If it doesn't stop you getting Covid, but it does reduce severity of response if you DO get it, why is that not a good thing? I don't see why that is an argument against the vax.
Maybe similar to a seatbelt; if you are in an accident with a seatbelt, you may still break bones, etc - but you don't fly through the windscreen and get cut to pieces.
The "it will reduce your symptoms" is an optics talking point that cannot be proven. Neither my wife or I took any medication (or vax) for Covid and we recovered fine, I was back out riding my bike after four or five days.
Even before any vax was on the horizon, the range of reactions / outcomes to Covid have been anywhere from non-existent (asymptomatic) to death. Not unlike regular flu. So any one person's reaction is simply anecdotal evidence. What matters is statistically what are the outcomes, and unfortunately those stats are hotly disputed.
Bingo. That's the exact point I was making... for most people the symptoms are like seasonal flu (before it magically disappeared from Earth last season, and was replaced by something "different"). For others, like people who are overweight, or have underlying health issues, the elderly, or people low on vitamin D (92% of people hospitalized with Covid in '20 had low Vit D) the symptoms are more severe. Again, just as they are when those vulnerable type of people encounter seasonal flu every year (except last flu season).
Nothing last year was any different than any other year, with the exception of the states where they forced sick elderly people out of hospitals, and into nursing homes so they could spread it to the other older, vulnerable residents.
If you look around the Internet you should be able to find videos (I've seen a couple) from morticians who report that last year there were no more deaths than usual.... but this year deaths are way up. Funny how deaths were at normal level last year in what the TV tells people is a pandemic, but this year, with the shot available, deaths are rising.
The people paid by big pharma may say that the shot decreases symptoms, but that can never be proven one way or the other. Where's the study of symptom severity of vax'd vs. control group?
If it doesn't stop you getting Covid, but it does reduce severity of response if you DO get it, why is that not a good thing? I don't see why that is an argument against the vax. Maybe similar to a seatbelt; if you are in an accident with a seatbelt, you may still break bones, etc - but you don't fly through the windscreen and get cut to pieces.
The "it will reduce your symptoms" is an optics talking point that cannot be proven. Neither my wife or I took any medication (or vax) for Covid and we recovered fine, I was back out riding my bike after four or five days.
Even before any vax was on the horizon, the range of reactions / outcomes to Covid have been anywhere from non-existent (asymptomatic) to death. Not unlike regular flu. So any one person's reaction is simply anecdotal evidence. What matters is statistically what are the outcomes, and unfortunately those stats are hotly disputed.
Bingo. That's the exact point I was making... for most people the symptoms are like seasonal flu (before it magically disappeared from Earth last season, and was replaced by something "different"). For others, like people who are overweight, or have underlying health issues, the elderly, or people low on vitamin D (92% of people hospitalized with Covid in '20 had low Vit D) the symptoms are more severe. Again, just as they are when those vulnerable type of people encounter seasonal flu every year (except last flu season).
Nothing last year was any different than any other year, with the exception of the states where they forced sick elderly people out of hospitals, and into nursing homes so they could spread it to the other older, vulnerable residents.
If you look around the Internet you should be able to find videos (I've seen a couple) from morticians who report that last year there were no more deaths than usual.... but this year deaths are way up. Funny how deaths were at normal level last year in what the TV tells people is a pandemic, but this year, with the shot available, deaths are rising.
The people paid by big pharma may say that the shot decreases symptoms, but that can never be proven one way or the other. Where's the study of symptom severity of vax'd vs. control group?