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Wherever one stands on the vaccine, the case explosion makes no sense. There are twice as many cases in the U.S. this week than this time last year, without any vaccine and with nearly half the country already immune. There is simply no way the unvaccinated could account for this degree of spread, because last year everyone was unvaccinated (plus fewer with natural immunity), yet we are seeing both greater numbers and off-season spread in climates that should not be getting a summer spread. For example, Oregon has nearly five times the number of cases over last year with very high vaccination rates.
The article never gives the most probable reason: this is a new virus that is more contagious.
Wherever one stands on the vaccine, the case explosion makes no sense. There are twice as many cases in the U.S. this week than this time last year, without any vaccine and with nearly half the country already immune. There is simply no way the unvaccinated could account for this degree of spread, because last year everyone was unvaccinated (plus fewer with natural immunity), yet we are seeing both greater numbers and off-season spread in climates that should not be getting a summer spread. For example, Oregon has nearly five times the number of cases over last year with very high vaccination rates.
The article never gives the most probable reason: this is a new virus that is more contagious.
Exactly, and a virus that the vaccines do not have efficacy for. The vaccines are for the old virus. Worst is that the new variants are a result of mass vaccinations that evolved around the antibodies that the original viral spike protein induced.
This strange tweet on twitter today.
"Get a $1M research grant INSTANTLY if you are the first academic to prove that it wasn't the vaccine that was the primary cause of the excess deaths in this post or if you can find an error that changes the result by a factor of 3X or more downward."
Here is the article https://roundingtheearth.substack.co...-mortality-e07
Last edited by Sid Belzberg; Wednesday, 11th August, 2021, 11:24 AM.
And here is another story saying that herd immunity is out of the question now because, unlike measles, people vaccinated against covid can still transmit the virus:
And here is another story saying that herd immunity is out of the question now because, unlike measles, people vaccinated against covid can still transmit the virus:
So we know the vaccines significantly protect vs. symptoms, hospitalization, death - but do we know whether / how much they work against re-transmission? Like the article says that vaccinated people "can" re-transmit, but does anyone know of any studies on whether vaccinated people re-transmit less than non-vaccinated people, or not? And if yes, by what order of magnitude less?
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021...oster-vaccines "A recent study by Johns Hopkins researchers found that vaccinated immunocompromised people are 485 times more likely to end up in the hospital or die from Covid-19 compared to the general population that is vaccinated.”
Last edited by Sid Belzberg; Wednesday, 11th August, 2021, 09:20 PM.
....but does anyone know of any studies on whether vaccinated people re-transmit less than non-vaccinated people, or not? And if yes, by what order of magnitude less?
Thanks a lot in advance.
I think such a study would be very very difficult to conduct and the margin for error would be massive. For every person in the study who gets infected, you'd have to know precisely who infected them. Is that even possible, I doubt it.
But I have no doubt people on both sides of the argument will post links.....
Wow, I have to say that video is scary.... it is the "herd instinct" I talked about and now the cliff that all vaccinated people are running towards has been shown to us. Death within 3 years of right-side heart failure, for something like 60% of the vaccinated. If that comes to pass, there is little hope for humanity. The damage has been done. The vaccines are in most of us now. The clock is ticking.
I don't know this guy or his credentials, but we have to just hope he's got something wrong. Like for example, are these new spike proteins permanent? Will they go away over time?
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