Because ranting tends to obliterate any effort at nuance and obscures important words, I feel like I should emphasize a few points about yesterday’s post. It would be easy to portray the whole thing as “fat people are gross and vaccines are for dupes,” even if interpreting it that way after a close reading requires a good deal of resistance to important conjunctions and conditional phrases.
You should probably get a booster. The first two shots only reduce your chances of hospitalization by around 50%. the third is more effective. And the one thing that is more important than weight in terms of influencing Covid outcomes is age. And you are not young. Furthermore, older people like yourself tend to have mild side effects from the shot.
I agreed with everything you said yesterday and today Kevin. And laughed quite a bit along the way. And your point about the vaccines is spot on too. I took one for various personal reasons, but I see less and less compelling reasons going forward.
Look at the data - you are wrong about the boosters - there are effective and necessary. 100% hardly but highly protective against serious disease - get the booster and don't be a NFL quarterback or tennis know it all.
You should probably get a booster. The first two shots only reduce your chances of hospitalization by around 50%. the third is more effective. And the one thing that is more important than weight in terms of influencing Covid outcomes is age. And you are not young. Furthermore, older people like yourself tend to have mild side effects from the shot.
I agreed with everything you said yesterday and today Kevin. And laughed quite a bit along the way. And your point about the vaccines is spot on too. I took one for various personal reasons, but I see less and less compelling reasons going forward.
Look at the data - you are wrong about the boosters - there are effective and necessary. 100% hardly but highly protective against serious disease - get the booster and don't be a NFL quarterback or tennis know it all.