did my best today to try to advise my older friend to get vaccinated; people you might not expect are holding out for reasons that may or may not be backed up by the most complete set of facts. if you happen to know enough and are willing to talk and listen, you might save a life
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Replying to @Cyber_Spock @DanielleFong
There are *few* who have legitimate concerns, mostly immunocompromised. Please listen to this podcast or consult an authoritative source. [Making Sense with Sam Harris] #256 — A Contagion of Bad Ideas
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Replying to @rwmacleod @DanielleFong
It's totally reasonable to have concerns and *not* be immunocompromised. Also, as someone who believes in the scientific method, I don't believe in "authoritative" sources. Such a thing if it exists is called "an appeal to authority." I believe in reason using evidence.
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If majority of infected remain asymptomatic and recover on their own, why the need for Vaccine?
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main reason to take the vaccine is that it dramatically decreases the severity of the disease and substantially reduces the likelihood of symptoms at all as well as reduces the likelihood of spreading don’t think the majority of cases are asymptomatic, & many long covid cases
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I would be totally down to take a traditional vaccine that gives you immunity to the full virus rather than just the S1 subunit of the spike protein. I'm not primarily concerned about adverse effects (though there's an argument to be made)
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fwiw the best effectiveness seems to be the mRNA so targeting the spike protein is working just fine for now, even vs delta for both symptomatic and severe disease. if you’ve been holding out now might be time the inactivated virus types pursued by sinovac are not as effective
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My concern actually lies not around the effectiveness of targeting the spike protein, but the evolutionary implications. The narrow focus serves as an extremely strong evolutionary vector to select for variants that are invisible to the vaccines.
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