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Originally Posted by
mickeycrimm
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Originally Posted by
redietz
Actually, I just reread the PM and, rather than trying to "scare" Mickey as he says, it reads like Joe Friday from Dragnet wrote it. So be my guest and post it, mickey. It's entirely accurate, none of it is surprising, and it's somewhat dry.
And you latched onto me sending that as a way to criticize me?
Put your socialist propaganda up yourself. Don't look for me to do it for you.
Here's the "socialist propaganda" I PM'ed to mickey. It was, he says, "a huge bunch of shit designed to scare me about taking the vaccine." I thought it read like Joe Friday from Dragnet wrote it -- dry and factual. I present it verbatim:
"The trials had no women, children, older people with pre-conditions, so naturally the effectiveness percentages were unnaturally high and won't be correlated publicly until they must -- because they want everyone to eventually get the vaccine. Naturally also, the side effects were underestimates compared to what will happen in the general population.
The vaccines work on the mutated variants, but at lesser effectiveness. So the effectiveness on variants may be 50% or thereabouts, which is similar to some years of regular flu shots.
There have been clusters of serious side effects in Scandinavian countries, but you can look that up yourself.
What has been kept quiet is that there are percentage effectiveness differences among ethnic groups.
The likely duration of immunity after having covid, for most people, is well shy of a year. For the vaccine, it's unknown at this point.
International heads of infectious disease centers, when asked, said they expected another virus to come down the pike in four or five years.
This has societal ramifications, as China has obviously done much, much better than the U.S. in terms of virus control and economic well-being. The U.S. decentralized capitalism is not designed to handle pandemics.
On a personal level, one of my friends who had open heart surgery got his second dose (he's 75). The first dose had no bad effects. The second one, he was good for 24 hours, then it clobbered him. Tennessee has a 35% positivity rate in some counties. We were last in mask wearing back in May/June."
That's it. I sent it January 21. As you can tell, some of the stuff mentioned has made it into mainstream media in the last two weeks. I have no idea if mickey is currently living alone, with a roommate, or with family. One thing I was trying to imply without being preachy was that, for the second dose, he should probably be around somebody for 24-48 hours in case it's rough.
Not sure why mickey characterized this as socialist propaganda or designed to scare him. I do see one theme with mickey. He claimed that he wasn't scared of the virus back in his Covid-is-a-scam period, and now he's not scared of vaccines in his Covid-is-real period. Nobody said you were a scaredy-cat, mickey.
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https://theskepticalgambler.blogspot...ami-watch.html
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