Originally Posted by kewlJ View Post
Originally Posted by MisterV View Post

As well they should have been concerned.

Infectious and virulent.
MrV, monet has turned into one of those crazy conspiracy guys. An upgrade (or downgrade) from when he used to just be crazy.

I got sick with covid in the early days back at the end of March 2020. A neighbor in the building on the same floor had gotten sick and was hospitalized before me. Over the next several weeks 8 different people in my building all contracted covid, getting sick to various degrees, including my brother who I live with. One guy on the floor above passed away. I was pretty sick. My brother was not. There was even a story on the local news calling our building a "cluster" of cases.

I didn't think the virus was traveling through walls, although I might have said something about that at the time, just not knowing what was going on. I didn't interact with any of these people. With hindsight, I think this very contagious virus, more contagious and dangerous at the beginning (viruses weaken over time) probably was spread through surface touch like common door handles, elevator buttons and things like that.

When thing reopened several months later, I was very cautious. I would take the steps down each morning to avoid the elevator and other people. Coming home, I could take the elevator because as long as I didn't get on at ground floor with anyone, the likelihood of passengers getting on after the first floor going up was slim. In the casinos and any other crowded place, especially indoors I wore masks, which were mandated at the time, but I would have done so anyway. I suspected masks didn't offer the protection the so-called experts claimed because if you could breathe, then the virus could get through, if it was circulating. But purchased and wore good masks anyway, not the paper do-nothing type masks.

I don't blame any medical or science experts from being wrong about anything in hindsight. They were all doing the best they could with a new situation.

I got the vaccine and two boosters. The conspiracy people can say what they want about the vaccines, but I contracted covid a second time after I had the vaccine and had very mild symptoms. Felt like a cold for a few days with minor body aches, which was quite a contrast to how sick I was the first time, for several weeks with lingering fatigue issues lasting months. That is all the proof I need that the vaccines work and do what they are supposed to do, which is minimize severe sickness and death, just the same as the flu shot does.
You're, as usual, confused.

You didn't have a "mild" 2nd bout because of all those shots. You became less vulnerable to serious COVID illness due to a much higher immunity level from getting sick the 1st time.

Going into crowds wasn't ideal but it was hardly the danger it was lied about being. The main culprit is as it has always been with viruses: infected people touch things and previously uninfected people touch the same things, stupidly put their fingers around their eyes, nose, mouths and even ears, and they get infected. The filth that's on those high-rise city buildings' elevators, buttons, knobs, etc. only exacerbates transmission among the idiots who just don't get it. You see the same things at gas stations. Very few people used or use a paper towel when they hold the nozzle as they're fueling up. And many of these fools rip open a bag of chips, devour peanuts by the handful, and do many other unsafe things right after they leave the pumps. They all deserve what they get.

We're not vaccinated, we're "old", and yet we haven't missed a beat in our extensive travelling around the country to restaurants, casinos, events, a wedding, and other gatherings since the beginning of the pandemic. All it takes is good personal awareness and an ability to think before you act, knowing how to touch just about everything without doing it foolishly, and CARING about what is actually going on and if/how it could be detrimental.