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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭bad2thebone


    Well done on being successful, it's great to have financial security and basically not have to eat GMO ****, have a good life through hard work and the right decisions.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭bad2thebone


    I suppose you want her to leave and you'll wait for the next conspiracy theorist to enter the foyer, then go at them asking them what their other accounts are, complaining about rereggs and rinse and repeat.

    That's your style isn't it Tao. You like doing that, you dirty fecker....



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭snowcat


    Its not odd at all. It is a basic premise that the pharma companies are not to be trusted. They are not in the business of public health. Their business is to make money and sell vaccines. The pandemic has been manna for those companies.



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


    Do you have a personal gripe with me from one of your other accounts? Take it up with a mod if you do. If your don’t, then stop being petty

    Snowcat, whatever the gender has posted In support of a conspiracy theory they don’t believe in. It’s a little odd. Asking why is not chasing them away.



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


    They are in the business to keep people alive because dead people are no longer customers. So it is odd.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,218 ✭✭✭snowcat


    Thanks. Yes i have a highly successful business and a supplementary organic farm where i try and make environmental and social acceptable decisions. I abosolutely despise GMO and when i heard the mRNA vaccines were going that route that was me out.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,906 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    No they're not, they're assumptoins based on known behaviours and similar behaviours with other vaccines and medicines hence scientists not creating a new branch of biology into investigating the behavior.

    Now, as you seem to be willfully ignoring, time after time, in a controlled environment with testing, fewer vaccinated test positive then unvaccinated.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,906 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    I am fully aware of the advantages and disadvantages of the different types of farming, but name your one organically used product and we'll see if it's a chemical or not rather than running away and strawmanning.

    You are also highly privelaged to be in the position where you can afford to pay extra for organically grown food, or use your land at a lower productivity rate when farming, most of the world is not as lucky to be in that position and never will.

    mRNA vaccines are not GMO, but go on in repeating some early anti-vax misnformation from the pandemic.

    Vaccines are a low profit business, hence not many new ones being produced and most being funded by research efforts such as oxford or startups. Pharma companies much prefer to sell a treatment than a vaccine 50 euro for a vaccine course vs. 600 euro for a COVID treatment course.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭bad2thebone


    No gripe with you whatsoever, but you're insinuating that any new account is a rereg or someone's other account including mine. It's a message board, mostly banter here. You hardly think our post's are important in the outside world. Is there influential people here looking for potential talent or something.

    Or are you afraid of anonymity ?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,343 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Oop. Page 199 and still no conspiracy theory being posted.

    The only person who admits to being a conspiracy theorist is just posting waffling nonsense to waste time cause they are in a pissy mood.

    The rest have intermittently told us that they aren't anti-vax, aren't conspiracy theorists, aren't saying there's a conspiracy and aren't interested in discussion conspiracy theories.



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  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭hometruths


    • People who are fully vaccinated and people who are unvaccinated may behave differently, particularly with regard to social interactions and therefore may have differing levels of exposure to COVID-19.

    This sort of covers all bases of known behaviour though doesn't it? They may behave differently and therefore may have differing levels of exposure to COVID-19.

    I presume to find this a credible explanation for higher case rates in the vaccinated, it means you'd have to believe the unvaccinated are more cautious and anxious about exposing themselves Covid and thus would make greater effort to avoid such exposure - i.e reduced social interactions?

    Would you acknowledge that?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,343 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Yet, I wonder which side flat earthers are on when it comes to vaccines...



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


    Every account? You seem to be prone to exaggeration. If I recall, those who I have called out have turned out to be exactly as I said. CT’ists are very predictable.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,906 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    It's based on people who are infected and then go and get tested so case numbers are fully down to human behaviour. It also turns out that those who refuse to get vaccinated are also less likely to get tested, unless they get severely sick, which they did in much higher %'s than the vaccinated.

    Again, this was expected as the vaccine rollout went from everyone rushing to get vaccinated to everyone being vaccinated who wanted one, hence no one (bar conspiracy theorists and anti-vaxxers) was surprised by the numbers.

    That you're still pushing this angle so many months later across 2 different accounts is your singular failure to understand, not anyone elses.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,343 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    It's also been months since this data came out. So surely since then there must be other indications that the vaccine is causing more infections.

    Or will he fall back to the conspiracy standard of claiming all evidence being covered up?



  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭hometruths


    Ok, we can come at it from the likely to get tested angle too if you prefer.

    So you think this is credible - the unvaccinated who are less likely to get tested because they are less health conscious than the vaccinated, are also more likely to have lower exposure to Covid than the vaccinated due to avoiding riskier social interactions, even though they are less health conscious?

    Can you explain why they are likely to be less health conscious re getting tested but more health conscious about exposure? That is totally counterintuitive?



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,343 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Do you have any other evidence that indicates the vaccine is causing more infections?


    Or is it still only just that one figure you're interpreting?



  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭hometruths


    Or will he fall back to the conspiracy standard of claiming all evidence being covered up?

    Oddly enough they have stopped publishing the data in such detail.



  • Site Banned Posts: 20,686 ✭✭✭✭Weepsie


    The unvaccinated are down the rabbit hole online seeking out conspiracies. Their biggest risk at this stage is vitamin d deficiency



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,343 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    OK. Going full on conspiracy theory to avoid acknowledging a lack of any evidence.

    Why have they stopped publishing the data exactly?

    Are they also covering up all the other evidence the vaccine is increasing infections?



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  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭hometruths


    Why have they stopped publishing the data exactly?

    Because too many people were questioning the plausibility of the disclaimer, eg similiar to the question I asked @astrofool :

    Can you explain why they are likely to be less health conscious re getting tested but more health conscious about exposure? That is totally counterintuitive?

    Rather than explain the disclaimer better, they chose to label anybody who questioned it an antivaxxer with an agenda who just didn't understand, and they said that publishing the data was just encouraging antivaxxers to spread misinformation. The obvious danger of this was an undermining in public confidence in the vaccines.

    One would have thought the best way to increase public confidence in the vaccines would be more openness and transparency, not less.

    Given that you find the disclaimer credible can you explain why the unvaccinated are likely to be less health conscious re getting tested but more health conscious about exposure?



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    Well, the thing is we did have a weirdly aggressive account that accused posters of being NPCs and soya boys.... Now we've got another poster with an incredibly similar posting style...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,906 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    Their exposure is indeterminate and likely the same or more , as we see by hospitalisations, unvaccinated make up proportionately more of those with COVID.

    You are (now solely) focusing on numbers from a voluntary testing and report system outside of a control environment.

    Again, your understanding of the numbers is the issue here, or we have discovered a new branch of medicine (we haven't).



  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭hometruths


    You say that the disclaimer is based on known behaviours of the vaccinated vs the unvaccinated but you also say of the unvaccinated: "Their exposure is indeterminate and likely the same or more"

    Yet the disclaimer says:

    • "People who are fully vaccinated and people who are unvaccinated may behave differently, particularly with regard to social interactions and therefore may have differing levels of exposure to COVID-19.

    You are directly contradicting the reasons we are given to explain why there are higher case rates in the vaccinated versus the unvaccinated.

    I actually agree with you that "Their exposure is indeterminate and likely the same or more", but that is not what the disclaimer says which is I why I don't find it credible.

    You are (now solely) focusing on numbers from a voluntary testing and report system outside of a control environment.

    Yes, I am focussing on the real world data of what is actually happening in the real world outside of a control environment.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,343 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Cool. Can you quote where they said that was the reason they stopped providing that data?

    Or is that more of you assuming things and trying to present it as fact?

    You do that a lot then run away when you're challenged on it. So I think that's what's happening here.

    And no mate, I have no particular motivation to answer your question about it when you have completely ignored the questions I asked you about it first.

    I have asked you to show where the people putting the data have suggested (directly and not your personal interpretation) that the vaccine might be increasing infections. You failed to do so.

    I've asked you to provide other evidence and statements from the intervening months that show that the vaccines are causing more infections. You failed to do this.


    Unfortunately it doesn't matter how open and transparent they make things because we have folks like you and your grifters who will dishonestly twist things to support an anti-vaxx agenda.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭bad2thebone


    Seriously, wow they're very bold if they're trying to come back again. Are you going to run to the moderators about the similarities ?

    Shocking, absolutely shocking should someone try to join boards under a different account. Mind you there's a lot of similarities between yourself and a few more than come in here.

    Maybe you are trying to deflect your own issues.

    So you're playing moderator now, well done. Hopefully you'll be upgraded to a higher status.



  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭hometruths


    Cool. Can you quote where they said that was the reason they stopped providing that data?

    Sure. https://www.thenational.scot/news/19931745.covid-data-will-not-published-concerns-misrepresented-anti-vaxxers/

    The PHS official told The Scotsman: “What is happening is people are looking at those simple data and trying to make inferences about the vaccination, whether the vaccines work, inappropriately and sometimes wilfully.

    "There are so many caveats and they just pull certain figures out that should not be used.

    "What we are going to do is do a lot more on the vaccine effectiveness side and try and make people understand how effective the vaccine is.

    “For example we know it is 50 per cent effective against getting infected, but that it is much higher effectiveness against hospitalisations and deaths which is the key thing really as that’s what we want to prevent.”

    And no mate, I have no particular motivation to answer your question about it when you have completely ignored the questions I asked you about it first.

    I have asked you to show where the people putting the data have suggested (directly and not your personal interpretation) that the vaccine might be increasing infections. You failed to do so.

    I've asked you to provide other evidence and statements from the intervening months that show that the vaccines are causing more infections. You failed to do this.

    You are putting words into my mouth. I have not said there is definitive evidence of vaccines increasing the susceptibility of infections. What I said exactly in reply when you first told I was doing this was:

    Yes, but in that post you are making the analogy that the vaccines actually increase the chances of being infected.

    I don't know if that is happening or not. I believe it is possible but I have no idea if it is actually happening.

    The data showed repeatedly that the vaccinated were consistently contracting covid at a higher rate than the unvaccinated.

    I have no idea why that is happening. Precisely because I have seen no credible explanation for it. That is my point.

    I am not qualified to tell you why or how the vaccinated could be consistently infected at higher rates than the unvaccinated and do not claim to be.

    I am qualified to tell you that the explanation that the unvaccinated are likely to be less health conscious re getting tested but more health conscious about exposure is totally illogical.

    If I am wrong, and if you in fact believe that is a totally credible and logical explanation, then please do explain it to me.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,906 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    What I said and what the report says are not contradictory, outside of a controlled environment (which still shows the same effectiveness of vaccines of reducing cases by 50% in vaccinated populations) each impact has a likelihood of probability. What your saying is the most likely thing that has happened is something that has never happened before (vaccination makes infection more likely) and is contradicted by all other data from the weekly reports (latest one here: COVID-19 vaccine surveillance report: week 19 (publishing.service.gov.uk)).

    That report contains the real world data, go and read it.

    Now, what's interesting is whether you are going on a weird solo run with this (despite being proven wrong over and over, I mean seriously, for your own mental health this can't be good) or you are getting this information from another website, which is it?

    And this is blatantly untrue, the exact opposite was seen until the antibody rate was near 99.8% in the UK (and you realise that the unvaccinated also include those who were previously infected thus would have some level of immunity depending on the variant at play):

    The data showed repeatedly that the vaccinated were consistently contracting covid at a higher rate than the unvaccinated.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,343 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Look at that. Yet again the quote you provide doesn't actually say what you said.

    No where does it say anything about them not publishing the data because "people are questioning the disclaimer."

    That's something you made up.


    What he describes is the exact tactic you are using here and in specific with those exact words.

    It's an amazing display of lack of self awareness.


    So you aren't claiming that the vaccines are increasing infections. Cool.

    You agree that the people who published the data don't put that forward as a possibility.

    You agree that there's been no other indication that the vaccines are doing that.

    So we can safely exclude that as a possibility.


    So perhaps the reason rest solely with you not being able or willing to understand the explanation offered by the people who provided you the data.

    As dohnjoe points out this is a pure conspiracy theorist tactic.


    We can't possibly explain it to you because you're not willing to accept any explanation that isn't an antivaxx one. You will simply keep denying things until you run away to the next point you don't understand.



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  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭hometruths


    You said the unvaccinated are likely to have the same exposure or more to Covid. One of the official explanations for why the rates are higher in the vaccinated is that they're likely to have less exposure.

    That is contradictory.

    And this is blatantly untrue, the exact opposite was seen until the antibody rate was near 99.8% in the UK

    Can you provide source for a what point the antibody rate was near 99.8%?



  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭hometruths


    We can't possibly explain it to you because you're not willing to accept any explanation that isn't an antivaxx one.

    Nobody has offered any explanation, other than "you don't understand it".

    It is amazing how many claim to understand these caveats, yet nobody seems willing to demonstrate that understanding.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,343 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    We can't explain to flat earthers why the earth is round either man.

    You keep inventing and twisting quotes and statements. You keep dodgingand avoiding questions. You keep claiming to not understand things.

    How would it be possible to explain something to you?



    However as you've admitted there's no actual evidence that the data is the result of the vaccines causing the increase. It's not a possibility. So even if we accept your disbelief about the explanation provided by the actual experts, it would just mean that explanation is wrong and there's still no indication of an issue with the vaccine.


    And if someone was to bet on who's wrong, actual doctors and experts trained in statistics and virology and medicine or some untrained willfully ignorant very dishonest antivaxxer...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,906 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    It's in the weekly UK reports (which it's clear now that you haven't actually read, as you would know this otherwise), this I will leave you to research yourself, I'm not sure if they still publish it in the latest reports (as at 99.8% it doesn't make sense to keep on reporting). edit: They published a more detailed report on 9th Feb, the number is between 98% and 99% when analysed directly.

    I also don't think you understand what contradictory means anymore, you must exhaust yourself.

    It's not contradictory because it can be one of many explanations for the numbers in an uncontrolled environment with voluntary reporting, hence the focus in the latest reports of actual outcomes .

    Again, I'm not sure I can make it any clearer without getting super patronising again.



  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭hometruths


    In the absence of any attempt for a credible explanation as to why the unvaccinated who are less likely to get tested because they are less health conscious than the vaccinated, are also more likely to have lower exposure to Covid than the vaccinated due to avoiding riskier social interactions, even though they are less health conscious, we can move on to the next caveat:

    • People who have never been vaccinated are more likely to have caught COVID-19 in the weeks or months before the period of the cases covered in the report. This gives them some natural immunity to the virus for a few months which may have contributed to a lower case rate in the past few weeks.

    So the covid rate per 100k is higher in the vaccinated in this report, because the unvaccinated are more likely to have caught covid prior to these past few weeks?!

    Presumably in those prior weeks they were for some reason abandoning this abundance of caution we're told about in this week that led them to avoid social interactions in the period covered in this report.

    But hang on, the same caveats have applied every week for almost six months?!

    So the rates in the unvaccinated are lower this week because they are more likely to have caught covid in previous weeks when they were simultaneously less likely to have caught covid because of lower exposure?

    Seems legit.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,343 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Ok. If you say so man.


    But the explanation for this can't be that the vaccines are causing it as you've admitted.

    So what's your point?



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  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭hometruths


    But the explanation for this can't be that the vaccines are causing it as you've admitted.

    No.

    I said I don't know what is causing it, in the absence of any credible explanation I've no idea what is causing it.

    It is possible that it is a form of Vaccine associated enhanced disease (VAED) - this was listed as a potential risk of the vaccines in every single regulatory approval report, and acknowledged that it could not be ruled in or out based on assumptions from modelled data, we'd have to wait and see if the real world data raised any red flags.

    Now we have real world data showing that the case rates are consistently higher in the vaccinated vs the unvaccinated but we are told to ignore it in favour of assumptions based on modelled data.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,343 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    But no it can't be that.

    As you've admitted the reports made no mention of that being a possibility. And you've conceded that you cannot point to any other evidence beyond your personal untrained opinion of one set of data to indicate that might be a cause.


    It's been months now since you found that data on whatever tweet you got it from.


    So again we can exclude that as a possibility.

    So again, what's your point?



  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭hometruths


    As you've admitted the reports made no mention of that being a possibility. And you've conceded that you cannot point to any other evidence beyond your personal untrained opinion of one set of data to indicate that might be a cause.

    The only reports I have seen mentioning that being a possibility were those published before the real world data was available - you are correct, the reports accompanying the now available real world data make no mention of it being a possibility. Equally they make no mention of it being an impossibility.

    They just say you can't infer anything from the real world data because the rates in the unvaccinated are likely to be lower this week because they are more likely to have caught covid in previous weeks when they were simultaneously less likely to have caught covid because of lower exposure.

    Given that you are certain we can exclude it as a possibility, perhaps you could show me the source for that? (assuming it's not just your personal untrained opinion you picked up from a tweet)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,343 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Simple. The report you keep clinging to does not mention it as a possibility.

    If it was a possibility they would have mentioned it.

    I don't understand why they wouldn't mention it if it was a possibility. Maybe you can explain that to me.

    They also don't mention the conspiracy claims that there's secret microchips in the vaccines thay have been causing rashes of magnetism "as an impossibity".

    Why didn't they mention that as an impossibility? Does the fact they don't mean that such a thing is suddenly possible or plausible?


    Likewise there's been absolutely no concern raised about the possibility by anyone other than committed conspiracy cranks who are very very dishonest. If it's a possibility, why has it not come up anywhere else?

    I asked you to show a source that directly states that this is a concern and you as always ignored that question and avoided it. This usually means you can't provide it and are too dishonest and cowardly to admit it.


    If that's not the case please provide a source that directly states that the data is explained by the vaccines causing more infections and that it is a concern.

    I suspect you will ignore this request also for the same reasons.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭bad2thebone


    I wonder what a chimpanzee adenovirus was doing in the astrazenica vaccine. Strange how people are getting the monkey pox.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,201 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    I believe the technical explanation is they put it in for a laugh to freak out conspiracy theorists.

    "Chuck in some of that chimp virus, the only people who actually look at the ingredients lists anyway are conspiracy theorists, will totally freak them out"



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,705 ✭✭✭whippet


    monkey see monkey do !!

    I see loads of memes of Bill Gates and the MonkeyPox .. .. considering MP was first discovered in 1958 .. Bill was only 3 years old when he started plotting this ... incredible



  • Subscribers Posts: 41,855 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat


    bad2thebone, horny for monkeys LOL



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,343 ✭✭✭✭King Mob




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,343 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Also lol. We've hit page 200 and now the conspiracy theory has shifted entirely to a new virus that has not once been mentioned at all in the previous couple of thousands of posts.


    I'm kinda starting to think that conspiracy theorists are just making this shite up as they go along and hear stuff in the mainstream media...



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭bad2thebone


    Well it's in there anyhow,I'm sure there's not a sieve invented that can avoid Cross contamination.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭bad2thebone


    Nothing like a dream believer, ok don't get excited man, it's because I'm short... I know hey hey :)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,442 ✭✭✭bad2thebone


    Well himself and his buddies simulated a monkey pox outbreak not so long ago , so it'll give us lots to talk about.



  • Registered Users, Subscribers, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,180 ✭✭✭hometruths




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