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Anti-Vaccination Activists Are Growing Force at Virus Protests
NY Times ^ | 5/2/2020 | Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs

Posted on 05/03/2020 7:01:18 PM PDT by wastedyears

The protest on Friday in Sacramento urging California’s governor to reopen the state resembled the rallies that have appeared elsewhere in the country, with crowds flocking to the State Capitol, pressing leaders to undo restrictions on businesses and daily life.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antivaxxers; covid; newyorkslimes; vaccine
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To: wastedyears

I’m not anti-vax. I’m against forced vaccinations.


21 posted on 05/03/2020 8:10:13 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Tyrants don't just give you your freedoms back. You have to take them.)
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To: Jamestown1630

My money is on NO effective vaccine for covid-19. Even the common flu mutates so much, the vaccine early in the flu season is just a gamble. So you are right on mark about mutation.

Why after all these years there is no vaccine for common cold which indeed belongs to the corona family of viruses.

If I were to get sick with covid-19, I would ask my doctor to administer HCQ+Zinc+AB ASAP before I end up needing a ventilator to breathe.

I am a big believer in keeping natural resistance high with good nutrition, exercise and plenty of sleep.


22 posted on 05/03/2020 8:16:26 PM PDT by entropy12 (covid-19 separates the fearful from the freedom loving! If I am not afraid, no one should be.)
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To: Jamestown1630; entropy12

“How do you create a vaccine for something that’s mutating, and for which several strains may be going around?”

For the SARS-CoV-2 virus they target the ACE2 spike which is what the virus uses to enter human cells.

And if that spike is the same for all mutations, which appears to be the case, a vaccine will work.


23 posted on 05/03/2020 8:21:36 PM PDT by Pelham (Mary McCord, Sally Yates and Michael Atkinson all belong in prison.)
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To: entropy12

Actually, most ‘common colds’ appear to be rhinoviruses. But there are numerous strains of those out there, too.

Interesting article on ‘Why Haven’t We Cured the Common Cold Yet?’:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-havent-we-cured-the-common-cold-yet/


24 posted on 05/03/2020 8:26:38 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Pelham

Well, you are more knowledgeable than I am. So, if you can, please answer this:

With so much - and growing - anecdotal evidence regarding a treatment using drugs we’ve used for decades, whose effects are well known, and which protocol many doctors are prescribing -

Why do so many scientists refuse to even entertain the idea of the so-called ‘Trump Drug’?


25 posted on 05/03/2020 8:36:28 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: wastedyears

The talking point is “anti-vax”.


26 posted on 05/03/2020 9:07:16 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Jamestown1630

Money.


27 posted on 05/03/2020 9:12:16 PM PDT by tinamina
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To: wastedyears

Personally I have no problem with vaccinations. However, I do have a problem with forced vaccinations or public services withheld due to a lack of a vaccination. If someone wants to protest vaccinations, then fine. I just don’t understand why they don’t have anything better to do.


28 posted on 05/03/2020 9:23:08 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (It's official! I'm nominated for the 2020 Mr. Hyperbole and Sarcasm Award.)
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To: wastedyears

Count me in. The vaccine nuts are evil totalitarian fascists


29 posted on 05/03/2020 9:28:54 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv mint you get is the Trump winning express !)
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To: Jamestown1630

“Why do so many scientists refuse to even entertain the idea of the so-called ‘Trump Drug’?”

Doctors are free to prescribe it off label for Covid all that they want. And plenty are doing just that.

Scientists, who have a different job, have to wait for results from double-blind tests before they can claim that a drug is effective. Otherwise they are just giving us what is usually called SWAG- a Scientific Wild Assed Guess.

You’ll have to wait for some double-blind testing to run its course to find out what science reveals.


30 posted on 05/03/2020 9:30:24 PM PDT by Pelham (Mary McCord, Sally Yates and Michael Atkinson all belong in prison.)
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To: Pelham

First sign I have of a fever and sore throat I am going straight to my doc for hydro and Zpack, if the stupid Libs insist upon suffering through the damn virus so be it, you can’t fix stupid!!!


31 posted on 05/03/2020 9:34:00 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Pelham

Half the damn time the flu vaccines are for the wrong strain by the time the flu season starts!! There is absolutely NO WAY I will take this China virus vaccine!!


32 posted on 05/03/2020 9:35:46 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: tinamina

I don’t think it’s that simple. Science certainly requires funding, as the development of new drugs also does. Some people may be susceptible to being ‘bribed’ or silenced in certain ways, but not all scientists and doctors are.

Are there ANY scientific studies being done with hydroxychloroquine/zinc? I’ve only read about one study regarding its use in Veterans’ facilities, which claims to have proven that it was of no real use, or dangerous.

But that seems like an extremely fast, early study, in a population that would be prone to lots of pre-existing conditions which would cause the disease to hit harder anyway; and the scarcity of testing ability that we experienced early in the game probably would have precluded knowing what the patients were actually suffering until somewhat late (?)


33 posted on 05/03/2020 9:41:27 PM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

“Half the damn time the flu vaccines are for the wrong strain by the time the flu season starts!!

There’s usually several going around. The CDC makes a best guess as to which ones will dominate. You at least have some immunity for whatever strain is in the shot if it eventually comes around.

“There is absolutely NO WAY I will take this China virus vaccine!!”

Suit yourself. Catching it is the other way people get immunity. The vaccine at least will be a crippled version of the virus. If you catch it you get it full strength.


34 posted on 05/03/2020 9:46:51 PM PDT by Pelham (Mary McCord, Sally Yates and Michael Atkinson all belong in prison.)
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To: wastedyears

The vaccine pharmacy “industries” are unwilling to have a legitimate debate with Dr. Tenpenny.


35 posted on 05/03/2020 9:54:30 PM PDT by Varsity Flight (QE 2020. All Quiet on the Western Front)
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To: Pelham

You won’t get it full strength if you take hydro and Zpack right in the beginning!!


36 posted on 05/03/2020 10:02:48 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

“You won’t get it full strength if you take hydro and Zpack right in the beginning!!”

If there is a “beginning” you already have the full virus. Which you don’t get from a vaccine.
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HCQ and Zithromax does work for some people. But the idea that you “won’t” get a serious case because you’re taking them is fantasy, plenty have died despite HCQ.


37 posted on 05/03/2020 10:28:36 PM PDT by Pelham (Mary McCord, Sally Yates and Michael Atkinson all belong in prison.)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

same. they are trying to lump anti-vaxxers with anti-forced vaxxers and stigmatize both together. Not the same.


38 posted on 05/04/2020 1:51:25 AM PDT by Ymani Cricket (America's glory is not dominion, but liberty - John Quincy Adams)
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To: entropy12

Excellent point. High likelihood that any vaccine they come up with will be either a face saving placebo or a disaster on the order of the ‘75 swine flu shot.


39 posted on 05/04/2020 3:30:38 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: MrEdd

It’s the oral Polio vaccine that has caused all of the vaccine induced paralysis. Because a few drops in the mouth is all that is required, it is a favored method for inoculation against type 1, 2 and 3 type Polio. The injective method, known as inactivated poliovirus vaccine (IPV), contains only dead strains of the three types of the virus. It is the more expensive method of administration. IPV does not cause vaccine-derived infection or outbreaks.

The oral version, is actually a “live” strain of he Polio virus that has been manipulated so it lacks the strength. In places with poor sanitation, the virus in the oral vaccine can spread from sewage to drinking water. Those who hadn’t received the oral vaccination would actually be protected by the drinking water. What happens is the drinking water would soon contain the Polio strain that had regained full strength. There have been this type of outbreaks in the Philippines, China, Myanmar, Pakistan and a half a dozen African countries.

Then there are pharmaceutical manufacturers with sloppy quality control who have sent out polio vaccines with live full strength viruses. Such a company, Ghaziabad-based pharmaceutical firm Bio-Med, had its managing director arrested because of the mistake.


40 posted on 05/04/2020 3:50:24 AM PDT by jonrick46 (Cultural Marxism is the cult of the Left waiting for the Mothership.)
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