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All Covid-19 measures are permanent, don't be a boiling frog!

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    If the company I work for didn’t make money, I’d be out of a job along with over 250k others. It’s not pharmaceutical but any company making a profit shouldn’t be allowed operate!

    Maybe @ohnohedidnt wants all pharmaceutical companies closed down due to them making a profit and we go back to medieval methods of treating illnesses.



  • Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 15,237 Mod ✭✭✭✭FutureGuy


    More restrictions lifting tomorrow. Hurrah!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Sorry, but your argument doesn't make sense.

    Just because some doctors in the past were bribed to market for something harmful, it doesn't follow that all doctors and medical organisations must therefore also be bribed to lie about the harmful effects of the vaccines.


    Do you have anything other than this argument to suggest that doctors did manipulate any evidence about the safety of the vaccines?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,189 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    Video games companies make vast profits and we hear nothing about it. So it's not about the profits.

    It must be if something is essential. Supermarket chains make massive profits, literally our lifeline, but we hear nothing about that.

    Hmmm



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Oil and gas companies make massive ungodly profits.

    What's the bets on the views about global warming in these parts?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,644 ✭✭✭✭Timberrrrrrrr


    And this is the important part


    "Just because some doctors in the past were bribed to market for something harmful"


    Many were not even doctors.



    "To allay fears, tobacco brands hired throat “doctors” (that is, models dressed in white coats) to explain that dust, germs or a lack of menthol were to blame, not the cigs themselves. "


    And back then the harmful links to Cigarette were not known



    "Doctors hadn’t yet discovered a clear link between smoking and lung cancer, and a majority of them actually smoked cigarettes. So in cigarette ads, tobacco companies used doctors’ authority to make their claims about their cigarettes seem more legitimate.

    To the modern-day reader, the pitching of cigarettes as healthy (even to youth and pregnant moms) and the use of doctors’ endorsements may appear horrifying. Yet before 1950, there wasn’t good evidence showing that cigarette smoking was bad for you."


    "The first cigarette company to use physicians in their ads was American Tobacco, maker of Lucky Strikes. In 1930, it published an ad claiming “20,679 Physicians say ‘LUCKIES are less irritating’” to the throat. To get this number, the company’s ad agency had sent physicians cartons of Lucky Strike cigarettes and a letter asking if they thought Lucky Strikes were “less irritating to sensitive and tender throats than other cigarettes,” while noting “a good many people” had already said they were.

    Unsurprisingly, many doctors responded positively to this biased, leading question, and Lucky Strike ads used their answers to imply their cigarettes must be medically better for your throat.



  • Registered Users Posts: 217 ✭✭ohnohedidnt


    Lots of people are out of jobs because of Government imposed restrictions, people lost whole businesses. I literally said the pharmaceutical companies deserved to makes billions in my post, but how many more billions do they deserve to make? They bet big, it paid off big, that's capitalism, good for them, but is there any point now where they should start sharing some of the burden of the pandemic, and put lives before profit? Maybe not, but then why were businesses closed and so many people forced out of work by government policies which put lives above the economy?



  • Registered Users Posts: 217 ✭✭ohnohedidnt


    I never implied it was all doctors, I'm just countering the implication that any sort of mistrust on medical science is based entirely on cigarettes. There's plenty of reasons to mistrust any company, pharma or otherwise, chasing multibillion dollar contracts. Especially ones who have been found to act unethically over much smaller amounts of money.

    I never said they manipulated any evidence around vaccines, there's no proof of that, at least that I'm aware of. That being said they didn't really need to, the bar was set pretty low to begin with.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,189 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    More restrictions being lifted tomorrow

    The posters who were very invested in Communist and Fascist and NWO takeovers should be relieved but I can't shake the feeling they are somehow disappointed.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 217 ✭✭ohnohedidnt


    My family took the vaccine, I did not. I have no issue with anybody making money, everybody should be free to make money. But that hasn't been the case recently has it?

    If the pharma companies got burned too early, then they may be reluctant to develop a vaccine for future pandemics, but they are clear in the profit now, billions upon billions, I just think the IP should be handed over now.

    Some things have the potential to become permanent I think. I think if the governments can make forced vaccination stick, then it won't end with Covid. The problem is, what if this all happened 15 years ago?, then when swine flu came, would Pandemrix have been mandatory, I think probably yes. That's a big concern for me.

    And other measures, while they may not literally be permanent, the Government will be far more likely to reintroduce them having already succeeded once. So are lockdowns permanent? No. But have we seen the last of them, probably not imo.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,189 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    Perhaps you have a medical reason not to do so, however if not, it goes without saying you are putting people around you and yourself at increased risk.

    Likewise most, if not all countries, including those with far-right leaders, have chosen to lockdown to deal with the pandemic.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,567 ✭✭✭Risteard81




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,189 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    Unvaccinated people are more likely to catch Covid than vaccinated. They are more likely to develop more severe Covid than vaccinated people. They are also more likely to transmit Covid to others than vaccinated people.

    Are you claiming otherwise?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,567 ✭✭✭Risteard81


    I'm pointing out that you have no evidence for your claims.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,189 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    Bizarre assumption to make

    "One study tracked over 600,000 COVID-19 cases in 13 states from April through mid-July. As delta surged in early summer, those who were unvaccinated were 4.5 times more likely than the fully vaccinated to get infected, over 10 times more likely to be hospitalized and 11 times more likely to die, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

    https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56904993

    "Those given a first dose of either the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccines - and who became infected three weeks later - were between 38% and 49% less likely to pass the virus on than unvaccinated people, PHE found."



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  • Subscribers Posts: 41,830 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,567 ✭✭✭Risteard81




  • Subscribers Posts: 41,830 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Being vaccinated most definitely reduces the risk of you spreading covid 19


    That's an undeniable fact.

    If you think otherwise you are wrong.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,885 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    The Oxford Jenner institute licensed their vaccine out to be produced at cost, they're not making billions from it.

    The mRNA vaccines are being priced on a sliding scale based on a country's ability to pay with the richer countries subsiding the cost for poorer countries in addition to richer country's giving away vaccines via COVAX.

    The cost of the vaccines is a minute fraction of the cost of the pandemic on world economies, the pharma companies themselves much prefer to sell treatments as they are much more profitable, vaccines aren't a cash cow (one benefit from the pandemic will be the increased interest in vaccines and their development which should reduce the number of people dying around the world from easily preventable diseases).

    Though the fact that you haven't taken a free vaccine to get out of a pandemic would suggest that you believe in a lot of misinformation an are generally misguided in your beliefs around this.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,567 ✭✭✭Risteard81


    It's unproven actually. Plenty of studies show otherwise, stating that it merely reduces minor symptoms in the infected.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,885 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    I'm unsurprised to see 1 line replies and nothing to back up what you're saying while also ignoring evidence that others have posted.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,567 ✭✭✭Risteard81


    They haven't posted any evidence - merely unsupported claims.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    posts like this are exactly why the CT forum is a necessity.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,885 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    You know this is false, there are multiple studies backing up that vaccines both reduce transmission and infection.

    The question then becomes why are you answering this way.

    Is is that you really dislike medicines and needles?

    Is it to be contrary?

    The next question is what level of evidence would be required for you to admit that the vaccines reduce transmission and infections rates? What would change your mind about taking a vaccine to protect yourself and others?

    You probably won't answer this as the bar has either already been met or you'll have to invent some ridiculous scenario that would mean that you wouldn't use any medicines at all or be revealed as a hypocrite.

    Will any of this stop you posting that you're not taking vaccines across lots of threads like a big baby? I doubt it, but with your credibility shot, none of your posts will be taken seriously.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,567 ✭✭✭Risteard81


    You're conveniently ignoring all ther studies which show otherwise though.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,487 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    So you have seen evidence to back up your claim. Go on then post it.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,189 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe



    Incredible. I have just provided the sources. Are you claiming the information contained in these studies is incorrect? If yes, you need to demonstrate that.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,885 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    There is a lack of self awareness here, look at the other threads and look at all the dodging and running away on show from the posters, don't you see that you've also fallen to those depths, does it bother you?



  • Registered Users Posts: 217 ✭✭ohnohedidnt


    What misinformation do you think I believe? You are so pro vaccine, that you're blind to everything else. You think anybody who doesn't want it must be misguided, or intellectually inferior to you. If a vaccine really works, it doesn't need to be defended as hard as you seem to defend this one. I'm happy for you that you love this vaccine so much and that you got it for free. I'm happy that myself and my kids got all of our other vaccines and we got them for free too, free vaccines are great.

    My reasoning for not wanting the Pfizer vaccine is this, tell me which part is misguided.

    1. The disease mostly kills old people and obese people, the chances of somebody who is healthy and mid 30's dying is extremely small, much much smaller than things people routinely do in day to day life such as driving.
    2. If somebody gets covid their immune system will develop resistance to multiple proteins within that virus. If they survive, their resistance to the virus and will be far superior to the resistance vaccinated people have. If the spike protein changes dramatically vaccinated people will have zero protection, people who have recovered from covid will still have protection.
    3. The vaccine efficacy against high viral load infections drops off over time, and allows the disease to circulate, actually encouraging mutations, which brings me back to point number 2.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,189 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    As mentioned an unvaccinated person is at higher risk from Covid than a vaccinated person. In terms of contracting Covid, in terms of severity of the disease and in terms of transmitting it to others. Considering Covid is still circulating, it's a no-brainer. If not for yourself, then for your family/friends/colleagues

    1. Correct, the disease is more dangerous for older people, but it can be unpredictable, a healthy colleague of mine in his forties died. It's killed 4 million worldwide, it's not something you want to catch and roll the dice.
    2. A vaccine reduces the change of someone getting Covid in the first place, so using your logic it's much better at reducing the risk
    3. Unvaccinated people are 4.5 times more likely to get the disease, and if they do, 11 times more likely to die from it. A vaccinated population is always better than an unvaccinated one.




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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,885 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    The disease mostly kills old people and obese people, the chances of somebody who is healthy and mid 30's dying is extremely small, much much smaller than things people routinely do in day to day life such as driving.

    The risk when being infected with a vaccine is much less than if exposed to SARS-COV2 without a vaccine, there is a very high chance of being exposed to SARS-COV2 as society opens up. There is currently a pandemic of the unvaccinated of all ages who are putting a strain on the health system.

    If somebody gets covid their immune system will develop resistance to multiple proteins within that virus. If they survive, their resistance to the virus and will be far superior to the resistance vaccinated people have. If the spike protein changes dramatically vaccinated people will have zero protection, people who have recovered from covid will still have protection.

    This is untrue, those with the highest level of antibodies are those who have been vaccinated recently or have been vaccinated and then contract SARS-COV2 (which essentially acts like a booster) even those who have recently been infected by SARS-COV2 (particularly a non-delta strain) receive a very large boost to their immune response once vaccinated, either way, you're far better off being vaccinated before being exposed to SARS-COV2, the outcomes are 5x or more better than the unvaccinated. The outcomes for those who have been infected also shows antibody drop off over time and level of immunity tends to correlate with the amount of viral load rather than the consistent immunity offered by the vaccines, so unless you're going around COVID wards getting high on as much SARS-COV2 as you can, your immunity from infection will likely be lower than that of a vaccine, having the vaccine will also almost completely eliminate any risks for someone in your age group.

    The vaccine efficacy against high viral load infections drops off over time, and allows the disease to circulate, actually encouraging mutations, which brings me back to point number 2.

    Vaccines encouraging mutations is a lie, the unvaccinated are a far greater source of mutations, all variants of interest have emerged in unvaccinated populations. This seems to be one of the latest misinformation lies being spread from anti-vaxxers.


    But, here's the real issue, you're on the coronavirus forum, you've read all this before, the studies, the evidence, yet you still produced 3 points of complete misinformation showing either willful ignorance of anything other than the narrative you want to pursue contrary to any science, or you're trying to spread misinformation for your own nefarious means.

    It is also completely whataboutery about your original point about being against vaccines due to making money for pharma companies, again, showing your posts are completely disingenuous.

    What you can say about yourself is that you are one of the reasons restrictions are still about, you are one of the reasons that measures are in place, you need to own that bit and make peace with yourself for it and are a total hypocrite if you complain about any of the measures while being an active participant in extending the provision of those measures.



  • Subscribers Posts: 41,830 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    Where's rishtard gone?


    He's made claims (Competely wrong, but hey)... And he's been shown proof why he's wrong....

    But he's disappeared???

    Wheres his proof that vaccinated people are no different to unvaccinated people in their risk of spreading covid?

    May he's gone because, Hummmm, he lied?



  • Registered Users Posts: 217 ✭✭ohnohedidnt


    1. The risk when being infected with a vaccine is much less than if exposed to SARS-COV2 without a vaccine, there is a very high chance of being exposed to SARS-COV2 as society opens up. There is currently a pandemic of the unvaccinated of all ages who are putting a strain on the health system.

    You're completely ignoring what I said because you don't like that fact. Would you agree that my first point is correct? That the chances (approx 1:70,000) of somebody mid 30's and not obese dying are extremely low, or I am I misguided? Driving is 10's of times more risky to me (approx 1:110), I could not drive to reduce my risk further, I could not leave the house at all, for me the risk is already low enough from covid, and I fully understand that I'm getting Covid. Everybody is getting Covid, the only thing that worries me is what variant I will get. Delta is almost no risk to me compared to many other things I regularly do.

    2.This is untrue, those with the highest level of antibodies are those who have been vaccinated recently or have been vaccinated and then contract SARS-COV2 (which essentially acts like a booster) even those who have recently been infected by SARS-COV2 (particularly a non-delta strain) receive a very large boost to their immune response once vaccinated, either way, you're far better off being vaccinated before being exposed to SARS-COV2, the outcomes are 5x or more better than the unvaccinated. The outcomes for those who have been infected also shows antibody drop off over time and level of immunity tends to correlate with the amount of viral load rather than the consistent immunity offered by the vaccines, so unless you're going around COVID wards getting high on as much SARS-COV2 as you can, your immunity from infection will likely be lower than that of a vaccine, having the vaccine will also almost completely eliminate any risks for someone in your age group.

    The disease is not "essentially like a vaccine booster". The disease provides much better immunity than a vaccine, you must realize that that makes sense? Your immune system recognizing more than 1 protein is much better than only recognizing one? Don't take my word for it, have a look at the article below. They specifically recommend getting the vaccine too by the way, but let's be clear, my point was that natural immunity is better (not safer), than immunity from the vaccine, would you not agree, or am I misguided again? Maybe you've seen data suggesting otherwise, and my source is a just a bunch of fellow misguided researchers and scientists.

    "in two analyses that never-infected people who were vaccinated in January and February were, in June, July, and the first half of August, six to 13 times more likely to get infected than unvaccinated people who were previously infected with the coronavirus. In one analysis, comparing more than 32,000 people in the health system, the risk of developing symptomatic COVID-19 was 27 times higher among the vaccinated, and the risk of hospitalization eight times higher."


    3.Vaccines encouraging mutations is a lie, the unvaccinated are a far greater source of mutations, all variants of interest have emerged in unvaccinated populations. This seems to be one of the latest misinformation lies being spread from anti-vaxxers.

    Again, I never said vaccines encourage mutations. You're putting words in my mouth and arguing against yourself. I can just leave if you'd like, and leave you and yourself to argue it out?

    I said allowing the disease to circulate encourages mutation, I didn't say where it was circulating, obviously it circulates in unvaccinated too. And a virus circulating amongst a population will mutate. If everybody was 100% vaccinated this virus would continue to circulate and mutate. Would you not agree with that point?


    I'm not anti-vaccine, I'm considering getting the vaccine, and ideally I'd like to get Covid soon after, so that I have superior immunity against future variants. My opinion, which I'm entitled to, and you don't have to agree with, is that getting covid soon, with or without a vaccine will provide better protection against future variants which may have a mortality rate significantly higher than 1:70000 for me.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    I said allowing the disease to circulate encourages mutation, I didn't say where it was circulating, obviously it circulates in unvaccinated too. And a virus circulating amongst a population will mutate. If everybody was 100% vaccinated this virus would continue to circulate and mutate. Would you not agree with that point?

    If everyone was 100% vaccinated, would the virus circulate and mutate at a greater rate than if no one was vaccinated?


    Also why do you believe that doctors are recommending the vaccine when you have determined that it's not nessesary for yourself?

    Are all of these doctors lying?



  • Registered Users Posts: 217 ✭✭ohnohedidnt


    If everyone was 100% vaccinated the virus would circulate at a slower rate. I don't know about mutation, it may not mutate in a linear fashion vs how much it circulates.

    Doctors recommend vaccines, because doctors will recommend what they believe is safer and for the greater good. Like when we were told don't buy masks, they actually cause the virus to spread. Let me quote the white lie from the US surgeon General:

    "Seriously people- STOP BUYING MASKS!

    They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can't get them to care for sick patients, it puts them and our communities at risk!"


    Doctors also recommend you don't drink, smoke, eat certain types of food. I bet there's plenty of doctors who don't practice what they preach when it comes to those things. Just as some do with vaccines.

    https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/16/france-suspends-3000-unvaccinated-health-workers-without-pay-covid-jab

    The French health authority, Santé Publique, estimates fewer than 12% of hospital staff and about 6% of doctors in private practice have not been vaccinated.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    OK but you said that increasing vaccination rates encourages mutation and circulation.

    Why do you believe it encourages mutation?

    And how can it both encourage and decrease circulation?


    So you do believe that doctors are all lying when they say the vaccinations are nessesary?



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    I'd be interested in reading these studies, can you pass them on please?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,013 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    Pathetic. An article from March 2020 which he later retracted.



  • Registered Users Posts: 217 ✭✭ohnohedidnt


    I said the vaccine allows circulation, circulation encourages mutation, it doesn't matter who it's circulating in, but if we were all 100% vaccinated it would still circulate. Are you disputing that?

    Your trying to put words in my mouth now. I never said all doctors were lying, in fact I specifically pointed out that not all doctors even agree vaccines are good, 6% in France weren't vaccinated, and plenty of others only got vaccinated in other countries because they had to.

    What I think you're trying to get as is that I'm saying all doctors who think taking the vaccine is a good idea are lying? Absolutely not, the vaccine is saving lives, the vaccine is great, old people, obese people and sick people would be crazy not to get it. It would be even better for old people, sick people and obese people if everybody else got it too, because the vaccine is pretty leaky relative to other vaccines. Would it be better for me in the short term if I got? Providing I didn't suffer any sever side effects it probably would, the doctors aren't lying, some may be wrong on both sides, but there's no conspiracy, I have no doubt doctors on both sides of the argument believe what they are saying is true.



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  • Subscribers Posts: 41,830 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    do you accept that the more people remain unvaccinated the bigger the risk of mutations?



  • Registered Users Posts: 217 ✭✭ohnohedidnt


    I'm not sure, probably, but considering that the vaccines effectiveness against high viral loads infections drops to 16%, and most people are vaccinated anyway, the difference isn't going to be huge, the mutations will occur regardless.



  • Subscribers Posts: 41,830 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    mutation may occur, but this has always been about risk and rate.

    vaccines reduce the risk of mutations, and vaccines reduce the rate of mutations

    increased vaccine rates then discourage mutations due to

    1. lesser viral loads per person leading to more personal protection
    2. reduces risk of spread between people

    all this reduction in virus replication reduces the chances of mutations

    saying "the difference isnt going to be huge" is just an off the cuff remark.

    the vaccines are reducing spread to a great enough degree that we can begin our normal lives again. id consider that difference to be pretty huge to be honest.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    I'm not disputing that. It would circulate. It would circulate less however and it would therefore also mutate less. So you claim seems to be a contradiction.

    How can it be encouraging mutation when it is circulating less?


    So then if the majority of doctors aren't lying when they say you should get th vaccine, why do you believe your opinion is more accurate than theirs?



  • Registered Users Posts: 217 ✭✭ohnohedidnt


    I didn't say the vaccine encourages mutation, I said circulation does. My points is not "don't take the vaccine because of mutation", all I'm saying is with the current vaccine, mutation is coming, it doesn't stop circulation like a lot of vaccines basically do, slower, faster, whatever, its coming.

    Most doctors are focused on the current problem, Delta variant is killing large numbers of old and obese people, if everyone got vaccinated it helps fight the Delta variant battle. The doctors who encourage everyone to take the vaccine are right to do so, their opinion and mine are in agreement, if my job was to fight the delta variant I'd say the same. Their job is do what is for the greater good, I'd have told the masks don't work lie too, I'd have hidden the ages of the deceased so people didn't get the "wrong" idea, but I probably wouldn't have taken the vaccine unless my job depended on it.

    I think doctors will also almost universally agree that natural immunity is stronger than immunity from the vaccine. I'm not saying it's safer, I'm saying if you take somebody with natural immunity and somebody vaccinated, the person with natural immunity will have stronger, broader, more mutation resistant protection than the vaccinated person. Would you agree with that?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    But there'd be less circulation, therefore less mutation, right?


    And no, I wouldn't agree with your statement as the study you posted directly stated that natural immunity wasn't safer and that the vaccines were important. The more people who wait for "natural immunity" the longer it will take for the population to become immune. The more people who wait, the greater the chances are of circulation and mutation. At the saame time, there's going to be more people who get sick with more dangerous symptoms which would not occur if they had the vaccine, which means more stress on already strained medical infrastructure.

    It simply does not make sense as an argument I'm afraid.


    You are also making a lot of assumptions about the motivation of doctors. Do you have anything to suggest that this is actually their motivation or are you making it up?


    You are also still implying that doctors are lying when they say that everyone should get the vaccine. I wish you'd make up your mind here.

    When doctors are telling you that it is recommended for you to get the vaccine, you believe they are wrong.

    What are you basing this disagreement on?



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  • Registered Users Posts: 217 ✭✭ohnohedidnt


    You're just dodging the questions you don't want to answer now, and completely ignoring what I'm saying, so it's time to agree to disagree.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Well no, I addressed your question directly and clearly.

    And no, I wouldn't agree with your statement as the study you posted directly stated that natural immunity wasn't safer and that the vaccines were important. The more people who wait for "natural immunity" the longer it will take for the population to become immune. The more people who wait, the greater the chances are of circulation and mutation. At the saame time, there's going to be more people who get sick with more dangerous symptoms which would not occur if they had the vaccine, which means more stress on already strained medical infrastructure.

    There's no other question in your post for me to respond to. If you think i've jsut missed it, could you point it out and I will answer it.


    You however have been ignoring my question.

    If there was less circulation of the virus, would this lead to less or more mutation?



  • Registered Users Posts: 217 ✭✭ohnohedidnt


    "I'm not saying it's safer, I'm saying if you take somebody with natural immunity and somebody vaccinated, the person with natural immunity will have stronger, broader, more mutation resistant protection than the vaccinated person. Would you agree with that?"

    I've already answered your question, I said mutation probably decreases with reduced circulation, but I'm not sure if it's linear. Circulation and mutation will continue because this vaccine is not effective at stopping it, obviously it will circulate faster is with less vaccination.

    You keep repeating that I'm implying doctors are lying about taking the vaccine the right thing to do, I have repeated multiple times that I do not think they are lying, I really can't be more explicit about that. But doctors also say drinking is bad, do you ever drink? My dentist says don't drink sugary drinks, they are really bad, I still drink them, "climate scientists", say don't drive or fly, but we all do them. Dieticians say limit red meat, f**k that it's delicious. Are they all lying, by your logic if you ignore them you're calling them liars? Somebody doesn't have to be lying for you to choose to ignore their advice and decide what's best for yourself.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,323 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Ok. So you agree that people not taking the vaccine increases circulation and mutation.

    You also agree that doctor's advice to take the vaccine is both correct and good, you're just choosing to ignore it.

    Why are you taking the more dangerous option when it offers no benefit?

    It makes no sense.

    At least if you believed that doctors were lying to you, it would have been logical.



  • Registered Users Posts: 217 ✭✭ohnohedidnt


    Just ignore my question again?, and continue asking your own! isn't that something you routinely criticize other people for doing on this forum?



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