Re:Rate Hikes Are Affecting the Economy
by thehappypm on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @09:24AM
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Being unvaccinated or out of date on boosters is the minefield to me.
Re:Rate Hikes Are Affecting the Economy
by pdntspa on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @02:19PM
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Everyone keeps saying "experimental vaccines" like we're just injecting ourselves with random shit, but we have a very good general understanding of how vaccines work. The COVID vaccines were not invented by frat boys playing with random chemistry...
Given the situation a full run of trials would have taken far too much time.
Re:Rate Hikes Are Affecting the Economy
by TurkishPoptart on Thursday November 03, 2022 @12:13PM
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There is no long-term safety data on "boosting". That is what he's referring to, I think. There's also no long-term safety data on mRNA injections in general.
When vaccine efficacy goes negative (you're more vulnerable to infection and become as or more symptomatic and carry as high or higher a viral load than unvaccinated) after a few months, you have to get a booster and subject yourself to the same or greater low, but non-negligible risk of known serious/fatal adverse effects in order to fingers crossed buy a few more months of protection you don't personally need but which you hope will reduce truly high-risk persons' chances of contracting covid. There may also be other, as-yet-unknown adverse effects.
How long are you willing to keep running back and forth across a minefield?