suicidalim a healthy, vaccinated 31 year old. the virus has a 99% survival rate if you're vaccinated. THAT is the posted science
what are you gonna do, walk around in a plastic bubble until 2030?how do you even get out of bed in the morning?
For someone under 50 and vaccinated it’s far less than 1% who perish. It’s literally one in a million. It’s unreal that people will throw away 3-5% of their expected life, prime years, over something so microscopic but it’s their choicesuicidal
what are you gonna do, walk around in a plastic bubble until 2030?
my life’s been normal aside from masks since vaccination, and those are off again tomorrow. The folks that want to stay home til a truck rides down their street and declares Covid over thru a loudspeaker are free to continue doing so
but it's been two years. who in the country hasnt been exposed to the virus at some point? doesnt even seem possible
i just hope everyone gets the shotfauci will have a new variant dropping in march.
i cant help but notice that you didnt answer. i gotta ask again, given everything you just spouted off in here;
are you and your family vaccinated?
I haven't even got a cold since covid started and im a person that suffers from allergies. Wearing a mask when i go out has helped me not even get seasonal joints. The most ive had is the sniffles and sore throat for a day or so in 2 years. My daughter inherited my allergies and she barely gets them too.
Plus i dont have to smell folks breath or look at their fukked up teeth
Im gonna rock masks for the foreseeable future
you mean people got vaccinated, and followed the science that the vaccine works?
you're aware that the vast majority of deaths and people in hospitals are people who wouldn't get vaccinated, right? because only like 65 percent of the country is vaccinated?
so what exactly do you want us to do about anti vaxxers? they made their choice
CDC: Natural Immunity Offered Stronger Protection Against COVID Than Vaccines During Delta Wave
Vaccinated individuals and those who had recovered from COVID-19 both showed significant defense against the Delta variant, the CDC announced.
Thursday, January 20, 2022
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- told the Wall Street Journal. “When looking at the summer and fall of 2021, when Delta became predominant in this country, however, surviving a previous infection now provided greater protection.”
Both vaccinated individuals and those who had recovered from the virus showed significant defense, scientists added. (The CDC released its findings to reporters, but its research was not yet available online as of Thursday morning.)
Previous research suggests receiving vaccination after a COVID infection can offer additional protection against the virus.
“Recent research,” the Mayo Clinic says, “suggests that people who got COVID-19 in 2020 and then received mRNA vaccines produce very high levels of antibodies that are likely effective against current and, possibly, future variants. Some scientists call this hybrid immunity.”
Vaccine Mandates in Peril?
The findings are significant and dovetail with recent scientific research out of Israel that showed previous infection from COVID-19 conferred longer-lasting and more robust protection than vaccines against the Delta variant.
Following the Israel study, prominent scientists argued that the fact that natural immunity offered more protection than vaccines made mandatory vaccination unscientific and unethical.
“Prior COVID disease (many working class) provides better immunity than vaccines (many professionals), so vaccine mandates are not only scientific nonsense, they are also discriminatory and unethical,” wrote Harvard Medical School professor Martin Kulldorff, an epidemiologist and biostatistician.
The CDC’s findings were released days after the Supreme Court ruled that President Joe Biden’s vaccinate-or-test requirement for businesses with more than 100 employees was unconstitutional.
The high court’s decision prompted some businesses, including Starbucks, to scrap their vaccine mandates for employees.
"We respect the Court's ruling and will comply," John Culver, COO and group president for North America at Starbucks, told employees on Tuesday.
Despite the protection offered by previous COVID infection, many public officials and countries have been reluctant to recognize natural immunity.
Novak Djokovic, the world’s top-ranked tennis player, recently had his visa seized by Australian authorities when he arrived (unvaccinated) to play in the Australian Open, even though he was initially granted a medical exemption because of a recent COVID infection. Meanwhile, Austria’s conservative government recently announced it will make vaccination compulsory for adults, who will face steep fines—up to 3600 euros—if they fail to comply, even if they have already had the virus.
In the United States, universities have been inclined to expel students not considered “fully vaccinated,” which in some cases reportedly includes students who’ve had multiple vaccine shots, have previously had COVID, and have received a medical exemption from a physician.
Recent evidence, however, suggests the reluctance to treat individuals who’ve had COVID as “fully vaccinated” may be waning. The NCAA, for example, recently announced in its winter guidelines that athletes who previously had COVID will be considered “fully vaccinated” if the infection took place within three months.
The CDC’s announcement that previous infection offered more protection than vaccination against the Delta variant is likely to fuel calls to end vaccine mandates, particularly for individuals who’ve already been infected.
