koods said:

spinvis said:

koods said:

The travel ban is completely useless. We don’t know where this variant originated. Somewhere in the southern part of Africa, most likely. South Africa is just the country that had the technology to detect it. It’s already been detected in places around the world. We don’t know what will happen to this variant in places where delta is prevalent. I think this is all being blown way out of proportion.

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It was first detected in Botswana amongst four fully vaccinated individuals, they are foreign nationals, and where on a diplomatic mission. More info directly from the Botswana government here;
https://twitter.com/_/status/1464184386912501764
https://twitter.com/_/status/1463874240130785280

I agree it's been blown out of proportion, while simultaneously forgetting about the topography of southern Africa, and the official statements made by the government of Botswana, but I guess that's the media propaganda machine at work for you.

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It’s a variant of the beta variant, so very likely it evolved in that part of the world. The beta variant never took off anywhere else. I’ve seen discussion that there are too many mutations to be explained by the normal evolution that occurs when the virus is passed from person to person and that it likely evolved in an immunocompromised person who never cleared their original infection  and the virus was able to use a single person to select the various mutations that occurred over a period of months.

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The Influence said:

There is plenty of evidence that people with the vaccine still get and spread covid....for instance my bosses wife is fully vaccinated and had a booster....she just recovered from covid.

So vaccines only lesson symptoms nowadays? I'm super glad my polio symptoms are manageable; I wouldn't want the problems my father went through before the vaccine came out.

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koods said:

The Influence said:

There is plenty of evidence that people with the vaccine still get and spread covid....for instance my bosses wife is fully vaccinated and had a booster....she just recovered from covid.

So vaccines only lesson symptoms nowadays? I'm super glad my polio symptoms are manageable; I wouldn't want the problems my father went through before the vaccine came out.

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That’s pretty much how all vaccines work. The smallpox vaccine only prevents infection for a few years. It protects against serious cases for life.

The fact is that the three shot regime reduces the chance of infection  by 95%. That’s just about as good as any vaccine for any disease out there.

I’m guessing your bosses wife is immunocompromised if she still got covid after the third shot

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  I just have never read reports of people contracting a less severe case of things like polio and I've only been vaccinated against it once. My father almost died from it as a kid.

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Inactivated polio vaccine (IPV) consists of inactivated (killed) strains of all three poliovirus types. IPV is given by intramuscular injection and must be administered by a trained health worker. IPV produces antibodies in the blood to all three types of poliovirus. In the event of infection, these antibodies prevent the spread of the virus to the central nervous system and protect against paralysis. In this way, IPV prevents infection, but it does not stop transmission of the virus.

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budmanman said:

Florida now has lowest Covid 19 per capita as libtards get mega sick

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The Influence said:

I guess I've misunderstood what a vaccine is my entire life. I sincerely thank you for doing the research I could've done to become more informed on this topic.

My hang up yet is even that says it does not stop people from contracting or transmitting poliovirus. So my honest question is; how will a vaccine save us from the coronavirus?

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koods said:

budmanman said:

Florida now has lowest Covid 19 per capita as libtards get mega sick

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15,000 people died in Florida since august.

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budmanman said:

koods said:

budmanman said:

Florida now has lowest Covid 19 per capita as libtards get mega sick

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15,000 people died in Florida since august.

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Nice, now florida has the lowest covid 19 cases per capita in the entire nation.

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