I haven’t gotten the vaccine, but I am not that old and am in great health, so I was never at much risk; I weighed the benefits versus the negatives as well as other considerations — like whether I would be around elderly family members before we had testing available — and made the balanced decision not to. There was very little risk I was going to be hospitalized.
I came down with COVID-19 in the fall, took hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, and spent only a couple of days sick in bed. My triple vaxxed lefty friend, who is younger than me and in great health, got COVID-19 shortly after I did and also spent a couple of days in bed — his triple vaccines did nothing for someone like him.
The left is gloating over unvaccinated conservatives who died from COVID-19. While there isn’t a lot of health information available about any of their pre-existing conditions, it’s apparent from their photos that almost all of them were at least overweight and older. Conservative radio personality Marc Bernier was 65 and significantly overweight. A second conservative radio personality, Phil Valentine, was 61. And a third radio talk show host, Dick Farrel, was 65 and significantly overweight. Valentine and Farrel both expressed regret for being anti-vaccine before they died.
That does not sound like Townhall is going liberal. Freedom to be vaxxed for all, but not mandated for all.
If we are going to cherry pick from the article, let’s look at the summation...
“ On the other hand, let’s not be tricked into ignoring science too, by going in the opposite direction with overreacting merely to spite them. Could the left be deliberately manipulating the right into universally rejecting the vaccine? A respected, well-known political leader told me they believe this is happening.”
This is the leftist bait and switch speak. This author is begging us to only be anti-mandate and not anti vaxx. If we are anti-vaxx, we are ignorant and uniformed and unhinged.
No. We have a right to question Everythjng about this vaccine since we have been lied to on almost every aspect including its inception, creation, side effects, and efficacy.
My answer to to the notion of Trump voters dying in greater numbers for not being vaxxed would be to counter with the notion that they aren’t paying attention to the numbers of pro Dem black voters who also refused to be vaxxed in my neck of the woods and in other communities who have also succumbed to the disease, simply because they tend not to trust certain medical treatments created by white people.
We’ve seen many elderly to 30 year olds with diabetes, obesity and other co-morbidities pass away who were hispanic or black in greater proportions than unvaccinated whites (who also die too much of the time).
The Democrats have an elephant in the room that they will not address honestly....the antivaxxers in the minority populations amongst their own voting members.
Dowd spins quite the untrue yarn of a narrative. She hopes covid is killing off white republicans in greater numbers but she has no proof that it is doing so. I’m an ICU RN and I can say, at least for my neck of the woods who it is killing off. If a covid patient has reached the ICU, they have an 80 percent probability of dying. However most people sick with covid even if they came into hospital for a few days, will never get to the ICU. That actually is very good news for the populations at large. We have seen very few vaccinated reach our ICU and the ones that have got better. I know of a couple of cases who had been vaccinated but because of cancer and autoimmune issues, the vax was never going to work for them.
Most of our ICU dead have been unvaccinated and it still holding true today...at least in our neck of the woods. Also...we aren’t being inundated with covids waiting to die...we have open ICU beds! Now we have ER wait times right now that are long. Omicron has the usual numbers of hypochon’s crowding waiting rooms sure they are about to perish along with the usual, flus, streps, ect. The thing is the PCRs have gone away so many are waiting for the longer Lyra tests and many just get sent home if their symptoms aren’t bad.
Most will get better and won’t come back again or they follow up with their private doctors.
Our hospital is enforcing a stricter set of rules as to who comes to the ICU and some are admitted to hospital as ER holds(no medical or intermediate care beds available immediately so they get held in the ER) and get their hospital care there. Most will go home in a few days all better if they haven’t been moved to open beds “upstairs”.
So, our particular Med surge trauma ICU has been only 50 to 70 percent full and we transfer patients who don’t meet icu criteria fairly quickly. We have a trauma mission, so we need to keep a few beds open for gunshots and mva’s and head bleeds.
Staffing has been a big issue in the non-acute areas but my own unit is staffed a little better and we are all pretty dedicated to keeping things going and being supportive of each other. This is best ICU group I’ve worked with in 35 years of nursing.