(08-09-2021, 04:56 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: [ -> ] (08-09-2021, 04:26 PM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: [ -> ]Going around the interwebs...
More COVID facts the CDC & Biden Administration doesn't want you to hear. https://t.co/WRaLZtqC0f
So this guy is saying we should have just let the virus run its course because vaccines are making it more deadly? If so, it's a little late for that. Plus, the current symptomatic rates are overwhelmingly in the unvaccinated.
I guess I just don't completely understand what he's saying because I get the impression this guy just talked in a big circle.
I didn't click the link, but I had listened to a virologist talk about this topic a few months ago. His contention was that the two shot vaccine spaced over two weeks created the perfect environment for mutation. My understanding was that there are millions of viruses in your body, all replicating at the same time. When you give a person a partial vaccine, you are basically creating the perfect conditions for adaptation, which he believed was ultimately going to lead to breakthrough cases. I am not sure if I believe that or not, because it would seem that the variants don't seem to be coming out of highly vaccinated areas. So, I am taking it with a grain of salt.
That said, even if we did have a perfect roll out in America, it would not have eliminated Covid, because it was not rolled out globally. No elimination means more variants, which increases the odds of breakthrough cases. Here is a nature article that supports this position, and it was written in May.
Five reasons why COVID herd immunity is probably impossible (nature.com)
There is still no answer to the many, many questions I have posed in this thread about the potential FUTURE dangers of the vaccine (ADE, immuno-dependency, bio-distribution complications). The number one problem I see moving forward if everyone were to get the vaccine would be the lack of control group if/when any issues develop in the vaccinated. This is a serious problem. This also ignores the other, potential problems that have been mentioned by others, such as potential breakthrough variants and the lack of herd immunity due to possible spread via animals (of which I am less confident of that severity).
I agree that the vaccine is affective, and again support the idea of the at risk taking it. I am just extremely disappointed at the way the science for this has been and is being handled.
Personally, I think we need to have response
And, I forgot to mention, once again, that this is just not that deadly a disease. It has come nothing close to being in the same categories of the pandemics of the past. If this were never covered by the news... if we were left to our own anecdotal experience with this disease, we MIGHT notice that some sick and elderly people seemed to die of pneumonia at a slightly higher rate than normal. Maybe. Doubtful.
The biggest threat with Covid is exactly what FSG goes on an on about: the threat to the ER. This could be alleviated by some solid state planning.