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  • Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 5,982 ✭✭✭hometruths


    No bait and switch here. Denmark have stopped vaccinating everybody under 50 unless they are immunocompromised.

    If you are a healthy 39 year old in Denmark you can't get a vaccine even if you want one.



  • Registered Users Posts: 17,984 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    And back to rehash this one questionable study from Israel, an observational study that doesn't demonstrate causality.

    So we went from one US state with a very controversial surgeon general, quickly switched to children's vaccines and now back to this Israeli study.

    Are the vaccines unsafe according to you?

    97% of adults in Ireland are vaccinated, are we are in danger according to you?

    If yes, what knowledge do you have that medical science has missed. If no, what is your claim exactly?



  • Registered Users Posts: 17,984 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    And now switching over to Denmark for something with different context. Gish gallop very much setting in.

    Here's why Denmark are not offering the vaccinations to people under 50.

    "The purpose of the vaccination programme is to prevent severe illness, hospitalisation and death. Therefore, people at the highest risk of becoming severely ill will be offered booster vaccination. The purpose of vaccination is not to prevent infection with covid-19, and people aged under 50 are therefore currently not being offered booster vaccination.


    People aged under 50 are generally not at particularly higher risk of becoming severely ill from covid-19. In addition, younger people aged under 50 are well protected against becoming severely ill from covid-19, as a very large number of them have already been vaccinated and have previously been infected with covid-19, and there is consequently good immunity among this part of the population.


    It is important that the population also remembers the guidance on how to prevent the spread of infection, including staying at home in case of illness, frequent aeration or ventilation, social distancing, good coughing etiquette, hand hygiene and cleaning."

    Again, none of these replies are for your benefit.



  • Registered Users Posts: 25,236 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    Yea, straight gish galloping at this stage and in a way that can't be through pure ignorance.

    He's doing it on purpose. He knows full well what he's doing and why it's dishonest. Doesn't care. As long as he gets to pretend vaccines are evil.


    Also note that this is all distraction because he's abandoned his previous point that the vaccines are causing negative effectiveness cause that blew up in his face and he doesn't want to acknowledge that.



  • Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 5,982 ✭✭✭hometruths


    I don;t have any knowledge that medical science has missed.

    I'm showing that your consensus looks shaky, and your claim that people who question the safety and efficacy of the vaccines believe they've spotted something the entire medical community has missed is demonstrably illogical. Given that many members of the medical community question the safety and efficacy of the vaccines.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 12,800 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    This flies in the face of the conspiracies laid out in this thread. RFID chips, all about control, big pharma earning money et al.



  • Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 5,982 ✭✭✭hometruths


    The purpose of vaccination is not to prevent infection with covid-19, and people aged under 50 are therefore currently not being offered booster vaccination.

    Those of us who have been arguing exactly this point for well over a year in this thread have been dismissed as lunatics.



  • Registered Users Posts: 25,236 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    No, you've been arguing that the various medical organisations around the world were involved in a vast global conspiracy to claim that the vaccines prevent covid infection, then to cover up those claims to change it to the idea that the vaccines were to prevent serious illness.

    You're the only person making this argument. Who do you believe "those of us" are?

    Your fellow conspiracy theorists have not once supported or even acknowledged your silly and frankly boring conspiracy. They were too busy claiming that the vaccines were part of a global satanist depopulation plot etc.



  • Registered Users Posts: 12,800 ✭✭✭✭The Nal


    Originally it was because 5G was being rolled out and it was to track us, for reasons TBC. Something about China, socialism etc.

    Track us, like Google and the like do already.

    Thankfully most of the loonies have vanished from here. Hopefully back living a normal life again after ruining it for 2 years.



  • Registered Users Posts: 17,984 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    You are demonstrating that Florida has taken a very questionable decision re 20 to 39 yr old males that isn't shared by any other state. That Denmark has taken a fairly unique approach to vaccinations for the under 50's, one that I don't disagree with, people under 50 can still get vaccinated if they want, I wouldn't be surprised if the other Nordic countries that have the same levels of high vaccinations and socio-economic situation follow suit. That there was one questionable study in Israel. Also you've touched on vaccinations for the under 5's, and as we all know isn't really a major concern considering Covid doesn't impact that age group as much.

    These are separate issues, each has it's own context, but you are ignoring that context in order to collect them all together to make it seem like vaccines are more questionable or dangerous than they are.

    I don;t have any knowledge that medical science has missed.

    Exactly. Your posts show that you are just a lay-person cherry-picking stuff from the internet to suit a personal narrative you have about these vaccines.

     Given that many members of the medical community question the safety and efficacy of the vaccines.

    Indeed, they do it all the time.

    You don't. You have an agenda to portray these vaccines in the worst possible light using a toolbox of disingenuous techniques as demonstrated by your hundreds of posts here doing nothing but that.



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  • Registered Users Posts: 25,236 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    There was that period where the vaccines were going to alter people's DNA to help turn us into cyborgs also.

    And then it was claims that the vaccines would kill millions.


    Now it's been down graded so much that they're desperately clinging onto the notion that it causes slightly higher numbers of a rare heart issue.


    They need a win cause they're not allowed by their religion to accept they might have just been wrong.

    Same shite happened with the swine flu vaccine and we still had folks here claiming that they were right about that too. Gonna happen again.



  • Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 5,982 ✭✭✭hometruths


     Given that many members of the medical community question the safety and efficacy of the vaccines.

    Indeed, they do it all the time.

    Which brings me back to my previous point. Are these experts questioning the vaccines objectively and within reason? Or are they lunatics with an agenda?

    And as far as I understand you cannot get a vaccine now under 50 in Denmark, unless your GP deems you to be in need of it because you are at higher risk. No doubt you'll correct me if I am wrong.



  • Registered Users Posts: 25,236 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    More deliberate dishonesty and avoiding by yourself.

    Dohnjoe explained exactly an example of how "experts" can be questionable. You avoided that post entirely and now you're trying to demand an answer to your question again.



  • Subscribers Posts: 41,596 ✭✭✭✭sydthebeat




  • Registered Users Posts: 2,366 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    Oh yes. A prolific one.



  • Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 5,982 ✭✭✭hometruths


    I think the point here is gone over your head, I'll repost the first post I made on this:

    This is my problem with the vaccines. When the vaccines were first rolled out the clear expectation was that the primary function was to prevent catching Covid.

    When it became abundantly clear that this was not working as intended, but they were having good effect in preventing serious illness and death, very few vaccine proponents acknowledged this. It was spun as if the primary function all along was to reduce serious illness and death, and anybody who thought they were taking the vaccine to prevent them getting Covid just didn't understand how vaccines worked.

    This is total and utter nonsense, and as far as I am concerned it undermines all subsequent claims about the vaccine efficacy and safety.

    The vaccines were specifically approved to prevent infection, not to reduce the severity of symptoms of infections. The emergency use approval is still for the prevention of Covid-19.

    The purpose of vaccination has subsequently pivoted to reducing the severity of the disease rather than preventing infection.

    I have argued this numerous times, that it is abundantly clear the vaccines are not doing a very good job at preventing infections, and on each occasion somebody on here has argued they're doing a great job at preventing infections.

    So good on the Danes for explicitly stating this fact, and for DohnJoe for acknowledging it.

    It does still leave us with the odd situation that people are getting injected with a vaccine that is licensed in the EU under emergency use authorisation specifically for the purpose of preventing infection yet an EU country's guidance states that the intended purpose is not to prevent infection.

    According to the Danes, it's literally not fit for purpose!!



  • Registered Users Posts: 17,984 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    This is the "but we were told" argument explained a looong time ago in the thread.

    According to you, "we were told" the vaccines would stop Covid infections. That we'd all be vaccinated and it wouldn't spread anymore. However the virus mutates, and that didn't happen.

    Normal rational people can grasp this. You on the other hand have been unable to process it, let alone get over it. In your mind, the vaccines were "sold" as stopping Covid, and when that didn't happen, the "powers-that-be" all over the world pivoted on their word.

    You feel like you were "betrayed" and this is your ensuing crusade to highlight it.

    You even have an accompanying conspiracy to go with it, but are generally "smart" enough to keep details on that low and not mention it too much, because you know how whacky it is.

    This thread has become your mini side-of-the-road protest and anti-vax tropes have become your placards



  • Registered Users Posts: 25,236 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    He seems to also fall back to this argument when he runs out of rope with the other anti-vaxxer claims like the notion that the vaccines are going to cause millions of deaths or that the vaccines are "negatively effective."

    When it suits he's willing to support those claims. But when it gets too difficult for him to defend them, he can always just claim he's just asking questions and his real point is this particular nugget, then forget the last dozen or so pages happened.


    And all of this is of course based on his interpretation of a single sentence in one particular document that completely ignores all context and other statements and all of the dozens of times this has been explained to him.



  • Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 5,982 ✭✭✭hometruths


    Yes we were told that the vaccines would prevent Covid infections. That is what they were designed to do, and that's what they were approved to do.

    That is a fact.

    Just because it turned out they did a pretty poor job of what they were designed to do doesn't change that fact.

    They were not approved to reduce the transmission, nor have I ever claimed they were.



  • Registered Users Posts: 93 ✭✭hometruths_real


    yes... and where does the doctor get their information from?



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  • Administrators Posts: 14,033 Admin ✭✭✭✭✭Big Bag of Chips


    @hometruths_real and @[Deleted User] if you haven't anything relevant to add don't bother posting.

    Nobody is interested in your tiff.



  • Registered Users Posts: 17,984 ✭✭✭✭Dohnjoe


    I know plenty of people who thought the vaccines might completely stop infection. When that didn't occur they understood it.

    Not everyone did. Unfortunately some individuals are ultimately scared by the fact that we aren't in control of everything, so they comfort themselves with the notion that somehow we deliberately didn't control the virus, rather than accept that we were unable to.



  • Registered Users Posts: 25,236 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    With hometruths I suspect it's more of a cynical thing where he's trying to pretend to be an expert with secret knowledge.


    He's smart enough to know that the extreme claims would only cause people to laugh at him, so only let's them come out when he thinks it's safe. But otherwise he is trying to play the part of the "reasonable conspiracy theorist" who's "only saying one thing and asking questions."



  • Registered Users Posts: 30,142 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    I expect when the data from Florida is looked at they will find that the people who were vaccinated were higher risk than the people who did not get vaccinated to begin with.

    The study presumes that the people in both groups were of equal risk. This is contrary to what we know and uptake of vaccines is higher in higher risk groups.

    The study also fails to even consider if there was an increase year on year in actual cardiac related deaths.

    The data really needs to be drilled into. It is way to premature to make any decisions or recommendations based on this data.

    The authors of the report recommend further studies before drawing any conclusions due to the study's limitations. So it looks like Ladapo has jumped the gun on this this for his own reasons.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 5,982 ✭✭✭hometruths


    Another study showing negative vaccine effectiveness:

    Vaccine effectiveness of 3 doses of mRNA-1273 and relative vaccine effectiveness of 3 versus 2 doses of mRNA-1273 against infection with SARS-CoV-2 variants by time since vaccination.

    https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.09.30.22280573v1.full



  • Registered Users Posts: 25,236 ✭✭✭✭King Mob


    What do you mean "Another"?

    The last one you posted didn't show that. You emailed the author and they explained this to you and you've been spending the last two weeks trying to pretend that didn't happen. People don't have as short of a memory as you seem to believe.

    And again, it appears that you're trying to pull the same tactic of just posting a graph you are taking out of context without actually pointing out where in the study it says anything about "negative effectiveness."

    That study does not say the vaccines are negatively effective.

    Also, on the top of the link you posted is this very prominent warning:

    Which leads me to believe that you didn't actually read it.


    You will of course ignore this, pretend that you can't see these points and you will spam the same image again and again without actually addressing any of the points.

    You will convince no one.



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  • Registered Users, Subscribers Posts: 5,982 ✭✭✭hometruths


    Here we go again.

    The VE of 3 doses after 150 days against the BA.2 variant is -24.9%. That is negative effectiveness. That's what the study found. And that is what Figure 2 shows.

    And yes I am aware it is a preprint. But I am not using this study to guide clinical practice.



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