inform him that 1) covid actually has a higher mortality rate than polio 2) viruses, like polio, can have long term side effects i.e. post-polio syndrome and the potential for such from covid is literally unknown, 3) repeated infections from a poorly understood virus that affects literally every organ system (most of the body has ACE2 receptors) is much more “fucking with your immune system” than taking a vaccine is, 4) ask him how he thinks his heart will be doing if repeated covid infections result in clotting throughout the body and the destruction of small blood vessels (like the ones that feed the heart)
on 3) nobody fucking cares. I had the same argument with a friend of my wife, who claimed all of these kids dropping dead from myocarditis and clots after the vaccine but i told her - funny covid causes heart failure AND clots that turns your blood vessels into spaghetti so what the fuck gives. And she was like “buh buh the medical examiner in florida said it was the vaccine”.
Medical examiners in Florida aren’t required to be physicians, medical examiners are only more credible than coroners because coroners could legit just be a former gas station clerk elected because they have a walk in freezer. The entire death examination system in the US is fucking borked
point 3 is the big hitter, it’s insane to me that nobody considers long term side effects of covid in these conversations
I’m pretty sure 99% of people have no idea how viruses/the immune system function at even a basic high school biology level, and I’m pretty sure that includes 99% of actual doctors and nurses at this point based on the attitudes I’ve seen.
I have been to a real, licensed doctor’s office that had a Jesus Guiding the Surgeon print framed in a subwait area. The last hospital I spent time in had Joel Osteen on the waiting area TVs and mostly antimask nurses.
The US medical system is the worst value in the world and it’s getting rapidly worse
The long term effects we already know about are horrifying, and I’m starting to see people on twitter posting studies that say it’s cumulative.
A highly virulent virus that can evade immunity and damage any part of the body with ACE2 receptors is bad and will absolutely accumulate damage. Every time you get infected it’s roll of the dice as to how much damage it does before your immune system can stop it. Hopefully with vaccines and antivirals that damage is insignificant.
