Relaxation of Restrictions, Part XII *Read OP For Mod Warnings*

A better question they should ask is "tell us why we shouldn't just follow the CDC isolation guidelines?" and have them back up their decision with actual data.

I dunno.. I think the recent "thanks for staying home" and "RSVP" radio ads are right up there on the chart of moronic condescending nonsense!

On the last point. Have a look who Ursula von der Leyen is married to. Surely susceptible to conflict of interest, no?

Let's do a quick fire round (there would be 10x as much if all the craziness you posted was also being included ;)), but most of those were discussed long before the loons thought it was an attempt to take over the world, but anyway:

Vaccinated can spread COVID - Known about from the trials, published with the data, 95% was against severe disease, this is now 90% for Delta, Omicron TBA, effectiveness against infection was ~60% (less for AZ and Janssen), this still held up under Delta and data looks good for Omicron post booster

Vaccinated susceptible to variants - known about even when the vaccines were being developed, vaccines have stood up better than expected against variants leading to a Delta specific vaccine being dropped (for now at least), mRNA advantage was a quick turn around if variants escaped, hasn't happened yet

COVID Vaccines can cause blood clots - Most issues came about due to the mass rollout of vaccines and are extremely extremely rare and in all cases the risk from the disease itself was greater, was it a conspiracy that vaccines would have side effects when all previous vaccines also have very rare side effects?

3rd & 4th/New Shots - Annual boosters were being talked about even before the vaccines were released

Segregation of society - Vaccine\Immunity passports were being talked about weeks after the pandemic started

Camps for the unvaccinated - ??

Unvaccinated unable to work - This wasn't expected, came about due to the Delta variant and herd immunity not being reached, who's behind the conspiracy here?

Harder to access medical care for unvaccinated - Not in Ireland at the least, Singapore make the unvaccinated pay for any COVID related treatment, is any country denying treatment yet? (apart from the US, but that's mostly GOP driven and lack of public health facilities)

Secret Contracts between Governments and Pfizer - What are the details here? Anything to do with COVID vaccines? Were AZ, Novavax, Sinovac/pharm, Janssen and Moderna involved as well?

It's a fun image, but there's a lot wrong on it and still doesn't have an explanation for the conspiracy behind it, maybe you want to add something about that? Or just make a smart remake and run away like a baby chicken, thought so :)

Reduction of transmission still means it can spread floorpie, as the vaccines reduced the severity of the symptoms, it followed that transmission would be reduced and it did leaving R at about 1 for Ireland with most opened up (and the high R of Omicron means more transmission still but still a reduction among the vaccinated as much as the unvaxxed won't admit that's the case using anecdotes).