Coronavirus vaccination: pros, cons, alternatives

isn’t that just peachy kind of you

It’s best to own our monikers.

Enjoy your evening!

Guy

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-cures/588038-gop-governor-says-unvaccinated-are-overwhelming

“But we have overflowing hospitals. And so that 8 percent of the population who has not been vaccinated is responsible for 75 percent of all the people that are filling up our COVID beds in the hospital,” Hogan continued.
Currently, there are more than 2,700 hospitalizations related to COVID-19 in the state, according to state data.

Is this the norm around the States these days?

Bottom line: nobody knows why Americans are getting ill and dying, because (a) nobody is publishing the raw data and (b) whatever is causing it, the administrators are almost certainly lying, because the numbers just don’t stack up.

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A 4- or 5-Sigma amount of deaths (as an outlier) compared to normal years is just not worth investigating by mainstream media either.
However, headlines everywhere currently have EXPLOSIONS OF RECORD COVID-19 CASES.
[Because everyone’s getting tested, but under those same headlines, there’s no mentions of death counts.]

Thousands of people dying in the prime of life from … something mysterious certainly seems to be less interesting than a few dozen old people DYING OF OMICRON. As per the blog, it seems statistically impossible that all those (unvaccinated) young/middle-aged people are dying of COVID. There just aren’t enough of them, and that age range has historically been unaffected by COVID.

Well, if it’s happening to one insurer, it’s happening to others.
If they are listed firms, the “losses” will show up on financial statements or maybe some analyst (unlike the mainstream media) will ask even more in-depth questions during an analyst call. Time will tell if the information ever comes out to the greater public.

Came across this study:

They say Omicron is not much more transmissible than Delta, but there is strong evidence of immune evasiveness.

To conclude, we found an increased susceptibility for unvaccinated individuals, and a reduced susceptibility for booster-vaccinated individuals, compared to fully vaccinated individuals in households infected with the Delta VOC. Additionally, we found a reduced susceptibility for booster-vaccinated individuals in households infected with the Omicron VOC. Furthermore, we found an increased transmissibility from unvaccinated individuals, and a reduced transmissibility from booster-vaccinated individuals, compared to fully vaccinated individuals. Lastly, we we found a general higher transmission in households infected with the Omicron VOC relative to the Delta for both unvaccinated, fully vaccinated and booster-vaccinated individuals. The Omicron VOC showed immune evasiveness for fully vaccinated and booster-vaccinated individuals. Our results confirm that booster vaccination has the potential to reduce Omicron VOC transmission in households, although vaccination as a strategy for epidemic control is increasingly challenged by the immune evasiveness of the Omicron VOC.

T2.medium

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Besides protection against severe COVID-19, Pfizer vaccine is highly effective in preventing multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C) in children aged 12–18 years caused by SARS-CoV-2 infection.

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I’m not debating the symptoms or the cause, but there are people being injured in very similar ways by COVID vaccination (one example below) and they are also being ignored. It’s frustrating that there is no visibility on either “long COVID” or post-vaccination syndromes - in particular, we don’t know how many of these people exist. There is precious little good-quality research on it, just a whole lot of handwaving.

Second booster doesn’t really work anyways. I won’t get another booster unless I’m absolutely forced to in order to travel.

But what the doctor is saying is that the second booster bring things back to where the first booster had things. So if the first works then so does the second. I’m not saying so, therefore, you need a second booster, only that the doc is not saying the second booster doesn’t work. The headline is misleading (probably on purpose).

Unless you have different information.

I personally will hesitate to get a second booster because the trend seems to be less and less deadliness and severe sickness with these variants.

Everyone will get Omicron before their antibodies reduce much anyway, and then it’s already gone endemic. Getting any more jabs is just unnecessary risk.

Three shots might not be sufficient:

"As of Sunday, more than 500,000 people in Israel had received fourth doses since the country began offering them last month to medical workers, immunocompromised patients, and people ages 60 and older, the AP reported.

At the same time, the country has faced a recent coronavirus surge that has led to record-breaking numbers of cases and rising hospitalizations."

Maybe the fifth shot (2 shots + 3 boosters) will be effective against wild Omicron explosions.

Here’s hoping.

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The article hints maybe 5 is needed?

:thinking:

In state of Bavaria, Germany, where almost 25 million doses of covid vaccine were administered, 4 people were damaged by vaccines and will receive compensation. Due to a very low number of people, to protect the privacy of those affected (demanded by laws), they can not publish which damages occurred and how much money will be payed out.

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Four people in Bavaria had their vaccine damage formally acknowledged.

There are tens of thousands of people seeking help on facebook for their vaccine injuries (and mostly being banned as soon as they mention the V-word). Probably hundreds of thousands more who accept that the State will never compensate them.

You know these tens of thousands of people personally?

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Do you? Or perhaps more importantly, are you privy to some information that suggests they’re all lying?

I’m just asking. Do you know all of these people personally?

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