Honest question here - are you a real person or a government chatbot?
Real person who got really annoyed by the amount of misinformation on Covid and vaccines that was being bandied about on these threads, and decided to really focus on challenging that misinformation and providing evidence-based information. I have little hope of persuading most of the people spreading the misinformation to stop doing it, but hopefully those reading it will at least not take false information at face value.
I find your posts really strange & detached from emotion and reality.
On the emotion point, that’s intentional, as I’ve said many times on similar threads. I intentionally don’t advocate particular policies (at least I try not to) or bring emotion into it. I have tried to be really disciplined in just pointing out things (on both sides of the debate) that are factually incorrect. The moment you bring emotion into it you’re accused of twisting facts to suit an ‘agenda’. Things get really nasty - one reason I recently took a fairly long break from the Covid boards. Being accused of being a bot is pretty mild in comparison.
On the reality side, I’m always happy to be challenged on the evidence base for what I’m saying. I’ve got it wrong more than once or have been out of date, and have apologised and updated what I’ve been saying.
It is pretty well established now that the vaccinated are catching and transmitting the virus in large numbers
You won’t find me suggesting otherwise. If you have 50% VE, high vaccine coverage and high overall case rates (which we’ve had pretty much since restrictions were removed) it’s totally expected that the majority of cases will be in vaccinated people.
Boosters look to change that profile a fair bit, as we’ve seen in the case rates for over-70s, but it’s still early days. And of course who knows what Omicron will do, we’d only
and we only have to look at real life examples from Scotland, Ireland, France etc. to see that passports have not successfully managed to control this. Pretending that they are being introduced to slow transmission isn't fooling anyone. It's clearly about coercion and control.
I’m not advocating them or not and I apologise if it came across that way. I was simply challenging the suggestion that vaccinated people and unvaccinated people present the same risk profile in terms of infection and transmission, and therefore the value of the concept.
I’ve not looked at any evaluations of comparing their impact in different countries, but you’ve inspired me to have a dig.