The COVID vaccines are a fantastic technology that, if used properly, can end the epidemic around the world. Among all medical inventions, vaccines have saved more lives than any other – except perhaps basic hygiene measures like proper sewage systems and clean drinking water. Vaccines themselves do not protect us; it is our immune system’s reaction to the vaccine that protects us. The beauty of vaccines is that we can activate our immune system against serious diseases without becoming seriously ill.
Natural infection typically confers better and broader protection, but this comes at a cost to those who are vulnerable to severe illness and death. For those in the vulnerable group, including the elderly and those with chronic disease, it is safer to acquire future protection against the disease via vaccination than by recovering from the disease. At the same time, it makes little sense to ignore the scientific fact that infection does confer long-lasting future protection for the millions of people who have had COVID.
Smallpox and polio are not coronaviruses. Thus they can be eradicated with vaccination.
This matters, because if we’re ever going to return to normal it’s going to have to be with the understanding that it’s not possible to have zero COVID cases. There will be COVID cases among the people who don’t have immunity, and it’s quite likely that as the virus continues to mutate its variants might continue to produce symptoms among people who have been vaccinated. We’re seeing a bit of that with the Delta variant, though it’s true that more than 90 percent of those currently hospitalized with COVID are unvaccinated.
Returning to normal is going to mean that future strains of COVID, which are overwhelmingly likely to be infectious but less serious or deadly, will infect people regularly like colds or influenza do.
Status report? Is the 5000 large still on the table?
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Honest questions you guys. Evil, Dad, Husker Pooespola or IZ, please share sage advice with me. I have NEVER felt this much pressure to earn my freedom. Does anyone truly know what their rolling their sleeve up for? What's in IT, please share if you honestly know what the ingredients is that everyone is begging me to take. I mean, at this point I see no way of living in California without going homeless. I could move to another state and they will welcome me but my dd Sr year is what some kids live for. I'm stuck between a rock & a hard place. My buddy took two jabs to keep his job and now he drinks blood thinner. The dude out of Murrieta is not doing good. Please pray for Gary. I will give update on him asap. I saw a real video of 17 year old who took jabs because her mom said so and is paralyzed from the waist down. He mom was crying saying dont have kids take it. Why is blood thinner #1 in sales right now? My buddy just bought a killer house up in Agora Hills. His wife just got her fat bonus for another record quarter. Teachers get their jobs ((they now have to give something up if they want a job so they can pay their mortgage or rent and all their other payments like sports car)). This is what keeping up with the Smiths is like you guys but with intense pressure to keep you freedom. Nothing like freedom in exchange for two jabs+mask+boosters when Dr. F says to take the boosters. Either way, none of us have true freedom. My buddy told me 100% no more Jabs and if he could do it all over again, he would have moved two years ago and took a job at a Charter School in FL.. He took the jab because he felt pressure from his boss. Wat Fly man, if a person feels cohorts into a corner to keep his job and then dies from adverse reaction to the jabs, can family sue the business owner? Some of these guys are mean assholes and make worker feel guilty, confused, pressured and not sure what to do so they take one for the team and roll up the sleeve.Whatever your opinion, taking the time to track back through attribution is IMO deserving of kuddos.
There is an episode of South Park where the parents get the kids together with a sick kid so they all get chickenpox. The kids find out and as revenge get a hooker with herpes to use their parents personal items like toothbrushes.I remember as a kid my mom sent me to hang out with a friend who wasn’t feeling well. Come to find out he had the Chickenpox, cause I broke out a few days later. I also found out 3 other friends had the same experience cause our parents intentionally sent us there to get the Virus because it was better for us to get it as a kid and develop an immunity than to risk getting it as an adult.
LOL…..that was a great episode!There is an episode of South Park where the parents get the kids together with a sick kid so they all get chickenpox. The kids find out and as revenge get a hooker with herpes to use their parents personal items like toothbrushes.
I'm hoping you didn't do that to your mom.
Thanks Hound, I needed this. I went to Hole Foods and everyone is back wearing the mask. I decided I dont want to be called A Schmuck or a Drunk Driver so I gave up my freedom to make others around less paranoid and will ear my mask again. I 100% feel sorry for all my friends who took the two jabs and are not safe from getting it and it they do get IT, their super spreaders now. I cant keep up with the latest data. These people have no more goal post. It always good and their always right with their numbers. They never lie and they always tell the truth. I now know people are 100% being played and are brainwashed in fear. Fear is everywhere. That was a quick summer. This Fall is going to nuts!!!
I know, right? Did you hear cases are skyrocketing in San Francisco and nyc??? That evil Ron de santis must be stopped!!!Apparently DeSantis does no know how bad things are since he is now denying knowledge of hundreds of ventilators being requested by Florida state health authorities from Federal stockpiles.
It’s a bit why my current stance is ironic. I begged my parents not to do that to me and managed to avoid getting it into my 20s. I got it as a senior in college probably on a flight back from russia. I had to be hospitalized. Had some pretty bad lung scaring too and had to go on oxygen. It was just a few years shy of the vaccine being approved in the us too.I remember as a kid my mom sent me to hang out with a friend who wasn’t feeling well. Come to find out he had the Chickenpox, cause I broke out a few days later. I also found out 3 other friends had the same experience cause our parents intentionally sent us there to get the Virus because it was better for us to get it as a kid and develop an immunity than to risk getting it as an adult.
The trials of the moderna vaccine in 12-17 didn’t go well. The early reports ionic show only 40% effective in stopping symptomatic infection against the delta. If so why make the kiddos take it…they already aren’t at serious risk of hospitalization and disease so what exactly is the vaccine intended to accomplish??? Make a cold a more mild cold?Honest questions you guys. Evil, Dad, Husker Pooespola or IZ, please share sage advice with me. I have NEVER felt this much pressure to earn my freedom. Does anyone truly know what their rolling their sleeve up for? What's in IT, please share if you honestly know what the ingredients is that everyone is begging me to take. I mean, at this point I see no way of living in California without going homeless. I could move to another state and they will welcome me but my dd Sr year is what some kids live for. I'm stuck between a rock & a hard place. My buddy took two jabs to keep his job and now he drinks blood thinner. The dude out of Murrieta is not doing good. Please pray for Gary. I will give update on him asap. I saw a real video of 17 year old who took jabs because her mom said so and is paralyzed from the waist down. He mom was crying saying dont have kids take it. Why is blood thinner #1 in sales right now? My buddy just bought a killer house up in Agora Hills. His wife just got her fat bonus for another record quarter. Teachers get their jobs ((they now have to give something up if they want a job so they can pay their mortgage or rent and all their other payments like sports car)). This is what keeping up with the Smiths is like you guys but with intense pressure to keep you freedom. Nothing like freedom in exchange for two jabs+mask+boosters when Dr. F says to take the boosters. Either way, none of us have true freedom. My buddy told me 100% no more Jabs and if he could do it all over again, he would have moved two years ago and took a job at a Charter School in FL.. He took the jab because he felt pressure from his boss. Wat Fly man, if a person feels cohorts into a corner to keep his job and then dies from adverse reaction to the jabs, can family sue the business owner? Some of these guys are mean assholes and make worker feel guilty, confused, pressured and not sure what to do so they take one for the team and roll up the sleeve.