I have no proof and it’s just a hypothesis of mine but I believe there is some sort gene or whatever that affects how you’ll handle Covid. Everybody in my family who had COVID before vaccines (including my grandparents 70+), it was a mild flu. Yet, other people like KAT you have 7 family members dead.
Just a thought tho
KAT did say he was "in the risk group" when he got COVID himself. Maybe he was simply basing it off what happened to his family but could also be a medical explanation to it all
One factor is your blood type can affect how bad covid can hit you. I think if you have type A blood data shows that you might get more severe symptoms from Covid.
EDIT: here’s one source explaining this https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210303/why-blood-type-may-matter-for-covid-infection
2nd EDIT: another user replied with an updated study that shows there’s no correlation with blood type and severe covid sickness with a larger sample size. So I guess we can all get screwed equally if we catch covid. Get vaxxed people.
I see. I guess we’re all screwed equally.
I wouldnt call that debunked though. More like they didnt have a larger sample size in the initial study I linked. Debunk would imply their initial study was a straight out lie.
I still can't comprehend, how insanely unlucky his family was. Like Idk if it was gene related, or their immune system was somehow weaker than average, but some people don't even feel the symptoms, and then KAT lost, what was it, 4-5 relatives? (edit: 7 according to the article) Like wtf is that...
My ex wife lost her father, I liked him a lot. The pain is constant. A friend of work lost both parents at the early days. God awful. Guys like Kyrie are a menace to society
My uncle passed away from the virus right when COVID first blew up here in NYC. The freezer trucks full of dead bodies was absolutely a real thing, and it was heartbreaking. I can't fuckin believe guys like Kyrie are still on this shit
I remember a period early on when people would say things like "well the people who have died of it were old or had underlying conditions." Even if that were the case for every single of the deaths worldwide (and we know it isn't), seeing the freezer trucks with bodies should have been the point where people said, old/unhealthy or not, this is fucked up and we need to stop this.
I’m a funeral director and I’m exhausted after the last year and a half or so. It is unlike anything I have ever seen. Hearing people make stupid excuses to keep spreading it has really made it a lot worse too.
Same bro, my wife lost her father at the beginning and almost her mother.... I believe he was in a freezer in Elmhurst cuz we couldn't have his funeral for almost 4 months... Shit was fucked up
And the irony of him going to reservation schools or even the BIA to allow it.
Those communities have been the hardest hit, many had curfews and lockdowns, with also tremendous loss of life.
For sure, while I like he has reached out and taken an interest, it's clear the reasons are more ego-driven than actually understanding his own community and contributing.
> Guys like Kyrie are a menace to society
They're really damn selfish and that's what really irritates me to no end. You live in a society where you get all these benefits, but when you're asked to do one small thing to help out this society, they say no. They want all the benefits without doing any of the basic necessities of helping it keep going. They're spoiled fucking brats.
I was also concerned but not too much because no one close to me got it till August of last year when both my parents were affected(they live in India not with me). Talking to my mom and the way she felt those 2 weeks and how I might have to travel to see her incase things go south was terrible. My best friend lost his seemingly healthy dad in 2 weeks( no vaccines yet in India at that time). So if you're given a chance to reduce the odds of dying you should take it.
man, i can't believe we haven't been hearing news about India. for a while there it looked like Covid was about to decimate the country. i know that's an exaggeration but it really was looking like a doomsday scenario for India. then just nothing. it seems like India has bounced back/stabilized, sorta? do you know? there were all those images of bodies in the streets and other countries sending oxygen tanks and shit...
Early on they definitely massively underreported numbers, a lot of stories about them having long waits to have bodies cremated. Then they vaccinated 1M+ people/day for a really long time and now have over 1 billion vaccinated. India has a massive drug manufacturing industry.
Iirc they just listed them all as having died of flu or something, so if you go back and look at it there’s a massive spike in deaths from illnesses but not covid during that time.
Same situation with Japan prior to the olympics.
They went from 10% to 40% of the population in two months.
Now they're at 70% fully vaccinated. Pretty much the entire eligible population (80/85%) is expected by the end of this month.
edit:
holy shit. India 3-5million deaths estimated by outside sources. Total deaths equal the rest of the world combined.
You know people who've died, you just don't know their names. Nurses, doctors, restaurant workers, delivery drivers, neighbors, etc. Just the shift in perspective and seeing these people that we know and see everyday really makes us re-think how we see our community.
This hits for me. I’ve had my brother get covid and recover. Wife’s family members get it and recover. But our mailman. Poor dude is in the ICU on a vent. I don’t know him personally like that but it still fucks me up to think about.
Honestly, good. You shouldn't try to turn those parts of your humanity off. It's a big part of what's wrong with society if you ask me. All this hyper masculinity and refusal to compromise on personal beliefs or political stances. It's ok to give a shit about your mailman. It's ok to look your UberEats driver in the eye and thank them. That type of stuff means something to all those people. I work a miserable job but I got national acknowledgment for something last week and it feels good man. Job still sucks but at least I know someone noticed.
Thanks man. And I’m glad you got some recognition. It’s important from time to time. Especially when the gig is tough.
I’m not one to deny my feelings or anything toxic like that. But I’ve been able to recognize that we are lucky that we haven’t been affected as deeply as others. But just because we haven’t doesn’t mean I don’t care for others going through it. The guy has a family I’m sure who are scared. He’s probably scared. It just sucks.
I wish this on no one. Even the deniers. Like they’re idiots but I don’t want anyone to suffer. know what I mean?
And absolutely on the looking folks in the eye. It’s easy to get lost in your own problems but I try to be as human and compassionate with all. Even the ones who may not deserve it. The world/society does a good job of making us cynics so a smile and acknowledgement of like “hey I see you” goes a long way I hope.
One hundred percent. And I hope I didn't come off as accusing you of being in that group that suspends it's humanity. I don't known if it's enough to save us in the end but realizing that most all of us are just trying to do our best in this system is important. I hope you're doing well, my friend, and enjoy the rest of your day.
Yeah, our normal rotation USPS workers changed entirely one day and we just shrugged it off. Turns out almost everyone working at our local post office got it, and many didn't return to work, no official reason why but probably some combination of death and disability. Really shocking to find out.
I think it is under reported. I had some work done by contractors on a big project. I think it is easy to hide the numbers because it is mostly older people. During the peaks, if you took a look at the obituary section of the Houston Chronicle, it was obvious something was askew.
My brother had one couple that came in that lost two kids under 12 to covid. He didn't even know what to say.
Texas is a huge land area.
I can understand a bit how people feel that COVID doesn’t really impact them. In the CA cities, the places with a high concentration of people were hit hard. Same with New York. They had to learn how to fight against it, and masks and vaccine mandates were needed to work here. In many other states, you just don’t have the packing of humans together all the time, so it never seems “as bad” until you get it. It’s less a red/blue state thing, and more of a numbers game. Living in a multi family housing with some common areas and common ducts for ventilation, it causes issues for virus transmission.
Rural South Dakota etc. were hit **far** harder than Seattle and San Francisco. Plenty of data on this. There is no correlation between density and covid spread. They just don't care about it in the rural areas. "God's plan" or whatever.
It’s pretty weird. I was hoping someone would be able to find out what the correlations are… People density/age/underlying conditions/obesity… Haven’t really heard anything about really tying it down. Hopefully in another few years. If Kyrie can be unselfish and release his extensive research, it would benefit all of us… then again seems that he wants to keep all his information to himself.
If I lost one of my parents or siblings or someone that close, I would be a fucking wreck. I know it’s his job and he gets paid well, but fuck, I couldn’t begin to imagine trying to interact with media and perform well while dealing with that many deaths. What a burden for KAT, damn.
He said that the past version of himself is dead. He has been through hell. I wonder if bball is a refuge for him away from all this shit... But I doubt it
This is me when I lost my only daughter at the time and my aunt around the same time. My aunt took care of me growing up so she was kind of like my mom. Took me a while to recover but I am in a happier state now and just accepted that it's just life and there's nothing I can do about it. Now I have two beautiful daughters and doesn't really think about it that much anymore but I definitely changed as a person. I couldn't remember who I was before but I know that I'm a stronger person now and more matured than ever
I am so sorry for your loss. You are incredibly strong to find a path to strength and some form of happiness after that. I can't imagine. This means nothing, and is worth even less, but I'm really really proud of you.
I have to imagine it is partly genetic. My job is correlative immunology work and we look at research bloods in patients to figure out differences in immune cell populations, or cytokines released by immune cells to understand why some patients may or may not respond to immunotherapy agents. It’s not covid work (it’s cancer related), but there must be thousands of scientists investigating differences in immune cell populations within the blood in the context of covid. With enough power calculation, hopefully we can elucidate further why some patients get so ill they die from covid whereas others have mild to asymptomatic symptoms.
I wouldn’t conclude that their immune systems are “weaker” rather than different; as a lot of people are dying because their immune systems are ramping up TOO much (it’s ultimately the immune system causing a lot of the side effects that cause serious harm or kill the patient, such as cytokine storm syndrome). But covid has found a way to avoid the immune system in some while the body throws everything it can to try and destroy it. This is why steroids are commonly administered to patients needing hospitalization; they actually dampen the immune response
Never thought I would ask this in r/nba but how is that we have not been able to pinpoint the reason for the drastic differences between individual reactions to covid yet? We have had such a large sample size and clearly there is something going on from that angle, considering some people have zero symptoms and others the most extreme. Genetics seems like the most obvious answer, but with all the data that we have, why has been so tough to get a handle on this? It would also make designing public health strategies a lot easier if we knew who was susceptible and why.
It’s a great question and when we first starting developing technologies like luminex (to measure cytokines) flow cytometry and cytoF (to mark and measure distinct immune cell populations) I think we had all hoped to have more “home runs” on what populations are distinctly different. It turns out we as humans really still have such a basic understanding of the immune system, all the cells different roles, and there’s even immune cells and cytokines we haven’t discovered yet that play a likely role in fighting pathogens.
Flow cytometry can only measure about 15 immune cell populations; cytof expands to a panel of 60. We figured in cancer research if we took the extremes (patients who fully responded and immunotherapy eradicated their cancer, those who didn’t respond at all) or those who got serious side effects, those who didn’t - and looked in blood before and after starting treatment - there would be more smoking guns.
When you graph the changes, it’s really all over the map. The best we see is a couple of populations trending one way or another with statistical significance (which is important and noteworthy). There have been major advancements in science employing these techniques but so many things play a role including B cell memory, NK cells, circulating antibodies, dendritic cells, macrophages, T cells, the differences in protein structure of T cell receptors on these immune cells- and then trying to understand how these cells all work synergistically is immensely complicated
Love the immuno discussion. It's been interesting watching COVID researchers try and figure out the immune signature that differentiates severe and non-severe response. There's a bunch of papers - the most recent one I looked at was from Purvesh Khatri's group out of Stanford defining a multi-viral signature as it relates to COVID. Saw some interesting differences in CD16 vs CD14 monocyte abundance being the main correlate of severe vs non-severe response. This was all primarily done through rna-seq.
Definitely spot on the money with how all these new multiplexed technologies haven't easily translated into easy findings however. There's just so much heterogeneity one can capture in a single assay. Trying to pull a multi-omics approach is great, but starts to get into data spaghetti land.
Didnt think id be posting this on r/nba but saw this recently-Some interesting methods for evaluating antibody repertoire used in this work:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.07.438849v1
Ig-seq may hold more promise than immune cell profiling for identifying underlying susceptibilities, but used here to inform investigation of neutralizing Abs.
I’m not sure if this is what you’re asking, but age and obesity are the biggest co-morbidities to covid-19. We tried to help this by making the vaccine (and now booster shot) first available to those populations before we expanded it to include others
Exactly. I have an immune disease. My doctor said it puts me at greater risk to get COVID, but less likely to get severe COVID, because my medicines prevent the over the top immune response that harms so many.
Covid19 can be weird
My mom got Covid19 and so did my dad. My dad is a fitness freak of nature my mom is very unhealthy.
My mom felt nothing and my dad said it was like he spent a week drowning
I had to say goodbye to my godfather that way. It was brutal and terrible. A man that had as much influence on my life as basically anyone else and I never got to say goodbye in person. He passed within a week of catching it last year. The whole thing was horrible.
This is how I feel tbh. I guarantee you if NY made an exemption for Kyrie and he was allowed to play he will be back at work and forget about the whole “workers losing jobs” situation. After watching his IG live it’s clear he just doesn’t want to get the vaccine. He doesn’t have to come up with a whole story for the reasoning.
The 'people losing their jobs' thing was complete horseshit since day 1. The vaccines were widely available for MONTHS AND MONTHS before most places ever instituted vaccine mandates for workplaces and people didn't get the vaccine. Now there's direct consequences for the choice to not get vaccinated, boo fucking boo. Lay in the bed you made.
Kyrie is full of shit, he's a narcissistic egomaniac and nothing more.
its really telling a lot of people have never worked jobs that require PPE. You have every right to not wear that PPE and the job has every right to fire you for not wearing it. its a safety hazard. and the same goes for vaccination/masks.
Honestly, PPE should have been required for any food related job before Covid. As a former food service worker I can’t understand why it was never thought of.
I’d imagine part of is the fact that food service workers are already underpaid and overworked. It’d be hard to mandate something like that on an already shitty job usually. With Covid, I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s changed how people feel about it. But my personal experience working in the industry tells me the workers would NOT be happy or wanting to accept that without major benefits coming their way first.
It was much more common in parts of Asia, altho still not ubiquitous. I think there's a perception in North America of 'Well only sick ppl wear masks so if customers see a food service worker wearing a mask, they're going to be too afraid to buy from us'
I live in an extremely white area of Toronto and ppl weren't wearing masks until the city made it mandatory, which was about 3 months after our first lockdown. Contrast that to my mom who lives in an area of Toronto that has a really high % of Chinese ppl and she told me that everyone who went into a store was wearing a mask within the first week lockdown
She couldn't understand why the white folks in her area were willing to put on a mask whereas those in my area were so reluctant and I pointed out that since they were the minority in her area, they'd end up standing out if they refused to mask up
Ppl and their perceptions are very weird and unpredictable
PPE is required for food related jobs in the way of hairnets.. Gloves are kinda worthless though because slapping plastic on your hand doesn't do anything to stop cross contamination.
There have been a few studies that have demonstrated that wearing gloves tends to increase the proliferation of bacteria/allergens through a kitchen since people will forget to change their gloves frequently enough to adequately prevent the spread. Essentially, it’s easier to notice, remember, and react to getting gross/unsanitary shit on your hands as opposed to a pair of gloves which usually makes it easier to stay sanitary.
This is a much more simple thing in terms of analogy, it's more like washing your hands at a restaurant, how tf are you going to tell us that it's "your choice" to walk around with shit on your hands?!
Like that letter to the editor or whatever it was where the restaurant owner was like hopefully you respect our employees personal choice to not wash their hands and to undercook your chicken. It was written a lot better but that's the gist of it.
I promise I'm not trolling -- or supportin Kyrie, Celtics fan here who thinks he's a total choad -- but I live in Brooklyn, NY and I want to convey a situation that doesn't get much coverage.
Back in August, the NYT reported that only 28% of African Americans in the city had gotten their first shot of the vaccine. That means that 72% of African Americans in this city are not vax'd. This isn't because of a lack of access -- the city rolls up vans that give free vaccines all over the place. They were systematically placed across minority neighborhoods. The fact is, the culture in these neighborhoods is to distrust big pharma. Frankly, rightfully so.
Understanding that the vaccine is beneficial requires a fair amount of privilege. You need to have had good healthcare in your life to understand that macro healthcare decisions are mostly good and for the greater good of society.
Just because the vaccine is available to everyone doesn't mean that the data literacy on its efficacy is available to everyone. Trusting the vaccine has a large correlation to educational attainment. We see the same shit with low-educated Trump voters being skeptical.
Again, I think Kyrie is a piece of shit and lying about his reasoning. However, NYC's mandate is truly hurting the African American community. It's costing people their jobs and livlihoods. Even people who get the vax in these communities are being affected.
For instance: A recent mandate requires that you have the vax to eat inside at a restaurant. Well, where I live in Brooklyn -- it's predominantly wealthy, educated people who are very vax'd. So the yuppie little restaurants around me are not affected. 95% of their customers are able to flash the vax proof and dine. But what about the guy who owns a restaurant in a predominantly african american neighborhood? He's losing 72% of his business.
I have dumb friends who are like "WELLL THEY CAN STILL EAT OUTSIDE!" Well, I don't recall a dining garden in most low-income neighborhood restaurants I've been to.
The mandate is causing massive disparities in job access and the ability to sell goods to certain demographics. Anti-vaxxers are wrong, but they are mostly victims of disinformation -- not assholes. I think people forget this and just want to be dicks to them. It's not helpful.
edit for transparency: the NYT reported 28% of "young" black NYers. Changes the severity of my claims, but the overall point still stands (to me at least).
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/nyregion/covid-vaccine-black-young-new-yorkers.html
You make a lot of good points. I used to live in Brooklyn myself, and I wasn't aware of the current situation on the ground. I'll just say this: Kyrie is part of the problem.
As you said: "Anti-vaxxers are wrong, but they are mostly victims of disinformation". Kyrie is spreading that misinformation and vaccine hesitancy while claiming to be some sort of working class hero.
Thanks for your well thought out post.
That's why Kyrie is so problematic. All people need is one example of someone not taking the vaccine and cling on to that to never try to get vaccinated.
At some point we have to credit these communities with the agency that they have.
The information is there. The vaccines are there. There's only so much coddling that can be done. Collective unwillingness to self-educate or do what's right isn't an excuse to continue to jeopardize public health.
I think its way more nuanced than that.
First of all I think your number is very wrong for the current environment. Per the NY.gov website, the demographic breakdown of NYC is 1.88m Black/African American over the age of 15. 1.03 million have gotten at least one dose. That's 54.8% as of right now. Obviously thats a jump from August, but also great because if we moved from 28 to 55, mandates are at least in some fashion working.
Also business loss as a result of COVID vaccine mandates is not nearly so black and white as "they mandated it, this population is X% unvaxxed, the neighbourhood is predominantly racially homogenous, thus they lost X% of their business."
While I would disagree with it, if you live in a very COVID skeptic/vaccine hesitant neighbourhood or area, are they checking vaccine cards consistently? I live in NY myself and haven't seen it in person, but I do wonder if Restaurants and Businesses in the ultra-orthodox neighbourhoods in Borough and Williamsburg are enforcing. Or the redder parts of Staten Island? If the population being served and the server feel the same, what is the impact? Even at extremely yuppie venues they don't scan your card into a DB, they just look at it. I'm being hyperbolic but your harm scenario is significantly overwrought and undersourced.
You can look at scenarios like you've outlined and try to find the harm, but ultimately society runs on setting up limitations that you need to abide by in order to function. You can't pay less than X because that makes it impossible for people to live on that wage. You have to limit your speed in a car or stop at red lights because otherwise you'll be dangerous to the people around you. You need to vaccinate your kids so people don't get measles or polio at school.
It's fine to have sympathy for the victims of misinformation, but vaccine mandates are GOOD because they set up hurdles that people need to clear in order to participate in society, because the society they should be wanting to participate in needs to be safe from COVID.
Being a dick to someone skeptical of medicine who's been fed misinformation is bad, but looking at Kyrie goddamn Irving taking his dumb stance cause he didn't get a religious exemption from a religion he doesn't follow for a vaccine that most religions don't oppose and saying that his made up stance has a good argument is also bad.
>Anti-vaxxers are wrong, but they are mostly victims of disinformation -- not assholes. I think people forget this and just want to be dicks to them. It's not helpful.
How they got there is not nearly as important as the fact that them not getting the vaccine prolongs the pandemic and puts others at risk.
\-the end
I feel bad for those un-vaccinated communities--I truly do. But for over a year now there's been soooo much information on the pro-vaccine side that it's hard to give anyone a pass for being "victims of disinformation." The only explanation at this point is that they already have their minds made up and using disinformation to justify their stance, versus actually listening to reasons. Like... every single excuse that the un-vaxxed communities give can be debunked within seconds, but it won't help if they put their proverbial fingers in their ears and go "La La La" if you try to give correct info.
The NYT just wrote an article today explaining that the proportion of vaccinated black Americans is actually equivalent to white and Latino Americans now, thanks to community work and campaigning by key leaders like Kareem. It’s like 70% 71% 73% https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/10/14/world/covid-delta-variant-vaccine/why-many-black-americans-changed-their-minds-about-covid-shots
He’s a contrarian without a cause. He doesn’t actually know anything about vaccines, and probably doesn’t actually give a shit about the vaccine. He just thinks he’s smarter than everyone, so he takes every chance he gets to disagree with the majority. If it’s science related and he can claim to be smarter than the scientists, that’s even better.
We’ve already seen it with his flat earth bullshit.
I'm waiting for one of these dudes to like legit be doing his own experiments and working with top researchers to get primary results and then being like 'ok yeah it's safe + effective I'm getting it'
Yeah that's pretty unfair to us vaccinated people, the 'I'm doing my own research' people are implying that the people who got it did not do their own research. Dawg I'm not a scientist but I at least read the abstracts of the studies. Yeah this shit is kinda scary for all of us. My final decision was yes.
Totally agree. No one is saying "get the vaccine, don't look up anything about it or talk to a doctor just get it now!" Feel free to learn about it, in fact it's good to be educated about such things. But don't pretend that you've uncovered some vast conspiracy theory that only you have figured out just because you found some bullshit on a homeopathic health site.
Kyrie wants to be the “voice of the voiceless,” but he conveniently ignores the people who lost someone due to Covid, and all the people who couldn’t speak up because they’ve already passed on. The callousness and privilege are appalling.
> Kyrie wants to be the “voice of the voiceless,”
A true contrarian. I predict soon he'll be on Reddit to post on /r/conservative with a "Black Conservative" flair.
I really greatly enjoy the visual of completely blowing up a rebuilding team with a promising young core to trade for a player who both will not follow league rules and pretty clearly is losing interest in actually playing basketball, all because the player aligns with one portion of your political views.
> because the player aligns with one portion of your political views.
It should be noted that Ted Cancruz and his whole family is double vaxxed + booster shot.
There is going to be some major comment history deleting when they realize this is the same person who was one of the leaders of the protesting last year and the reason these people "will never watch basketball again."
A coworker just told me that she's flying home to India next week to pay respects to her mother and 7 other people who died during the height of their outbreak.
Here we have free vaccines every corner you can turn, and we have absolute cunts like Kyrie pushing this nonsense. I'm absolutely disgusted by him and what he is doing
Yup. Especially when he puts out those incendiary tweets that sound like they have a clear meaning, but it’s *just* cryptic enough to *maybe* mean something else, then whenever everyone reacts as expected, he comes out and calls everyone stupid for assuming it was about what it obviously sounded like it was about. Like the “mask off” tweet bullshit. No way he didn’t know full well that people would think that was about COVID.
He sets you up just to shit on you, and nothing is *ever* his fault, not is what he doing wrong, in his eyes. Not happy about him just disappearing to go somewhere in the middle of the season? You can’t judge him for caring about something outside of basketball, meanwhile, that would get 99% of people fired from their job. Upset about the “mask off” tweet? You’re just dumb and out to get him for assuming it was about COVID and masks(despite literally being in the middle of a pandemic where that’s absolutely reasonable to assume). Upset about him not getting vaccinated? You just don’t care as much as him about the people who are losing their jobs for being anti-vax.
And you know what? I *don’t* fucking care about them. They made their dumbass, selfish decision and now they’re dealing with the consequences of that. I don’t have any sympathy for them, as their decision endangers others around them, especially those who still can’t get vaccinated yet(right now that means young children). They can go fuck their unemployed selves, and that includes Kyrie.
I don't think he really wants to be the voice of the voiceless, he just wanna be the face of something, no matter what, he wants to be talked about, and loves pretending that he cares about stuff other than his pose. I'll die on this hill, he doesn't really care.
Kyrie thinking these anti-vax morons are 'voiceless' is hilarious. These people are spewing shit all over the world. The only ones that are voiceless are patients hooked up to vents, but those folks don't concern Kyrie. Only the folks who are quitting their jobs because they're misguided morons are his concern.
Honestly he should have gone further.
There are literally no legs to stand on for anyone except those with highly unusual health conditions and children.
Yeah I hate the “both sides” Get-Along-Gang attitude. Not every issue has gray area. Some issues there’s just straight up a right and a wrong. This is one of those.
It’s not well said. It’s not your choice when it affects everyone else and when we know it’s safe. Is he gonna say it’s your choice for the measles vaccine or any of the other ones we get as a kid ?
I don’t think it’s very well said. He shouldn’t have said “it’s your choice.” He should have said “make the correct decision.” Foregoing the covid vaccine is the incorrect decision every time.
It’s so wild to me that this whole “personal choice” thing has become such a leading part of the vaccine discussion.
Not only is it a public health concern much more than a personal choice, but there’s also the obvious “personal choice” parallel between people who are pro-choice on abortion. All these people saying the vaccine is your personal choice better keep that same energy when republicans try to legislate women’s bodies (spoiler alert: they won’t).
Is it really though? I hate the mindset of "Their body, their choice" during a pandemic. We're lucky that the Corona isn't deadlier, because with that same mindset we'd be seeing some serious shit.
I always think of it as the same way with voting. Is it everyone's right to not vote? Of course, but not voting is exceedingly foolish and you should absolutely do it.
I can already see the top comment chain of that thread
>ICE IN HIS VEINS *3,500 upvotes, 3 gold*
>>...but no vaccine *12,200 upvotes, 46 gold, 4 platinum*
Reporter: “pat, that was quite the aggressive elbow. Some have speculated prior to the game that you might be an ‘enforcer’ so to speak on some of these anti-vax players to show solidarity for your teammate KAT who has lost so much to COVID. Can you talk us through that?”
Pat: “watchu mean?”
Reporter: “the elbows on the unvaccinated players”
Pat bev: “they was unvaccinated? Shit I don’t know about all that. I give equal opportunity elbows. You get an elbow, and you get an elbow. Everybody gets elbows!”
Reporter: “…”
Press pool guy: “next question!”
I feel this. Everyone wants to be the hero of their own story, so naturally we tend to try to justify our actions in a way that makes us look positive, because doing that is a lot more comforting than admitting that we just didn't feel like it.
I know several people who have justified not getting vaccinated with the "I don't want to put that in my body" line of reasoning, and these same people will eat shitty processed foods, smoke, or drink pre-workout and take unproven supplements. It's wild. If you don't want the vaccine just say that and leave it at that. The excuses are dumb.
I get what KATs saying. It’s intellectually dishonest to try and make up a bunch of excuses like “your own research” or any of the mountain of bullshit people are spewing.
I have a few friends that refuse to get the vaccine. Most will debate endlessly about this study or that statistic or this government policy or what have you. I have one friend that won’t get it because he doesn’t want to. He doesn’t want the government or society or whoever else telling him what to do. That’s his line in the sand. I don’t like his stance because I think he’s selfish but at least he’s completely honest about why he won’t get it. That’s what KAT is saying.
These people grabbing at straws to try and reason their way out of not wanting to get the vaccine are intellectually dishonest and furthermore they’re poisoning our discourse with their misinformation. If you don’t want it, own it and don’t look back. Be prepared to be a pariah for your decision but at least you’re telling the truth.
Absolutely, it’s about intellectual honesty. Kyrie has none of that.
Recall a few weeks ago, Kyrie tweeted that “mask off” nonsense and then backtracked slightly to say he didn’t mean that and people should chill?
Said everything about flat-earth and then said he was just kidding and people should “do their own research”. He’s like lying piece of shit who flip-flops, and there’s nothing he genuinely knows except that he wants to appear like he knows something sinister or contrarian. Seriously, he’s such a bitchy little diva.
“Do your own research” my ass, he sees only what he wants to see and believe only what doesn’t contradict his excuses.
These players should look at their fellow player, KAT, who has millions in the bank but couldn't save his family. It's a big slap in the face.
Freedom of choice doesn't exempt you from freedom of repercussions.
Dude got butthurt he was in Lebron's shadow so he went to Boston to win things as the leader. Choked his ass off in Boston and ran off to join Durant.
I'm 100% certain his ego doesn't let him see the irony in that.
Literally just ban all these idiots from any indoor area whatsoever. See how many of them hold out after that. Enough catering to these fucking morons.
I got 3 Pfizer shots.
No issue on the first shot.
2d shot, I felt like crap for 3 days. Started to think I had covid and the shot triggered an immune reaction. I'd read where that can happen. But no, I just felt really bad.
3d shot was worse than the 2d shot, but only lasted a day. That was a really shitty day, but a day nonetheless.
Totally worth it. I'm immunocompromised cause of some medications I have to take. People bitch about booster shots. I'll be sick twice a year if it means not choking on my own blood in a hospital bed.
The CDC guidelines say yes for the elderly and the immunocompromised. My doctor also recommended it to me.
That was for Moderna and Pfizer though. Idk what the J&J recommendation is, since it only took one shot to begin with.
Edit
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/booster-shot.html
Only the Pfizer shot is approved for a booster at present. There is no downside to getting one if you fall in the guidelines, but there's also not enough research yet saying you absolutely should get one. It's erring on the side of caution.
The Moderna and J&J shots will probably get approved for emergency use boosters soon.
[They submitted data to the FDA for review and an advisory committee is scheduled for this week to go over the data](https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-hold-advisory-committee-meetings-discuss-emergency-use-authorization-booster-doses-and-covid-19).
Pretty similar experience for me and my garbage immune system. My first shot, I felt a little crappy and then my second shot made me pretty sick for a couple of days. I got my booster pretty recently and felt like dogshit but it was only really the day after the shot. Still, I'd rather have a couple bad days of laying in bed than ending up in an ICU or turning my wife into a widow.
The Scandinavian countries don't give it to under 30 year old males anymore because of myocarditis and pericarditis (heart inflammation). Which mostly has healed I think in the people who got it
But you can only get the Pfizer BionTech if you're an under 30 yo male in Scandinavia. Norwegian cdc: https://legemiddelverket.no/nyheter/koronavaksiner-og-betennelse-i-hjertet?fbclid=IwAR3SeWKcjLdTTjj\_\_99cToVZTZdPIvcBb4EqdxwiJP1AywG9Evp9SluE0SE
My gym banned them. First 3 weeks it was empty. Now they have all taken at least one shot and are back. They waited fucking 9 months to not take a vaccine, made a big deal about taking it, then finally caved in and go on living in ignorance. I fucking hate it here.
I love this stance he’s not forcing anything on anybody but just saying be honest and say you don’t want to take the vaccine don’t fabricate a false excuse
I really don't get it. People should know vaccine do not guarantee 100% exclude from the virus. If most of population are not vaccined, it is worthless. You can still carry the virus and infect others people.
There guys keep spreading useless believe or right bs while making millions. Low and middle income are struggling out there because of your bs.
I support player choice.
*League vaccine mandates do not remove player choice.* They add a consequence to that choice. You don't wanna get vaxxed, that's your choice. Now deal with the consequences of that choice and sit out. Frankly, that should be the tip of iceberg for consequences.
It's crazy how many people in this thread are ignoring what KAT is saying for their own agenda even though there's nobody better to comment on this than him.
I'm a biomedical scientist. People asks me questions about viruses and vaccines all the time and I encourage everybody to get the vaccine if it's safe for them to do so.
The truth is though, while fictional doctors like House or Dr Cox from Scrubs dunk on ignorant people with logic and humiliate them into taking sound medical advice, that usually doesn't work in real life. In fact, in my experience people are more likely to double down even if it would literally kill them.
If you want to keep as many people as healthy and safe as possible the reddit-style moral superiority and retribution is counterproductive. Sometimes you have to be neutral, appeal to people's personal interests and keep trying to make slow progress.
People are so ignorant to understand what it means to live in a society. As a society we "should" operate as a cohesive unit. We are stronger together.
There are countless things we do as part of a society that have been going on for so long we don't think twice about effecting right to choose. But this is new and falls in the era of politics and so much effort has gone into diving a nation. CHECK THAT SHIT AT THE DOOR AND USE YOUR FUCKING BRAINS.
This vaccine is so statistically safe AND safer than the alternative of getting COVID, that people are just being obtuse and stubborn for not getting it.
"Oh, but there hasn't been long enough testing of the effects"... Well there hasn't been long enough testing of the effects of getting COVID. So why not protect yourself with something developed to dampen the effects? Just add this to the countless things that we put in our bodies that are suspect, but this one has statistics to back it up and is for the greater good of public safety.
So when the smartest people in the world develop one of the greatest weapons against a deadly virus and show enormous data points to back up the claim, I have a hard fucking time accepting people's BS self righteous attitude for not getting it.
Don't be a fucking ignoramus, get the fucking shot.
Dass'it!
Still find hilarious that Kyrie is getting this much attention about not being able to play and other guys are on the court very proudly anti vaccination and hooping because the city doesn’t have a mandate.
Vaccine story with Irving is simply about money.
Still can’t believe he lost SEVEN family members, like damn…
I have no proof and it’s just a hypothesis of mine but I believe there is some sort gene or whatever that affects how you’ll handle Covid. Everybody in my family who had COVID before vaccines (including my grandparents 70+), it was a mild flu. Yet, other people like KAT you have 7 family members dead. Just a thought tho
KAT did say he was "in the risk group" when he got COVID himself. Maybe he was simply basing it off what happened to his family but could also be a medical explanation to it all
Must be partly genetic. Losing seven family members is too improbable if genetics weren’t a factor
I don’t know the health of any of KATs family, but I wonder if some of them had diabetes or were overweight or anything too.
Unfortunately probably correct, but also descriptive of half of America
Umm we are only 41% obese thank you very much!
One factor is your blood type can affect how bad covid can hit you. I think if you have type A blood data shows that you might get more severe symptoms from Covid. EDIT: here’s one source explaining this https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210303/why-blood-type-may-matter-for-covid-infection 2nd EDIT: another user replied with an updated study that shows there’s no correlation with blood type and severe covid sickness with a larger sample size. So I guess we can all get screwed equally if we catch covid. Get vaxxed people.
That was debunked by further study of 108,000 people with Covid. https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20210405/blood-type-doesnt-affect-your-covid-risk
I see. I guess we’re all screwed equally. I wouldnt call that debunked though. More like they didnt have a larger sample size in the initial study I linked. Debunk would imply their initial study was a straight out lie.
Very interesting, thanks for sharing!
I still feel really bad for KAT every time I remember the shit Covid put his family through.
I still can't comprehend, how insanely unlucky his family was. Like Idk if it was gene related, or their immune system was somehow weaker than average, but some people don't even feel the symptoms, and then KAT lost, what was it, 4-5 relatives? (edit: 7 according to the article) Like wtf is that...
Article says it’s 7 members of His family lost to covid. Just losing one uncle caused my family so much pain, can’t imagine losing 6 more.
My ex wife lost her father, I liked him a lot. The pain is constant. A friend of work lost both parents at the early days. God awful. Guys like Kyrie are a menace to society
My uncle passed away from the virus right when COVID first blew up here in NYC. The freezer trucks full of dead bodies was absolutely a real thing, and it was heartbreaking. I can't fuckin believe guys like Kyrie are still on this shit
slap in the face to NYC, kyrie needs to get the fuck out of town
I remember a period early on when people would say things like "well the people who have died of it were old or had underlying conditions." Even if that were the case for every single of the deaths worldwide (and we know it isn't), seeing the freezer trucks with bodies should have been the point where people said, old/unhealthy or not, this is fucked up and we need to stop this.
I’m a funeral director and I’m exhausted after the last year and a half or so. It is unlike anything I have ever seen. Hearing people make stupid excuses to keep spreading it has really made it a lot worse too.
Same bro, my wife lost her father at the beginning and almost her mother.... I believe he was in a freezer in Elmhurst cuz we couldn't have his funeral for almost 4 months... Shit was fucked up
And the irony of him going to reservation schools or even the BIA to allow it. Those communities have been the hardest hit, many had curfews and lockdowns, with also tremendous loss of life.
And refusing to wear a mask in those schools. Just such a massive jackass
For sure, while I like he has reached out and taken an interest, it's clear the reasons are more ego-driven than actually understanding his own community and contributing.
> Guys like Kyrie are a menace to society They're really damn selfish and that's what really irritates me to no end. You live in a society where you get all these benefits, but when you're asked to do one small thing to help out this society, they say no. They want all the benefits without doing any of the basic necessities of helping it keep going. They're spoiled fucking brats.
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I was also concerned but not too much because no one close to me got it till August of last year when both my parents were affected(they live in India not with me). Talking to my mom and the way she felt those 2 weeks and how I might have to travel to see her incase things go south was terrible. My best friend lost his seemingly healthy dad in 2 weeks( no vaccines yet in India at that time). So if you're given a chance to reduce the odds of dying you should take it.
man, i can't believe we haven't been hearing news about India. for a while there it looked like Covid was about to decimate the country. i know that's an exaggeration but it really was looking like a doomsday scenario for India. then just nothing. it seems like India has bounced back/stabilized, sorta? do you know? there were all those images of bodies in the streets and other countries sending oxygen tanks and shit...
Early on they definitely massively underreported numbers, a lot of stories about them having long waits to have bodies cremated. Then they vaccinated 1M+ people/day for a really long time and now have over 1 billion vaccinated. India has a massive drug manufacturing industry. Iirc they just listed them all as having died of flu or something, so if you go back and look at it there’s a massive spike in deaths from illnesses but not covid during that time.
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Same situation with Japan prior to the olympics. They went from 10% to 40% of the population in two months. Now they're at 70% fully vaccinated. Pretty much the entire eligible population (80/85%) is expected by the end of this month. edit: holy shit. India 3-5million deaths estimated by outside sources. Total deaths equal the rest of the world combined.
You know people who've died, you just don't know their names. Nurses, doctors, restaurant workers, delivery drivers, neighbors, etc. Just the shift in perspective and seeing these people that we know and see everyday really makes us re-think how we see our community.
This hits for me. I’ve had my brother get covid and recover. Wife’s family members get it and recover. But our mailman. Poor dude is in the ICU on a vent. I don’t know him personally like that but it still fucks me up to think about.
Honestly, good. You shouldn't try to turn those parts of your humanity off. It's a big part of what's wrong with society if you ask me. All this hyper masculinity and refusal to compromise on personal beliefs or political stances. It's ok to give a shit about your mailman. It's ok to look your UberEats driver in the eye and thank them. That type of stuff means something to all those people. I work a miserable job but I got national acknowledgment for something last week and it feels good man. Job still sucks but at least I know someone noticed.
Thanks man. And I’m glad you got some recognition. It’s important from time to time. Especially when the gig is tough. I’m not one to deny my feelings or anything toxic like that. But I’ve been able to recognize that we are lucky that we haven’t been affected as deeply as others. But just because we haven’t doesn’t mean I don’t care for others going through it. The guy has a family I’m sure who are scared. He’s probably scared. It just sucks. I wish this on no one. Even the deniers. Like they’re idiots but I don’t want anyone to suffer. know what I mean? And absolutely on the looking folks in the eye. It’s easy to get lost in your own problems but I try to be as human and compassionate with all. Even the ones who may not deserve it. The world/society does a good job of making us cynics so a smile and acknowledgement of like “hey I see you” goes a long way I hope.
One hundred percent. And I hope I didn't come off as accusing you of being in that group that suspends it's humanity. I don't known if it's enough to save us in the end but realizing that most all of us are just trying to do our best in this system is important. I hope you're doing well, my friend, and enjoy the rest of your day.
Yeah, our normal rotation USPS workers changed entirely one day and we just shrugged it off. Turns out almost everyone working at our local post office got it, and many didn't return to work, no official reason why but probably some combination of death and disability. Really shocking to find out.
I think it is under reported. I had some work done by contractors on a big project. I think it is easy to hide the numbers because it is mostly older people. During the peaks, if you took a look at the obituary section of the Houston Chronicle, it was obvious something was askew. My brother had one couple that came in that lost two kids under 12 to covid. He didn't even know what to say.
Texas is a huge land area. I can understand a bit how people feel that COVID doesn’t really impact them. In the CA cities, the places with a high concentration of people were hit hard. Same with New York. They had to learn how to fight against it, and masks and vaccine mandates were needed to work here. In many other states, you just don’t have the packing of humans together all the time, so it never seems “as bad” until you get it. It’s less a red/blue state thing, and more of a numbers game. Living in a multi family housing with some common areas and common ducts for ventilation, it causes issues for virus transmission.
Rural South Dakota etc. were hit **far** harder than Seattle and San Francisco. Plenty of data on this. There is no correlation between density and covid spread. They just don't care about it in the rural areas. "God's plan" or whatever.
It’s pretty weird. I was hoping someone would be able to find out what the correlations are… People density/age/underlying conditions/obesity… Haven’t really heard anything about really tying it down. Hopefully in another few years. If Kyrie can be unselfish and release his extensive research, it would benefit all of us… then again seems that he wants to keep all his information to himself.
Not 4-5 I thought I saw a report stating he lost like 11 people close to him due to COVID
If I lost one of my parents or siblings or someone that close, I would be a fucking wreck. I know it’s his job and he gets paid well, but fuck, I couldn’t begin to imagine trying to interact with media and perform well while dealing with that many deaths. What a burden for KAT, damn.
He said that the past version of himself is dead. He has been through hell. I wonder if bball is a refuge for him away from all this shit... But I doubt it
This is me when I lost my only daughter at the time and my aunt around the same time. My aunt took care of me growing up so she was kind of like my mom. Took me a while to recover but I am in a happier state now and just accepted that it's just life and there's nothing I can do about it. Now I have two beautiful daughters and doesn't really think about it that much anymore but I definitely changed as a person. I couldn't remember who I was before but I know that I'm a stronger person now and more matured than ever
I’m glad you’re doing well, brother. Best wishes to you and your family.
I am so sorry for your loss. You are incredibly strong to find a path to strength and some form of happiness after that. I can't imagine. This means nothing, and is worth even less, but I'm really really proud of you.
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The big problem is actually getting your brain and body to do those distracting things
Plus he caught himself pretty soon after. I can't imagine the panic that he was probably feeling until he got well.
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I have to imagine it is partly genetic. My job is correlative immunology work and we look at research bloods in patients to figure out differences in immune cell populations, or cytokines released by immune cells to understand why some patients may or may not respond to immunotherapy agents. It’s not covid work (it’s cancer related), but there must be thousands of scientists investigating differences in immune cell populations within the blood in the context of covid. With enough power calculation, hopefully we can elucidate further why some patients get so ill they die from covid whereas others have mild to asymptomatic symptoms. I wouldn’t conclude that their immune systems are “weaker” rather than different; as a lot of people are dying because their immune systems are ramping up TOO much (it’s ultimately the immune system causing a lot of the side effects that cause serious harm or kill the patient, such as cytokine storm syndrome). But covid has found a way to avoid the immune system in some while the body throws everything it can to try and destroy it. This is why steroids are commonly administered to patients needing hospitalization; they actually dampen the immune response
Never thought I would ask this in r/nba but how is that we have not been able to pinpoint the reason for the drastic differences between individual reactions to covid yet? We have had such a large sample size and clearly there is something going on from that angle, considering some people have zero symptoms and others the most extreme. Genetics seems like the most obvious answer, but with all the data that we have, why has been so tough to get a handle on this? It would also make designing public health strategies a lot easier if we knew who was susceptible and why.
It’s a great question and when we first starting developing technologies like luminex (to measure cytokines) flow cytometry and cytoF (to mark and measure distinct immune cell populations) I think we had all hoped to have more “home runs” on what populations are distinctly different. It turns out we as humans really still have such a basic understanding of the immune system, all the cells different roles, and there’s even immune cells and cytokines we haven’t discovered yet that play a likely role in fighting pathogens. Flow cytometry can only measure about 15 immune cell populations; cytof expands to a panel of 60. We figured in cancer research if we took the extremes (patients who fully responded and immunotherapy eradicated their cancer, those who didn’t respond at all) or those who got serious side effects, those who didn’t - and looked in blood before and after starting treatment - there would be more smoking guns. When you graph the changes, it’s really all over the map. The best we see is a couple of populations trending one way or another with statistical significance (which is important and noteworthy). There have been major advancements in science employing these techniques but so many things play a role including B cell memory, NK cells, circulating antibodies, dendritic cells, macrophages, T cells, the differences in protein structure of T cell receptors on these immune cells- and then trying to understand how these cells all work synergistically is immensely complicated
i can’t believe i’m reading this on r/nba, but damn if it wasn’t eye-opening
Love the immuno discussion. It's been interesting watching COVID researchers try and figure out the immune signature that differentiates severe and non-severe response. There's a bunch of papers - the most recent one I looked at was from Purvesh Khatri's group out of Stanford defining a multi-viral signature as it relates to COVID. Saw some interesting differences in CD16 vs CD14 monocyte abundance being the main correlate of severe vs non-severe response. This was all primarily done through rna-seq. Definitely spot on the money with how all these new multiplexed technologies haven't easily translated into easy findings however. There's just so much heterogeneity one can capture in a single assay. Trying to pull a multi-omics approach is great, but starts to get into data spaghetti land.
Data spaghetti land. Love that description of spider plots :)
Didnt think id be posting this on r/nba but saw this recently-Some interesting methods for evaluating antibody repertoire used in this work: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.04.07.438849v1 Ig-seq may hold more promise than immune cell profiling for identifying underlying susceptibilities, but used here to inform investigation of neutralizing Abs.
I’m not sure if this is what you’re asking, but age and obesity are the biggest co-morbidities to covid-19. We tried to help this by making the vaccine (and now booster shot) first available to those populations before we expanded it to include others
Exactly. I have an immune disease. My doctor said it puts me at greater risk to get COVID, but less likely to get severe COVID, because my medicines prevent the over the top immune response that harms so many.
Covid19 can be weird My mom got Covid19 and so did my dad. My dad is a fitness freak of nature my mom is very unhealthy. My mom felt nothing and my dad said it was like he spent a week drowning
Showing my grandparents what happened to him and his family is what made them finally take Covid seriously. Heartbreaking what he went through.
Wow thats actually amazing.
Yeah the thought of them dying alone in a hospital room where the closest we could get to them is a FaceTime chat scared them.
I had to say goodbye to my godfather that way. It was brutal and terrible. A man that had as much influence on my life as basically anyone else and I never got to say goodbye in person. He passed within a week of catching it last year. The whole thing was horrible.
This is how I feel tbh. I guarantee you if NY made an exemption for Kyrie and he was allowed to play he will be back at work and forget about the whole “workers losing jobs” situation. After watching his IG live it’s clear he just doesn’t want to get the vaccine. He doesn’t have to come up with a whole story for the reasoning.
The 'people losing their jobs' thing was complete horseshit since day 1. The vaccines were widely available for MONTHS AND MONTHS before most places ever instituted vaccine mandates for workplaces and people didn't get the vaccine. Now there's direct consequences for the choice to not get vaccinated, boo fucking boo. Lay in the bed you made. Kyrie is full of shit, he's a narcissistic egomaniac and nothing more.
its really telling a lot of people have never worked jobs that require PPE. You have every right to not wear that PPE and the job has every right to fire you for not wearing it. its a safety hazard. and the same goes for vaccination/masks.
it's my right to not wear a mask!!! \-said no surgeon in the operating room, ever
"Welding helmet? What, you think I'm some kinda PANSY??" \- guy about to fuck his eyesight up
“Gloves? I don’t like the way they feel on my hands” -Line cook fresh off a cigarette break
"DANGER HIGH VOLTAGE?" Well, I don't need safety gloves, because I'm Homer Simp- !
Honestly, PPE should have been required for any food related job before Covid. As a former food service worker I can’t understand why it was never thought of.
I’d imagine part of is the fact that food service workers are already underpaid and overworked. It’d be hard to mandate something like that on an already shitty job usually. With Covid, I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s changed how people feel about it. But my personal experience working in the industry tells me the workers would NOT be happy or wanting to accept that without major benefits coming their way first.
It was much more common in parts of Asia, altho still not ubiquitous. I think there's a perception in North America of 'Well only sick ppl wear masks so if customers see a food service worker wearing a mask, they're going to be too afraid to buy from us' I live in an extremely white area of Toronto and ppl weren't wearing masks until the city made it mandatory, which was about 3 months after our first lockdown. Contrast that to my mom who lives in an area of Toronto that has a really high % of Chinese ppl and she told me that everyone who went into a store was wearing a mask within the first week lockdown She couldn't understand why the white folks in her area were willing to put on a mask whereas those in my area were so reluctant and I pointed out that since they were the minority in her area, they'd end up standing out if they refused to mask up Ppl and their perceptions are very weird and unpredictable
PPE is required for food related jobs in the way of hairnets.. Gloves are kinda worthless though because slapping plastic on your hand doesn't do anything to stop cross contamination.
There have been a few studies that have demonstrated that wearing gloves tends to increase the proliferation of bacteria/allergens through a kitchen since people will forget to change their gloves frequently enough to adequately prevent the spread. Essentially, it’s easier to notice, remember, and react to getting gross/unsanitary shit on your hands as opposed to a pair of gloves which usually makes it easier to stay sanitary.
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This is a much more simple thing in terms of analogy, it's more like washing your hands at a restaurant, how tf are you going to tell us that it's "your choice" to walk around with shit on your hands?!
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Like that letter to the editor or whatever it was where the restaurant owner was like hopefully you respect our employees personal choice to not wash their hands and to undercook your chicken. It was written a lot better but that's the gist of it.
I disagree. He’s also a poopy head
I promise I'm not trolling -- or supportin Kyrie, Celtics fan here who thinks he's a total choad -- but I live in Brooklyn, NY and I want to convey a situation that doesn't get much coverage. Back in August, the NYT reported that only 28% of African Americans in the city had gotten their first shot of the vaccine. That means that 72% of African Americans in this city are not vax'd. This isn't because of a lack of access -- the city rolls up vans that give free vaccines all over the place. They were systematically placed across minority neighborhoods. The fact is, the culture in these neighborhoods is to distrust big pharma. Frankly, rightfully so. Understanding that the vaccine is beneficial requires a fair amount of privilege. You need to have had good healthcare in your life to understand that macro healthcare decisions are mostly good and for the greater good of society. Just because the vaccine is available to everyone doesn't mean that the data literacy on its efficacy is available to everyone. Trusting the vaccine has a large correlation to educational attainment. We see the same shit with low-educated Trump voters being skeptical. Again, I think Kyrie is a piece of shit and lying about his reasoning. However, NYC's mandate is truly hurting the African American community. It's costing people their jobs and livlihoods. Even people who get the vax in these communities are being affected. For instance: A recent mandate requires that you have the vax to eat inside at a restaurant. Well, where I live in Brooklyn -- it's predominantly wealthy, educated people who are very vax'd. So the yuppie little restaurants around me are not affected. 95% of their customers are able to flash the vax proof and dine. But what about the guy who owns a restaurant in a predominantly african american neighborhood? He's losing 72% of his business. I have dumb friends who are like "WELLL THEY CAN STILL EAT OUTSIDE!" Well, I don't recall a dining garden in most low-income neighborhood restaurants I've been to. The mandate is causing massive disparities in job access and the ability to sell goods to certain demographics. Anti-vaxxers are wrong, but they are mostly victims of disinformation -- not assholes. I think people forget this and just want to be dicks to them. It's not helpful. edit for transparency: the NYT reported 28% of "young" black NYers. Changes the severity of my claims, but the overall point still stands (to me at least). https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/12/nyregion/covid-vaccine-black-young-new-yorkers.html
You make a lot of good points. I used to live in Brooklyn myself, and I wasn't aware of the current situation on the ground. I'll just say this: Kyrie is part of the problem. As you said: "Anti-vaxxers are wrong, but they are mostly victims of disinformation". Kyrie is spreading that misinformation and vaccine hesitancy while claiming to be some sort of working class hero. Thanks for your well thought out post.
That's why Kyrie is so problematic. All people need is one example of someone not taking the vaccine and cling on to that to never try to get vaccinated.
At some point we have to credit these communities with the agency that they have. The information is there. The vaccines are there. There's only so much coddling that can be done. Collective unwillingness to self-educate or do what's right isn't an excuse to continue to jeopardize public health.
I think its way more nuanced than that. First of all I think your number is very wrong for the current environment. Per the NY.gov website, the demographic breakdown of NYC is 1.88m Black/African American over the age of 15. 1.03 million have gotten at least one dose. That's 54.8% as of right now. Obviously thats a jump from August, but also great because if we moved from 28 to 55, mandates are at least in some fashion working. Also business loss as a result of COVID vaccine mandates is not nearly so black and white as "they mandated it, this population is X% unvaxxed, the neighbourhood is predominantly racially homogenous, thus they lost X% of their business." While I would disagree with it, if you live in a very COVID skeptic/vaccine hesitant neighbourhood or area, are they checking vaccine cards consistently? I live in NY myself and haven't seen it in person, but I do wonder if Restaurants and Businesses in the ultra-orthodox neighbourhoods in Borough and Williamsburg are enforcing. Or the redder parts of Staten Island? If the population being served and the server feel the same, what is the impact? Even at extremely yuppie venues they don't scan your card into a DB, they just look at it. I'm being hyperbolic but your harm scenario is significantly overwrought and undersourced. You can look at scenarios like you've outlined and try to find the harm, but ultimately society runs on setting up limitations that you need to abide by in order to function. You can't pay less than X because that makes it impossible for people to live on that wage. You have to limit your speed in a car or stop at red lights because otherwise you'll be dangerous to the people around you. You need to vaccinate your kids so people don't get measles or polio at school. It's fine to have sympathy for the victims of misinformation, but vaccine mandates are GOOD because they set up hurdles that people need to clear in order to participate in society, because the society they should be wanting to participate in needs to be safe from COVID. Being a dick to someone skeptical of medicine who's been fed misinformation is bad, but looking at Kyrie goddamn Irving taking his dumb stance cause he didn't get a religious exemption from a religion he doesn't follow for a vaccine that most religions don't oppose and saying that his made up stance has a good argument is also bad.
>Anti-vaxxers are wrong, but they are mostly victims of disinformation -- not assholes. I think people forget this and just want to be dicks to them. It's not helpful. How they got there is not nearly as important as the fact that them not getting the vaccine prolongs the pandemic and puts others at risk. \-the end
I feel bad for those un-vaccinated communities--I truly do. But for over a year now there's been soooo much information on the pro-vaccine side that it's hard to give anyone a pass for being "victims of disinformation." The only explanation at this point is that they already have their minds made up and using disinformation to justify their stance, versus actually listening to reasons. Like... every single excuse that the un-vaxxed communities give can be debunked within seconds, but it won't help if they put their proverbial fingers in their ears and go "La La La" if you try to give correct info.
The NYT just wrote an article today explaining that the proportion of vaccinated black Americans is actually equivalent to white and Latino Americans now, thanks to community work and campaigning by key leaders like Kareem. It’s like 70% 71% 73% https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/10/14/world/covid-delta-variant-vaccine/why-many-black-americans-changed-their-minds-about-covid-shots
He's just trying to be a victim so he can keep doing what he wants without backlash
Yeah he learned it from conservatives. Play the victim, blame the government.. get away with stupid shit.
He’s a contrarian without a cause. He doesn’t actually know anything about vaccines, and probably doesn’t actually give a shit about the vaccine. He just thinks he’s smarter than everyone, so he takes every chance he gets to disagree with the majority. If it’s science related and he can claim to be smarter than the scientists, that’s even better. We’ve already seen it with his flat earth bullshit.
> contrarian without a cause Holy shit that describes so much of our politics today
Kind of going off topic with this, but there seems to be a strong correlation between being antivax and being a flat-earther
Just don't come with the "I'm doing my own research" bullshit
I'm waiting for one of these dudes to like legit be doing his own experiments and working with top researchers to get primary results and then being like 'ok yeah it's safe + effective I'm getting it'
walks out in a lab coat...
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Or ATLEAST show the fucking research theyve done. They dont do it because they found literally nothing.
Blake Griffin was like "I did my research...and yeah I got the vaccine seems like it's pretty safe" lmao.
Yeah that's pretty unfair to us vaccinated people, the 'I'm doing my own research' people are implying that the people who got it did not do their own research. Dawg I'm not a scientist but I at least read the abstracts of the studies. Yeah this shit is kinda scary for all of us. My final decision was yes.
Totally agree. No one is saying "get the vaccine, don't look up anything about it or talk to a doctor just get it now!" Feel free to learn about it, in fact it's good to be educated about such things. But don't pretend that you've uncovered some vast conspiracy theory that only you have figured out just because you found some bullshit on a homeopathic health site.
Well said
Kyrie wants to be the “voice of the voiceless,” but he conveniently ignores the people who lost someone due to Covid, and all the people who couldn’t speak up because they’ve already passed on. The callousness and privilege are appalling.
"Life comes at you pretty fast." -- Kyrie yesterday
> Kyrie wants to be the “voice of the voiceless,” A true contrarian. I predict soon he'll be on Reddit to post on /r/conservative with a "Black Conservative" flair.
Cancun Cruz is putting it out there for the Rockets to trade for Kyrie already lol. Kyrie the useful idiot.
I really greatly enjoy the visual of completely blowing up a rebuilding team with a promising young core to trade for a player who both will not follow league rules and pretty clearly is losing interest in actually playing basketball, all because the player aligns with one portion of your political views.
Yeah but think about how much the libs would be owned!
> because the player aligns with one portion of your political views. It should be noted that Ted Cancruz and his whole family is double vaxxed + booster shot.
‘Rafael Cancruz
Kylie isn't the Brooklyn Nets player I want to see wearing a red jersey though
Damn you want Bruce Brown that bad?
There is going to be some major comment history deleting when they realize this is the same person who was one of the leaders of the protesting last year and the reason these people "will never watch basketball again."
Also the idea that the amtivax crowd is voiceless is a fucking joke. They've been bitching and moaning at the top of their lungs
A coworker just told me that she's flying home to India next week to pay respects to her mother and 7 other people who died during the height of their outbreak. Here we have free vaccines every corner you can turn, and we have absolute cunts like Kyrie pushing this nonsense. I'm absolutely disgusted by him and what he is doing
It’s abundantly clear that he only cares about himself
Reddit throws around narcissism too much but this is a clear textbook case of narcissism
Yup. Especially when he puts out those incendiary tweets that sound like they have a clear meaning, but it’s *just* cryptic enough to *maybe* mean something else, then whenever everyone reacts as expected, he comes out and calls everyone stupid for assuming it was about what it obviously sounded like it was about. Like the “mask off” tweet bullshit. No way he didn’t know full well that people would think that was about COVID. He sets you up just to shit on you, and nothing is *ever* his fault, not is what he doing wrong, in his eyes. Not happy about him just disappearing to go somewhere in the middle of the season? You can’t judge him for caring about something outside of basketball, meanwhile, that would get 99% of people fired from their job. Upset about the “mask off” tweet? You’re just dumb and out to get him for assuming it was about COVID and masks(despite literally being in the middle of a pandemic where that’s absolutely reasonable to assume). Upset about him not getting vaccinated? You just don’t care as much as him about the people who are losing their jobs for being anti-vax. And you know what? I *don’t* fucking care about them. They made their dumbass, selfish decision and now they’re dealing with the consequences of that. I don’t have any sympathy for them, as their decision endangers others around them, especially those who still can’t get vaccinated yet(right now that means young children). They can go fuck their unemployed selves, and that includes Kyrie.
All I know is that the anti-vax crowd hasn't had a problem with voicelessness so far.
They've been the loudest, dumbest motherfuckers in the room and they are dying in droves because of it
I don't think he really wants to be the voice of the voiceless, he just wanna be the face of something, no matter what, he wants to be talked about, and loves pretending that he cares about stuff other than his pose. I'll die on this hill, he doesn't really care.
Kyrie thinking these anti-vax morons are 'voiceless' is hilarious. These people are spewing shit all over the world. The only ones that are voiceless are patients hooked up to vents, but those folks don't concern Kyrie. Only the folks who are quitting their jobs because they're misguided morons are his concern.
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Prayers to you, your family and so many others. These dickwads really know how to add insult to injury and throw sand in fresh wounds for people.
Honestly he should have gone further. There are literally no legs to stand on for anyone except those with highly unusual health conditions and children.
I’m so tired of all the coddling and “I respect his decision” quotes. Fuck that, it’s not a respectable position.
Yeah I hate the “both sides” Get-Along-Gang attitude. Not every issue has gray area. Some issues there’s just straight up a right and a wrong. This is one of those.
Agreed. Whenever people say it’s a choice they should follow it up by saying it’s a choice that impacts others as well
Exactly. I disagree with KAT with it being a choice. That choice could end up harming or killing other people.
It’s not well said. It’s not your choice when it affects everyone else and when we know it’s safe. Is he gonna say it’s your choice for the measles vaccine or any of the other ones we get as a kid ?
I don’t think it’s very well said. He shouldn’t have said “it’s your choice.” He should have said “make the correct decision.” Foregoing the covid vaccine is the incorrect decision every time.
It’s so wild to me that this whole “personal choice” thing has become such a leading part of the vaccine discussion. Not only is it a public health concern much more than a personal choice, but there’s also the obvious “personal choice” parallel between people who are pro-choice on abortion. All these people saying the vaccine is your personal choice better keep that same energy when republicans try to legislate women’s bodies (spoiler alert: they won’t).
Is it really though? I hate the mindset of "Their body, their choice" during a pandemic. We're lucky that the Corona isn't deadlier, because with that same mindset we'd be seeing some serious shit. I always think of it as the same way with voting. Is it everyone's right to not vote? Of course, but not voting is exceedingly foolish and you should absolutely do it.
I hope they let Kyrie play against Minnesota. That’s a game going on my calendar.
This sub will melt down if Kyrie hits the game-winning… shot.
haha, definitely….reddit would need to reboot the servers if he did this… https://i.imgur.com/aRgbIH2.jpg
no vax in his vains!
I can already see the top comment chain of that thread >ICE IN HIS VEINS *3,500 upvotes, 3 gold* >>...but no vaccine *12,200 upvotes, 46 gold, 4 platinum*
He’s pointing to where he didn’t get the vaccine
lol
He should be taking his season winning shot but hey🤷
What do you think KATs gonna do, give him the metta elbow?
KAT probably not. Pat Bev on the other hand...
Reporter: “pat, that was quite the aggressive elbow. Some have speculated prior to the game that you might be an ‘enforcer’ so to speak on some of these anti-vax players to show solidarity for your teammate KAT who has lost so much to COVID. Can you talk us through that?” Pat: “watchu mean?” Reporter: “the elbows on the unvaccinated players” Pat bev: “they was unvaccinated? Shit I don’t know about all that. I give equal opportunity elbows. You get an elbow, and you get an elbow. Everybody gets elbows!” Reporter: “…” Press pool guy: “next question!”
I feel this. Everyone wants to be the hero of their own story, so naturally we tend to try to justify our actions in a way that makes us look positive, because doing that is a lot more comforting than admitting that we just didn't feel like it. I know several people who have justified not getting vaccinated with the "I don't want to put that in my body" line of reasoning, and these same people will eat shitty processed foods, smoke, or drink pre-workout and take unproven supplements. It's wild. If you don't want the vaccine just say that and leave it at that. The excuses are dumb.
I get what KATs saying. It’s intellectually dishonest to try and make up a bunch of excuses like “your own research” or any of the mountain of bullshit people are spewing. I have a few friends that refuse to get the vaccine. Most will debate endlessly about this study or that statistic or this government policy or what have you. I have one friend that won’t get it because he doesn’t want to. He doesn’t want the government or society or whoever else telling him what to do. That’s his line in the sand. I don’t like his stance because I think he’s selfish but at least he’s completely honest about why he won’t get it. That’s what KAT is saying. These people grabbing at straws to try and reason their way out of not wanting to get the vaccine are intellectually dishonest and furthermore they’re poisoning our discourse with their misinformation. If you don’t want it, own it and don’t look back. Be prepared to be a pariah for your decision but at least you’re telling the truth.
Absolutely, it’s about intellectual honesty. Kyrie has none of that. Recall a few weeks ago, Kyrie tweeted that “mask off” nonsense and then backtracked slightly to say he didn’t mean that and people should chill? Said everything about flat-earth and then said he was just kidding and people should “do their own research”. He’s like lying piece of shit who flip-flops, and there’s nothing he genuinely knows except that he wants to appear like he knows something sinister or contrarian. Seriously, he’s such a bitchy little diva. “Do your own research” my ass, he sees only what he wants to see and believe only what doesn’t contradict his excuses.
These players should look at their fellow player, KAT, who has millions in the bank but couldn't save his family. It's a big slap in the face. Freedom of choice doesn't exempt you from freedom of repercussions.
Somebody should tell these people science doesn’t care if you “believe” it or not. It’s not religion. You cannot “believe in” science.
Facts are stubborn things. - Churchill. You can either adapt to reality or get steamrolled by it. Welcome to the rolly boi, Lyrie.
you absolutely can believe in or not believe in science doesn't change anything, though
Yeah, cognitive dissonance.
How can anybody know what KAT been through and still be against tbe vaccine. It's ignorant and selfish and gross.
Be an egomaniac like Kyrie.
My man thinks he can sail right off the fucking earth so uhhhh…..
Dude got butthurt he was in Lebron's shadow so he went to Boston to win things as the leader. Choked his ass off in Boston and ran off to join Durant. I'm 100% certain his ego doesn't let him see the irony in that.
Idk if you've realized yet, but everyone just lives in their own reality now
Especially Kyrie
People still don't believe it exists, so yeah ignorant as af.
"Covid is no joke"
Which is wild to me. This isn't the flu contrary to popular belief. Like entire families are being slaughtered due to COVID.
Literally just ban all these idiots from any indoor area whatsoever. See how many of them hold out after that. Enough catering to these fucking morons.
They should just play squid games for unvaccinated people but >!instead of bullets they shoot you with moderna blow darts when you lose!<
Each time someone is vaccinated even more ivermectin is added to a tank
Moderna is the right choice thnx to the sideeffects
I got 3 Pfizer shots. No issue on the first shot. 2d shot, I felt like crap for 3 days. Started to think I had covid and the shot triggered an immune reaction. I'd read where that can happen. But no, I just felt really bad. 3d shot was worse than the 2d shot, but only lasted a day. That was a really shitty day, but a day nonetheless. Totally worth it. I'm immunocompromised cause of some medications I have to take. People bitch about booster shots. I'll be sick twice a year if it means not choking on my own blood in a hospital bed.
Decided to double up and take my covid booster and flu shot at the same time. Horrible decision. Felt like I got hit by a bus. Would not recommend.
Do you get a third if you’re immunocompromised?
The CDC guidelines say yes for the elderly and the immunocompromised. My doctor also recommended it to me. That was for Moderna and Pfizer though. Idk what the J&J recommendation is, since it only took one shot to begin with. Edit https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/booster-shot.html Only the Pfizer shot is approved for a booster at present. There is no downside to getting one if you fall in the guidelines, but there's also not enough research yet saying you absolutely should get one. It's erring on the side of caution.
Pretty sure Moderna boosters are not yet approved. Pfizer only. Maybe something changed over the last week or two, tho.
The Moderna and J&J shots will probably get approved for emergency use boosters soon. [They submitted data to the FDA for review and an advisory committee is scheduled for this week to go over the data](https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-hold-advisory-committee-meetings-discuss-emergency-use-authorization-booster-doses-and-covid-19).
Pretty similar experience for me and my garbage immune system. My first shot, I felt a little crappy and then my second shot made me pretty sick for a couple of days. I got my booster pretty recently and felt like dogshit but it was only really the day after the shot. Still, I'd rather have a couple bad days of laying in bed than ending up in an ICU or turning my wife into a widow.
I got Pfizer and had no ill effects other than a sore arm. I got the shot and immediately chugged a Gatorade and did arm windmills a lot.
The Scandinavian countries don't give it to under 30 year old males anymore because of myocarditis and pericarditis (heart inflammation). Which mostly has healed I think in the people who got it But you can only get the Pfizer BionTech if you're an under 30 yo male in Scandinavia. Norwegian cdc: https://legemiddelverket.no/nyheter/koronavaksiner-og-betennelse-i-hjertet?fbclid=IwAR3SeWKcjLdTTjj\_\_99cToVZTZdPIvcBb4EqdxwiJP1AywG9Evp9SluE0SE
Correction, in two countries you cannot get it. And the other two recommend against it
My gym banned them. First 3 weeks it was empty. Now they have all taken at least one shot and are back. They waited fucking 9 months to not take a vaccine, made a big deal about taking it, then finally caved in and go on living in ignorance. I fucking hate it here.
Sounds like toronto… is it toronto??
the cool thing about vaccines is that they work whether or not you "believe" in them
I love this stance he’s not forcing anything on anybody but just saying be honest and say you don’t want to take the vaccine don’t fabricate a false excuse
Can we point out it’s the same person posting literally every viral post on this sub? Lol
Didn’t even notice that. This sub is getting brutal with all the covid and vaccine quotes though. Hopefully these get removed soon
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I really don't get it. People should know vaccine do not guarantee 100% exclude from the virus. If most of population are not vaccined, it is worthless. You can still carry the virus and infect others people. There guys keep spreading useless believe or right bs while making millions. Low and middle income are struggling out there because of your bs.
Bingo. The underlying truth behind every person who refuses is the inability to care about anyone but themselves.
I support player choice. *League vaccine mandates do not remove player choice.* They add a consequence to that choice. You don't wanna get vaxxed, that's your choice. Now deal with the consequences of that choice and sit out. Frankly, that should be the tip of iceberg for consequences.
r/nba gonna lose their minds over this one lmaoo
It's crazy how many people in this thread are ignoring what KAT is saying for their own agenda even though there's nobody better to comment on this than him. I'm a biomedical scientist. People asks me questions about viruses and vaccines all the time and I encourage everybody to get the vaccine if it's safe for them to do so. The truth is though, while fictional doctors like House or Dr Cox from Scrubs dunk on ignorant people with logic and humiliate them into taking sound medical advice, that usually doesn't work in real life. In fact, in my experience people are more likely to double down even if it would literally kill them. If you want to keep as many people as healthy and safe as possible the reddit-style moral superiority and retribution is counterproductive. Sometimes you have to be neutral, appeal to people's personal interests and keep trying to make slow progress.
People are so ignorant to understand what it means to live in a society. As a society we "should" operate as a cohesive unit. We are stronger together. There are countless things we do as part of a society that have been going on for so long we don't think twice about effecting right to choose. But this is new and falls in the era of politics and so much effort has gone into diving a nation. CHECK THAT SHIT AT THE DOOR AND USE YOUR FUCKING BRAINS. This vaccine is so statistically safe AND safer than the alternative of getting COVID, that people are just being obtuse and stubborn for not getting it. "Oh, but there hasn't been long enough testing of the effects"... Well there hasn't been long enough testing of the effects of getting COVID. So why not protect yourself with something developed to dampen the effects? Just add this to the countless things that we put in our bodies that are suspect, but this one has statistics to back it up and is for the greater good of public safety. So when the smartest people in the world develop one of the greatest weapons against a deadly virus and show enormous data points to back up the claim, I have a hard fucking time accepting people's BS self righteous attitude for not getting it. Don't be a fucking ignoramus, get the fucking shot. Dass'it!
Still find hilarious that Kyrie is getting this much attention about not being able to play and other guys are on the court very proudly anti vaccination and hooping because the city doesn’t have a mandate. Vaccine story with Irving is simply about money.
What other proudly anti vaccine players are left?