Fully vaccinated and got COVID

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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 His statistics from Israel are also out of date.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 higher 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.
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Doc Holliday said:

D. C. Bear said:

Doc Holliday said:

Sam Lowry said:

Doc Holliday said:

Sam Lowry said:

Doc Holliday said:

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Mothra said:

Why haven't you vaxxed your kids with this perfectly safe vaccine, Sam?
My kids are vaxxed.
Have you considered negative ramifications of viral evolution stemming from mass repetitive vaccinations?
I have. The fear is based on a misunderstanding of the science.
That's the opinion of one guy from a 6 month old article completely unaware of the massive amounts of breakthrough omicron infections.

The vaccines don't 100% prevent spread or viral replication. They have poor durability. If every single person in the US was vaccinated, we still couldn't get to herd immunity.

If even a tiny percentage of breakthrough infections occur, that can be disastrous.
One guy who led a seminal study on leaky vaccines and wrote the paper on which all of this fear-mongering is supposedly based. The predictions of disaster are a wild misinterpretation of his work.
This is no natural virus. It's lab made and we have no idea what it's capable of doing.

Why so much faith in big pharma?


Have you read solid evidence that this was a "lab made" virus? If Internet, the US intelligence take on this was split between a natural virus and a virus (natural or not?) that leaked from the lab, but even then I don't recall them having any particular level of confidence that it was a lab modified virus.
Not one case found in nature. Furin cleavage site.

I don't need bureaucrats to tell me what's extremely obvious.
Furin cleavage sites are not uncommon in nature.
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Great graphic. It appears that the vaccinated fear Covid the most. Interesting. Not surprised one bit.

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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.
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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.
You still haven't explained why we should believe your interpretation of the data, despite its obvious flaws, and not that of the scientists who work with it every day. Fundamentally your position is based on a kind of selective paranoia; mainstream science is always untrustworthy except when you think it supports your view. It's also telling that you see this first and foremost as a political issue to be exploited. And Berenson? Don't make me laugh. Yours is a fitting post for this echo chamber. If only you knew how it looks out here in the real world. Amazing.
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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
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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
Pick another one. That's a pretty worthless study. I'll assume you didn't read the details.
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ATL Bear said:

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
Pick another one. That's a pretty worthless study. I'll assume you didn't read the details.

As opposed to the junk claiming the vaccines do nothing or cause more illness?

Here is additional data.

https://www.doh.wa.gov/Portals/1/Documents/1600/coronavirus/data-tables/421-010-CasesInNotFullyVaccinated.pdf

https://covid19.sccgov.org/dashboard-case-rates-vaccination-status

It is time for some folks to stop acting like they can't read.
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D. C. Bear said:

ATL Bear said:

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
Pick another one. That's a pretty worthless study. I'll assume you didn't read the details.

As opposed to the junk claiming the vaccines do nothing or cause more illness?

Here is additional data.

https://www.doh.wa.gov/Portals/1/Documents/1600/coronavirus/data-tables/421-010-CasesInNotFullyVaccinated.pdf

https://covid19.sccgov.org/dashboard-case-rates-vaccination-status

It is time for some folks to stop acting like they can't read.
I'm not carrying water for the "it does nothing" or "causes more illness" crowd. I've said as such and acknowledge the impact to prevention of severe COVID. I am however against this on the fly, not reviewed, statistical hodgepodge that keeps getting thrown out there with these studies, and data analysis with real flaws in the foundations and interpretation. We don't need a vaccine to function as a treatment for COVID, it needs to be a preventer of COVID, and it is proving more and more not to be, and more like the flu vaccine, which only has to deal with 4 strains. For some reason there's this desire to prop it up as such, and it is impacting policy and funding for the development of treatments.

My concern is the mRNA vaccine approach focusing on spike proteins vs say a traditional antigen vaccine (live attenuated) against a highly adaptable and infectious virus means we will never be able to boost ourselves enough for actual protection. We'll constantly need updates to mRNA sequences to keep up with mutations. The flu vaccine is only moderately effective (or worse) and it only has 4 strains to keep up with. This is why a vaccine evaluation takes years, especially for a novel virus that is still unknown for its own behavior.
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Playing tourist in the Florida Keys .

Easy to see where the Covid problem lies .

Folks are HUGE here ….massively overweight .

Even if omicron doesn't get them …..diabetes, cancer or hypertension is going to.


How the hell did this kind of obesity become the norm ?
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Canada2017 said:

Playing tourist in the Florida Keys .

Easy to see where the Covid problem lies .

Folks are HUGE here ….massively overweight .

Even if omicron doesn't get them …..diabetes, cancer or hypertension is going to.


How the hell did this kind of obesity become the norm ?


Eating too much of the wrong kind of food.
The government subsidizes sugar.
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Canada2017 said:

Playing tourist in the Florida Keys .

Easy to see where the Covid problem lies .

Folks are HUGE here ….massively overweight .

Even if omicron doesn't get them …..diabetes, cancer or hypertension is going to.


How the hell did this kind of obesity become the norm ?
when we subsidized processed food, when eating out became the standard, when people started ordering 1000 calorie hamburgers, 300-400 calorie fries and 400-600 calorie sodas for one of their 3 meals that day, when we started using artificial sweetners in everything, low fat products are packed with sugar, etc..
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Looks like Trudeau's vaccines and boosters didn't work to 'stop the spread'. OOOPSIE!!!!
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Canon said:

Looks like Trudeau's vaccines and boosters didn't work to 'stop the spread'. OOOPSIE!!!!


Unfortunately for his political opponents, he is highly unlikely to be forced from office by death because of it.
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Had an old high school classmate pass away this past Friday from Covid. Fully vaccinated. Just 59 years old.
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RD2WINAGNBEAR86 said:

Had an old high school classmate pass away this past Friday from Covid. Fully vaccinated. Just 59 years old.


Sorry for your loss. We are still losing far too many to COVID.
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D. C. Bear said:

Canon said:

Looks like Trudeau's vaccines and boosters didn't work to 'stop the spread'. OOOPSIE!!!!


Unfortunately for his political opponents, he is highly unlikely to be forced from office by death because of it.


Like father like son…

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RD2WINAGNBEAR86 said:

Had an old high school classmate pass away this past Friday from Covid. Fully vaccinated. Just 59 years old.
Good grief.....do everything 'right' and still die.

Totally sucks .



Sorry for your loss .
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CNN medical expert calls for COVID restrictions to be lifted, but only for the vaccinated..

No wonder nobody watches CNN unless they are bored at the airport
“Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment.”

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“Insomnia sharpens your math skills because you spend all night calculating how much sleep you’ll get if you’re able to ‘fall asleep right now.’ “
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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 quickly13. 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-newtab

Sure, 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.
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whiterock said:

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
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.
That would mean no more record profits for big pharma and no more tyrannical power for governments.

Isn't it funny how our society likes to pretend covid mitigation is 100% honest and for the good of the people? We have last century to prove how ****ed up people and governments can get, but we can't fathom atrocities happening right now.
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Doc Holliday said:

whiterock said:

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
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.
That would mean no more record profits for big pharma and no more tyrannical power for governments.
It would be a huge boon to the death care industry, so there's that.
 
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