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Let's also take a moment to whack another conspiracy theory while we're at it. You can find plenty of finger-wagging BS artists out there who will assure you th
by TurkishPoptart 5y ago
Let's also take a moment to whack another conspiracy theory while we're at it. You can find plenty of finger-wagging BS artists out there who will assure you that the "so-called variants" are nothing more than a plot to keep injecting people with vaccines over and over. This crowd differentiates a bit when you ask them why the evildoers want to keep doing that, with some of them muttering about 5G cell phone towers, others about dosages of the latest nanobots for tracking and crowd control, the really hard-core ones going on darkly about plots to weaken the population in order to kill off various targeted groups outright, and others just saying that it's all a plot to keep making money. If any of this were the case, would you see an open discussion in the literature (with piles of data) about how an Omicron booster provided no extra benefit? You would not. So these people should buzz off, too, although they won't. Decades from now they'll be boring everyone around them in the rest home about the same stuff.
Jesus. This article takes quite a turn for the op-ed. The "conspiracy" is that governments are mandating people to take booster shots that may have little-to-no real benefit aside from making the producers loads of money.
- bigodbiel 5y agoI like the spin where it isn’t OAS that’s the issue, but how the WT mRNA vaccine was so spectacular, that upgraded shots were never needed to begin with. I haven’t seen the study, but how would naive omicron variant vaccinees fare? I believe that is the main issue here.
- 22c 5y agohttps://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.03.479037v1?s=08 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.03.479037v1?... Here's the original study. The folks who performed the study have existing COVID-19 vaccine patents. The study (perhaps conveniently for the patent holders) only tests whether "boosting" with Omicron specific vaccines would provide a benefit to those subjects who already received 2 doses of mRNA-1273 (eg. Moderna). They didn't test how effective the mRNA-1273.529 (Omicron) specific vaccines were when given to the subjects on their own (at least not in this study).