2002
17,788
6,041
136
What happened to you Americans? ENDLESS name calling, from the ones who supported the Orange Clown, but also from those on the other side? "Fuck off clown" is not honest, it IS blunt and quite classless to be honest.
Will you get vaccinated if your boss/management requires it for you to perform in venues or is your boss an anti-vaxxer?
 
Last edited:

eikelbijter

Senior member
Aug 27, 2009
535
304
136
If they're sick and they know it? Yeah that shit's unacceptable too.

It's different because there's more egotists in the US, and we've coddled them for too long.
See the egotism thing is part of it but far from the whole answer and your eagerness to brush this off with yet another insult and an oversimplified suggestion shows your level of analysis.
 
  • Haha
Reactions: Pohemi

[DHT]Osiris

Lifer
Dec 15, 2015
17,535
16,881
146
See the egotism thing is part of it but far from the whole answer and your eagerness to brush this off with yet another insult and an oversimplified suggestion shows your level of analysis.
Not really in the mood to write a dissertation into all the myriad reasons Americans are being jackasses this specific month. Egotism covers enough of the situation that we could have tamped this down in 2020.
 

eikelbijter

Senior member
Aug 27, 2009
535
304
136
We're fucking angry because of egotists like yourself putting others at risk. Egotists are fucking angry because they don't get to do whatever they want without being derided, and they don't feel like they should be subjected to derision.
I'm not angry my friend, nor am I an egotist. I haven't called any person on here a SINGLE name. If you can't see that, YOUR anger is getting the best of you.
 
  • Haha
Reactions: Pohemi

VW MAN

Senior member
Jun 27, 2020
677
861
136
What happened to you Americans? ENDLESS name calling, from the ones who supported the Orange Clown, but also from those on the other side? "Fuck off clown" is not honest, it IS blunt and quite classless to be honest.
Would you prefer I used flowery prose in a 5 paragraph essay that says the same meaning as the words "fuck off clown"? Would that protect the clowns little feelings from getting all ruffled because someone has formed an opinion of them based off of observable evidence? Well too bad clown, I don't roll that way!