How do I handle my family hating me because I tested positive for Covid?

@Shaveit ooh yes.... blame everyone else but the culprits.

@Darksideinthenight2 oh, so you're excusing your bigoted family?

I’m hungry- I wish I could leave my room to get food @WintaTheAngle

@antisocialbutterfly Then you should. They can’t expect you to starve during this. You’ll need decent food to give your body a kick through this.

@Shaveit And now go read what [i]immunity[/i] means. Because you're confusing the broad concept of "immunity" with "sterilizing immunity" (i.e. complete protection from infection and transmission), and due to that, losing your mind and going for tangential conspiratoid crap. These vaccines were never trialed, at any point in their development, testing and post-distribution for their effectiveness at providing [b]sterilizing [/b]immunity, but only "protection against symptomatic disease".

Back in 2020, the efficacy against symptomatic disease was fixated to be >50% for a vaccine to be approved. Currently, three doses of mRNA vaccines confer 60-80% efficacy against Omicron, and greater than 90% against symptomatic Delta. Two doses are currently greater than 70% effective against symptomatic Delta, but insufficient (i.e. below 50%) against symptomatic Omicron (reason why eligible people with more than one functioning neuron have been getting their boosters).

Long story short, read less rightoid conspiratorial crap and educate yourself, then you can have this talk.

@Elessar Vaccination is a simple, safe, and effective way of protecting you against harmful diseases, before you come into contact with them. It uses your body’s natural defenses to build resistance to specific infections and makes your immune system stronger.

Vaccines train your immune system to create antibodies, just as it does when it’s exposed to a disease. However, because vaccines contain only killed or weakened forms of germs like viruses or bacteria, they do not cause the disease or put you at risk of its complications.



How does a vaccine work?
Vaccines reduce risks of getting a disease by working with your body’s natural defenses to build protection. When you get a vaccine, your immune system responds. It:

Recognizes the invading germ, such as the virus or bacteria.

Produces antibodies. Antibodies are proteins produced naturally by the immune system to fight disease.

Remembers the disease and how to fight it. If you are then exposed to the germ in the future, your immune system can quickly destroy it before you become unwell.

The vaccine is therefore a safe and clever way to produce an immune response in the body, without causing illness.

Our immune systems are designed to remember. Once exposed to one or more doses of a vaccine, we typically remain protected against a disease for years, decades or even a lifetime. This is what makes vaccines so effective. Rather than treating a disease after it occurs, vaccines prevent us in the first instance from getting sick.

@SW-User I'm aware, I've gotten all those that were made available to me.

@Darksideinthenight2 I’m starting to get hungry . I’d really like some food .

@antisocialbutterfly
Go feed yourself.
Tell your family to lock themselves in their rooms for an hour while you eat.