Sterilizing vaccine thread 🧵
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Sterilizing vaccine thread 🧵
Why we will never have a sterilizing vaccine to coronavirus, so stop dreaming about it and put on a respirator.
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I can't see half of the thread because AL (Andrew Lilico) blocked me, so I'm pulling this out here to say this very clearly:
There was never any hope that there would be any herd immunity to this virus.
Not from day one.
Not now.
Not until there is a sterilizing vaccine to it.(Originally posted Dec 2021)
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Jonathan Mesiano-Crookstonreplied to Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston on last edited by
And the only sterilizing vaccines we have to respiratory illnesses are to those illnesses that have obligate systemic effects (say, measles and chickenpox).
The vaccines do not stop transmission; they stop the systemic effects.
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Froukereplied to Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston on last edited by
If we could stop the systemic effects, this would already help, I think. It is long Covid that is the problem right now and that seems to be systemic.
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Jonathan Mesiano-Crookstonreplied to Frouke on last edited by
No that's not possible with COVID. It is throughout body, not obligate systemic like measles.
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Froukereplied to Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston on last edited by
I don't think my country (the Netherlands) will ever switch to regular respirator use. People rather get sick and die than wear a respirator (and everyone tells me I should to the same).
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DaywalkingRedhead 😷replied to Frouke on last edited by
@froukehe9 @jmcrookston The problem being - and this should have been the public health message from the first - it’s not death that most have to worry about. It’s disability. This is a Mass Disabling Event.
It’s not “oh well, if I die, I die” - that implies fearless, brave, dashing disregard of death and romance and swashbuckling bullshit. It’s the American insistence on thriving on garbage.
Reality is “wear a Respie or be permanently disabled. Spin the roulette wheel to find out how many infections it will take for YOU, personally!”
“Dudes, do you want you dick to work? Wear a respirator or get ED!”
“Doctors, do you value your brain working? Got that arrogant “I know more than you” going on? Wear a respirator or you won’t remember how to read the aisle signs in the grocery store.”
This should have been the public health campaigns. Instead we got eugenics.
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Jonathan Mesiano-Crookstonreplied to DaywalkingRedhead 😷 on last edited by
I agree. It's lose all your future earnings and get nothing from the government for it.
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DaywalkingRedhead 😷replied to Jonathan Mesiano-Crookston on last edited by
@jmcrookston @froukehe9 Reality of disability is - No one will help you. Your family will get pissed when you never get better, and your friends will go merrily on with life and forget you. You are not immune. The government will not help. If you’re lucky, you’ll spend two - three YEARS waiting for social security appeals, and even if you are approved, it’s a pittance.
I could go on, but I’m preaching to the choir. Sigh.