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Re:New Covid variant BA.2 detected in at least 40 different ... by efnx on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:40PM (#30076001)
Contracting the virus isn’t a safe way to gain immunity.
Re:New Covid variant BA.2 detected in at least 40 different ... by throwaway09223 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:46PM (#30076096)
For healthy, already vaccinated people it's reasonably safe to contract omicron. I haven't gotten omicron (I don't think) but it's not at all something I would worry about at this point.

Concern is still warranted for high risk groups. It's important to vaccinate to reduce symptoms. It is safe for most people to contract omicron.

Re:New Covid variant BA.2 detected in at least 40 different ... by zamalek on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @02:01PM (#30076357)
Modern medicine weights the benefit of a treatment against its side effects. Chemotherapy, as one example, absolutely ravages a person but the alternative (ongoing cancer) is significantly worse: that is why chemotherapy is a recommended treatment for cancer. The current consensus is that we shouldn't be intentionally infecting ourselves with COVID as an inoculation. The side effects of this treatment aren't well understood and we have evidence that they can be pretty bad (long COVID).

Remember that we are currently only counting deaths. You should continue to do everything in your power to avoid catching COVID... and vaccinate, obviously.

Re:New Covid variant BA.2 detected in at least 40 different ... by PathOfEclipse on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @02:21PM (#30076647)
The death counts aren't even accurate: https://www.dailywire.com/news/jordan-peterson-absolutely-no.... And the evidence that long COVID is generally bad is lacking as well.

The virus has no doubt been bad for many groups of people, but when the leading cause of death in the U.S. for adults 45 and under is drug overdose from a single drug, fentanyl, and when the excess deaths over the pandemic from suicides far outstrips COVID deaths for teenagers, it's time to pause and reconsider health from a more holistic perspective. COVID kills the elderly and those with a few other comorbidities like obesity and diabetes, but, for many, the risk factor is too low to justify the outrage people have over the unvaccinated, as much as it is the fault of the media and the established government for stoking this outrage.

Re:New Covid variant BA.2 detected in at least 40 different ... by zamalek on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @06:20PM (#30079553)
The outrage over the vaccinated is equally as high, case in point: I was talking about intentionally catching it.
Re:New Covid variant BA.2 detected in at least 40 different ... by Vivtek on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:55PM (#30076252)
So safe, in fact, that more people are dying in Puerto Rico this week, due to the omicron spike, than at any earlier point in the pandemic.
Re:New Covid variant BA.2 detected in at least 40 different ... by ifyoubuildit on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @02:46PM (#30077016)
How many people out there do you think are making that decision?

In order for them to do so, they would have had to avoid being vaccinated and getting infected this whole time. There just aren't that many of these people left at this point.

There are however millions upon millions of people who have already gone through the ordeal of an infection and are tired of being harassed, badgered, shamed, attacked, etc, even after the talking heads are finally admitting that these people are not the plague rats they led everyone to believe they are.

Re:New Covid variant BA.2 detected in at least 40 different ... by xiphias2 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:59PM (#30076326)
Why not? I'm triple vaccinated with Pfizer, and I was seriously considering getting infected. I still don't see any data on hospitalization rate between getting infected with delta vs omicron variant for triple vaccinated people. At the same time getting infected with a variant would prepare my body for newer mutations.
Re:New Covid variant BA.2 detected in at least 40 different ... by rllearneratwork on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @01:44PM (#30076058)
depends on the age group, co-morbidities, and virus variant. Isn't it?