Posted on 11/03/2022 5:29:54 PM PDT by nickcarraway
For almost two years, COVID-19 vaccine holdouts have been the objects of earnest pleading and financial inducements, of social-media shaming and truth campaigns. They’ve missed weddings, birthday celebrations and recitals, and even forfeited high-stakes athletic competitions. Until last month, they were barred from entering the United States and more than 100 other countries.
Now the unvaccinated are suddenly back in the mix. They’re dining in restaurants, rocking out at music festivals and filling the stands at sporting venues. They mingle freely in places where they used to be shunned for fear they’d seed superspreader events.
It’s as if they’re no longer hazardous to the rest of us. Or are they?
“Clearly, the unvaccinated are a threat to themselves,” said Dr. Jeffrey Shaman, an infectious disease specialist at Columbia University. As recently as August, their risk of dying of COVID-19 was six times higher than for people who were fully vaccinated and eight times higher than for people who were vaccinated and boosted, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
But, Shaman acknowledged, “the danger to the rest of us is a more debatable issue.”
The Path From Pandemic
This is the third in an occasional series of stories about the transition out of the COVID-19 pandemic and how life in the U.S. will be changed in its wake.
When public officials imposed vaccine mandates, the unvaccinated certainly appeared to pose demonstrable dangers to their communities.
State and local leaders sought not only to suppress spread of the virus, but also to prevent their healthcare systems from being overwhelmed, degrading care for all. The unvaccinated made those goals harder to achieve since they were more likely to become infected and, when they did, to require hospitalization.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
No. The vaccinated shedders may pose a risk to purebloods though.
It is we that are the ones needing air-scrubbing filters--masks or such(?)--to protect us from these unknowingly "vaccine-infected" CVID-19 and myocarditis illness-spreader fellow humans.
We, those desiring to develop immunity naturally whose diets include prophyllacyically supplemented virus-preventing food supplements are now very unwillingly exposed to the saturating corruption of the population around us.
Our doctors harangued us at every visit to get the flu shot but we refused. We’re 69 and neither one of us can recall ever getting the flu. We’re not vaxxed either. I’ve had CoVID twice — in March 2020 and again in January 2022 — and hubby had it in January 2022 as well. We took all the recommended supplements and also took ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine that I got from India and never required hospitalization. Hubby recovered in 5 days while it took me 4 weeks to get over it both times. Definitely don’t want it again but I also refuse to get an experimental vaccine that is still undergoing clinical trials and hasn’t been authorized by the FDA.
Trying to still be relevant months after what she has to say has been debunked ...
most of the folks i know were infected at one point or another, regardless of their vax status ... the vax didn’t seem to make much difference, other than sending a few of my neighbors to the hospital with cardiac inflammation ...
Yes.
But I’m not them.
I survived COVID and I’m and old man.
Stupid people trust the government.
Get in the train.
[Melissa Healy]
Don’t worry, Melissa.
We have first-hand testimony of the wonderful effectiveness and safety of the so-called vaccines and boosters.
See for yourself!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctPViK3LK-o
Yikes.
You’re right, of course.
Many children have been vexxxationationated though. If anyone needs and deserves protection from this dread Rule 5 draft, it would be them.
The entire article is full of blatant lies! Absolute B.S.
“It’s like CoVID cured influenza. Now they’re pushing flu shots again after 3 years.”
Yup. The “experts” can’t keep their lies straight.
If anyone mentions flu shots I just laugh at them.
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