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OT: Coronavirus Resources - and other things to not worry about

trujaysfan said:
Isn't the pfizer drug kinda junk? Not as bad as Merck but still not very good.
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89% reduction in hospitalizations. That's an unheard of efficacy for any treatment. It's a grand slam product. But it will likely be reserved for high risk folks only. And supply will be an issue for awhile; it's a difficult product to manufacture.
 
Topped out our tasting capacity it seems. I officially agree that case numbers no longer mean much. Because they're grossly inaccurate now.

 
Starting to hear people I know get this. Few relatives who have been on a trip, another friend... thinking it'll get worse before it gets better.
 
CTheBigPicture said:
Starting to hear people I know get this. Few relatives who have been on a trip, another friend... thinking it'll get worse before it gets better.
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Yeah, I was on some family calls over the weekend, and there were some cousins or more distant relatives who either had it, were coming down with some sort of cold and hadn't confirmed yet, and the like. You pretty much have to assume if you're in a place with a bunch of other people for any length of time, someone there has it.
 
Hope you feel better soon. Immune system is simply generating a robust response. In some ways it's what you want.
 
And get ready for another omicron jab in 3-5 months, if it's still the dominant variant. For those who catch omicron, maybe it wouldn't hurt to space it out a bit... Maybe get the boost 3-4 months post infection, based on data on antibodies generated post-infection.

We'll all have cool portfolios. "3 WT doses + 1 omicron booster + 1 WT infection" will hopefully be my portfolio.

HL will have broader immunity "3 WT dose + 1 omicron boost + 1 alpha infection". Add it to your resumes folks.
 
Forgive me, I only step in here once in a while when there's no activity in the other threads, but what's WT?

I've had the original two doses, but honestly it does feel like a bit much to rush out and get a booster only 6-7 months later, especially if another will be recommended just another handful of months after that. Sounding semi anti-vax as I say this, but as someone who doesn't really put any substances in his system (other than occasional alcohol socially), and shies away from medications if I don't need them, it's just a bit discomforting to allow myself to become so reliant on a seemingly endless regimen of covid vaccines.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
Forgive me, I only step in here once in a while when there's no activity in the other threads, but what's WT?

I've had the original two doses, but honestly it does feel like a bit much to rush out and get a booster only 6-7 months later, especially if another will be recommended just another handful of months after that. Sounding semi anti-vax as I say this, but as someone who doesn't really put any substances in his system (other than occasional alcohol socially), and shies away from medications if I don't need them, it's just a bit discomforting to allow myself to become so reliant on a seemingly endless regimen of covid vaccines.
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Wildtype covid (the original one)
 
LeafOfFaith said:
Forgive me, I only step in here once in a while when there's no activity in the other threads, but what's WT?

I've had the original two doses, but honestly it does feel like a bit much to rush out and get a booster only 6-7 months later, especially if another will be recommended just another handful of months after that. Sounding semi anti-vax as I say this, but as someone who doesn't really put any substances in his system (other than occasional alcohol socially), and shies away from medications if I don't need them, it's just a bit discomforting to allow myself to become so reliant on a seemingly endless regimen of covid vaccines.
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so you either rely on the vaccine or natural immunity or some combo of both. but you want to have one or both rather than either.

one you can get at your pharmacy for free. the other you can acquire through natural infection, but no guarantees that you do not develop long covid, become hospitalized, suffer neurological complications etc between infection and immunity. option A cuts out, or at least limits, that risk.
 
As for not wanting to get another vaccine, yeah hopefully one day we just get an annual shot and call it a day, much like the flu shot. But the biggest reason the virus appears more mild is because those who caught it were either already infected or vaccinated. Protection from both wanes over time (far faster with symptomatic illness but even protection from severe disease too, albeit much slower). It will be important to remind your immune system about the threat from time to time, whether it's through infection or vaccination. Right now being infected is far more risky than being vaccinated. Maybe one day that changes. Not yet tho. And probably never quite frankly.

So a third dose gives us some stop-gap protection against omicron + resolves any waning that we had against severe disease. So if you catch it post 3 doses it should be milder than with 2 (on average). Omicron specific boosters, when they arrive in 3-4 months, will not only increase that protection on severe disease but it'll also put protection on symptomatic illness back to the 90+% range and at the population level we'll be able to have some control over infections/spread. Basically you're protecting yourself by putting a few ml of product in your body that literally trains your immune system to fight a disease that has killed millions. All for free! I know you like a good deal!
 
I love to buy low, that's for sure. But I resent your judeo-cheapeo remark nonetheless.

The boosters right now are just the original shot administered for a third time, right?

To my knowledge, I never caught covid, and I'm definitely not one of those who wants to build immunity through contraction. But fuck, I'm not in the mood for another shot and getting sick the next day, and am concerned about pushing the older folks in the family to get injected a third time. Damn thing.
 
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