Posted on 06/08/2022 9:24:56 AM PDT by Heartlander
Remember when the COVID vaccines were going to entirely prevent infections?
Those were the days, right?
Joe Biden said that if you got the vaccines, you wouldn’t get COVID. Dr. Fauci said the vaccines were 100% effective. Rochelle Walensky was on television news explaining that according to the real world data collected by the CDC, the vaccinated could not get or spread COVID.
There are endless examples of experts and media outlets parroting the same talking points — the vaccines stop the spread of the virus to others, making the decision to get vaccinated a societal “good.”
They could not have been more wrong — the vaccines conclusively do not stop transmission or infection.
Instead of accepting that inarguable reality and accurately communicating that getting vaccinated was exclusively an individual decision that did nothing to keep others “safe,” the self-proclaimed infallible leaders of The Science™ doubled then tripled then quadrupled down.
Throughout the summer and into early fall, colleges, corporations and politicians imposed vaccine mandates based on the misguided assumptions emanating from the supposed “expert” class.
When the fall and winter/Omicron surge unfolded, it permanently put to rest any lingering doubts about any of the vaccines preventing infections. Instead of deciding to end their policies and blaze a path back to normalcy, these same businesses and universities inexplicably mandated boosters.
It’s bad enough that organizations supposedly committed to personal “choice” abandoned any pretense of intellectual consistency, but what’s more alarming is that evidence and data continues to accumulate indicating that vaccinated individuals are testing positive at higher rates, yet the policies continue.
Many corporations still require proof of vaccination to enter offices. Universities are still requiring proof of a booster dose for 18 year olds at near zero risk of serious illness.
Recently, research from Cornell University described how ineffective mask mandates were, but by examining another major university’s COVID data, we can see how ineffective their mandates are.
Below is the official policy of one of the country’s leading public universities, mandating a vaccine that exclusively provides personal benefits:
The University of California requires that UCLA students, faculty and staff who are living, working or learning on campus or at other UCLA properties be vaccinated against COVID-19
They even proudly state how few exceptions they allow, forcing near universal compliance:
With limited exceptions and accommodations for medical reasons or religious beliefs
Of course, their own data shows how preposterous, inexplicable and bizarrely authoritarian their mandate has become.
The percentage of positive tests from UCLA on campus testing highlights the incongruence of reality with their policy:
They already knew that their vaccine mandate was not preventing a dramatic increase in the rate of positive tests. They knew. And they mandated boosters anyway.
I guess when power hungry administrators have an opportunity to continue to enforce what they positively know doesn’t work, they’re inclined to do just that.
Unsurprisingly, it gets worse.
Thankfully, UCLA provides a breakdown of the percentage of compliance among different populations on campus:
98% of students are fully vaccinated for COVID and 2% are “compliant with UC Vaccine Policy,” which includes “those who are fully vaccinated (and who have received a booster shot, if eligible), partially vaccinated, have been approved for medical or religious exceptions, and those working or learning remotely.”
It’s hard to be more vaccine compliant than that.
Meanwhile, “only” 87% of faculty/staff are considered “fully vaccinated” by UCLA, well below the student rate.
They also provide the number of cases by demographic:
13,763 of 45,900 UCLA students, an incredible 30% of the entire student body, have tested positive since they started tracking the numbers on August 1st, 2021.
Remember, 98% of students are “fully vaccinated.”
Meanwhile, 3,337 staff or faculty members have tested positive out of ~33,754 employees. 9.9% have tested positive, despite their significantly lower vaccination rate.
Now, you might be thinking that this could be at least partially explained by student conduct. Students are more likely to engage in social activities and “riskier” behavior, but that further enhances the point that their vaccination and boosters are doing nothing to prevent them from catching or spreading COVID while engaging in normal collegiate life.
While there could be an argument made that enforcing a high rate of vaccination might contribute in some way to preventing a severe case or two amongst a generally young, healthy student population, amongst predominantly the male students, there’s also a small but present risk of myocarditis complications.
And again, well after it was abundantly clear that the vaccines were unable to prevent transmission, UCLA leadership decided to move forward with a booster mandate regardless.
Of course, corporations are continuing to enforce the same policies — many entertainment industry employers, for example, are requiring proof of vaccination and booster for new hires.
National testing data collected from Walgreens continues to debunk the necessity of that policy as well:
Outside of those who were fully vaccinated within the past five months, the “not vaccinated” group is testing positive at the lowest percentages.
Boosted adults who received their third shot more than five months ago have the highest rate by a significant margin.
It’s not just the United States either. Australia, formerly regarded as a COVID success that “practically eliminated” the virus with science, has seen deaths rise dramatically well after achieving exceptionally high vaccination and booster uptake:
Looking closer at the state of Western Australia though, further shows how utterly indefensible these mandates are.
The state has reached flown past 95% vaccination uptake, 98% of those over 16 are fully vaccinated and 97% of those over 12 have had at least two doses as well:
But more impressive is the rate of booster uptake; 80% of adults have had a booster shot in Western Australia.
How’s that working for them?
They’re leading the country in population adjusted case rate.
This is not a new phenomenon either, by early-May, cases had risen to one of the highest levels seen anywhere:
World leading booster rates sure don’t seem to stop world leading case rates, now do they?
It’s not just cases either. Hospitalizations have risen from 0 on February 19th to 326 on May 22nd, remaining at 290 today.
It’s a similar story in Chile, where 92% of the entire population has been fully vaccinated:
Why are vaccine and booster mandates continuing?
Every available data point shows that vaccines and boosters do nothing to prevent infections or slow the spread of the virus to others.
98% rates aren’t high enough to prevent widespread transmission on college campuses, nationwide data from Walgreens suggests that boosted and fully vaccinated individuals are generally testing positive at significantly higher rates than the unvaccinated. The world’s highest booster rate in Western Australia hasn’t prevented a dramatic surge of infections and resulting hospitalizations.
Everywhere you look, the data are abundantly clear that these mandates achieve nothing to protect others. There is no justifiable reason for maintaining these policies which will continue to foster division, discrimination and erode trust in public health.
At a certain point it begins to feel as if spite and the obsession with controlling the behavior of others are the only possible explanations. The people who lead these organizations know the data; it’s impossible to believe that the chancellor of UCLA is still oblivious to the fact that vaccines and boosters aren’t stopping the spread on his campus.
They all know it. It’s unequivocal.
So how they can they justify continuing to force parents and young adults to comply with these mandates simply to attend school?
It’s a thoroughly discouraging question with an equally discouraging answer. They overlords simply don’t care. Compelling behavior might be its own reward. Declaring their allegiance to the group of enlightened progressives that determine national discourse in the news media and entertainment might be another explanation.
There is no explanation that justifies these mandates. But those in power no longer need explanations or justifications, just the support of a willing media and political class captured by a delusional ideology.
Wait until the vast increase in Miscarriages shows up.
It’s all about teaching COMPLIANCE….
...not “following the science”:
Masks are:
1) a sign of submission, subversion and subjugation
2) mandated in order to dehumanize
3) virtue signaling devices
4) meant to provide constant reinforcement of fear
5) used to destroy community, friends and family normal communication
6) implemented to create isolation, confusion, anxiety, destroy human connectivity, trust and interactions
7) mandated to exacerbate illness
8) intended to aid in the abandonment of the belief and reliance on our immune systems
9) intended to refute integrous science
10) signal to positions of power that you are willing to give up all of your rights and freedoms based on anything they say, even if it is a BIG FAT LIE!
And who knows how many people died or were injured taking this so called vaccine?
No, no, don’t start bringing that kind of negative talk into the discussion. These are very smart people, and they know ever so much more than common peasants. After all, they went to college, and some of them even have medical training, and doesn’t that count for a lot? (OK, that is a little sarcastic.)
So what if dozens or even hundreds are suffering the effects of “long COVID”, greatly exacerbated by having the mRNA vaccine, which does mischief of its own above and beyond the mere contracting of the disease.
COVID-19 Wuhan virus has the effects of a very nasty cold, one that enters the sensitive lining of the lungs, and causes a terrible inflammation, which a normally healthy human being stands a good chance of recovering from, but persons with an impaired immunity system are at grave risk.
There are safe and effective CURES for COVID-19 virus, but they must be instituted at the first stages of the infection to really stem the serious effects of the progress of the disease. Delaying treatment until the onset of the serious symptoms virtually GUARANTEES the mortality rate will be much higher, and if you are trying to “thin the herd”, somewhat more effective in amplifying that objective. And maybe nobody will notice, putting two and two together to get a most startling answer.
If no one reports on it it did not happen. The entities that compile and report this type of medical information are practically wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Branch Covidians.
Their ability to hide and or distort this type of information is almost limitless. The last two years illustrates that perfectly.
I suspect they see “backing down” as tantamount to admitting liability.
Plus, let’s face it, to higher ed each cohort of students is little more than herd animals in a stock yard...if something happens, there’s plenty more coming behind ‘em.
Strawman argument. It was never claimed that the vaccines provide 100% protection against COVID.
you are making a Strawstraw. But this is what we expect of the Dugweighed Dood.
BTW - it is not a vaccine according to the true meaning of the word. It is an inoculation.
Actually, Resident Bidet did claim the “vaxx” would 100% stop the chyna virus dead in it tracks.
Of course it was never said to give 100% protection, but it was said to give 95% protection soon after they started giving the shots to those in the health field. Even by April of 2021 they were using that number. Then slowly they told us 75% protective. Then after that, they said, well, you might get CoVid and even be able to pass it on to others, but you won’t get very sick. It took them months before they started to tell the truth, that the effectiveness waned after a few months.
You know what? I got a smallpox vaccine when I was 7 or 8. That was well over 50 years ago. I never got smallpox, and I never knew one person who got smallpox, ever in my whole life. That’s what a real vaccine does.
This shot has been a sham from the get go. I applaud Trump (an admitted germaphobe) for trying his best to get rid of regulations that stifle innovation, but this wasn’t the panacea that we were led to believe it would be.
Hey everyone! The Branch Covidians are back! Now we will be told what to believe.
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Well, if you believe any data out of Pfizer, such miscarriage data is already available. They tested the vax on 270 preggies. They quit counting and talking to the test subjects when the miscarry rate hit 82% — about when 30+ lost their children.
But, why care? This is far below the murder rate of abortions, which are legal now up to and just past the point of birth. Not viability, birth.
All that matters is keeping taxpayer $$$ going to the Pharm so they can skim off a few hundred million and send it back to the commie scum who have been profiting on this.
This will become irrelevant when the commie trash cement forever their control in corrupted Nov mid-terms.
False analogy. The original claim of ~90+ effectiveness was against the alpha variant. The virus has mutated and the predominant variant is omicron where the vaccine is far less effective. Very similar to the flu vaccine where this years vaccine would be less effective against the flu strains of days gone by.
You do realize that the small pox vaccine also loses effectiveness with the passage of time?
The principal reason no one gets small pox now is because almost everyone got the vaccine. You do realize the same attacks being made against the COVID vaccines were made against the small pox vaccines? Today it is claimed that the covid vaccines will change your dna. Yesterday, it was claimed that the small pox vaccine would turn you into a cow. Then it was claimed that the vaccine contained all sorts of noxious ingredients like bat feces. Now the anti-vaxxers claim it contains luciferase.
Biden is a fool for making that claim.
you’re playing word games, it is still a vaccine.
I’ve heard from someone who works with m-RNA “vaccines” that they are easy to tweak. If that’s true, why isn’t there one for the Omicron already? Why do they keep pushing the one made for the alpha variant? It doesn’t work against Omicron, so why the push for boosters? It’s ridiculous.
Moderna is asking for approval of an omicron vaccine. While mRNA might be easy to tweak, trials are still required which takes months to complete. Google moderna vaccine omicron for details.
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