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by nojokes 5y ago
The vaccination has reduces community spread but in much lower rate because of prolonged close contact. There is much lower amount of infectious virions compared to somebody without previous immunity and the period of being infectious is re
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by nojokes 5y ago
I am from EU where previous infection is somewhat recognized. If the discussion is about why convalescents are not equally recognized, I am for it. If the discussion is about not vaccinating and promoting natural immunity as the solution to
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by nojokes 5y ago
Saying natural immunity is best is really not smart. This means that you must get sick to acquire it and possibly really sick. This is exactly what vaccines are trying to avoid. In principle it is smart to prime your immune system with a va
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by nojokes 5y ago
I am not sure how people do not have even slightest intuition about overdosing something. There are quite strict limits to everyday over the counter medicine. For example you should not take more than 1000 mg of paracetamol at time and not
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by nojokes 5y ago
You are mistaken, it just wants to spread more. Being a 2 times more deadly for being 100 times more transmissible would be not big tradeoff in evolution. It happened with delta, I can happen again.
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by nojokes 5y ago
Dr Campbell can explains some difficult research papers fairly well but he has one major shortcoming - he does not explain study limitations. For example he may say that this paper found that some drug works for something but he does not st
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by nojokes 5y ago
I would be gladly happy when it works. This paper does not prove that it does. It is just another one in the list of badly designed and executed studies.
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by nojokes 5y ago
That you for this bit of information. There people did read suspicious.
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by nojokes 5y ago
If you had followed Marty Makary, you may have noticed that he clearly is propagating anti-vaccination talking points.
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by nojokes 5y ago
Like in the childhood, right? It is very likely how it works with other disease that is constantly surrounding us and how we can tolerate many previously deadly epidemic pathogens. Still the research has displayed that almost any viral infe
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by nojokes 5y ago
I think dismissing natural immunity is direct reaction to the stupidity that emerged in beginning of the pandemic: great barrington declaration, Tegnell, UK initial response etc. We know how it worked out - a lot of people died, even worse
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by nojokes 5y ago
> we now know that there was minimal to zero medical benefit to me getting this vaccine Actually the opposite is true. Data from other countries shows that during the delta wave you had 2-3 times less change to catch it. Both risks very
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by nojokes 5y ago
And it is still weak against omicron.
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by nojokes 5y ago
If it was just reaction to the spike protein then why is myocarditis more likely on the second vaccination? I think it is therefore more likely that adaptive immune system is involved because it has ability to remember. Now is it possible t
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by nojokes 5y ago
If it was just reaction to the spike protein then why is myocarditis more likely on the second vaccination? I think it is therefore more likely that adaptive immune system is involved because it has ability to remember. Now is it possible t
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by nojokes 5y ago
1) Sure, it is better, but it was not by much during delta wave when these decisions were made. 2) Well, if you are not clearly open about this, you are hurting the trust. People can be stupid but not this stupid that they do not understand
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by nojokes 5y ago
> because thats the only thing we are told to do. No, this is the only thing we have at the moment that is working well enough against delta and omicron. We have to wait another 2 months at least to get omicron specific vaccines. Curre
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by nojokes 5y ago
Boosters are not currently around 6 months. Can you get second booster now? Nope, even when you got yours 6 months ago. Pfizer CEO also for sure is well aware that his companies vaccine did not make any meaningful difference after 4th shot
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by nojokes 5y ago
Stats, stats, stats. Hospitalizations among people who got booster are incredibly low but meaningful difference appears from age of 50.
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by nojokes 5y ago
I previously made a "joke" in relation the same point - dying among people who have died from covid is lower than among vaccinated. But I understand that this discussion comes up about restrictions - why are the convalescents not
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by nojokes 5y ago
I am sorry, it is not name calling, but specific term that describes specific people. When I say Nazis, it is not name calling when I mean Nazis and not somebody who I may think is like them. Or should I use another term when I speak about
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by nojokes 5y ago
There is more nuance in this. It is possible that kids were important infection vector from the beginning but it was under tested. It can also be that the first variant of the virus really affected them less. During the delta wave the schoo
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by nojokes 5y ago
I am sorry, but I was factual. I am following social media very closely and this is how it will pan out based on my experience. Can somebody please rephrase it in a way that will not violate the guidelines but stays factual?
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by nojokes 5y ago
I do not support forced actions like this but you appear to cite a source that is confirming that vaccines are effective.
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by nojokes 5y ago
What you are looking for is affinity maturation. On first exposure to the antigen the immune system will make low affinity antibodies i.e. simple ones that are fast to make but only stick to very specific part of the antigen. On subsequent
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by nojokes 5y ago
The opposite of a child is an adult. An adult can understand a purpose of some measure and follows it without throwing a tantrum even when it is not most convenient.
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by nojokes 5y ago
I also find these masks very comfortable. Are you using FFP2 masks?
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by nojokes 5y ago
Right, those negative efficiency numbers that drive every anti-vaxxer crazy and anybody ignoring them like there is there nothing to see. Must be hard. It is right there. Has it occurred to anybody that there really is nothing to see there?
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by nojokes 5y ago
Thank you for your kindness but it really would help if you could do something about toxic anti-vaxxer community forming here on HN. This is also destroying this place.
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It worked fine till omicron. It was totally fine and kicked delta ass. But there are limits how much you could beat out of the immune system with the same vaccine. It is completely surprising we even got this far but delta was not that much

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