The Coronavirus, not the beer

What happens when, like has been the case probably 100 times in the last year, today's "misinformation" is tomorrow's factually correct information?


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I think the Yankees had another outbreak earlier this year. I believe the team was given the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. You're going to get outbreaks even in a well-vaccinated group, but where the vaccines make the biggest difference is in incidence of serious illness and death.
 
nsacpi said:
I think the Yankees had another outbreak earlier this year. I believe the team was given the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. You're going to get outbreaks even in a well-vaccinated group, but where the vaccines make the biggest difference is in incidence of serious illness and death.
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So in the case of the players, nothing really changed from being vaccinated than unvaccinated. Now the coaching staff could be a big difference
 
msstate7 said:
So in the case of the players, nothing really changed from being vaccinated than unvaccinated. Now the coaching staff could be a big difference
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I think even young healthy people can get fairly sick from covid. Wasn't there a Red Sox pitcher who had to skip last year due to scarring of heart tissue? If you can reduce the risk of that it would appear to be a difference that would matter to most people, especially athletes.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nc...sease-why-one-uh-player-opted-out/ar-BB18714Y

There are also social considerations arising from reduced spread as more people get vaccinated. But I'm sure you know about that.
 
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msstate7 said:
So in the case of the players, nothing really changed from being vaccinated than unvaccinated. Now the coaching staff could be a big difference
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A lot may have changed for players. When you hear that younger people generally get mild cases of covid, that doesn't mean they just get a stuffy nose for a day or two. It just means they don't require medical intervention. You can be laid up for two weeks, have a raging fever, and have shortness of breath and still have a "mild case."

A lot of younger people were getting covid and getting knocked down for a couple weeks. Look at Freddie Freeman.

There's also a misunderstanding of how vaccines work. When a person is vaccinated, the vaccine isn't a shield around them. You can still contract the illness when exposed. It's just that your body is generally going to be able to kill it before it can get enough of a foothold to make you sick. However, considering how sensitive the Covid tests are, you may still test positive even though you never feel sick or have only the barest of symptoms. If it happened to you or me, we'd never know. But when it happens to someone who's regularly tested, like an athlete, they test positive.
 
I cannot believe we are this far into this thing and I come back to find people still posting some of the same numbnuts stuff I was reading on here in April 2020.
 
Walter Shapiro
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I wonder if right wing town criers goosed their ratings by spreading the word

in the 14th century to ignore quarantining against the Black Plague

because that would really stick it to the liberals.
 
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