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I've found a perfect analogy for this covid shit in the past: chickenpox.


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2020 Dec 18, 1:11pm   330 views  10 comments

by Eric Holder   ➕follow (5)   💰tip   ignore  

As everybody knows chickenpox is not really harmful to children but can be life-threatening to adults. Prior to vaccine becoming available in late 80s pretty much every child was getting it thus building up the herd immunity for the whole population.(Some people even held "chickenpox parties" to get their kids infected as young as possible and be over with it). Adult cases were very rare.

Covid is pretty similar to chickenpox except the pool of people for whom it can turn deadly is even smaller - mostly these 65 and over and/or with severe chronical illnesses.

If we have never locked down for fucking chickenpox, locking down for Covid makes even less sense.

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1   Onvacation   2020 Dec 18, 3:25pm  

I never got chicken pox as a kid. I got it when I was 25. It almost killed me. I had sores from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. It got into my lungs.

I was young and strong and recovered but my lung capacity was never the same.

It was worse than the flu.
2   Eric Holder   2020 Dec 18, 3:43pm  

Onvacation says
I never got chicken pox as a kid. I got it when I was 25. It almost killed me.


Worse than covid.
3   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Dec 18, 6:33pm  

Heard of the net: "Chinkenpox."
4   theoakman   2020 Dec 18, 7:20pm  

Yes but Chicken Pox is dangerous to 80% of the population. Covid is dangerous to about 2% of the population.
5   porkchopXpress   2020 Dec 19, 8:04am  

Onvacation says
I never got chicken pox as a kid. I got it when I was 25. It almost killed me. I had sores from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. It got into my lungs.

I was young and strong and recovered but my lung capacity was never the same.

It was worse than the flu.
Wow, that's terrible. It's amazing how chickenpox doesn't carry the stigma of covid but can do so much damage.
6   HeadSet   2020 Dec 19, 8:28am  

Before I stopped watching ABC News a couple months ago, the show had constant commercials about "shingles." The blurb was that is you ever had chicken pox, you had the shingles virus, and if you did not get this one time vaccine they were pushing, you stood a good chance of getting painful rashes all over your body.
7   NDrLoR   2020 Dec 19, 8:33am  

HeadSet says
"shingles."
I thought it was that if you never had chicken pox, the virus was waiting to surface. My mother didn't have chicken pox in her youth, but contracted it in 1986 when she was 84--on her neck and shoulder. Had to be hospitalized twice on Valentine's Day and my birthday March 8, 1987 from the pain. The severe pain finally subsided and she was able to manage by keep a tissue under her bra strap and when it got bad, an over the counter ointment Sports Cream worked perfectly. She lived to be 94 with no other serious health problems.
8   Shaman   2020 Dec 19, 9:25am  

Life is pain and then you die and it’s over.
Ruminate on that.
9   porkchopXpress   2020 Dec 19, 12:59pm  

NDrLoR says
HeadSet says
"shingles."
I thought it was that if you never had chicken pox, the virus was waiting to surface. My mother didn't have chicken pox in her youth, but contracted it in 1986 when she was 84--on her neck and shoulder. Had to be hospitalized twice on Valentine's Day and my birthday March 8, 1987 from the pain. The severe pain finally subsided and she was able to manage by keep a tissue under her bra strap and when it got bad, an over the counter ointment Sports Cream worked perfectly. She lived to be 94 with no other serious health problems.
That's amazing she contracted it at 84 and then lived another 10 years.
10   porkchopXpress   2020 Dec 19, 1:00pm  

Shaman says
Life is pain and then you die and it’s over.
Ruminate on that.
I suppose it depends on the person's life. I really like my life and my family and I've achieved my goals, but my biggest fear is losing it as I get older and then die. I'm in my mid-40s and it can only be downhill from here

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