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Flying Dutchman said..
Pfizer just admitted they had not even tested it on transmission because they moved, "At the speed of science."
The vax was labelled as effective. What vaccine do you need four of & still catch & pass on the disease it was supposed to stop? If this is the definition of effective, what does safe mean?
They didn't "just admit it", they clearly stated that in the trial documents. They were looking for efficacy in reducing deaths and hospitalisation, not in reducing transmission.
i despise that media language where someone asks a question, the other party answers it and then "AHA! You admitted it!".
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Flying Dutchman said..
The vax was labelled as effective. What vaccine do you need four of & still catch & pass on the disease it was supposed to stop? If this is the definition of effective, what does safe mean?
Well, the flu is pretty much the same. Any virus which is mutating quickly.
Safe is a game of statistics. Far less people died or spent time in intensive care because of vaccination. On a societal level, it was the right choice for the benefit of the majority. But for any healthy individual who has suffered an adverse reaction that is an unfair trade and you have the right to feel angry about it, especially if you felt coerced to do so.
on the flip side, maybe catching covid while
unvaccinated would have had an even worse outcome. The counter to the 'healthy guy i know who got vaccinated and got sick' story, a guy i know who wasn't vaccinated (pre-vax rollout), 32yo healthy male with no underlying symptoms (mariner), spent 9 months in intensive care mostly on a ventilator. His wife flew out to see him in the first few weeks because they were pretty sure he was going to die.
Personally i got covid 9 months after a booster, it knocked me flat. Would a more recent booster have made it better, or not having been vaxxed made it worse? Dunno. Probably yes to both.
I remain 100% supportive of vaccination in general and for covid, but if you did end up with a negative result for something you felt you were compelled to do, i hear that also. I had about a decade of negative effects from antimalarials trialled by defence, which were at 10x the dosage now recommended. Apparently all in my head, along with all the others.
And stop sucking me into these topics FD