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Israel offers a glimpse of life after herd immunity: With 80% of adults vaccinated, cases have dropped to 15 per day
Yahoo ^ | June 1, 2021 | Aria Bendix

Posted on 06/05/2021 10:45:02 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat

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The decline in infections has been so encouraging that Israel lifted some of its last remaining coronavirus restrictions on Tuesday. Businesses can now operate at full capacity, and residents no longer have to show proof that they've been vaccinated to enter restaurants, sporting events, or entertainment venues.

Even before the new rule, Israel's schools were fully open, masks were no longer required outdoors, and mass gatherings were taking place across the country. Now Israel's only barrier to normal life is a requirement to wear masks in public indoor spaces - a rule that could be lifted as soon as next week, according to Israeli health officials.

"This is probably the end of COVID in Israel, at least in terms of the current strains that we know," Dr. Eyal Zimlichman, deputy director general at Sheba Medical Center, Israel's largest hospital, told Insider. "We've obviously reached herd immunity."

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: coronavirus; covid19; israel; vaccine
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To: alternatives?

Well you are welcome to call it whatever you want. You can even call is Penelope. But what you cannot do is what our friends on the left do which is control the language

It is neither experimental nor gene nor mutation. Nor is is genetic therapy. You know how I know this? I have a basic working understanding of biology which many seem to now have here.

Why don’t you explain your Position thst this is experimental gene mutant therapy. Specifically with actual technical references.

I’ll go ahead and continue to call it exactly what it is. A vaccine.


21 posted on 06/05/2021 12:46:37 PM PDT by gas_dr (Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will. )
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To: Ceebass

Israel was hitting 10,000 new cases per day back in January; not 100,000. Officially they’ve had about 840,000 cases, which is about 9% of their total population. Working backwards from their COVID-19 deaths, I would estimate it’s closer to about 1 million actual cases, which is a little less than 11% of their total population.

So yes, that 9-11% are contributing something toward immunity. But that 9-11% is not the driving force. Brazil has seen 34% of their country infected and their case and death numbers are about as bad as they’ve ever been. 3 times as many cases (as a percent of population) with no reduction in new infections and deaths. Meanwhile, Israel is wide open for business and has nearly zero cases or deaths.


22 posted on 06/05/2021 1:01:04 PM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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To: alternatives?
If you want to call it gene mutation therapy, you'll need to explain a few things:

You see, the problem with this kind of claim is how easily it's disproven. With a freshman level biology textbook. If you want to make fantastic claims about something, please make an attempt to understand basic biology first.

23 posted on 06/05/2021 1:08:44 PM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

So vaccines do more harm than good, huh?


24 posted on 06/05/2021 1:17:27 PM PDT by nagant
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To: walkingdead

Israel has herd immunity with 20% NOT vaccinated.


25 posted on 06/05/2021 1:25:24 PM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000))
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To: gas_dr

Sorry, but it IS experimental. It is not approved, but can be given under an EUA. Unless there is a middle category, it is either experimental or approved.


26 posted on 06/05/2021 1:39:01 PM PDT by MortMan (Shouldn't "palindrome" read the same forward and backward?)
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To: eyeamok

Exactly. Herd immunity.

Look what all the DS/DNC cabal put us through.....as a nation and worldwide, for something that would’ve been achieved MUCH sooner, had we have NOT locked down, NOT infected our elderly in nursing homes and had provided safe, effective and proven TREATMENTS.

EVERYONE involved in this PLAN-Dem-ic should be imprisoned.


27 posted on 06/05/2021 1:40:42 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: Republican Wildcat

And I STILL WON’T TAKE the gene therapy. DEATH first.


28 posted on 06/05/2021 1:42:53 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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To: MortMan

It’s status is approved under EUA having passed three clinical trails. I will concede experimental is the most murky of the words you used but the rest are just plain wrong.


29 posted on 06/05/2021 1:43:44 PM PDT by gas_dr (Conditions of Socratic debate: Intelligence, Candor, and Good Will. )
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To: Trumpisourlastchance
I WON'T TAKE THE DEVIL'S BREW. What will YOU do to make us take it>?

Trump was WRONG. These aren't even vaccines-- no live or killed virus in them.

30 posted on 06/05/2021 1:43:48 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Israel is down to under 200 COVID positive, with about a fifth of those hospitalized. But I have noticed many Israelis getting mysteriously ill or dying several week after completing the vax injections. The cemetaries seem busier than normal.


31 posted on 06/05/2021 1:45:25 PM PDT by Mr170IQ
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To: Ceebass
You might think we're irrelevant, but let me check...

YEP! STILL HAVEN'T TAKEN THE VAX!

What will YOU do about it?

32 posted on 06/05/2021 1:45:26 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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To: gas_dr
It's NOT NOT NOT a vaccine! It contains NO LIVE VIRUS! It contains NO KILLED VIRUS!

Stop spreading lies. It's not a vaccine.

33 posted on 06/05/2021 1:46:35 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Anytime I hear someone say “herd immunity” and then talks inoculations I know they have no clue what they are talking about.


34 posted on 06/05/2021 1:46:48 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest
Ah, dry up.

That stuff just makes you look like an idiot.

It contains NO VIRUS. It ain't a vaccine.

35 posted on 06/05/2021 1:47:36 PM PDT by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

This is where USA will be at later this summer.


36 posted on 06/05/2021 2:00:43 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: backwoods-engineer

Okay, so you’re saying that none of the following are vaccines:

* Tetanus
* Hep B
* Diphtheria
* Whooping Cough
* Hib
* HPV
* Shingles
* Pneumococcal
* Meningococcal

Right? They aren’t “real vaccines” because they don’t contain a virus. That’s your narrow definition that hasn’t fit since the 1970s.

Well, these “fake” vaccines sure do seem to do a good job!


37 posted on 06/05/2021 2:06:51 PM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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To: Republican Wildcat

What’s a case?


38 posted on 06/05/2021 2:07:14 PM PDT by Percy Quattro
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To: gas_dr

I am not the poster you responded to. I simply pointed out that authorized and approved are not synonymous in technical subjects such as this.


39 posted on 06/05/2021 2:09:53 PM PDT by MortMan (Shouldn't "palindrome" read the same forward and backward?)
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To: gas_dr

How about responding to the data.....

See No. 13

all your side can come up with is increasingly ridiculous statements.....

I’m not on a side.

You should heed your tagline.


40 posted on 06/05/2021 2:15:03 PM PDT by Ceebass (USA RIP 1776-2021)
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