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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Nobody has a monopoly on stupidity, but the right is pretty close to an anti-trust lawsuit.

You put "effectiveness" in quotes because you have come to believe the vaccines aren't effective. You pump "natural immunity" because your information sources told you the vaccines are dangerous, while ignoring that the health risks of getting that natural immunity is way higher without a vaccine than with.

Letting the virus burn through the population to acquire immunity is how we get Spanish Flu numbers. It’s inhumane and dangerous to the fabric of society. Catching covid after vaccination is the far superior option.

The vaccines kept people out of hospitals, prevented many infections, and newer studies are confirming with high certainty now that they reduced transmission:

Initial VET of booster-vaccination (mRNA primary and booster-vaccination) was 87% (95%CI 86–89) against Delta and 68% (95%CI 65–70) against Omicron. The VET-estimate against Delta and Omicron decreased to 71% (95%CI 64–78) and 55% (95%CI 46–62) respectively, 150–200 days after booster-vaccination. Hybrid immunity, defined as vaccination and documented prior infection, was associated with durable and higher or comparable (by number of antigen exposures) protection against transmission.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10073587/#:~:text=Vaccines%20reduced%20susceptibility%20of%20HREC,contact%20completed%20BNT162b2%20primary%2Dvaccination.

What part of these findings show a lack of effectiveness?

There is a long history of governments enforcing vaccines, and it's because individual freedoms DO NOT trump the wellbeing of the country at large. People complained about freedom when they banned indoor smoking and enforced seatbelts too. Same stupid shit from stupid children.

But it's ok, throw your lot in with stupid racist plague rats who are afraid of proven, tested, effective vaccine.

Keep consuming media so warped that you actually think Trudeau is anywhere near as dangerous as Trump.