The ‘I’ve Got The COVID Shot Club’!

[CarpCharacin]

The flu still kills more people every year than covid

 

[CarpCharacin]

Many people seem to have a very low standard of evidence, and it's a big issue. Just because your neighbor's husband's mom says something doesn't mean it's true.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Coronaviruses are a large family of viruses that can cause illness in animals or humans. In humans there are several known coronaviruses that cause respiratory infections. These coronaviruses range from the common cold to more severe diseases such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS), and COVID-19. Like SARS CoV that was first identified in 2002, and MERS which was identified in 2012, Covid-19 is a type of coronavirus that mutated to be able to be able to be transmitted from animals to humans. This important shift makes it a novel, or new, type of Coronavirus that humans hadn't been infected with and therefore had no immunity to. THAT, and its high level of transmissability, made it so easy to spread from person to person, since our immune systems didn't recognize it once Covid-19 was first identified in December 2019. The fact that this Coronavirus resulted in more severe illness was what made the pandemic so devastating.

Think back to 2009 and the H1N1 pandemic. This was also a novel virus. It was also easily spread, although not to the level that Covid-19 is. BUT H1N1 was nowhere close to having the mortality rate that Covid-19 has, which has been the other biggest factor in the Covid-19 pandemic.

Hope that helps! I'm in public health and lead our Covid-19 vaccination initiative so am pretty into the why and how of the pandemic as well as the pros and cons of getting vaccinated

My brother got H1N1. He had just started college and got VERY sick but thankfully not hospitalized or anything. I think my mom went out to take care of him though hah I’m not sure how long he was sick for exactly. Maybe a week or two? But he was pretty bad.

 

[Brooks_]

Many people seem to have a very low standard of evidence, and it's a big issue. Just because your neighbor's husband's mom says something doesn't mean it's true.

Just because Fauci and the Gang say it, it's true? There are many doctors and scientists that disagree. Are they just quacks?

 

[CarpCharacin]

Just because Fauci and the Gang say it, it's true? There are many doctors and scientists that disagree. Are they just quacks?

That disagree with what, specifically? Science doesn't work by proving things to be true, it works by proving them to be false. There is obviously still a lot to learn about biology, so there will be disagreements. I just dislike it when people foist hypotheses that have been rigorously debunked.

 

[Brooks_]

That disagree with what, specifically? Science doesn't work by proving things to be true, it works by proving them to be false. There is obviously still a lot to learn about biology, so there will be disagreements. I just dislike it when people foist hypotheses that have been rigorously debunked.

Debunked by whom? The ones that said this is the way it is?

 

[Chuck Punk]

Just because Fauci and the Gang say it, it's true? There are many doctors and scientists that disagree. Are they just quacks?

Yes.

 

[Brooks_]

Yes.

Good to know.

 

[Chuck Punk]

Good to know.

Happy to help.

 

[CarpCharacin]

Debunked by whom? The ones that said this is the way it is?

You didn't answer my question about what specifically you're referring to, so I have no idea.