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I will add, the often overlooked and very important issue, regarding covid vaccines. The W.H.O changing the definition of a vaccine. Here it is in black and w

by reify 1y ago

I will add, the often overlooked and very important issue, regarding covid vaccines. The W.H.O changing the definition of a vaccine. Here it is in black and white: VACCINATION (Pre-2015): Injection of a killed or weakened infectious organism in order to prevent disease VACCINATION (2015-2021): The act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce "IMMUNITY" to a spewcific disease. VACCINATION (Sept-2021): The act of introducing a vaccine into the body to produce "PROTECTION" to a specific disease. and there it is! Protection is not immunity. If covid jabs offered immunity you would not have to have a new booster every year. Covid jabs only offer protection against the symptoms. Amazingly I too am alive, unjabbed and 69 years old.

yawpitch 1y ago
And, amazingly, when you reach, say, 96, and you do die, there’s a reasonable chance that you’ll die of complications of infection from a descendent of SARS-CoV-2. Also, re: the definition changing, pre-2015 the only vaccines we had for viruses were so-called live-attenuated vaccines, which usually got shortened to “weakened or killed virus” because most people are too uniformed (and uninformable) to understand that viruses are not alive and cannot be killed. Essentially we took remnants of virions from organisms that had survived infection and brute-force introduced those remnants into humans in order to provoke an immune response (ie immune protection, there never has been and never could be a world in which a primed immune response is the same thing as permanent and irrevocable immunity, though again most people can’t understand this so it gets short-handed). Post 2015 we had artificially produced viral proteins we could synthesize and introduce… post 2020/1 that arsenal now includes mRNA-produced targeted proteins, which is friggin amazing tech. But no jab ever offered lifelong permanent immunity… every jab ever just offered you some response to that specific virion in the future. If the virus mutates fast (as all coronaviruses and influenza viruses do) then that protection naturally decays over time as the protein drifts away from what you’ve been exposed to. That’s why you have to get a new booster every year for fast-evolvers, every five to ten years for slow evolvers, and probably never again in your lifetime for glacially slow evolvers.

by reify 1y ago

yawpitch 1y ago

And, amazingly, when you reach, say, 96, and you do die, there’s a reasonable chance that you’ll die of complications of infection from a descendent of SARS-CoV-2. Also, re: the definition changing, pre-2015 the only vaccines we had for viruses were so-called live-attenuated vaccines, which usually got shortened to “weakened or killed virus” because most people are too uniformed (and uninformable) to understand that viruses are not alive and cannot be killed. Essentially we took remnants of virions from organisms that had survived infection and brute-force introduced those remnants into humans in order to provoke an immune response (ie immune protection, there never has been and never could be a world in which a primed immune response is the same thing as permanent and irrevocable immunity, though again most people can’t understand this so it gets short-handed). Post 2015 we had artificially produced viral proteins we could synthesize and introduce… post 2020/1 that arsenal now includes mRNA-produced targeted proteins, which is friggin amazing tech. But no jab ever offered lifelong permanent immunity… every jab ever just offered you some response to that specific virion in the future. If the virus mutates fast (as all coronaviruses and influenza viruses do) then that protection naturally decays over time as the protein drifts away from what you’ve been exposed to. That’s why you have to get a new booster every year for fast-evolvers, every five to ten years for slow evolvers, and probably never again in your lifetime for glacially slow evolvers.