by pkvi
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26croutons 2 points ago +2 / -0

This paper is illuminating:

Trends in Recorded Influenza Mortality: United States, 1900–2004

Peter Doshi is the man on this topic.

Here's an interesting study from 2005 as well:

Impact of Influenza Vaccination on Seasonal Mortality in the US Elderly Population

We could not correlate increasing vaccination coverage after 1980 with declining mortality rates in any age group. Because fewer than 10% of all winter deaths were attributable to influenza in any season, we conclude that observational studies substantially overestimate vaccination benefit.

Influenza vaccines are complete garbage. It's likely that the small benefit they might confer to young children is based on the fact that young children might not have had influenza at the time of vaccination, so their immune systems were influenza-naive.

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26croutons 3 points ago +3 / -0

That crap article was based on another crap article based on this study:

The presence of serum anti-SARS-CoV-2 IgA appears to protect primary health care workers from COVID-19

The upshot is that if you get COVID, your mucosal immune system will generate IgA antibodies to the virus. Only the mucosal immune system generates IgA, so the presence of serum anti-COVID IgA means a person has already been exposed to the virus.

Essentially the study shows that natural immunity is highly effective at preventing reinfection, presumably because mucosal antibodies are secreted into the mucosal lining and thus prevent the virus from colonizing the nasopharynx. This is what's called sterilizing immunity.

As an aside, the reason the jabs don't prevent infection or transmission very well is because they don't activate the mucosal immune system.They do stimulate the production of anti-spike antibodies, but these do not seep out into the mucosa, so the virus is free to colonize the nasopharynx willy nilly.

That MSM line you heard about virus shed by vaccinated people is less dangerous because it's already coated with vaccine antibodies? Total fucking garbage.

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26croutons 1 point ago +1 / -0

I realized something was seriously amiss with the sub when my posts regarding the spikes in cases and deaths following the rollout of vaccines in various SE Asian countries like Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam were removed within seconds.

I posted images screencapped from Johns Hopkins CSSE COVID-19 dashboard like this one:

https://i.imgur.com/kgCEas3.png

in June last year and reveddit showed me that they were removed my mod or automod, but it was clearly an automod.

So why would r/conspiracy have an automod that knew to remove images drawn from JH CSSE dashboard? I have to guess that that data was particularly damning to the COVID narrative and reddit admins had set up some kind of filter.

Reddit is fake.

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26croutons 1 point ago +1 / -0

Gosh but that data would be neat to see. We need a Reddit whistleblower to leak it!

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26croutons 2 points ago +2 / -0

Since at least 2014 the US DoD has been manipulating Reddit via a putative Pentagon-controlled troll farm at Eglin AFB. Evidence of this was revealed when for fun Reddit released user numbers by city, and Eglin AFB turned out to have the highest user/population ratio in the world. Not sus at all.

I believe they've been at it since Collateral Murder was released and Reddit recoiled in horror at the notion that US soldiers were just casually committing horrendous war crimes. The DoD had to do something so they swooped in with an army of trolls to do damage control. Hearts and minds and all that.

Later in 2016, when Reddit went bananas for Bernie Sanders, and the DNC hired their own trolls (David Brock's CTR, later called Shareblue) to help sink his campaign, I think it became evident to the spookverse that Reddit could be an extremely effective consent factory.

I suppose it took a little time or cagjoling but eventually Reddit's bosses agreed to create a new position (director of policy) and hire Ashooh to fill it.

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26croutons 4 points ago +4 / -0

It's possible that vaccination increases your risk of contracting COVID at least temporarily. There were a number of SE Asian nations (like Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam) that all saw extremely low community transmission right up until they started their vaccination roll out.

But also, at this point, I believe that people with natural immunity are really clustering among the unvaccinated, and because natural immunity is much more protective against infection, the stats are really making it look like being unvaccinated is better protection against infection.

My wife and I fall into that group: we're unvaxxed because we already had COVID and know out protection is already better than the vaccinated.