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2021-03-14 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Fauci at Last Has to Answer About Vaccines & Double Talks

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Posted by Clem 2021-03-14 11:44|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 I have a neighbor who is utterly terrified of COVID but has now "resumed his normal life" after getting the vaccine. I wish him no ill, but I can just imagine his "voted for Biden" dudgeon if things don't go his way now.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-03-14 14:02|| 2021-03-14 14:02|| Front Page Top

#2 The video was refreshing in terms of the questions posed and watching Fauxi lie and squirm.

I never heard of Sr. Derbez before. Actor or comedian or something? No matter. We'll see how long that video remains up on the Web.

Posted by Clem 2021-03-14 14:18|| 2021-03-14 14:18|| Front Page Top

#3 The more they push me to take it, the less I am inclined to.

Posted by Angstrom 2021-03-14 14:34|| 2021-03-14 14:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Vaccines do not promise to prevent all infection, Clem. They promise to provide resistance that makes the illness less dangerous to the patient. Even childhood vaccinations have been discovered not to give lifelong immunity, and so boosters for a number of things are now recommended to be given to adults. Tetanus shots, for instance, have long been given every ten years during adulthood, even after the usual five doses in childhood and a sixth during adolescence.

The flu vaccine also does not completely prevent getting that years’ influenza, but increases the body’s resistance to the infection such that if it can’t fight it off, the disease that results is less severe, exactly as if the person had had the illness previously. We see the Covid-19 vaccine having a real life effect because hospitalizations and deaths among the first vaccinated have fallen significantly.

There was an article posted here last month that reported that among young Marines at boot camp, 6% of whom had had Covid previously, 10% or 0.6% of all the boot campers (or whatever the correct term is) got sick again. But those who tested as infected a second time had low or no symptoms, and turned out to have had a lower level of antibodies from the first infection than the 90% who’d successfully resisted reinfection.

This compares to those Marines who had not had Covid previously, 48% of whom fell ill.

Snowy Thing, the linked article is the one I was unable to find when we were talking about you being allowed to visit your mother in the hospital. Not that it would have changed any minds.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-03-14 14:54|| 2021-03-14 14:54|| Front Page Top

#5 Wheel.....of.....Fauci!

Snark O'The Day

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2021-03-14 15:23|| 2021-03-14 15:23|| Front Page Top

#6 ^ Snark of the day candidate

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-03-14 18:10|| 2021-03-14 18:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Brilliant.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-03-14 20:12|| 2021-03-14 20:12|| Front Page Top

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