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What Happened to Brannon Spector?
Aug 17, 2021, 3:41 AM
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Has he fallen off the face of the earth?
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Re: What Happened to Brannon Spector?
Aug 17, 2021, 7:10 AM
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I thought he was injured and/or still dealing with Covid since getting the virus earlier this spring. Pretty sure he was not expected to participate in fall camp.
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Re: What Happened to Brannon Spector?
Aug 17, 2021, 3:16 PM
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@txpullen He had Covid and is still recovering. Hasn't practiced at all
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Re: What Happened to Brannon Spector?
Aug 17, 2021, 8:03 PM
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A sombering reminder that there’s no full proof way to predict who some of the 1% with Covid complications is going to be. Young athlete with access to a state of the art nutrition program getting long Covid. Why role the dice? Even the worst side effects of the vaccines are manageable. Hence, our entire family got the Pfizer shot when we became eligible. Everyone has their view but that’s risk/benefit calculus we weighed for our situation.
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Death is manageable?
Aug 17, 2021, 8:36 PM
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Also, they keep moving the goalposts on the definition of long Covid. It was people that felt really bad and had serious ongoing issues. Now simply having any symptoms even a mild cough is being called long Covid.
Not trying to minimize or trivialize what he’s dealing with, just stating the facts.
And based on the data young people do not need the vaccine and have little to nothing to be scared of from Covid. More young people die from drug addiction, suicide, car accidents, etc. than Covid.
And contrary to what people think there are more side effects to the vaccine than people know because the stories are being buried.
Again, it’s ridiculous that people are so obsessed with Covid and who does or does not get vaccinated. I have no problem with someone wearing a mask or getting a vaccine if that is what they want to do. My problem is mandating these things. Especially for young people. Covid is simply not nearly as dangerous as other pandemics and we are being brainwashed and fear mongered and we need to let people make their own choices and decisions! Because life is risk and most people have far more to be concerned with than Covid.
FYI roughly 650,000 people in America have died out of a population of 328.5 million which is a death rate of .0019%.
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Re: Death is manageable?
Aug 17, 2021, 9:54 PM
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Your desth rate calc is flawed. Infection death rate is based on deaths as a fraction of those that have been infected. No idea how many have been infected so far, but it’s not 328 million.
Not going to argue your points, just need to call out what’s not correct. Granted the infection desth rate is very very small for our country. Earlier estimates based on antibody studies of blood donations put it at something around 0.3%. It’s probably migrating to smaller number as hospitals get better at treating patients.
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I agree and disagree with you
Aug 18, 2021, 12:32 AM
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I agree that I absolutely do NOT believe in mask or especially vaccine mandates, especially since it's not FDA approved. And I do have questions of how well the vaccine actually works. I don't believe it stops the spread, but I do believe it calms the symptoms to a certain degree. But it should be up to the individual weather or not to receive it.
However, 0.2% of our total American population has died from COVID-19. That's actually a lot. I personally know people who have died from it. Also, out of the 98-99% of the people who get Covid and live, about 8% of those will live with life long complications. Wanna live the rest of your life with a trach? You can....and still be counted in that 99% of those that live. So what I'm saying is we should value individual choices, but let still take this matter seriously.
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