From: none@invalid.com   
      
   On 13/02/2024 23:22, TimS wrote:   
   > On 13 Feb 2024 at 21:32:57 GMT, "Bob Latham"    
   wrote:   
   >   
   >> The vaccines don't stop you getting infected, absolute fact !!   
   >>   
   >> I've seen no evidence the vaccines improve your recovery.   
   >> It *may* do but I've seen zero evidence only conjecture and wishful   
   >> thinking by the guilty.   
   >>   
   >> I've seen no evidence that it reduces transmission at all. The   
   >> manufacturers have admitted that no testing on transmission was done.   
   >>   
   >> Perhaps you've forgotten , the virus mutated to a much milder forms   
   >> again and again, Alpha, Beta, Delta, Omicron.   
   >   
   > Look, we know all this. Why d'ye keep trotting it out as if it's profound in   
   > some fashion?   
   >   
   > a) vaccines prime your immune system. So if you do get it, covid won't be as   
   > bad as it would otherwise have been.   
   >   
   > b) viruses mutate. Which is why I keep taking the jabs as they are offered.   
   > It's routine now: I get a message from the climic and I go there are they   
   give   
   > me a covid jab in one arm, and flu in the other, at the same time. This will   
   > now happen every winter. Prior to covid, I was getting the annual flu jab   
   late   
   > every year. Only had flu once in the last 20 years - and that was because   
   that   
   > particular jab was only goodd for 3 of the 4 strains going around, and I was   
   > unlucky.   
   >   
   > c) Vaccines/transmission. Just because I'm vaccinated doesn't affect the   
   virus   
   > load someone coughs on me. What vaccination *does* affect is subsequent   
   > events. Which is what counts. So stop bleating that the manufacturers did no   
   > transmission tests. Why would they? Why would anyone expect them to?   
   >   
      
   A vaccinated person who contracts the virus (normally with reduced   
   effects) will normally have coughs and sneezes with a reduced viral   
   payload compared to a non-vaccinated person. This is how transmission is   
   reduced by vaccination. The word being reduced not eliminated.   
      
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