Of course. My employer (federal govt) required it or I’d be fired. International travel requires it. College campuses require it—and the booster, too.
I said this repeatedly....I will not criticize anyone for their personal health decision. Remember my body, my choice? It works both ways. Utility curve optimization isn't in the Constitution, nor my personal code. I may have THOUGHTS about how to optimize your curve, but until asked it'll stay tucked away.
At the same time, this saga has been helpful for those people - many of whom took the shot under duress - who had been to this rodeo before. Because at their core, these shots have ONE objective: PREVENTION. From the get go, people were skeptical and were bashed for that skepticism. So let's take a little trip down memory lane, to assess the accuracy of that skepticism.
Per the FDA in June 2020, the FDA would expect that a COVID-19 vaccine would prevent disease or decrease its severity in at least 50% of people who are vaccinated.
This is where words become REALLY important. In the US, the basis of approval EUA and the only "approved" Vaccine, was for PREVENTION...NOT for decreased severity. Indeed, look at the actual FDA and Pfizer-BioNTech info.
On August 23, 2021, the FDA approved the first COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine has been known as the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine, and will now be marketed as Comirnaty, for the prevention of COVID-19 disease in individuals 16 years of age and older.(emphasis added)
Per the Comernity Insert,
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COMIRNATY is a vaccine indicated for active immunization to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in individuals 16 years of age and older. (1)(emphasis added)
Per the Summary Basis for Regulatory Action, under "Indication"
Active immunization to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) in individuals 16 years of age and older. (Emphasis added)
Clearly, the vaccine is for PREVENTION. Nothing else. All of the clinical trials (limited as they were) and statistical confidence intervals were focused on VE with regard to PREVENTION...not hospitalization, not ER visits, not fatalies, and not symptoms. Accordingly, THAT is the basis upon which approval and Efficacy should be based.
So let's examine the time-series of VE for these shots since authorization, keeping in mind the FDA benchmark of 50%. Remember, VE = the percentage reduction in infection rate in the test vs control groups.
Without making this a massive post, I'll concede that published VEs in various studies in 2021 were above 50%. Indeed, the time EUA was granted, the shots had an in-same VE around 90%....who could oppose such a thing?
As an important side note, all of this research is based on statistical analyses of data. They are NOT clinical trials. That is an important distinction, because 1) none of these shots underwent legitimate trials that examined long-term impacts that other approved vaccines underwent and 2) vaccines fail trials 59% of the time and take a median of 9 years. Therefore, we should have VERY LITTLE TOLERANCE for declining VE for these shots.
Then by the summer of 2021, we noticed VE started declining. In and of itself, this isn't too problematic - few things last forever. BUT, the rate of decay in VE didn't get much airtime. For what it's worth,by the end of July I did some modeling and it looked like VE would fall below 50% just 6 months after the second shot and become totally ineffective by 10 months. Further research in August showed VE during Delta falling to 66%.
Ruh roh.
With Omicron, we saw VE being zero in Norway and Denmark and of course the US.
Pleae note, at no point in this post have I declared that these shots have nanotechnology in them, make you glow, have the Mark of the Beast, or are part of some conspiracy. I'm playing by their rules of "science."
Therefore, if VE is now not only below 50% but at zero, and the benchmark was 50%, the EUAs and approvals should be yanked. Even if these elixirs lower symptoms, that's not the basis of approval...rules are there for a reason.
....unless you're in the government, and rules are for the little people. The 50% VE threshold was blown away when assessing shots for CHILDREN.
Finally, boosters prop up VE but decreasingly so. Soon you'll need a boost every week.
THIS is why people refuse the shots.... If we follow their "rules of science" and these shots don't not have VE above 50%, then they absolutely deserve ridicule and revocation.
And yet, these "approved" shots - which have caused familial and societal strife, vective, unrest, unemployment, and brought us to a Constitutional "crisis" where three lawyers on SCOTUS thought it was peachy for OSHA to enact a mandate without congressional approval - remain in effect under an EUA where the BASIS was PREVENTION.
So yea, while I don't criticize people for their personal health choices, I sure feel confident about the decision to NOT take the shots not just on moral grounds, but empirical grounds. And while the John Galt wannabes criticizing the shot-takers are pests, the vax Karen's who mocked, ridiculed, name-called, and effectively supported totalitarian tactics on the "holdouts" are vile, lothesome creatures who also seem to be dying suddenly. Karma, man.
I think Grampa Dave has the answer to
But it’s evident the vaccines don’t work and have deadly risks. Why, if any government cared about the safety of their people, would they force the entire population to ingest a medical product with serious risks?
A: None of this was about our health.