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September 21, 2021 10:07 PM Forum: Politics

Dr. Marty Makary, Top Epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University says about Natural Immunity vs. Vaccinated Immunity...

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Greg Shaffer
I have too many unanswered questions to be comfortable with taking this "vaccine" as of yet.....the least of which is not is why is it being called a "vaccine"? It is most definitely not a vaccine. It does not contain the virus or any part of the virus, it is experimental gene based therapy of which large scale trials are not scheduled to be complete until 2023.

Anyone questioning it is being given negative labels such as anti-vaxer or conspiracy theorists and brow beat for having their concerns. 

There is plenty of evidence of negative reactions to the "vaccine" out there....albeit small in comparison to the whole it is still real and definable....I am not a big fan of the "greater good" philosophy. Of more concern though is we simply do not know the potential long term effects of the vaccine and anyone stating we do is flat out lying....

There is a 24 hr 7 day a week propaganda push out there from the political and media arena....that doesnt promote trust for me. 

Why were governments putting in orders for PCR tests as long ago as 2017? Why are there registered patents on the "jab" that pre-date the discovery of this variant of the flu? Why is the same experimental "vaccine" being touted as cure for more than one variant of covid? How does that stack up against the recommendation of a different flu vaccine every year as the previous year's vaccine is ineffective against the new variant of the flu?

Lockdowns for a virus that has a undisputed 99.7% recovery rate? Really?

No doubt most of you will ridicule this post but I could not care less.....

The list of questions that concern me keeps going but as long as they remain unanswered I will choose to trust in the natural immunity afforded me by already having contracted it and recovered. Sorry if my perspective offends you but it is "my" perspective and I am entitled to it. 

All that said when/if the time comes there is sufficient evidence that this form of gene therapy being touted as a vaccine is safe and effective for all I will happily line up for my dose.....we are not there yet.
Greg:

I would not, and never have ridiculed one of your posts.  At least I don't think so and if I did I was having a very bad day.  We disagree on a lot of the content in your post (I agree with some content), but you posted without changing the subject, lying, name calling and other things that draw ridicule.  

Jim

September 21, 2021 10:20 PM Forum: Politics

Dr. Marty Makary, Top Epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University says about Natural Immunity vs. Vaccinated Immunity...

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

You have not Heaped guilt on those who chose not to get vaccinated?  

You just in the last few postings told Greg that someone else gave Greg's friends the Corona virus and that had they been vaccinated they wouldn't have given Greg's friends the virus. Not heaping guilt, but certainly shaming people into getting the vaccine so they don't give it to others.

You've been shaming people into getting the vaccine from day 1 on this forum as far as I can tell.  

I thought about this aspect of Greg's post a lot last night.  I hesitated to say anything because he has friends who died.  That is rough.  Greg seems OK with discussing it though. 

The fact is that no immunity is 100% effective.  Neither natural immunity nor vaccine immunity.  Any immunity is a lot better than no immunity at all though.

We on the forum will probably never know who infected Greg's friends.  Was it some passerby, or a close family member?  Statistically, it is certainly more likely than not that the carriers who infected Greg's friends were not vaccinated and were in their own first round of Covid infection.   Maybe they were asymptomatic.   I think it is a shame that more people aren't choosing to get vaccinated, because it follows clearly that if more people were vaccinated, fewer like Greg's friends would get serious or fatal disease.

That is a conclusion I reach with sadness and some level of frustration, not anger.  Guilt messaging is ineffective.  I guess I have been applying pressure to people like Greg, because I think he should get vaccinated.  I'll retract that part of my earlier posts.  But Greg has articulated his reasons for not taking the jab, and I respect that.    

Jim

September 21, 2021 10:26 PM Forum: Politics

Dr. Marty Makary, Top Epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University says about Natural Immunity vs. Vaccinated Immunity...

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

 you believe that its a mother's decision to be able to kill her child in the womb up to 13 weeks into the pregnancy and you think that neither gov't or anyone else has the right to tell her she cannot, 
This is the part right here, that you conveniently bolded above, which sure sounds to me like you are saying I am a proponent of abortion. 

September 21, 2021 10:27 PM Forum: Politics

Dr. Marty Makary, Top Epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University says about Natural Immunity vs. Vaccinated Immunity...

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by James Brown

Is 27X the 80% to 95% vaccine effectiveness rate even a mathematical possibility?
Crickets....

September 21, 2021 10:34 PM Forum: Politics

Dr. Marty Makary, Top Epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University says about Natural Immunity vs. Vaccinated Immunity...

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Richard Davis
I wouldn't.  I never had Chicken pox as a kid so why I get that shot?

To avoid getting Chicken Pox now.  I understand that it can be very serious in adults. 

Do you go to the doctor for anything?  PSA test, blood pressure, and blood chemistry are all important to monitor for people our age.  Many signs of heart disease and cancer are detectable and early treatment is key.  

I'm not as regular at the physician's as I should be, but I get a check up every two years or so.  Jim

September 21, 2021 10:41 PM Forum: Politics

Dr. Marty Makary, Top Epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University says about Natural Immunity vs. Vaccinated Immunity...

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

You just in the last few postings told Greg that someone else gave Greg's friends the Corona virus and that had they been vaccinated they wouldn't have given Greg's friends the virus. Not heaping guilt, but certainly shaming people into getting the vaccine so they don't give it to others.

Do you think that getting vaccinated so you don't pass the disease on to others is not one valid argument in favor of vaccination?  I doubt you think that, but it is hard to tell from your post.

September 21, 2021 11:17 PM Forum: Politics

I'm disappointed

Posted By James Brown

A year or two ago, when the market took a dump, Rod could be counted on to post something blaming Trump.  That always made me happy - because like clockwork the market would bounce back in the next day or two.  I guess I came to see a doom-and-gloom posting from Rod as a leading indicator of a nice rally.  I counted on it.

Yesterday, the market swooned and nothing from Rod...  Does this mean we are in for an extended Bear market?  I sure hope not.  

Jim

September 22, 2021 12:12 AM Forum: Politics

From now on...

Posted By James Brown

I will not read or reply to any thread that calls me or any other forum member out by name in the title.  Only Richard does this.  It seems rude to me.  I encourage you all to join me.  Jim

September 22, 2021 12:17 AM Forum: Politics

I'm disappointed

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Well Jim, I think nobody saw this one coming from left field out of China until arrived yesterday. I follow the markets and there are plenty of doomsayers pontificating on the collapse of the market on a weekly or monthly basis. Eventually, when the market takes a dump, one of 'em wiil statistically be proven to be right bases upon the sheer numbers of the negative forecasting that many of them do on an ongoing basis. Of those doomsayers, none, to my knowledge, forecast a dump based upon a real estate developer in China. 
However, others are forecasting market dumps based upon the congress failing to raise the debt ceiling which it did twice under the Trump presidency. The GOP gleefully raised the limit without question so the nation would not default. Now that a Democrat occupies the office, it's the same old hypocrisy of the GOP on full display. 
So, if it happens, I still place the blame where it belongs on the GOP...
Hopefully you get the tongue-in-cheek tone of my post...  That said, the sooner you blame this on the GOP, the happier I'll be!  The market has been soft for a couple of weeks and a rally would be nice!

September 22, 2021 12:25 AM Forum: Politics

From now on...

Posted By James Brown

Originally Posted by Brian McFarland
Darn. Too late, I already did. His source was too hilarious to pass up!
No worries, he'll do it again, soon enough.  cool