[QUOTE=ILuvEmall;5534947]LOL- you must be joking! Like that fraudulent article from the Guardian with the Oklahoma ER rooms overflowing with Ivermectin overdoses? Or your bullshit posts about the VAERS system and being able to claim turning into the Hulk? Your ignorant bullshit has been called out so many times that no one has time to waste sifting through all the BS you post. You have no credibility because you're always posting a bunch of unverified, unfactual, untruthful bullshit.
You haven't provided any credible evidence that the vaccines are preventing the spread, because you can't. The vaccine manufacturers don't even make this claim. Only this lying administration and their minions spread this propaganda. I and others have presented a ton of evidence to the contrary, and even the CDC has admitted that the vaccinated carry viral loads as high as the unvaccinated. Your argument holds no water. If you want to get the vaccine because you fear for your health that's fine with me, but don't try to force your agenda on others based on false premises and holier than thou hollow rhetoric. Again, there are strong arguments that can be made that the vaccines are actually contributing to the problem, but I'm not going to rehash that because you won't listen as it doesn't fit your narrative.[/QUOTE]Once again the official data from the CDC is very clear. 95%+ of deaths are from unvaccinated, despite them being just 47% of the population and only 18% of the elderly population that is most vulnerable. You dismissed this. You dismissed this repeatedly. When you offered as alternatives the cherrypicked examples of Israel and Gibraltar as "proof" that vaccinations didn't work, I dug through the numbers and found that they too showed the same pattern of vaccination causing a dramatic drop in hospitalizations and deaths.
When it comes to works that support your claim, there is no dataset too narrow, no source too untrustworthy. When it comes to works that oppose your claim, no amount of data matters, every source is deemed to have questionable motives, etc etc. It reminds me of the whole global warming denialism, where the vast scientific consensus got accused of "wanting more grant money" while unqualified pundits funded by the fossil fuel industry got labeled crusaders for truth. Other times you've taken data from good sources, but then applied non-expert analysis that fails to interpret it correctly.
I'm not terribly interested in sifting through your sources when you dismiss mine baselessly and incoherently. This is epitomized by you simultaneously dismissing CDC's breakthrough deaths vs overall deaths figure out of hand, while demanding that I take your interpretation of the CDC's VAERS data dead seriously.
Oh its also kind of hilarious that after a lecture on profit motives, once again this comes from your own provided source I might add:
SOME OF the loudest opposition to ivermectin has come from Merck Co. , which manufactured the drug in the 1980's. In a public statement about ivermectin on its website in February, it said: "Company scientists continue to carefully examine the findings of all available and emerging studies of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19 for evidence of efficacy and safety. It is important to note that, to date, our analysis has identified no scientific basis for a potential therapeutic effect against COVID-19 from pre-clinical studies; no meaningful evidence for clinical activity or clinical efficacy in patients with COVID-19 disease, and a concerning lack of safety data in the majority of studies. ".
If Ivermectin was the panacea you claim it to be then Merck, which invented the drug and manufactures it to this day, would be eagerly hawking it. Instead they desperately beg people not to use it, probably because they don't want to get hit with the inevitable lawsuits when people poison themselves by ODing on a mild nerve agent.
"Luv said:
My issue is not as much with the vaccines themselves (although admittedly, I don't feel the risk / reward is in favor for my age / health profile, and I do also question potential long-term issues which I've already pointed out), but with this administration and media for the censorship and distortion in an effort to force their agenda. I find that censorship and agenda an affront to civil liberties, human rights, and everything this country was built on. I think others in this country have about had enough as well and are starting to voice the same. ".
It was the Trump administration and associates that said it would all go away soon, that it was just the flu, that precautions weren't necessary, that elderly dying just meant it was "their time to pass". Heck most of the waffling by people like Fauci happened under them too, though that wasn't dishonesty. In the early stages they were genuinely unsure about how it propagated. It took time to figure out heavily air-based it was, which meant that sanitizing things wasn't much help, or that being indoors with a few people is more dangerous than being outdoors with many.
Its also a foregone conclusion to me that vaccines aren't going to permanently extinguish Covid-19, for the same reasons that flu vaccines don't permanently extinguish the flu. That IS something authorities are a tad deceptive about, because they don't want to admit that we're probably going to be getting "booster shots" for Covid-19 forever. At this point the role of the vaccine is to reduce deaths, not contain its spread. If people had complied early enough, could we have vaccinated people against the dominant strains fast enough to wipe it out before new strains could evolve to take its place? Maybe. But we don't live in that world.
As for broader questions of freedom, I think this man elucidates my feelings on the subject nicely:
[URL]https://twitter.com/sciencemonkeyca/status/1433971196157173762[/URL]
Society routinely restricts people's freedoms, generally because unrestricted freedoms for one person tends to run over and undermine the freedoms of other. Pandemics also restrict people's freedoms. The sooner we can end the pandemic, the sooner we can be free to move and live without risk. The consistent failure of half the USA to comply with pandemic control measures ensured that the pandemic persisted unnecessarily long and severely, restricting the freedoms of everyone, and restricting freedom permanently for hundreds of thousands of dead Americans and the many live ones who've become permanently debilitated, or who are friends and family of the same.
