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Pack Rat wrote:if it quacks like a duck and walk like a duck, it's still fascism
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saxitoxin wrote:Martin Kulldorff, an MD and expert on disease propagation at Harvard, said universal vaccination is unnecessary. (Of course a Twitter employee with a BA degree in Film Studies labeled it medical misinformation-LOL.)
https://twitter.com/MartinKulldorff/sta ... 58018?s=09
I believe scientists on questions of vaccine. Others are free to get health advice from 80 year old law school almost flunk outs and Seattle software engineers who hang with Jeff Epstein. You do you. I'll do me.
jonesthecurl wrote:Saxi long ago passed the 'cry wolf' threshold for me, I no longer bother to follow links or check 'facts' because they will be exaggerated and cherry-picked at least. Even on the odd occasion when I agree with his conclusion.
Pack Rat wrote:if it quacks like a duck and walk like a duck, it's still fascism
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saxitoxin wrote:Martin Kulldorff, an MD and expert on disease propagation at Harvard, said universal vaccination is unnecessary. (Of course a Twitter employee with a BA degree in Film Studies labeled it medical misinformation-LOL.)
https://twitter.com/MartinKulldorff/sta ... 58018?s=09
Kulldorff wrote:Thinking that everyone must be vaccinated is as scientifically flawed as thinking that nobody should.
saxitoxin wrote:If someone can give me a rational reason why I should get vaccinated, I'll do it tomorrow.
According to the Johns Hopkins University vaccine mortality calculator, I have a 1-in-11 million chance of dying from COVID-19. Currently, in the U.S., 1-in-8 million people are dying of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. According to math, I increase my chance of death by being vaccinated. Why would I do that?
And no, "to help America get herd immunity" isn't a valid reason. We've already established, in human society, that bodily integrity trumps the right to life. Abortion is legal because a woman's bodily integrity trumps a fetus' right to life. I can't be forced to donate my kidney to a stranger because my right to bodily integrity trumps their right to life. So the "increase your chance of death to help America" argument is ethically incoherent and unconvincing.
But if others want to get vaccinated, I have no objection and - in fact - encourage those in high risk groups to do so.
Dukasaur wrote:saxitoxin wrote:Martin Kulldorff, an MD and expert on disease propagation at Harvard, said universal vaccination is unnecessary. (Of course a Twitter employee with a BA degree in Film Studies labeled it medical misinformation-LOL.)
https://twitter.com/MartinKulldorff/sta ... 58018?s=09Kulldorff wrote:Thinking that everyone must be vaccinated is as scientifically flawed as thinking that nobody should.
Quite the strawman. Almost no-one is suggesting that everyone must be vaccinated. Most epidimiologists have pegged the golden number for herd immunity at somewhere between 70 and 80%.
Pack Rat wrote:if it quacks like a duck and walk like a duck, it's still fascism
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jusplay4fun wrote:saxitoxin wrote:If someone can give me a rational reason why I should get vaccinated, I'll do it tomorrow.
According to the Johns Hopkins University vaccine mortality calculator, I have a 1-in-11 million chance of dying from COVID-19. Currently, in the U.S., 1-in-8 million people are dying of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. According to math, I increase my chance of death by being vaccinated. Why would I do that?
And no, "to help America get herd immunity" isn't a valid reason. We've already established, in human society, that bodily integrity trumps the right to life. Abortion is legal because a woman's bodily integrity trumps a fetus' right to life. I can't be forced to donate my kidney to a stranger because my right to bodily integrity trumps their right to life. So the "increase your chance of death to help America" argument is ethically incoherent and unconvincing.
But if others want to get vaccinated, I have no objection and - in fact - encourage those in high risk groups to do so.
If one gets COVID after getting the vaccine, then the symptoms are less severe for that person.
Pack Rat wrote:if it quacks like a duck and walk like a duck, it's still fascism
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saxitoxin wrote:jusplay4fun wrote:saxitoxin wrote:If someone can give me a rational reason why I should get vaccinated, I'll do it tomorrow.
According to the Johns Hopkins University vaccine mortality calculator, I have a 1-in-11 million chance of dying from COVID-19. Currently, in the U.S., 1-in-8 million people are dying of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. According to math, I increase my chance of death by being vaccinated. Why would I do that?
And no, "to help America get herd immunity" isn't a valid reason. We've already established, in human society, that bodily integrity trumps the right to life. Abortion is legal because a woman's bodily integrity trumps a fetus' right to life. I can't be forced to donate my kidney to a stranger because my right to bodily integrity trumps their right to life. So the "increase your chance of death to help America" argument is ethically incoherent and unconvincing.
But if others want to get vaccinated, I have no objection and - in fact - encourage those in high risk groups to do so.
If one gets COVID after getting the vaccine, then the symptoms are less severe for that person.
That's not enough to inspire me. I've known three people who got the COVID of which one was asymptomatic and the other two had mild symptoms for 2-3 days equivalent to a cold.
riskllama wrote:Koolbak wins this thread.
Pack Rat wrote:if it quacks like a duck and walk like a duck, it's still fascism
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saxitoxin wrote:Dukasaur wrote:saxitoxin wrote:Martin Kulldorff, an MD and expert on disease propagation at Harvard, said universal vaccination is unnecessary. (Of course a Twitter employee with a BA degree in Film Studies labeled it medical misinformation-LOL.)
https://twitter.com/MartinKulldorff/sta ... 58018?s=09Kulldorff wrote:Thinking that everyone must be vaccinated is as scientifically flawed as thinking that nobody should.
Quite the strawman. Almost no-one is suggesting that everyone must be vaccinated. Most epidimiologists have pegged the golden number for herd immunity at somewhere between 70 and 80%.
Then no one will have any problem if I'm part of the 30 percent.
saxitoxin wrote:Like I said, I don't care if people do or don't get the vaccine.
However, according to math, the chance I'll die in the next year - small as though it may be - is 22% higher if I get the vaccine (Johnson & Johnson) than if I don't.
saxitoxin wrote:According to the Johns Hopkins University vaccine mortality calculator, I have a 1-in-11 million chance of dying from COVID-19.
Dukasaur wrote:False dichotomy. It isn't a choice of get J&J or go unvaccinated. You could get the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.
Pack Rat wrote:if it quacks like a duck and walk like a duck, it's still fascism
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saxitoxin wrote:Dukasaur wrote:False dichotomy. It isn't a choice of get J&J or go unvaccinated. You could get the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.
Well that's definitely not going to happen. I'm theoretically open to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine but not Pfizer or Moderna. I'm 99% sure Pfizer or Moderna are just fine, but I have no desire to be part of the first group in 40,000 years of human history to be administered an RNA pharmaceutical. I'm confident they're both perfectly safe but, given the choice between a non-RNA and a RNA vaccine, there's no logical reason someone would choose RNA.
That's like being asked to join Yuri Gagarin on the first manned space trip, which is already terrifying. Except, instead of having spent the last 15 years developing space flight technology, they had to put it together from scratch the weekend before while 10,000 people were outside the lab screaming "when is the rocket going to be ready!?" No thanks.
Dukasaur wrote:saxitoxin wrote:Dukasaur wrote:False dichotomy. It isn't a choice of get J&J or go unvaccinated. You could get the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.
Well that's definitely not going to happen. I'm theoretically open to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine but not Pfizer or Moderna. I'm 99% sure Pfizer or Moderna are just fine, but I have no desire to be part of the first group in 40,000 years of human history to be administered an RNA pharmaceutical. I'm confident they're both perfectly safe but, given the choice between a non-RNA and a RNA vaccine, there's no logical reason someone would choose RNA.
That's like being asked to join Yuri Gagarin on the first manned space trip, which is already terrifying. Except, instead of having spent the last 15 years developing space flight technology, they had to put it together from scratch the weekend before while 10,000 people were outside the lab screaming "when is the rocket going to be ready!?" No thanks.
The theoretical groundwork for m-RNA vaccines has been around for 10 years. Was just waiting for the cucks in the Big Pharma boardrooms to open their wallets. Covid has, in that sense, been a big boon to the progress of science.
Pack Rat wrote:if it quacks like a duck and walk like a duck, it's still fascism
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saxitoxin wrote:Dukasaur wrote:saxitoxin wrote:Dukasaur wrote:False dichotomy. It isn't a choice of get J&J or go unvaccinated. You could get the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.
Well that's definitely not going to happen. I'm theoretically open to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine but not Pfizer or Moderna. I'm 99% sure Pfizer or Moderna are just fine, but I have no desire to be part of the first group in 40,000 years of human history to be administered an RNA pharmaceutical. I'm confident they're both perfectly safe but, given the choice between a non-RNA and a RNA vaccine, there's no logical reason someone would choose RNA.
That's like being asked to join Yuri Gagarin on the first manned space trip, which is already terrifying. Except, instead of having spent the last 15 years developing space flight technology, they had to put it together from scratch the weekend before while 10,000 people were outside the lab screaming "when is the rocket going to be ready!?" No thanks.
The theoretical groundwork for m-RNA vaccines has been around for 10 years. Was just waiting for the cucks in the Big Pharma boardrooms to open their wallets. Covid has, in that sense, been a big boon to the progress of science.
They opened their wallets because they were granted 100% civil immunity. If they were sitting on the technology for 10 years but only deployed it into live humans after they'd been granted unprecedented, never-before-seen immunity from civil liability, that's, ummmm ... not exactly a confidence booster.
Dukasaur wrote:saxitoxin wrote:Dukasaur wrote:saxitoxin wrote:Dukasaur wrote:False dichotomy. It isn't a choice of get J&J or go unvaccinated. You could get the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.
Well that's definitely not going to happen. I'm theoretically open to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine but not Pfizer or Moderna. I'm 99% sure Pfizer or Moderna are just fine, but I have no desire to be part of the first group in 40,000 years of human history to be administered an RNA pharmaceutical. I'm confident they're both perfectly safe but, given the choice between a non-RNA and a RNA vaccine, there's no logical reason someone would choose RNA.
That's like being asked to join Yuri Gagarin on the first manned space trip, which is already terrifying. Except, instead of having spent the last 15 years developing space flight technology, they had to put it together from scratch the weekend before while 10,000 people were outside the lab screaming "when is the rocket going to be ready!?" No thanks.
The theoretical groundwork for m-RNA vaccines has been around for 10 years. Was just waiting for the cucks in the Big Pharma boardrooms to open their wallets. Covid has, in that sense, been a big boon to the progress of science.
They opened their wallets because they were granted 100% civil immunity. If they were sitting on the technology for 10 years but only deployed it into live humans after they'd been granted unprecedented, never-before-seen immunity from civil liability, that's, ummmm ... not exactly a confidence booster.
Actually, I said "10 years" without checking. Just looked it up -- it's 31 years.
Pack Rat wrote:if it quacks like a duck and walk like a duck, it's still fascism
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Dukasaur wrote:Okay, if I don't post after Thursday you'll know the Gagarin effect killed me.
Oh, wait... Gagarin lived! He trusted in science.
saxitoxin wrote:Dukasaur wrote:saxitoxin wrote:Dukasaur wrote:saxitoxin wrote:Dukasaur wrote:False dichotomy. It isn't a choice of get J&J or go unvaccinated. You could get the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines.
Well that's definitely not going to happen. I'm theoretically open to the Johnson & Johnson vaccine but not Pfizer or Moderna. I'm 99% sure Pfizer or Moderna are just fine, but I have no desire to be part of the first group in 40,000 years of human history to be administered an RNA pharmaceutical. I'm confident they're both perfectly safe but, given the choice between a non-RNA and a RNA vaccine, there's no logical reason someone would choose RNA.
That's like being asked to join Yuri Gagarin on the first manned space trip, which is already terrifying. Except, instead of having spent the last 15 years developing space flight technology, they had to put it together from scratch the weekend before while 10,000 people were outside the lab screaming "when is the rocket going to be ready!?" No thanks.
The theoretical groundwork for m-RNA vaccines has been around for 10 years. Was just waiting for the cucks in the Big Pharma boardrooms to open their wallets. Covid has, in that sense, been a big boon to the progress of science.
They opened their wallets because they were granted 100% civil immunity. If they were sitting on the technology for 10 years but only deployed it into live humans after they'd been granted unprecedented, never-before-seen immunity from civil liability, that's, ummmm ... not exactly a confidence booster.
Actually, I said "10 years" without checking. Just looked it up -- it's 31 years.
That's even more terrifying. After 31 years they were still not confident enough to give it to humans until getting immunity from lawsuits.
The only reason given for me to voluntarily increase my chance of death by 22% is to aid society.
1 in 5 Americans say they won't get COVID-19 vaccine
Filed Under: COVID-19
Stephanie Soucheray | News Reporter | CIDRAP News | Apr 15, 2021
A poll published yesterday from Monmouth University found that 1 in 5 Americans remain unwilling to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
Partisanship continues to be the defining factor determining which Americans are willing to get vaccinated and which are not: 43% of Republicans say they will avoid the vaccine, compared with just 5% of Democrats, and 22% of independents say they want to avoid getting the vaccine altogether.
A new Quinnipiac University poll shows 45% of Republicans are unwilling to get the vaccine. A poll from the University of Michigan also suggests age may be a factor. Only 20% of teens and young adults polled last October said they were unwilling to get vaccinated, and that percentage shrank to 15% last month.
The polls underscore the uphill battle the United States will have to reach herd immunity, despite a robust vaccine rollout that is seeing 3 million plus shots administered per day. Experts estimate around 70% of Americans will need to be vaccinated or infected to produce herd immunity.
And the polls were conducted before federal agencies put the Johnson & Johnson vaccine on pause, as they determine whether or not or to what extent that vaccine [url]contributed to a rare type of blood clot. Many fear the pause will contribute to vaccine hesitation and distrust.
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