Disease Prevention and Health Reseach

Discussion in 'Environmental Discussion' started by tochatihu, Mar 29, 2025.

  1. fuzzy1

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    Still in De Nile?
     
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    Not denying I got the bug at least 3 times confirmed "after" the 2 mandatory shots required by .gov to keep my career in commercial aviation. I bet you wish I would forget and let the truth fade away, but I will argue about this every time anyone repeats/defends the lies about the "so-called" COVID vaccines we were fed. If you don't like it...don't listen/respond.

    Either way...I don't care.
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    So you still don't get how vaccines work?
     
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    That's because the covid shot isn't a vaccine. A real vaccine, like the polio, provides your body with immunity against the virus...that's why polio has all but been eradicated.

    Concerning the covid jab, they say "it lowers the risk of getting sick"

    But I can think of a lot of OTHER ways to avoid getting sick like eating healthy, getting enough exercise, and getting enough rest/sleep.

    Y'all can have the latest and greatest jabs coming down the line...no thanks, I'm not contributing to big pharmas endless persuit of my money by coming out with more shots than a pin cushion.

    We have grandkids and our 1980's kids only got a handful of shots. Now, they want kids to have 27 shots before they are 2 years old!

    Advances in "science" or good marketing strategies by big pharma? (Are kids healthier today than in the 1980's? Hardly) I don't remember a single Children's Hospital during those years...now there are everywhere.
     
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    There is no pharmaceutical prophylactic or cure for SARS-CoV-2...period.
     
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    how is it different from paxlovid?
     
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    A real vaccine gives your adaptive immune system something to recognize in advance, so that later on if you are infected by the pathogen, your immune system's response to the infection you now have will be faster than without.

    That faster response, during that critical early period when a virus is multiplying in your body, can make a huge difference in the symptoms you feel, or even whether you notice any symptoms ("get sick") at all.

    Where polio's concerned, two IPV jabs give you 90%, and three give you 99–100%, that you're not going to experience paralytic polio. (Hmm, sounds like it lowers the risk of getting sick.) If you're exposed to poliovirus, you'll just replicate it in your gut for a while as your immune system fights it off, and be a poliovirus factory for people downstream of you, while not feeling sick yourself.

    The oral polio vaccines, more used in the developing world and less used here, are better at suppressing that gut replication, but have their own problems—all going toward why polio has still only "all but been" eradicated.

    That all makes polio not a great example for anybody's simpleminded notion of how vaccines work.

    Just how much vaccination reduces the symptoms, or allows you to fight off the infection without ever thinking you were sick, depends on a lot of things, like how much of the pathogen you were exposed to, and the reproductive rate of that particular bug, how often it mutates to become less similar to the vaccine, and a lot of even hairier details.