Originally Posted by redietz View Post

KewlJ, if you are out in public and interacting, and the Delta variant has a viral load a thousand times more than the original strain, then eventually you're going to get Covid. It's not like vaccines have 90% protection against Delta. They don't. And after a few months, the percentages crash. The boosters aren't designed for Delta, either. That was one of the arguments at the friction-filled debate about boosters.

I liken it to playing Russian roulette with a 100-chamber handgun. If you're unvaccinated, every interaction with people is like pulling the trigger three times with a large caliber weapon. Every vaccinated person doing the same thing pulls the trigger once with a smaller caliber weapon. Eventually, vaccinated or unvaccinated, you get shot. The larger caliber is more likely to kill you, but the smaller caliber can kill you, too.
Redietz, no offense, but you are a bit of a doom-and-gloomer. I trust that you believe some of the doom/gloom comments you make, but I prefer to do my own reading and research and draw my own conclusions. Again, no offense, but I completely reject your 100 chamber handgun theory with unvaccinated having 3 times the risk. I don't know if you are talking about contracting the virus, which many will not even know, their symptoms are so mild, or severe illness/hospitilization. The second is the concern and everything I have seen says vaccinated people's risk of severe illness is way down from unvaccinated people.

And very small sample size but my experience so far bares this out. My symptoms are very mild, slight fever and achy saturday and sunday nights, slight chest, not even pain, just pressure. No trouble breathing or anything and those symptoms have even improved since sunday/monday. If this was 2 years ago before any of us had ever heard of covid, I would have thought nothing of it and wouldn't have even called the doctor. And that is exactly the way things are supposed to work with the vaccines. Protection against severe illness.

Most people may not even know they have covid or a second round of covid. My brother and BF, are both going to get tested tomorrow. Neither has show even a hint of anything, but it wouldn't surprise me if one or both test positive without having any symptoms. Will be interesting to see. Unfortunately, I am a little bit higher risk and this virus has effected me a little more. Robby will chime in about how unhealthy I am....that is why I posted. I wanted to give him a chance to rejoice and celebrate.