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by blackwater 08/26/2021, 3:18pm PDT |
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Rafiki wrote:
If the vaccine were 100% effective and we vaccinated everyone, then some dirty Paki coughing on you wouldn't infect you. It couldn't infect you. Like, that's the whole purpose of a vaccine.
The immunity given by a vaccine only lasts so long. For most illnesses, you don't just get a single shot and then you're done for life. Certainly it doesn't look like that will be the case for COVID, based on what we know so far. (People are already getting booster shots...)
Rafiki wrote:
Second, how do you reconcile this idea with the historical reality that this didn't happen with polio (and smallpox, and MMR, and...)? We vaccinated the US, eradicated the virus here by the 70s, and despite the fact that swarthy foreigners in less-vaccinated countries could hop a plane here and rub their dusky poop-fingers all over everything, the virus still remains eliminated.
You're trying to tell me we can't win, when it's documented historical fact we've won before using available technology. What the fuck?
Polio requires pooping on someone, COVID just requires breathing on them. Polio doesn't have an animal reservoir, COVID does. We were able to drive polio extinct in the US and almost in the world.
Of smallpox, wikipedia says "smallpox was highly contagious, but generally spread more slowly and less widely than some other viral diseases, perhaps because transmission required close contact and occurred after the onset of the rash." So for the most part, don't touch the horrifyingly disfigured guy, and you'll be OK.
Measles, mumps, and rubella are not extinct and occasionally someone gets them in the US. This is where I think antivaxxers do real damage, when they prevent kids from getting the MMR vaccine. Unlike the COVID vaccine, the MMR vaccine is not a "leaky" vaccine;. it prevents infection completely. Leaky vaccines can push diseases to evolve to be more virulent; hopefully that won't happen with COVID, but you never know.
Anyway, I'm not going to argue about this more. I'll bump this post in a year or two to see who was right -- whether COVID was here to stay, or whether we drove it extinct. Or you can bump it. I hope I'm wrong, but I guess we'll see. |
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Pfizer vaccine approved by FDA by lololololol 08/23/2021, 12:10pm PDT 
"The FDA approved it? Oh, well that was my only concern and I'll get it now." NT by fucking no anti-vaxxers 08/23/2021, 12:18pm PDT
Agreed brother. We are protected. NT by Brother 08/23/2021, 2:29pm PDT
Re: "The FDA approved it? Oh, well that was my only concern by laudablepuss 08/24/2021, 9:38am PDT
Besides, there's safe and delicious horse de-worming paste to buy instead! NT by Mischief Maker 08/24/2021, 10:43am PDT
Re: Besides, there's safe and delicious horse de-worming paste to buy instead! by laudablepuss 08/24/2021, 7:25pm PDT
COVID-19 isn't going away. by blackwater 08/25/2021, 1:37pm PDT
I'm actually well aware by laudablepuss 08/25/2021, 1:42pm PDT
What exactly do you not understand? by blackwater 08/25/2021, 5:04pm PDT
Re: What exactly do you not understand? by laudablepuss 08/25/2021, 6:16pm PDT
It's a deadly bioweapon purposefully created to destroy the US economy! by So whatevr you do DONT get the cure 08/25/2021, 9:20pm PDT
If it was meant to destroy the US economy they did a bad job of it. by Oh 08/26/2021, 6:58am PDT
Children think the guy who told them to wear masks by Dr. FAUCI 08/25/2021, 2:51pm PDT
Maybe it'll take 20 years like polio by Rafiki 08/25/2021, 3:32pm PDT
Re: Maybe it'll take 20 years like polio by laudablepuss 08/25/2021, 3:54pm PDT
Polio wasn't transmissible to animals and wasn't that infectious by blackwater 08/25/2021, 5:11pm PDT
Re: Polio wasn't transmissible to animals and wasn't that infectious by laudablepuss 08/25/2021, 6:01pm PDT
Re: Polio wasn't transmissible to animals and wasn't that infectious by laudablepuss 08/25/2021, 6:31pm PDT
Re: Polio wasn't transmissible to animals and wasn't that infectious by MM 08/25/2021, 7:26pm PDT
Polio wasn't that infectious by Rafiki 08/25/2021, 10:09pm PDT
Polio vs. COVID-19 by blackwater 08/25/2021, 10:52pm PDT
I knew it, it's totally hopeless by laudablepuss 08/25/2021, 11:40pm PDT
picking the right battles to fight, generally a good way to avoid being a victim by blackwater 08/26/2021, 3:24pm PDT
Re: picking the right battles to fight, generally a good way to avoid being by laudablepuss 08/26/2021, 11:10pm PDT
Re: picking the right battles to fight, generally a good way to avoid being by blackwater 08/28/2021, 10:44pm PDT
Re: picking the right battles to fight, generally a good way to avoid being by laudablepuss 08/29/2021, 2:09am PDT
Party of *Safe Spaces* and *Micro-agressions* to GOP: by "Toughen up!" 08/26/2021, 5:35pm PDT
Re: Polio vs. COVID-19 by Rafiki 08/25/2021, 11:49pm PDT
Re: Polio vs. COVID-19 by blackwater 08/26/2021, 3:18pm PDT
Re: Polio vs. COVID-19 by Dr. FAUCI 08/26/2021, 6:47pm PDT
Re: Polio vs. COVID-19 by laudablepuss 08/26/2021, 11:35pm PDT
Re: Polio vs. COVID-19 by blackwater 08/28/2021, 10:57pm PDT
Do you think the vaccinated are getting sick from hanging around the vaccinated? by laudablepuss 08/29/2021, 1:54am PDT
COVID by blackwater 09/06/2021, 11:17pm PDT
You don't believe what you write. It's not compelling. NT by Why bother? 08/25/2021, 11:53pm PDT
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