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To: jonrick46

You are pushing crap. Covid jab has never prevented a single case of covid, the number of people who got covid after being jabbed 3 times is to numerous to count and even the CDC quietly admitted it was not a vaccine when they changed the definition of vaccine last year.

Polio after 3 doses literally prevented you from getting polio. It was unheard of after you were vaccinated. Stop reposting the article and actually have a discussion.

There is no parallel and the article you post is the worse type of sophistry.


76 posted on 02/16/2022 1:04:52 PM PST by Skwor
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To: Skwor

What arguments in the article were “sophistry?”

When you wrote, “Polio after 3 doses literally prevented you from getting polio. It was unheard of after you were vaccinated.” you ignored this part of the Forbes article:

The effectiveness of a vaccine depends heavily on how much of the virus is around you. To understand this concept, think about balls. Baseballs, that is. A catcher’s mitt can protect you well should only one ball come at you at a time. When lots of balls are thrown at you all at once from different directions, though, one catcher’s mitt alone may not be enough. How well the Covid-19 vaccine protects you depends on how prevalent the SARS-CoV-2 is around you, which in turn depends on how many people around you have gotten the vaccine.

If the polio virus were as widespread as the Covid-19 coronavirus is today, you would probably see a lot more breakthrough cases of polio than zero. In fact, in the early days of the polio vaccination program, before high enough vaccination coverage levels were achieved, breakthroughs happened:

Michael Clemens

Breakthrough cases of polio—including deaths—were common during early polio vaccination.

What kept us safe was not perfect vaccine efficacy. It was that Americans quickly & massively stepped up to get the imperfect vaccine, quashing transmission.

It is obvious your skepticism allows you to doubt even the most common sense information. The use of analogy is a legitimate way to make an argument. It is not “crap” and definitely not “sophistry.” I am not sure if you even read the article and rejected it after the first paragraph.


79 posted on 02/17/2022 9:22:37 AM PST by jonrick46 (Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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