Comments by "L.W. Paradis" (@l.w.paradis2108) on "XBB 1 5, expect to catch this soon" video.

@hazmat5118 Did immunization against flu and covid render anyone immortal?
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@N_Jones No, they won't be ignored. The early variants were more dangerous than current ones, and Dr. Campbell pointed that out many times. The fact is that the vaccines did not have the overall benefit/risk profile they were expected to have, and only had a reasonable benefit/risk profile for a relatively short time, for older people. It is also a fact that fear-mongering and other chronic stress is very bad for people's health.
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@hazmat5118 On a concrete level, how many people under 40 had to be vaccinated to save one life of a person under 40? Notice I am not even talking about comorbidities; put everyone under 40 in one group, even if that means we end up with a higher mortality rate for COVID than we would if we separated out the obese as clearly being at greater risk of death, and hence having more reason to get vaccinated. That is how previous vaccines have been analyzed for effectiveness. The 1976 swine flu vaccine was withdrawn when only 1 person per 100,000 vaccinated developed Guillen Barre from the vaccine. We are getting vastly higher rate of significant side effects, and limited benefit, especially for younger people with these vaccines. I could not believe this was pushed the way it was. How can you even justify calling it a vaccine given the number of doses needed, in under two years, and still it fails to produce sterilizing immunity?
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@hazmat5118 1. "It's not about perfection" is too broad and vague: that could justify a lot of things that no one should accept. That sort of blather proves too much. 2. We were not informed about the risks and benefits, and stories of injuries were systematically suppressed; a vaccine that cannot protect others but only protects the one who takes it, and only for a matter of months, should not be mandatory. 3. I thought of that early on: if this is indeed the product of an accidental lab leak, we may need a vaccine to overcome it. It seems that recent variants are more transmissible and less lethal, which is exactly how natural viruses evolve, so that seems not to be a risk anymore, but we cannot be sure. The next variant could be much more lethal, just as we sometimes have an unusually lethal strain of flu. People have to admit they do not know what they do not know, and quit pretending they do. Interesting that Fauci suppressed the lab leak theory while insisting that everyone be vaccinated, when the lab leak theory could have furnished another reason to be vaccinated. All I can say is that thank goodness that corona viruses are something we have all encountered, or this would have a far more lethal pandemic. Too much of what happened over the past three years smacks too much of being a dress rehearsal for something worse.
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@hazmat5118 I think that any heart injury to a young person is a very big deal. I suffered one in my 20s, probably from a medication they should not have given me, so I know. Mine was trivial by comparison to myocarditis, and it changed my life.
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PLEASE TELL HER TO STAY STRONG. She might want to research a new pediatrician.
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What I also find very disconcerting is that there are vaccines that are beneficial for infants and children. How do we combine these with COVID vaccines, according to the doctors pushing this? I know of young teens who were supposed to get their first meningitis shots and got a COVID shot instead, AND had already had COVID and made a full recovery. What is going on?
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@gerri577 Not what he said.
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Take extra good care of yourself for the next 6 weeks or so! :)
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@shelbybilicki I agree with you -- I was thinking the same thing.
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@hazmat5118 Well, I agree that early variants, including the original virus, were clearly more dangerous to older people than current variants are. It now appears that even early on, young people were often asymptomatic, so the vaccines were probably not as helpful to them as to those over 40, and especially over 70. I think at this point we know a lot of people were injured by the vaccines, but now the discourse is shifting, so that those people are being scared they they will never get better. This is unbelievably cruel, and appears not to be the case. Jennifer Sharp, who just wrote, directed, and appeared in the documentary Anecdotals, said that she herself is almost back to normal, and most of her side effects ended within several months of taking the vaccine. They were not trivial, but her life was not at risk and she is much better. For her, the real story was the silencing and shunning she was subjected to after she had a reaction -- which may have made her symptoms worse. That ticks me off hugely.
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@andrew1717xx More proof that every thing isn't good for every body. (smh, this is news now?) Penicillin has killed those with allergies, as has aspirin.
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@hazmat5118 Please take care and don't be scared. Throughout life I've been struck by how often a scary prognosis (nevermind scary speculation based on practically no data) has turned out to be wrong. My late mom loved that famous book by Norman Cousins. That is a great, short book to reread now. In fact, I think I will.
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@Natalie-earth Literally no other country I've heard of recommends vaccinating infants. I'm, like, if Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, etc., don't do this, it is automatically off the table. If they do, I may consider it. But if they don't, I won't. That's where I'm at now. ;/ Different countries' ministries of health have English-language websites now, and I check. Someone actually told me I was lying, and that that is not possible (!!) Er, yes. Yes it is.
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@jaymevogl4338 None of this comes as a surprise to me. I support vaccines that have been carefully tested, and are given with the appropriate spacing. "Vaccinated" versus "unvaccinated" children isn't the correct comparison; it depends on which vaccines, when. That none may be better than lots and lots, into tiny bodies during their first months of life, should surprise no one. Thanks for your post. BTW, have you seen the Yale News article about vaccines from February 2017, I believe? Dr. John Rose, who has worked on the Ebola vaccine, stated that it takes 15 to 20 years to develop a vaccine -- nearly a generation sounds about right to me. These days, you must read things that were published before 2020, and preferably before 2019, to get any idea of what real standards are. :/
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@jaymevogl4338 At this point, I would only look to what the ministries of health of Scandinavian countries, Switzerland, and a few others, are recommending to make any decision about vaccines for my child. One pediatric vaccine researcher from Denmark, I believe, demonstrated a long time ago that a measles vaccine, administered properly (not too early or late, correct form and dose), lowers the overall childhood mortality rate from many infectious diseases, and that there are certain other vaccines that don't do that. (Hint hint) :/
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