Not Your Steppin' Stone

[Joe Elliott]

Joe's message is clear......take the f....ing when it becomes available. Stop whining about politics, the virus doesn’t care.

Exactly right.

Just to clarify, I do mean getting TWO injections of the vaccine approved of by the FDA, at the proper intervals. And don’t hold out for a one-hundred-dollar bounty.

Not an injection of bleach. Not using Lysol as an inhaler. Not feeding an ultra violet light, with its power cord, down your throat and into your lungs. Get the proper vaccine.

[Joe Elliott]

I had it.  Was achy after work one day, had less than 1 degree of fever, felt sluggish for 36 hours, and that was it.  We've turned the country upside down and trashed civil liberties and our economy all to fight a cold-like virus that has a survival rate of 98%+ across all age groups.  If we have any freedoms left after this charade is over this will go down in history as the best example ever of global mass hysteria.

Sorry, OT.

Not everyone has the same reaction. Not much of a problem for most, but a big problem for some.

Not having restrictions is something I could consider, if the virus could be spaced out over 100 months. One per cent getting it every month. Our hospitals won’t be overwhelmed and the death rate would be around one per cent. But the natural course of the disease, like all diseases, is to grow exponentially. So, with no restrictions, with the disease doubling every week or two, half the people in the country will be sick with at the same time, when the disease is at its height. Hospitals will be overwhelmed and the death rate would be something more like ten per cent or more, as it was for New York when their hospitals were over stretched back in April. Indeed, hospitals would be overwhelmed about four to six weeks before the disease reached its height.


Not only would there be more deaths but the loss of production would be similar.

Restrictions: everyone loses one year of production of work (not really as bad as that): 200,000,000 man-years of labor lost.

No Restrictions: 10% of 200,000,000 die, losing 10 years of production each, costing 200,000,000 man-years of labor lost.

[Colin Crow]

I had it.  Was achy after work one day, had less than 1 degree of fever, felt sluggish for 36 hours, and that was it.  We've turned the country upside down and trashed civil liberties and our economy all to fight a cold-like virus that has a survival rate of 98%+ across all age groups.  If we have any freedoms left after this charade is over this will go down in history as the best example ever of global mass hysteria.

Sorry, OT.

Think of it this way. You give everyone a revolver with a capacity of 100 and just a few bullets. Spin the chamber. Tell them to close their eyes and try and shoot them selves but before they do that shoot into a crowd of people that is largely but not exclusively elderly. After pulling the trigger on themselves keep shooting into the crowd at random.

You think it’s a good idea to give them the guns? Only a 2% chance of fatal hit. Think of the Naso-pharynx as the machine gun with a range of a few metres.

[Joe Elliott]

By the way, what if you got and recovered from the COVID-19. Should you get a vaccine? Yes.

I was surprised to learn this year, that getting a vaccination will generally give you greater immunity than you get from getting and recovering from a disease. That is highly counter-intuitive, but true.

If you got COVID-19, you can assume that it is likely true that you accidentally spread it to one or more others. And they went on to spread it to others.

So, be a good citizen, don’t be a Steppin’ Stone multiple times. Get the vaccine as soon as you can.

[Bill Chapman]

Exactly right.



Just to clarify, I do mean getting TWO injections of the vaccine approved of by the FDA, at the proper intervals. And don’t hold out for a one-hundred-dollar bounty.

Not an injection of bleach. Not using Lysol as an inhaler. Not feeding an ultra violet light, with its power cord, down your throat and into your lungs. Get the proper vaccine.

My post was directed at Richard

[Martin Weidmann]

I had it.  Was achy after work one day, had less than 1 degree of fever, felt sluggish for 36 hours, and that was it.  We've turned the country upside down and trashed civil liberties and our economy all to fight a cold-like virus that has a survival rate of 98%+ across all age groups.  If we have any freedoms left after this charade is over this will go down in history as the best example ever of global mass hysteria.

Sorry, OT.

You may have had few symptoms, but you could have infected a number of others who were less lucky. The measures taken prevented that, at least to some extend.

[Joe Elliott]

My post was directed at Richard

I was joking.