Better or not it's good that people are given the option do decide on their own without ridicule, stigma, or threat.
Sure, but saying something is making an intellectually poor choice (read: stupid), not "ridicule, stigma, or threat."
Neither is refusing to associate with or expose others to the risks that such stupid people carry.
What risks would those be? Certainly the mRNA covid vaccination neither prevents those who have received it from getting covid, nor from transmitting it to others.
As best as I can tell, your sole criterion for describing a choice not to get a covid vaccine as "intellectually poor" is whether or not one chooses to get vaccinated for covid. That is in fact stupid.
Glad to be in the control group. The Covid risk was very low for me so I never got the vaccine. Never tested positive for Covid with probably 50 tests done due nature of my work.
Good to hear they feel we are in a situation they are able to make these new recommendations.
People like us are the superior race of human now. We were already mentally superior due to not falling for the propaganda, now we're also physically superior.
I don’t think that it was necessarily not following the propaganda, but more looking at the data - even the very early data.
Glad to be in the control group. The Covid risk was very low for me so I never got the vaccine. Never tested positive for Covid with probably 50 tests done due nature of my work.
Good to hear they feel we are in a situation they are able to make these new recommendations.
I'm happy for you and glad you did what was best for you. As an older male with some asthma living in a crowded area I got vaccinated. Nice to know my loved ones and others won't be encouraged to get a booster. Sometimes it's good to be wrong.
You likely made the right decision given your circumstance and the data.
I'm happy for you and glad you did what was best for you. As an older male with some asthma living in a crowded area I got vaccinated. Nice to know my loved ones and others won't be encouraged to get a booster. Sometimes it's good to be wrong.
Every measurable outcome is better in the vaccinated cohort. Only under extreme delusion and willful twisting of uncontrolled data does remaining unvaccinated look to be "best for" anyone.
There was/is a very small statistical chance of adverse outcomes for people in my demographic.
Sure, but saying something is making an intellectually poor choice (read: stupid), not "ridicule, stigma, or threat."
Neither is refusing to associate with or expose others to the risks that such stupid people carry.
What risks would those be? Certainly the mRNA covid vaccination neither prevents those who have received it from getting covid, nor from transmitting it to others.
As best as I can tell, your sole criterion for describing a choice not to get a covid vaccine as "intellectually poor" is whether or not one chooses to get vaccinated for covid. That is in fact stupid.
1) COVID vaccines do decrease the risk of infection and transmission. With omicron is it much lower efficacy than against original strain, but some effect is still there.
2) The vaccines do protect extremely well against severe disease and death, across all strains. This is a desirable outcome for most people.
People that do not recognize the benefits of 1 and 2 and instead focus on risks that are much much smaller than the benefits of 1 and 2... are "intellectually poor."
What risks would those be? Certainly the mRNA covid vaccination neither prevents those who have received it from getting covid, nor from transmitting it to others.
As best as I can tell, your sole criterion for describing a choice not to get a covid vaccine as "intellectually poor" is whether or not one chooses to get vaccinated for covid. That is in fact stupid.
1) COVID vaccines do decrease the risk of infection and transmission. With omicron is it much lower efficacy than against original strain, but some effect is still there.
2) The vaccines do protect extremely well against severe disease and death, across all strains. This is a desirable outcome for most people.
People that do not recognize the benefits of 1 and 2 and instead focus on risks that are much much smaller than the benefits of 1 and 2... are "intellectually poor."
For some demographics, 2) is nearly zero with or without the vaccine. In other demographics there is a much higher probability of adverse outcomes from contracting Covid.
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Sweden is doing well. Natural immunity is the prototypically most efficient concept (except according to money hungry big pharma and sheep). They (sweden) didn't buy into the deceptive, media/big pharma (who pays/sponsors media) driven scheme and had a moral compass.
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1) COVID vaccines do decrease the risk of infection and transmission. With omicron is it much lower efficacy than against original strain, but some effect is still there.
2) The vaccines do protect extremely well against severe disease and death, across all strains. This is a desirable outcome for most people.
People that do not recognize the benefits of 1 and 2 and instead focus on risks that are much much smaller than the benefits of 1 and 2... are "intellectually poor."
For some demographics, 2) is nearly zero with or without the vaccine. In other demographics there is a much higher probability of adverse outcomes from contracting Covid.
So is the risk of varicella and most other childhood diseases.
For decades, average-minded people like yourself could manage to grasp that relative risk reduction from disease is compared to relative risk of vaccination. The calculus is clearly in favor of vaccination for the host of childhood vaccines you took with no issues and for COVID.
Babbling about absolute risks is an admission that you are incapable of understand things like 'rates' and 'division.'
Every measurable outcome is better in the vaccinated cohort. Only under extreme delusion and willful twisting of uncontrolled data does remaining unvaccinated look to be "best for" anyone.
There was/is a very small statistical chance of adverse outcomes for people in my demographic.
And an even smaller chance of adverse outcomes from the vaccine.
You are one button press on a $2 calculator away from understanding... I have faith.
For some demographics, 2) is nearly zero with or without the vaccine. In other demographics there is a much higher probability of adverse outcomes from contracting Covid.
So is the risk of varicella and most other childhood diseases.
What if I told you most childhood vaccines also aren't vital but were pushed by big pharma.