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I think there are potential long term dangers in having the "vaccine"... Why the push to vax children and those not at risk? I agree... time to accept that the virus is here to stay and be more like Sweden... and Denmark too... And I think Switzerland... Get life back to normal.

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I certainly think it’s more complex than “everyone gets the vaccine and we’re safe”. I believe I read this morning that 90% of the elderly are now vaccinated, and that’s the important population.

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I heard that the benefits of the vax wear out hence the need for a booster. We simply don't know the long term effects. I read the compilation of data that journalist Mike Whitney, who I became acquainted with him in 2008/9 banking crisis and the public banking movement, publishes most every day. There is a lot to all of this. I get what you mean about feeling like an imposter... But you and me can think and reason. :-) https://mikewhitneysgraspingatstraws.blogspot.com/

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I think what I can gather from the public statements they've made today is that they believe that a higher circulating level of antibodies leads to lower infectivity rates, but I don't believe they've published any data to back that up. It would make some sense, that if there replications are running rampant enough that it's causing serious symptoms, that there's more viral RNA to cast off.

However, I don't think it's necessarily true that the vaccine "wears out". The antibodies will still be retained by the memory immune cells, to be brought out again when exposed. But you don't need constantly circulating antibodies to do that.

I definitely agree that we don't know the long term effects, though this was related to a question I had answered a few months ago. I was trying to figure out if there could be latent damage from a kid getting infected that wouldn't be revealed for some amount of time, and a doctor told me that the body doesn't work like that. If something is wrong, there will be symptoms and things carrying on, not just waiting in hiding for the right moment.

So I'm not as concerned about long term effects from the vaccine itself per se. But I am worried about the long term effects from changing the "natural order" of how a new virus works through a population. It would make a lot of sense to me that vaccinating a population as the virus is still making its way around would put evolutionary pressure on it to evade the vaccine, and potentially become more harmful. I think it's still in the evolutionary best interest of the virus to become more infectious and less dangerous over time, but I think it's hubris to not consider that widespread vaccination could have undesired consequences that haven't been widely discussed.

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Data and solid reasoning. It's comforting.

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Something’s gotta be comforting these days, right?

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