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.
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Be good if you could select them for protection, like players on your team prior to an MLB Rule 5 draft.
The NSC and Birx, from State
It has gone down, but not as much as that.
Perhaps because of a deadly new virus?
Naw, too simple.
Must be a conspiracy by Bill Gates to kill people.
This reads like a justification after the fact. Scramble to make credible?
It’s getting more and more difficult to do, LA Times.
How many naturally immune people died of covid?
The “YouTube algorithm” once in a while sends me a “debate of GOF video” from a Viral science seminar from 9 years ago. Usually they have only about 2,000 total views from 9 years on Youtube, so I doubt ANYONE from the MSM has watched them.
Some of the panels are full on freaks that see No Problem making a virus that will “kill on Humans” in a BSL-3 lab (BSL-4 is very expensive, don’tcha know). These seminars were before Baric’s humanized mice, so these people had Zero worries they’d get sick from their Ferret “models”. The Wuhan Clan probably felt that way, too, but Baric’s mice they received in the summer of 2020 had a surprise for them.
Some Panelists “can’t believe these Freaks are saying this” and “we need to stop playing god in a Laboratory for nerd peer cred”.
For the outspoken critics of GOF, I google them...because “where has this guy been the last 3 years” and it’s usually “Died in 2018”, “died in 2016”, but once in a while one will be “advisor to Republican X”, so I have some hope 2023 wlll be different.
The “YouTube algorithm” once in a while sends me a “debate of GOF video” from a Viral science seminar from 9 years ago. Usually they have only about 2,000 total views from 9 years on Youtube, so I doubt ANYONE from the MSM has watched them.
Some of the panels are full on freaks that see No Problem making a virus that will “kill on Humans” in a BSL-3 lab (BSL-4 is very expensive, don’tcha know). These seminars were before Baric’s humanized mice, so these people had Zero worries they’d get sick from their Ferret “models”. The Wuhan Clan probably felt that way, too, but Baric’s mice they received in the summer of 2020 had a surprise for them.
Some Panelists “can’t believe these Freaks are saying this” and “we need to stop playing god in a Laboratory for nerd peer cred”.
For the outspoken critics of GOF, I google them...because “where has this guy been the last 3 years” and it’s usually “Died in 2018”, “died in 2016”, but once in a while one will be “advisor to Republican X”, so I have some hope 2023 wlll be different.
Never considered that I’d be a danger, but will start attending Democrat events just in case.
Fuzz you and I both know... the “cure” has killed more people than the virus... the death spike in the US went up not during the pandemic, but once the vaccine was released. The overall death rate in the US in 2020 was stable...why, because a person who died of dementia was categorized as a COVID death. When did the overall death rate change... after the vaccine was released. That is where you can clearly see the truth. Jan 2021...young healthy people started dying at an alarming rate, middle age heart attacks though the roof... My step mom was killed by the vaccine. We must stop the shot.
Do you have a link for that? I would consider sending it to my relatives who continue to get boosters.
No. We both don’t ‘know’ that.
Well...you aren’t paying attention then...or maybe you have SOS..selective observation syndrome...seems to be a thing these days.
Not at all. Just because you do not see something it does not follow it is BS.
That’s right. They shed their mind and body. Can’t get my soul though. They will try.
Now that it is clinically clear the unvaccinated were no danger to others and needlessly harassed and damaged by idiots they finally have to ask…
Point taken!
But I still stipulate that “Shaman” is the real witch.
I further stipulate that I never went into hiding of any kind, not even behind a mask, as I feared nothing but God.
Exodus 22:18
Thou shalt not suffer a witch...
I guess the gullible outnumber the skeptics.
See post #50.
I never stopped dining in restaurants that were open and made a weekly shopping and home depot run. Only wore a mask cuz it was required. sorry lady your nuts.
… holdouts have been the objects of earnest pleading and financial inducements
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F’ you! People were terminated from their jobs over Covid hysteria.
Then explain the lack of flu cases/deaths. It’s like CoVID cured influenza. Now they’re pushing flu shots again after 3 years.
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