We're All Going to Die

[scotchandcigar]

Today marks 5 years since everything shut down. Feel free to reflect on this thread and laugh, or cry, or roll your eyes.

I found it interesting to skim through the first few pages, and see the transition from sarcasm and mockery, to everything getting closed-down and canceled. Good times.

 

[Channel98]

According to the CDC, COVID has killed more than 1,222,600 people in the United States. The states with the highest number of deaths are California, Texas and Florida. In 2025, COVID is killing around 280 people per day – but now the virus is said to be "manageable." Yeah, tell that to the families of all the deceased!

COVID-19 in 2025: 'A Constant Threat, but a Manageable One'

As we enter the sixth year of life with COVID-19, SPH faculty members Davidson Hamer, Laura White, Jonathan Levy, Patricia Fabian, Brooke Nichols, Matt Motta, Timothy Callaghan, and Jennifer Weuve discuss how they expect the virus to evolve, and how we can apply lessons learned to mitigate...

www.bu.edu

 

[JHDK]

According to the CDC, COVID has killed more than 1,222,600 people in the United States. The states with the highest number of deaths are California, Texas and Florida. In 2025, COVID is killing around 280 people per day – but now the virus is said to be "manageable." Yeah, tell that to the families of all the deceased!

COVID-19 in 2025: 'A Constant Threat, but a Manageable One'

As we enter the sixth year of life with COVID-19, SPH faculty members Davidson Hamer, Laura White, Jonathan Levy, Patricia Fabian, Brooke Nichols, Matt Motta, Timothy Callaghan, and Jennifer Weuve discuss how they expect the virus to evolve, and how we can apply lessons learned to mitigate...

www.bu.edu

That works out to be about 0.36% of the population.

Also it's not factoring in people who would have probably died of the flu or shingles or whatever else because they were already halfway out the door.

And I'm not trying to minimize the number 1.2 million fucking sucks but it's not like a freaking biblical plague of Egypt where 10%+ of the population was wiped out.

 

[HecticArt]

The rub of it all is, is that the crazy (extreme if you like that description) measures actually worked like they were supposed to.
They helped the hospitals from getting completely overloaded, bought enough time for both vaccines to be developed, and for enough people to get sick (at a slower rate) to reach that herd immunity thing. It sucked, people are still getting sick, and some are still dying, bu manageable is about right.

 

[Aaron]

I had actually scheduled a day off from work on the Thursday of the week it hit, was going to drive to Baton Rouge and visit my alma mater LSU for the first time in years.

Then came the Tuesday or Wednesday that the severity of everything hit and that trip got canceled in a hurry.

NBA games basically stopped playing, Tom Hanks mentioned he had it, and it’s like damn the world’s about to change. And boy did it.

5 years later I’m still working hybrid remote schedule, for that l’ll always be glad at least something good came out of it.

 

[JHDK]

Go back and look at my posts in the beginning of this thread like from the end of February 2020.... I thought it was all bullshit like the bird flu.

Boy was I wrong.

And as far as what you were saying, hectic the hospitals were fucking overwhelmed. Even with all of those precautions in the beginning, we were all scared as shit and rightfully so. Of course we're going to take those precautions in the beginning, but then eventually it's like...what are you going to do? Stay in your house forever? You got to make a bit of a risk assessment type thing to keep on going with life.

 

[Aaron]

I’ve never had Covid, at least to my knowledge. Anyone else?

 

[scotchandcigar]

I got it after my first booster; my symptoms were really mild. Mrs. Scotch put-off the booster, and got it pretty bad a few months later.

I have to say that the whole thing would've gone much better if people just got the vaccine and stayed the fuck away from each other when it was still deadly. Once people started getting vaxxed, the only people dying were the unvaxxed. I lost my best friend from middle school because of his "beliefs".

 

[Jon]

I’ve never had Covid, at least to my knowledge. Anyone else?

I’ve had it but it wasn’t until a couple years later. My ass was DRAGGING for about a week until my doctor prescribed Paxlovid which is a miracle drug!

 

[JHDK]

doctor prescribed Paxlovid

It was covid?

And you paxlovid?

 

[HecticArt]

I think that it probably would have gone along better if more people overreacted and played it safer than they stubbornly did.

It says it in the thread somewhere, but I got it twice. The first time might have been just before I was supposed to get the booster, and it wasn't very bad at all.
The 2nd time was (I think between booster 1 & 2 and it SUCKED! Not bad enough to go to the hospital, but I was down hard for a few days, and once I was back on my feet, I still had a cough for more than a month.

I'm still convinced that the vaccines did what they were supposed to do and kept a ton of us out of the hospital and alive.

 

[JHDK]

SUCKED! Not bad enough to go to the hospital, but I was down hard

Oh shit the booster got you? I got the shot and at least one booster. Maybe two I forget. I know for a fact I got one booster. I've never had a needle that made me sick like a needle in the arm. I know sometimes people get sick from the flu shot that's never happened to me.

I'm still convinced that the vaccines did what they were supposed to do and kept a ton of us out of the hospital and alive.

Yeah, you're absolutely right. I mean even if the covid shot was sold as you're going to get the flu for a week but then you will won't get covid. I would still have been in line to get it.

I mean my whole thoughts about forcing people to get it or what not, that's a different story but I disagree with anybody who doesn't want to get it voluntarily.

But of course it helped and of course it wasn't designed to like fuck us up. It was designed to help us. It was designed to end the fucking worst plague we had ever seen since what the Spanish flu. Maybe I'm wrong. Maybe there was something after that. I don't know, but I think it was the worst since the Spanish flu that happened in the progressive era around the end of the 19 teens..... Once again my facts could be wrong here. I'm not looking this up but I'm pretty sure I'm right about it.

 

[HecticArt]

I didn't get it from the booster.
If I'm remembering right, I was later to schedule the booster that I planned, and them I got it.

I think I have 2 of the 3 boosters. I still think I should get it.

I got the flu shot this year like every year. (I think it was last November.)
This was the first time in prolly 15 or 16 years that I've gotten the flu.

 

[Jon]

I get my flu and Covid shots in October every year, this year I turn 50 so I'll have to get shingles and pneumococcal vaccines also, that'll happen for my yearly physical in April.

 

[JHDK]

The first time might have been just before I was supposed to get the booster, and it wasn't very bad at all.
The 2nd time was (I think between booster 1 & 2 and it SUCKED! Not bad enough to go to the hospital, but I was down hard for a few days,

I didn't get it from the booster.

So you got covid twice in between getting the shots?

I'm not some weird conspiracy guy. I don't know we could talk about the Sphinx and how it has erosion marks on it even though there has been no water or serious rainfall at all in that part of Egypt since the end of the ice age..... But that's like the only conspiracy I'll get into with you.

Anyway, the shot might have made you sick. That's not a crazy thing to say. A lot of people were down for a few days after the shot. But it was still worth getting the shot. You're saying you got it twice in between getting the shots. That's weird.

 

[HecticArt]

I either waited too long between shots, or I just got a strong enough exposure to it that I was going to get sick no matter what. They said that the vaccines weren’t guaranteed to keep people from getting it, just to help keep them from getting critically ill and passing it around to large numbers of other people. It seems to have accomplished that if nothing else.

 

[scotchandcigar]

So you got covid twice in between getting the shots?

Anyway, the shot might have made you sick.

If he gets the booster once a year, then "in-between boosters" is any time within 12 months. How is that getting sick from the booster?

 

[JHDK]

Oh okay, I didn't think of it like that. I figured he was talking about like the first boosters after the first shot. I'm pretty sure I got my first booster like a month or two after my first shot. It was pretty soon after.

 

[HecticArt]

I had the first 2 main shots, and then 2 of the 3 boosters that were available.

They were pretty clear that getting the shots wasn't a guarantee that you wouldn't still be able to get the Vid, but the odds of dying or ending up in a hospital on a ventilator would be much much less.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I got it in January 2021. Before vaccines were available at least in Canada. I am pretty sure I had it again last week. But there are no more tests and no real point testing. It was a bad cold but with aches, fatigue and nothing tasted right. But pretty much over it. My last covid booster was fall of 2023. I didn't get one with my flu shot this year. Decided I didn't want to deal with the 1 day of feeling bad I always get when I get one.