No “Firm Answer” On Why Americans Who Recovered From COVID-19 Should Get Vaccinated

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  1. Ddyad

    Ddyad Well-Known Member

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    There is no flu anymore. It's a miracle. ;-)
     
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    And what's that got to do with the study they did?
     
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    "Pharma billionaires" can profit just as easily from all that extra hospital care for the unvaccinated.

    You know, conspiracy theorists regularly use imaginary evil billionaires as a justification for their unfounded, insane beliefs and claims. I've heard it for well over a decade now from 9/11 trufers, moon landing kooks and even young earth creationists. They all like to imagine a cabal of rich guys somewhere raking in a bunch of money by fooling the "sheeple." It's paranoid thinking and a desperate attempt to justify what can't be justified by any substantive facts that are actually relevant to their claims.
     
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    LOL! So, now you think CNN is pushing "conspiracy theories".

    Topping the list of new billionaires are Moderna (MRNA) CEO Stéphane Bancel and Ugur Sahin, the CEO of BioNTech (BNTX), which has produced a vaccine with Pfizer (PFE). Both CEOs are now worth around $4 billion, according to an analysis by the People's Vaccine Alliance, a campaign group that includes Oxfam, UNAIDS, Global Justice Now and Amnesty International. Senior executives from China's CanSino Biologics and early investors in Moderna have also become billionaires on paper as shares skyrocketed, partly in expectation of profits earned from Covid vaccines, which also bode well for the companies' future prospects. The analysis was compiled using data from the Forbes Rich List.”
    CNN, Covid vaccine profits mint 9 new pharma billionaires, By Hanna Ziady, CNN Business, May 21, 2021.
    https://www.cnn.com/2021/05/21/business/covid-vaccine-billionaires/index.html

    Just theoretical new billionaires - right? ;-)
     
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    You think, antibodies created by the human immune system actually stay at a constant saturation :)

    Hilarious, of course they lessen as time goes by, but the immune system in a since retains the coding for every infection and or invader it fights off..

    But I did find your version quite amusing LMFAO :)
     
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    Really dumb post.

    One virologist claims we need to stop vaccinating because it is causing an explosion in variants and variants that resist the vaccines. Only the unvaccinated create herd immunity so we need the unvaccinated to save the vaccinated by creating herd immunity. The vaccine do not create immunity memory so do not contribute to herd immunity. Considering that 94% that die are over 50 only the older with comorbidities should get the vaccine.
     
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    Hey its all good with me. The vaccine works. Its a good product.
     
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    Real billionaires, but so what? CNN isn't claiming that the vaccines are some kind of fraud. The antivaxxers, however, are, and they use billionaires, real or imagined, to try and justify their claims.
     
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    Of course you come in here with unsourced drivel. Not surprised.
     
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    Pfizer and Moderna should offer you some stock options. :)

    New York (CNN Business)The imminent authorization of Pfizer's Covid-19 vaccine in the United States is a momentous occasion for science, the economy and humanity. The milestone is also a major moneymaker for the companies that developed the vaccines.

    Wall Street analysts are projecting Pfizer and Moderna will generate $32 billion in Covid-19 vaccine revenue -- next year alone.

    That doesn't take into account the goodwill boost these companies will receive by helping to end the worst pandemic in a century. That boost is magnified for Moderna (MRNA), a young biotech company that few people had heard of before 2020 that could now be on the cusp of getting its own FDA authorization.

    Pfizer (PFE) by itself is projected to haul in $19 billion in Covid-19 vaccine revenue in 2021, according to Morgan Stanley. That's on top of an estimated $975 million in 2020 vaccine revenue.”
    CNN, Pfizer and Moderna could score $32 billion in Covid-19 vaccine sales -- in 2021 alone, By Matt Egan, CNN Business, Fri December 11, 2020.
    https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/11/business/pfizer-vaccine-covid-moderna-revenue/index.html
     
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    The "Left" will have to stop swooning and swapping spit with all their new Pandemic billionaire lovers or they may get very sick.

    “The richest of these new billionaires is Li Jianquan, the president of Chinese medical products manufacturer Winner Medical, which ramped up production of masks and medical overalls to supply frontline workers across the globe. Winner Medical’s IPO on the Shenzhen stock exchange in September 2020 instantly made Jianquan, 64, a billionaire several times over thanks to his 68% stake in the company, worth $6.8 billion.

    Some vaccine companies have been so successful that their rise over the last year has minted several new billionaires from the same company, including four apiece from Moderna and Tianjin-based CanSino Biologics, which saw its one-shot vaccine approved by Chinese regulators in February. And it’s not just the vaccine discoverers: companies that mass produce the vaccines and contract research firms that help firms run clinical trials have both reaped the rewards, creating new fortunes for people like Juan López-Belmonte López of Spanish pharma outfit Rovi and Karin Sartorius-Herbst and Ulrike Baro of German biopharma firm Sartorius AG.” (emphasis mine)
    FORBES, Meet The 40 New Billionaires Who Got Rich Fighting Covid-19, By Giacomo Tognini, Forbes Staff, BILLIONAIRES 2021, Apr 6, 2021. (emphasis mine)
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacom...o-got-rich-fighting-covid-19/?sh=2192c24d17e5

    Hint to Left: Don't put out until they start making your 'champaign wishes and caviar dreams' come true. ;-)
     
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    What's your point? People shouldn't get vaccinated.... because China?
     
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    Sir! Great post and great new avatar! Everyone can use mine if they want as well. I own it as I created it.... so it's free to you all.
     
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    Vote "Progressive" for "a record 493 new billionaires".
    Now that really is whole "New Left". ;-)

    “Shortly after the World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a global pandemic on March 11, 2020, markets collapsed and economies around the world plunged into recession.”

    “One year later, things couldn’t be more different: a record 493 new billionaires joined the list this year, propelled by a red-hot stock market and unprecedented economic stimulus. Among those newcomers are at least 40 new entrants who draw their fortunes from companies involved in fighting Covid-19. Some, such as Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel and BioNTech cofounder Uğur Şahin, have become household names thanks to the vaccines they helped develop. Others got rich making everything from personal protective equipment and diagnostic tests to antibody treatments and software that helps authorities schedule vaccination campaigns, which will be essential in reopening economies and returning to normal life.”
    FORBES, Meet The 40 New Billionaires Who Got Rich Fighting Covid-19, By Giacomo Tognini, Forbes Staff, BILLIONAIRES 2021, Apr 6, 2021. (emphasis mine)
    https://www.forbes.com/sites/giacom...o-got-rich-fighting-covid-19/?sh=2192c24d17e5

    Dear Lefties: Wake up!
     
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    Damn. This is about one of the most straight forward and scientifically sound posts I have seen in a while, especially on the herd immunity part and the at risk group.

    I saw that "one virologist" by the way, and I wish I could remember his name, but he's like the Babe Ruth of virologists and in the medical world people are taking note of that fact. It's the politicos that are ignoring it.
     
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    Wake up to what? Smart investors making money by investing in the companies producing much-needed vaccines? That's the American dream right there.
     
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    Anyone that has read through the Israel Study, Cleveland Clinic Study, and La Jolla Study... all peer reviewed... all solid... would know that those with the natural antibodies, T Cell, B Cells, are far far far far more protected that those with a vaccine. There is no solid Scientific or Mathematical case at this time for those that had CV-19 to get a vaccine. Now, if we show the antibodies, T Cell, B Cell immunity wanes in a period of time, then we can talk. At this point, there is no real evidence that those with the antibodies are vulnerable in any significant way.

    Note: 1 in 35,000 people that caught CV-19 can catch it again. That number is 13X lower than those with vaccines. Now that Math goes with the very low number of contracting it in the first place. Those that do... rarely need any hospital care.

    If all of you really want to get upset, start reading up on the therapeutics that the U.S. Government is trying so hard to ignore. They have had amazing results with therapeutics all over the world in enormous numbers. This appears to be all about the United States of Pfizer.
     
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    They are both viruses so why should it not be like the flu? Only Covid-19 does not care what season it is which makes it a much bigger problem trying to get on top of it. Scientifically nothing has changed.
     
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    There is nothing scientific about that hogwash. The current vaccines are still working against the variants. There could hypothetically be vaccine-resistant variants, but contrary to the unscientific claims you're quoting, they are more likely to arise primarily because of unvaccinated people keeping the virus alive in great enough quantities that the vaccinated are continually exposed to it, giving it the opportunity to mutate into a vaccine-resistant strain. If more people were vaccinated, there would be less virus around and thus less of a chance for this mutation to occur.
     
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    No one on the left is that naive.

    “Media reports on government actions, whether debates, legislation, or regulation, almost always present them in terms of pure policy. New laws are for a specific purpose, perhaps even a noble one. But what if that isn't the real purpose of the exercise? What if politics is largely about fund-raising and moneymaking? The commercial motives of the Permanent Political Class in acting or not acting are rarely questioned and virtually never fully understood.” EXTORTION, "How Politicians Extract Your money, BuyVotes, And Line Their Own Pockets, Peter Schweizer, HMO, NY, NY, 2013. p. 2, 3.

    "... a record 493 new billionaires". Res Ipsa loquitur
     
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    Only in that it mutates. Where it differs from the flu, though, it is more easily spread and more deadly than the flu.
     
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    1780 shares $MRNA on 17-Aug-2020.
     
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    Of course you dismiss anything not approved by Biden.
     
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    "What if" it's all a conspiracy to make people richer!

    What if it's just smart investors making money, as they always do?

    By the way, the vast majority of your "493 new billionaires" didn't get that from pharmaceutical investments, going by your own cited article:

     
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    Politicians don't know or care about science unless it is beneficial to them politically. Whether it's democrats lying about COVID to tighten government control over the masses, or Republicans lying about climate change, ultimately all either party cares about is power, and will skew the science to support their position without skipping a beat.
     
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