Slogans are for people who need to be told what to think.
If you are told you will be 100% protected by vaccine from the hospitalisation/death, what is your "translation" of that sentence? Well, if someone ensures me there is a 100% protection, I would assume they mean no chance of otherwise.
Below, there is a link to a tweet by MD who made such a statement. Considering, I've seen this table spreading throughout cybersphere in the blink of the eye, I've added another link to show that 100% is not quite right, but matter of mathematical rounding.
If you follow link to FDA authorisation for Moderna vaccine, you will find summary of clinical trials results and something, such as "Fatigue, Myalgia, Arthralgia...Grade 4: Requires E.R. visit or hospitalization". There were cases noted in vaccinated groups, although very few, still few enough to make 100% an misleading statement. I've seen similar report for Pfizer and here, on Locals, also briefly mentioned reported deaths in Norway post-vaccination with Pfizer vaccine. On these deaths media quickly reported as "not directly caused by vaccine" - where direct causation is remarkably hard to prove, if not impossible. If you read FDA report, you will notice that they use "plausibly linked" phrase rather than "directly caused". It may seem as schemantics, but really it is not. The deaths in Norway are plausibly linked to the adverse effects of the Pfizer vaccine...
On top of it, Austria recommends AstraZeneca vaccine for under-65 only. Switzerland has not approved the same vaccine for Swiss marker, nor did South Africa...
In short, I am not trying to scare off anyone from getting vaccine, just providing additional information. I am great believer that most people can make and should make their own mind after accessing full information. Not half-truths, but full information.
https://www.fda.gov/media/144673/download
https://twitter.com/MonicaGandhi9/status/1356818441064206337/photo/1
This was a very late recording contrasting two news articles about Omicron - so called "Covid super-strain".
I know I haven't been around lately...work...life...However, the 12-years-old clip popped into my feed and I wanted to share it. The reason? This clip provides the great basic understanding into what are the issues with so-called "evidence" related to anthropogenic (human-induced) climate change and the lack of logic when it comes to the interpretation of such evidence. The sad reality is that even after 12 years from this clip, we are still forced to endure nonsensical conclusions that hurricanes hitting Florida are caused by big bad climate change.
The mainstream media is doubling down on the alarmism, and it is not hard to guess why. However, to be fair, consider my little observation an educated guess, an opinion, rather than the fact. Time will show whether I am right.
(1) 'Climate change affects everyone': Europe battles wildfires in intense heat by Reuters (https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/spain-portugal-battle-wildfires-heatwaves-scorch-southern-europe-2022-07-17/)
If you spent time in Southern Europe, Mediterranean, during summer season - July and August in particular - you probably know that heat-induced wildfires are nothing new. In fact, they are quite common and remarkably devastating for the affected communities, and I have witnessed several in person. Most of the time, the wildfires occur due to heat igniting grasses, especially in the areas where there are broken glass or broken bottles. The glass serves as an amplifier for the sun rays, especially, in the vicinity of dry grasses, or even dry pine needles, and as ...
