Update From Ron New Day Record Covid 19 Battle

@coltrane1: 

"Fact: if you take the vaccine you have a chance not to die from covid 19. 
 

If you choose not to take the vaccine because of right wing politics, religious beliefs, poor logic, etc, and infect your entire family with covid, you rolled the dice and lost. Decisions. 

What I don't get is these people make a decision that effects everyone they come in contact with. I don't dare to go to the store without wearing a 3M N95 mask. And I understand the store's policy of requiring everyone to wear a mask or don't enter. 
 

Anti vaxxer's are a threat to society. Keep it real and speak the truth about it."

Yes, indeed. 

Whatever happened to acting for the greater good ?  ?  ? 

A  single-minded focus upon "alternative facts" and conspiracy theories may indicate the presence of a desperate psychogical need to believe that one alone is "right" and that everyone else is "wrong". 

In this scenario, the more outlandish the divergence from reality, the greater the psychological payoff. 

A psyche that requires such means of vindication is hardly "free" -- on the contrary, it is pinned beneath the metaphorical thumb of an overriding and unrelenting denial of reality. 

"Reality" with a big "R" will be a common conquest by all humanity....For the moment we are all divided in virtual realities that appear real to us"

Sad but true. I'm curious, mahgister:  how do you envision this "conquest"  occuring?  What will it take??? 

It's a hall of mirrors, where more often than not, what  "appears most real" are  our own projections... 

A hall of mirrors has traditionally been known as a "fun house" so the question I'd pose is:  are we having fun yet? 

@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.