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re: Pulmonologist Roy Culotta at Baton Rouge General posted about current situation
Posted on 7/21/21 at 4:10 pm to Vacherie Saint
Posted on 7/21/21 at 4:10 pm to Vacherie Saint
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COVID19 is the first pandemic we've ever tried to vaccinate our way into herd immunity with, and we are doing it with an experimental vaccine. Polio vaccines weren't introduced until decades after the epidemic hit the US. Same for measles. In fact measles fatalities (thousands of deaths per year at the turn of the century) were almost non existent by the time vaccines became available even though almost 100% of American children contracted it. That's herd immunity.
This is a terrible comparison.
You think if we had a viable vaccine for polio a year after the first cases they would have waited 10-20 years before distributing it?
They had to wait that long because the technology wasn’t there to produce a vaccine any quicker.
And I’m all about people not getting shots if you don’t want to. Your body your choice.
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Posted on 7/21/21 at 4:20 pm to WaWaWeeWa
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This is a terrible comparison.
You think if we had a viable vaccine for polio a year after the first cases they would have waited 10-20 years before distributing it?
They had to wait that long because the technology wasn’t there to produce a vaccine any quicker.
And I’m all about people not getting shots if you don’t want to. Your body your choice.
You are misunderstanding me. I'm not comparing these pandemics in those terms. Tigerskin did. I am drawing a distinction by highlighting the fact that we've never achieved herd immunity with vaccines the the way we are attempting to do now. This is new territory. Even if everything with these vaccines were perfect, we would need 100% of humans vaccinated at an 80+% efficacy rate, and we can't technically achieve that. It'll take a whole lot of natural immunity to bridge that gap. People getting Covid is a good thing as long as they are not dying.
quote:My sentiments exactly.
And I’m all about people not getting shots if you don’t want to. Your body your choice.
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