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The Dive's Covid Thread

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When you see SARS-2 has this ability to spill back from humans and into wildlife, and then there are other viruses like Khosta-2 waiting in those animals with these properties we really don’t want them to have, it sets up this scenario where you keep rolling the dice until they combine to make a potentially riskier virus," Letko said.

 
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Frequent boosting may backfire

As reported by ABC News:

“Some experts say they are concerned that frequent boosting with the original version of the vaccine may have inadvertently exacerbated immune imprinting. At this point in the pandemic, some adults have received four or more doses of the same vaccine …

“[Some] scientists worry about a potential backfire, with frequent boosting handcuffing the body’s natural immune system and leaving it exposed to radically different variants that might emerge in the future.

“‘Where this matters is if you keep giving booster doses with [original] strain, and continue to lock people into that original response. It makes it harder for them to respond then to essentially a completely different virus,’ says Dr. Paul Offit, professor of pediatrics at Children’s Hospital Philadelphia …

“The timing of vaccines may also need to be taken into account, as the nation moves from original doses to updated boosters.

“‘It is true that the best boosts typically are the ones that are given infrequently, that immunologically, if you boost too much and too frequently, then you often have a lower immune response at the end,’ said [director of the center for virology and vaccine research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Dr. Dan] Barouch.”
 
Should you double up on COVID-19 booster and flu shot?

Our reckless health authorities are potentially worsening matters further by pushing people to simultaneously get the updated bivalent COVID-19 booster and a seasonal flu vaccine this fall.

Early in September 2022, White House medical adviser Dr. Anthony Fauci urged Americans to “Get your updated COVID-19 shot as soon as you are eligible,” and White House COVID-19 coordinator Ashish Jha, September 6, stated, “I really believe this is why God gave us two arms, one for the flu shot and the other one for the COVID shot” — a statement that will live on in infamy as one of the most ridiculous comments from a public health official ever uttered.

One problem, although hardly the most important one, is that it’s still far too early for a flu shot.

As noted by STAT News:

“The protection generated by influenza vaccines erodes pretty quickly over the course of a flu season. A vaccine dose given in early September may offer limited protection if the flu season doesn’t peak until February or even March, as it did during the unusually late 2021-2022 season.

“‘If you start now, I am not a big fan of it,’ Florian Krammer, an influenza expert at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, told STAT. ‘I understand why this is promoted, but from an immunological point of view it doesn’t make much sense.’”

STAT cites research showing the effectiveness of the flu shot wanes by about 18% for every 28 days post-vaccination. What it doesn’t mention is the fact that the flu shot historically has had an effectiveness well below 50% to start with.

The 2018/2019 flu vaccines, for example, which outperformed the 2017/2018 vaccines, had an adjusted effectiveness rating of:

  • 29% for all ages.
  • 49% for children aged 6 months through 8 years.
  • 6% for children ages 9 through 17.
  • 25% for adults between the ages of 18 and 49.
  • 12% for those over 50.
 
How would they even know this soon that covid causes dementia?

Anyway, don't want dementia from Covid?

Then take a covid shot that doesn't stop covid transmission or infection

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What a money grab Paxlovid turned out to be.

Was originally green lighted by the FDA for only unvaxxed people but it's getting handed out like candy to vaxxed people without any clinical data

You can pretty much search Twitter for people taking paxlovid, and then check back in a ~week and a lot of them are positive and sick/er again

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Pax is Latin for 'peace'.

Peace. Love. ID.

I mean that's a stretch, but it still has more logic in it than all these pill loving fuckwits combined.
 
This week U.S. News & World Report, reporting on a new study, published an article, “’Breakthrough’ Infections After COVID Vaccine Can Help Prevent Future Illness.”

Let’s pause and read that again: Breakthrough infections … after COVID-19 vaccine … can help prevent future illness.

If you get the disease the vaccine was supposed to prevent, it can help prevent you from getting the disease the vaccine was supposed to prevent … again.

Is this supposed to be good news?

The author of the U.S. News & World Report article hits us with this opener:

“It’s very frustrating to get a COVID-19 vaccine and then wind up catching the virus anyway.”

Yes, one might say that. He goes on:

“But these breakthrough infections actually do you a world of good, providing a powerful boost to your existing vaccine-induced immune protection, a new study reports.”

Ahhh … now we know who the target audience is: vaccinated people who got COVID-19 despite being “protected” — a new and rapidly growing demographic who may finally be scratching their heads wondering if they had been bamboozled by a relentless messaging campaign to advise/urge/coerce them into accepting an experimental therapy with no long-term safety or efficacy profile.
 
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