Is the Covid Virus Our Extinction Event?
By anniepa
@anniepa (27955)
United States
October 2, 2021 2:34pm CST
I know that seems hyperbolic and terrifying but since I've been kind of terrified for over a year I figured I'd go ahead and put it out there...
It seems that there are still far too many people, particularly in the US, who refuse to get the vaccine for a variety of reasons and from what I've heard from many very qualified doctors and other medical experts that's why it continues to spread. It apparently won't be contained, it will continue to mutate with new, more deadly variants appearing until most of us are fully vaccinated. And yet millions claim they're better off not getting the shots, that we don't know what the long-term affects will be from the vaccine and so forth. They seem to ignore what we DO know - that Covid kills and those who survive often have long-term complications.
The latter is a "known known" while the former is an "unknown unknown" to channel former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. I know which I choose to go with!
But, seriously, is anyone else here even a little bit frightened that we'll never get this pandemic under control, that eventually, maybe in a year or two, maybe five or ten or maybe decades from now, the human race will be no more?
Hey, I thought everyone would like something else to worry about since we don't seem to have enough these days!
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@wilsongoddard (7291)
• United States
9 Oct 21
I saw your other post about your granddaughter not getting vaccinated. I hope that this thought of the pandemic as an extinction event isn't something that you've shared with her, because it is something that will undermine her willingness to listen to you.
The pandemic is part of a much larger planetary crisis. We are in a climate emergency, and there is biosphere collapse. However, this pandemic is not going to be the "nail in the coffin" of humanity.
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
9 Oct 21
I totally agree that we're in a climate emergency. No, I haven't said anything to Angela about this pandemic being out extinction event. I sure hope you're right that this isn't "it". I have seen on the news that past day or so that things are improving slightly on the covid front. However, it's still pretty bad in my area which I'm sure is because there are so many who refuse to get vaccinated.
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@crossbones27 (49432)
• Mojave, California
2 Oct 21
I would say definitely no, its just thinning out the herd and if people want to be dumb, its there right to die, but stop taking people with you. Scientist have been saying that the Earth is overcrowded and there will be a time when Mother Nature balances it out. Alabama for the first in its state history had more people die than were born. So I guess Mother Nature's plan is in full effect.
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@anniepa (27955)
• United States
3 Oct 21
Hmmm...too bad the people of Alabama, at the urging of their own elected officials, have made it too easy for Mother Nature to do her thing. Gotta love how these politicians on the far right downplay the need for vaccinations or masks or really any kind of caution. They don't seem to realize they're literally killing their own constituents, their own voters!
@kaylachan (69670)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
2 Oct 21
I don't think the virus is as dangerous as the media wants to make us believe. The media has been well-known to spread information in a way that benifits them. You also need to consider, when we're told numbers, we aren't being told the whole truth. You hear about number of cases going up, but if you do the math, there are often times more cases then their people. And, when you get tested for the virus, reguardless of the result, reguardless of weather you get symptoms or not, it counts as a case. They aren't talking about those who test positive, but never develop a single symptom. They aren't talking about the fact, there are more survivors and for the vast majority, they will get nothing more the worst flu they ever had. You don't hear anything except about the 1 to possibly 2 percent of people who land in the hospital or die. So, you naturally are going to ve fearful.
Every story has two sides.
If you don't know both sides, then you can't make an informed decision.
I chose not to take the vaccine, because the risk of complications is not one I'm willing to take, for the possiblity of a mild case of COVID, if I get it. Which, given my husband's profession and how we live our lives, leads me to believe it doesn't spread as quickly as others claim.
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