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The boomers today at the party were all asking me if the vaccine still works. LOL

Forky never responds to me. He hasn’t in years. This is bothering him big time. LOL

Total melt. I’m so sorry that a gay orgy caused this current mess. But just chill man. It wasn’t you.

Vaccinated people who go online and hysterically demand other people get vaccinated are terrified their own vaccine is failing. There is no other explanation.

LOL P-town has forky on tilt. It’s in his head.

Stay scared. Safest thing for you is to stay home and avoid gay orgy superspreader events.

LOL so many breakthrough cases right now.

A lot of people here are saying they won’t get a booster because of the CDC mask guidance. These are people who were desperate to get vaccinated in January.

Oh man these Boomers are all fired up about COVID over here. LOL

It’s delta. Seems unlikely everyone has a mystery bad cold in July/August…

2018 probably. The numbers were epic in Randolph for November 2018.

Same thing with my entire vaxxed family. Seeing some of them today and several have the “mystery cold.”

So it sounds like the rapid 15 min tests are gone now? Is that what you guys are seeing? Last two people who told me they got tested told me they have to wait 3 days for results, like the old days. We never got tested so I don’t know much about the process and options. I always figured that the rapid test was a joke. Wonder how many false cases that the thing drummed up?

I can tell you that last year there were no examples in our circle of parents of any outbreaks in schools that were in-person even if one or two kids tested positive. It never spread beyond that. It was always a concern, and frankly I expected it to happen as well but it never did. It was kind of interesting. I can’t tell how much of it was the restrictions versus kids just being almost immune to this thing. They are not the vectors people assumed they were early on.

Aerosolized delta.

Doesn't appear that Delta has moved the needle much on convincing the holdouts to get vaccinated. https://news.yahoo.com/yougov-poll-vaccines-delta-210424125.html That tells me that these communities are not seeing widespread death and destruction that would scare them into a change in belief. Abstract, out-of-context metrics on Twitter motivated some people, and those people have already been vaccinated long ago. Many poor people are going to tend to trust their own two eyes and the pulse in their communities over a guy on TV in a lab coat who says he is from the government.

They had about 58% of their population vaccinated, last I checked. I agree, it could be 95% of a handful of people. But it's certainly a different tune than we are hearing from anyone in this country.

Delta.

Probably was. If delta is as contagious as they say, many people are getting it. Seems no one is tracking breakthrough cases in this country so we will never know.

Stop stalking me dude, it's weird. I haven't posted on AmPol in years.

Hard to say. Seems like it might be compared to people without any natural immunity. I read a report in NPR yesterday from February that said the long-term vaccine studies from the vaccine makers have been ruined because the control group all went out and got vaccinated. So there is no one tracking a real placebo group anymore. Basically, it's vaccinated versus vaccinated. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/02/19/969143015/long-term-studies-of-covid-19-vaccines-hurt-by-placebo-recipients-getting-immuni

Apparently this guy is the director of the Herzog Hospital in Jerusalem. Presumably he is talking about patients his hospital is seeing, but who knows? The data on the percent of vaccinated getting sick and dying is very hard to come by, especially in this country. I can almost never find it. All I see are media soundbites from mayors and governors repeating the line that, "the vast, vast majority of of cases are the unvaccinated, so get your jab!" But then data like this comes along that is shockingly different.

I really don’t understand what is going on with Israel. The data from Israel has been beating this drum for weeks now. I’m not sure if they are off the rails/lying or we are. The storylines between the two countries are wildly different. I read this morning that they are a couple months ahead of us in terms of when the bulk of their population was vaccinated and with the variant situation. So they are perhaps a glimpse of the US in October. Who knows? It does appear they are much more willing and able to admit limitations and issues with the vaccines than we are in this country (where it’s almost illegal at this point).

The info out of Israel continues to be completely at odds with what we are being told is happening here. Like total vaccine failure over there now.

If she smokes two packs of Newports a day, pickled eggs might actually be exactly what she is looking for in a man.