When an antivaxxer get covid

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Originally Posted by Cecily [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

As fun as it is to imagine this being a purge event, the reality is the longer a large population is allowed to serve as a reservoir for this virus the higher the odds it's going to mutate into something we can't handle. Delta is scary and whatever is next is terrifying. For the record, the body autonomy issues you raise are something that I find deeply worrisome. I absolutely hate the precedents being set, but personal liberty comes second to preventing injury or death to others, especially when one is a healthcare worker.

Exactly. We balance freedom for safety/security constantly in this game called life. You almost always have to sacrifice one to gain the other. We just disagree at how the scales should tip

Also a few smaller things. When we talk about healthy people dying of delta, that’s still a bit broad. It’s a small group, but if we are going to fit me inside it, we need to make it more narrow

1. Someone can be healthy because maybe they eat right and get enough sleep. Or someone could seem healthy because they lift weights and have lots of muscle. Neither of these lifestyles strengthen the heart and lungs like consistent moderate intensity cardio exercise. When the heart beats fast to pump blood to the body, it stretched every so slightly. Over time this causes the heart to have to work less hard to pump blood to the rest of the body. It’s why endurance athletes often have lower resting heart rates. There’s no downside to it, it’s simply a stronger healthier heart. A similar thing happens with the lung’s adapting to be more efficient at converting oxygen to the blood through routine cardio exercise

So when we talk about “healthy” , sure someone who eats right is healthier than someone who just eats McDonald’s. Someone who has tons of muscle actually isn’t healthy, as their heart has to work harder to get blood to the ends of the capillaries on a larger surface area. A very buff person, and a very fat person, both have a heart stressed in a similar way

So don’t include me with people who just eat right, or people who just lift. You should lump me in with people who have been doing competitive cardiovascular exercise for the past decade, but also died of covid. That’s a much smaller segment of “healthy people”

2. I’ve had covid before. I’m not an expert in antibodies, but I’m fairly confident that is more likely to help me than hinder me if/when I get it again. Not all these “healthy” people who died of covid had it before they caught delta


So in this attempt to instill fear, put me in the category of elite endurance athletes with no family history of heart or lung issues (just breast cancer), who have also had covid in the past, caught delta, and died. I’m comfortable taking with my chances of survival being a part of this % of the total covid cases