Warren contracts Covid-19; says symptoms mild

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?

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".

Why are you obsessed about that that event?

You post that question to every single Uhub story.

... this one is both churlish AND nonsensical.

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 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.

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.

What happens to someone like you to produce such a small, shriveled, ugly soul?

We are in the middle of "no laughing allowed" period. No jokes about elected or anointed leaders.

...just being a shitty human being?