There is a pervasive sense in the anti-vax community that if you had previously been infected with Covid, you are immune to it now. This of course is not true, as anyone with a cold more than once in their life knows, or pretty much everybody. So why certain people think this particular Coronavirus would behave differently than its cousins, and more like Chicken Pox, is up for discussion although TFG screaming it at maskless rallies for the near entirety of 2020 might have something to do with it. Nevertheless, presenting the case of the Pizza man and school board member who learned the hard way that being unvaccinated means The Pathogen Always Rings Twice.
Kansas City area official who died from COVID was unvaccinated, ‘felt he was immune’
COVID-19 took the life of 48-year-old Ryan Vescovi, a popular and beloved pizza shop owner, school board member and familiar smile in Pleasant Hill. “He was not vaccinated, but felt he was immune because he already had COVID,” his stepmother, Kathy Feist-Vescovi, told The Star this week. Vescovi’s death Sept. 17 spurred much discussion online about natural immunity and whether people who have had the virus need the vaccine. His illness convinced his stepmom that she needed the shots.
Doubts about the vaccine perplex physicians and hospital administrators who see that overwhelmingly, the people dying of COVID-19 in the Kansas City area now are unvaccinated. Hospitals are running short on beds for non-COVID patients because they’re filled with unvaccinated people.
Mr. Vescovi was apparently a lovable lug type, who had a reputation for being gregarious and a bit of a prankster. He owned Guido’s Pizza Place founded by his father.
Vescovi was a lifelong resident of Pleasant Hill, southeast of Kansas City in Cass County, where he played high school football and was known as a town prankster, his obituary says. His most memorable prank? Putting soap in the historic downtown’s fountain and adding a fan “to make the largest bubbles the police department has ever seen,” says the obituary.
And to drive home the point, epidemiologist Ryan Demmer wants you to know two things. 1. Getting vaccinated “is the single greatest thing you can do to lower your risk of a serious outcome,” and 2., if you do not get vaccinated, it is a near certainty you will get Covid.
And if you do get it while unvaccinated, during one of the subsequent times, it just might finish what it started previously.
There is no guarantee of previous immunity with Covid-19, period. It’s like this-you might get lucky if you wreck without a seatbelt..maybe, once.
Next time, they likely find you thrown through the windshield.
You might get lucky without a vaccination..maybe, once.
Next time..Covid might make sure its your last time.
-ROC
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