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Apparently only 2-3% of Americans have decided so far to get the COVID boosters. I mean, it’s early in the flu season, so that may change, but such indifference is alarming. I guess this means, if things don’t change soon, up to 95% of Americans will fit the standard of “anti-vaxxers”. Remarkable.
Moderna and Pfizer share prices are also down catastrophically. Is it a coincidence that we’re suddenly getting breakthrough research that vaccines may fend off Alzheimer’s?
I mean, who is a conspiracy theorist like little old me to doubt the esteemed doctor Peter Hotez, the same one who refuses to debate that anti-vax whackadoodle RFK Junior? Dr. Hotez routinely wears a bow tie, so we know he must be very brainy and very brainy people can never get corrupted by fiduciary influences. He also gets published in “Nature”, an esteemed publication that would never dream of compromising its research for ideologically driven ESG money.
Maybe Dr. Hotez is worried a tough guy like RFK Jr would engage in fisticuffs. After all, Hotez had to hire private security because followers of Joe Rogan Experience threatened to beat him up for his brave championing of immunology through vaccines and refusal to give an inch to the naysayers. Maybe Joe Rogan himself was going to beat up the good doctor. It wouldn’t be the first time.
We must remember: after Joe intellectually clobbered Dr. Sanjay Gupta for continuing to belittle him for using ivermectin, Rogan (amped up on horse de-wormer) proceeded to threaten to physically clobber Dr. Gupta. We know Joe Rogan did this because Dr. Gupta said so afterward.
Is this how brains work when politics becomes 100% of your identity?
Keep pretending you aren’t 100% political yourself Wesley.
You just don’t like my politics.
It’s how brains work when the corruption is at chin level and you’re barely able to keep you head high enough for air. I’m sorry you don’t see it. Eventually, when it hits you in the pocket book (or you get punched in the face), maybe you will.
I’m not pretending anything Lauren. I don’t read articles linking flu shots with a decrease in a horrible disease and think anything political at all. That’s just you and other cult members. And no, not all Republicans are members of a cult.
What does it mean that only 2-3% of people have gotten their COVD vaxxes? If this is truly a “horrible disease”, you’d think those numbers would at least be in the double digits. I mean, you’re the enlightened one here–you know the experts have our best interests at heart and that medicine is based on achieving near perfect consensus. And the doubters are always just a bunch of crackpots. And if those crackpot doctors number in the 10s of thousands, it’s still just a fluke, and they need to be censored for peddling misinformation.
Mask up this winter. Everyone will know what a good, moral, intelligent person you are. And you’ll be nice and healthy, while little unvaxxed me is almost certainly going to drop dead of COVID.
Y’all are such fascinating creatures. Someday when I retire, I hope to go out and study you, using the intellectual practices of Margaret Mead. Or Jane Goodall.
JAMA Internal Medicine published a study in July of this year that evaluated over 538K deaths in individuals 25 years and older in FL and OH between March 2020 and December 2021. It found excess mortality was significantly higher (43%) for registered Republican voters than Democratic voters after COVID-19 vaccines were available to all adults, but not before. The differences were concentrated in counties with lower vaccination rates, and primarily noted in voters residing in OH.
“Future policy decisions should be guided by public health considerations rather than by political ideology,” said the authors of that study, which was selected as the article of the year by the American Journal of Preventive Medicine.
(No word on whether any of them wore bow ties.)
JAMA. Is that supposed to be a credible journal? I’m sure it probably once was. So was “Nature” and “Scientific American”–but when journals become politically subverted, the politics becomes their priority, not the science. And that describes pretty much all of them. They’re as reliable for science research as “New York Times” is for reporting, or the NIH is for giving neutral medical analysis. Pure garbage.
You probably ought to tell the naysayers this time around, because, as far as COVID vax is concerned, that includes well over 90% of the population.
As for vaccines helping dementia, the POTUS you fortified into the White House makes sure we know he gets vaxxed routinely. Lectures the rest of us on it too. hasn’t stopped him from getting COVID multiple times. And as for fending off cognitive impairment, well…
So, are you disputing the work of the researchers from Yale University because it was published in JAMA? Sounds like (yet another) ad hominem attack. Or maybe because it doesn’t support your viewpoint? Facts can be messy like that.
Perhaps I’ve been blinded by science, and I should really get my “research” from Joe Rogan and Aaron Rodgers. Not to mention the suggestion of that guy who once recommended the CDC look into bleach injections as a possible cure.
Speaking of that guy, I heard him recently confuse himself in the middle of one of his word salads into thinking he beat Obama in 2016, that Jeb Bush (whom he defeated in the primary) that same year was the president who got us into Iraq, and that if we don’t stop Biden he’s going to get us into World War TWO. I’m pretty sure he’s been regularly vax’d, too, so maybe you have a point.
As for the actual president, yes, he has gotten COVID more than once. For his age I’d say he fared pretty well. Might have something to do with, you know, the vaccinations. I recommend the study in JAMA for how the outcomes can differ without them for those at greatest risk.