Were the vaccines ever “effective”? Have you read Irving Kirsch's “The Emperor's New Clothes”, where he argues that the strong side effects for SSRI's create a kind of super placebo effect for experimental subjects in trials. There is every reason to believe that this could have been the case in the trials for these injections. We know they don't stop infection or transmission or prevent deaths overall. But for most the subjective feeling of illness could be powerfully blunted by the belief that one has been “vaccinated” against the virus.
But then … what happens when the “authorities” shatter that belief that vaccine will protect you or that they will offer a way out of pandemia distopia? Or when you discover that you “got covid” anyway? Could this lead to a Nocebo effect, worsening illness? The winter will answer this.
Sadly for the college kids, this is a now permanent state of affairs, as covidian cult membership is very high on campuses. As a college educator, I would recommend that you work with your kids to create strategies to protect oneself from toxic campuses. Staying off campus as much as one can is a good idea. Another is gap years doing service work and internships after high school to get some real world experience and then finish college a few years later (like many Europeans do). Do Not expect colleges to suddenly wake up on a Tuesday and decide it was all a bad dream, back to normal, nothing to worry about, That is NOT how they are set up, once a panic is established on campus, it self-perpetuates for years and decades.
This is why it was scientific malpractice to openly break the blinds on the clinical trials and vaccinate the placebo group. Unvaccinated people who know they are unvaccinated are not a proper control group for vaccination.
Were the vaccines ever “effective”? Have you read Irving Kirsch's “The Emperor's New Clothes”, where he argues that the strong side effects for SSRI's create a kind of super placebo effect for experimental subjects in trials. There is every reason to believe that this could have been the case in the trials for these injections. We know they don't stop infection or transmission or prevent deaths overall. But for most the subjective feeling of illness could be powerfully blunted by the belief that one has been “vaccinated” against the virus.
But then … what happens when the “authorities” shatter that belief that vaccine will protect you or that they will offer a way out of pandemia distopia? Or when you discover that you “got covid” anyway? Could this lead to a Nocebo effect, worsening illness? The winter will answer this.
Sadly for the college kids, this is a now permanent state of affairs, as covidian cult membership is very high on campuses. As a college educator, I would recommend that you work with your kids to create strategies to protect oneself from toxic campuses. Staying off campus as much as one can is a good idea. Another is gap years doing service work and internships after high school to get some real world experience and then finish college a few years later (like many Europeans do). Do Not expect colleges to suddenly wake up on a Tuesday and decide it was all a bad dream, back to normal, nothing to worry about, That is NOT how they are set up, once a panic is established on campus, it self-perpetuates for years and decades.
This is why it was scientific malpractice to openly break the blinds on the clinical trials and vaccinate the placebo group. Unvaccinated people who know they are unvaccinated are not a proper control group for vaccination.