@kino The research about what an COVID infection does to for example a rapidly growing placenta to match a rapidly growing baby is alarming. Per one paper I stumbled upon, it “remodels” the placental blood vessels, making them about twice as thick. Nothing in that paper about observed pathology, but that doesn’t sound good to me, and I’ve heard second hand there’s other papers with worrisome results.
Note also by now we have scads of data from Phase IV “post-marketing” using of the vaccines, which includes pregnant women, plus of course the animal studies that were done on fertility and reproduction.
Here, you’re responding to the CDC having just? drawn up a list of cohorts of people they believe to be at higher risk. This being the CDC you shouldn’t pay any attention to it, not collecing and tallying raw data like death certificates, but they’re probably right. And right to push it since those under 30 are not generally in as great need to get vaccinated.
@Dice
if it would really be about the women and children, we just would do any fucking thing to prevent them of getting it. like for example, giving expecting families enough money so that they don't have to work and have to put their other children into daycare where they get covid from. problem solved. ez.
it's not that we don't have the money, but the oligarchs and their friends just want total control instead to make more money using our workforce.
think of all the fertility treadments and medicine for fucked up kids you can sell. covid really is a thing where pharma only can win. get fucked up by covid, get fucked up by the vaccinations, get magic medicine to fix those issues.
i know follow the money is a trope at this point, it's still the truth though.
@racism_man @Dice @Flay @bonifartius @kino “After a year and a half as the center of attention for the entire planet, I have to doubt that this virus is not understood.”
How much biology and/or medicine have you studied and/or learned? Can you tell me how many Open Reading Frames (ORFs) it has, and what that means, including for its complexity? Can you look that up??
Or for a different approach, research how little we understand about the flu, and especially flu pandemics.
TL;DR: there’s still a great deal we don’t know about the virus.
“I think it’s fairly apparent that the power structure has been bullshitting about it and using it to be gay and make people pretend it’s a big deal.”
I wonder if you’re just a “Racism Man,” of if you hate people in general if you think losing [fill in the blank for your country from all cause mortality counts] people is not a “big deal.” This avoids a lot of Floomer and denialist stupidity and will get under counting like the very significant excess mortality for non-hospitalized cases (8% in six months for 30 day survivors for a not super old population that and started out healthy enough to be in the US military: https://www.unz.com/isteve/when-will-biden-finally-shut-down-flights-from-india/#comment-4613645 )
For the US, for just people with COVID on their death certificates, it’s 692,000 people (and that number includes a delay time as long as eight weeks for the CDC to get the data). Ron Unz looking at total excess deaths plausably estimates a million, I’ve been too lazy and horrified to do the math. Adjusting for population increase (which on the other hand started with a minimum deficit of half a million people and their children; I lost a granduncle), we’re looking to get in the ballpark of the 1918-9 Spanish flu.
So I say both a big deal and “You never let a serious crisis go to waste. And what I mean by that it’s an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” as Rahm Emmanuel, Obama’s first chief of staff put it. A pandemic in a county in a state of civil war was never going to go well. Look how many right of center Americans are dying now just to own the libs; that our ruling trash is trash is no justification I recognized.
@bonifartius @Dice @Flay @kino “if it would really be about the women and children, we just would do any fucking thing to prevent them of getting it. like for example, giving expecting families enough money so that they don’t have to work and have to put their other children into daycare where they get covid from. problem solved. ez.”
Here we see the thinking of someone who puts money in front of all other considerations. Nothing less than lethal force will stop a bunch of those expectant mothers in isolation from getting this initially and still not well understood respiratory spread virus from any subset of her husband, kids and friends.
More and more I”m realizing the single biggest advantage of vaccines is that they work even for people as stupid as you.