Posted on 05/23/2021 8:49:31 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Sen. Rand Paul said he won’t get the COVID-19 vaccine because he has already had the coronavirus and believes he now has "natural immunity."
Paul (R-Ky.), one of the first senators to test positive for the virus last March, told John Catsimatidis on his WABC 770 AM radio show that it’s a personal decision to opt-out of the vaccine.
An ophthalmologist, Paul said unless he sees evidence proving that the vaccine is more effective than having survived the virus, he won’t be getting the shot.
"Until they show me evidence that people who have already had the infection are dying in large numbers, or being hospitalized or getting very sick, I just made my own personal decision that I’m not getting vaccinated because I’ve already had the disease and I have natural immunity," Paul said in the interview that aired Sunday.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has encouraged people who have had COVID to get vaccinated because "experts do not yet know how long you are protected from getting sick again after recovering."
"Even if you have already recovered from COVID-19, it is possible—although rare—that you could be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19 again," the CDC said on its website.
Paul, who has tussled with Dr. Anthony Fauci at a number of Senate hearings over mask-wearing and whether the virus originated in a Chinese lab, said getting vaccinated should be a personal choice.
"In a free country you would think people would honor the idea that each individual would get to make the medical decision, that it wouldn’t be a big brother coming to tell me what I have to do," Paul said.
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THIS should NOT be news
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has encouraged people who have had COVID to get vaccinated because “experts do not yet know how long you are protected from getting sick again after recovering.”
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So if they have no idea, then why recommend for a vaccine, except of course to push the narrative and the profit for Big Pharma.
Why is there even a vaccine for something that has a 98-99% chance of recovery?
RE: Why is there even a vaccine for something that has a 98-99% chance of recovery?
I asked the same question and here are the answers I get:
1) To prevent hospitals from being swamped.
2) The 1% who do not survive is still a large number to the tune of hundreds of thousands. They need protection and vaccines are the best chance of protecting them.
Good for Dr. Rand Paul. If you had covid you most likely wouldn’t need any doctor but if you had to choose between Dr. Fauci or Dr. Rand Paul you would do well to choose Dr. Rand Paul. Why anyone thinks highly of the CDC is just baffling to me - I’m hard pressed to come up with a more dysfunctional, inept, bloated, self perpetuating, pompous, quasi government agency.
To get a vaccination after being infected is the height of stupidity. What could your immune system possibly learn from a vaccine that it did not already learn from the virus itself?
When i had it in feb of 2020, there were no tests.
“I went and saw all my docs after the shutdown and no docs asked or offered a test or shot.”
I find it interesting that when going to doctor appointments, they don’t ask and don’t seem to care if you’ve been vaccinated. Shouldn’t health care personnel be interested in this? Things that make you go “Hmmm”...
Today common sense is missing in action, so this is quite refreshing.
“Natural Immunity” aka COVID-recovered does not “count”.
Your suffering as a survivor DOES NOT MATTER.
Only the almighty vaccine matters.
The truth is they aren't supposed to be making vaccines for diseases which already have an available treatment/cure.
But then, this is not a vaccine, it is an experimental gene therapy that has NO covid in it.
We have been screwed over royally.
That’s about the time I think I had it. So did a few others I worked with, we all had time off for feeling sick and had the same symptoms. Lasted about 3 weeks for me.
My whole family had “something” in January 2020 which was the nastiest, hardest hitting flu-like illness ever. Deep chills for several days, no energy.
Couldn’t draw a deep breath for nearly a month.
COVID, beta version.
Maybe I’ll get tested and see if I had it and now are naturally immune. Resisting the vaccines for now.
I think you would have antibodies if you had it.
I asked the same question and here are the answers I get:
1) To prevent hospitals from being swamped.
2) The 1% who do not survive is still a large number to the tune of hundreds of thousands. They need protection and vaccines are the best chance of protecting them.
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Can I ask who told you that?
Reason being from what I have learned, by taking some of the therapeutics, many if not most cases would not require hospitalization.
Seems many docs are not willing to “color outside of the lines...”
About a year ago I did some searches at the CDC web site on the terms Diversity, Transgender and Climate Change. Thousands of hits for these political terms/issues having little to nothing to do with disease. Came to the conclusion that the CDC was now a political operation, and had lost sight of the public health mission.
There is \NO\ COVID-19 specific antigen test.
Verification of T-cell “memory” immunity necessarily involves introducing isolated COVID virus.
There is no currently available isolated COVID virus.
If you had the symptoms, rest assured you have the immunity and go on about your normal life.
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