Coronavirus **personal experiences** thread

I think everyone will eventually get exposed to it. No way will they create and test a vaccine and vaccinate all ~ 270 million people in the US before I end up getting exposed to it. I’m focusing on staying as healthy as possible - healthy food, lots of fresh air and exercise, etc

Questions remain about immunity after exposure or vaccine. Treatments might be better answer?

I also don’t want to be one of the first people to get the vaccine. Obviously I believe in and get vaccines that have been in existence for decades and tested on millions of people but I don’t want to be the guinea pig for something they rush to make before it’s tested thoroughly

With a name like Operation Warp Speed—it’s guaranteed to be safe! And with the right Flux Capacitor anything is possible.

All of the companies developing Covid-19 vaccines in the USA have signed on to the FDA’s vaccine development and testing protocol, including the safety provisions. For a copy of the FDA’s protocol, see: FDA Protocol

The vaccine manufacturers will not benefit if they rush a vaccine to market before it is safe, and they will be watched very carefully during the development and testing process. Promoting fear of the vaccine, based on what we know now, is not a responsible thing to do, for the sake of saving lives.

Since this is NOT a vaccine they say it will be simpler to test.

Yeah I think I’m gonna pass on the vaccine thing and just take my chances. I’m sure they’ll give it to the people who need it most anyway (old people, people with health issues, millionaires in Congress )

I bet you his name is Bret :face_with_monocle:

Ha no different guy. Actually I gave him a Thrunite pocket thrower when we had him over for dinner. He was blown away when I shined my W30 LEP and Imalent MS18 outside and I realized I have some lights I haven’t used in ages. Guy loves to hunt and wants to take me out “spotting deer*. Seems like an excellent excuse to bust out some flashlights

Sound like a fun thing to do, I have forgotten about mine as well.

Huh… I thought they already came with spots.

Wonder how you get ’em to stay still long enough…

Reminds me of the Beavis and Butthead episode where the dude was bench pressing and asked them to “spot him.” And they were like “uhh… there you are. Uh huh huh” (pointing at him)

(Good stuff at 2 minutes)

Careful, spotlighting deer is illegal in a lot of states.
All the Best,
Jeff

Thanks Jeff, I did not know that as a matter of fact. He said where he lives in hillbilly land it’s allowed. I should probably confirm that (:

Haven’t hunted in decades now but it used to be that you couldn’t shine deer in our hillbilly area for a certain period around hunting season. The current law is that you can’t do it after 10 PM starting today until the end of the year. From Jan to now it is fine. Now that I am in the city I occasionally have shined fox to move them away from my dogs. Have no idea if that is actually legal or not.

Think back to late winter and early spring. In the US, as I recall, action was taken in Feb. to limit incoming passengers from certain countries. By mid-March we entered into a full-blown shutdown, with people staying home and only going out if necessary. This lasted through April. Yet by mid May the US allegedly had been the site of 1/4 of all the Covid deaths worldwide even though the US has less than 5% of the world’s population. This just doesn’t make sense. Any rational thinker should be able to see that it doesn’t add up, that something’s wrong with this scenario.

If the US population had gone its merry way, with no shutdown and no precautions, I could understand folks saying that the high number of deaths attributed to Covid in the US was due to our careless attitudes. But we did take precautions. Almost all nonessential businesses shut down for more than a month, people became careful, etc. Even most of those who argued against shutdown and masks were actually participating (while they groused). Meanwhile, Sweden didn’t shut down and took much less drastic precautions, yet they didn’t fare any worse than the US during spring.

I can’t pin down with absolute proof that the high US mortality was due to this, that, or the other thing. But I am reasonably confident that it wasn’t due to incompetent mismanagement on our part. What relative mismanagment there may have been was not of such magnitude that it could logically make such a humongous difference. So it seems obvious to me that the reason (or combination of reasons) must include some shenanigans on someone’s part. And again, no one can prove with certainty the who or the why. But most definitely and obviously, something about the situation stinks to high heaven. Somehow, we’ve ‘been had,’ because without some person or persons pulling a ‘fast one’ there should be no way whatsoever for 5% of the people, while huddling in their homes listening to the drumbeat of Covid fear in March and April, to suffer 25% of the casualties. It belies common sense and reason.

About vaccines —- as an example, many of us got the first shingles vaccine when it came out. It gave moderate protection but far from complete protection.
A few years later, a new and much more protective vaccine came out and there are long waiting lists for it as it’s scarce.

There are a lot of different coronavirus vaccines being brought forward. With adequate recordkeeping we’ll eventually know which ones are moderately protective and which ones are good enough to merit a second round of vaccinations to get better coverage.

It’s a great experiment that will involve hundreds of thousands of people over a long span of time.

Federal aid per COVID-19 case

“A great experiment,” all right, and I decline to be the guinea pig. :slight_smile:

[quote]

There were no significant differences between those who tested positive versus negative when it came to shopping, gathering with fewer than 10 people in a home, going to an office, going to a gym, going to a salon, using public transportation or attending religious gatherings, according to the study.
However, people who tested positive, the data showed, were more likely to have reported dining at a restaurant in the two weeks before they started to feel sick.

The study comes with some limitations ….