Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "Hear what unvaccinated Covid patients told Don Lemon" video.

@MarkMphonoman Do you feel sorry for the vaccinated people who are hospitalized?
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@kellyfowler6426 Did you actually believe most unvaccinated people are nuts? Has the media convinced you of that?
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@Time4me2change Honestly, hating on someone in the hospital!
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Does anyone wonder exactly how reporters and camera crews get into patients' rooms? What sorts of consent are needed? We still have HIPPA. Is there an incentive offered to waive all privacy protections?
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@bmell1252 I know a woman who has decided to decline the vaccine, and has volunteered for a COVID monoclonal antibody study which starts September 3. She is not being unfair to you. EDIT: She herself has been a cancer patient. I forgot about that.
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@Roller_Ghoster Of course my statement makes sense. Look at what OTHER countries are doing. I heard an interview with Dr. Eric Topol, one of the most pro-vaccine, activist doctors around, and HE called the US approach overly "vaccine-centric." I learned from him that Germans and Dutch just go to their pharmacies and pick up home COVID testing kits, for free, and that they have tracing protocols. I like Dr. Topol, he's clearly really smart and an honest guy. He might be right, he might be wrong, but he sure isn't lying. Look, a lot of other countries are doing better -- or lying. Don't you want to know what's going on with this? Look at the numbers in other parts of the world. Many places with lower vaccination rates have less disease, and many places with high vaccination rates have a lot of breakthrough infections. This is no time for more dumb politics.
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@iClone316 Read the EUA vaccination release form, slowly, then tell me whether a healthy person under 30 is clearly wrong in wanting to see full FDA approval first, AND getting tested weekly in the meantime, etc. If I had a teenager, it's what I'd probably suggest to them.
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Now that one vaccine is FDA approved, certainly reevaluate and be willing to take it.
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What is the source of this?
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@bmell1252 Wow, just wow.
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@bmell1252 Keep reminding me why I'm emigrating. Deadline, 2025. Decided in 2019, proud to say. Still, I was surprised by the hate. Now I know to expect no better.
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@kellyfowler6426 Me, too. Also getting tested regularly, now that community penetration of delta is at about a 6% positivity rate.
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@adolfolerito6744 I also agree that it's likely that the people having severe reactions to the vaccine would probably have had the same reaction to COVID, if they caught it -- the same or worse. I think you are right about that, and I think that's why doctors have downplayed the vaccine issues. I have NEVER seen a vaccine like this one pushed on people before. No other vaccine causes this much reactivity. People who've had COVID and recovered are having the worst reactions, to both shots. This vaccine is no joke, either.
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@Roller_Ghoster No one but American politicians are asserting that not getting vaccinated is putting others at risk. I looked at what other countries' ministries of health had to say on the issue, so I know what I'm talking about. At this point, vaccination is giving too many people a false sense of security, giving them permission not to wear masks, etc.
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@aymanzaky3432 They must have signed elaborate release forms. Was that incentivized in some way?
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@jebus9303 Yes. That's why I stated "waiver." A person can waive Fourth Amendment protection if they wish, or Fifth Amendment rights, or their right to a trial. So of course they can waive HIPPA (and no, their NOK cannot do it, if they themselves are awake, oriented, and able to speak to the journalist). My question is then, was waiver incentivized? How? Not hard to grasp.
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@lazypops3117 No. It's all the people who say the unvaccinated deserve to die, good riddance, etc., and all the positive remarks they receive that I call "hate." Disbelief doesn't come close. Who cares about that?
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@christian1834 This is what worries me. I was just telling two of my dearest neighbors that they should never allow the jerks who are pushing vaccination to influence them against it. The propaganda should have ZERO influence on you, either way. Propaganda is not information about anything, except the mentality and character of the propagandist.
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@kellyfowler6426 That's fine. I don't disagree with you. But concerning mitigation, don't you wonder why the US has handled this pandemic worse than just about any other country? Those in positions of responsibility are using the media to turn people against each other and make COVID into yet another blame-the-individual game. That always happens. Haven't you noticed? An unvaccinated person who tests weekly (like most Germans do) and wears a mask is less of a threat to you than someone who got vaccinated and refuses to take precautions. Their vaccine protects them, not you.
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@jip4408 Well what a nice thing to say! Thank you, I will. She won't know whether she'll end up getting a placebo, unless the monoclonal antibodies cause marked side effects. She is a great human being, true.
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@ジェームズ-d8r Not so. EVERYONE has HIPPA rights that they themselves must waive, and be competent to waive. No one can invade anyone's medical privacy for a "public service message."
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@Roller_Ghoster So, if nothing works as well as vaccines, then we should have vaccines or nothing? Even doctors who urge vaccination above all disagree with that obviously illogical and unethical position.
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@adolfolerito6744 I like having the actual information laid out like this. But notice, for example, in my state, 11% of the total population had a confirmed case of COVID that came to the attention of state health authorities. By now, it could be higher, so let's say 12%. (The true number could be much higher, 20 to 30%, but that is not known, and most of those cases were undoubtedly mild.) Of those 12%, under 2% died (roughly 1.85%, but let's go with 2%, which mirrors the US as a whole). So, 0.24% of the people in my state have died of COVID since the very start of the pandemic. This is a huge number; after all, 0.1% of one million is 1000. But that puts a different spin on it. The fact that so many people who had moderate COVID had organ damage and other problems, including major depression, is a better argument to take the risk of vaccination -- if it works. But that's starting to look questionable as well. More and more fully vaccinated ARE contracting moderate COVID. It is only fair to ask: is vaccination giving people a false sense of security? Maybe we better be less "vaccine-centric." Maybe other avenues, like better prevention and treatment, need to be found, in addition to vaccines.
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@margokerby1533 A person has to ask whether they got paid for their stories. I frankly hope so. Giving up such important privacy rights for free is a scary thought.
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@Roller_Ghoster That's not what I questioned. I questioned whether it plays a central role in protecting OTHER people, not the vaccinated person themselves. But go on, why don't you? Now everyone is as illogical as Americans. Don't you teach Bertrand RUSSELL any more?
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@Roller_Ghoster My mask protects you more than me, your mask protects me more than you. With vaccines, it is very much the opposite. And with vaccinated people getting breakthrough infections, they will probably be fine but they are contagious. They may unknowingly spread COVID to someone else, believing they can't because they're vaccinated.
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@Roller_Ghoster Do you get high? Is that it?
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@Roller_Ghoster Your thumbnail is a specimen at any rate. You answered my question on Russell, BTW. 😃 Blocked.
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@miketaylor4993 Yes, Dr. Topol is very pro-vaccine, entirely open about it, yet he was not comfortable with the idea of mandating vaccines, especially those without full FDA approval -- and, obviously, even with full approval, we still need options such as weekly testing. You can't just exclude everyone who declines vaccines from society. I appreciated his take on the risks of an "overly vaccine-centric" approach.
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@bmell1252 BTW, blocked. Blech.
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@lazypops3117 Okay you're right.
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@kellyfowler6426 I asked a question. I assume, now, that your answer is no. Great. Thanks.
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@earvetta Everyone has HIPPA rights. The EUA vaccine release forms all say that if, after reading them, you decline the vaccine, YOUR MEDICAL CARE WILL BE UNAFFECTED.
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@shidfard Never let these people influence you for or against vaccination. Tune them out. They deserve none of your precious time. If you are against taking these vaccines for now, remain ready to change your mind.
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@Plodding Dream Do people really not know that you have a federally protected right to privacy in the hospital? There are pages of permissions, waivers, hold harmless forms that must be signed. Did you think a camera crew can just show up, "in the public interest?" It's not in everyone's interest to be on television like this. They might lose a job, or not get hired, etc. This is not a favorable report!
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@Plodding Dream Okay you're right.
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@Plodding Dream Law offers protections, including privacy protections, for everyone. Supposedly. Well, it used to. Okay. Never mind.
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@oigioioivn How large is large?
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Pfizer just got full FDA approval, but only for 16 and up. Sounds like a good sign, perhaps they refused to bow to pressure. Now parents of kids not yet through puberty (ages 12 to 15) have a solid reason to wait, generally. This is science-based guidance, for a change. Enough with pressuring people to take EUA vaccines.
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