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TVille said:
When I was released from the hospital after my transplant, I was told I was very immunosuppressed due to the anit-rejection meds. Scary words. So I asked my doctors about going out in public, especially being weak at that time from the transplant. Their response was I should go to Wally world, the supermarket, and anywhere else. Because not doing so would put me in a bubble, not exposing me to other bacteria and viruses, making it more likely I would get sick. They encouraged me to get out in the dead of winter and go to public places to get exposed! Lock downs be damned!!
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I fully agree, our bodies are not designed to hide or run from a fight.
 
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sebastiantombs said:
^^^ If you haven't watched/listened to this vide DO IT NOW!!!!!!!

Thanks @Oceanslider
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Interesting, I did a search on the guy and of course come up with a number of liberal leaning "fact checkers" (ie; slobs who couldn't get a real job if their life depended on it) and all of them are a re-hash of the same points, not arguing the FACTS, but instead try to discredit one of his main points by saying "yeah CDC did file the patent, but they "didnt mean" to do it as a cover up of any sort. They were simply looking out for our best interests. In other words, yeah he's right, but their "intent" wasn't bad.

Typical low life liberal reasoning. Its not the facts its the "intent" or "feelings" that matter.
 
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If that's the best they can do, complain about "feelings" of one patent application they're really grasping at straws. He cites multiple patents by multiple companies and people, complete with the patent numbers to back them up. I guess if you can't discredit/deny the evidence you're stuck with "feelings" and "intentions".
 
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Natural immunity from Covid infection could be stronger than vaccination: Israeli study suggests people who received both doses of Pfizer's shot are up to 13 TIMES more likely to contract virus than those who were previously ill

Researchers compared people who had received two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to unvaccinated individuals who had recovered from the virus. They found that participants with natural immunity were up to 13 times less likely to contract Covid than those who were given two jabs.

The team, from Maccabi Healthcare and Tel Aviv University note that their study - which has not yet been peer-reviewed - has many limitations including the more highly transmissible Delta variant being dominant at the time and participants not being required to be tested.

The study looks at breakthrough infections and does not discourage vaccination with a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finding unvaccinated people still have five times as many COVID-19 infections and 29 times as many hospitalizations as those who've had their shots.

Natural immunity from Covid infection could be stronger than vaccination. Israeli study suggests | Daily Mail Online

My comment: Just adding to the above stories.
 
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Rob2020 said:
Story up at the New York Daily News;

One-third of Americans were infected with COVID by December 2020: new study

Nearly one-third of the entire U.S. population had been infected with COVID by the end of 2020 — a much higher rate of infection than previously known, a startling new study has found.
The study, which was conducted by researchers at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and published in the journal Nature on Thursday, reveals that 103 million Americans, or 31% of the population, had been infected by December 2020 — and that the rate of infection in New York City at the time was even higher at 44%.

“The vast majority of infectious were not accounted for by the number of confirmed cases,” said Jeffrey Shaman, one of the report’s researchers and a professor of environmental health sciences at the Mailman School. “It is these undocumented cases, which are often mild or asymptomatic infectious, that allow the virus to spread quickly through the broader population.”

The study aimed to account for a lack of testing early in the pandemic and the fact that people with no or few symptoms were less likely to get tested.
Its findings, when paired with COVID test results from the end of December 2020, reveal a stark divide.

While the study estimates that 31% of the overall U.S. population had been infected by December, the Centers for Disease Control put out statistics that same month showing only 12.3% of COVID tests taken at the time were positive.

The peer-reviewed research found that by the end of 2020, infection rates were particularly high in several regions and in big cities, with 48% of people in Chicago infected, 52% of Los Angeles and 42% of Miami.

In parts of the Midwest like Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa, more than 60% of the population had been infected, the study found.
“While the landscape has changed with the availability of vaccines and the spread of new variants, it is important to recognize just how dangerous the pandemic was in its first year,” said Sen Pei, one of the researchers and an assistant professor at Mailman.
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