Fact is you don't have a clue what you are talking about. You are just flat out wrong and you have been shown that by others here and still won't believe it.
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Ugh you didn't read the article very well and there is date that shoots down his assertion that natural immunity is as good. It is , except for Delta. I'm going to see what that guys specialty is . Ok, and I think the new infrastructure bill DID mandate breathalyzers in new cars. It was in one very late version of the bill for sure. I don't know if it made the final one.
I looked your guy up. He is a gastro surgeon but he teaches public health policy. He predicted that the US would reach herd immunity, mainly from natural immunity, in April of this year. He is a legit guy but it appears he is one of the outliers on this, and has already been proven wrong on his natural immunity assertions, which he won't give up on.
The crazy stuff is the aftermath of having Covid is way worse than any side effects the vaccine has been claimed to have. Event those are rare.
Covid leaves people with brain damage, long term damage to thier lungs and heart disease. The vaccine can help limit this stuff.
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-...s/art-20490351
Heart. Imaging tests taken months after recovery from COVID-19 have shown lasting damage to the heart muscle, even in people who experienced only mild COVID-19 symptoms. This may increase the risk of heart failure or other heart complications in the future.
Lungs. The type of pneumonia often associated with COVID-19 can cause long-standing damage to the tiny air sacs (alveoli) in the lungs. The resulting scar tissue can lead to long-term breathing problems.
Brain. Even in young people, COVID-19 can cause strokes, seizures and Guillain-Barre syndrome — a condition that causes temporary paralysis. COVID-19 may also increase the risk of developing Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.
The only explaination I can come up with as to why people are not getting the vaccine at this point is that they have fed false information by the Chinese so they won't get vaccinate. The Chinese have become experts at the propaganda game.
How did I not read the article well. He explicitly states that natural immunity is probably better than the vaccine. I want you to understand I am neither agreeing or disagreeing with you. I don't want to argue but I would like to be able to have civil discussions on a topic without 4 or 5 of you jumping to the conclusion that we are all dumb a**es for simply wanting to be able to have a discussion on the topic.
Want to see something interesting, google "natural immunity vs covid vaccine which is better" and then do the same search on duck duck go. It is astounding the amount of shadow banning google does to reputable sources that disagree with their premise. You can find tons of medical literature from reputable schools and colleges, some very similar to those you named that have differing views.
Even better one though slightly off topic is the hunter biden new laptop scandal. Google it and very little comes up regarding his most recent transgressions. Search on duck duck go and you can see the actual video along with about 1000 sources reporting on it. Google is playing God to a degree when it comes to what information we get to see and what we don't.
My point with commenting on your post was more or less to point out the fact that we can't have civil discussion anymore and we aren't allowed to discuss all of the possibilities. We should be able to have those conversations, see the data and where it is coming from and then make an educated, measured decision based on all of the data that is out there, not just half of the data that agrees with CNN, Google, NBC, the NYT and Washington Post. They are not our overlords or gods and they shouldn't be able to control what data we get to see and what we don't. They shouldn't get to decide that we are too stupid to make our own decisions.
Because, at some point, you have to trust the experts.
Do you know what the most complex thing in I was taught in 4 years of Chemistry was? Orbital shells. The stuff they teach in the first week of High school chem. They tell you how atomic number and electron shells make atoms different. In Physical Chemistry, you learn the math of how and why. and it's complicated as ****.
It's that way with everything. If you are really really smart, you might "get" how some stuff works, but you don't really know. You only know the bare surface of it. I don't care if it's Chemistry, physics, math, or thermodynamics. (i'm not even going to touch the really complex biological sciences that build on all those).
So be my guest. read. try and learn. Try and understand. and when the vast majority of the experts say "get the ****ing vaccine", or "humans burning fossil fuels is going to **** the climate and make things shitty for human life", know they know a lot more than you do about it.
And **** what you read about hunter biden. use that same big brain of yours to look at the trump family.
Don't be an idiot. No one has said it isn't real and bad when someone dies.
Every loss of life is a loss. People die of all kinds of things every day. Just that no one cares unless it has Covid attached to it.
Anyone care about the people who died from the vaccine or heart attack or cancer or flu or whatever? Or lets say abortion that has killed 60 million babies since 73. Answer is no body cares about those deaths.
Well, one thing that would help is if we got more realistic about who is healthy and stressed that at least as far as COVID is concerned, if you are overweight, you are not healthy. I have seen quite a few stories about people dealing with covid now and they (or their surviving or still healthy family member) say they didn't think they had to worry about it since they were relatively young and healthy, but then you see pictures and they are obviously overweight and most likely obese.
I don't think we've done as good of a job as we should have stressing how dangerous this is to the obese and really pushing exercise and losing weight from the beginning of the pandemic. But what I have been shocked at is that we apparently needed to do a much better job of what is meant by obese. There are a lot of people that are at least on the cusp of obesity if not well past it that apparently think they are healthy and don't need a vaccine. And I am not talking about fitness nuts caught up in the oversimplification of the BMI formula. People that are clearly round with a good bit of excess fat, who also put themselves in the low risk category despite all the headlines about obesity being a pre-existing condition.
Man, we've been telling people to do that for decades to prevent heart disease, diabetes, stroke, kidney disease etc. It wasn't going to change for this and it also wasn't going to change the course of the pandemic. The thing is, we have a pretty good quick fix for this (to prevent death or severe illness) in the vaccine; and to hear he took his 3 family members to get the vaccine, but he chose not to, is absolutely tragic. RIP.
Come on Coach.
https://www.reuters.com/article/fact...-idUSL1N2P21CV
I said people who's deaths were attributed to taking the vaccine. Causality from the actual vaccine....
https://www.reuters.com/article/fact...-idUSL1N2P21DB
https://www.politifact.com/factcheck...-because-covi/
https://www.factcheck.org/2021/03/sc...d-19-vaccines/