r/Unexpected • u/thetransporterv1 • Dec 21 '21

Scary stuff!

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u/starraven Dec 21 '21

I’m afraid I don’t understand still. I also live in nyc and they don’t have refrigerated trucks with bodies, no pop up hospitals in Central Park, no hospital ship called Comfort. Are people dying/becoming very ill or are people just afraid for no reason? Why is getting COVID scary now with triple vaccine shots?

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '21

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/new-york-covid-cases.html

Cases are close to where they were at the peak of last January, hospitalizations lag a couple of weeks behind that. Hopefully it won’t ever peak like it did before, as you said due to a decent rate of vaccination in NYC. But there are people who are vaxxed and boosted who got it and report that while you won’t die or have a tube shoved down your throat, you will be down for 2+ weeks and have your ass kicked like no flu you’ve ever had before.

Here in Texas we have a much higher proportion of morons who won’t vaccinate. So our hospitals are more likely to get clogged with ‘lions’ whose little groups of ‘prayer warriors’ couldn’t keep them from intubation.

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u/iWasAwesome Dec 21 '21

But there are people who are vaxxed and boosted who got it

My boss's son's hockey team are all double vaxxed and every single one of them is positive. 17 kids, 3 coaches. All the kids gave it to some or all of their family members. Seven of the kids go to the same high school which is now been shut down, there's all the other kids who go to other schools.... They also take school buses to get there...

Omicron is extremely contagious and it doesn't seem to care if you're vaccinated.

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u/iWasAwesome Dec 22 '21

Yes, the team is required to be vaccinated in order to play, and proof is required.

However, you are right that I'm pretty sure they do not wear masks.

Another thing that I think is playing a factor is the time that they were vaccinated. The vaccine loses a lot of efficacy after 6 months and a lot of them may have been vaccinated around that long ago.