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Patriotic Duty My Eye
BY DAVID STOCKMAN DECEMBER 23, 2021

Rough Rider Teddy must be rolling in his grave as he looks down upon these poseurs gathered in the Roosevelt room. For crying out loud, every one of them is double vaxxed and totally boosted. And they have issued orders to force the same upon more than 130 million of their countrymen—allegedly to prevent the latter from becoming walking vectors of disease and killers of their neighbors.

Yet if the Vaxx is actually a spread stopper, why do they sit there in their masks? What’s the need to protect Biden from Fauci when the sainted doctor is armed to the teeth with vaxxed-in antibodies? And why is Biden festooned with the medical equivalent of Depends when he’s already got the accident-prevention protection of the Vaxx?

Or does he? That is to say, if it doesn’t work to stop the spread, the benefit is only private and not public and hence there is no earthly reason for mandating it against the will of millions of citizens who fear that the risks outweigh the benefits. And if it does stop the spread—despite the manifest evidence to the contrary—-why all the face mask virtue signalling on live TV? ...

Indeed, the latest argument for mandatory vaxxing—-that it prevents not transmission and infection but just a serious course of the disease—makes the picture patently absurd. What are these cats afraid of then?

The real contagion at loose in the world—especially among the western nations which noisily congratulate themselves as model liberal democracies to be emulated by the more benighted nations inhabiting the purported darker corners of the planet—is a virulent outbreak of statist authoritarianism. ...

Of course, peek under the covers and what you have is the same old, same old. Not only is the Omicron variant far more transmissible and massively less lethal than earlier variants–for the inherent reasons that sensible virologists and epidemiologists have explained ad infinitum—but the propaganda contagion of the state’s Virus Patrol appears to be even more virulent. ...

Sorry, Joe. But it’s none of your business what people chose to do about a vaccine that does not stop transmission and infection from this latest mutation; and it is most certainly not the “patriotic duty” of Americans who think the risks are not worth the benefits to take the jab on your say so.

The vaccine is like a flu shot, it’s useful for those who have a weak immune system and are likely to get very sick from either virus. It’s likely to be useful for old people, who have largely taken the vaccine already.

Like the flu shot, it’s not going to stop the Wuhan virus from spreading, just as the flu shot doesn’t stop the flu.

Either way, the government doesn’t own your body and it’s your business and your life.

Idiots who are Democrats and liberals think they have the authority to possess your body and your property (assets, money, income, etc.)

A pox on liberals and their socialist ilk.

There is a bitter irony with vaccines and those with weak immune systems.

A vaccine is supposed to trigger your immune system to develop a response to the live virus when it sees it. If your immune system is weak, it is less likely to build an effective defense. The weaker the immune system, the weaker the learned response and the less effective the vaccine is.

The people who need it the most, get the least benefit from it.

Karloff makes an astute observation.
The effectiveness of the Wuhan shots is actually less than the media has reported since most trials were done not with very old people.

clambo says

The vaccine is like a flu shot, it’s useful for those who have a weak immune system and are likely to get very sick from either virus.

So they say, without real evidence.

Onvacation says

clambo says

The vaccine is like a flu shot, it’s useful for those who have a weak immune system and are likely to get very sick from either virus.

So they say, without real evidence.

I think it's likely that the antibodies - if effective against the invading variant, and that's a big if - will lead to a less pronounced or even asymptomatic case for about 3-6 months until they wane. If the variant though evades it then ADE may make it much worse. Also it comes with side effects such as increased heart and general inflammation markers and suppressed innate immune system. It's a trade off that IMO is only worth for the very old and high risk groups.