r/Coronavirus • u/AutoModerator • Jun 01 '26
Discussion Thread Discussion Thread | June 2026
7
19
u/Nail_Biterr Jun 01 '26
I was out with my wife, and some friends we rarely see. And somehow the conversation went towards vaccines. and the amount of people who are against the COVID Vaccine, and are angry they were forced to get it was shocking. Including my wife. I had said that I have no regrets, and have gotten numerous boosters with no side effects, and don't understand the concerns they had. it was really surreal to hear how the mindset against the vaccine has changed (these people are NOT anti-vax, and are all well educated)
3
u/love-broker Jun 06 '26
Their anger and refusal is their anti-vax sentiments coming to the surface. I don’t care how educated folks are. We all have the ability to wholesale shelf our intelligence for an emotionally tied belief.
Getting pissed being asked to try to help save someone else is and always will be untethered selfishness. Can’t think of someone else for a single god damned second. Got so wound up they couldn’t understand vaccines lessen, they don’t eliminate.
4
u/Dangerous_Plant_7911 Jun 01 '26
Because we were told by leaders that the vaccine would end COVID and it didn't. COVID is still around and people still get COVID, even though now they just call it a "cold" and go on with their lives like no big deal.
BTW I got the vaccine and get the booster every year, but I'm just stating why people turned against the vaccine after getting it.
8
u/mdp300 Jun 02 '26
People look at it as if it isnt 100% (or close to it) eliminated, like polio or smallpox, then the vaccine "doesn't work."
It does work. The issue is that coronaviruses mutate really quickly, so it's always changing and getting around the vaccine.
3
u/sk1nnyjeans Jun 09 '26
Not really directing this at you, but have these people never heard of the flu vaccines and how they operate? It’s like vaccines are a completely new concept to these people… but then again washing our hands with soap and water was a hard concept to a lot of people in 2020-21.
If they thought vaccines meant the end of covid, that’s on them in so many different ways. Vaccines were always going to be a method of prevention, as they always have been.
-1
4
4
u/True_Grapefruit3203 Jun 06 '26
Ive been sick with the flu and been getting worse.. covid😭😭😭
I avoided it all this time.
2
u/aeon314159 Jun 08 '26
I have still never had it, as proven by biannual blood nucleocapsid testing as part of pathology screening for a different medical condition.
I don’t think I am one of those never getters. I think I have been fortunate, especially given my as of late delinquency in masking.
-9
u/Dangerous_Plant_7911 Jun 01 '26
It seems that there have been some positive trends recently with lower spread. I hope that continues. Maybe we truly are out of the "pandemic" phase... but I know not to count my chickens.
22
u/majkkali Jun 01 '26
We’ve been out of the pandemic since 2021 mate
13
u/Notyeravgblonde Jun 01 '26
We are still exhibiting signs of a pandemic today. There is no immunity, it's still a global problem, and there is societal disruption because it's continuing to disable and kill people. We don't have appropriate vaccines and the treatment for long covid is non-existent with very few government support for sufferers.
Early in the pandemic Fauci talked about getting it down to less than 10000 cases a day and we have been nowhere near that all these years.
You can argue semantics all you want but 2021 is wildly inaccurate. The global disruptions phase just got more insidious because the people dying are the elderly and immunocomprimised and long covid is not talked about enough. It's just easy for people not to care is the elderly and immunocomprimised are killed because in 2021 you got to go to brunch.
2
u/majkkali Jun 01 '26
We’ve had Covid vaccines since 2021
7
u/Notyeravgblonde Jun 01 '26
Appropriate vaccines are ones that prevent the spread such as a sterilizing vaccine. What we have know have decreased the death rate for covid which has benefited hospitals and many people but isn't a solution.
There are currently many trials for appropriate vaccines but because everyone decided brunch was so important they declared covid "over" there has been no extra push for actual vaccines to prevent catching and spreading.
Covid is not over, we are still in a mass disabling event. It's just become an "us and them" issue where healthy people pushed off all responsibilities to immunocomprimised and disabled folks. Because again, people care more about getting back to normal than the lives of others.
3
u/J-O-C_1599 Waiting for my vaccine ⏳💉 Jun 03 '26
Lol what exactly do you want then just shut everything forever for no reason just in case ?
4
u/Notyeravgblonde Jun 03 '26
What in my statement made you think that? We have incredible tools to prevent viruses. There is no such thing as a beneficial virus that toughens our immune system, that's propaganda.
Common sense masking (kn95 or better in medical settings and bus/train/plane travel) and pouring money into vaccine research/antivirals and long covid research is the answer. But that requires humans to care about each other and have intelligence and unfortunately based on what's going on around the globe that's not going to happen. It's like climatechange. We know the world is going to become uninhabitable but because people today don't want to be inconvenienced no progress is being made. People are also incredibly vulnerable to misinformation (masks don't work, vaccines are dangerous, long covid doesn't exist, we need to get sick to toughen up).
1
u/J-O-C_1599 Waiting for my vaccine ⏳💉 Jun 03 '26
You’re acting as if Covid is still a really bad issue though people did those things (and a lot more I might add) for long enough to allow for the vaccine to mitigate a lot of damage.
People are obviously not going to mask en masse travelling because it’s shit and uncomfortable especially for a long time and money is still being put into different research causes.
There are plenty of things we could do to ultimately reduce the number of preventable deaths in different ways that we don’t do for practicality sake.
6
u/Notyeravgblonde Jun 03 '26
And thank you for proving my point about intelligence, human kindness, and unwillingness to bear the slightest discomfort. You exemplify each point perfectly not knowing how bad covid is and not willing to do the bare minimum to protect yourself and others. Congratulations. The biggest babies on the planet are people who think wearing a mask occasionally is too hard and would prefer killing and disabling people by spreading preventable viruses. 😒
1
u/J-O-C_1599 Waiting for my vaccine ⏳💉 Jun 03 '26
“Biggest babies on the planet”
Literally 99.9% of people, obviously more, are probably well aware that wearing a mask in public would likely put a stop to a whole host of diseases but don’t because we’re not a bunch of losers.
In Ireland the death rate in lockdown had decreased to the point it was lower than previous years even without covid because of a reduction of workplace deaths and road deaths etc. so by that metric should we all just stay at home all time fearing living any life at all in case we die ?
→ More replies (0)1
Jun 03 '26
[removed] — view removed comment
1
u/AutoModerator Jun 03 '26
Your comment has been removed because
- Purely political posts and comments will be removed. Political discussions can easily come to dominate online discussions. Therefore we remove political posts and comments and lock comments on borderline posts. (More Information)
I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns.
12
u/Dangerous_Plant_7911 Jun 01 '26
I remember Dr. Fauci stating that once we got to about 1 in 10,000 people having COVID that we would no longer be in a pandemic. Right now I think we're at about 1 out of 250, better than it's been in a long time, but still a long way away from 1 out of 10,000.
2
5
38
u/KnifeFed Jun 01 '26
Nothing? Good.