Maybe try respecting the fact that not everyone needs or wants what you require to feel comfortable?
You didn’t answer my question.
And you’ll have a hard time convincing probably more than half the population that the comfort derived from knowledge is a “piss-poor reason” to implement some kind of temporary protective measures.
You did catch the part where that “knowledge” you feel comforted by is not a factor that separates “safe” from “unsafe”? There are lots of vaccinated persons who are not “safe”, and lots of unvacinated persons who are “safe”. Your comfort is a charade.
This is what your comfort gets:
Of course, 8 “fully vaccinated” persons testing positive is now somehow considered proof the vaccine works…because most of them had no symptoms, just like a majority of unvaccinated covid patients.
And if you can cut through all the cheerleading, and get to the end of the artlice - the CDC is now only tallying people who are hospitalized or dead as cases where the vaccine was ineffective.
Because apparently it’s now safe to be infected with covid.
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I see that the article mentions this, but the actual CDC website it linked does not reflect this. They’re still counting asymptomatic cases.
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No, I didn’t quite catch that. The best knowledge we have is that very few vaccinated persons are “not safe” (slightly more than 5% – most people got the mRNA, 9.3 million got J&J). That’s not a charade. I agree that many unvaccinated persons are “safe”, but there’s no way to know without an antigen test.
Those seem to be coming back in the low single digit percent positive
The entire argument for scarlett lettering unvaccinated persons is that “it only takes one”. Well, it only takes one of those 5% (actually somewhere between 5% and 30%) of vaccinated persons, too. And that one person could be any one of a group of 100 vaccinated persons, just like it could be any one of a group of 100 unvaccinated persons. If you are going to exclude a group of 100 because one might be a threat, while welcoming another group of 100 where one might be a threat, your “safety protocols” are a charade.
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Is anyone going to keep denying that hospitals are inflating the covid death count? 
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Yes.
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The richest state in India in planning a population wide rollout of ivermectin for covid mitigation and prevention.
Merck, who originally made the drug but is since off patent, was quick to disclaim its use and even, oddly, questioned the safety of their own product after decades of general use at similar levels. On a totally unrelated note, Merck is getting over $100M to help JNJ with their troubled vaccine production rollout.
In better news for the prospects of this grand experiment, the contrary indicator for all things covid, the WHO, said they should definitely not use it.
I wish the people of India all the best.
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Good post, xerty. Decades ago I took care of my mother and my dad, both very old at the time, until they died. There were, as you might imagine, countless doctor visits and endless medication.
It was back then that I developed a high level of distrust and disrespect for the pharmaceutical industry generally, and for the executives running it in particular. What a bunch of money grubbing, avaricious, scum. They remind me of the tobacco executives from an even earlier time. To them anything that threatens their company’s bottom line is road kill. Worst of all are medications off patent and affordable for average people. No profit there, so impugn, impugn, impugn!!
Japan has been preventing an explosive outbreak of COVID-19 by focusing on avoiding the so-called “Three Cs” (closed spaces, crowded places, and close-contact settings), key findings of its unique approach of tracking back infection routes, while seeking to revive the economy without locking down.
This makes a lot of sense and it’s better based on “the science” given the MIT study than our ridiculous CDC
More on origins of covid.
My point is that nearly 100% masks clearly didn’t stop two huge spikes in cases. As for deaths, well, Japan has a whole lot fewer fat, diabetic Americans…
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I’d like to see businesses have a meter that displays the CO2 level. Makes a lot more sense and is cheaper than all the Covid theater we’re getting.
Edit: who knew global warning spreads the covid🤫
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That relationship makes sense. CO2 levels reflect the number of people in a room and the volume of air available to dissipate what those people are exhaling. If you can lower the CO2 level, you’re also lowering the concentration of anything else floating around.
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