Meme Thread... no politics

In reply to mtn :

My mom is vaccinated and was very sick for about 2 weeks, about 5  days strait of 102+ fever, blood in urine, diarrhea, nausea, but because the test were coming out negative they sent her back home told her to hydrate and take Tylenol. On day 6 after repeatedly going back to dr test finally showed positive and they decided to treat her. 
My brothers family in Houston knows a lot of people in medical community. A lot of similar stories among there vaccinated friends. 
Im not saying don't get the shot, do what you feel is best. Past month in my circle of friends/family I'm hearing more of these break through cases then I am of the unvaccinated. 
Biggest outlier here is take care of yourself. Eat right, hydrate and take your vitamins 

In reply to Subscriber-unavailabile :

In reply to Subscriber-unavailabile :

I'm glad your mother is vaccinated, otherwise it sounds like she would be dead. 

In reply to mtn :

This right here.  The vaccine manufacturers never, ever promised 100% prevention of getting the virus; in fact, the 95-98% "efficacy" that was quoted following trials and EUA for the mRNA vaccines (in dealing with the original strain) was for prevention of severe cases (i.e., hospitalizations and deaths), not infection. The companies also said from the beginning that efficacy could wane over time (hence the need for boosters that has recently been advised).  Now the delta variant, coupled with time elapsed, will inevitably lead to an increase in cases among the fully vaccinated.  Yet the data continues to show, overwhelmingly and unequivocally, that being unvaccinated is the wrong choice due to comprising the vast majority of hospitalizations and deaths.  Your mom appears to be one of the relative few that suffered breakthrough and hospitalization, and I hope she makes a full recovery. 
 

Obligatory meme:

Beer Baron said:

In reply to Subscriber-unavailabile :

Is this a chart of where planes were getting hit?

(They realized that they needed to focus on armoring the areas where planes were not coming back with hits... because planes that were getting hit there weren't coming back)

ProDarwin said:

mtn said:

I shudder to think what our insurance will cost next year. 

Higher I'm sure, but many insurers are no longer covering unvaccinated patients.

 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.forbes.com/sites/roberthart/2021/08/19/the-cost-of-being-unvaccinated-just-went-up---most-insurers-are-passing-costs-back-to-patients-as-covid-hospitalizations-soar/amp/

I've been hearing anecdotal stories that if you aren't vaccinated you aren't getting treated at certain places.  Non-anecdotal stories of certain doctors moving people to the back of the treatment line if they haven't been vaccinated.

In reply to mtn :

Possibly, what upsets me the most is the doctors at the clinic and hospital didn't give her any treatments because of negative test. I'm no doctor if someone came into hospital running fever that long and can't hardly eat they'd at least give you an IV and some antibiotics

In reply to Pete. (l33t FS) :

Exactly.

Brass wanted to armor places where "the bombers keep getting shot". Abraham Wald realized what was *really* going on.

The dead don't get to tell their stories.

Subscriber-unavailabile said:

In reply to mtn :

Possibly, what upsets me the most is the doctors at the clinic and hospital didn't give her any treatments because of negative test. I'm no doctor if someone came into hospital running fever that long and can't hardly eat they'd at least give you an IV and some antibiotics

Next time, just say "Chest pains."

Pete. (l33t FS) said:

Beer Baron said:

In reply to Subscriber-unavailabile :

Is this a chart of where planes were getting hit?

 

(They realized that they needed to focus on armoring the areas where planes were not coming back with hits... because planes that were getting hit there weren't coming back)

You're exactly correct.

The image is called a measles diagram and is a composite of many individual planes damage combined.

The original thinking was to add armor where the bullet holes were but a statistician explained the principle of survivor bias (As Beer Barron mentioned) where there are few bullet holes around the cockpit and engine areas because those aircraft are less likely to return and contribute to the measles diagram.  

In reply to Beer Baron :

Oh she had them severely. After she finally tested positive they did x rays and discovered fluid spots in her lungs. Again though I stress take care of yourself. I love my mom but she's never been best about taking care of herself. Eating horribly and smoking for 40 years. I've been exposed to probably 15 people at this point. Only thing I can contribute to not catching this is my life choices to be healthy. 

Subscriber-unavailabile said:

In reply to mtn :

Possibly, what upsets me the most is the doctors at the clinic and hospital didn't give her any treatments because of negative test. I'm no doctor if someone came into hospital running fever that long and can't hardly eat they'd at least give you an IV and some antibiotics

Ask her primary care doc? The hospitals probably don't have the capacity, based on what I've been hearing. Triage care isn't fun. 
 

You guys sure know how to wreck a lighthearted, fun thread.

Now get off my lawn!