So now the question becomes, is Sam going to ...

[rickgthf]

.... let you numbnuts take the new anti-virals?  And why is it that you numbnuts will undoubtedly prefer the far more expensive pills to just getting vaccinated?  A course of anti-virals will be $700-$1000 as opposed to $40 for two doses of vaccine.  All this talk about wasteful government spending and the numbnuts line up for the more expensive treatment.  The least the government could do is make the wasters pay for the pills.

  Unfortunately, the pills suffer from the same drawback as monoclonal antibodies.  They have to be taken before you get really sick.  This means you have to respond to the early symptoms and get tested right away.  Monoclonal antibodies turned out not to be so effective because the Covid deniers didn't act soon enough.

[cmilligan1958g]

 

[r3020]

Not everyone catches the virus and those who do not all of them will require medication. Your body your choice. I strongly recommend you take the vaccine and all of the required boosters.

[sam1wiseone]

Take what you want rick.   I won't ask the government to make that choice for you.

[rickgthf]

... You need to disabuse yourself of that notion right now.  This virus is circulating in every community in the US, even in the farthest corners of Alaska.  At some point, everyone will be challenged by the virus, probably multiple times.  Right now, statistically, you are 6x more likely to be infected if you are not vaccinated than if you are vaccinated but that statistic isn't weighted by the decreasing number of people who aren't vaccinated so it's probably higher, more like 10x.

  Furthermore, we know that the vaccinated individuals who are becoming infected is because their immune systems aren't as robust.  The only way we can effectively protect those people is to reduce the level of circulating virus.  The only effective way to do that is to reduce the R0 by vaccinating 90-some percent of the population, children included.  We're only at 58%.

  You need to abandon this selfish "my body, ..." idea, get as many vaccinated as possible, cut the level of infection as much as possible, and save as many lives as possible.  

   When I vaccinated my cow herd, I didn't just vaccinate half of them, I vaccinated all of them!

  If you actually valued human life, you'd do it.

[rickgthf]

As if I care what you think.

[sam1wiseone]

You are simply wrong Rick.   Even fauci said some people have cross immunity from other viruses.   He said it could be as high as 80% of the populace.   Refer back to the diamond princess.  People who shared small rooms with no where else to go.  One person infected the other never was and the not infected never tested positive for antibodies.

These are facts, Rick.  

[r3020]

Your cow herd never had covid.

[sam1wiseone]

Hey Ron want a good laugh,  the fear mongers on the news were talking about covid in deer and said doctor were saying hunters should wear masks when in the woods.

I about fell over laughing.

[r3020]

Oh boy.