I can't speak for other people, but my stance towards the fake vaccine has evolved over time. When I thought it was going to be an actual vaccine, I held a lot of positions that I now regret having realized that I was flat out lied to about what the fake vaccine was actually capable of. When hospitals were overcrowded and people were allowing their politics to dictate how much risk they were willing to take, I was very angry with those people. But two things have flipped my stance over time.movielover said:You know this board better than myself. Have any of the pro-vaccine people:Zippergate said:bearister said:
People aren't taking this seriously': experts say US Covid surge is big risk
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/15/covid-19-coronavirus-us-surge-complacency?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Boosters, especially the updated bivalent boosters, are highly effective at reducing the risk of severe disease and death. Yet only 15.4% of Americans over the age of five have received the new boosters.
Really? Based on what? (Spoiler alert: the answer is mouse antibody data, and the mice got sick anyway.) So where's the data showing disease reduction (not antibodies) in humans? So tired of these moronic axiomatic claims that the vaxxines reduce risk because..well...they're vaccines so they must reduce risk. Those of us who live in the real world know that jab doses and Covid are positively correlated. And explain to me why one should get a vaccine for a variant, Ba.1, that has been completely supplanted by XBB among others. Would you get last year's edition of the flu vaccine?
15.4% says the edifice is crumbling. People don't buy this garbage anymore. They know they've been lied to both with respect to safety and efficacy.
- modified their opinion?
- even said, "I believe in the vaccine, but just for those over 50, or who are high risk"?
- we should definitely not vaccinate young boys and men as the risks of myocarditis outweigh the gains.
None of these statements are a full retreat; just common-sense adjustments to new data that has been observed and repeated worldwide.
P.S. The kicker is we have no idea of the long-term effects of the clot shot. Myocarditis is easily observed. There are claims that cancer rates have spiked, and that there are problems with fertility / childbirth.
The first is that the people dying from COVID are, generally speaking, the same people who would have died if they caught the standard flu. There have been some isolated cases here and there of seemingly healthy adults with no apparent comorbidities who died, but they are mostly outliers. The overwhelming amount of people who have caught COVID have recovered, developed immunity as a result, and were in no danger of dying.
The second is that the fake vaccine was sold as something that would keep you from catching COVID and slow the spread, which is flat out does not do. All it does is reduce the severity of the symptoms if you do catch it.
I vaccinated at my earliest possible opportunity and got the first booster partly because I had to, but honestly I doubt I'm going to bother in the future. There been so much lying by the government and by the vaccine manufacturers that I just don't have any trust in either of them.
Now, were a lot of people opposed to vaccine mandates and this vaccine especially opposed to any vaccine? No question in my mind. But there are also a lot of people who would happily take a vaccine that is proven and gives a far greater benefit (the shingles vaccine for example), but are just done with these fake vaccines and those people on the whole have proven to be far more right than the people who have been and to this day probably still are mask and vaxx shaming people.