Do all you people that took the "jab" feel lied to yet?

My minister sister became an expert on AV systems and Zoom™ as she transitioned to remote worship. She also had weekly updates on the people in her ministry who were dying from COVID. My mom updated me on friends of hers who had died of COVID. My paramedic sister bitched on how annoying her PPE was as she (among other things) picked up people who were dying from COVID — or had died at home.

The probability of a symptomatic myocardial event from AstraZenica was about 1 in 60,000. This makes sense of why it got by the stage 3 trials because there was only a 50% chance that someone in the trials (30,000 people) would have an event. The probability of a fatal event were roughly one in a million.

Damn those lies!!!!

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Me? I just stayed at home at night, did my stats and tried my best to fight the waves of misinformation circulating the internet.

Oh, absolutely! First some background - One of my sisters is a paramedic. Another is a ordained minister. My niece is an RNA, and my mother is a 90 year old transplant recipient (immunosupressed). Me? I’m a numbers person - Used to do computer support at a medical microbiology lab. I generated my own stats and graphs using raw data from the BC provincial health ministry.

I was, of course, most worried about my mom — as an ancient transplant recipient, she was near the top of the “pre-existing condition” pyramid. My guestimate at the start of the pandemic was that, if she got COVID, she had about a 30% chance of dying. My paramedic sister went through a ton (almost literally)✝ of PPE, and wore some of her professional PPE when she went to visit my mom.

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To put this in a more clear context, if everybody in British Columbia, Canada (where I live, population 5.6Million) were to be forced to take the AstraZenica vaccine in one, wild, week, a bit less than 100 would have symptoms and about 6 would die. In comparison, about 160 people per day were dying from COVID (and BC was doing much better with COVID than most of North America).

When I was offered a choice between same-day AstraZenica and waiting 2 weeks for a Moderna vaccine, I did what I do — I ran the numbers. Dealing with a pandemic/epidemic is all about the numbers. Generally speaking, the probability of death or serious illness is relatively small for a person, but, when you’re dealing with a population of millions, those numbers add up — so you can’t really trust the stories you hear to judge risk… the most extreme cases are always going stand out in the meme verse. I mean, what are you going to be more interested in hearing about: your friend who was in bed for a few days with COVID, or your cousin’s acquaintance’s friend’s sister who got the vaccine and died a few days later from… something ?

This year, I invited him again. He declined noting that he couldn’t afford another bout of COVID like he had the last time… (WTF? After that experience, he’s still not vaccinated?!!!!!) Apparently, not almost dying from COVID is less important to him than being right about the vaccine.

Hi everybody! I have been looking at posts on narcs and narc abuse on here and if has really helped me out a lot. I am currently struggling with my situation and need some advice/support. I met a narc last year, everything seemed to good to be true. Love bombing, always texting calling and taking me on dates. Everything changed when someone warned me about him out in public in front of him and who he is. This caused a conflict with us and the love bombing seized. he would tell me that everything is okay and i can come and talk. He would set a time limit on me and kick me out after that. he would then text me like everything was fine and we hung out again and after that he completely ghosted me for one week. He came back and texted me a week later laughing about the ghosting and acting like nothing had happened. he continued to text me ( not like in the beginning) make plans with me, then on the day of the plans he would just ghost me. One day he would act interested the next silence. i contacted him a month later and he acted like nothing happened. He was on a vacation and sent me a picture of another woman ( someone he allegedly met on the trip) to strike a reaction but i never gave him one. After the trip he came to my place and was extremely rude, accusing me of going on dates with a bunch of men. The next day he accused me of being an alcoholic and that he wanted nothing to do with me but said well maybe we can be "friends" then ghosted me i assumed at this point it was over and i would never hear from him again. He contacted me on the holiday a month later acting like everything was great. We ended up hanging out a month or so later and when we hung out it went well, i thought things were going in the right direction. after we hung out.. silence. I would try to text him and if he replied it would be very short then he just stopped replying. He ghosted me for almost three months. I thought he was done this time and of course he popped up again like nothing happened. At this point i was getting sick of if so i questioned him as to why he dissapeared and always does this. Of course he had some sob story about a injury and family member dying of cancer. I felt pity for him and he gave me an apology.. so i took him back stupidly. things seemed to be going smooth for a couple months, of course until his family member died and his injury got better he never contacted me and was distant. Menawhile, i was there for him during the difficult time for him. He lied to me about the funeral and never wanted to chat. I was chasing him and he would always claim nothing was wrong but when i said i thought he used me when he was down he could not handle it and would always tell me he didnt care and to go away. I would get so upset i would try texting him to work it out he would barelt respond and if he did he would not be nice about it. we did hang out a couple times after that, he would ignore me after. One day i was like hey i think you are seeing someone else, and i was like well ixam seeing someone so no problem if you are he said " buy bye good luck with your new guy stop contacting me" i was devastated and tried to get into contact with him for weeks then i just gave up and accepted it was over. He ended up contacting me a month later acting like everything was fine. He wanted to go out and have drinks i told him i would. He and i both seemed to have a great time. He ends up ignoring me again. I kept texting him trying to figure out what was wrong. He kept saying everything was fine and i said ok can we hang out again? He said maybe i was like why? He just kept saying maybe … our last conversation we had… i said what is wrong ? He said nothing is wrong everything is fine. I asked him why he keeps saying maybe. He said " maybe but i dont want to see you right now" i said why? He saix " im just not feeling it, if i wanted to date i would" i said why did you contact me less then a week ago wanting to go out? He said i didnt.. even though he did. So i said should i just move on or what? He said whatever you want to do. So i said that he was really confusing me and asked him if he had anything more to say before i move on? My messages were turning green so i panicked he blocked me and reacted irrationally. I said " omg did you block me? My messages are not going through. Even texted him on my work phone asking what was up. And called him twice ( please dont judge me i know it is pathetic i never was this type of girl before him) so he replied and said " Ok I'll block you now" then immedietly blocked me. He has never blocked me before since I have met him he will just ghost. Is this ths final discard aka " grand finale? Did i just push him too far? this has upset me so much its hard to even function.

In other words, my chances of having any myocardial symptoms from AstraZenica were a bit less than 1/2 my daily risk of catching a fatal case of COVID. That was easy! My numerical analysis stopped at back-of-the-envelope, and I registered for an AstraZenica jab that afternoon.

At one point, I wrote our provincial health officer an angry letter when a comment she made revealed to me that she had been using the wrong kind of graph to track infections (linear instead of semi-log). Yes, they fixed the problem soon after.

✝ I checked with my sister. During COVID, an average paramedic in Edmonton would have literally gone through a ton or more worth of PPE. — and she did quite a bit of overtime!

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So, yes — my mom and my sisters were among the first to get vaccinated. I had to wait a bit longer. By the time I qualified for a vaccine, it had come out that the AstraZenica vaccine caused a heightened probability of heart problems — but, with limited supplies of the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, it was still being used.

In other words, I got stories from the front line — along with the lies from other sources.

He got really sick. He didn’t go to the hospital, but he probably should have. He was down and out for weeks. From his description of things, he would have probably ended up on at least oxygen, if not a ventilator, if he had been one stage worse.

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In comparison, I have my friend John. He succumbed to the lies and refused to get vaccinated. He runs a web-hosting company, so he could get away with just staying at home and avoiding people. As the COVID pandemic waned, my family could (finally) restart our habit of pre-Christmas dinner. I invited John, not knowing that he was unvaccinated — Pretty much everybody I knew was vaccinated. I was still worried about my mom, so I probably wouldn’t have invited him had I been aware. John was among the 40 or so people that showed up, and he blames our party for the fact that he got sick.