Ireland drops most Covid restrictions in wake of 'Omicron storm'

Re:Ireland drops most Covid restrictions in wake of 'Omicron... by acdha on Saturday January 22, 2022 @01:45PM (#30039567)

I linked to the FDA, too, since I knew you either hadn’t read or understood the documents someone else summarized for you. The part you quoted confirms that: note the distinction between the disease and the virus which causes it. Everyone knew that vaccinated people could still spread, but it takes longer to get data quantifying exactly how much and since the data showed very high efficacy against serious cases there was no ethical reason to delay protecting people waiting on that.

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Re:Ireland drops most Covid restrictions in wake of 'Omicron... by encryptluks2 on Saturday January 22, 2022 @02:51PM (#30040204)

Everyone knew? I mean I can send videos if you'd like of Biden and left-wing politicians saying the vaccine would prevent you from getting it.

Also, prevention of the disease would mean that people are asymptomatic and/or that they aren't getting COVID. Hospitals in many areas are publishing data showing majority of people there for COVID are vaxxed. So much for prevention of the disease.

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Re:Ireland drops most Covid restrictions in wake of 'Omicron... by acdha on Saturday January 22, 2022 @02:56PM (#30040252)

> Everyone knew? I mean I can send videos if you'd like of Biden and left-wing politicians saying the vaccine would prevent you from getting it.

If you were paying attention, note the difference between saying it will prevent all retransmission versus reducing it, which is what happened. Also, try to compare what actual medical experts said as opposed to the political entertainers whose talking points you're repeating. The actual medical experts were quite clear on this, and Biden has been pretty clear that breakthrough infections are possible — hence the interest in masks to prevent spread and vaccination to mitigate the damage for the people who we know statistically will catch it.

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Re:Ireland drops most Covid restrictions in wake of 'Omicron... by encryptluks2 on Saturday January 22, 2022 @04:31PM (#30041028)

Oh look, you're wrong again:

https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/dec/22/joe-biden/...

> Biden said Dec. 14 that people vaccinated for COVID-19 "do not spread the disease to anyone else."

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Re:Ireland drops most Covid restrictions in wake of 'Omicron... by acdha on Saturday January 22, 2022 @06:15PM (#30041799)

Biden is not a medical expert — as you might note, I tried to get you to focus on what they were saying — and that statement is clearly imprecise, which is why it was rejected by medical experts. He had at other times expressed this concept more accurately as improving the odds so this seems more like overstatement (“anyone” versus “as many”) as part of a broader point which has been quite accurate: getting vaccinated is the best way to end the pandemic.

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