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by carthusian 5y ago
This appears to show that the mean IQ of pandemic cohorts is down by nearly 20 points to around 80, compared to the pre-pandemic testing averaging IQ of 100. This is almost impossible to believe, unless perhaps "social distancing"
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by carthusian 5y ago
Even if vaccine prevents serious illness from the current strains, the ADE hypothesis is that the vaccine will enhance illness for future strains. Also, once you get the vaccine, you don't build up more natural immunity. That's th
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by carthusian 5y ago
>Also recent studies have shown that the rate of mutation in a country is inversely correlated with vaccine coverage for Covid. [3] This is nothing. A single arbitrary estimator, applied to a few dozen countries (no explanation why they
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by carthusian 5y ago
It does though. None of what these people stated makes any sense. It appears to be some sort of propaganda for popular science media. In any case, the logics of the different individuals quoted are completely contradictory, so the only conc
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by carthusian 5y ago
Mutations of the RBD that evade vaccinal immunity (which was long known): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2021.04.006 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2021.03.013 Feasibility argument based on molecu
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by carthusian 5y ago
Natural immunity (which I already have) provides a much more generic defense because it targets all parts of the spike protein, and presumably other parts of the virus itself, many of which hardly mutate. Vaccinal immunity targets only the