Update From Ron New Day Record Covid 19 Battle

@prof I will make sure to leave you my dying testimony about my changed vaccine views. How should it go??

I wish I took the vaccine, I repent.

Can I please take the vaccine now? Is it too late?

Please take the vaccine, don’t be me, I am a dumb evil antivaxxer, Russian disninformation is directly responsible for my death?

Is that good? If you have any suggestions, I can add other lines to the script.

Maybe we can turn this into an advertising campaign...... oh .....just like constantly bombard people with the same story over and over and over again......that might be good don’t you think?

@nnicola:

"I think Ron's video is a pretty strong argument for getting vaccinated, even though he does not explicitly state that."

Based strictly upon his words, Ron's message could be interpreted as " This terrible thing has happened, out of the blue, to our family and there was nothing we could've done about it", as if there had been no advance warning and no possible strategy for avoiding or minimizing the impacts.And the responses I've read on youtube have been largely in this same vein. 

I don't know the guy so I have no idea what he might be thinking but not saying. There was certainly no explicit acknowledgment that he could have handled it differently -- that he chose to ignore the advice of the great majority of health practitioners, world-wide and in so doing, brough this calamity down upon himself and his loved ones. 

Given that he's suffered significantly, one might think, for the sake of other families who are anti-vax, Ron might be inclined to make a far less ambivalent statement. Perhap he is still too "shell-shocked" to think of anyone else or perhaps he's still convinced he made the right decision, like the Covid patients dying in  ICU's who still refuse the vaccine. To say the degree to which he side-stepped the massive "elephant in the room" was "striking" would be, from my perspective, an understatement. 

I hope that what you suggest is indeed true-- that his video may serve as a "strong argument for getting vaccinated" -- but based upon the virulence and quantity of anti-vax posts on this thread, I have my doubts. 

This is the most entertaining thread on this website 😁

My wife- 60 years old with serious asthma problems, a clear comirbidity, got tested after vaca in SC and before visiting anyone here, positive for Covid-19, zero symptoms, well past 10 day hiding period.

Me- 65 years old in an age group where Covid is most likely to pose a threat, got tested prior to going to a family event and a large indoor public event, positive for Covid, zero symptoms into my 7th day of the 10 day hiding period.

'Both of us fully vaccinated, including boosters.  Take it for what you will, I'm calling it success.

And to think this is an Audio forum?

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” Isaac Asimov