Most Comical/Hysterical COVID News Stories of the past few years

People like myself who aren't at risk of severe illness or death not taking a vaccine that doesn't stop the spread of an illness doesn't put any strain on the health service of a country. Besides, it's widely acknowledged at this point that any protection you might get lasts a few months at best. Hardly anyone is getting boosters at this point so they are all pretty much the "unvaxxed" too after this long

When the vaccines were rolled out in 2021 they offered significant protection against infection and transmission. This is well documented in multiple studies cited on this forum.

Likewise it is simply false to state the protection against severe covid wore off after a few months or that such protection drops to zero after a few months even versus current strains. People are boosted to top up but that does not mean the previous protection lasts only a few months.

While the protection isnt 100% and wanes all of that adds up to significant level of protection in the population with all that means for the health service.

You post is just a rehash of thoroughly discredited anti vax disinformation.

Take your pick....https://www.hse.ie/eng/health/immunisation/hcpinfo/covid19vaccineinfo4hps/covidstudies/

Edit: do you still think the comparison between painkillers and vaccination from disease is valid?

They can be prescribed after dental surgery. Much stronger than OTC stuff such as Sopladeine e.g.

Anyway, how could there be any anti-vaxxers posting on this thread? Thought they were all supposed to be dead by now, no?

No one ever said that. More anti vax hysteria.

A lot of them did die unnecessarily though. At least they died for what they believed in, so maybe that's a win for them?

I was prescribed tramadol. I try to avoid paracetamol too, and the 400mg ibuprofen I was also given worked well though so I just stuck with that. I don't think the opiates are necessary unless maybe you get a dry socket or something

Just wrong, very miss-informed and self-centered view of vaccines.

Edit: edited, there was no need for me to be rude.

Nope, it is just you are shifting the goal posts back and forwards in time whenever it suits your argument.

They aren't recommending them for the general population because so many people are already vaccinated and because Covid mutated. There is a high residual level of protection in the population. When they changed the guidelines - they called out at the time that it was a decision based on that past. If there wasn't such an update of vaccinations already they would still be recommending it.

So if you accept their guidelines now, why didn't you accept them back in 2021 when they were recommending vaccines?

What point are you trying to make exactly? The study showed for months after vaccination - and this was the period during which vaccine passes were in operation, that there was a significant reduction in infection and therefore symptoms and transmission for vaccinated people.

So the statements that have been made by anti vaxxers implying that being vaccinated made no difference are demonstrably false.

The effectiveness varied by vaccine type.

The study showed that initially yes you were 'immune', which is what lead to those statements. That level waned but was still significant for mRNA vaccines e.g. at 6 months from vaccination, there was 59% effectiveness at protecting from infection.

For the outcome SARS-CoV-2 infection of any severity... for mRNA-1273, with a vaccine effectiveness of 96% (94 to 97; p<0·001) at 15–30 days and 59% (18 to 79; p=0·012) from day 181 onwards

The effectiveness against severe was more durable:

For the outcome of severe COVID-19, vaccine effectiveness waned from 89% (82 to 93; p<0·001) at 15–30 days to 64% (44 to 77; p<0·001) from day 121 onwards.

Someone is an anti-vaxxer when they can't even bring themselves to describe them as vaccines but "injections", when they scaremonger about vaccines, when they misrepresent information about vaccines to present it in a negative light, when they engage in semantic games about vaccines, when they repeatedly make false statements about the vaccines without evidence or foundation.

Calling a spade a spade isn't an "unhealthy obsession" when you see the same discredited anti vax tropes popping up again and again.

Case in point: I quoted directly from the article. I have presented the documented scientific evidence on the effectiveness of covid vaccines in 2021 which is the time people here were deciding to get vaccinated, and when vaccine passes were in force. It is irrefutable evidence that the anti vax narrative that the vaccines did nothing to prevent infection, symptoms, transmission is false.

He said that based on the effectiveness reported in the clinical trials. He had a basis to state it, though he probably should have caveated it.

All the evidence shows that being vaccinated significantly, dramatically, though not 100%, reduces your chances of severe covid and therefore risk hospitalisation and death.

They weren't sold a pup. The vaccine provided significant protection.

What he should have said was that the #1 thing you can do right now to ensure you don't end up in hospital is get vaccinated. The #1 thing you can do right now to ensure your loved ones don't end up in hospital is get vaccinated.

These statement is true, demonstrated in study after study, ICU after ICU around the globe.

Yes?

You're all over the place here...stared with we should not have got vaccinated, then on to vaccines are like painkillers, not really necessary and now jumping onto Denmark and England post-covid policies....all while avoiding answering any direct question you are being asked...just random statements and when you are questioned on them you jump off on some other random thing.

Pfft?!

You are one of the one in five lucky ones so , probably, who possess a particular genetic superpower that repels the virus..

https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/why-dont-some-people-get-sick-covid-19-gene-mutation-may-be-work#:~:text=The%20secret%20lies%20with%20the,and%20launch%20a%20lighting%20attack.

Lucky you.

They didnt lie. That was what the study showed.

You continually try to dump anti vax misinformation onto the thread. When challenged you dont try to defend the earlier falsehoods with evidence - you know you cannot.

The goalposts are shifted and another claim thrown out there as a distraction. A claim that is either false or in no way proves the earlier claim.

Classic transparent anti vax tactics. An entirely bad faith argument.

Your claims have no credibility.