Just to put things in perspective:
My first cousin — Deeply religious, anti-vaxxer, unvaccinated.
Her brother (and my first cousin) — Deeply religious, anti-vaxxer, unvaccinated.
Her husband — Atheist, pro-vaxxer, vaccinated (Pfizer).
Her father (my uncle) — Very old, not allowed to get vaccinated by his son and daughter.
- Father has a stroke (about 2 weeks ago). Goes to hospital. Gets stabilized, condition improves.
- Daughter gets infected with COVID-19 from infected patient inside the hospital.
- Daughter infects father.
- Daughter infects husband.
- Father goes to intensive care unit and dies a few days later of COVID-19 complications (in the lungs).
- Daughter and husband are currently isolated at home.
- Daughter (unvaccinated) is suffering from severe symptoms (high fever, breathing problems, severe coughing).
- Daughter is constantly crying and wants to end her life, for not protecting her father.
- Daughter admits it was wrong not to trust vaccines, and urges friends and colleagues to get vaccinated ASAP.
- Husband (vaccinated), has no symptoms at all, and is in fact enjoying his sick-leave.
Does someone close to us have to die, in order to realize the seriousness of the situation?
Does it have to happen to someone we know and love?
Just think about it for a minute.Real case, happening to some of my dearest relatives.
My 2 sats worth. Take it as you will.
Basically pretty much what happened to my wife's family.
Most of us went to a party Nov 2019 over 100 people 30 that came from Italy to USA for the Party.
50 people got it. Everyone survived. But 4 in hospitals for weeks one on a ventilator for 28 days.
My wife had 2 visits to hospital in 2020. So now we are in 2021 many of those 100 are religious and choose not to vax. So finally 1 cousin got it second time Delta version and she is dead.
So yeah it is real and it kills. When my wife was in the hospital in New Jersey in Jan 2020 the hospital had 210 of 280 beds with flu-like pneumonia . Nurse were coughing and told us they never saw this many people in for lung /flu issues.
My wife could not clear her fever from Jan 1 to March 10 2020 it would reoccur and she had a heartbeat of 110-120 vs 75. Found a cowboy doctor she gave my wife Valtrex an antiviral for shingles boom fever gone and never came back.
The best death rate in USA is in Vermont. A very gay state with a lot of people with aids. They take an anti viral .
So why don't we here more about antiviral treatment. Vs vaccines.
Top two states are the 2 gayest states and take the most aids meds and they have best death rate.
651 per million Vermont
719 per million Hawaii
So why isn't making anti viral a top priority vs vaxxing?
chart was pull from link I choose list by death rate.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/1 Vermont 48,120 406 39,420 8,294 77,117____
651 ---- 2,524,389 4,045,567 623,989 [1] [projections]
2 Hawaii 87,514 1,018 N/A N/A.... 61,809_____
719----- 2,715,043 1,917,577 1,415,872 [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [projections]
3 Maine 118,489 1,303 N/A N/A 88,148 969 3,798,791 2,826,036 1,344,212 [1] [2] [projections]
4 Utah 592,130 3,487 556,649 31,994 184,697 1,088 7,195,916 2,244,545 3,205,958 [1] [2] [3] [projections]
5 Alaska 144,073 840 106,848 36,385 196,943 1,148 3,502,446 4,787,738 731,545 [1] [projections]
6 Oregon 387,485 5,116 338,607 43,762 91,870 1,213 7,999,746 1,896,692 4,217,737 [1] [2] [3] [projections]
7 Washington 771,525 9,261 326,725 435,539 101,318 1,216 9,842,443 1,292,525 7,614,893 [view by county] [1] [projections]
8 New Hampshire 155,711 1,683 145,980 8,048 114,518 1,238 3,475,788 2,556,270 1,359,711 [1] [2] [3] [projections]
9 Nebraska 305,358 3,132 N/A N/A 157,856 1,619 4,145,406 2,142,984 1,934,408 [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [projections]
10 Colorado 821,859 9,391 604,071 208,397 142,715 1,631 13,021,596 2,261,190 5,758,736 [1] [2] [projections]
11 Minnesota 885,156 9,462 851,607 24,087 156,953 1,678 14,719,856 2,610,074 5,639,632 [1] [2] [3] [projections]
12 District Of Columbia 66,510 1,196 N/A N/A 94,240 1,695 2,378,887 3,370,727 705,749 [1] [2]