[ExI] covid or cold?

[Will Steinberg]

On Fri, Dec 24, 2021 at 4:18 PM John Klos via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

>
> What's the agenda here? Are you actively advocating against vaccines? Your
> dismissiveness of their efficacy suggests this, but you don't outright say
> this.
>
>
Yeah, I thought it was kind of obvious.  I think the covid vaxes suck.
mRNA vaccines are cheap trash made because they take no time or development
funds.  They protect against a single protein on the virus that we already
know is prone to mutation.  They're being pushed because of pharma profit
margins, in my opinion.

Also here's a study from recently that seems to show these vaccines (pfizer
and moderna) having *negative* efficacy against omicron after 90 days.
That is, you're more likely to get omicron 90 days after your shot than
someone who doesn't have the shot.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.12.20.21267966v3.full.pdf
This is not an antivax study, nor even against the covid vax; it's more
about how effectiveness wanes over time and it's in favor of boosters.  But
if you look at the post 90 day bar for omicron on the graph, the 95%
confidence interval is so far into the negatives it's ridiculous.  Note
that this is a preprint
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