Unit2Sucks said:
oski003 said:
Unit2Sucks said:
sycasey said:
The vaccines still seem to provide long-term protection against serious illness or death, even if infection is still possible. That's why people should get vaxxed, to significantly lower your risk of dying.
Hey, 003 has an agenda to push. Stop with your common-sense talk.
What is my agenda?
Based on your posting history, it's clearly to sow distrust in mRNA vaccines. You attack the CDC, Fauci, Big Pharma, etc. and promote Novavax and Inovio. If I were even more cynical, I would point to a possible financial interest (do you hold positions in NVAX or INO?), the same way you impugn the CDC and others due to financial entanglements with with Moderna and Pfizer.
You take every opportunity possible and use liberties to paint mRNA vaccines in a negative light. You don't bother to rigorously fact check negative information which you post and you admit that there is even shakier stuff that you don't post - probably because you know it would make you look even worse here. Obviously you come into contact with that stuff during your regular trolling of the anti-vaxxer internet. Which makes perfect sense because you have an agenda.
I'll give you credit that from time to time you acknowledge reality with the vaccines and that you are generally pretty even handed in acknowledging known facts on the ground with COVID. Unlike a number of politically motivated posters, I don't dismiss things that you say offhand. But that doesn't mean that you aren't purposefully attempting to unfairly malign the safest and most effective tools that we have to fight COVID right now.
So, you don't think my agenda is death? Lol.
Someone can absolutely criticize mRNA vaccines and not be against vaccines. There were and continue to be so many falsehoods given to the American people to ensure mRNA vaccine uptake. The reason: because they are the best tool AVAILABLE to prevent death. I have invested in Novavax, Inovio, BioNTech, and Moderna. I bought all of them when they were much lower value than they are now (except Inovio).
I don't invest much now (largely mutual funds), but I certainly saw how the game is played. This is where I express my disgust with the business side of covid 19. The US gave Pfizer 2 billion yesterday to buy and donate vaccines for lower income countries. Why are we paying a king's ransom for Pfizer doses when they expire quickly and are incredibly difficult to distribute? Pfizer has more lobbyists in Washington than the non BP vaccine developers have employees. Why are we now trying to diminish the WHO's efforts to vaccinate the world. They are literally trying to buy and distribute $5 vaccines that can last a year in room temperature. Why are we spending $20 for mRNA doses? This is nuts.
OWS kicked Novavax out of Emergent Bio so they could focus on JnJ and Astra Zeneca. Novavax is indeed having trouble manufacturing in their OWS partnered FUJI facility as Fuji lacks experience and Novavax does as well.
The UK also asked Novavax to manufacture stateside at their Fuji plant. Same issues. Novavax partnered with Serum II and their delays have been caused by Biden's export ban and executive order to divert vaccine supplies contracted to Serum to Pfizer and JnJ. Astra Zeneca and Novavax were to split production. Astra got Biden to release supplies for Astra. Serum pivoted to all Astra. Later, Biden exported Novavax's supplies. This delayed the crap out of them. All of this frustrates me because the manufacturing delays are the reasons for Novavax's slow approvals. They have been approved, however, in 150 countries. Only the US, UK, NZ, Japan, and Canada have yet to approve. Despite taking on Serum as a late partner and being blocked by the US, Serum is distributing 100 million doses in the next three weeks. Obviously, zero doses of Novavax vaccine will be going to the USA.
Anyway, my 5 year old did get a Pfizer shot. I will get a booster by the end of February because I do not believe the protection against severe illness lasts forever. I hope the booster will not be mRNA. If it has to be, I will choose Pfizer because it is a smaller dose. I felt crappy when I exercised two months post second shot Moderna.