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    On Sunday while getting me second dose they hand me a load of paper that I thru on the side once I got home and never looked at until today.

    Lets answer a few running questions:

    1. What COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca is and what it is used for

    COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca is a vaccine used to protect people aged 18 years and older against COVID-19.

    COVID-19 is caused by a virus called coronavirus (SARS CoV 2).

    COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca stimulates the body’s natural defences (immune system). It causes the body to produce its own protection (antibodies) against the virus. This will help to protect you against COVID-19 in the future. None of the ingredients in this vaccine can cause COVID-19.

    I actually belive that the AtraZeneca is the most effective out of the available vaccines, so this information may be correct.

    I know exactly where you are steering the issue but even so. You still haven’t answered. Stop beating about the bush. Is the Covid vaccine a vaccine in your opinion and in your own words what does the Covid vaccine do?

    To address Ge’s question.

    I do no believe that the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines can be called vaccines.

    They operate on a different principal that uses mRNA to instruct your cells to produce spike protiens similar to the ones that the SARS-Cov2 virus has. (Covid-19 is a disease caused by the SARS-Cov2 virus, like AIDS is a disease that is caused by the HIV virus). As far as I understand the body cannot produce antibodies in response to the spike protiens, but it can learn to recognise them as hostile which may result in a faster immune response if later infected with covid.

    This does not provide immunity, and there are many confirmed cases of people catching covid after being vaccinated that would support this claim.

     

     

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    Ge

    Draculina is rather difficult to pin down because she won’t reveal her original sources. Because she won’t reveal her sources it is hard to pin down where she plagiarizes her information from and therefore the full context of it.

    The pseudo-science this particular type of conspiracy theorist churns out is actually quite dangerous propaganda because vulnerable, uneducated, or ignorant people, etc may well be and are, deceived by it. Those groups are not making informed decisions based on all the available science and so are genuinely putting their own lives at risk.

    I am not qualified to comment (neither is Draculina) but I found a site that can and who explain in understandable language why the ignorant quackery Draculina and co preach has no place in science.

    The latest antivax false claim: mRNA vaccines against COVID-19 are not vaccines but “medical devices” or “gene therapy”

    “Note, though, how Dr. Stoller, in his effort to portray mRNA vaccines as “therapy” (specifically a “gene therapy”), obfuscates by saying that the recombinant proteins made by the vaccines “presumably” will “stop, prevent or modulate the infection in question”. First, there’s no “presumably” about it; the mRNA vaccines work. Second, the goal is to prevent severe disease from the infection by provoking an immune response and providing “immune memory”, so that the immune system, when encountering SARS-CoV-2 again, will be able to rapidly ramp up a response to shut the virus down before it can cause disease. That’s how all vaccines designed to prevent viral diseases work! There’s nothing special about the COVID-19 vaccines in that aspect…”

     

     

     

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    #1139598

    Draculina is rather difficult to pin down because she won’t reveal her original sources. Because she won’t reveal her sources it is hard to pin down where she plagiarizes her information from and therefore the full context of it. The pseudo-science this particular type of conspiracy theorist churns out is actually quite dangerous propaganda because vulnerable, uneducated, or ignorant people, etc may well be and are, deceived by it.

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    #1139599

    First, there’s no “presumably” about it; the mRNA vaccines work. Second, the goal is to prevent severe disease from the infection by provoking an immune response and providing “immune memory”, so that the immune system, when encountering SARS-CoV-2 again, will be able to rapidly ramp up a response to shut the virus down before it can cause disease. That’s how all vaccines designed to prevent viral diseases work! There’s nothing special about the COVID-19 vaccines in that aspect…”

    You were right when you said you were not qualified, this is completely wrong.

    What I said isn’t a conspiracy theory, its common medical knowledge that has been understood for over a century, as well as being how Pfizer describe the function of their vaccine.

    The immune system fights virus’ by producing antibodies, which are specific to each virus. The antibodies chemically bind with external features of a virus that are called antigens. These are usually some kind of protiens. When the antibodies bind it damages the virus and marks it as a foreign object that should be destroyed by B and T cells.

    Traditional vaccines train the body how to produce antibodies by injecting a dead virus, that will still have a full set of antibodies that can be attacked, but is incapable of reproducing due to being damaged.

    The mRNA vaccines produced by Pfizer and Moderna don’t do this, the mRNA is absorbed into your cells and instructs them to produce spike protiens similar to the ones that SARS-COV2 has. The spike protien is what the virus uses to trick cells into letting it enter so it can repoduce inside of them.

    The main points of contention over this method are :

    1. If the covid spike protien works as an antigen
    2. How similar the spike protiens produced by the vaccines are to the real ones
    3. If having only one type of antibody is enough to grant immunity to covid
    4. How long the mRNA lasts in the body

    The last one is different issue, which risks an immune cascade if there are top up vaccines every 6 months.
     

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    #1139601

    Ge

    The link I supplied explains, in full scientific detail, why these conspiracy theorists and Covid denying bullshitters are such a dangerous hindrance while trying to persuade vulnerable people, etc, who believe their quackery and subsequently have refused to get the vaccine.

     

     

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    #1139602

    Not refusal. Bottom line will it be effective and on whom. We all have different gene or DNA design. That what crazy. Can not find a quick fix for all of us. Now talking a booster by end of year. If you can not pin point the right one for a particular virus how we know it effective for all. These present vaccines in my opinion have in a great form slowed down spreading..how long? But in most part i think slowed down due to lock downs and distance formulas. More so. More hand washing.. cleanliness attack on germs carried in pubs. Restaurants. Transportation..trains. buses so forth. Let’s face it normally germs on many surfaces. Remember the sneezing with common colds and handshakes after. Germs carried……like with any bug u may have..pass to another. Or 48 bug should say.

    It all much to grasp. I do know we need our officials of disease be solid on reporting and not so much controversary. Who u believe?

     

    #1139603

    Bottom line and you can say it not bother any of you which I doubt.. it had too..we have human emotions..

    “Fear of the unknown” change, trial, uncertainty, will it work? Will I be protected? What will it do for me now or future result. These are questions I am sure who had vaccines have wondered about! Don’t tell me this did not go through your minds as well…

    #1139604

    What makes me angry as a mother…

    Still have not confirmed how got released and where? Why being tested or used..now this what over a year later. Come on..man cough up the snake and be transparent.

    #1139606

    Ge

    You were right when you said you were not qualified, this is completely wrong.

    Why have you attributed a quote to me that I didn’t write?

     

    I prefer to get my information on Covid from professionals rather than some random online quack who isn’t qualified to comment and you are most definitely not qualified to comment.

     

    If you are not going to quote your sources then don’t waste my time and yours, typing to me.

     

    Thanks, darling.

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    #1139608

    Ge sorry haven’t been paying much attention to you…it was my second time on Sun and linda’s paranoid ramblings took what ever brain cells still had working to reply too.

    And know to deal with Linda newest moan…..

    What is a GMO?

    Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are living organisms whose genetic material has been artificially manipulated in a laboratory through genetic engineering. This creates combinations of plant, animal, bacteria, and virus genes that do not occur in nature or through traditional crossbreeding methods.

    In all fairness I’d be more worried about taking a “live” vaccine than a GMO.   In the past new “live” vaccines caused endless misery around the world. I still know people today who were affect by the polio vaccine program back in the late 1950’s.

    Will a GMO end our world?

    I hate to say this but no, ( Ge I can tell your so disappointed now). In all honesty its like to be one of the many bacteria locked away in the glaciers for the last 50,000 years that we have no real immunity to and now defrosting due to global warming.

    My feeling is GMO vaccines maybe the only way to defend ageist such nasty old bugs.

    Covid 19’s not going away for years.  We didn’t vaccinate the 3rd world such has India and now were seeing new variants.  The only real way to end covid 19 is to pour billions into a world wide effort to eradicate this virus.  Unfortunately due to politics, infighting and ant vac movements it wont be possible.   Every lunatic story’s around covid 19 isn’t helping too.  Each time a new covid  19 conspiracy is released into the world….another 100,000 people refuse the vaccines increasing the risk of a new variant.

    And if you think better border controls will stop it affecting you… that’s total madness too.  Refuges packed into boats and lorries from some of the poorest parts of the world will bring it with them. Every tourist taking a holidays overseas is a risk too.

    Just learn to live with it and plan your next lockdown like me  B-)

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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