D. C. Bear said:
whiterock said:
Sam Lowry said:
Alex Berenson is practically synonymous with Covid misinformation. He's been debunked so many times that it's earned him the title of "The Pandemic's Wrongest Man." As just one example, here's a story from Denmark in which he misrepresented a vaccine study and had to be corrected by the author. The findings were in fact the opposite of what Berenson claimed. His statistics from Israel are also out of date. While they were once a world leader in vaccinations, that is no longer the case. The other countries he mentions are relatively high in vaccinations, but many others have the same or similar rates. The one thing they do have in common is that they were the first to be hit with Omicron. Given its high transmissibility and breakthrough capacity, that's the most obvious explanation for the spike in cases. It could hardly have been otherwise.
He's been right almost unerringly, Sam. You are digging into an increasingly untenable position, and wildly spinning your links to say more than they say, the Israel link in particular. Very disingenuous, that.
Data is unambiguously clear - This is now a pandemic of the vaccinated, whose immune systems have been compromised by spike proteins The double-vaxxed are now more likely to get infected than the unvaxxed, and the boosters are showing very limited effects. Public policy built on the vaccines is at a dead end.
You neverTrumpers are so blind. The failure of mRNA vaccines to perform as promised is his Achilles Heel, but your blind defense of the vaccines makes it impossible refuse to exploit it. Amazing.
This is not what data are saying, here is one example.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2788485
Data from all the highly vaccinated countries in the world clearly show much higher infection rates in long-vaxxed individuals.
Data also show that we are clearly at the point of diminishing marginal returns on mRNA vaccines:
"The good news about boosters, however, comes with a caveat. It's not clear how long booster protection will last. Data from the United Kingdom suggest it could wane quickly
13. Three doses of the PfizerBioNTech vaccine provided 70% protection initially. But by 10 weeks, protection against infection had dropped to 45%. And reports emerging from Israel suggest that
a fourth-dose booster doesn't seem to elevate protection effectively. This suggests that the best next move might be to develop Omicron-specific booster shots."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00214-3?utm_source=pocket-newtabSure, we can always do what that last sentence suggests. But that is simply not practical, logistically speaking. By the time the next variant is spotted, vaxxes ginned up, shipped out, and meaningful parts of the population are vaxxed......the wave will already be past. Such an approach is chasing one's tail.
Which brings us back to the Barrington Declaration. Use the vaxxes to protect the vulnerable, and let the young & healthy gain true herd immunity the old fashioned way. It's the only practical solution.