Will you be taking a booster?

Reddit has also been cracking down heavily on misinformation, probably more than boards has been.

No. I'd like the moderator of which removed my previous comment to add it back to the page it was removed from as the comment word for word would be clear. Ah what's the point. Good luck.

The thing is you need to look at the actual data. The promise was that vaccines would 95% effective at preventing serious illness when it comes to Covid. So even for serious illness it was expected that on average the vaccine would be ineffective 5% of the time. And that's before looking at reduced complications from Covid that a vaccine provides. So people were never promised that they would never get Covid.

You need to look at what the actual scientists say not random journalists who have limited expertise. Even for people with expertise you need to look at context. And that goes for everything and not just Covid.

Now will vaccines and boosters end the pandemic they probably will. Look at Ireland current case load compared to hospitalisations and compare to pre vaccination. There is a complete sea change. You can also do similar comparisons to Ireland and places with lower rates of vaccination.

Again—not sure how this relates at all to my post.

I didn't target someone specifically because of my political beliefs. I posted three names, and was mistaken with one of them. Fauci skirted very close to saying that vaccines prevent transmission, but didn't actually say it. When I realised that, I retracted. You even gave me a backhanded compliment for it.

I didn't say I don't care about context. I very specifically mentioned the context of their huge platforms.

A bad thing. I believe very strongly in informed consent.

I'm double vaccinated but I don't think I'll go for the booster until I need to for vaccine certs (if those will still be a thing by then). I'm early 30s and healthy, the vaccines were originally sold to under 40s to protect others by making it less likely to catch and transmute the virus to others. I don't think is the case anymore, I've probably got about a 1 in 20,000 chance ending up in hospital if u do catch covid so why would or should I want a booster vaccine?

So the President of the US can say whatever he likes and be excused because he “misspoke” and not only that, the person who mentions it has to start reading his mind to make excuses for him? No offence but if I was MT I would bid you goodnight sir and sweet dreams.

Lol. Your post was a little far fetched for me and I was pointing that out. That is, if you (whoever you are) ask for more information and the poster (no matter the reason) chooses not to reply that is defacto misinformation? With respect, don’t flatter yourself.

If it was the latter so what?

btw I have no idea when you previously mentioned bleach and you didn’t answer the question but then maybe you just ask questions.

Not particularly. Not enough to give them a pass on using gigantic platforms to spread misinformation, at least. Your mileage may vary.

Apologies. I didn't realise that was what you thought you had done.

What you actually posted was a "fact check" article from August 2021, which takes issue with the way that people were interpreting a side-by-side of Walensky in May 2021 and Walensky in August 2021 to make a point about purposeful narrative manipulation. I happen to agree with the article (thought it strikes me as opinion rather than fact, as so many "fact check" articles do) that there is little sense taking statements that are months apart during a pandemic and blaming the people making the statements for the changing data. But in any case I wasn't making any point about what Walensky said in May 2021 as it compares to August 2021; I was only making the point that someone "official" has ever stated that vaccines prevent infection, which the article I posted more succinctly achieves without obfuscating that proof-of-point by including video material from months later. I don't think that "well here's what she said three months after she said the thing you're referring to" really counts as "context".

Biden is POTUS, and as such has a huge platform. Possibly the biggest in the world. It is my opinion that in that situation, anyone who knowingly gives out inaccurate information is acting immorally. To wit, purposely "exaggerating" is worse than merely being wrong in this situation. Again, YMMV.

It's **** stupid, obviously. But maybe if I liked them and I were a dishonest and highly political person without integrity, I'd be prepared to beclown myself on a public forum by saying that person had a "slip" and was merely referring to hypotheses that Hydrogen Peroxide (a bleach) may have some utility as an adjuvant therapy for Covid-19, at a time when no effective treatments or vaccines were available. I'm not saying that, to be clear—it's obviously a dumb thing to say—but when how much one "likes" a given official is in play, things can get fuzzy fast.

Anyway, I have proven my original point several times over and we're going around in circles here, so I'll leave it there.

People definitely said that vaccines prevent infection. Q.E.D.

Peace.