Many police officers spurn coronavirus vaccines as departments avoid mandates

Police officers were among the first front-line workers to gain priority access to coronavirus vaccines. But their vaccination rates are lower than or about the same as those of the general public, according to data made available by some of the nation’s largest law enforcement agencies.

The reluctance of police to get the shots threatens not just their own health but the safety of people they’re responsible for guarding, monitoring and patrolling, experts say.

At the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department, 39% of employees have gotten at least one dose, officials said, compared to more than 50% of eligible adults nationwide. In Atlanta, 36% of sworn officers have been vaccinated. Twenty-eight percent of those employed by the Columbus Division of Police — Ohio’s largest police department — report having received a shot....

“The reluctance of police to get the shots threatens not just their own health but the safety of people they’re responsible for guarding, monitoring and patrolling, experts say.”

You’ll never convince me that there is ay such thing as asymptomatic transmission. I will agree that a person who feels fine may transmit the disease, HOWEVER, these people will become symptomatic very soon thereafter. They will not remain asymptomatic. If they are asymptomatic they actually do not/did not have the disease, period.

It really isnt that hard to understand. For the life of me, I can’t figure out why smart people either don’t get this or do get it an intentionally lie to us.

As someone who brews beer, it is obvious to me that there are millions of all different types of microbes in and on everything you come into contact with. It is all about which microbes “win”. When you brew beer, you hope that the yeast “wins” so you create conditions which benefit them.

An incredibly large number of us have Coronovirus in our noses and on our skin. We also have a primary and secondary immune system. For those who have a good immune system, plenty of Vitamin D, plenty of rest, low stress rates, etc... getting a few thousand coronavirus in our nose is not a big deal as our primary immune system will decimate it. If someone were to swab their nose and then cyle the specimen through 40 or more cycles of amplification, they would likely find traces of proteins associated with the decimated virus and would be considered a “case” even though they would not be contagious.

Now, if their was a greater exposure or if the person’s primary immune system was not running at top performance, the conditions might be set for the virus to start “winning”. In this case, symptoms would appear and the body would need to start going into overdrive to defeat the virus.

A person in this state would be shedding live virus and would be contagious.

Swabbing everyone’s nose and determining “cases” based on the results is as dumb as swabbing everyone’s skin to determine cases of MRSA. We all have it on our skin. It only becomes a problem when it starts “winning” due to a weakened immune system, biological imbalance, open sores to create a more beneficial environment, etc...

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