#not everything is about vaccines

[cllynchauthor]

Visual-stress-relief, Its ok to be concerned by all of these things but it is also important to know what you don't know.

For those of us who have had the privilege of education, your reblog reads like a word salad of nonsense.

But under that, this is what I hear:

"I don't understand why this is happening when the vaccine is supposed to protect people. I hear a lot of stuff about how the vaccine is actually to blame, and that masking is a political trick".

Its ok to be concerned and afraid.

Let me explain what is happening. I know I am just another voice on the internet who sounds confident and knowledgeable, and at least half of those people must be full of crap, because we contradict each other constantly. So you may not believe me. That's ok. Just think about what I say ok?

My credentials: a bachelor of science, and a diploma in animal nursing. I am not a pediatrician or pandemic scientist. I'm an author with a science and health education.

1. The wave of colds and flus IS kind of a result of masking and social distancing. This is true. But not for the reasons you think.

Small children born and raised in the pandemic with social distancing and masks have not been exposed to the normal level of germs that they would have otherwise.

We had measures in place to reducd the spread of germs, which was important to slow the spread and help doctors and nurses deal with the pandemic.

So now these kids are getting their first real exposure to colds and flus of their lives.

2. This happens in every child's life, and is normal and natural. Hell, both my kids had CONSTANT cold theirs first year in daycare. And croup and burning fevers and all that.

This was delayed by everyone working to prevent the spread of COVID.

3. The problem is that it is happening to so many kids at once that the hospitals are getting filled up. When the doctors and nurses are overwhelmed, they can't help everybody. That is dangerous because each of these kids deserves and needs care.

4. When this happens, when hospitals and doctors are at their maximum capacity and struggling, we mask up. By reducing the spread of germs for a while, we can slow things down so the doctors and hospitals can focus on the kids who are already sick.

This saves lives. I can't stress this enough. We do it because it is proven again and again to save lives. When doctors have more time to rest, they can give people better care.

You can google "excess deaths" in countries that did and did not mask up early in the pandemic and see how many extra people died (excess deaths means more than usual, the ones who wouldn't have died in a normal year).

By slowing the spread, we give doctors time to treat the sick and this saves lives.

5. Masking when you feel sick is VERY important but it is also good to mask when you don't feel sick. That is because many colds and flus make you contagious BEFORE you feel sick.

By the time you feel sick, you may have already breathed the same air as some kid who may end up going to hospital and finding no nurses or doctors free to help them.

6. Vaccines have nothing to do with any of this. There is no vaccine for the common cold. It's COMMON. It's annoying but harmless UNLESS you are a little baby or very old person who needs some help from a doctor and the doctor is too busy to help you.

As for the flu, there are many many kinds of flu and we don't get vaccinated for every single one. Instead we get vaccinated against the nastiest strains. This is enough for most people except those who don't have good immune systems yet like babies.

The babies will get good immunity with time. But it used to be that a lot of kids would die instead of fighting off these bugs. In Victorian times it was normal for each family to lose a baby now and then.

We don't want to go back to those days.

So mask up for a while. Do it for the babies and the doctors and the nurses. Do it because they are asking you to do it, and they're the ones who have to do the overtime if you don't.

PSA: PLEASE MASK AGAIN.

If you stopped masking, it’s time to start again, today. I’m not asking you to stay home, just to mask as well as possible, and do hand hygiene.

In multiple communities all over the USA and Canada, every pediatric hospital bed is full, mostly with babies and toddlers who have severe respiratory infections. It seems to be a combination of flu, RSV and COVID, sometimes more than one at a time in the same child.

We can sort out why this happened later. Right now, there’s an emergency that should be front page news, and isn’t, and the best way to stop it is to reduce the circulation of all respiratory viruses in our communities by masking everyone who can mask, before babies start dying because there isn’t enough care to go around.

Get your current flu shot and bivalent COVID booster if you haven’t already, but also please mask now.

Please do it for the babies! Nov 15, 2022.

[reality-detective]

“There Is No SARS-CoV-2, There Is No COVID-19, and There Are No Variants” - "No Spike Proteins"

Poornima Wagh claims to have 2x PhDs from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, that she had tested 154 vials and found hydrogel, graphene oxide, lipid nanoparticles, heavy metals... But didn't find any “spike protein or mRNA in the vials."

Poorinma also claims she has tested 1,500 or 756 'covid-19' patient samples for the CDC director, Dr. Robert Redfield, finding no “SARS CoV-2” in any of them.

Poornima Wagh: "They didn't find SARS CoV-2, they didn't find the genome, they didn't find anything. Nothing was found.

"We called Dr. Robert Redfield, director of the CDC, to show him the findings. He said 'I don't care what you find, just call it SARS-Cov-2'

"We asked the CDC to send us a sample of the isolated virus. They said they didn't have them, they stopped responding to our calls, but then the FBI raided our lab. 🤔

[snackugaki]

fun new fucking challenge, you don't have to comment on the quality of next mutation

[gideonisms]

Once again frustrated by how Difficult it is to do very basic tasks

[mostlikelyshutup]

is the batfam vaccinated against rabies

[the-lark-ascending69]

Headcanon that Robin's parents are anti-vaxxers and Robin, anxious wreck that she is, convinced Mr. Hauser to take her to get all her shots in secret.

[kvothe-kingkiller]

we really need something that shows people what would happen if x decision had been made differently

‘it hasnt made a difference!’ it has, you just lack the reasoning needed to figure out even a vague idea of just how different things would be otherwise

[girlthativealwaysbeen]

i am not religious but i think god made you for me is secondary. this is what matters

OMG SACHHIIIIII superior song fr i watched this movie when i was a kid and this song moved me to tears

[luimagines]

No rush to answer this at all, but you doing ok??

Honestly. Physically? Yes. Mentally. No.

My brother got sick last week and is still recovering. He's been in bed and struggles to stay awake even with medicine.

My sister (who I don't get along with) is in a crisis and is thus staying with us. She came over last week too.

She brought a whole bunch of stuff over, including her two dogs and her daughter which now she's not taking care of. Because I'm here, right? Free baby sitter/dog sitter because now it's all about damage control.

And my mom got sick three days ago, and I spent most of yesterday in the hospital with her where we learned it's Covid. She's high risk.

We usually split watching over my niece between me and my mom because my sister is always busy.

But with her sick, it all falls to me and I'm normally the care taker of the house anyway. Meaning I do the cooking and the cleaning and the shopping and I walk the dogs- but now everything else is under my watch too. Which wasn't asked of me, but is expected, if I want my house to stay in one piece.

Not to mention this is about the time of the year I get sick too so I have to tread very carefully around my family in general- while taking care of them when my sister doesn't do anything to help.

I am very frustrated.

[booksandabeer]

September 2024. I just tested positive for COVID-19.

Fan-fucking-tastic.

[unopenablebox]

important part of my relationship is that my girlfriend isn't subscribed to money stuff, so when we walk to work together i can just describe really good money stuff bits to them

[vacuously-true]

Well we had a good run, 46 weeks between my first and second COVID cases. But miss 'rona has come to visit me again

[reality-detective]

Former FEMA Whistleblower Celeste Solum explains the PCR test and vaccine.

Crimes against humanity 🤔

[crown-and-stallion]

Somebody needs to teach The Batman (2022) about zoonotic disease transmission.

I sure hope he and Alfred are rabies vaccinated and getting their titers checked yearly.

[mysticarcanum]

it's actually so fucked up how bad my COVID and flu shots are kicking my ass right now. i googled a list of side effects from these shots and i have. basically all of them. why can't my body understand that this is good for me and not a big deal even

[overcaffeinated-aro]

I got an email from my grandpa today and all the draft responses I’ve been working on in my head sound like an 18th century letter that’s going to have to travel for months to reach him.

pandemic year 5 really has me feeling like me and a very small handful of people I know are living on an entirely different plane of existence than everyone else