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originally posted by: neutronflux
The only people laughing are those that will make money from booster shots.
originally posted by: AcrobaticDreams
It makes you sound ignorant and hurts your cause.
Vaccines do not CAUSE mutations. It is easily provable that Delta was not caused by the vaccine. It is more correct to say that the vaccine causes one mutation to become dominant.
The mutations are caused naturally. The virus makes billions of copies and makes mistakes (mutations). This is what causes the variants. The vaccine, with its incomplete or partial immunity+leaky-ness will cause specific variants to be stopped by the vaccine induced immunity but will allow other variants to bypass that immunity and multiply in vaccinated hosts and they will spread that variant. This causes specific variants to be more dominant overall.
This is why it is NOT good to vaccinate with a leaky vaccine in the middle of a pandemic with just part of the world being vaccinated. Instead of the vaccinated halting the spread, they will halt SOME of the mutations but will let others spread which will increasingly be less like the original strain and will become more dominant. This is most likely why you are seeing Delta be the dominant strain in highly vaccinated countries. If we relied on natural immunity, you would most likely have many different strains that are out there and none are dominant because there is less SPECIFIC selective pressure with natural immunity.
originally posted by: thegeneraldisarray
they are much more likely to cause more virulent mutations than the unjabbed.
While the vaccinated population is immune to the wildtype, it can be infected by the vaccine-resistant strain
Each day and for every individual infected with the wildtype strain, Iwt, there is a small probability p, that a vaccine-resistant strain emerges in that individual.
Indeed, it seems likely that when a large fraction of the population is vaccinated, especially the high-risk fraction of the population (aged individuals and those with specific underlying conditions) policy makers and individuals will be driven to return to pre-pandemic guidelines and behaviours conducive to a high rate of virus transmission
originally posted by: kangawoo
a reply to: BrujaRebooted
Look, I apologise if I came off wrong when I first asked if you were sure about a specific part of your comment. I do not doubt that you understand the science better than I do. I am also sure it is both my lack of knowledge and poor articulation (I'm not using sarcasm or gaslighting, I actually mean that)
I genuinely asked that initial question the way I did because I was having trouble interpreting exactly what you were meaning, I could have approached it better i'm sure, but there is a difference between asking clarification on something ("is this what you mean") and directly miss quoting a person.
I was careful to ask if that was what you were meaning. Yet, you still came back at me about miss quoting you, Which I certainly did not.
I did not "cherry pick" your quote either. I asked about the part that was confusing me in the context of what you said. And I was ok with your response, and you attack me again.
I do not pick fights, but if I feel I have been miss-understood I will try and clear it up, if i feel wrongly attacked, I will defend myself.
I'm in this to learn, nothing else. My understanding is/was the common cold is said to have around 200 strain/mutations/variants (I know they have independent definitions, but to my limited knowledge, they are the same excrement in a different bucket)
Again, im totally happy and expecting to be wrong here. I thought that, your natural immune would fight off a second infection of the same cold, I have three kids and it seems like the case to me. And I think you acknowledge that.
The way I read your quote says (to me) you are saying that the flu rapidly mutates, but the cold does not. That is why we have the flu vaccine. I don't have the knowledge to question that, I have no idea how many mutations or how rapid it is compared to the common cold (is that where I am off track? Am I getting my definitions wrong, as in strains of cold are not the same thing as mutations?)
I don't quite understand why that means we have a vaccine for the flu and not the cold. But I do still say that you can have immune protection/advantage from natural immune to the common cold, and I agree that it wont help preventing a different variant of the cold. if taking just "Natural immunity does nothing to stop a cold" is only valid in context with your full quote, then I apologise again.
I'm an uneducated farmer in my late 40's. I don't have any great expertise in any science or trade. I don't do social media and that makes me hesitant to get involved in these, i fear people my poor gramma doesn't portray my expression (like it did when you felt attacked, and I had been cherry picking your quote) and over many, many years here, I have made very few posts for that reason.
I wish I didn't say "last time" that's not me, and again I wear that, and I'm sorry I said it.
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: tanstaafl
"they are much more likely to cause more virulent mutations than the unjabbed."
Why?
Mutation is random. What is it about a vaccine which loads the dice? Why is a vaccine more likely to produce any particular sort of mutation?
originally posted by: Phage
a reply to: tanstaafl
they are much more likely to cause more virulent mutations than the unjabbed.
Why?
Mutation is random. What is it about a vaccine which loads the dice? Why is a vaccine more likely to produce any particular sort of mutation?