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You've made claims that unvaccinated people aren't the problem, what's the source?

The disease is the problem. It's potential victims are not the problem. It's a logical assessment.

You've made claims that herd immunity isn't very effective (or something akin to that,) what are your sources?

I made the claim that it was unreasonable to assume that herd immunity can be reached if there aren't enough people in support of the vaccine that is required for herd immunity. This is another logical assessment.

You made comments regarding concerns about possible future outcomes, the source I requested was in regards to there being evidence as to why we should be concerned about possible effects of vaccines years down the line.

The most applicable evidence (source) in this context is my mention of how the CDC has been adding side effects post-release of the vaccine. The CDC has observed side-effects that exceed their anticipated outcomes. If you are genuinely disputing this, then we can find you a couple news articles about it. I assume people aren't goldfish, but I really have no clue with you.

Here's literally a quote you saying that you have "evidence and facts," yet you've not provided any of the evidence you've claimed to have.

We have evidence and facts, in reference to everything everyone has put on the table. Literally, I am not saying that "I" have facts and you don't.

Hope that clears it up.
 

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Not worth engaging... So you've been spamming this thread with fallacies and idiotic beliefs (including your wrong understanding that spike proteins would be part of the vaccine when they are not, not for the mRNA ones anyway, and AstraZeneca is a mRNA vaccine), and for what? For it not being "worth engaging"? If you're not going to provide any reliable source about your claims, you're as good as not being listened to by anyone mate.
 
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The disease is the problem. It's potential victims are not the problem. It's a logical assessment. Still needs a source.



I made the claim that it was unreasonable to assume that herd immunity can be reached if there aren't enough people in support of the vaccine that is required for herd immunity. This is another logical assessment. This needs a source



The most applicable evidence (source) in this context is my mention of how the CDC has been adding side effects post-release of the vaccine. The CDC has observed side-effects that exceed their anticipated outcomes. If you are genuinely disputing this, then we can find you a couple news articles about it. I assume people aren't goldfish, but I really have no clue with you. So where are your sources? You you need to provide the article from the CDC to back this claim up.



We have evidence and facts, in reference to everything everyone has put on the table. Literally, I am not saying that "I" have facts and you don't. You've not provided a single link, so you haven't provided any evidence.

Hope that clears it up.
Typical tabzer, big claims, no sources.
 
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Not worth engaging... So you've been spamming this thread with fallacies and idiotic beliefs (including your wrong understanding that spike proteins would be part of the vaccine when they are not, not for the mRNA ones anyway, and AstraZeneca is a mRNA vaccine), and for what? For it not being "worth engaging"? If you're not going to provide any reliable source about your claims, you're as good as not being listened to by anyone mate.

I don't know what I believe about the spike proteins. I shared my understanding about it without misrepresenting it as a fact.

My understanding is that the mRNA vaccine tells the body how to make a spike protein, as opposed to others that already contain them.

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Typical tabzer, big claims, no sources.

Learn math and logic. I can't quite find the peer reviewed study that will convince you to stop being an idiot.

The sources are the ones that are provided in the thread.

My conjecture is about those sources.

It's not a big claim that it is unreasonable to assume that herd immunity can be reached if there aren't enough people in support of the vaccine that is required for herd immunity. That's a logical statement.

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Nah, it only makes the cells in the arm make a small piece of the protein, which is the only part needed to be recognised by the immune system, so definitely not the whole protein. Furthermore and as I already stated at least once yesterday, those small fragments of protein stay localised in the muscle where they are produced before being destroyed by the immune system, they don't get to navigate through the blood vessels, at least not as far as where the clots have been happening (mostly in bigger and critical vessels)
 
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I don't know what I believe about the spike proteins. I shared my understanding about it without misrepresenting it as a fact.

My understanding is that the mRNA vaccine tells the body how to make a spike protein, as opposed to others that already contain them.

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Learn math and logic. I can't quite find the peer reviewed study that will convince you to stop being an idiot.

The sources are the ones that are provided in the thread.

My conjecture is about those sources.

It's not a big claim that it is unreasonable to assume that herd immunity can be reached if there aren't enough people in support of the vaccine that is required for herd immunity. That's a logical statement.

Like crap.
I've been following this thread for quite some time and the only thing you've posted has been a link to a cherry-picked video from a single doctor. You have not provided any links to any peer-reviewed research nor accepted medical institute. You claim you can't find one, which is most likely because none of your claims are actually backed by professionals. The issue with your stance on herd immunity is that it works far better when all individuals who can get vaccinated, do get vaccinated. It does suffer from people not getting vaccinated, the evidence for that statement exists by the fact that drops in vaccinations have caused diseases once considered either nearly wiped or rare, to start spreading again. People stopped vaccinating and these viruses started spreading again, this isn't a coincidence. Thus far, you've only proven to have no evidence for any of your claims and you just subvert the questions when pressured.
 
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Assuming my political spectrum is kind of a problem that is irrelevant to the conjecture.

Saying I should get vaccinated is like your unwanted and unwarranted medical opinion.

And it's based on how you feel about the collective of what you read about a subject where knowledge is admittedly limited (by the same sources that reccomend the vaccine no less @Lilith Valentine)

"Fact wise, covid 19 has killed more than cancer at this point."

Add that to the propaganda collection.


607,000 deaths
33.9M cases.
United states. Alone. Those numbers aren't adding the entirety of the worldwide.

This ignores any of the long term issues from getting covid 19 for those who do survive, such as your lungs functioning worse than smoker, loss of taste and smell. Car crashes only 6 million occur, and total deaths is 36,096.
To put that in perspective. 607K from covid ranks higher than the second leading cause of death in the United states in 2019. Which is cancer.
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
Think twice before you go saying very few people die from it.
The second source for the covid death number comes from google. who just compiles the numbers.

Refute it proper. Or get out. Unless your calling basic statics "propaganda" at which point, your firmly a loss cause.
 
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Not worth engaging... So you've been spamming this thread with fallacies and idiotic beliefs (including your wrong understanding that spike proteins would be part of the vaccine when they are not, not for the mRNA ones anyway, and AstraZeneca is a mRNA vaccine), and for what? For it not being "worth engaging"? If you're not going to provide any reliable source about your claims, you're as good as not being listened to by anyone mate.
>mRNA vaccines give instructions for our cells to make a harmless piece of what is called the “spike protein.”
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/different-vaccines/mrna.html

*hrm*

The problem with the unwanted interaction is, that when they are produced in a cells nucleus, there is a chance of them splitting, producing truncated versions of that protein which then dont connect to the cell itself, but are released into open blood stream and in 1:100.000 cases can cause blood clotting. This is only a mechanism happening with vector based vaccines, using adeno-viruses to deliver the payload. mRNA based vaccines are exempt. (See: https://theconversation.com/from-ad...f-different-covid-vaccine-technologies-145454 )

Also - thats a theory which might not fully explain why we are seeing blood clotting with AZ. It centainly doesnt explain, why we see much fever cases with J&J (which is also an andenovirus based vector vaccine) (as in more than 20x fewer).

But its still what a physician thats now part of 4Chan anti-vaxxer PR memes (he also worked on the miracle cure, which so sad governments wouldnt give us) used as his finest hour moment to 'warn the world of spikes!'.

When the rest of the world looked at that and said yeah, we have to look at this in more detail, and maybe pivot away from AZ in vaccine procurement (using that as the main vaccine we give out to the public - which it isnt in Europe, and it never was in the US).

But its not Spikey spikey make bloodvuessuel hurt, in the way the good doctor decided to warn his peers, before becoming a mainstake of a new conspiracy theory.

And all the rest of it - the 'save people from getting the vaccine part' (J&J = 1:3.000.000 chance of having the side effect, Pfizer even less (much, much less (factor of 10)) ), the 'all vaccines are dangerous part', the you are 'better off if you get it naturally part', the 'its better do use a therapeutic than a vaccine part', the 'save the pregnant women part' all of them are bullshit. None of them is even slightly proportionate as a response to the issue found.

And then the believe by association thing. 'I believe in the doctor that tells me what I want to hear, even if its an obviously a the masses targeting meme', because 'meme tells me , that doctor is very accomplished (in cardeology), and also a good person', 'and also has been wronged' and 'this all has something to do with spike protein'. Its maddening. Because the association path is wrong at every intersection. Its based on a religious believe in some people that the people in white coats are halfgods in white, that are there to protect them - thats a theme so reduced in content - that all thats left is 'I dont understand them, but they do me good, so they good people'. Compared with some 'they have been wronged, they tried to help us, but then their miracle cure wasn't let to be developed' plotline, and then f'cking 5 qualifiers, what a destinguished person that doctor was. Mostly in cardeology. But then he also was a Covid action group something something. Never named clearly at all. (Btw. the miracle cure they were finding, isnt named either).
And all of it to flipping hide, what the person actually said.

Which turned out to be utter nonsense. Both in terms of how the interaction goes that might lead to blood clotting. And in terms what reasoning that person employed afterwards to give out the warning. But the meme doesnt give direct quote. You have to look them up on fact checking sites afterwards. The meme is too freaking busy - pointing out what a swell person that doctor is.

Do you know something about propaganda? This is propaganda. Highly emotional. Highly diversive. Completely rooted in story telling and not fact. Leaving out any aspect, that would lead to easy fact checking...

And you can move around this rhetorically as many times as you want (I believe it has something to do with spike protein!) - its trash.

And the first thing that points towards this - is that a flipping bunch of viruses use spike proteins to pierce your bodies cells to then deliver the payload - and none of them kills the host, as it is infecting them 'through spike proteins damaging blood vessles', because then the host is dead, and so is the virus. Meaning fail. In terms of natural selection.

But apparently the good doctor - a cardeologist - didnt think that far, when making his statement. So now both the factcheck site, and myself are left to find interpretations of what the good doctor meant, when he dropped his BS line - because the originator of the anti vaxxer meme has gone into hiding and shut up.

Luckily there is only one study that he might have read that both contained blood clotting as a result of covid vaccines and the word blood vessels which he used. And reading that study shows that the doctor made some pretty lax free associations, before defaulting to his position that 'all the vaccines are bad'.

Complete moron that one. I have similar candidates (also physicians) in my own (extended) family... (They arent anti vaccine, ... have to give them that much.)
 
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The second source for the covid death number comes from google. who just compiles the numbers.

Refute it proper. Or get out. Unless your calling basic statics "propaganda" at which point, your firmly a loss cause.

Lol, "Fact wise, covid 19 has killed more than cancer at this point" is sensationalist clickbait material. Thanks for clarifying what you actually meant. Considering how America handles Covid, it's not much of a surprise.

You claim you can't find one, which is most likely because none of your claims are actually backed by professionals.

I can't find a peer-reviewed paper that will convince you stop being an idiot. The study is on-going. ;)


The issue with your stance on herd immunity is that it works far better when all individuals who can get vaccinated, do get vaccinated. It does suffer from people not getting vaccinated, the evidence for that statement exists by the fact that drops in vaccinations have caused diseases once considered either nearly wiped or rare, to start spreading again.

See, that's your problem. You are having trouble reading what I actually say. I don't disagree that heard immunity works. I'll say it again: you cannot expect to reach heard immunity if enough people don't support vaccinations... That's a math fact. Getting mad about that won't change anything.
 
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Lol, "Fact wise, covid 19 has killed more than cancer at this point" is sensationalist clickbait material. Thanks for clarifying what you actually meant. Considering how America handles Covid, it's not much of a surprise.
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Wow. must be some really powerful clickbait. I'm glad you checked my sources. You know I guess the CDC Is now a news organization is that correct? Is that what your implying?



Tazer doesn't read sources I list, one of them being the cdc
Also Tabzer: MuSt Be cLiCk BaiT


it's not sensationalist if it's real tab.
 

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Wow. must be some really powerful clickbait. I'm glad you checked my sources. You know I guess the CDC Is now a news organization is that correct? Is that what your implying?



Tazer doesn't read sources I list, one of them being the cdc
Also Tabzer: MuSt Be cLiCk BaiT


it's not sensationalist if it's real tab.

"Fact wise, covid 19 has killed more than cancer at this point" is sensationalist clickbait material that you said, without context. The CDC doesn't say anything like that. Thanks for clarifying what you actually meant (ie, for the year, for America, maybe). Again, considering how America handles Covid, it's not much of a surprise. You are an idiot if you think I am saying that 607,000 people didn't die.



The video doesn't play unless you copy and paste the link listed in the description. (The rumble link) It's really a great watch and I recommend everyone to watch it. It has convinced me to be anti-covid vaccination. Everyone should follow this doctor's example. All of your claims against him (false claims, misleading claims, and the true non-contextual claims) make sense after watching this video.

You are peddling propaganda by institutions that have already demonstrated failure and paved the way for so much death in their response (ie suppression of response) to Covid-19. The governing medical bodies, including the CDC have already violated the Hippocratic oath.

I hope the lid blows open soon.

Any further responses to me will be met with me posting the same link, because it is probably the most important thing I can contribute to this thread.
 
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It's not a moral imperative to preemptively take on a risk to prevent the risk of another. People have choices other than "take the vaccine or kill people." It's not my moral imperative to take a vaccine so you can feel safe.
There is no substantial risk taking the vaccine, and any serious risks associated with the vaccine are far less likely than the serious risks associated with contracting COVID-19. There's no way out of the moral imperative unless you're medically unable to get vaccinated.

A moral imperative doesn't require that there's zero risk in doing the action.

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The video doesn't play unless you copy and paste the link listed in the description. (The rumble link) It's really a great watch and I recommend everyone to watch it. It has convinced me to be anti-covid vaccination. Everyone should follow this doctor's example. All of your claims against him (false claims, misleading claims, and the true non-contextual claims) make sense after watching this video.

You are peddling propaganda by institutions that have already demonstrated failure and paved the way for so much death in their response (ie suppression of response) to Covid-19. The governing medical bodies, including the CDC have already violated the Hippocratic oath.

I hope the lid blows open soon.

Any further responses to me will be met with me posting the same link, because it is probably the most important thing I can contribute to this thread.
What this cardiologist has said is demonstrably unscientific and has been repeatedly debunked, and saying "I like the video" doesn't address any of the refutations against him. If you want to drop the conversation and wave a metaphorical white flag of surrender each time someone responds to you, I think that'll be more than fine with most of the people actively participating in this thread.
 

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I can't find a peer-reviewed paper that will convince you because I don’t have any.
See, that's your problem. You are having trouble reading what I actually say. I don't disagree that heard immunity works. I'll say it again: you cannot expect to reach heard immunity if enough people don't support vaccinations... That's a math fact. Getting mad about that won't change anything.
I see, then why are you doing this? If you are aware of the basic needs of herd immunity, then why all of this nonsense?
 

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Because apparently it's funny to go "herd immunity won't work unless enough people support vaccination... hence I won't support it and say anyone can believe what they want as if all things were equal"
Or something like that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 

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See, that's your problem. You are having trouble reading what I actually say. I don't disagree that heard immunity works. I'll say it again: you cannot expect to reach heard immunity if enough people don't support vaccinations... That's a math fact. Getting mad about that won't change anything.
People who get mad that there are anti-vaxxers who are preventing herd immunity from being reached are justified in feeling angry, and it isn't necessarily angry nor wrong to acknowledge this, the safety of the vaccines, the efficacy of the vaccines, and the moral imperative there is to get vaccinated. The goal is to present medical information in the hope that people get change their mind and get vaccinated.

You also seem to be saying that you understand the consequences of people not getting vaccinated, but that you aren't going to get vaccinated anyway. That's pretty assholeish.
 
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The video doesn't play unless you copy and paste the link listed in the description. (The rumble link) It's really a great watch and I recommend everyone to watch it. It has convinced me to be anti-covid vaccination. Everyone should follow this doctor's example. All of your claims against him (false claims, misleading claims, and the true non-contextual claims) make sense after watching this video.

You are peddling propaganda by institutions that have already demonstrated failure and paved the way for so much death in their response (ie suppression of response) to Covid-19. The governing medical bodies, including the CDC have already violated the Hippocratic oath.

If you are going to entertain and share "debunking" then it is a moral imperative to review the source material. It's bad when an article misrepresents an event in intention to discredit someone. It's even worse when random fans of an institution will add another layer of obfuscation just to encourage ignoring the other side of the argument.

As far as herd immunity or any other topic goes, it's not rational to expect unlikely outcomes and then get mad when the unlikely outcome does not happen.

You can be mad about reality, but that doesn't seem to do any good.

As far as the government institutions' malfeasance and gross embellishment of the pandemic through suppression of doctors to care for their patients...

I hope the lid blows open soon.

Any further responses to me will be met with me posting the same link, because it is probably the most important thing I can contribute to this thread.
 
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