As the government puts every small business out of work permanently from the lockdowns for the totally deadly virus, all the social media sites are promoting black-owned businesses. That means this whole thing is just a way to make a higher percentage of businesses black-owned, by putting all the white ones out of business while keeping the black ones opened through social media propping them up. It's a redistribution of wealth based on race. Am I wrong?
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Also joining those defending u/BasedMedicalDoctor.
Many don't know this but here there are a lot of pro-Trump people among those working on Astra-Zeneca vaccine and trials. I see it first hand. It's just regular people with families who want to beat this asshole virus and the blood clotting and organ damage it incurs. It's easy to focus on numbers, it's much harder when you see someone's father, with many years of life still in them, struggling to breathe on oxygen while they tell their kids bedtime stories through facetime. All because the immune system reaction the virus produces is too strong, and it attacks your own body.
Vaccines are good. Medicines are good. New treatments are always feared at first, but as a society we learn and adjust and progress. Every medicine has side effects in a small segment of people, but the good they do far outweigh the bad.
All we're trying to do with the vaccine is help the body adjust to a smaller, inactivated version of the virus, so it can produce antibodies without destroying you in the process. Then, if you do catch COVID, your body can fight it without overreacting and turning on itself.
No problem. I see it a lot here, people think COVID is like most illnesses where being fit, healthy, strong, etc. will save you. In actuality, having a strong immune response is the exact opposite of what you want with COVID, because THAT'S when people die. I don't think a lot of people know that it's the immune system reaction this particular virus triggers that kills you, or produces strokes which leaves you disabled for life, and not the virus itself.
The main reason why the elderly die and younger people survive is that the function of the organs is higher in the young - so they can withstand the hit from COVID and have some left over to make it through. Many elderly people don't. But people don't understand that the damage is across ALL ages - and we have young, fit, athletic skiers with mild or asymptomatic COVID display heart damage in scans akin to a heart attack or progressive heart failure.
People think COVID is just a cold, one and done. They are unaware of the damage it leaves behind even inside of them even with a mild or asymptomatic case. THIS is why the vaccine is needed. So that the immune system reaction can be CONTROLLED through medication instead of severe and unchecked.
This is a virus that enters via the fucking endothelium. You DON'T want endothelium damage even if you only get the sniffles because that's your organ linings.