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BumRushDaShow

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4. "Such cases are believed to be relatively rare"
Sat Aug 7, 2021, 06:10 AM
Aug 2021

More and more this idea, thanks to Delta, is now BULLSHIT. It's not "relatively rare". It's now more along the lines of "infrequent" or "possible".

No vaccine like this is a 100% shield, and the fact that there was little reporting on breakthroughs with previous variants, shows how earlier in the year with the vaccines slowly making headway through the population, it was "relatively rare", and was very very effective against those less aggressive strains.

But Delta has been a game-changer due to the viral load that it can apparently generate and potentially be shed...enough in fact to briefly overwhelm the body's immune system and cause symptoms that might trigger someone to get tested, and confirm either way.

It's literally been 18 months of some health officials and media locking into an "assumption", and refusing to let go until they look like fools when they keep repeating it like a broken record (like the idiotic term "herd immunity" ).

As a sidenote, CDC apparently published their final version of the Cape Cod super-spreader - https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7031e2.htm?s_cid=mm7031e2_w

What is sobering is that despite the attendees (and people in the state of MA) having a high, so called "herd immunity" level vaccination rate, almost 3/4 of the cases were found in vaccinated people -



The vaccine is doing its job by giving the body a head start boost to fight an infection - particularly when it comes to a variant like Delta - but it behooves to have those extra mitigation precautions to keep it bay as much as possible.

I hope Rep. Davis recovers quickly and her body mounts a robust enough response to rid her of every last bit of it.

I'm flabbergasted that we're still doing the PCR test... cadoman Aug 2021 #1
It's not a meaningless test. The polymerase chain reaction tests are the most reliable ways to test JohnSJ Aug 2021 #5
This post is false and inaccurate information and should not be regarded as factual JohnSJ Aug 2021 #7
You are spreading a rumor that originated on Facebook. Stop it. Politicub Aug 2021 #9
Thank-you. I have to wonder if this misinformation is intentional JohnSJ Aug 2021 #15
What are you talking about? lapucelle Aug 2021 #18
So it looks like she got it from a health care provider at the surgical center. nt DURHAM D Aug 2021 #2
The breakthrough cases don't seem that rare here madville Aug 2021 #3
"Such cases are believed to be relatively rare" BumRushDaShow Aug 2021 #4
Yep. LisaL Aug 2021 #6
It would be interesting to know if those breakthrough cases were mostly from people who were JohnSJ Aug 2021 #8
I'm hoping more Polybius Aug 2021 #10
Digging through the report, I found this BumRushDaShow Aug 2021 #11
Interesting. Thanks. It seems any booster might need to contain something specific for the delta JohnSJ Aug 2021 #12
Probably BumRushDaShow Aug 2021 #13
If we could get the remaining 100 million unvaccinated, vaccinated, it would be less likely variants JohnSJ Aug 2021 #14
"relatively rare" is by definition a relative measure Slammer Aug 2021 #16
Exactly BumRushDaShow Aug 2021 #17
So as expected the vaccine worked. She had a mild case. GulfCoast66 Aug 2021 #19
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