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Unvaccinated people are 'variant factories,' infectious diseases expert says
Time ^ | 7/3/2021 | Maggie Fox, CNN

Posted on 07/03/2021 9:35:00 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan

Unvaccinated people do more than merely risk their own health. They're also a risk to everyone if they become infected with coronavirus, infectious disease specialists say. That's because the only source of new coronavirus variants is the body of an infected person. "Unvaccinated people are potential variant factories," Dr. William Schaffner, a professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, told CNN Friday.

"The more unvaccinated people there are, the more opportunities for the virus to multiply," Schaffner said.

When it does, it mutates, and it could throw off a variant mutation that is even more serious down the road."

All viruses mutate, and while the coronavirus is not particularly mutation-prone, it does change and evolve. Most of the changes mean nothing to the virus, and some can weaken it. But sometimes, a virus develops a random mutation that gives it an advantage -- better transmissibility, for instance, or more efficient replication, or an ability to infect a great diversity of hosts.

Viruses with an advantage will outcompete other viruses, and will eventually make up the majority of virus particles infecting someone. If that infected person passes the virus to someone else, they'll be passing along the mutant version.

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To: jonrick46
They should have gone through the long process. You would be happy if they did while America died—right?

Yes, they should have. 2nd Order consequences are unknown, though we discover more every day.

80% of the population of the world has immunity - or either completely, or their immunity is perfected by exposure to the actual virus. This builds herd immunity.

Of the remaining 20% (and likely less), covid kills the old and frail and fat - average age over 78. It pushes them over the edge like flu, where they succumb to their preexisting morbidities.

These people should have been isolated from the beginning, along with the obese, who have low plasa vitamin D levels.

Everyone else should have gone on with their lives, supplementing with D, Zinc, Quercetin.

161 posted on 07/04/2021 1:48:37 PM PDT by aMorePerfectUnion (“Fraud vitiates everything.” )
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To: jonrick46

Up here in CT not a single chain retail sites enforces masks anymore. Some have a big sign out front along with pre-recorder PA messages encouraging people to wear one “for everyone’s safety” but the second the mandate was lifted at least half stopped and by now maybe 1% still wears a mask.

Most other stores just removed all the signage or have a tiny letter size or smaller sign in the window.


162 posted on 07/04/2021 4:23:44 PM PDT by matt04 ( )
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Welcome to FR.

What was your previous handle?

Vax troll, much?


163 posted on 07/04/2021 4:25:23 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

10. Unvaccinated will be made scapegoats and pariahs.


Just look who is even posting this nonsense ‘blame’, here on FR.

Telling.

Btw....it’s the vaxxed causing the variants, most likely.


164 posted on 07/04/2021 4:28:06 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: 5th MEB

That’s a clear reply, if ever there was one :-)

Tell it!


165 posted on 07/04/2021 4:30:39 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation 🙏🏻🇺🇸)
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To: Jane Long
What was your previous handle?

You may compartmentalize whatever frustrations you may have had with other users. I am new, and not one of them.

Vax troll, much?

The claims mentioned in the article are worthy of commentary, and judging by the over 160 replies, others agree. I don't endorse the claims per se, and in fact lean anti-vax.

Welcome to FR. Thank you.

166 posted on 07/04/2021 5:28:34 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
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To: Right Wing Vegan

The only source of variants is infected people.

True, the only way the virus mutates itself to irrelevance is infected people.

The dishonest commenter knows cynically that the public will assume all variants are bad.


167 posted on 07/04/2021 5:41:59 PM PDT by Chaguito
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To: Chaguito

Correction: he damns mutation with faint praise. He still implies that the occasional “advantageous” mutation is a big deal. It.is.not. Do the math.


168 posted on 07/04/2021 5:44:55 PM PDT by Chaguito
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Their creepy and their kooky
Mysterious and spooky
Their all together ooky
The Variant Factories


169 posted on 07/04/2021 5:48:16 PM PDT by BusterDog
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To: jonrick46

Was I talking to you?


170 posted on 07/04/2021 7:08:14 PM PDT by vigilante2
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To: jonrick46

“That research has been done by people who know the science.”

The fact is that for every person YOU believe to “know ‘THE science’”, there’s another ACTUAL scientist who believes the opposite. P.S. Only libs spew the “the science” phrase. Do you check in daily for staff meetings with The Fauci?


171 posted on 07/04/2021 7:18:03 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Stand fast therefore in the LIBERTY wherewith Christ hath made us free - Gal. 5:1)
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To: jonrick46

“What if the vaccine was given to you in the conventional form like they use for the measles virus? Would you take it?”

Not if it hadn’t been tested 8-15 years, which is industry standard, AND been approved by the FDC. As of today, neither of those is “a thing”. So ... no.


172 posted on 07/04/2021 7:30:20 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Stand fast therefore in the LIBERTY wherewith Christ hath made us free - Gal. 5:1)
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To: jonrick46

“I think those who are wearing a mask in their car may be on their way to pick someone up and don’t want to release any potential COVID droplets that might infect them.”

LOL!


173 posted on 07/04/2021 7:31:52 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Stand fast therefore in the LIBERTY wherewith Christ hath made us free - Gal. 5:1)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

So scary.


174 posted on 07/04/2021 7:32:26 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them...God wins. Trump always wins. . )
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To: jonrick46

You omitted the flux capacitor.


175 posted on 07/04/2021 7:39:04 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Stand fast therefore in the LIBERTY wherewith Christ hath made us free - Gal. 5:1)
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To: Freedom56v2

“14. Forced to live in separate enclaves...”

Hmmm... considering the low IQs of the Shot Sheep, living in a separate enclave doesn’t sound so bad.


176 posted on 07/04/2021 7:45:21 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Stand fast therefore in the LIBERTY wherewith Christ hath made us free - Gal. 5:1)
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To: Gritty

“If the Americans of 1775-1783 had the same ill informed mindset as so many of these cowardly, ignorant, and easily herded people of today, we would be still hailing The Crown as our Master.”

This was alluded to by our pastor in church today.


177 posted on 07/04/2021 7:48:33 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam (Stand fast therefore in the LIBERTY wherewith Christ hath made us free - Gal. 5:1)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

One more divisive classification from CNN:

The vaxxed vs the unvaxxed!

What’s next?


178 posted on 07/04/2021 7:49:31 PM PDT by melancholy (You can vote Socialism in, but you have to shoot your way out. (FReeper pilgrim heard it said))
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Boo!


179 posted on 07/04/2021 7:54:06 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. (I'm not interested in your dopey religious cult.))
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To: fieldmarshaldj

So scary.


180 posted on 07/04/2021 8:39:25 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them...God wins. Trump always wins. . )
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