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originally posted by: Thefineblackharm
You didn't listen to a word I said, and instead reiterated your baseless "facts" that you cling to religiously.
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: Thefineblackharm
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: TheLieWeLive
originally posted by: AdultMaleHumanUK
a reply to: Allaroundya4k
The whole idea that unvaxxed people are disease spreaders is such a BS thing.
Infected people spread diseases, immunized or not.
If I get the flu because I'm not vaccinated
If you get the flu, then that is exactly when you are likely to spread the flu. People who are not infected can't really spread a disease they don't have.
If you don't get the flu because of immunization, or you have it for a shorter period because of immunization, or you have it very mild (i.e. a low viral load) because of immunization, it stands to reason that you will not spread it as much as someone who has the flu, has it worse, or has it longer.
, then I will NEVER get that particular strain again. And it might be circulating the next year, or the next. But guess what? I won't get getting it or spreading it. Your vax for that flu will wear off after between 10 to 14 months and then you're totally open to getting that flu again - and despite being vaxxed for flu, you will likely eventually get that flu.
Infectious diseases exist because our immune system isn't perfect in the first place, which also created the need for ways to fight those infectious diseases - so much for the 'natural is better' BS.
Immunizations work by exposing the organism to aspects of a pathogen, without that pathogen being viable. The organism's immune system has time to build defences against that pathogen, without getting sick from that pathogen. The immune system is primed and ready to fight. Not so someone who has never encountered that pathogen.
In both natural and immunized cases, the immune response is by the same immune system, and the fade off of response is the same no matter how the pathogen was encountered by that immune system.
In fact, all those early papers quantifying how fast the immune roll-off was, they weren't measures of of immunized roll-off, because the papers came out before and of the immunizations did. Those were how the natural immune response rolled-off over time.
What we know about the COVID-19 immune response - August 2020 (.pdf)
But here's something; the immunizations usually contain adjuvants, stuff to supercharge immune response. Natural infections just don't have them.
Perhaps that is why immunizations get higher effectiveness ratings than natural? The Pfizer was rated at 95% effectiveness, natural infection was rated at 87%, a whole 8% less!
Durability of Vaccine-Induced and Natural Immunity Against COVID-19: A Narrative Review
Same goes for measles that I had when I was six months old. I'm good for life. Measles vaccine wears off after about 8 years, and so most adults walking around who never had the measles but had the vax are susceptible to it. And then there's the fact that after the third measles vax, it's showing to wear off quicker and quicker, offering only a year's protection.
Yeah if you survive measles, your outlook is fairly good, however sometime measles does recur. It is also likely that you will infect 10 others in the 10 days that you have symptoms, too.
And, considering the nature of the disease and the cheapness and availability of the vaccine, a roll-off in immunologic protection in adulthood is easy to counter.
Breakthrough measles (reinfection)
Such a bunch of non-scientific, black and white ignorance.
You have been reading to many anti-vaxx sites.
What you say about adjuvents is sincerely hilarious. Adjuvents don't "supercharge" your immune system, they are added to attenuated virus vaccines because the vaccines wouldn't work without them.
Adjuvents are things that FORCE your immune system to react. Ever heard of the explosion of auto immune diseases? Adjuvents! Aluminum hydroxide is one of them usually in the flu shot and it's incredibly bad for you. Injected ALONE into you, that adjuvent will cause immune responses that are not good. It's very much over-exciting the immune system.
Natural infections don't need synthetic help to confer lifelong immunity. And as I said, I got the measles and I can't get them again, nor give them to anyone. Virology 101: you get a virus naturally and recover from it, you are immune for decades, and in fact, for most people, for life.
When H1N1 in 2009 made the rounds, researchers noticed that hardly anyone over 50 was getting H1N1. They concluded that H1N1 was actually a descendant from a different flu decades earlier, that these over 50s had recovered from, thus they were already immune. SCIENCE!
The Pfizer was rated at 95% effectiveness
originally posted by: charlest2
a reply to: chr0naut
I don't care to get involved in this debate but I think you have been drinking too much Pfizer Coolaid.
If I am not mistaken,
The Pfizer was rated at 95% effectiveness
has been totally debunked at this point. Emphatically, completely absolutely!
I think 95% ineffective would be more accurate.
originally posted by: grey580
a reply to: charlest2
This should be interesting. How many vaccinations don't they have? Might be a few Darwin Award Winners.
A New Dating Site For The Unvaxed
That’s a new one. I get it, though, people want to find someone with similar views on stuff like that. Imagine signing up for a site like that and ending up on some government watchlist—yikes.
Be sure never to mention natural immunity. That would kill your point and make you look super silly.
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: charlest2
a reply to: chr0naut
I don't care to get involved in this debate but I think you have been drinking too much Pfizer Coolaid.
If I am not mistaken,
The Pfizer was rated at 95% effectiveness
has been totally debunked at this point. Emphatically, completely absolutely!
I think 95% ineffective would be more accurate.
If it has been debunked, then please source the peer reviewed academic paper showing the lab-work that debunks it.
That original efficacy rating of the original Pfizer mRNA immunization still stands against the original Alpha strain of COVID-19, however later clinical studies showed some roll-off of effectiveness over time-frame of about 3 months.
The Cleveland Clinic study of the effectiveness of the Pfizer bivalent vaccine against showed: "Among 51017 working-aged Cleveland Clinic employees, the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine was 29% effective in preventing infection while the BA.4/5 lineages were dominant, and 20% effective while the BQ lineages were. Effectiveness was not demonstrated when the XBB lineages were dominant".
As a side note, not being immunized, and/or not having survived infection, is 0% effective against every strain, so the Pfizer bivalent immunization is more effective that nothing.
originally posted by: network dude
Be sure never to mention natural immunity. That would kill your point and make you look super silly.
originally posted by: chr0naut
originally posted by: charlest2
a reply to: chr0naut
I don't care to get involved in this debate but I think you have been drinking too much Pfizer Coolaid.
If I am not mistaken,
The Pfizer was rated at 95% effectiveness
has been totally debunked at this point. Emphatically, completely absolutely!
I think 95% ineffective would be more accurate.
If it has been debunked, then please source the peer reviewed academic paper showing the lab-work that debunks it.
That original efficacy rating of the original Pfizer mRNA immunization still stands against the original Alpha strain of COVID-19, however later clinical studies showed some roll-off of effectiveness over time-frame of about 3 months.
The Cleveland Clinic study of the effectiveness of the Pfizer bivalent vaccine against showed: "Among 51017 working-aged Cleveland Clinic employees, the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine was 29% effective in preventing infection while the BA.4/5 lineages were dominant, and 20% effective while the BQ lineages were. Effectiveness was not demonstrated when the XBB lineages were dominant".
As a side note, not being immunized, and/or not having survived infection, is 0% effective against every strain, so the Pfizer bivalent immunization is more effective that nothing.