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Warren contracts Covid-19; says symptoms mild
By adamg on Sun, 12/19/2021 - 5:30pm
Sen. Elizabeth Warren tweeted the news this afternoon:
I regularly test for COVID & while I tested negative earlier this week, today I tested positive with a breakthrough case. Thankfully, I am only experiencing mild symptoms & am grateful for the protection provided against serious illness that comes from being vaccinated & boosted.
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Line jumper
She was one of the first to get the vaccine when she jumped ahead of the sick and elderly, along with Markey.
Ah, Republicans are so cute when they're mad
Which seems to be pretty much all the time.
As an exercise, Google their ages to see if you can still accuse them of jumping ahead of "the elderly."
dammit!
when did people my age become old and elderly?!?
Oh, those whippersnapper Senators
I was going to say, in terms of the vaccine, aren’t the elderly 65+?
Hey now!
There are plenty of democrats and independents who don’t like progressives too. Or: not all dummies are republicans.
Joe Manchin comes to mind.
Joe Manchin comes to mind.
Umm, OK
That lie explains why someone might have waited until early May 2021 to get vaccinated.
What explains people who haven't gotten vaccinated in, what, the last 8 months?
This nonsense again?
With vaccine hesitancy in play, it's important for a small number of politicians, celebrities, and other high-visibility people to get vaccinated early and help reassure others that vaccination is a safe and effective thing to do.
(If she's early, she's a line-jumper. If she's late, she's using us as guinea pigs. Damned either way, eh?)
You could also very reasonably consider our elected leaders as "essential personnel".
With vaccine hesitancy in
There was no such thing as "vaccine hesistancy" last December. Congress definitely jumped the line, when the line was wrapped around the corner.
Why would you care that they
Why would you care that they "jumped the line" to get a life-threatening vaccine against a harmless fake "disease"?
Lies
Lie. There was then and there is now.
Lie.
Vaccine hesitancy has been around for well over a century
so I have no idea where you're getting that from.
JP resident here. Don't own
JP resident here. Don't own car and trying to make ends meet. Waited from 12:35 to 2:15 in line with all my fellow strugglers who are still able to stand in the cold on concrete at Bromley Heath for Free Covid Testing at the Anna Cole. Line was from Stop and Shop parking lot entrance, through Jackson station, down through the playground. More Covid testing sites for us less privileged people and vaccine availability needed!! Felt bad for the little kids crying and elderly. Unacceptable!!
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Shame that the city fails so miserably in ramping up testing when it's most needed.
Drive thrus don’t really work
Drive thrus don’t really work when you DON’T DRIVE.
line jumper
she qualified by age and her job - essential services include the govt, believe it or not. and she didn't hide it but posed for pictures as it was done to encourage others to get the shot to save their lives. Unlike Trump, who hid the fact that he'd had the shot for month while encouraging others not to or to wear masks, many of whom have gotten sick and, for some, have died. She also told people right away and is isolating so she doesn't spread it - Trump lied about being testing, lied about the results, and then came in direct contact with 500+ people, including his family (some of whom caught it from him) and members of the military, including survivors of people who died in combat (he blamed all of them for him getting it too). I'll look to Senator Warren for the right thing to do in this case dude. Enjoy Omicron
This surely will get the
This surely will get the inauguration dinner cancelled, won't it?
Suit not back from the cleaners yet, eh?
Why are you obsessed about that that event?
You post that question to every single Uhub story.
Like most of your comments...
... this one is both churlish AND nonsensical.
Is it not a valid question?
Northeastern University has banned spectators at athletic events, Harvard is having remote final exams and basically closing campus at least until the start of spring semester, and in Europe things aren’t shutting down. I think the question of whether one of the senator’s protégés is going to be throwing a big party in early January is a valid one.
I don’t begrudge Wu a party, but if she decrees that the Bruins and Celtics cannot have fans at games a day or week later (or even before the event) it will be as bad as it will look.
What's the urgency?
The event isn't for two+ weeks. Anyone who needs to know right now should ask the Wu campaign or the city.
And the city hasn't changed the COVID guidance yet. Anyone who's cancelled anything has done so on their own volition, not a city/state mandate.
What city department is in
What city department is in charge of this gathering?
Why don't you ask?
https://www.boston.gov/departments/mayors-office
How does it feel...
...to be the willing tool of a toxic whackadoo right wing Elizabot? I guess that's the only way you can scratch your itch to be againsty about every damn thing?
Sometimes even Kinopio is right
As can Notfromboston. In this case, I chimed in because I thought Michael Kepran was out of line in his response. How was Notfromboston's comment churlish and nonsensical? Yes, he has the ability to post insane comments, but this is not one of them. Perhaps if Kepran had made a different comment, I would have said nothing. There is a real question as to whether Wu should have a big gala when Covid numbers are rising. That you think that this should not be mentioned kind of says a lot about you and how you are approaching the pandemic, I guess.
So the original Covid 19
So the original Covid 19 virus is still strong, or is it Delta or Omicron that she has? Starting to believe that all 3 of my shots aren't going to protect me anymore.
The shots ARE protecting you
Odds are you're not going to wind up on a ventilator or in grave.
Your odds simply aren't that good if you're unvaccinated.
Immunity isn't perfect, and not as strong in older people
Among the unvaccinated, older people are more at risk of death. Among the vaccinated, chance of death is dramatically reduced, but older people are still more at risk of symptomatic infection.
I don't think Delta is particularly more dangerous than Alpha or the original strain, just more transmissible. (Correct me here, though.) Omicron definitely seems to be milder.
It's extremely likely that she has Delta or Omicron.
The shots will protect you quite well from serious harm, but it's not like they're perfect immunity, and they *definitely* will not protect you from getting a "covid head-cold". But so what.
Vaccines in analogy, if you'd like
Vaccines work by showing your immune system *what* something bad looks like and then your immune system figures out *how* to fight off that pathogen.
Whereas with no prior immunity, either induced by vaccines or natural infection, an infection of the pathogen will at least let it get a few punches in before your immune system realizes something is wrong, and now it has to figure out how to fight back while you are already down and the hits keep coming.
So vaccines give you the upper hand in the fight. It's not perfect, eventually the best fighter in the ring loses their title to a challenger, but it's a whole lot better than stepping in to the ring against Tyson the first time you've ever put boxing gloves on.
But if you are actually worried about your immune system's ability to fight, having been well vaccinated against this virus, then the prospect of existing right now without having been vaccinated should scare you shitless. Of course, since you are vaccinated, you don't need to worry about that.
Cory Booker, too
Cory Booker, too. Must have been a heck of a non-socially-distanced D.C. Christmas cocktail party.
Committee meetings, actually
It turns out both Booker and Warren were part of the team of policy wonks on BuildBackBetter, before Manchin trashed it Sunday Morning. And they administer antigen tests daily, so it's a lock that neither will have passed it outside of their households.
Chances are really high that their variant is omicron, in part because Booker is a lot younger than Warren. Omicron does partially evade the trained T-Cells (either from previous infection, immunization, or both), but doesn't seem to cause serious disease in vaccinated, non-immune-compromised populations. The mRNA vaccines, especially those who've had a 3rd dose after 6 months, are quite effective at knocking down the variant infections before they can cause vascular damange.
What everyone keeps forgetting is the "novel" part of "novel coronavirus". This isn't the movie Contagion; there is no one who's naturally immune. It took 300+ years for humanity to get herd immunity to the bubonic plague; it took about 7 years to get herd immunity to H1N1 influenza (1918-1925). And they're both endemic. Expect this to take a few years to get to where we have universally effective vaccines and treatments.
her brother who died of the
her brother who died of the flu thanksgiving-2019 is now probable died of covid.
I get if you don't like
I get if you don't like someone but some of these anti Warren people are just sick. She got Covid and yes her brother died of the flu in 2019. Why are you bringing this up? Attempt at a quick lake ass joke?
this is not an attack. i
this is not an attack. i like lizzy warren.
i was just adding to the speculation that her brother may have actually died of this disease instead of the flu as previously presumed; therefor, she is much more prudent about covid than last year.
he died of covid
they said so at the time and it was in April, not in 2019 and not at Thanksgiving but nice try. That's her older brother.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/04/23/nation/elizabeth-warrens-oldest-b...
Her only remaining sibling died of cancer this year in October
https://people.com/politics/elizabeth-warren-brother-john-herring-dies-a...
So she's the last of her family, over 65, and has covid but you're trying to mock her? You sound nice.
my recollection was wrong.
my recollection was wrong. wasnt trying to mock her. i was trying to add context into her reason for being on top of her covid status.
Wow
What happens to someone like you to produce such a small, shriveled, ugly soul?
Was it making light of the
Was it making light of the fake Indian or the bit about masks that got my post deleted?
We are in the middle of "no
We are in the middle of "no laughing allowed" period. No jokes about elected or anointed leaders.
Hey Notfromboston when people
Hey Notfromboston when people try to be "funny" it's trivial for listeners to calculate who is being made fun of and why. The listeners, like here, can learn a lot about you. Sometimes they learn things you have not yet learned about yourself.
Hey bot
You are in the midst of an endless loop of tiresome right wing propaganda as regurgitated by someone whose first language is Russian. Try harder.
How about...
...just being a shitty human being?