meiso -10 points 2y ago
Actually, by far, most people have zero comorbidities with respect to how they're defined for covid. I'm not sure where you're pulling that data from, but it's dead wrong. With respect to your partner, even being overweight (is she classified as obese? if so, she's not healthy), if she kept her vitamin D levels over 40 ng/mL and supplemented with zinc every day, it would have helped significantly with her symptoms and likely kept her out of the hospital--again I'm speaking on average, but supported by a tremendous body of data that grows each day as more independent, peer-reviewed sources. Additionally, if she was treated with ivermectin (which is essentially being used all over the world in a nearly 100%-effective treatment protocol, except in the US and a few other countries), she absolutely would have been out of the hospital sooner and would have gone through less of a "hell." my father had covid too, but I got him on an appropriate treatment protocol fast, and he was fine in less than 72 hours, no further symptoms, no "long-covid" (which, btw, is completely anecdotal, unsubstantiated-in-the-literature nonsense). the point is, there are treatment avenues in between "vaccine or horror show".
you're right, neither you or i get to make the call about what other people do, but we do for sure get to make the call for what we do ourselves. and i absolutely reserve the right to attempt to educate people when they are being continually bombarded by damaging, misleading information through the media, public health officials, and other government officials (e.g. that masks work--in fact, letting people believe this is actually quite harmful, since people with masks on are less likely to physical distance, and likely drove much of the spread). If you and your partner truly believed she was at risk, she should have stayed home and isolated until she felt the risk was no more. Masks do not work in the least to stop this disease, and even if they did, if you feel she is at such risk, would you really trust that wearing masks and social distancing would always be adhered to by everyone around your partner? is it really worth taking that chance just to go out on the town, or even work a job? if you believe this virus is that dangerous for "high risk" people, is it worth their lives? do you truly believe that masks are bullet-proof enough to fully eliminate that risk? If so, I'd really rethink your logic.
lastly, to try to put you at ease (and this is again being supported by a growing body of evidence in the literature), T-cell immunity from being infected with covid is likely to last years, if not a lifetime, and it is showing robust defense against all of the variants we are seeing, much better than any of the current "vaccines" being peddled. so your partner, or anyone else that has contracted covid, should feel completely safe, comorbidity or not.