"If you trust me, you’ll get the vaccine," Morgan Freeman

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Our normal has never been conducive to our community so there’s no conflation there. Public health has always neglected black people systemically. So this whole “we don’t understand why there’s such reluctance?” Is beyond insulting.
Normal is much better than what you have now. Seems to me like that would be a level we'd want to get to before addressing larger issues. I don't see how you can have one without the other.
 

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So you’re going to juelz my question? When have white celebrities directly addressed their fellow CACs and URGED them to stop flouting social distancing and wearing masks? I’ll try again.


There was a whole hashtag for it with #WearADamnMask

Here's a link I googled

Celebrities Take on the #WearADamnMask Challenge on Instagram

You can scroll down to whatever white celebrity you want. I'm sure there are more but I'm a little behind on my access Hollywood and TMZ news

:beli:
 

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You talking to a person that essentially thinks they can probably fall between the cracks. I might not get it and if I do get it then it probably won't be bad.

On one hand we have an unknown that has actual evidence it can lead to a really bad outcome in COVID. On the other hand we have an unknown, the vaccine, with actual evidence in the short term it can mostly prevent a really bad outcome but the long term effects aren't known. There's no reason to believe that long term there will be issues but you still don't know.

How anybody can look at the possible effects of the vaccine and the possible effects of COVID and say I'll take my chances on COVID is beyond me. Really it's probably because they aren't actively making that decision it's just the defacto choice they make through their actions. Kinda like when a man fukks a woman and he didn't actively decide he was ready to be a father but 9 months later he's a dad anyway.
Not only that, but the COVID that will remain around will probably be more virulent and dangerous than what we have now. Why you would want to duck and dodge a potentially deadly virus for the rest of your life or even the next few years doesn't make much sense.
 

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I know. Here's the thing. If many people recover from Covid-19 and aren't at high risk of getting it. Most young people won't need the 'vaccine'.


And now you are putting vaccine in quotes :heh:.
 

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I know. Here's the thing. If many people recover from Covid-19 and aren't at high risk of getting it. Most young people won't need the 'vaccine'.
Yes, they will because the virus is constantly mutating and will continue to increase in virulence and possibly ill effect as its passed back and forth between unvaccinated people.
 

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The amount of Covid-19 cases in the USA = ~30.8 million
The amount of deaths from Covid-19 = ~555K

That makes the death rate around 1.8%.
We know that Covid-19 mainly kills those 60+.

In other words, if you're young and healthy, the chances of dying from Covid are incredibly slim.


This is a dumb hot take. This is the case with lockdowns and mask wearing in effect. Theres 331 million people in the US. By your logic, if everyone caught covid, over 5 million people would die. Thats alot. If it wasnt for social distancing and lockdowns then the numbers would be greater.

But this isnt about numbers. Its about how dangerously it spreads and hits people different. Thats why the vaccine is important to prevent this
 

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We don't know that. Viruses evolve but not all become deadlier strains.
We know that's not the case with Covid. The newer strains spread more easily and some are more deadly. You can vaccinate people to slow down that threat, or you can continue letting it do its thing spreading across the world continually evolving. Doing the latter seems stupid and irresponsible if you have an alternative not to.
 

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Yet again, most people that get covid-19, recover from it.
That's true for almost every disease. I've never heard anyone say, "I don't care about catching malaria, most people recover from it" or "I don't think Dengue Fever is a big deal, most people recover from it".

FYI - fatality rate from dengue fever is less than 1%. Fatality rate from malaria is about 0.1%. And those are considered brutal, dangerous diseases that have extreme negative effects on entire populations.

The life expectancy of Black men in the USA dropped three years in 2020. That's fukking insane. How some of y'all want to talk like that's no big deal is senseless.

https://www.thecoli.com/threads/lif...ican-males-dropped-by-3-years-in-2020.832676/
 

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Not only that, but the COVID that will remain around will probably be more virulent and dangerous than what we have now. Why you would want to duck and dodge a potentially deadly virus for the rest of your life or even the next few years doesn't make much sense.
Maybe they hope we reach herd immunity and they don't have to get it. They'll still be at much higher risk to catch it than the vaccinated.
 
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