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datadon What vaccinated people should know about their risk from the delta varian

“ Getting rid of COVID became impossible the moment governments decided to wait with restrictions until there is enough cases.”

No, Chinese government stalled, suppressed doctors and scientists who were screaming out about the virus months, literally, before anybody outside the Chinese government was aware. That’s a matter of record and easily verified.

datadon What vaccinated people should know about their risk from the delta varian

My friend, that’s the definition of moving goalposts. But of course everything changes over time, as it should. Are we still trying to reach herd immunity? What percentage vaccinated would be required for that? Two questions for you to research.

Edit: Do we have enough doses even today to vaccinate everyone, worldwide? I think we do not.

datadon What vaccinated people should know about their risk from the delta varian

The average person has no ability to understand lipid nano particles. Many scientists and most doctors do not understand, so how is the average dolt like me going to figure it all out?

datadon What vaccinated people should know about their risk from the delta varian

But he has dangled the goal of herd immunity, while gradually upping the percentage of vaccination required to get there. Herd immunity to many people means “eradication” and the media has helped foster that belief.

datadon Why is the university of California dropping the SAT?

It’s a self label though, so social perceptions aren’t involved. I am whatever race I identify as, not whatever race other people think of me as. I can tell people that I’m Mexican and who are they to say otherwise?

datadon If Richard Feynman applied for a job at Microsoft (2002)

An unladen 747?

datadon Coronavirus: Was US money used to fund risky research in China?

Does Colorado state do a lot of this type of (supposedly debatable) gain of function research? It seems like they selected an expert randomly who said basically, “everything is subjective.” Good piece but it would help to explain why they consulted this particular expert for comment.

datadon Effectiveness of Covid-19 Vaccines against the B.1.617.2 (Delta) Variant

Key quote “findings are observational and should be interpreted with caution. Low sensitivity or specificity of PCR testing could result in cases and controls being misclassified, which would attenuate the estimates of vaccine effectiveness. Low sensitivity or specificity of PCR testing could also affect one variant more than another, although this might be expected to affect the alpha variant more than the delta variant, given that, with an emerging variant, more cases may be detected earlier in infection, which may result in higher viral loads and increased sensitivity and specificity.”