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Re:I Got a 'Mild' Breakthrough Case by systemvoltage on Sunday September 12, 2021 @03:36PM (#28504155)
NPR article honestly just sounds like fear-mongering. I am fine with showing how worse it can get, but nothing in the NPR article talks about the likelyhood of getting a bad case of COVID after vaccination. Objectively informing the public, it is not.
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Re:I Got a 'Mild' Breakthrough Case by clairity on Sunday September 12, 2021 @04:02PM (#28504374)
> "NPR article honestly just sounds like fear-mongering."

that's nearly all of npr (and nyt) now, especially the covid-related news that's 50+% of npr stories. i can no longer stomach more than their 10-minute hourly news summary on the radio these days.

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Re:I Got a 'Mild' Breakthrough Case by dimator on Sunday September 12, 2021 @03:56PM (#28504340)
The section "How high are my chances of getting a breakthrough case these days?" goes into that. If you're looking for a hard number, I don't think anyone can give you that because it's highly community specific.

I have no idea how you got fear-mongering from that article, though. My impress was that it's a reality check on what the vaccine is capable of and what one individual's breakthrough looks like.

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Re:I Got a 'Mild' Breakthrough Case by dehrmann on Sunday September 12, 2021 @05:29PM (#28505175)
> I have no idea how you got fear-mongering from that article

This is a single first-hand account, was subject to publication bias, and a relatively bad breakthrough case.

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Re:I Got a 'Mild' Breakthrough Case by systemvoltage on Sunday September 12, 2021 @08:47PM (#28506651)
> how you got fear-mongering from that article

Title of the article: "I got 'Mild' Breakthrough Case".

By definition, it is not a mild case. Any reasonable definition of mildness would not include the terms "My eyeballs ache" and "103 degree fever".

The article implies that even the mild case of COVID has horrifying symptomps which it goes into great detail to painfully exemplify. This is misleading. Absolutely despicable journalism, if you ask me.

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Re:I Got a 'Mild' Breakthrough Case by mrgreenfur on Sunday September 12, 2021 @10:04PM (#28507111)
It didn't imply, it defined the term 'mild' as hospitalization or use of oxygen. What are you mad about? The point was to give an anecdote to keep people aware of what a breakthrough is like.
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