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To: Elroy who wrote (12105)	10/11/2021 2:35:08 PM
From: Kirk ©	1 Recommendation Recommended By rdkflorida2 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26800

I have similar questions and don't feel I should have to mask up inside to protect someone who refuses to make society safer due to not wanting to take what I believe is just a small, incremental risk. The vaccines are like the flu shots... they may start out 95% effective but lose effectiveness with time. Also, a large population of unvaccinated allows a higher chance of mutations that can break though the vaccines or are much more contagious, like the Delta variant. Even if EVERYONE were to get vaccinated, with JNJ only 65% effective, much like the original shingles or our annual flu shots, then there is still a lot of room for break-through infections. The good news is these may test positive with contact tracing, they don't get as sick. If all the vaccines lose effectiveness then the unvaccinated who shed the virus more are a bigger danger to us all hence we "all" have to wear masks due to their selfishness. It is looking like "herd immunity" for the very contagious Delta might be over 90% so it will take getting a lot of kids vaccinated. They are at a very low risk of death so it is understandable that they or their parents might not want them vaccinated, until they give it to beloved granny or their teacher who the odds say have BMIs over 35 and thus have more comorbidities. My housekeepers lost a 21 year old nephew to COVID so it does kill the young. Anyway, that is my nutshell understanding.

To: Elroy who wrote (12105)	10/11/2021 3:49:32 PM
From: w0z	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 26800

I'm not so sure. Israel, Singapore, UK and US are among the higher vaccination rates countries but that does not necessarily correlate to lower population-normalized death rates. Take a look at 91-divoc.com (3rd graph down for countries, population normalized). Note the 1-week average death rates for high vaccination countries versus low vaccination countries like India, Indonesia, Zimbabwe, etc (where repurposed drugs are being used for prophylaxis and early treatment). There is so much misreporting and distortion of data by the MSM and governmental agencies that it's difficult to tell what is really going on. I basically don't trust anything but the actual Johns Hopkins data on the above site (and there's no guarantee that's accurately being reported to them). If instead of Warp Speed vaccines, we had focused on prophylaxis and early treatment using repurposed drugs (like HCQ and IVM), we could have saved hundreds of thousands of USA lives and probably eradicated covid before the vaccines were even available. Research Uttar Pradesh province (population 240M vis 350M here) in India for an example where they basically eradicated covid. And it would have been done at a tiny fraction of the cost of Warp Speed. But that would not have benefited BIg Pharma financially or our politicians' need for power. P.S. I think you were in Phillippines previously so you may be familiar with the Philippine Daily Inquirer: lifestyle.inquirer.net