Ducbutter - First, good post, great links, honestly. Thanks. I watched the entire video. Sorry for the lengthy post, but you brought up some interesting points.
One thing I came away with was that Trump was wise to fire Steve Bannon, if the kind of advice he was spouting was like what he said on the video. If you left it up to Bannon and Malone, we might spend 10 years studying vaccines before making them available to the public. Actually I think Malone might have let the elderly and those at high risk have them earlier, but perhaps not before a lot of them had already been infected and died. Trump deserves serious praise for pushing the vaccines through the FDA. I suspect Kasich, Cruz, Hillary Clinton and Sanders would not have been as aggressive.
At any rate, if you want to argue with the guy who invented the mRNA technology be my guest.
Originally Posted by Ducbutter
Don't mind if I do. First, it's debatable how important a part he played in mRNA technology. One of the pioneers of mRNA vaccines, Katalin Karido, says there are "hundreds of scientists who contributed more to mRNA vaccines than he did." While another, Stan Gromkowski, who views Malone as an underappreciated pioneer, says "He's fucking up his chances for a Nobel Prize" because of his sensational assertions:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/...keptic/619734/
I can't explain the origins of the variants but I know that Malone said that the vaccines are driving those variants. He did not claim they were the direct cause of origin but that they were driving variants. He also said that the virus replicates normally in the unvaccinated and has no need to mutate to infect them. That makes sense does it not?
Originally Posted by Ducbutter
I don't think it makes sense. First there's your link to the WHO web site, which shows the variants arose before the vaccines. This article is a comprehensive rebuttal to Malone and Navarro's claims, if you've got the patience to read it,
https://healthfeedback.org/evaluatio...accine-safety/
Basically, you're giving the virus more opportunity to mutate without the vaccines than with them. More people are infected, they stay infected longer.
The guy described in the following article is a pioneer in the concept of leaky vaccines. He says the leaky vaccine theory as applied to COVID vaccines is bullshit. Somewhere else he said you can change the formulation of the vaccine, I guess like they change the flu vaccine, in response to mutations.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/andream...h=7caf42ac7bd1
Some other points Malone made in the video were about risks related to clots, myocarditis, and immune diseases. Well, the problem with his argument is that risks for clots (which may only apply in the USA to the J&J vaccine when used in women of a certain age), myocarditis and pericarditis (which may only apply to younger males and the mRNA vaccines), and immune disease are much higher if you get the disease than if you get the vaccine. I don't see a point in linking to anything about immune disease, because that's how most COVID deaths occur -- the immune system overreacts and people get very sick and pass away.
Here's an article on clots,
https://fortune.com/2021/08/27/youre...study-reveals/
This article indicates myocarditis is 6X more common among males aged 12 to 17 in those infected than in those vaccinated:
https://www.newscientist.com/article...n-vaccination/
Malone's comments did make me think it wouldn't be wise to jump the gun, like I did for masks and a booster shot, and vaccinate my son before the CDC and FDA have looked more closely at vaccinations of children under 12. I think he's right, that children have little health risk, and immunity from the disease is probably stronger than immunity from the vaccines. If you grow up having been infected by COVID, perhaps repeatedly from an early age, then perhaps there could be a benefit to that.
And I just came across this paper covering 18 randomized trials that shows Ivermectin is an effective prophylactic and therapeutic.
https://journals.lww.com/americanthe...ing_the.4.aspx
Originally Posted by Ducbutter
I'd like to get my hands on some pharmaceutical grade Ivermectin for the next time I spend the evening with a coughing stripper who swears she doesn't have COVID. That actually happened. The next day she got tested and she did have it. This was B.V. (before the vaccine) and I was taking the Eastern Virginia Medical University protocol for COVID prophylaxis, which at the time didn't include Ivermectin, but now does. I didn't get COVID.
Research is also showing that natural immunity is far superior to the vaccines, including the variants. That should be the end of vaccine mandate discussions but that's doubtful.
Originally Posted by Ducbutter
First is that true for all the vaccines? The "far" part? A Mayo Clinic study of infections in July (predominantly Delta variant) showed Pfizer to be 42% effective in preventing infection but Moderna was 76% effective. And both were much more effective at preventing severe disease. Anyway I'd a lot rather have my immune system trained to respond as a result of being vaccinated than encounter the COVID virus cold.