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Saturday, July 10, 2021 10:06 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


This was from a post I made on March 10th, but it was a summation of things I'd been saying way back in 2020.

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What she told her husband is what the media is suggesting that EVERYONE who is getting vaccinated do to anybody who isn't getting vaccinated. And also doing to them what she did to him.

Guilt them.

Guilting him to guilt them.



Here's the steps, if you missed me talk about them before.


STEP 1: Give the vaccine to the 50 to 60% of people who are terrified of the virus and would do anything to get it.

STEP 2: Give the vaccine to the 15 to 20% of people who are just so f-ing tired of how we've been forced to live the last year that they just want it to go away and will get vaccinated so they can get back to their old lives.

(Steps one and two will have quite a bit of overlap, both in the timeframe and/or like-mindedness.)

STEP 3: Guilt the shit of the remaining people. Not all of them will be guilted into it. But some of them will.

STEP 4: Ruin the lives of people who still refuse. This can be done, and will be done, in a variety of ways. (This can only begin once there is a legitimate surplus of vaccinations without any remaining demand for them).

One of the biggest will be by allowing corporations to force vaccinations otherwise face termination from your job (the article from South Carolina I posted earlier today is actually about a bill being considered in the state to PROHIBIT companies in the state from doing this).

But then there's just the general guilting that will never end until the media stops talking about it. If you haven't been paying attention to the way these things work online the last few years, that guilting will quickly turn to HATE. This is going to make for a very hostile work environment for many people at this point. Imagine the RWED, but in a live office setting... in every workplace around the country. (and with weak-minded, terrified people truly believing that somebody like me is threatening their life by my mere presence in front of them without having had the shots).

If they really want to make the issue bad, they'll start instituting an ID card... maybe even provide you with a handy little lanyard to wear it like a dog collar whenever you leave your home.

Worst case is that when enough people have already gotten it and the rest refuse that the Legacy Media starts referring to those who resist vaccination as Bio Terrorists.



I've pretty much been spot on for the first three steps.

Admittedly, I didn't see handing out a bunch of freebies and doing Lotteries to try to entice people before moving on to Step 4 though.

But we are clearly in Step 3.5 right now, and just as I predicted they're throwing away TONS of vaccines since nobody else wants one.

Is New Zealand is racing to prove me right on the predictions past Step 4 already?



Anybody else going to join the race?



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Saturday, July 10, 2021 10:18 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


I saw what New Zealand is doing now in a Twilight Zone episode.

You don't miss your appointment to get your Egg.

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Saturday, July 10, 2021 1:39 PM

SIGNYM

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People Who Recover From COVID-19 At "Very Low Risk" Of Re-Infection: Study
Saturday, Jul 10, 2021 - 11:32 AM

Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,

People who have contracted COVID-19 and recovered should know that the risk for re-infection is very low, a doctor said after a study he worked on was published.

Researchers analyzed records from Curative, a clinical laboratory based in San Dimas that specializes in COVID-19 testing and has during the pandemic been conducting routine workforce screening. None of the 254 employees who had COVID-19 and recovered became re-infected, while four of the 739 who were fully vaccinated contracted the disease.

“The big takeaway was that if you are not vaccinated, and were not previously infected, one, you have a very high risk getting infected—24 percent of employees over a year tested positive. However, on the flip side, if you were vaccinated or previously infected your risk was near zero,” Dr. Jeffrey Klausner, clinical professor of preventive medicine and medicine at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine, told The Epoch Times.

Klausner and Dr. Noah Kojima of the University of California, Los Angeles’ Department of Medicine joined with Curative workers to analyze the records. They released a pre-print, or pre-peer reviewed version of the study online this week.

Researchers found that of the 4,313 employees who were not previously infected or fully vaccinated, 254 became infected.

The findings add to the growing body of research that indicates people who had COVID-19 and recovered enjoy a similar level of protection as those who have gotten a vaccine, following a study in the United Kingdom and one by Cleveland Clinic researchers.

“It should give confidence to people who have recovered that they are at very low risk for repeat infection and some experts including myself believe that protection is equal to vaccination,” Klausner told The Epoch Times.

“And we’re trying to update policy such that people who have recovered have the same privileges and access as people who are vaccinated.”

According to federal guidance, vaccines should be administered to people irrespective of whether they’ve had COVID-19 in the past.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has said officials are aware of evidence suggesting natural immunity among those who have been infected but has not altered its recommendations to incorporate that evidence.

“We do not comment on non-CDC authored papers. We continually evaluate the science that leads to our guidance, and if it needs to be changed, we will be base that on our own research and studies,” a spokesman told The Epoch Times in an email last month.

A transmission electron micrograph shows SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, isolated from a patient. (NIAID)

The limitations of the new study, which has been submitted to a journal and is being peer reviewed, include the possibility employees could have tested positive for COVID-19 outside of the routine screening, or employee testing program.

The group plans to conduct more analysis on the Curative data.

Dr. David Boulware, professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota, told The Epoch Times via email that the study “adds to the body of literature that generally healthy adults <65 years old with prior COVID-19 infection are generally not at risk of recurrent SARS-CoV-2 infection in short term after initial symptomatic infection.”

SARS-CoV-2 is another name for the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus, which causes COVID-19.

Boulware, who was not involved in the research, noted that the median age of those tested was 29 years old and very likely included few people 65 years old or older, or many people without immune system problems.

“Thus, this may not apply to elderly persons or persons with substantial co-morbidities—but does likely apply to adults 18-65 years of age without major medical problems,” he said, adding that because the follow-up time period of those studied was relatively short, the paper does not give insight into longer-term protection.

“Long term protection is more unknown, which is why persons with prior infection still are recommended to receive at least 1 vaccine dose, but there is not any urgency to receive the vaccine (and waiting ~3 months likely would be fine),” he said.

Klausner said that besides bolstering the idea of natural immunity, the study shows that vaccination in the workplace is important.

“We need to continue to promote workplace vaccination requirements. Businesses have the authority and have the ability and have the legal power to require employees get vaccinated,” he said. “And I think this did the support that benefits of that.”



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Saturday, July 10, 2021 6:19 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


That's funny.

The entire year leading up to the vaccine they were telling everybody the exact opposite of that article, Sigs.

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Saturday, July 10, 2021 8:07 PM

SIGNYM

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So for the vaccines, there are more options worldwide. In the States, the options are currently restricted to the genetic ones. Many people are uncomfortable with those for various reasons, and might be more comfortable with the Novavax product. I have no financial ties to Novavax, just to mention any potential conflict of interest. I’m just expressing what I perceive to be the vaccine landscape....

I’m going to stick my neck out, but I’m in close contact with Andrew Hill, who’s doing the meta-analysis, and the work of Tess Lawrie, who’s now published another meta-analysis from worldwide Ivermectin data—and the data keeps getting stronger and stronger in favor of ivermectin as having some protective activity within a safe dosing range. That seems to be impacting on various emerging economies that don’t have access to vaccines and is impacting on the event rate for severe COVID disease and death.



https://www.theepochtimes.com/dr-robert-malone-mrna-vaccine-inventor-o
n-the-bioethics-of-experimental-vaccines-and-the-ultimate-gaslighting_3889805.html



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Sunday, July 11, 2021 9:20 AM

1KIKI

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:

People Who Recover From COVID-19 At "Very Low Risk" Of Re-Infection: Study
Saturday, Jul 10, 2021 - 11:32 AM

Authored by Zachary Stieber via The Epoch Times,

People who have contracted COVID-19 and recovered should know that the risk for re-infection is very low, a doctor said after a study he worked on was published.

Researchers analyzed records from Curative, a clinical laboratory based in San Dimas ...

San Dimas is a stealth high-tech bio/ med area.
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... that specializes in COVID-19 testing and has during the pandemic been conducting routine workforce screening. None of the 254 employees who had COVID-19 and recovered became re-infected, while four of the 739 who were fully vaccinated contracted the disease.

“The big takeaway was that if you are not vaccinated, and were not previously infected, one, you have a very high risk getting infected—24 percent of employees over a year tested positive.

That strikes me as being a very high overall population infection rate. Most of these people were probably infected elsewhere - where they live - not where they work. Overall, San Dimas looks like it has a really high cooperation rate when it comes to public masking, and a very low endogenous infection rate.
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However, on the flip side, if you were vaccinated or previously infected your risk was near zero,” Dr. Jeffrey Klausner, clinical professor of preventive medicine and medicine at the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine, told The Epoch Times.
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The findings add to the growing body of research that indicates people who had COVID-19 and recovered enjoy a similar level of protection as those who have gotten a vaccine, following a study in the United Kingdom and one by Cleveland Clinic researchers.
But people who suffer from long-COVID-19 do seem to benefit from vaccination.
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According to federal guidance, vaccines should be administered to people irrespective of whether they’ve had COVID-19 in the past.
If I had long-COVID-19 I'd get vaccinated to try and get some benefit.
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Dr. David Boulware, professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota, told The Epoch Times via email that the study “adds to the body of literature that generally healthy adults <65 years old with prior COVID-19 infection are generally not at risk of recurrent SARS-CoV-2 infection in short term after initial symptomatic infection.”
There are a lot of built-in caveats: 1) Vaccination provides deep-body immune protection - it's always been recognized that more-external surfaces like nasal passages and upper airways have a separate immune system that doesn't get invoked by vaccination. That's why initial vax effectiveness endpoints were hospitalizations and deaths, like from pneumonia, which is a deep-body problem; and not infections which is a more external mucosal problem. 2) It's unknown how long-term protection from either infection or vax lasts. What IS known is that antibody levels drop off quickly. Other parts of the immune system may be primed, active, and protective, but that still needs to be figured out. 3) Variants didn't play a big role for most of the study period. 4) MOST Americans - even young ones - suffer from co-morbidities, especially weight issues.
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“Thus, this may not apply to elderly persons or persons with substantial co-morbidities—but does likely apply to adults 18-65 years of age without major medical problems,” he said, adding that because the follow-up time period of those studied was relatively short, the paper does not give insight into longer-term protection.
Another shortcoming of the study is that it didn't address long COVID-19, which affects even young people, and people without serious infection. While previous infection may be protective, it may not be so benign.
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“We need to continue to promote workplace vaccination requirements. Businesses have the authority and have the ability and have the legal power to require employees get vaccinated,” he said. “And I think this did the support that benefits of that.”
If 25% of your uninfected/ unvaccinated workforce gets infected, I'd say that's a large business liability in terms of sick days, reduced productivity, family illness etc.

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Sunday, July 11, 2021 9:24 AM

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Just fyi, Signy:

L.A. County has more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases in a day, highest in months
https://news.yahoo.com/l-county-more-1-000-160443104.html

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Sunday, July 11, 2021 9:25 AM

1KIKI

Goodbye, kind world (George Monbiot) - In common with all those generations which have contemplated catastrophe, we appear to be incapable of understanding what confronts us.



You know, there was a study that indicated being vaccinated with 2 different vaccines for your first and second shots offered superior protection from COVID-19. I wish 'they' would allow for cross-vaccination.

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Sunday, July 11, 2021 9:32 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Not doing anything gives you somewhere around a 99% survival chance.

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Monday, July 19, 2021 7:45 AM

SIGNYM

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You know, there was a study that indicated being vaccinated with 2 different vaccines for your first and second shots offered superior protection from COVID-19. I wish 'they' would allow for cross-vaccination.



That makes sense, because each vaccine-maker hose prolly chosen different snippets of spike protein, so two different vaccines will offer your immune system a panoply to choose from.

I heard - but can't find a link anywhere- that natural infection offers superior protection. I can imagine that being true, since you would have been exposed to the ENTIRE spike protein, plus others! So if one area gets mutated, you still have an immune response to others. I also read that the Sputnik V uses the ENTIRE spike protein, but haven't been able to confirm that bc I found that ona "deadly vaccines" website, so I don't trust the site's credibilty.

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Monday, July 19, 2021 8:13 AM

SIGNYM

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Spent some time looking into vaccines and the delta variant.

There was a study in Israel which seems to show that Pfizer protects against hospitalizations and deaths, but not so much against infection.

There was a study in Britain which (according to Chris Martenson) seems to indicate that vaccine for over-50 INCREASES the chance of hospitalizations and deaths, but I think he misinterpreted the data, not taking into account the fact that the study population was already selected bc they had presented to the ER, not a population-wide study. According to him the delta variant has a low case fatality rate, and he seems to think this is bc the delta/India variant (altho 50% more transmissible than the alpha/UK variant, which itself is 50% more transmissible than the original) is more benign, but if he excluded the vaccinated from consideration he didn't say so, so it could simply be that the vaccine is working.

And then there are the hand-wringers who like to point out that nations with the highest vaccination rate have the highest infection rate (what about deaths?), implying that vaccinations cause infections. But they're drawing a causal connection *B caused by A, when the reality is that people may be significantly more relaxed about exposure after a vaccination campaign - I see that here - and even in nations with "high" vaccination rates, we're still talking only 60% (Israel, compared to 48% USA) leaving 40% of the nation un-vaccinated and vulnerable to infection.

And finally, the vaccine-makers were insistent until a month ago that the vaccine would be protective against the delta (and other) variants, but now they're changing their tune bc they want to sell "booster" shots.

And then there is the anecdote that "the only people in hospital in the USA who are dying are the unvaccinated".

There seems to be an awful lot of spin on whatever info is out there. The best I can conclude is that the vaccination (mostly) protects against serious illness and death. I personally still intend to wear my N95 while shopping, but feel reassured that even if I get sick it won't be fatal.

AFA whether "everyone" should get the vaccine ... at this point, I don't see a reason for a poulation-wide effort. If your personal risk, an the risk factors of those you take care of, is high (and that included medical personnel and elder carers) then you should get vaccinated.

But if you're under 50, not obese, aren't taking care of (a) vulnerable (person) people, and don't have high occupational exposure ... why bother? In fact.... PARTY ON!

The faster everyone gets vaccinated- OR SICK -the faster we reach herd immunity. And once the vulnerable are protected, then the less-vulnerable should go to their nearest bar and shout into each other's faces as often as possible.





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Monday, July 19, 2021 8:39 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Thanks Sigs. That's what I've been saying.

Glad to have you on board.



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Monday, July 19, 2021 9:10 PM

SIGNYM

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Thanks Sigs. That's what I've been saying.

Glad to have you on board.



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SIX, I'm basing this in the fact that self-protection in the form of a vaccine is now widely available.

You, OTOH, are anti-vaccine, anti-mask, anti-fact, and anti-science. I'm not onboard with that, and will never be.

If a variant should come along for which the vaccine doesn't work, and which has a significant case fatality rate for a certain segment of people, then we will have to revert to masking for the vulnerable, with N95s, at the the very least. And if something comes along that REALLY nails people, well, then ... ya gotta do whatcha gotta do.

I personally intend to stock up on N95s. Viral evolution never stops, and they may come in handy again, like they came in handy before. Also, the government should be makingsure that we have sufficient manufacturing capacity of PPEs... which I'm sure had dropped off the radar.

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Monday, July 19, 2021 9:34 PM

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Your "pro-science" people consistently lie to you and never factor in natural immunity toward the herd immunity goal.

Your "pro-science" people are injecting kids with mystery cocktails and they don't even need it.




They'd better be right that the lab rats who took the vaccine won't ever suffer any long term ill effects, or that's a lot of kids that are going to be messed up for life when they never had any reason to be.

Most of them, without their consent.

These kids can choose to be a different gender at 5 years old, but they can't say no to being a test subject for Big Pharma.

That's Our World in 2021.


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Tuesday, July 20, 2021 12:06 AM

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There's "science", and then there's science.

I'm not following some twat who belongs to the priesthood. I thought you knew me better than that.

Unlike JO, I really do follow evidence, even if it cuts across some cherished ideal or ideology.

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Tuesday, July 20, 2021 4:42 AM

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Sadly, many people feel the need to create instant narratives that they invest all their beliefs in, and then cling to them even when new facts emerge.

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Tuesday, July 20, 2021 5:14 AM

SIGNYM

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Your "pro-science" people consistently lie to you and never factor in natural immunity toward the herd immunity goal.

Your "pro-science" people are injecting kids with mystery cocktails and they don't even need it.




They'd better be right that the lab rats who took the vaccine won't ever suffer any long term ill effects, or that's a lot of kids that are going to be messed up for life when they never had any reason to be.

Most of them, without their consent.

These kids can choose to be a different gender at 5 years old, but they can't say no to being a test subject for Big Pharma.

That's Our World in 2021.


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Every time your "points" get debunked you either retreat into denial or you find YET ANOTHER reason to wring your hands and cry wolf!

First you wanted old people to die. Then you said the virus was "nothing". Then you were against lockdowns. Then you were against MASKING. Then you were against vaccines. Now you're wringing your hands " Think of the CHILDREN! "

NOBODY IS MANDATING VACCINES FOR CHILDREN.

If you're going get tweaked about something, at least make it about something real. (I would say the same to JO)



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Tuesday, July 20, 2021 8:25 AM

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Every time your "points" get debunked you either retreat into denial or you find YET ANOTHER reason to wring your hands and cry wolf!



I don't retreat. I deny your misinformation and parroting of Legacy Media lies on the subject, all while laughing at the fact that two normally rational people change their entire way of thinking about things on this particular issue. For some reason, for you and Kiki, there ARE weapons of mass destruction in Iraq this time.

They're crying wolf, and you're being duped.

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First you wanted old people to die.


No I didn't. You're oversimplifying that issue because it suits your argument now.

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Then you said the virus was "nothing".


The virus IS nothing.

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Then you were against lockdowns. Then you were against MASKING.


I was against masking FIRST. Then I was against lockdowns. Because that's the order they came up.

I still am.

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Then you were against vaccines.


Yes. I'm not an anti-vaxxer. I'm anti THIS vaccine.

You already know why.

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Now you're wringing your hands " Think of the CHILDREN! "

NOBODY IS MANDATING VACCINES FOR CHILDREN.



Yes. They are.

And this time "for the children" actually means something. You're sticking shit in their arm that was never tested because you're scared.

Aside from the mental problems you've ensured many of the children will have growing up by ripping them from their lives for a year, Covid was harmless to them before.

Not anymore. If anything goes south with that untested vaccine, there is no reset button for them now. And unless it outright kills them, they have a very long life to live with those consequences where you only have a decade or two to do the same.

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If you're going get tweaked about something, at least make it about something real. (I would say the same to JO)


It's all very real.


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Tuesday, July 20, 2021 8:42 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


https://universitybusiness.com/state-by-state-look-at-colleges-requiri
ng-vaccines
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https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/13/health/covid-19-vaccine-requirements-sc
hools-analysis-wellness/index.html



We haven't reached the point yet where they start mandating them here (on a government level)... If you want to go to college or get a job, that's a different story in many places in the country though.

But with Biden* accusing Facebook of Murder by not completely shutting down free speech immediately, it won't be long.

School is right around the corner. We'll revisit this issue in a month or so. Biden can't even get 50% of the 70% of vaccinated people he promised by July 4th because nobody else wants it. Forcing schools to force the kids to get the shots could be a great way to boost the numbers...

Or start a war.


In New Zealand, they already said they're going to hunt the unvaccinated down and force them to get the shot.

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Tuesday, July 20, 2021 8:46 AM

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My little cunt of a brother on the East Coast had the nerve to put on the bottom of invites for my nieces 1st birthday that if you aren't vaccinated, don't bother coming.

I've never seen my niece because of all of this bullshit. There's a fairly good chance that I won't ever see her because of this.

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Tuesday, July 20, 2021 10:37 AM

SIGNYM

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Every time your "points" get debunked you either retreat into denial or you find YET ANOTHER reason to wring your hands and cry wolf!

SIX: I don't retreat. I deny your misinformation and parroting of Legacy Media lies on the subject, all while laughing at the fact that two normally rational people change their entire way of thinking about things on this particular issue. For some reason, for you and Kiki, there ARE weapons of mass destruction in Iraq this time.

Dood, I PERSONALLY KNOW TWO PEOPLE WHO DIED OF COVID. OF COVID. No, they were not in a motorcycle accident. They died OF COVID.

One was elderly and frail. Anything could have pushed her over the edge, but she had no fatal diseases... heart, kindeys, lungs etc still working, no Parkinson's or dementia etc ... until she caught Covid-19, and died. The other was a fairly robust woman younger than me. She was a home healthcare aide who took care of my mom b4 my mom passed away. I kept up with her thru my sister. Her risk factors were that she was over 50 and a smoker (if smoking is a risk factor). Her other risk factor was that she refused to wear a mask of ANY sort. She, too, did not die of a motorcycle accident, and was in good health until she caught Covid-19 and died.

My neighbors across the street also had Covid-19, and it laid them flat for a month, much longer than an ordinary flu.

FOR PEOPLE MY AGE, COVID IS A PROBLEM.

I recognize that Covid is not a big problem for most young people (unless they are obese, which is a HUGE risk factor for death). I personally don't care if anyone chooses to expose themselves to Covid-19 every day of their lives, as long as THEY don't expose a vulnerable person involuntarily. That includes healthcare workers and teachers and co-workers, who the vulnerable would be be exposed to involuntarily.

It's like secondhand smoke - an issue you ALSO bitched about endlessly and tried to deny.
Sure, risk your own lungs, just don't risk anyone else's.
So, go out and party.
Just don't take your germs home to someone who might get sick.

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SIX: They're crying wolf, and you're being duped.
You're denying facts.

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SIGNY: First you wanted old people to die.

SIX: No I didn't. You're oversimplifying that issue because it suits your argument now.

Ok, let me put it this way: You DON'T CARE if older people die because ... yanno ... boomers.

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SIGNY: Then you said the virus was "nothing".

SIX: The virus IS nothing.

Why do you say that?

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SIGNY: Then you were against lockdowns. Then you were against MASKING.

SIX: I was against masking FIRST. Then I was against lockdowns. Because that's the order they came up.
I still am.

Why against?

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SIGNY: Then you were against vaccines.

SUX: Yes. I'm not an anti-vaxxer. I'm anti THIS vaccine.
You already know why.

No, I don't.
No, I don't. Because ...?

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SIGNY: Now you're wringing your hands "Think of the CHILDREN! "
NOBODY IS MANDATING VACCINES FOR CHILDREN.

SIX: Yes. They are.

NO THEY'RE NOT.
And you can hardly claim that university students are "children".

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SIX: And this time "for the children" actually means something. You're sticking shit in their arm that was never tested because you're scared.
More hysteria, on your part. You can't find me a single example of "children" being mandated to be vaccinated.

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SIX: Aside from the mental problems you've ensured many of the children will have growing up by ripping them from their lives for a year, Covid was harmless to them before.
Not anymore. If anything goes south with that untested vaccine, there is no reset button for them now. And unless [if not] it outright kills them, they have a very long life to live with those [possible consequences where you only have a decade or two to do the same.

SIGNY: If you're going get tweaked about something, at least make it about something real. (I would say the same to JO)

SIX: It's all very real.

No, it's all based on a lot of "ifs", fear, and hyperbole on your part. Just like JO about RUSSIA!!
Fears can be endless, if rooted in the imagination. Fear of getting sick and dying of this virus is very real for the over-50, and the older you are the more real it becomes.

Anyone who offers a kaleidoscope of "reasons" looks more like person tossing out a bunch of excuses - like SECONDRATE and his hatred of Republicans and JO and his fear of Russia. Stop your endlessly-shifting panoply. Please, tell me the "why" of all of this.

I think I should keep asking "why" because almost nothing you post about Covid-19 makes much sense. There must be a real reason in there somewhere.



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Tuesday, July 20, 2021 9:36 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


There is zero fear on my part.

If you choose to look at my side our conversation with that lens, there isn't any reason to discuss it further.

People who got vaccinated shouldn't have anything to fucking worry about.

I'm not getting it, and apparently half of the rest of the country isn't either.


I'll go wherever I please, whenever I please. The SCARED people can stay in their houses for the rest of their lives.

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Wednesday, July 21, 2021 3:42 AM

SIGNYM

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I needed a primer on viruses, and found this.
https://open.oregonstate.education/generalmicrobiology/chapter/the-vir
uses
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Wednesday, July 21, 2021 3:43 AM

SIGNYM

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Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
There is zero fear on my part.

Then why are you gibbering?

I didn't say you're afraid of the virus, but you're afraid of SOMETHING.

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Wednesday, July 21, 2021 8:25 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


I don't like the prospect of Government controlling everything.

I also don't like how easy it is to corrupt the minds and wills of people I respect either.

Everybody has a price, they say. Seems they found yours.



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Wednesday, July 21, 2021 3:47 PM

1KIKI

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The 'price' of not getting rabies is vaccinating pets and farm animals; and where rabies is spreading explosively, vaccinating select wild animal populations through air-dropped bait (for raccoons, coyotes, and grey foxes); and where human exposure has occurred, swift initiation of a human rabies vaccine. ( http://dhhr.wv.gov/oeps/disease/Zoonosis/Rabies/Documents/orv/orv-faq.
pdf
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/wildlifedamage/programs/nrmp
/CT_Rabies_vaccine_info
https://www.nytimes.com/1999/07/27/science/full-of-wiles-coyotes-prove
-near-invincible.html
)

The 'price' of eradicating small pox was vaccination.

The 'price' of not getting tetanus is getting a tetanus vaccine.



Do you think people are 'terrified' when they employ these vaccines?

You say you're not anti-vax. Are you anti- any one of these vaccines?

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Wednesday, July 21, 2021 8:16 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


I'm not anti-any one of those vaccines.

I've already fucking told you this.

Go read through my old posts. I'm not repeating myself.

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Wednesday, July 21, 2021 9:19 PM

SIGNYM

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Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I don't like the prospect of Government controlling everything.

I also don't like how easy it is to corrupt the minds and wills of people I respect either.

Everybody has a price, they say. Seems they found yours.



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I'm not a big fan of how fear corrupted your mind either, SIX.

Clearly you're terribly afraid of something. The government?

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Wednesday, July 21, 2021 10:01 PM

1KIKI

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Here's my thinking.

Jack was an anxious child. He said so himself. Then he said that they 'terrorized' him with information about HIV/ AIDS. He said so himself. I guess I'll take him at his word. The information gave him PTSD.

The only way he could get past his fear was complete denial. He said so himself.

Hence, his 'take' on SARS-CoV-2.

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Wednesday, July 21, 2021 11:58 PM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Fuck you, Dr. Kiki and Dr. Sigs.

Keep your fantasy of WMDs to yourself.

Biden* can't even get more than 50% of Americans to get the shots.


Stay your terrorized asses the fuck inside for the rest of your lives if you want to. You lose.

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Thursday, July 22, 2021 12:09 AM

1KIKI

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Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'm not anti-any one of those vaccines.

I've already fucking told you this.

Go read through my old posts. I'm not repeating myself.

Well, here's the thing. What is your personal chance of getting rabies? Pretty small I'd say! Yet rabies is a required pet vaccine in Indiana, no exceptions allowed. https://www.in.gov/rabies/pet-vaccination-laws/

And your personal chance of getting smallpox? Zero, considering it's been wiped off the face of the planet.

What is your personal risk of getting hepatitis A or B; or diphtheria, tetanus, or whooping cough; or measles, mumps or rubella; or polio; or chickenpox; or meningococcus? Yet ALL of those are required in Indiana for children to go to school. https://www.in.gov/health/immunization/files/2021-2022-School-Immuniza
tion-Requirements-ENGLISH-Final-July2021.pdf


So, if you're really not anti-vax and you don't care about all those other vaccines - especially the mandated ones - why do you care so much about SARS-CoV-2?

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Thursday, July 22, 2021 9:39 AM

6IXSTRINGJACK


Quote:

Originally posted by 1KIKI:

Quote:

Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I'm not anti-any one of those vaccines.

I've already fucking told you this.

Go read through my old posts. I'm not repeating myself.

Well, here's the thing. What is your personal chance of getting rabies? Pretty small I'd say! Yet rabies is a required pet vaccine in Indiana, no exceptions allowed. https://www.in.gov/rabies/pet-vaccination-laws/

And your personal chance of getting smallpox? Zero, considering it's been wiped off the face of the planet.

What is your personal risk of getting hepatitis A or B; or diphtheria, tetanus, or whooping cough; or measles, mumps or rubella; or polio; or chickenpox; or meningococcus? Yet ALL of those are required in Indiana for children to go to school. https://www.in.gov/health/immunization/files/2021-2022-School-Immuniza
tion-Requirements-ENGLISH-Final-July2021.pdf


So, if you're really not anti-vax and you don't care about all those other vaccines - especially the mandated ones - why do you care so much about SARS-CoV-2?



I just told sigs to fuck off for asking the same question I've already answered repeatedly.

I've already posted it. Multiple times.

Go fetch if you want the answer, otherwise fuck off.




You're relatively healthy Maybe you'll live long enough to find out why.


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Thursday, July 22, 2021 1:27 PM

1KIKI

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Basically, if it doesn't affect you, you don't care. I think I already got that about you.


You're in an interesting conundrum. WHAT IF you can't get a job because you won't get vaccinated? That really puts a kink in your plans for long-term survival. I know you can live cheaply, but somewhere along the line you need a minimum of money coming in. Maybe you should try to invent a disability to cheat your way onto a permanent government teat.

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Thursday, July 22, 2021 1:40 PM

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So, I check in with Divoc-91 from time to time to try and separate out the hoopla from the truth.

Altho the USA cases have risen SHARPLY in the past three weeks (rising from appx 3 up to 13 per day per 100,000, and still not peaked. BTW compared to a peak of appx 78 at 6 months ago.) DEATHS stay flat. And we're (just) beyond the normal "lag time" from cases> deaths, altho I will keep checking to make sure that deaths are still flat over the next weeks/months.

According to CDC, 80% of people over 65 are fully vaccinated, and 90% have had at least one shot. So altho we may see a HUGE number of cases, and SOME deaths among the unvaccinated young and the vaccinated elderly poo,I don't expect to see a huge number of deaths like before.

Unless one of the truly deadly variants comes along. (There is a variant, I forget which greek letter, that has a case fatality rate of 10%. But it's very, very rare. There seems to be a viral trade-off between deadliness v transmissibility.)

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Thursday, July 22, 2021 1:42 PM

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I posted this under "thoughts" but I really think it belongs here

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So, following what you posted, KIKI: If getting vaccinated DOESN'T reduce tranmission (because vaccines are active in deep tissue as opposed to peripheral tissue like nose) then is there is a reason to push for vaccines population-wide?
Because a vaccination program won't stop the spread of Covid, right? But it will stop serious illness and death (for the most part)?

If that's the case, how does the measles vaccine (for example) work to stop epidemics? Doesn't the same logic apply? Or does the measles vaccine just make transmission invisible/inconsequential?

I need a primer on that.

*****

Also, another question, if you may: Once you get infected for real, by the peripheral route, does that mean that you now have a long-term immune response in your periperal tissues as well? (At least, to that particular variant?)

*****

So, tell me where I'm wrong: If people get vaccinated (which offers protection against serious illness and death) and THEN get exposed to the real deal and have to fend it off one way or another, either asymptomatically ... or not ... isn't that kind of the IDEAL way to create longer-lasting, more complete immunity?



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Thursday, July 22, 2021 2:24 PM

1KIKI

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I'll repost my answer here, then:


I had to look that up because I didn't know.

Measles is interesting immunologically-speaking.

Either infection or vaccination with killed or weakened (attenuated) virus triggers an initial IgM immune response (as is true of infections in general) and an eventual IgG immune response that prevents or reduces disease (ie symptoms) and spread.

https://www.health.qld.gov.au/news-events/news/what-is-measles-why-vac
cinate

"The measles vaccine prevents almost all cases of severe disease."
https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2019/11/skipping-measles-v
accine-tied-triple-risk-disease-spread

"unvaccinated people are about three to four times more infectious than those with measles who have gotten one or two doses"

The vaccine also triggers a long-term cell-mediated immunity.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26597262/
"analyses showed low levels of spot-forming cells after stimulation, suggesting the presence of T-cell memory"

It looks like either previous natural infection or vaccination doesn't prevent infection, but does limit disease severity and spread.

The measles vaccine is based on inactivated virus. Maybe that creates a more complete response to the various external proteins of the virus.


The OTHER thing that measles infection does is that it wipes out most of your previously-developed immunity to other viral and bacterial diseases, as measured by IgG antibody levels. But vaccination doesn't do that.
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/10/how-measles-wipes-out-t
he-bodys-immune-memory
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Thursday, July 22, 2021 2:51 PM

1KIKI

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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Also, another question, if you may: Once you get infected for real, by the peripheral route, does that mean that you now have a long-term immune response in your (peripheral) tissues as well? (At least, to that particular variant?)

Well, having looked that up, in general one does indeed have a secreted IgA immune response! https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3001129/ I'm not sure how long-lasting it is, though. Also remember about 1/ 700 people have selective IgA deficiency and have no IgA response at all. https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/immunoglob
ulin-a-deficiency


Here's some general information about IgA deficiency https://primaryimmune.org/about-primary-immunodeficiencies/specific-di
sease-types/selective-iga-deficiency
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So, tell me where I'm wrong: If people get vaccinated (which offers protection against serious illness and death) and THEN get exposed to the real deal and have to fend it off one way or another, either asymptomatically ... or not ... isn't that kind of the IDEAL way to create longer-lasting, more complete immunity?
I've always thought so! To me the ideal sequence would be 1) giving injectable vaccines of a mix of pure substances that trigger neutralizing antibodies. Here's an interesting factoid - people who mix SARS-CoV-2 vaccines from different manufacturers have a more protective immune response. 2) giving whole killed pathogen vaccines 3) giving injectable attenuated pathogen vaccines OR surface-applied vaccines. Here's another interesting factoid - the original flu vaccine was developed to be administered intranasally, as a small amount of liquid into the nostrils.

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Friday, July 23, 2021 1:49 PM

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... maybe this interesting graphic will come thru here. Hospitalizations is a more reliable metric than cases. What would make it even more meaningful is a time series of these graphs (which the NYTimes isn't going to do), and what would be even more helpful than that would be a time series of reverse highlighted 2nd color of 3-week-ago vaccinations along with hospitalizations.

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Friday, July 23, 2021 2:54 PM

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Two interesting related articles, but I have to post them quick and comment later bc phone is STILL crashing. Multiple illegal blocked requests from Twitter maybe DOS attack bc only on this site.

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Friday, July 23, 2021 2:56 PM

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Israel sees drop in Pfizer vaccine protection against infections
Reuters

July 6, 2021

JERUSALEM, July 5 (Reuters) - Israel reported on Monday a decrease in the effectiveness of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in preventing infections and symptomatic illness but said it remained highly effective in preventing serious illness.

The decline coincided with the spread of the Delta variant and the end of social distancing restrictions in Israel.

Vaccine effectiveness in preventing both infection and symptomatic disease fell to 64% since June 6, the Health Ministry said. At the same time the vaccine was 93% effective in preventing hospitalizations and serious illness from the coronavirus.

The ministry in its statement did not say what the previous level was or provide any further details. However ministry officials published a report in May that two doses of Pfizer's vaccine provided more than 95% protection against infection, hospitalization and severe illness.

A Pfizer spokesperson declined to comment on the data from Israel, but cited other research showing that antibodies elicited by the vaccine were still able to neutralize all tested variants, including Delta, albeit at reduced strength.


About 60% of Israel's 9.3 million population have received at least one shot of Pfizer's vaccine in a campaign that saw daily cases drop from more than 10,000 in January to single digits last month.

This spurred Israel to drop nearly all social distancing as well as the requirement to wear masks, though the latter was partially reimposed in recent days. At the same time Delta, which has become a globally dominant variant of the coronavirus, began to spread.

Since then daily cases have gradually risen, reaching 343 on Sunday. The number of seriously ill rose to 35 from 21.

Data scientist Eran Segal of Israel's Weizmann Institute of Science said the country was unlikely to experience the high levels of hospitalizations seen earlier in the year since there were much fewer critically ill.

He said it was fine to "continue with life back to normal and without restrictions" while stepping up measures like vaccination outreach and ensuring testing for Israelis returning home from abroad.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-sees-drop-pfizer-vacc
ine-protection-against-infections-still-strong-2021-07-05
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Friday, July 23, 2021 3:17 PM

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PLEASE NOTE: July 8

Pfizer To Seek Authorization For "Booster" Dose To Protect Against Delta Variant
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by Tyler Durden
Thursday, Jul 08, 2021 - 07:20 PM

Hours ago, Dr. Anthony Fauci emphatically defended the efficacy of the three American-made vaccines that have received emergency authorization for use by the FDA. His comments weren't unprompted: reports out of Israel claiming the Pfizer jab is far less effective than advertised have shaken public confidence in the jabs, at a time where President Biden is about to send people knocking on doors to try and encourage more adults (and increasingly, children) to get vaccinated.

It's no secret that a handful of southern and western states are lagging the rest of the country in vaccine rollout. But not long after Dr. Fauci made his comments (which were picked up by all the major newswires) the NYT published a sneak peak at new research showing how the Delta variant bypasses the antibodies created by the vaccines, and prior infection with another strain of the virus.

It's just the latest example of how the authorities don't care about the "science" so much as protecting the narrative that helps Big Pharma sell the most vaccines. And while the vast majority of countries are still struggling with vaccination rates below 1% since they simply can't get the supplies (while unused jabs are piling up across the US) - and Bill Gates doing everything he can to keep it that way - Pfizer and Moderna have apparently spotted an opportunity.

Pfizer and its partner BioNTech announced Thursday evening that they will seek authorization from the FDA for a third "booster" dose of their COVID vaccines that will offer increased protection against the Delta variant (despite the fact that both Pfizer and its rival Moderna repeatedly insisted that its vaccines are still effective against all known variants including Delta), the Hill reports.

In a statement, the company referenced the data out of Israel, where government scientists have estimated the real efficacy of the vaccine vs. Delta is somewhere around 64%, while leaving particularly vulnerable patients at risk of severe illness and death. The booster dose would ideally be given within 6 to 12 months post-vaccination.

"Based on the totality of the data they have to date, Pfizer and BioNTech believe that a third dose may be beneficial within 6 to 12 months following the second dose to maintain highest levels of protection," the companies said.

The company said it's planning to start clinical trials for a reformulated vaccine that's modified to specifically target the Delta variant. However, the company now believes that a booster dose might be a more effective strategy. The news strikes us as surprisingly aggressive, considering the FDA hasn't even approved the first generation of vaccines yet (they were all granted emergency authorizations, and the FDA is still evaluating safety data, which is why we know the mRNA jabs cause rare side effects including heart inflammation in a small n umber of men).

Ultimately, the CDC and FDA will decide whether to recommend a third dose. But they have a pretty strong track record of safeguarding the interests of the Big Pharma companies that produced the vaccines. So, why would they change course now?

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/pfizer-plans-seek-authorization-boos
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Friday, July 23, 2021 4:20 PM

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Switching to a sequence of two DIFFERENT vaxs provides superior protection. That makes sense. While vaxs target the spike protein, they use different snippets of that protein.

The solution seems obvious to me.

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Friday, July 23, 2021 5:29 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by 1KIKI:

Switching to a sequence of two DIFFERENT vaxs provides superior protection. That makes sense. While vaxs target the spike protein, they use different snippets of that protein.

The solution seems obvious to me.

There's one part of the second article that offers up the idea that even previous infections aren't protective, but NO DATA to support it.

Part of the problem is that nobody knows who was previously infected, and -as far as I can tell- there's no way to figure that out six months after the fact since antibodies fade even if T-cell memory remains.

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I suspect that this will wind up being a lot like "the flu", as vaccine-maker try to predict which strain will become dominant and adjust their vaccines accordingly.


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Friday, July 23, 2021 5:49 PM

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I think natural infection isn't exactly the same as vaccination in this case. The active virus does seem to inhibit at least an interferon portion of the immune response. Plus - and I haven't read this anywhere, it's just my thought using hepatitis B as a basis and the development of antibodies to hepatitis B core proteins - when you develop antibodies to a virus, they act against every protein the virus has to offer. What you need to do is to maximize the variety of antibodies to the spike protein, which are 'neutralizing' antibodies.

Different vaxs use somewhat different portions of the spike protein.

Also, different vax technologies can stimulate different arms of the immune system.

Anyway, initial information about the efficacy of using different vaxs looks good, and countries are actively pursuing this, even though information is sparse. Well, it may not be sparse, but I haven't found an efficient selection of search terms to dig it out from everything else.

A few links are found within this article.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/05/05/993882203/giving-
2-doses-of-different-covid-19-vaccine-could-boost-immune-response


Though, as I've said before, we won't get rid of SARS-CoV-2 anywhere until we get rid of it everywhere. I think it's still within reach. But whether or not we have the global will remains to be seen.


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Friday, July 23, 2021 6:39 PM

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Friday, July 23, 2021 6:59 PM

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Quote:

Originally posted by 1KIKI:
... Also, different vax technologies can stimulate different arms of the immune system.

Anyway, initial information about the efficacy of using different vaxs looks good, and countries are actively pursuing this, even though information is sparse. Well, it may not be sparse, but I haven't found an efficient selection of search terms to dig it out from everything else.

A few links are found within this article.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/05/05/993882203/giving-
2-doses-of-different-covid-19-vaccine-could-boost-immune-response


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FROM THE LINK

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The natural human response to a virus is to mobilize two distinct arms of the immune system," says Gritstone CEO Andrew Allen. One utilizes antibodies; the other relies on something called CD8 T cells. Unlike antibodies, CD8 T cells don't recognize a virus directly, but they do recognize a cell that has been infected by a virus and they can destroy the infected cell.

Gritstone has developed two different vaccines to activate each arm: a viral vector vaccine and an mRNA vaccine. The viral vector vaccine is very good at stimulating the production of CD8 T cells.The mRNA [vaccine] makes a really good antibody response. And so potentially by combining these, you kind of get the best of both worlds," Allen say

...If it's such a good idea, why isn't it used routinely?

Pulendran speculates there are two main reasons. One has to do with the way new vaccines are approved.

"Regulatory authorities love simplicity," Pulendran says. "The simpler the vaccine regimen, the more palatable they find this to be."

The other reason is that while mix and match may make scientific sense, it doesn't always make business sense.

"For example, if Company A makes one vaccine and Company B makes another vaccine, unless there's some overarching incentive for the two companies to enter into some sort of a marriage, I think either company would in general prefer to go along with their own," Pulendran says.



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Though, as I've said before, we won't get rid of SARS-CoV-2 anywhere until we get rid of it everywhere. I think it's still within reach. But whether or not we have the global will remains to be seen.


Some nations have burned so many bridges with their own population that near-universal vaccination is unachievable. Other nations' health systems are so dysfunctional that they can't even control polio. Still others are failed states, in a state of war, or ideologically opposed to anything "the west" attempts.

It would take a scary disease like Ebola to get governments to focus.

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Friday, July 23, 2021 9:28 PM

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It would take at least a 20% LEGITIMATE death rate for full vaccination to ever be achievable.

Even then, you'd have to threaten a large portion of the world population with death for refusing, to get 100%.

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Sunday, July 25, 2021 10:00 AM

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So I check in on Divoc-91 now and again to see how we're doing, and altho the "new cases" are rising steeply and have been for four weeks, "new deaths" haven't budged and stay resolutely low. It looks like the vaccine is working to protect the vulnerable from death.

"New cases" tho, hasn't even reached an inflection point. KIKI, wanna take bets as to where it peaks out? My guess is 60/day/100,000 (previous peak was about 77-78).

Let's see how close I get.





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Monday, July 26, 2021 6:57 PM

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Decline In UK COVID Cases Signals Coming "Inflection" For US As Delta Fears Subside


Cases in the UK and EU are dropping rapidly
https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/covidchart.jpeg

There is a strong negative correlation in the USA between vaccination and cases (i.e. the higher the percent vaccinated the lower the number of cases) leading to the idea that vaccination is effective at preventing cases, not just deaths



In the UK (and presumably the rest of the world) where vaccination rates are high, even though cases may rise, deaths remain low



By contrast, in Indonesia where vaccination rate is low (10%), people who get sick die more frequently


Quote:

Analysts at Goldman have reached a similar conclusion: while rising cases may lead to more cautious consumer behavior, we ultimately view the economic and medical risks from the delta variant as manageable, given convincing evidence that the vaccines help prevent serious illness.

The implication for the US is pretty clear.



https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/decline-uk-covid-cases-signals-comi
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July 23


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Missouri, Arkansas, and Florida have had a large generalized uptick in hospitalizations. Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia have had less intense outbreaks.


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