Re:How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate
by DanHulton on Monday December 26, 2022 @11:06PM
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Or, put another way, people who self-medicated instead of getting the vaccine, putting those around them at risk, who used trickery to order the medication when it became restricted due to an unprecentedly and unplanned-for low supply, who resorted to using animal versions and mis-dosing themselves, risking needing a spot in the hospital that was already desperately needed for COVID patients. Yes, we distrusted those people, and for good reason, I should say.
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> people who self-medicated instead of getting the vaccine, putting those around them at risk
How do you come to this conclusion when the vaccine's effectiveness against transmission was never demonstrated in controlled trials, and very highly vaxxed jurisdictions like the Bay Area saw huge and persistent waves of cases?
Re:How Twitter Rigged the Covid Debate
by stale2002 on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @12:49AM
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> How do you come to this conclusion
Because there have been many many studies of the effect of the vaccine, in many different countries, by many different groups.
The results are overwhelmingly that the vaccine saves lives.
> saw huge and persistent waves of cases
This is a bad argument.
A vaccine can be useful, and save millions of lives, even if we falsely assume for the sake of argument that it doesn't reduce the amount of people who get infected or transmissibility.