Comments by "Immudzen" (@Immudzen) on "Omicron: "Everyone in Europe needs to be ready to be exposed" | DW News" video.

What I am weary of is people not getting vaccinated. I am tired of this pandemic just stretching on and on because people "did their own research" by reading stuff on Facebook and other social media sites and deciding against getting vaccinated. If you want to live in society then get vaccinated. Also don't hide behind religion because none of the major religions are against vaccines and many of them have come out and said it is your religious duty to get vaccinated.
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@Mark Vaccines do no provide immunity they provide resistance. Immunity basically doesn't exist in biology. A vaccines primary job is to prevent serious illness and secondary is lowering your risk of infection.
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@Septic Tank And you are wrong on both counts. You can force people to get vaccinated and the vaccines are effective. In the USA vacinations have been mandatory for many diseases for over 200 years.
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@realfreedom8932 The vaccine is not immunity to infection it is protection from serious illness. It is not some indestructible shield. Vaccinated people show fewer short term and long term effects of the virus. This is based on actual research. If you really want to learn nearly every journal article on Covid is public and has been for the entire pandemic. You could also talk to some ICU nurses.
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@inoclasism Actually that is incorrect. A vaccine lowers your viral load which also lowers how much you breathe into the air which does lower the spread of the virus. More important the vaccine protects you against serious short and long term problems from the virus.
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@bimDe2024 HIV is really hard to create a vaccine for. There are finally some HIV vaccines in testing now that look very promising but it is still probably a ways off. Remember it was only about 20 years ago that we first typed out the human genome. We didn't even learn about the part of our immune system that works inside the cells until a few years ago.
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Will R Thomson The newer work is on a HIV vaccine that uses the intracellular machinery to target the conserved part of the virus instead of the protein coating.
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@silasla You being a lawyer changes nothing about this. You are not a medical researcher or any remotely related field. There are thousands of papers published at this point from groups all over the world. Almost 100% of that research is completely open and available right now. The vaccine is safe and effective. Covid is a very serious virus that has serious long term consequences. It is very likely that we will keep seeing complications from this after more than a decade just like we see with measles. If you really are a lawyer you should be used to reading long documents. So go read some of the studies on the vaccine from Germany, France, Canada, Japan, etc. They are not that hard to understand and you can become much better informed on the subject.
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