re: My 16 year old daughter has covid.

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All 4 of us contracted it this week. All of us have different symptoms. The wife and I are going for the antibodies in the morning. Feels like the flu, a cold, and sinuses all at once

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Mine got way worse after day 7. I felt awful week 1, god awful week 2 and then out of nowhere I woke up with energy and by the next day all i had left was sinus/congestion that lasted about 3 more days.

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It reduces the death rate by about 85%

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Cool story.

From what.........to what.

I had my first symptoms today. Was exposed Thursday.

Headache, low grade fever, head congestion from hell. No breathing issues. Can still taste and smell. Overall feel like a turd sandwich, but completely manageable. Interesting to see how it progresses.

On a Z-pack, mucinex, zinc, ibuprofen, and vitamin d. Chugging water like it’s going out of style.

Fwiw I’m 31 and in above average shape.

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I literally fractured a rib coughing 2 nights ago...

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Yeah I had some bad coughing fits the entire time - took about 2 1/2 weeks before the cough went away from the time I got sick. Week 2 was absolutely miserable. The first week I had no issues with nausea and out of nowhere it hit me like and truck and Zofran had no effect on the nausea. That was by the worst thing for me. I didn't lose taste or smell but everything tasted funny.

Believe it or not, Dramamine was a life saver for me.

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Well, it depends on which death rate your talking about. The death rate from covid? Or the death rate of generally being alive? And it depends on over what period of time.

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I was referring to the rate from COVID. My point being that the 85% number is completely useless without knowing from what to what.

For example. If you told me it went from 1 in a trillion to .15 in a trillion, I wouldn't give 2 fricks(extreme example for the purposes of illustration)

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About 1% of the people who got placebo died. And about .15% of the people who got the vaccine died.

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This is an odd number. Do you mean died if they got COVID, or died at all?

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But it's statistical proof across multiple studies that vaccines prevent death.

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Well, I never argued differently. But, you still didn't really answer the question. Moreover, a general answer to the question is also somewhat useless because the risk of death for a 70 year old is exponentially higher than for a 30 year old. Which is why I would probably recommend a 70 year old get the vaccine. The difference (from what to what) is far larger.

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I think his point is that the death rate is exceptionally low overall.

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Winner winner

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So while reducing the rate of death by 85% is a good thing, 85% of a very small number is a very very small number.

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Yup. Which is why running around saying "by XXX percent" is almost always an intentionally misleading stat

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ask if they have ivermectin in stock and then ask which doctors are prescribing.

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She mumbled something and sped away

Any MDs that can justify or deny my opinion on this, but did we set ourselves up for more deadly strands of CoVId with lockdowns? My thinking is we could have built up natural immunity with weaker variants and no be as vulnerable to the mutated variants as they got stronger.

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It reduces the death rate by about 85%

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Except when it doesn't.

Fact is, your answer is relying on propaganda from people who have been lying about this from the get go....

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Pretty simple.

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Except the Government and their lackeys in the Media have convinced a segment of idiots in this country that their Vax is ineffective unless EVERYONE has it.