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[stevil]

Yes. Do you?



Well, you just got done saying that people were "less likely" to get COVID, and then you said that the vaccine would have a 100% failure rate in preventing infections when you admitted that everyone was going to get COVID. That's why I'm not sure you understand what the term "less likely" means.

OK so you don't understand then.

 

[stevil]

You just posted that it's not airborne

Yes

 

[BPPLEE]

Well, I wasn't talking about eradication in terms of the entire planet, Just in NZ society.

The proof that it was eradicated is that we opened up, we were no longer wearing masks, and we were going to stadiums full of people, and we didn't then have the virus exponentially spreading in our country, our hospitals weren't full, our people weren't dying.

But didn't you say almost everyone caught COVID after that?

 

[BPPLEE]

Yes

Transmission of COVID-19 from inhalation of virus in the air can occur at distances greater than six feet. Particles from an infected person can move throughout an entire room or indoor space. The particles can also linger in the air after a person has left the room – they can remain AIRBORNE for hours in some cases.

 

[stevil]

Transmission of COVID-19 from inhalation of virus in the air can occur at distances greater than six feet. Particles from an infected person can move throughout an entire room or indoor space. The particles can also linger in the air after a person has left the room – they can remain AIRBORNE for hours in some cases.

OK.

In the height of the pandemic in NZ, we could order takeaways, but couldn't go and eat in restaurants, but once we irradicated the disease we were fine to go to restaurants.

 

[stevil]

I just posted two studies (and one of those studies referenced three other studies) that all demonstrated a correlation between increased number of vaccine doses and INCREASED infections. That kind of flies in the face of your assertion that it slows down infections. In fact, these studies showed that it ACCELERATED infections in people with more doses.

Idiotic misinformation

Vaccinated People Not More Susceptible to COVID-19 Than Unvaccinated - FactCheck.org

Q. Are vaccinated and boosted people more susceptible to infection or disease with the omicron variant than unvaccinated people? A. No. Getting vaccinated increases your protection against COVID-19. Sometimes, certain raw data can suggest otherwise, but that information cannot be used to...

www.factcheck.org

In the Walgreens case and in others, raw data can be misleading — a phenomenon that has been exploited by dubious websites that cherry-pick data points to argue that the unvaccinated are somehow better off than those who have opted for the shots. A substantial body of evidence shows that that is false: getting vaccinated increases — not lowers — your protection against the coronavirus.

First, it’s true that people who have been vaccinated or boosted are more susceptible to becoming infected with the omicron variant than they were to past variants. The variant, which has been the dominant variant in the U.S. since the winter and now comprises several different subvariants, is more transmissible and more immune evasive. This has led to a surge of reinfections and infections in people who are vaccinated. In that sense, vaccinated people are at higher risk than they were before. But there’s no evidence they’re more likely to contract the virus than a similar person who is unvaccinated.

Multiple studies indicate the vaccinated or boosted are afforded at least some temporary protection against omicron infection, albeit at a reduced level compared with previous variants.

A study of patients in Southern California, for instance, found that two doses of the Moderna vaccine reduced the risk of omicron infection by 44% in the first three months, compared with 80% for the delta variant, with a further decline over time — to around just a 6% reduction as much as a year out, versus 61% with delta. A booster increased protection against infection with both variants, but protection was not as high against omicron.

Other analyses, including ones from Denmark and the Veterans Health Administration, have found similar results.

“The relative protection with omicron is less compared to prior variants (especially with just 2 doses rather than 3), but that protection still exists,” University of Pennsylvania infectious disease fellow Dr. Aaron Richterman told us in an email. “There is a lot of solid evidence supporting this.”

 

[essentialsaltes]

West Texas children treated for vitamin A toxicity as medical disinformation spreads alongside measles outbreak​

Covenant Children’s Hospital in Lubbock confirms it is treating children with severe cases of measles who are also suffering from vitamin A toxicity. According to the hospital, they have admitted fewer than 10 pediatric patients who were all initially hospitalized due to measles complications but have elevated levels of vitamin A that is resulting in abnormal liver function.

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. directed the CDC to update its measles guidance to promote the use of vitamin A.

Kennedy, who has a history of spreading misinformation about vaccines, recommended in an article published March 2 on FOX News to take vitamin A under the supervision of a physician for those with mild, moderate and severe infections.

During a March 4 interview on Fox News, Kennedy suggested that therapies such as the use of cod liver oil — which contains vitamins A and D — were "working" in treating measles patients.

 

[Laodicean60]

Well, I wasn't talking about eradication in terms of the entire planet, Just in NZ society.

The proof that it was eradicated is that we opened up, we were no longer wearing masks, and we were going to stadiums full of people, and we didn't then have the virus exponentially spreading in our country, our hospitals weren't full, our people weren't dying.

So Nz has not got one case of Covid since 2022.l

Well, I wasn't talking about eradication in terms of the entire planet, Just in NZ society.

The proof that it was eradicated is that we opened up, we were no longer wearing masks, and we were going to stadiums full of people, and we didn't then have the virus exponentially spreading in our country, our hospitals weren't full, our people weren't dying.

To me I think covid varients will be around for a long time like the flu. We did the same thing but it's not eradicated.
Even your ministry of health said you had 60 deaths.

In the last weekNew cases reported524Reinfections341Reinfections (< 90 days)6

COVID-19: Current cases - Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora

Read the latest information about cases of COVID-19 in New Zealand.

www.tewhatuora.govt.nz

 

[Hans Blaster]

They were mandatory for me to keep my job

You work in a hospital, don't you?

 

[BPPLEE]

You work in a hospital, don't you?

Yes, and I had to have proof of vaccination when I went to work at another hospital

 

[Hans Blaster]

Yes, and I had to have proof of vaccination when I went to work at another hospital

Those same hospitals also require flu vac, don't they?

 

[BPPLEE]

Those same hospitals also require flu vac, don't they?

Yes, except for people with medical conditions like allergies to eggs or religious objections,that they can document,then they have to wear masks

 

[ThatRobGuy]

That's very silly.

I'm not an idealist, I don't latch onto an ideology and stick to it no matter what.
I believe people should have freedoms, but during a deadly global pandemic I am ok with people losing their freedoms temporarily to save lives.

I believe the government should fund essential services such as schools, roads, hospitals etc, these things shouldn't just be for the wealthy.
I believe a government should create and enforce laws for the goal of making society safe, stable and thriving. But I don't believe that government should be telling us how to live, who to love, what to eat, and what to do with our private parts or what to do with our wombs. Government should stop us from being mean to others and making society a hell for others, but government shouldn't be telling us what to do with ourselves.

But it's not government telling people what to eat, it's government saying "Hey Fanta, you don't need to dump an extra tablespoons of sugar and random dyes into that orange soda just because you've got a sweetheart relationship with the corn syrup and food dye industries"

Would I recommend everyone eat all of the things listed in the picture on a daily basis, obviously not, but if someone was going to have a daily routine of
- Sweetened Mocha
- 3 sodas per day
- Big Mac value meal with a large milkshake
- Lemon Cake for dessert
- Big chocolate brownie for a late night snack

That routine in the UK ends with a total caloric count that's not as wildly off of the base metabolic rate for most people...that routine in the US puts most people at double the recommended caloric intake for the day.


I would say that Obesity is an epidemic in the US.
I noted the statistics before. 300,000 people die from it every year, and there are 4 million hospitalizations every year that are either the direct or indirect result of it. (not to mention the millions requiring expensive medication to manage the chronic conditions that stem from it)

Plain and simple, people willfully choosing to eat that way are putting just as much damage on the overall healthcare system as people who willfully choose not to get vaccinated.


It's funny how the parties did something of a flip-flop on this issue.

Many defended the soda restrictions in New York, and defended Cali's food dye restriction bill when republicans were calling it a "skittles ban", now it's a 180.

It's like people have the mindset of "because this person is wrong about one thing, and is aligned with someone I hate, I have to pretend that they can't be right about anything"

 

[stevil]

So Nz has not got one case of Covid since 2022.l

When did I say that?

During the pre-vaccination period of the pandemic, we irradicated the disease entirely from our population.

We still had some coming in at the border, and all people coming in from overseas were put into isolation/quarantine for 2 weeks. But for the rest of us, no one was catching the disease, because it wasn't in society. We didn't need masks and we could go to restaurants, pubs, and even concerts and sport stadiums, because we had no Covid at all.

At times it came back to certain areas (mostly Auckland) because some people snuck out of quarantine, but we stamped it out again.
It wasn't until Omicron that we struggled to stamp that out, and once most people were vaccinated then we opened our borders and obviously it came in and pretty much everyone caught it.

To me I think covid varients will be around for a long time like the flu. We did the same thing but it's not eradicated.
Even your ministry of health said you had 60 deaths.

Yes NZ has had deaths. We are half the size of Sweden. We have 5 million people, Sweden have around 10 million.
Sweden had 28,670 Covid deaths, NZ had 4,538 Covid deaths which is more than 6 times less than Sweden, accounting for population, we got 3x less deaths than Sweden.

The reason why we had less deaths than Sweden isn't because we have better hospitals and equipment, it's because we collectively were able to protect our society by using prevaccine protective methods such as masks and social distancing which bought us time to get people vaccinated before they caught the disease.
Sweden went with the do nothing approach, just pretend like there is no pandemic.

 

[stevil]

But it's not government telling people what to eat, it's government saying "Hey Fanta, you don't need to dump an extra tablespoons of sugar and random dyes into that orange soda just because you've got a sweetheart relationship with the corn syrup and food dye industries"

I personally don't think government should be dictating how people make food, as long as it's not dangerous, like rotten or with rat dropping or something like that.

 

[Laodicean60]

When did I say that?

When you said COVID was eradicated in NZ.

 

[essentialsaltes]

FDA's top vaccine scientist, Dr. Peter Marks, is out ​

In his resignation letter, Marks wrote that health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wanted "subservient confirmation of his misinformation and lies."

“If Peter Marks does not want to get behind restoring science to its golden standard and promoting radical transparency, then he has no place at FDA under the strong leadership of Secretary Kennedy,” a spokesperson at HHS said.

A person familiar with the matter told NBC News that Marks was forced out of his position.

In a resignation letter to acting FDA Commissioner Sara Brenner, Marks wrote that undermining confidence in vaccines is “irresponsible, detrimental to public health, and a clear danger to our nation’s health, safety, and security.”

 

[stevil]

When you said COVID was eradicated in NZ.

Trollololol!

You right wingers are so triggered by the fact that NZ irradicated the disease from our society that you lose your minds and forget how to think, and forget how to have considered conversations and then resort to mindless trolling.

Here's another thought, maybe you could consider.

A farmer has ragwort on his farm. He works really hard to irradicate it "from his farm". And eventually he does so. No ragwort on his farm at all. Note that he hasn't irradicated it from the entire world, nor has he irradicated it from his neighbors' farms.

He enjoys a period of time where his farm has no ragwort but eventually due to the wind some ragwort seeds blow onto his farm and eventually a ragwort plant grows again on his farm, he then kills that new plant and is back to a period where there are no ragwort plants on his farm.
It's really silly that you guys resort to trolling.

 

[probinson]

The idea is that the virus is in water droplets and is not airbourne,

According to the WHO, that idea is false.

The virus can also spread in poorly ventilated and/or crowded indoor settings, where people tend to spend longer periods of time. This is because aerosols can remain suspended in the air or travel farther than conversational distance (this is often called long-range aerosol or long-range airborne transmission).​

​

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19): How is it transmitted?

The English version was updated on 23 December 2021.

www.who.int

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it goes from your mouth then down to the ground. There is maybe a short space around you which is vulnerable. So it makes sense that you wear the mask when you are walking about the restaurant but not necessary in the space of your own table.

As Fauci pointed out under oath, there was not a single study conducted to determine the efficacy of social distancing. It "sort of just appeared" so your hypothesis is completely untested.

Further, while SAR-CoV2 can be transmitted through droplets in close range, it is also airborne (as I just showed you).

It's hard for me to believe that there are people that believe that there are just pockets of viruses sitting on each person's table in a restaurant , and that they don't ever leave the little area where you're sitting (until you get up to walk around, and then you need to mask, natch). I suppose that's the same "logic" for all of the inane 2x2 plexiglass barriers that were erected all over the place. But those are the kind of ridiculous presumptions one must make to pretend like these measures made any sense at all.

Also generally people needed to wear masks in spaces that vulnerable people couldn't easily avoid. e.g. vulnerable people need to go to the supermarket, but don't need to go to the pub.

Except we've already established that there is no good evidence that wearing masks in public "protects" anyone. In fact, telling vulnerable people that they were protected at the grocery store if they wore a mask may have caused them to take riskier behavior and put their lives in more danger. If someone really was compromised, they should have stayed completely away and not bought into the lies they were told that a mask would protect them.

BTW a moron isn't a person trying to save the health and lives of their customers,

No, a "moron" is, according to Merriam Webster, "a foolish or stupid person". It has absolutely nothing to do with health and "saving lives". A "moron" is someone who believes that they are protecting someone's safety by not allowing them to order food but then allow them to buy souvenirs in the same building. A "moron" is someone who believes that a basketball player should not be allowed to play the game because they didn't get vaccinated, but it's OK for them to sit in the same stadium just a few feet from the bench. A "moron" is someone who mandates a vaccine that has a 100% breakthrough infection rate in an attempt to "slow the spread". In short, most of our public health agencies not only instituted, but MANDATED, highly moronic measures that did nothing to "save lives".

but is a person that finds it all to bothersome to do effort that might save lives.

"Might" is doing an awful lot of heavy lifting in that sentence.

 

[probinson]

In the height of the pandemic in NZ, we could order takeaways, but couldn't go and eat in restaurants, but once we irradicated the disease we were fine to go to restaurants.

What about he people that had to face the pandemic daily so that you could order takeaways? Do you care about their health? I mean, you got to stay "safer at home", but someone had to go to work and make your food just like they always did. The government decided to label these people "essential workers" to make them sound special, but in reality, they were the ones that faced the pandemic on a daily basis so that the laptop class could be "safer at home".

Oh, and NZ never eradicated the disease.