This is a ridiculous take. I love your football content man, but this is just a poor post.
Nope.
- There is no such thing as a perfect vaccine
I explained the meaning of the term but you apparently didn't get it. A "perfect" vaccine isn't "perfect" in the sense of being flawless. A "perfect" vaccine like the smallpox or polio vaccines provide 100% immunity to those who derive immunity from them. A very low % of the population will not get immunity from them.
- Covid vaccines stats do not show 60% efficacy. The original statistics are accurate. With a population of 360+million people in the US, a significant portion unwilling to be vaccinated and those that are unable to be vaccinated (children), it's extremely difficult to eliminate the virus when it is so prevalent in communities.
Well, yes. Israel compels large populations to test regardless of symptoms or no. A sweep earlier this year found that about 40% of those testing positive out of 7000 infected were fully vaccinated. However the symptoms in those patients were generally mild and THAT is why their numbers differ from most of ours. We have vaccinated people whose symptoms are so mild that they aren't getting tested or seeking medical help. However it is well established that many of these people can still spread the virus.
In the US, the % of new cases that are fully vaccinated varies pretty widely by community. LA recently had a report of 30% breakthroughs on new cases. My community has been very consistently around 12%. But we do not have broad testing that accurately captures the actual number of cases among the vaccinated.
- Who knows about how long vaccines last - it's on a person to person basis depending on your immune system.
Pfizer Vaccine Protection Wanes After 6 Months Study Finds
If you have a weak immune system, the antibodies tend not to last as long as those with strong immune systems. That is why they are recommending the elderly and those with underlying conditions receive a booster. I got the vaccine in early February and tested positive for antibodies when I donated blood last week. That's 7 months, going on 8 months.
I did say "may" but that's not the message given to get people to take the vaccines early on. They were told that they would potentially last a lifetime and definitely for years. They claimed that life could go back to normal once about 60% of the population was vaccinated. We are now around or over 60% vaccinated... and still having problems.
So the point isn't a particular amount of time that they're lasting but that boosters are needed and that the vaccines do NOT appear to last as long as they originally suggested. The strategy appeared to be to get people vaccinated so that even if the vaccines did not last the virus would be defeated in the interim. If so... that strategy failed.
- Covid is a strand of the flu, a virus
No it isn't. Covid is a Coronavirus which is distinctly different from influenza. About 25% of common colds are caused by strains of Coronavirus. Bovine coronavirus has been a long known problem in the US that kills livestock. Oddly, the "experts" are doing all they can to prevent ivermectin which successfully treats cattle... from being used to treat people. It is a known, established, and safe drug.
A virus is a living organism that can adapt to survive just as other living organisms do.
Not exactly. They mutate in response to the environment they're in.
Influenza hasn't been eradicated because it adapts and becomes a variant of it's original self over time. This is why we have an annual flu season and it's recommended to get your flu shot every year. It doesn't keep you from getting the flu, but it protects you from many of the variants we've experienced over time.
No. The CDC issues guidance each year on the 5 or 6 strains of the flu that they expect to be most common during the following season. None of the vaccines are lasting even for the same strain. Sometimes they miss a particular strain and lots of people get sick because they weren't actually vaccinated for that particular strain.
It's the same with Covid-19. You are not causing variants by getting vaccinated.
Here is an article that predates Covid and isn't tainted with anyone's political narrative. A LONG known risk of "leaky vaccines" is that they facilitate stronger versions of viruses. Most viruses get naturally weaker as they mutate. Covid variants are not getting weaker or at least not directionally.
There are dozens of articles on this subject available with a simple web search. It is established science.
‘Leaky’ Vaccines Can Produce Stronger Versions of Viruses
For the sake of argument, let's just make an assumption here that you're right - 'vaccines cause the Covid 19 virus to adapt to delta'. So we stop vaccines because we don't want variants, let the original virus decimate the population and possibly vary on it's own <or> we vaccinate to save people (60% according to you) and then continue to combat the variants that are created from the vaccinations. Is that even a question? What the hell man?
Well, the virus wasn't "decimating" the population. I'm not callous toward people being sick, suffering long term damage, or dying. But the IFR for Covid is now about the same as the flu. It spreads more readily so more people will get sick during a span of time.
The problem you are ignoring is that cultivating these more virulent strains MAY in fact result in a TRUE decimation of the population... a pandemic that wipes out whole communities like smallpox or the Spanish Flu which killed about 5% of the world's population.
So the question that will be asked in 10 years isn't the one you asked. The question will be if we should have accepted the low rate of virus deaths (especially after the treatments that are now available) in order to allow natural immunity to defeat the virus... or should we have risked the more virulent strains which
MAY be caused by leaky vaccines.
