Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
Talk of The Villages Florida - Rentals, Entertainment & More
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Why do people insist on making claims without looking them up first, do they really think no one will check? Proof by emphatic assertion rarely works. Confirmation bias is real; I can find any number of articles that say so. Victor, NY - Randallstown, MD - Yakima, WA - Stevensville, MD - Village of Hillsborough |
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Fair enough. I shouldn't be mind reading. Nonetheless, if it is 60% effective at best, wouldn't you agree that's not particularly effective? The MMR vax is supposedly 97% effective after the second dose. That's what I would want from a vaccine. Not <60%, and certainly not whatever the Covid jab gets you.
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The flu vaccine is of some value. It is one of the less effective vaccines available but there are lots of things in medicine of some but not great efficacy. It is a very safe vaccine with many decades of use so the risk to benefit ratio in the general population is good. There are medical conditions where the benefit is greater such as existing lung disease, COPD, asthma etc. Years ago any egg allergy was a reason not to get the shot, but that is no longer a concern. Now only anaphylaxis is a concern. Just hives? not a problem Some years there is a lot of circulating influenza, others see much less disease. Obviously in a low risk season, the benefit of the shot is diminished. One other factor in deciding whether to not get vaccinated is unlike many viral illness, there are medications that can be taken to reduce disease severity if begun early in the course of influenza. Now, these medication do have side effects, more than the shot. To summarize, the chance of you getting sick enough from flu to require a doctor visit is reduced 50% by getting the shot in a year with a good match of circulating virus to vaccine component
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Why do people insist on making claims without looking them up first, do they really think no one will check? Proof by emphatic assertion rarely works. Confirmation bias is real; I can find any number of articles that say so. Victor, NY - Randallstown, MD - Yakima, WA - Stevensville, MD - Village of Hillsborough Last edited by Bill14564; 08-15-2023 at 06:12 PM. |
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RSV was only known to affect infants - at first. Now, 30+ years later, it's also known to affect the elderly. To those who actually don't know, rather than those who insist they do know: RSV isn't a sickness. It is a virus that CAUSES sickness. You can have RSV and not ever get sick. Or, you can have RSV and die. There's an inbetween as well: you can have RSV and just assume it's a cold, nothing more or less. That is the MOST common experience with RSV no matter what age you are. But some people die. There are more people who die with RSV when they're infants, immuno-compromised people of all ages, and older adults, than any other demographic. Whether big pharma, the CDC, the American Lung Association, or your local supplement store is telling you this or not, it's just how it is. You don't have to like facts, but them's the facts. |
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I never said it didn't, but it certainly doesn't prevent you from getting Covid.
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I prefer Heroin, like my Dr "Keef" Richards prescribes... Seems to have worked for him...
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And then it was bastardized into "mandates"...
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It wasn't until much later that they changed the narrative...
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Reading the above, this thread seems to be about the flu shot. Yet most of the replies are about the Covid shot. Why do so many people on TOTV find it so hard to stick to the topic? If you want to argue the toss on Covid once again, start your own thread on it. |
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Initially, there was minimal testing done before they made their claims... For example, they initially claimed that the vax stopped transmission by decreasing the viral load in the nasopharynx. Later, they came out and said it did no such thing...
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What ever happened to civility?
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Why do people insist on making claims without looking them up first, do they really think no one will check? Proof by emphatic assertion rarely works. Confirmation bias is real; I can find any number of articles that say so. Victor, NY - Randallstown, MD - Yakima, WA - Stevensville, MD - Village of Hillsborough |
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My doctor tells me to get the flu shot so I get the flu shot but he has me wait until November as he says it does no good to get it early. My doctor also told me to get the Covid shots and the first booster so I got them, no questions asked.
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My doctors have got me to my 84th year in reasonable running order. Why would I, or anyone with a few brain cells still intact, suddenly pass their health care over to a conspiracy faction, or social website? |
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