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This is more good news about vaccines


There is a growing body of evidence that shingles vaccines are protective against dementia..,


https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/misc-emerging-topics/shingles-vaccine-recipients-less-likely-develop-dementia-study-shows

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Anonymous said…
My fear on vaccines now is that the manufacturers may start putting something that's not fully tested such as the MRNA in the Covid "vaccines" in order to obtain something new to provide a new license/revenue stream as opposed to something that's tried and true but whose profit margin is down. My personal battles with the Covid vaccine have left me highly skeptical and until the manufacturers AND the government come clean, I'll remain highly skeptical.
Anonymous said…
I of course believe vaccines work. However like everything in science and the real world it is more complex than the standard science communicator makes it out. (1) MRNA vaccines are different from previous vaccines are and not as effective in that they only give a portion of the virus for the antibodies to fight against. In the Covid case it was the spike protein. (2) When they inject the spike protein in you it can still cause some damage and some the antibodies response can be harsh, this maybe because you need a larger dose of this stuff or it is more concentrated. (3) it is not as tested as other vaccines, which typically take 10 years of testing, Covid was rushed so it is natural to think it would cause more side effects. However you have to weigh in other factors like you could died of Covid if you did not have the vaccine so the side effects beat the alternative.

It does look like a lot of people who had the vaccine had some long term side effects, the issue is if this can be shown to be due to the vaccine, the lockdown, or having had Covid. It is not as easy as it looks to distinguish these. The problem is (1) older people and less healthy people took the vaccine more often so they could had many other issues that would have came up anyway. (2) These this same group of people probably did get Covid at some point and it could have had long lasting effects. (3) Sitting in your house for 2 years and not talking to anyone can also have long term effects. (4) having multiple doses of the vaccine could have some percentage of people that had issues. (5) Combinations of these,
you are old sick before the pandemic, got Covid, did not exercise for 2 years and did get some minor effects of the vaccine, so now you only blame the vaccine.

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