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CAM's avatar

So, a member of the CDC ACIP (Dr. Wilbur Chen) will be returning to give a follow-up presentation at my workplace on September 7th, to highlight the latest variants and success of the vaccines. His first presentation 2 months ago to us included a lot of cheerleading for how fast the vaccines were developed and distributed (claiming no safety shortcuts), and then outright excitement for the prospect of full FDA approval followed by authorization in September/October for administering to toddlers and eventually infants. The man is a shill of the highest order, and a lot of folks at my company are totally enthralled with him. Guessing it's because he wears a bow-tie and lab coat during his presentation....

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Wesley Hoyle's avatar

Further muddying the issue is whether the case counts become decoupled from severe illness and death? We *are* seeing that, and is it solely attributable to higher rates of natural immunity? I'm not so sure.

Now, to a sane group of policymakers, the case count should not even be relevant should it? Wasn't the big push (I know, ancient history) to prevent overwhelmed hospitals? Our actions make no sense if that goal is kept in mind.

We are not primarily up against the issue of vaccine efficacy. We are primarily up against the dangerous utopian thinking that still harbors hopes of eradicating SARS-CoV-2 (but won't come right out and say it).

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