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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
And then there are the people who have gotten it countless times and either a) nothing happens (asymptomatic), or b) they're sick for a few days and then they're back to normal. The latter of which has been my personal experience with it every time -- probably at least four or five times by now -- given my only symptoms to date have ever been "mildly sore throat, and ketchup and ketchup-adjacent condiments taste like hot trash for five days", and it seems to be pretty consistent. That's my COVID test now -- does ketchup, hot sauce, or barbecue sauce taste f-cked up? Then it might be COVID, and even then I've had that symptom but tested negative the entire week.
I'm sorry your friend had a terrible experience with it, but -- and I'm not asking this to be a dick or sound heartless -- but so what? People get f-cked up from all kinds of things that are generally easily survived with no ill effects due to freak occurrences. Yeah, it sucks. But what do you want to happen? What's going to make it all better, what's the answer?
You want the Alberta government to start paying for vaccines again, I'm 100% on-board, they should never have stopped covering them in the first place. But that was never enough anyway, we know that; uptake in the population was already too low by dose #3.
So instead of senselessly spiraling about it, what's the desired action that will achieve the desired outcome? There must be some jurisdiction where they're doing it better than us and it can't possibly be the only difference between them and us is the percentage of the population who are abject morons. Because we'll never fix stupid... in fact, it's been illegal since 1972.
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Because this is the Alberta politics thread, how about government using public health to tell citizens the truth, instead of throwing our money away on pseudoscience "reports" that prove to themselves why they are right? Public health education is known to be hugely important in vaccine uptake, and we know at the very least vaccines reduce the severity and the risks of developing long covid.
How about doing the bare minimum, which was supposed to be "taking care of the vulnerable"? Getting treatment if you need it is incredibly expensive and very difficult to access.
And by "so what" you ignore the drag on our hospitals, schools and productivity. Economically it's stupid to not do everything you can you keep people working. If they get long covid, that's a hit to insurance rates and many doctor visits and lab work.
Like, gee, what happened here? I just can't match anything up to the date.
These are real preventable things that when people are educated about them, can make the correct decisions. But I guess it's just better to flush money down the drain because a bunch of moronic idiots can't even get out of the way of science and public health. And run the province, to boot.
Also, the needless deaths.
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The statement said Colley had been admitted to hospital with an injured arm after a fall, but he quickly contracted Covid which developed into pneumonia.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xv50jnwngo
But I'm sure ensuring HCW are doing the bare ####ing minimum to protect patients from going to the hospital for a broken arm and dying is waaay too much for society to ask.
I'm not asking for a lot at this point, but it seems we can't even be bothered to do sweet #### all, and most people follow leadership. They take the stupidest position possible, and society follows them. Abdicating responsibility is a massive failure.