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In another dispiriting setback for the nation’s efforts to stamp out the coronavirus, scientists who studied a big COVID-19 outbreak in Massachusetts concluded that vaccinated people who got so-called breakthrough infections carried about the same amount of the coronavirus as those who did not get the shots.
So far, I know of two breakthrough infections. Both were mild illnesses in their own right, both were with family and neither managed to infect any others in their family. I don't know how one managed to get infected and the we know the other likely got it by hanging out with an ill person at a convention.
I beg you to ask yourself which side seems to be doing the politicizing,
originally posted by: visitedbythem
a reply to: ketsuko
Riddle me this:
Do people who abstain from taking antibiotics, cause mutations in infections, so that antibiotics are no longer effective?
originally posted by: visitedbythem
a reply to: ketsuko
Riddle me this:
Do people who abstain from taking antibiotics, cause mutations in infections, so that antibiotics are no longer effective?
In another dispiriting setback for the nation’s efforts to stamp out the coronavirus, scientists who studied a big COVID-19 outbreak in Massachusetts concluded that vaccinated people who got so-called breakthrough infections carried about the same amount of the coronavirus as those who did not get the shots.
originally posted by: ketsuko
originally posted by: visitedbythem
a reply to: ketsuko
Riddle me this:
Do people who abstain from taking antibiotics, cause mutations in infections, so that antibiotics are no longer effective?
No way to say that the people taking the vaccine are causing mutations either though. A virus mutates by its nature and this one was mutating before the vaccines were ever here.
The reason the annual flu shot is sometimes not effective at all is because there are times the strain the scientists pick mutates so much the vaccine barely works at all on it by the time it comes around, and, of course, other times, the scientists just plain pick wrong and the strains in your shot aren't the ones that circulate that year.
Again, I'm perplexed as to why they think we all 100% need this shot when it should be clear from the data that we don't. Sure there are some for whom this thing provides some benefit, but it's not 100% of the overall population and they aren't going to eradicate this thing. They were never going to be able to.
originally posted by: ketsuko
Thing is that you can carry the same amounts of virus, but if you aren't symptomatic, then you aren't going to be as good at spreading it since it relies a lot on droplet spray via coughing and sneezing.
originally posted by: DontTreadOnMe
originally posted by: ketsuko
Thing is that you can carry the same amounts of virus, but if you aren't symptomatic, then you aren't going to be as good at spreading it since it relies a lot on droplet spray via coughing and sneezing.
But, asymptomatic people cough and sneeze all the time.
We all cough and sneeze from time to time.
And, IIRC, both vaxxed and unvaxxed people can by asymptomatic.