You have either misunderstood what Paul Offit is writing here, or you've not recognised the difference between what he's saying and what you said.
Paul Offit is speaking here on a national level. He is stating that covid cannot be eradicated from the country by vaccination programs, due to its short incubation period and the time-limitations of vaccination. This is categorically not the same as saying the vaccine gives no protection.
But people do get colds pretty much every winter. The idea that "you'd get more than 2-4 colds a year" is just your pure speculation; it's groundless.
You don't comprehend what people such as Paul Offit are actually saying. It's telling that you've posted several long tracts from him here that don't back up what you're claiming, but you're acting as if they do. This shows how little you comprehend of it all.
"Kids need the vaccine" is a value judgement, a political question depending on a lot more than the science. After all this time, you still fail to distinguish between policy and science.
You made a claim. You claimed the cost-benefit analysis showed more harm than benefit for these groups. That is an exceptional, positive claim. You need to substantiate it.
OK, so you've just shifted the conversation entirely. You're now talking about aid, arguing that one country locking down and reducing aid forced other countries to halt programs. That's not the same claim; the country's own lockdown didn't force any such shutdown in that scenario.
A country locking down does not necessitate its own nutritional and immunisation programs to end. That's not debatable. They simply didn't.
People get infected-- even severely infected-- more than once. Paul Offit supported getting kids vaccinated in resource-rich countries, but suddenly your deference to authority falls apart.
Can you not fucking read what I say?
I said the covid vaccine protects against severe disease. It does not protect from getting mild disease and being infected again whatsoever. The narrative that you get the vaccine and you are protected from getting covid and from transmitting covid was bullshit, it was never true. The fact that they called covid reinfections, breakthrough infections, literally proves that. That is what Paul Offit said.
Paul Offit literally said what I claim:
And for the first year, the question was, did protection hold up against serious illness? ‘Cause that’s the goal. That’s the only reasonable goal for this vaccine. It’s the only attainable goal for this vaccine. You’re not gonna be able to protect against mild disease for this kind of virus for any length of time.
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2-4 colds / year is the average a person gets. You don't catch colds by merely walking around the grocery store (not saying it's a 0% chance but it's extremely low). You catch colds from family, friends, co-workers; the people you are around for long periods of time that are sick.
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Uhh... Look at the percentage of kids that got covid before the vaccine was even available for them. If you got covid, natural infection, the vaccine provides no benefits whatsoever... just like, you know, any other vaccine (sometimes you need a booster after so many years but covid is still way to recent to be needing boosters for healthy people). Show me any data showing healthy people that got covid gained any benefit from a vaccine. If you're saying I or anyone need or should get this, you need to provide data to validate your claim.
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No, I didn't shift the conversation, that's what I said literally the whole time (that's what UNICEF said in the article I posted). You keep insisting that other countries didn't have issues with immunization programs when that was never my claim.
To me, this is no longer good enough
There are around 340 million people in the US. 27 million in Australia. So Australia is around 8% of the US population.
Around 600,000 to 650,000 people died in America in 2020. 8% of this is around 47,000. So, if Australia treated COVID like the US, you could, as a rough estimate, guess that 47,000 Aussie
Guess how many people died in Australia in 2020? 920. 1/50 of the number of deaths. Having 98% fewer deaths seems like a community benefit. It also reduced deaths to suicide and dementia, schools were open, no masks were needed, and Australia's economy was great. Seems like a benefit to me.... not only that, I was making this info known to him sometime in 2021. This is not news anymore
Phoenix is so wrong that it makes me question what they mean by 'cost-benefit'. Applying only costs to the idea you want to demonise and only benefits to the ideas you want to lionise is not a cost-benefit analysis. If you are going to use a term like cost-benefit analysis, use it like everyone else, not your own made up definition
You can't treat the rest of the world like Australia. Australia closed up before covid got in essentially. The US or Europe or most other places could not do the same thing as Australia. You keep making these massive logic mistakes.