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originally posted by: TheRedneck
Mmmm-hmmm.
Had a dentist appointment cancel late last month. Reason? My hygienist (who is terrified of getting the Chinese virus) had her second shot and was unable to work due to a severe reaction.
My wife talked to our pharmacist today. He was adamant that neither of us should get the vaccine. He claimed it could kill us if we had a bad reaction to it.
I've been hearing for a couple weeks now anecdotal stories about how badly someone reacted to that second shot.
The skinny on this, from a scientific (as opposed to religio-scientific, narrative-driven, media-supported, propagandized popular opinion) viewpoint is that there are two things... and only two things... about the Chinese virus that makes it a problem. The first is the fact that if it enters the blood stream through the lungs the proteins produced during viral replication can destroy the hemoglobin in red blood cells leading to sudden, severe, acute anemia which can be fatal. Being placed on a ventilator (which induces positive air pressure into damaged lungs and thereby assists with breaching the lung-blood barrier) is one of the surest ways to get all dead and stuff from it. I believe I heard a while back 85% of patients placed on a ventilator due to the Chinese virus died from it.
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Five Alaskans between the ages of 73 and 100 did die after they got at least one dose of vaccine.
originally posted by: burdman30ott6
Hol' Up! Haven't we spent the past year with government health officials telling us pre-existing conditions don't matter... any death with COVID is a death from COVID? But here now, as they attempt to shake their money maker experimental vaccine (that isn't even an actual vaccine), suddenly pre-existing conditions and age matter greatly?
Anyone who trusts these people has my deepest sympathies.
originally posted by: Blue_Jay33
I have come to the conclusion if you are over a certain age you shouldn't take it.
Ok...sure it goes into the bloodstream via the Lungs....then what does it do ?
the few bugs you get via covid-cold could not reproduce fast enough to do what is happening....your own immune system could not over-react enough to THOSE FEW BUGS to do what is being done...
It is your belief that others are smarter than you which prevents the correct questions from being asked...
originally posted by: ketsuko
My concern is the possibility of it triggering the immune system in such a way that it could tip off autoimmune disorders that don't show up for 6 months to a year afterward.
I have a family history of arthritis and there is Felty's disease floating around there too.
originally posted by: Blaine91555
a reply to: burdman30ott6
Actually that article from the Alaska Watchman is probably misleading for people who don't actually read it.
Titles are pretty much always sensationalized and misleading. In this case - At least five Alaskans died and 111 suffered adverse reactions after COVID vaccines. That title is misleading and intentionally so.
I don't disagree that they are trying to have it both ways, but I suspect the vaccines in reality are less dangerous than eating peanuts for the first time.
Anyhow, here's the preexisting conditions for the first two listed from the VAERS reports. LINK
Age: 80
Current Illness: Aspiration pneumonia (dx on 12/16/2020)
Preexisting Conditions: Congestive heart failure, chronic respiratory failure, dementia, chronic mylomonocytic leukemia, chronic COPD, coronary artery disease, dysphagia.
Age: 77
Current Illness: Scrotal edema, aspiration pneumonia
Preexisting Conditions: Ischemic cardiomyopathy, congestive heart failure, hypertensive heart disease, type 2 diabetes with diabetic neuropathy, spinal stenosis with neurogenic claudication, chronic kidney disease, atrial fibrillation, COPD, venous insufficiency.
I get your point though and agree with it. The numbers can't be trusted.
As far as the vaccines go, it's a personal choice and no way do I ever take advice from anti-vaxxers. I've worked with a couple and they both had phobias and both nearly died from stupid decisions based on those phobias. Both are alive today because they were saved by the drugs and doctors they were so afraid of.
Like it or not, Covid is a killer. The numbers may be untrustworthy, but that does not change the fact that you can die from it. Even if you believe the sensationalized reporting against it, the vaccine is safe for most people. Fewer people will die as a result of the vaccines than would otherwise.
originally posted by: Iamonlyhuman
originally posted by: burdman30ott6
Hol' Up! Haven't we spent the past year with government health officials telling us pre-existing conditions don't matter... any death with COVID is a death from COVID? But here now, as they attempt to shake their money maker experimental vaccine (that isn't even an actual vaccine), suddenly pre-existing conditions and age matter greatly?
Anyone who trusts these people has my deepest sympathies.
It's the same as you saying that all of a sudden pre-existing conditions and age shouldn't matter! Which is it? I opt for the idea that pre-existing conditions DO MATTER in BOTH SITUATIONS.
ADE was originally observed with Dengue virus infection and also in the coronavirus feline infectious peritonitis virus (FIPV).2 A relatively overlooked body of ∼40 years of research exists with cats and coronaviruses. Cats infected with FIPV experience dry and wet forms of disease that ultimately result in serious pathologies, including respiratory and neurological issues that are usually fatal.2
Moreover, in cats, it is well known that immunization with feline coronavirus spike protein leads to ADE and, in general, the worsening of infection upon exposure to infectious virus.3, 4, 5 Interestingly, in cats infected with FIPV, the expression of ORF7 has been found to be required for macrophage infectivity and ADE, suggesting that coronaviruses have evolved molecular mechanisms to modulate macrophages.6
Indeed, ADE has been observed to date in several coronaviruses, including CoV-17,8 and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS),9 and, notably, Orf7 is present in the genomes of both Cov-1 and Cov-2,10 ultimately suggesting that macrophages are involved in the basic biology of coronaviruses and ADE. Collectively, what is apparent is that the evolutionary adaptation of ADE by coronaviruses to infect macrophages as a means to not only replicate in these immune cells, but to also disseminate the virus infection distal from the lungs,1 represents a bona fide and largely underappreciated challenge to antibody-based therapeutics and, in particular, the development of a humoral-based vaccine.
Coronaviruses are susceptible to RNA interference,11,12 antisense RNA, and oligonucleotide therapeutics,13, 14, 15 suggesting that both cellular and molecular gene and cell therapies could prove quite useful in treating coronavirus infections. What is important to note is that therapies exist that can generally work in a relatively short period of time and can be tailored to specifically target the virus at a fraction of the cost of a vaccine. It is not surprising that there is much hope for a vaccine to end this pandemic in a single shot so that we can all return to the “old normal,” but there are, however, regrettably objective realities in biology, and ADE is one of them.15 This is not to say ADE cannot be overcome, but rather that it should heavily factor into the equation in the development of a viable vaccine for Cov-2 and coronaviruses in general. The exceedingly difficult past ∼35 years of challenges in trying to develop a vaccine for HIV have made clear to me that we should strive for the penultimate goal of a vaccine but always have a therapy in our back pocket.
originally posted by: burdman30ott6
5 Alaskans Died From Vaccine?
This is a wonderful view behind the curtain of just what a duplicitous bunch of idiots are running our nation's health departments and how manipulative these assholes are.
Note this:
The piece, which Facebook marked as missing context and potentially misleading, was based on data shared with the public via the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System, where providers and patients can report reactions. The VAERS site specifically warns against using the data to determine if a vaccine caused or contributed to a reaction: “The reports may contain information that is incomplete, inaccurate, coincidental, or unverifiable.”
Five Alaskans between the ages of 73 and 100 did die after they got at least one dose of vaccine.
All five had numerous pre-existing health conditions. Three deaths were specifically not linked to vaccinations, according to provider notes. Data for two other cases did not specify. None of the five cases included any information linking the death to the vaccine.
None of those deaths were caused by vaccine itself, according to Pollyanna Stewart, who coordinates the VAERS program for the state of Alaska.
Hol' Up! Haven't we spent the past year with government health officials telling us pre-existing conditions don't matter... any death with COVID is a death from COVID? But here now, as they attempt to shake their money maker experimental vaccine (that isn't even an actual vaccine), suddenly pre-existing conditions and age matter greatly?
Anyone who trusts these people has my deepest sympathies.