It's wild how people casually talk about getting an infection after they were vaccinated multiple times against it. Did it ever occur to you that that shows it doesn't effing work?
Let me briefly explain why:
Injected vaccines generate robust IgG antibody responses, but do little to nothing to induce sIgA antibodies. sIgA antibodies are what you need to have immunity against respiratory infections.
Robust sIgA antibody protection is induced only when pathogens (antigens) are introduced into your respiratory or GI tract via infection or possibly nasal or oral vaccines (like the oral polio vaccine or Flumist).
When you got your covid vaccine all it really did was give you a false sense of security. You were always just as susceptible to infection and just as able to transmit it as though you weren't vaccinated.
Below is a graph taken from a study showing the nasopharyngeal viral loads of vaccinated and unvaccinated people. The preprint was out in 2021.
As you can see there is no significant difference in the amount of virus in the vaccinated people vs. the unvaccinated people--not even in the subgroup analyses at the bottom--so what did the vaccine actually do?
It did fuck all, that's what. Your second bout of covid was milder than your first because you had carryover mucosal protection from your first infection. I had the same experience without the vaccine: first infection sucked, second one was barely noticeable.
You were lied to at every stage of the game when it came to the covid vaccines. They generated an immune response in the wrong immunological compartment.
If covid were a systemic infection like measles or chickenpox, then it absolutely would have helped, but SARS-CoV-2 doesn't infect your internal organs or tissues in any meaningful way. It has only ever been cultured successfully from positive blood samples a handful of times despite massive effort.
After you got vaccinated, you had all these protective IgG antibodies coursing through your veins. Meanwhile the covid virus stayed tucked up, out of the way, in your respiratory tract where, as you can see from the graph below, the vaccine-induced IgG antibodies do nothing.
He migrated away from it thanks to a collapsed economy and an economist named Keynes.
I'm a classical liberal, so I see the New Deal and the perfectly reasonable: stimulating growth via deficit spending in order to solve an intractable depression to pull the common people out of misery.
I can get behind stuff like that. Sometimes systemic economic problems require systemic solutions like top-down infusions of cash. While free markets always tend toward optimization, markets are never actually free and sometimes they can fail spectacularly as a result.
In Australia they have an age-based, graduated minimum wage system. The age range goes from 15 to 21, and minimum wage starts low at the low end and ends high at the high end.
It's a good system because it recognizes the fact that new workers and young workers are not very productive (i.e. generally useless) so it decreases the disincentive to hire them by allowing employers to pay them substantially less.
This is advantageous for both workers and employers because it allows young and new workers to gain valuable work experience while providing employers with a steady supply of low wage workers to work low-skill, menial jobs.
It's also advantageous for consumers because they benefit from lower prices in fast food and other low wage industries.
Here in BC, right now, minimum wage is 18.25 an hour regardless of age, which is completely fucked. Employers don't want to hire 16 year olds at that wage because they're not worth it, so they end up hiring adult TFWs instead.
This has completely fucked up our housing situation as well as youth unemployment. Basically TFWs are occupying all the the traditional entry level jobs while driving up the cost of rent, used cars, and God knows what else.
Meanwhile Canadian kids are living at home, not getting jobs, not gaining any semblance of independence, and generally spiraling into depression and mental illness as would be expected of any human deprived of the dignity of work and self-actualization.
What we need in Canada is the same or similar system as they have in Australia.
@JefferyPetts "Yeah, just get over the loss of your job, health, career, friends, home, and family. Time for you to set aside the heart failure, turbo cancer, gross violation of your rights, and the biggest psy-op in Canadian history, and just move on."
@SwipeWright@BretWeinstein Sensible advice, but also sensible is the old adage in medicine, "If you know two people with a rare condition, then it isn't rare."
Surely, you weren't the only vaccine-injured person you knew.
@e_berniebromo@ryangerritsen Couldn't be arsed.
Nothing I can say will convince you I'm right more than the next 30 years of your life.
Try to remember to have fun. 😀
@InformalEducat@ryangerritsen Yeah. I get all that. We've hired foreign workers before on numerous occasions so we know the power over their future in the country employers can have. It's BS.
@e_berniebromo@ryangerritsen I remember what being in university was like.
You all think you know everything even though you're barely an adult with essentially no independent life experience.
You guys are so cute with all your Marxist naiveté.
The experience you get working menial jobs is the experience of working for wages. Very valuable. You wouldn't understand this until you hire someone who's never worked for wages before.
I've given lots of kids their first jobs. They are always useless on day one, often still useless on day 7, and occasionally useless even on day 14.
Few kids understand what it means to trade their labour for an hourly wage until they actually do it for awhile.
I don't know why this is so hard for leftists to understand: some jobs are "entry-level". They're for people with zero work experience, so they can start working to gain experience, and move up the ladder to better jobs. Bussing tables and flipping burgers shouldn't be a career.
@TruthWorksLoops@FrancesWiddows1 None of what you said makes any sense. You guys need to look at this thing objectively, instead of through some emotional "think of the children" lens.
This is not actually about children--it's about lying to gain advantage.
Harrison.
You are part of the problem. Perpetuating this lie about the 215 dead indigenous children at the Kamloops IRS does enormous harm to the cause of actual victims of the IRS system.
The 215 dead kids is an obvious lie, and all it does is undermine the truth about the real IRS harms.
I don't know how intelligent people don't get this. Widdowson is a hero for calling out this BS. She is on the right side of history whereas you're on the wrong side and making it worse.