| It continues to amaze me how people go along with this. The shots don't do what was promised. For healthy kids and young people, it is absolutely counterproductive to inject them. It will cause more hospitalizations through side effects than they will prevent. What's more, there is now mounting evidence that omicron favors people who have gotten jabbed. So any notion that you get the jab to protect others is now also in question. Finally, it is now also clear that these shots could have never created herd immunity, because an intramuscular shot does not create an immune response in the mucus membranes, which is your actual first line of defense. So the entirely sales pitch for the shots is also in question. All of this is easy to find if you just bother to actually look around. Stop applauding this, it's unethical and it just serves to cover up the failed promises of shitty politicians, shitty scientists, and their hysterical fans. |
Wrong. There have been documented side effects of vaccines, notably myocarditis, and even a few deaths that are the direct result of vaccination. But there are thousands of covid deaths of people in their 20s, and hundreds of kids too, a sizable proportion of them healthy. Because we are talking about one-in-a-million chances, maybe vaccinating kids is not worth it, maybe we should put our time and money elsewhere, but the benefit-risk ratio is definitely on the side of vaccination.
> What's more, there is now mounting evidence that omicron favors people who have gotten jabbed.
It is true that when you look at some country data, you see that the incidence rate for people who are fully vaccinated but not boosted is much higher than those who are vaccinated. You can make the effect disappear by looking closely (Simpson's paradox) but it still merits proper study. But for now, there is no evidence that omicron favors people who have gotten jabbed. At worst, without a booster, some vaccines are ineffective against mild omicron, that one seems to be confirmed.
> it is now also clear that these shots could have never created herd immunity
10/10 hindsight
> because an intramuscular shot does not create an immune response in the mucus membranes
[Citation Needed] Almost all of our vaccines are an intramuscular shot, including ones that were successful at eradicating diseases. If it wasn't an effective route of administration, I think we would have known by now.
> All of this is easy to find if you just bother to actually look around.
Yes, it is super easy to find crackpot websites. "Proofs" that the earth is flat are easy to find too. So if you think you have better sources, please share. By "looking around" for the most reliable sources, things are clear: omicron is pretty good at escaping vaccine protection, but the benefit/risk ratio is still overwhelmingly in favor of vaccines.
> cover up the failed promises of shitty politicians, shitty scientists, and their hysterical fans
Politicians are politicians. But the shitty scientists here are the ones who promote treatments after many studies proved their ineffectiveness (hydroxychloroquine, ivermectin,...) instead of solutions that work (vaccines). Looking for alternative treatment, unorthodox solutions and challenging established practices is good, but disregarding further scientific evidence is not. And scientists don't promise things, they make studies base on current data, and draw conclusions, if the data change, their conclusions will too, it is not called failed promises, it is called doing proper science.