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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
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- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Every pre-COVID representation of global pandemic: scientists discover a vaccine, everyone vaccinates and lives happily ever after
Real pandemic: people chicken out, start obsessing over 1 in 10000 side effects (vs, you know, a 1 in 50 chance to die of COVID-19 at the time) and then forever tell the story of "it's not tested enough yet".
You know what also constantly changes and cannot be tested for decades? Every. Single. Virus. Your flu vaccine is also not tested for side effects forever, because the virus changes all the time.
Before rolling COVID vaccines out, we were very damn sure they work and won't wreak havoc on you. But as people suddenly decided to go anti-vax, government had to get more assertive, for any vaccine works best when most people are vaccinated. You could normally self-isolate and not take vaccines, though, so it's up to you, the government's concern is that you don't spread this thing further, straining medical system that was already under a heavy load.
Disclaimer: not a medical professional. Had four COVID-19 vaccines though, including Sputnik-V, the very first one.
Never had a flu vaccine. Theyre pointless to me.
I dont believe the 1 in 50 death rate of covid. There's no way that is true or we would all be dead.
Also the covid vaccine isnt 1 and done. People go in to get boosters multiple times a year. And they still get covid.
I had to get the jab myself, made me feel awful, still feeling heart arrhythmia from it, still got covid anyways.
Now if I was old or sickly, sure id say get it. But I rarely get sick ever.
On the death rate: in some countries, mortality rate went as high as 5%. To be fair, though, this only takes confirmed cases into account, leaving behind those who never reported a case, mostly because it went milder.
https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid
On a personal note, my mother lost two colleagues to it, and I lost an acquaintance. All confirmed COVID deaths.
I did get COVID-19 once. It went easy though, and I rapidly recovered after a mild fatigue and headache without long-term consequences. Some of the people I know had long-term effects, like warped smell, chronic fatigie, etc. One got it before vaccines rolled out, and two decided not to vaccinate. None of the vaccinated folks I know had something of this magnitude.
Vaccine is not a protection from infection. It's a pre-training program for an immune system to quickly beat the hell out of the disease before it gets nasty (and spreads violently).
Sad you got side effects, and I understand how it changes your perception on the matter. Personally, my only bad experience is having weakness in the arm for the first two days after the very first vaccine dose. In any case, I hope it will pass rather soon!