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To: carranza2 who wrote (170170)	4/4/2021 2:19:47 PM
From: sense	Respond to of 217711

I understand 1/3 of the US is vaccinated. There will be, as usual, a few nutcases who will refuse the shots. But I think they are statistically insignificant. We are well on the way to herd immunity. The only issue is whether the vaccinations will protect against the variants. Appreciate the analysis from your vantage point. Not surprising you at all, I'd guess, I... not a nutcase, but having my undergrad focused in molecular genetics... do have a few different opinions... I'm not planning on getting the shot... but will continue with the prophylactic measures discussed here and elsewhere since Feb 2020... elderberry, zinc, quercetin as a zinc ionophore.. vitamins C and D... along with NAC and glucosamine and chondroitin... which has worked well enough for me to remain active without the virus becoming an issue for me. The mask requirements are stupid... if purposeful... as the masking requirement has almost no real impact... other than to help minimize the range in projection of emissions from those who are infected... so I refuse to use masks that don't and can't work... and instead use an N100 mask that actually does work... If they were serious about wanting to stop the spread... they'd have mandated N100 masks that do work. My expectation is that the current effort in vaccination will probably continue until 2/3 are poked... and then stall out... But, the bigger problem is that the current round of vaccines actually make the problem worse... they confer no benefit in preventing infection or, more critically at a population level, stopping or slowing the spread... but instead confer an advantage in only masking symptoms of infection by the current virus. That results in a larger and larger population of asymptomatic carriers over time... so the spread actually gets worse... and the concentration of innoculum can be expected to go up, too... so you will see (are seeing) shifts in the population being infected. The virus impacts are moving down the age spectrum now to infect younger people... and you will begin seeing more severe illnesses in younger populations, as also those resulting from re-infections... The target the current vaccines have doesn't do much to protect against mutant strains... and nothing good to address risks of other corona viruses... in fact the opposite... so that having the current vaccine likely makes you more susceptible to others, in future... with it actually working to facilitate others rather than protect against them, the longer term risks are made greater by the current vaccine... That risk should be obviated by mid-summer... with newer/better vaccines having more appropriate targets located "higher" in the viral genome which should address corona viruses more generally... without creating larger risks of far more serious infections attacking in zones being suppressed by the current vaccine... In context here... that means economic impacts are likely to be sustained longer than now expected... past mid-summer and into fall... with growing non-compliance with government mandates as those who've had the shot quit caring... That reality in non-efficacy is likely (intended) to lead to a need for recurrent vaccination for those taking this first round vaccine... the companies appear to be already targeting an (entirely created) need for annual "updates"... but, with no assurance at all that doing that is likely to be of benefit, rather than making a total hash of immune functions... while making you subject to whatever experiment they want to try next... I'll get a shot later this year... when there's a vaccine out that benefits me overall... one that confers proper resistance and not just symptom suppression... and without making my total risk over time higher... while imposing no need to be subjected to further "tinkering" with epigenetic influences others deem important. Others will likely end up having to get that shot, too... only without the "blank slate" in immune patterning it will be a total crap shoot... or an experiment... in how the variant targets in vaccines will interact ?