official word is.

The official word is the vaccinated people don't even have the virus as long. So if you're vaccinated maybe you could spread it just as much for a day but if you're unvaccinated you can spread it that same amount for let's say three days. I'm making up the numbers but do you get that Lucy? That according to the official word there would be a really big difference but not at any moment. So there could be a moment in time when the vaccinated and unvaccinated person who's infected could be exactly the same for a moment but that moment only lasts a little while for the vaccinated because they resolve it faster and it lasts longer for the unvaccinated. Does everybody get that?

Now I'm not saying it's true. That's different because that would be believing the data. I'm just saying what the data says. That that's the official word, right? Everybody. So look in the comments Lucy and you'll see. Now I believe that where that belief came from is the studies that said that the vaccinated people who got infected had as much viral stuff, you know, that they were expelling as unvaccinated. And I think that's true. It just doesn't last as long and that's a big, big difference. How long it lasts.

All right. Adams. So now I'm gaslighting and goalpost moving. Now why would you pay a subscription fee to listen to me if you think any of that's true? In fact I just did a comic exactly about you. The comic I just wrote is about people accusing me of moving the goalposts when nothing like that has ever happened. It's the most common thing I get is you're moving the goalpost. I don't think I ever once.

Breakthrough cases have been rising. Well they should. They should, don't you think? That the vaccinated breakthrough cases should be rising even if the government is completely right about what vaccinations are at the moment. Addison's comment I agree with. So at the moment it looks increasingly clear that Omicron is a super mild version, right?

How many of you who are vaccinated or even unvaccinated have thought to yourself if you could just get some of that Omicron you would go get it today? Like if you could infect yourself and you knew it was the Omicron wouldn't you do it today? Now don't take any medical advice from me please please please do not do not do not do not take medical advice from a cartoonist. Some of you would die if you tried that technique. Let me be clear. If you try to intentionally infect yourself some of you are going to die. That's just going to happen. So don't take my advice.

But personally just what you know given the let's say incomplete nature of data so you can never know what's the right choice. But if you said to me Scott I can guarantee I can give you some of this Omicron stuff and it will make you naturally immune to all the rest of it and you're already vaccinated so there's not much risk. If that was the proposition and it looks like it might be yeah I would sign up for that. I would do it today. I wouldn't even wait. I'd say can I have that by lunchtime? Give me that Omicron. Give it to me hard.

All of us are going to die. Maggie says good philosophy. Sure.

Let me give you a trick to get you out of your temporary depression. Maybe I've told you this before but this will be gigantic for some of you. You ready? Do you ever have a day when you're just so unhappy and sad you think you could just kill yourself? You have now