In a previous post on this thread, I characterized the Covid shots not as a vaccine in the true sense of the word, but as a palliative pre-treatment that reduced the severity of the symptoms if one did get sick.
Originally Posted by ICU 812
A vaccine is not like a flu shot. A vaccine prevents one from becoming infected with the disease and protects others from becoming infected through a vaccinated Indvidual. The Covid shots do neither.
The Covid shots reduce the intensity of symptoms, if an infected individual develops symptoms. However that individual, whether exhibiting symptoms or asymptomatic, can still spread the virus to others.
Given that level of efficacy and with a booster every six months, the Covid shots are like a flu shot . . .not a vaccine.
That the liberal, progressive, leftists in Government and in the public square continue to insist that the Covid shots are a "vaccine" is intentionally stating a misleading untruth. This is the blatant and open spreading of misinformation.
Originally Posted by ICU 812
Changing the official definition of "Vaccine" to match the actual,lower performance of the shots ws Orwellien mendacity.
Originally Posted by ICU 812
OK, Well, you could get the ball rolling in Houston. Start visiting physicians and pharmacists and tell them there's no such thing as a COVID vaccine or a flu vaccine. Instead they should be called "the COVID palliative pre-treatment" and "flu palliative pre-treatment." And since you appear to define a vaccine as something that's 100% effective in preventing disease and lasts a lifetime, you should add cholera, typhoid, shingles, diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, hepatitis A, and more to the list.
"Perfect is the enemy of good", sure that is an esy aphorism. It embraces mediocrity. That the Covid shots support positive health outcomes is a good thing and to be applauded.
Originally Posted by ICU 812
OK, good. Then you agree, for example, that a cancer treatment that's 85% effective in preventing hospitalization or death is a good thing, like the COVID palliative pre-treatment, and both should be applauded?
My dissatisfaction comes from the claims by health professionals in government that these shots were THE cure while actively suppressing any efforts by health care professionals in the private sector to develop post infection therapies for those already sick.
The ballyhoo over getting everyone to get the shots so families could all get together for July 5th celebrations as President Bidden proclaimed, was a falsehood.
Getting everyone to get the shots so we could develop "herd immunity" was a falsehood proclaimed by the leadership at CVEC.
Originally Posted by ICU 812
First, the health professionals in government and elsewhere are a lot more honest than the politicians. They didn't know how this would work out when they said what they did. You have a vaccine that's initially 95% effective in preventing infection. You're not aware yet of how the virus will mutate, in ways that may reduce the efficacy of the vaccine. Given what they knew, it was reasonable to believe if you got the COVID palliative pre-treatments in the arms of most people, and combine that with N95 and KN95 masks and social distancing and the like, you could get rid of the disease. What you need to do is reduce the reproduction number for the disease to below 1, that is, so that people who get COVID on average pass it onto less than one person each. If you do that the disease goes away, although admittedly it may resurface from pockets of infected individuals, or from transmission from racoon dogs or whatever to humans.
As to the subject of the OP, I'd criticize China more for not getting this done in Hunan province before we had a worldwide pandemic, versus criticizing them for a possible or probable lab leak. It can be done, as it was places like New Zealand and Australia for a long while.