Developing and rolling out an effective vaccine and selling it at cost during a pandemic, while you probably sat on twitter in your pyjamas. How dare they.
How often are you going to repeat this nonsense? Vaccines have (with rare exceptions) never been 100% effective at preventing infection. Efficacy figures are given in the information sheets for all commercial vaccines.
Vaccines have always provided immunity from infection. I can't believe am even providing a source for this but in case you've been living in a bubble. The CDC did change the definition of the term vaccination to remove immunization on their website. [0] Compared to what they have up today. [1]
Efficacy figures for covid vaccines were nothing but cooked-up gobbledygook. [2]
And why wasn’t it in the sheets when I was compelled to vaccinate? If I remember correctly the sheet back then stated that it may not protect against Covid19 at all.
You probably received the vaccine before variants emerged. At the time, the clinical studies of the manufacturers showed very high efficacy against the ancestral strain which was confirmed in real-world data.
When the mass vaccinations started alpha was already the dominant variant. When I was vaccinated it was clear that delta would matter most. So the vaccination for my age group was pretty pointless.
Also you didn’t cite a number of efficacy. Clicking through the many cases I come up with something less than 40% (protection against infection) within a year. If you compare that with the 97% for lifetime (measles) you can understand the disappointment of the people and why they don’t want to call it a vaccine.
The ancestral strain results were (naturally) also only of the kind: 95% protection for 3 months (or was the study period only 1 month?). Of course nobody could know for sure. But to many it was no surprise that the virus would escape any vaccine quickly just like the flu.
OTOH: From all data I saw, I agree that the vaccine improved the chances of survival of the elderly.
Obviously the variants make the situation much more complicated, that's why I cited the overview page of the CDC. Please don't cherry-pick the lowest figure you could find, this is highly misleading. Even for adolescents and Omicron, the studies find a very robust reduction in severe disease and hospitalization.
I’m not cherry picking the lowest number. You are shying away from giving a typical number. The 40% protection is actually much better then the anecdotal data I have. Two thirds of my vaccinated acquaintances fell sick with Covid19 in spite of vaccination.
If you’re honest the page for measles could be just as confusing as the covid19 page.
But CDC is confident to simplify it to a single number.
But let’s assume that the Covid19 vaccines provides a solid 70% protection during the first year. That’s still ten times more people vulnerable than after the measles vaccination! The disappointment is justified.
I thought meanwhile everyone agreed that the vaccines are very weak at providing sterile immunity?!
Once again, this is simply not true and has never been.
Here's a homework for you: Look up the efficacy figures in the information sheet of any standard vaccine. And then think about why many vaccines are given in multiple doses spread over a certain period of time.
"When evaluating data from VAERS, it is important to note that for any reported event, no cause-and-effect relationship has been established. Reports of all possible associations between vaccines and adverse events (possible side effects) are filed in VAERS. Therefore, VAERS collects data on any adverse event following vaccination, be it coincidental or truly caused by a vaccine. The report of an adverse event to VAERS is not documentation that a vaccine caused the event."
"VAERS is a passive reporting system, meaning that reports about adverse events are not automatically collected, but require a report to be filed to VAERS. VAERS reports can be submitted voluntarily by anyone, including healthcare providers, patients, or family members. Reports vary in quality and completeness. They often lack details and sometimes can have information that contains errors."
"Knowingly filing a false VAERS report is a violation of Federal law (18 U.S. Code § 1001) punishable by fine and imprisonment." (https://vaers.hhs.gov/reportevent.html)
Looks like up to 5 or 8 years imprisonment plus fines for doing so.
... The issue here is that the AZ vaccine is, in general, less effective than the MRNA ones, so once MRNA supplies are sufficient, AZ is generally abandoned. Japan is behind the curve here; most developed countries stopped using AZ in mid to late 2021 (except in cases where people are allergic to an ingredient common to both MRNA vaccines).
Anyone getting a vaccine in Japan today is probably getting a booster, and AZ can't be used for that anyway.
There's no crime, against humanity or otherwise, here; AZ works less well, so has largely become obsolete.
For the record: I am unaware of anyone forced to take the AZ vaccine anywhere, and I do as lot of global work. It's perfectly possible someone somewhere might have been forced, but forced on everyone? You should know that's dishonest.
If you're saying dishonest things, you're probably either being intentionally disingenuous, or you're brainwashed. That should raise red flags that something's wrong, and that it's perhaps time to do your own research.
Everyone I know used an MRNA vaccine, which are more effective and perfectly safe.
Here's the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation post from when Australia discontinued AstraZeneca for people aged under 60 (and made Pfizer the preferred vaccine instead):
From early April to 16 June 2021, 60 cases of confirmed or probable TTS [thrombosis and thrombocytopenia syndrome] have been reported in Australia. This includes an additional seven cases reported in the past week in people between 50-59 years, increasing the rate in this age group from 1.9 to 2.7 per 100,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses.... TTS is a serious condition in a proportion of individuals who develop it. The overall case fatality rate in Australia (3%; 2 deaths among 60 cases) is lower than has been reported internationally.
