[sshine]

> had the nerve to ask my friend whether they still needed to be vaccinated after

Considering the unlikeliness of being able to get COVID twice, that is, in fact a god question with a very non-trivial answer.

McCullough on getting COVID twice (2m54s): https://youtu.be/5kGK_dZsQ4U

s/Being anti-vax is basically a religion/Being informed is basically a maze/

Not all people who are not vaccinated are anti-vaxxers, not all who are vaccinated think that the vaccination policies are sensible, and criticizing vaccination policy is not the same as being anti-vaxxer.

[geofft]

I never thought I'd be saying this, but Joe Rogan is right here. The claim that it's impossible to get covid twice contradicts obvious empirical evidence - and more importantly, reasoning from first principles gives you no particular reason why it would be true.

This dude is establishing an awfully high level of evidence - PCR tests, antigen tests, etc. between the two instances - which probably isn't even collected when people get covid. Why would you? If you're feeling awful, and you have a positive PCR test, why take an antigen test?

So there are quite possibly a number of cases where this dude's level of evidence doesn't exist, and he goes straight from absence of evidence to evidence of absence. But the extraordinary claim, that you can't get covid twice, is what needs high levels of evidence - which he handwaves away by saying maybe it was the flu. Prove that! Show the flu test results! The ordinary claim is that you can get it twice, and demanding extraordinary evidence for that is just foolish.

[ReallyOldLurker]

> not all who are vaccinated think that the vaccination policies are sensible, and criticizing vaccination policy is not the same as being anti-vaxxer

Agreed. I am vaccinated, but I think that most of the Federal and Oregon state policy is political baloney.