Posted on 10/22/2021 3:46:43 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
In the past two weeks, COVID-19 has struck three well-known people. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, who had been fully vaccinated, died on Monday due to complications from the virus. Meanwhile, two men who had refused vaccination—conservative radio talk show host Dennis Prager and Texas gubernatorial candidate Allen West—caught the virus but survived. On Fox News, these stories are being exploited to cast doubt on COVID vaccines and to suggest that people should rely instead on “natural immunity” or therapeutic drugs. But in fact, the three stories illustrate how vaccine refusers endanger everyone else. People like Prager and West don’t necessarily kill themselves. But by helping the virus to spread, they end up causing the deaths of people like Powell.
West, a former congressman who stepped down this summer as chairman of the Texas GOP, disclosed last week that he had COVID. He said he had chosen not to get vaccinated but was doing fine, thanks to various therapies. In addition to unfounded or debunked remedies such as hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin, he credited his recovery to monoclonal antibody infusion, which really does work.
West told his followers that his recuperation showed therapeutics were “far better” than vaccines. He proudly declared that his insurance had covered the monoclonal antibodies and that his infection was actually a bonus, since now, in addition to the infused antibodies, “I have the natural immunity from having had the COVID.” Instead of getting vaccinated—which he condemned as “enriching the pockets of Big Pharma”—he urged his fans to follow his example. “Do not fear COVID,” he told them. “Put everything in [God’s] hands, and He will carry you through it.”
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Somebody tell Mr. Saletan that every experiment needs a control group.
...die with the jab, or from the jab?
Whenever someone tells you that HCQ and Ivermectin are debunked and discredited therapies, immediately you know they are clueless and trying to advance a political agenda...
It’s good to post this type of garbage it keeps enforcing what we already know, these people are crazy...
Cancer killed him.
Cancer and advanced age.
Colin Powell caught COVID from someone who foolishly got vaccinated and still transmitted the disease.
Prove me wrong.
looks as if we need to kill a few million more
Correct. Cancer of the blood no less.
What part of -vaccinated people still contracting covid and possibly dying don’t these idiots understand…THE VACCINE DOESN’T WORK…and is extremely dangerous also…
“Prove me wrong.”
Can’t prove a negative. It’s up to you to prove that Powell caught COVID from someone who was vaccinated.
He’s a piece of work, isn’t he?
Whoever he caught it from, it wasn't from one of us.
But that’s the whole point. The panic merchants make a lot of claims they cannot prove. “If everyone were vaccinated, this virus would be under control” That’s not true. You cannot prove that. It’s just an unsubstantiated claim put forward by people who desperately want everyone to get the jab. It’s BS.
I don’t have to prove anything. I merely make a statement of principle: It is wrong to force people to take medicine that they don’t want to take.
Anyone who disagrees with that principle is a totalitarian.
These are horrible people. They’d happily throw us in death camps, then beg for their lives when they’re next.
Weird how this retard from Slate failed to mention that the folks who took the frankenshot can carry just as heavy a viral load. The "vaccinated" in super-jabbed Israel are still giving the crud to each other.
It’s my understanding that Powell had cancer.
So a vaccinated person can’t spread the virus? This is completely contrary to what scientists have been saying. Execrable propaganda.
This bio weapon disease has caused so much insanity among the vaxxers and jabbers that it’s akin to AIDS in the gay community.
Its a token to have the jab like HIV.
The author seems to believe we could eliminate the virus with vaccines?
See Animal reservoirs
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