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originally posted by: panoz77
originally posted by: ScepticScot
originally posted by: panoz77
originally posted by: fiverx313
originally posted by: panoz77
You are wrong, the claim is simply that the symptoms will be less severe. You are still drinking the cool aid. The experimental drugs DO NOT PREVENT COVID INFECTION.
well, that's contrary to all the science i've read about it so... agree to disagree, i guess.
www.hopkinsmedicine.org...
"More important is whether the vaccine prevents serious illness, hospitalization and death. At this time, all three vaccines are highly efficacious at preventing serious illness, hospitalization and death from COVID-19."
Remember, these shots are NOT vaccines. When they are talking in general about vaccines, they are not talking about these experimental drugs. These shots are not vaccines.
www.cdc.gov...
"COVID-19 vaccines are effective at protecting you from getting sick." Notice they say "getting sick", they do not say "protect you from becoming infected". By "getting sick" they are simply saying you are likely not to get symptoms if you get infected. They are fooling you, cool aid drinkers don't actually want to know the truth.
First line in your link.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has authorized use of vaccines for the coronavirus that causes COVID-19
John Hopkins thinks they are Vaccines.
Vaccinesare effective at protecting you from getting sick.
CDC thinks they are vaccines.
Approved under "emergency use", which means they approved "unapproved medical products" under EMERGENCY USE AUTHORIZATION. They are not FDA approved medicines. Do you like grape or cherry cool aid?
originally posted by: panoz77
"An effective vaccine", they are speaking in general terms, these are not vaccines. Even without the vaccine, many (some say most) people who are infected are asymptomatic, which means they do not have symptoms but are infected with COVID. This same thing applies even if you are vaccinated.
originally posted by: panoz77
originally posted by: fiverx313
a reply to: panoz77
you are rather selectively quoting from that hopkins link, for instance the sentence you left out immediately before your quote section:
"How will a vaccine prevent COVID-19?
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 has spikes of protein on each viral particle. These spikes help the viruses attach to cells and cause disease. Some of the coronavirus vaccines in development are designed to help the body “recognize” these spike proteins and fight the coronavirus that has them.
An effective vaccine will protect someone who receives it by lowering the chance of getting COVID-19 if the person encounters the coronavirus."
...not to mention the hopkins links calls them vaccines throughout...
as for the CDC... "COVID-19 vaccines are effective at keeping you from getting COVID-19."
CDC
i think you are playing semantic games, trying to read other meanings into words. what is the difference between getting sick and getting infected, if you do not show symptoms and do not pass that infection to anyone else, really?
"An effective vaccine", they are speaking in general terms, these are not vaccines. Even without the vaccine, many (some say most) people who are infected are asymptomatic, which means they do not have symptoms but are infected with COVID. This same thing applies even if you are vaccinated.
originally posted by: Grenade
a reply to: ScepticScot
Vaccine:
a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.
"there is no vaccine against the virus"
These treatments closely match the definition of a vaccine however they don't provide immunity against any disease.
originally posted by: DBCowboy
a reply to: Klassified
The corona virus is essentially a cold virus.
There is no vaccine against the cold virus.
This is just about power and control.
Obey, wear a mask, close your business, take your government pittance, obey.
originally posted by: ketsuko
a reply to: Klassified
It's been out there since the beginning that the J&J is only about 67% effective in preventing disease. What it is supposed to be able to do is prevent serious illness that causes hospitalization and death.
I actually wanted the J&J vaccine reasoning that my immune system was easily strong enough that the increased protection of the J&J would be enough insurance. I was not afraid of the "big, bad" COVID, and preferred the method they used to make the J&J as a more understood method.
Alas, we do not get to pick and choose which version of the vaccine we get these days, so I was given Pfizer.
originally posted by: panoz77
Definition of vaccine in 2012 via wayback machine
originally posted by: ScepticScot
originally posted by: Grenade
a reply to: ScepticScot
Vaccine:
a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.
"there is no vaccine against the virus"
These treatments closely match the definition of a vaccine however they don't provide immunity against any disease.
The MRNA vaccines do produce an immune response, they just use a different mechanism to do this.
originally posted by: fiverx313
originally posted by: panoz77
No, they don't. They make your body produce a spike protein, not antibodies.
...which your body sees as a foreign object and develops an immune response to, which primes it to respond to the actual virus...
originally posted by: panoz77
originally posted by: ScepticScot
originally posted by: Grenade
a reply to: ScepticScot
Vaccine:
a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease.
"there is no vaccine against the virus"
These treatments closely match the definition of a vaccine however they don't provide immunity against any disease.
The MRNA vaccines do produce an immune response, they just use a different mechanism to do this.
No, they don't. They make your body produce a spike protein, not antibodies.
originally posted by: Grenade
a reply to: ScepticScot
An immune response and immunity are not the same thing.
originally posted by: ketsuko
No doubt this is true. I experienced an immune response all weekend. The big question is if the immune response is targeted enough or overbroad and will do collateral damage that was unanticipated.