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Reduce transmission. Nobody serious ever said they would stop transmissions because they were found not to during their testing last year.

prohobo 5y ago
Stop lying. We can't solve any problems if you keep denying reality. - Up until mid-2021 people still thought "transmission was exceptionally rare" in vaccinated individuals: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/yes-vaccines-block-most-transmission-of-covid-19 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/yes-vacci... - Biden said it would stop transmissions: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-if-vaccinated-wont-get-covid/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-if-vaccinated-wont-g... - Fauci said it would stop transmissions: https://web.archive.org/web/20210604093134/https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/90445 https://web.archive.org/web/20210604093134/https://www.medpa... This is late stage narrative from 2021. In 2020 they were still questioning whether "breakthrough infections" were real. The narrative shifts over time, but if you know how to use a search engine you'll see it clear as day.
- hef19898 5y ago
  Delta and Omicron changed things a bit, didn't they? As you argueing against vacvine mandates, lock downs, vaccine passports and geberal restrictions, what would be your counter proposal? No restrictions and let the Pandemic run its natural course? We all sae how that would look like in Italy, Spain, Brazil, New York...
  - refurb 5y ago
    I love how to goal posts keep moving. “Oh, the vaccine would have stop transmission but Delta came along”. Bullshit.
    - hef19898 5y ago
      I didn't say that vaccines were supposed to transmission pre-Delta, did I? Just that overall vaccines were, and are, more effective against Alpha and whatnot. And even then it wasn't really expected to stop transmissions to 100%. Still the question remains to be answered: What are our alternatives, assuming we don't want overloaded health systems? Because just doing nothing wpuld be disaster.
- hugh-avherald 5y ago
  I'm appalled by Biden's careless statement. But I can't find the Fauci quote in that article (likely hampered by pop-ups). I do agree that authorities have been pretty reckless in their promises.
  - prohobo 5y ago
    I updated the link to an archived version. Fauci and the CDC were a little more careful, but they insinuated effectively the same thing with vaccination induced herd immunity. Of course, we now know the vaccines do nothing for herd immunity, and it seems only infection actually does anything in this regard. I don't have the time to dig up everything every time I need to make an argument, and I wish there was a proper repository of information for this stuff - and that again, is a failing of the government.
    - usrusr 5y ago
      > and it seems only infection actually does anything in this regard Infection doesn't either. The effect of infection is stronger wrt to spread for a few weeks or months but that difference isn't a long term thing. That's not how you reach herd immunity, it's how you reach seasonality.
      - prohobo 5y ago
        Do we have any proof of people getting re-infected at a population level, or even any proper studies of individual re-infection? Because a lack of re-infections is what I think would constitute a basis for building herd immunity.
        usrusr 5y ago
        That basis is gone, no study required. Reinfections have long ceased to be noteworthy events. But yeah, there are also studies. None as elaborate and big as, say, a vaccine phase 3, because there aren't really any decisions swiftly based on the exact value of reinfection probabilities, but enough to show that there's no reason to assume that there will be less reinfections than with any other endemic cold.
refurb 5y ago
Do you have a source? The big clinical trials all tested risk of hospitalization and risk of death. The original Pfizer and Moderna trials did not test risk of infection or transmission. Participants weren’t even tested unless symptomatic.

prohobo 5y ago

Stop lying. We can't solve any problems if you keep denying reality. - Up until mid-2021 people still thought "transmission was exceptionally rare" in vaccinated individuals: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/yes-vaccines-block-most-transmission-of-covid-19 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/yes-vacci... - Biden said it would stop transmissions: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-if-vaccinated-wont-get-covid/ https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-if-vaccinated-wont-g... - Fauci said it would stop transmissions: https://web.archive.org/web/20210604093134/https://www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/vinay-prasad/90445 https://web.archive.org/web/20210604093134/https://www.medpa... This is late stage narrative from 2021. In 2020 they were still questioning whether "breakthrough infections" were real. The narrative shifts over time, but if you know how to use a search engine you'll see it clear as day.

hef19898 5y ago
Delta and Omicron changed things a bit, didn't they? As you argueing against vacvine mandates, lock downs, vaccine passports and geberal restrictions, what would be your counter proposal? No restrictions and let the Pandemic run its natural course? We all sae how that would look like in Italy, Spain, Brazil, New York...
- refurb 5y ago
  I love how to goal posts keep moving. “Oh, the vaccine would have stop transmission but Delta came along”. Bullshit.
  - hef19898 5y ago
    I didn't say that vaccines were supposed to transmission pre-Delta, did I? Just that overall vaccines were, and are, more effective against Alpha and whatnot. And even then it wasn't really expected to stop transmissions to 100%. Still the question remains to be answered: What are our alternatives, assuming we don't want overloaded health systems? Because just doing nothing wpuld be disaster.
hugh-avherald 5y ago
I'm appalled by Biden's careless statement. But I can't find the Fauci quote in that article (likely hampered by pop-ups). I do agree that authorities have been pretty reckless in their promises.
- prohobo 5y ago
  I updated the link to an archived version. Fauci and the CDC were a little more careful, but they insinuated effectively the same thing with vaccination induced herd immunity. Of course, we now know the vaccines do nothing for herd immunity, and it seems only infection actually does anything in this regard. I don't have the time to dig up everything every time I need to make an argument, and I wish there was a proper repository of information for this stuff - and that again, is a failing of the government.
  - usrusr 5y ago
    > and it seems only infection actually does anything in this regard Infection doesn't either. The effect of infection is stronger wrt to spread for a few weeks or months but that difference isn't a long term thing. That's not how you reach herd immunity, it's how you reach seasonality.
    - prohobo 5y ago
      Do we have any proof of people getting re-infected at a population level, or even any proper studies of individual re-infection? Because a lack of re-infections is what I think would constitute a basis for building herd immunity.
      - usrusr 5y ago
        That basis is gone, no study required. Reinfections have long ceased to be noteworthy events. But yeah, there are also studies. None as elaborate and big as, say, a vaccine phase 3, because there aren't really any decisions swiftly based on the exact value of reinfection probabilities, but enough to show that there's no reason to assume that there will be less reinfections than with any other endemic cold.

refurb 5y ago

Do you have a source? The big clinical trials all tested risk of hospitalization and risk of death. The original Pfizer and Moderna trials did not test risk of infection or transmission. Participants weren’t even tested unless symptomatic.