Thanks for continuing to do this work for so long. Your posts are great sources of relief, as I like understanding things that make me upset as best as I can.
In that vein, I was wondering what you think about this article?
Basically, the Biden administration is reportedly moving towards a booster shot campaign because there's new evidence that vaccine protection is waning over time, maybe faster than expected. What do you make of this? Would love to get your take.
Hope you're keeping safe and thanks again for what you've been doing!
To clarify: my comment about other vaccines was meant in the context of the disease being a global problem(as you have written about), thus my mention of Sinovac. It now seems that the commonly-exported China-manufactured vaccines are not very effective (emphasis on "seems" as I am not an expert), and at this time I believe they're the most-widely-administered worldwide. Of course, nations that can't afford more effective vaccines can't afford truly widespread testing, either.
You mention the Taliban apparently banning vaccination. Could this be because a CIA pretense of working for a vaccination program resulted in the death of their buddy, Osama bin Laden? That's a rhetorical question, inevitably that contributes to their attitude. The CIA may well have killed more people than Osama ever managed with that poor decision.
I have not seen a lot of real-world evidence with Chinese vaccine products, so I am not sure if what you're claiming here is true or not. Do you have a source?
And yeah, I do think that the exploitation of vaccination by the CIA as a means to track Osama Bin Laden was terrifyingly irresponsible and almost certainly killed more people than it should have. Whether it killed more than the thousands of people that he killed, that's hard to say. Polio causes paralysis that can be managed and recovered from in most cases, and there are very few cases globally since it only exists in Afghanistan and Pakistan, now--and certain labs, where it is closely tracked. On the other hand, if we lose containment on polio in those countries and it returns, then the CIA's decision there looks particularly short-sighted.
“We will solve the issue that current vaccines don't have very high protection rates...”
About the CIA deception: I was not referring to polio deaths so much as amplifying the belief in the Muslim world that vaccines are a Western plot to destroy them. I read yesterday that at least some factions of the Taliban are already banning vaccination in territory they control.
Hey John,
Thanks for continuing to do this work for so long. Your posts are great sources of relief, as I like understanding things that make me upset as best as I can.
In that vein, I was wondering what you think about this article?
https://news.yahoo.com/troubling-cdc-vaccine-data-convinced-132851003.html
Basically, the Biden administration is reportedly moving towards a booster shot campaign because there's new evidence that vaccine protection is waning over time, maybe faster than expected. What do you make of this? Would love to get your take.
Hope you're keeping safe and thanks again for what you've been doing!
- Mcc
Hi, John,
To clarify: my comment about other vaccines was meant in the context of the disease being a global problem(as you have written about), thus my mention of Sinovac. It now seems that the commonly-exported China-manufactured vaccines are not very effective (emphasis on "seems" as I am not an expert), and at this time I believe they're the most-widely-administered worldwide. Of course, nations that can't afford more effective vaccines can't afford truly widespread testing, either.
You mention the Taliban apparently banning vaccination. Could this be because a CIA pretense of working for a vaccination program resulted in the death of their buddy, Osama bin Laden? That's a rhetorical question, inevitably that contributes to their attitude. The CIA may well have killed more people than Osama ever managed with that poor decision.
I have not seen a lot of real-world evidence with Chinese vaccine products, so I am not sure if what you're claiming here is true or not. Do you have a source?
And yeah, I do think that the exploitation of vaccination by the CIA as a means to track Osama Bin Laden was terrifyingly irresponsible and almost certainly killed more people than it should have. Whether it killed more than the thousands of people that he killed, that's hard to say. Polio causes paralysis that can be managed and recovered from in most cases, and there are very few cases globally since it only exists in Afghanistan and Pakistan, now--and certain labs, where it is closely tracked. On the other hand, if we lose containment on polio in those countries and it returns, then the CIA's decision there looks particularly short-sighted.
They could have found another way, in my opinion.
Here's a story I happened to see a couple of hours ago:
https://www.audacy.com/wcbs880/news/world/uae-to-offer-booster-shot-to-recipients-of-sinopharm-vaccine
Sinopharm's vaccine loses efficacy quite fast.
Older story: the director of China's CDC agrees with me: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/official-chinese-vaccines-effectiveness-low-77002863
“We will solve the issue that current vaccines don't have very high protection rates...”
About the CIA deception: I was not referring to polio deaths so much as amplifying the belief in the Muslim world that vaccines are a Western plot to destroy them. I read yesterday that at least some factions of the Taliban are already banning vaccination in territory they control.