rajin444

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Politics.
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> it causes me to have unavoidable bias. Admitting you're susceptible to bias is one thing (we all are, I think). Calling it unavoidable makes it seem like something innate and implies you lack free will. I'm curious why you se
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Your post is assuming a lot of this science is "settled". I don't think science is settled - especially in this field. Acknowledging that your own statements may be incorrect might help you down the path to figuring out a fix
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How many people were convinced of the "95+%" effectiveness of the vaccine only to learn that it fades? Why weren't they told it would fade up front?
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Lack of evidence. Your post is using scary anecdotes to try and persuade. That does not come off as trustworthy.
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How can they know that figure (80%) without knowing % of people with natural immunity? We can guess but there hasn't been much of an effort made to track this.
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He has likely done major damage to his body through the use of steroids. He was a professional bodybuilder who admitted to using. This is definitely not a good anecdote.
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It's very concerning that the president is saying things like "your refusal has cost all of us" and "our patience is wearing this" when talking to people with natural immunity who have not received the vaccine. As p
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It’s even crazier we’re not considering natural immunity. A lot of these healthcare workers already put themselves at risk and caught covid. And now they’re being forced out.
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Are you looking? They get full fairly often: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jan/28/hospitals-da... https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patie... That&#x2
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Giving more power to those abusing it is not going to create trust. Trust has been broken for all of human history. It’s just much easier for us to notice it now. I don’t know the solution, but more of what we’ve been doing isn’t it.
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How else are you going to handle asymptomatic cases among vaccinated?
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Why are European countries like Denmark and Sweden able to open up almost entirely, but we're doubling down? Especially Sweden, who hasn't really implemented much of anything accept advice and vaccine availability.
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If this is a major concern testing daily is the only option. The covid vaccine's efficacy wanes over time.
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COVID mutates too fast and the covid vaccines do no provide sterilizing immunity. The smallpox vaccine provides sterilizing immunity, which enables eradication. I agree the COVID vaccine is good at reducing severe cases and preventing death
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That's looking at relative risk not overall. It's not saying you lose immunity after 180 days.
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> What rational person would refuse a lifesaving medicine offered to them for free? Somebody who has already had covid. They've already taken on risk - why expose themselves to more? Your argument of people acting rational breaks do
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The smallpox vaccine worked (works) much better than the covid vaccine. I don't think this is an honest comparison.
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A lot of vaccine hesitancy (in the US at least) is driven by refusal to acknowledge natural immunity. Ignoring it is another "noblie lie" to help drive up vaccine numbers. It's much easier to say "just get the vaccine&qu
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Based on current data? I have no idea. It's an absolute mess: https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2021/09/03/i-have-not-been-sil... For a start, we could stop making claims that we don't know to be true.
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A leader's most important role is to build and maintain trust. > "Seriously people - STOP BUYING MASKS! They are NOT effective in preventing general public from catching #Coronavirus, but if healthcare providers can’t get them
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Do the experts have any long term studies on efficacy (5+ years out)? It seems like they figured out the 6 month (or is it 5? or 8?) window only recently. It also seems learning the vaccine is non sterilizing is new as well. I don't fa
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How do you know the vaccine reduced severity? My household of 3 all had it and 2 weren’t aware of it. I had minor symptoms which is the only reason we found out. This was back in 2020 so we were all unvaccinated. The “b comes after a, so a
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Won't be hard to pivot the NYC vaccine pass into the NYC health pass.
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> Take the opposite case. Nobody vaccinates, we stop caring. What is the outcome? We’ll never know. We have no proper controls. Just because B comes after A does not mean A implies B. I’m exaggerating (some of our measures seem performat
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> We're all in this together No, we aren't. Obesity is an epidemic. Nearly all of those people made a decision to make themselves more likely to contract covid, more likely to exhibit symptoms longer (thus spread it), and more
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Health leaders and politicians entire job is to build and maintain trust. Mistakes like this only reinforce vaccine hesitancy. Those that are hesitant know that the science is settled - until it isn't. The only method to account for un
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The long term effects of all of those listed are fairly well understood. It's about known risk vs. unknown risk.
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So 0 covid is the only answer? I don't think 0 covid is possible. We would need vaccines that provide sterilizing immunity for that.
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It's really concerning you're wrong and also wish for the ability to silence others instead of engaging with them. https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2021/s0818-covid-19-boost...

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