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The number of people ignoring this is terrifying. Study after study keeps showing its a problem.
There's going to be a massive accumulated health crisis in 10-20 years where a quarter of the population has a wrecked vascular system. On par with diabetes, but in this case untreatable which is going to kill millions far earlier than they should.
I'm going to play devil's advocate to explore my own anxiety about this situation.
My fears are exactly the same as yours.
The part that I cannot reconcile is this: I took my initial doses of vaccine, I had a booster. I did all the right things in terms of minimising exposure and the risk to myself and my family.
I still caught CV19 twice. Maybe it didn't affect me as intensely as if I had not been vaccinated, who knows, but it fucked me up badly each time.
My entire family have lived the same experience.
Most people's thinking in my circle now seems to be: why would I expose myself to the risk of cardiovascular complications by being continuously vaccinated, when I am still going to get infected and face those same cumulative cardiovascular risks again.
From a risk management perspective if I am not in a disease cohort likely to face mortality from infection, am I not reducing my total risk by simply reducing my exposure to the spike protein overall and electing to skip vaccine boosters altogether? I am going to get infected either way, that much is clear.
I am massively concerned about the long term consequences of repeated infection with this pathogen but it seems the world has moved on from giving a fuck.
I don't know a single person who has received a booster in the last 12 months and given the shift in media narrative here it is not hard to see why.
It was never claimed to stop you getting it. Same as many vaccines it doesn't give sterilising immunity.
But it's completely possible it stopped you dying or going to hospital.
The vaccine causes almost no damage but COVID 100% causes massive damage if you aren't vaccinated.
They literally claimed that it prevented symptoms in 90+% of people. This is an outright lie.
Preventing symptoms is not the same as not catching it.
Also sources please.
Effectiveness when first made available in UK
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-55145696
Effectiveness with Delta variant:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58257863
You can't "sources please" your way out of been wrong.
I am not suggesting that people don't get vaccinated, but it's very clear these vaccines haven't hit the targets they were meant to. I personally don't think newer varients count for all of the huge discrepancy between the claims and reality. We need better prophylactics and medicines than this. More widespread use of antivirals might help with this.
If you read my comment I didn't make any claims About it's effectiveness. You did. Which is why I asked for sources