I think the public health authorities burned through so much trust and credibility during the pandemic, that they're going to have a hard time getting people to listen to them going forward. If they'd been more moderate and measured in their communication, and treated Americans like adults rather than selling fear, they probably would have gotten more people on board with masks (where needed) and vaccines (for the demographics where they made a difference). Instead, they pushed mask mandates outdoors, and vaccines for teenagers. |
All the original vaccines pfizer, moderna, j&j showed no mortality benefit in their randomized controlled trials. |
COVID Karens are the worst. They love covid rituals, hang on every word of Dr. pFauci, worship the CDC, love masks, hyperfocus on someone's vaccine status (and make sure to note that anyone against the covid vaccine is wholly "antivax' through and through ![]() |
Yep. they blew their wad on COVID. Next time, no one will listen. Including myself. |
It is "antivax" to be opposed to the Covid vaccine. Hundreds of millions of doses and there's a few tiny side effects. The claim that it's experimental is laughable. |
This is not true. Do better. |
NP. The goal of vaccines is big to reduce transmission. We were lucky that the initial Covid vaccines did so. Vaccines are designed to prevent severe illness and death - Covid vaccines are still still effective in this regard. |
This is correlation not causation. People are always dying in any given period of time. There is no evidence that people are dying because of the vaccines. |
Denial doesn’t make it not happen. |
We don’t fully know as the current mutations are less severe and Covid has aready killed off many. It did not prevent a recent death in my family. |
I might vaccinate against covid for the first time when an old-fashioned type of vaccine is on the market—the kind that prevents you from getting covid and prevents you from spreading it.
You know how you took the polio vaccine as a kid, and then you never got polio in the intervening decades? Just like that one. |
Vaccines are designed to prevent people from contracting the disease. As per the CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/terms/glossary.html "Vaccine: A suspension ... administered to induce immunity and prevent infectious diseases and their sequelae." |
Except people still did get polio breakthrough infections but now because of herd immunity the virus can’t get a foothold (until people stop immunizing to a certain level) Because of knuckleheads like you we will never get there with COVID. |
Reading through this, it’s so obvious which PPs are Fox News watchers |
Uh, no. COVID mutates rather quickly making the vaccine far less effective, so it can't provide a sterilizing immunity. The vaccine doesn't target a particularly stable area of the COVID protein. |