Yes, it is. They prompt the body's immune system to create antibodies and t-cells. "Your body and immune system on higher alert"-- this is the same principle as the immunity conveyed by prior infection (but much safer), and by the covid vaccine.
This is contrary to what you've posted yourself.
Ok, i don't much care what language you'd choose to use. Its more frequent than any comparable disease, by far. Its far, far too common to be transmitted solely by extended, intimate contact. There is zero scientific debate about this; you're just ignorant of the very basics.
"A measure didn't completely arrest the spread of the virus, therefore it has no effect".
Oh! So we can conclude that any medicine that hasn't eradicated a disease from the face of the planet doesn't work, then?
Grow up.
Show them, then. Let's see them.
its literally what happened... in a handful of east Asian countries. Elsewhere, in the majority of countries, lockdowns happened without having to halt essential nutritional and immunisation programmes.
Yep, in direct contradiction of Paul Offit.
You can't stop covid transmissions/infections because of the nature of the virus
Paul Offit:
Chickenpox has a relative long incubation period disease, as is measles, as is mumps, as is rubella, so German measles. So when you get infected with those viruses, you generally have memory B and T-cells that are lifelong and that’s enough for you to be protected even against mild disease because there’s plenty of time for activation and differentiation of those memory B-cells or memory T-cells even to protect you against mild disease. That’s why you can eliminate long incubation period diseases from the face of the earth. I mean, smallpox has a long incubation period disease. Rinderpest, which is a sorta like cow measles has been eliminated from the face of the earth because it’s a long incubation period disease. And we eliminated measles from this country by 2000, it came back because a critical percentage of parents chose not to vaccinate their children. We eliminated rubella from this country in 2005, it hasn’t come back. So you can do that. You’re not gonna do that with this virus. This virus will continue to circulate and cause mild disease, even if a hundred percent of the world were vaccinated and even if it never mutated coming out of China, it would still circulate and cause mild illness and in some severe illness.
No, it's not. Also, literally what Paul Offit said.
If colds transmitted as simply by being next to a sick person in line at the grocery store, you'd get more than 2-4 colds a year. I'm betting you always interact with a sick person in the fall/winter/spring when you buy groceries. Funny how you don't randomly get sick out of the blue and get sick when friends/family/co-workers are sick.
I've always said the covid vaccine protects against severe disease (for a long time for most normal people). It doesn't effect transmission or getting infected. You don't read what people say. Telling people to start masking again or getting covid boosters was idiotic. The vaccine is great but just doesn't/can't do what the measles vaccine does and that should be fine. You act like anything that is said against the vaccine or any vaccine is anti-vax.
Again,
Paul Offit:
I think what happened was six months later when say there was an outbreak in Provincetown, Massachusetts, thousands of men get together, celebrate the July 4th holiday, there’s about 79% or 80% were vaccinated. But nonetheless, there’s an outbreak. And of the 346 men who got sick, four were hospitalized, a hospitalization of one point rate of 1.2%, that’s a win. That’s great. But the other 342 men had mild or asymptomatic infection, which the CDC unfortunately labeled as breakthrough illnesses and that was a mistake. Breakthrough implies failure, that wasn’t a failure. That was a moment actually to celebrate the vaccine, to celebrate how amazing it was working here with this outbreak in this basically close space or close together community in Provincetown, and we didn’t do that, we did the opposite of that, the opposite. And so the term breakthrough was born, and I remember just a few days after that was reported, Brett Kavanaugh, Supreme Court Justice gets an asymptomatic infection. If you watch the way that was carried on national television, you would’ve thought he was in the intensive care unit. So we didn’t communicate that well.
Already did years ago. Nobody here was able to find a cost-benefit analysis that said kids needed the vaccine. If you're forcing someone/some group to get some intervention, you have to prove the intervention provides overall benefit and community benefit. That was not done, that is not how you do science. The people claiming things have to prove their claims, not the other way around.
The rich countries that could lockdown are the countries that provide aid to poorer countries. The poor countries need rich countries to help with nutrition and immunization programs during normal times like now, let alone during a pandemic. Rich countries shutdown, halted non-essential programs like aid to other countries, and those other countries suffered. It was hilarious even here, just traveling in the US for work, we would get emails saying such and such place (that we were traveling to) was red and try to not travel there. You think we were sending people to foreign countries in the middle of the covid pandemic when we were being told not to even travel in the US?
Most kids already had covid before their vaccine was even available, the vaccine then literally provides no benefit.
Good gods. Its years after covid and we're still dealing with people that stress that not letting covid run rampant was the REAL problem. If there's a zombie apocalypse we're all doomed.
Nope, all you guys hear in your ends is extremes. Nobody legitimate was advocating to not do anything and to let covid run rampant.
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