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By johnforbes
#134321
"June 30, 2022
Former White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx revealed that the federal government was relying on “hope” that COVID-19 vaccines would prevent infection when officials publicly stated that Americans who received the jab would become immune to the virus."

It later turned out, of course, that those who got the shots could get covid and spread it. Fauci got 4 covid shots, and now has covid.
By Clownkicker
#134328
Once again johnforbes parades his gross ignorance of how vaccines work.

J&J told him right up front that their vaccine had an 86% efficacy rate. For the dimwitted here, this means that of every 100 people fully vaccinated, 14 still contract COVID and get sick. Yet despite being told this up front, johnfibs is still insisting that everyone was dumbfounded and taken by surprise that some vaccinated people contracted COVID.

They weren't surprised at all, dimwit. It was expected. It is still expected because the variants are more infectious than the original virus the vaccines were designed to fight.But can anyone cram this simple scientific fact through johnforbes' thick skull? Of course they can't

johnfibs is incorrigible. He's a Trump supporter.
By elklindo69
#134329
Johnnie is the ignoramus in chief of this board. Johnnie thinks that vaccines have some binary/black and white result, that is, it works or it doesn't work. The drug manufacturers never claimed that the COVID-19 vaccine would completely 100% prevent infections. The vaccines are extremely effective in reducing the symptoms of the illness, that is, you end up having minor symptoms that resolve quickly instead of being hospitalized. And that outcome is quite satisfactory.
By johnforbes
#134331
Actually, the esteemed Mr. Forbes merely followed the science.

As Dr Birx indicated, it was believed in the early summer of 2021 that a person was "fully vaccinated" with two shots, and HHS ran TV ads all over the country indicating that people who got 2 shots could sing and dance and play sports.

Then, as the summer of 2021 unfolded, it became clear that people with 2 shots were getting covid and also spreading it.

Then Dems claimed people with 2 covid shots could not get hospitalized or die, and both of those assertions also proved false.

As Birx said.
By Clownkicker
#134340
Once more johnforbes parades his gross ignorance of what "science" is.

Everything he just posted was "public relations," not science. There was no science whatsoever contained in that post.

The science actually said that of every 100 fully vaccinated people who got the J&J vaccine, 14 would still get COVID.

Science never pretended otherwise. That large numbers of vaccinated people got COVID surprised no one except partisan dimwits like johnny.

If johnforbes understood what science is, he wouldn't continue to post such unscientific nonsense.
By elklindo69
#134355
So what's your point Johnnie....to go droning on and on and on about your nonsensical bullshit? I'm just not getting it. There have been more than 10 BILLION dosages have been administered on the planet. And the vaccines have been shown to be very effective and safe to use.

I don't see you droning on and on and on about how Trump claimed that the injections of disinfectants into the body could be used to treat COVID-19. Which let to statements by manufacturers warning people to not ingest disinfectants.
By johnforbes
#134379
Look, I've been very clear on that point.

On a hot, humid summer afternoon, after I have been out hiking or even weedwhacking, and my somatic habitus is lightly dappled with sweat, I like a tall glass of ice cold bleach.

The tastes of others may vary, but my body -- tan and taut, lean and lithe -- enjoys it.
By Clownkicker
#134386
^^^^^^^ See? When johnforbes finally realizes he made an ass of himself, he always resorts to his pathetically unfunny 'humor' instead of addressing the facts (that no scientist was the least bit surprised that fully vaccinated people could still contract COVID) hoping no one will remember that he doesn't have the slightest idea what "science" actually is.

The scientists ALL told you and everyone else upfront that they were not to assume they were immune to COVID just because they were fully vaccinated.

And that's why Faucci kept telling morons like johnny to keep wearing masks and keeping distance. But would he listen? No.
By johnforbes
#134390
Actually the opposite.

Throughout the early summer of 2021, HHS ran TV ads saying that normal life could resume as soon as people were "fully vaccinated."

It was widely said that 2 covid shots meant a person could not get or spread covid-19.

Then it turned out you could get it, and spread it.

Then it was said you couldn't be hospitalized or die if you had had 2 shots.

Then both of those arguments were destroyed by incoming data.
By Clownkicker
#134397
"Throughout the early summer of 2021, HHS ran TV ads saying that normal life could resume as soon as people were "fully vaccinated.""-johnfibs

Never happened, dimwit. You made it up. What they said is that life could return to some semblance of normalcy once ENOUGH people (around 80-90%) were fully vaccinated, reaching what is called "herd immunity." But because of Trump, we have still nowhere near that level of protection since huge numbers of Trump supporters refuse to get vaccinated to this day.


"It was widely said that 2 covid shots meant a person could not get or spread covid-19."-johnfibs

Nobody cares what you pretend was "widely said." The only thing that matters is the science from the drug companies which told you all along that even fully vaccinated people were still at risk of contracting and spreading COVID. That's ALWAYS, johnny, from day one of FDA review to the present they told you this. And that scientific information was stated from day one on every news station. Even FOXnews reported it.
For once in your life, follow the science instead of your partisan propaganda.


"Then it turned out you could get it, and spread it."-johnflubs

Of course it turned out you could get it and spread it, numbnuts. That's exactly what they had been telling the world upfront in their vaccine trial reports that were given to the FDA; that you could still get it and spread it even if fully vaccinated.


"Then it was said you couldn't be hospitalized or die if you had had 2 shots."-johnfibs

Not by scientists, it wasn't. You made it up. Nobody cares what your partisan handlers were saying just so FOXnews could report that phony "it's being said" bullshit. It was ALWAYS known that the vaccines were not perfect. And even if they were, new, more contagious variants arose because Trump supporters refused to get vaccinated when they had the chance, giving the virus many more months to mutate.


"Then both of those arguments were destroyed by incoming data."-johnfibs

No, you can't "destroy" made up stupid shit, dimwit. One can only show intelligent people that your claims are made up stupid shit, as I showed you. For once follow the science instead of your partisan propaganda. The world will be a much more pleasant place without you constant lies muddying the internet.

And that's why Faucci kept telling morons like johnforbes to keep wearing masks and keeping distance. In fact, johnforbes made dozens of posts criticizing Faucci because he continued telling people to keep wearing masks because they could still contract and spread COVID. Now johnfibs wants to pretend Faucci told you you didn't need masks and couldn't contract and spread COVID. Only a Trump supporter could believe that sort of glaring lie.
By johnforbes
#134411
Clowntoker must not have watched TV in the early summer of 2021, but it is indisputably true that HHS was indeed running TV ads like that.

These ads had to be pulled by the late summer of last year as the evidence mounted that a person who had gotten two covid shots (my own situation last summer) could still get covid, still spread it, still be hospitalized, and still perish.

Fortunately for me, and for this fine forum, my own somatic habitus was taut, lightly tanned, lean, lithe, and fit last summer and my health remained superb as the summer of Clowntoker's discontent unfolded and yielded to autumn.

As Clown will recall, Keats called that a season of mellow mists, just as Clown so often has mist the point.
By Clownkicker
#134421
johnny, in all these years you have yet to produce a single HHS video that says any of the things that you pretend they said.

I would think that your inability to find any evidence to support your partisan propaganda would make you realize that you only THINK there were videos that said those things.

But there weren't. You just made them up, as always.
By johnforbes
#134427
Not surprisingly, HHS took down its videos.

But every TV in America was running those ads in the early to mid summer of 2021, and they are not difficult to locate online.

I urge Clowntoker to find a search engine, begin looking, and then return to apologize to me.
By Clownkicker
#134429
You're right, johnny, they aren't difficult to find.

They're IMPOSSIBLE to find because they never existed. You made them up.

I suggest you use a search engine and waste a few hours of your time proving it to yourself, and then return to apologize to me.
By johnforbes
#134432
Clown's distortions are as unique as the blooms of Miami, as diverse as the breakfast tacos in San Antonio.

As Clown well knows, there were HHS ads all over TV in the early summer of 2021 saying that "fully vaccinated" people could resume normal lives, and the ads showed the usual morally entitled minorities dancing in the sunshine, shooting hoops, and so forth.
By Clownkicker
#134436
When johnforbes doesn't have a scientific leg to stand on, he flails about for some nonexistent propaganda videos that even he can't find to support his destructive partisan foolishness.

What johnforbes can't escape is the fact that no scientist was ever-- EVER-- surprised that fully vaccinated people could still contract COVID and get sick. This is because they read the scientific research from J&J that said 14 out of 100 fully vaccinated people would still contract COVID and get sick, and we were all told this upfront by every news outlet in the world, including FOXnews.

Until johnforbes can grasp the meaning of "86% efficacy," there is no point in discussing this topic further with him. One should be required to have at least a 100 IQ and a reasonable grasp of the English language to talk about vaccines here, but apparently johnforbes falls short of that minimum requirement in both arenas.
By johnforbes
#134439
The entire premise, and the entire sales pitch, was that getting 2 covid shots would prevent a person from getting and spreading covid.

Otherwise, why get the first 2 shots?
By elklindo69
#134506
The vaccine lowers the risk of severe illness and death.

I don't know where you came up with the idea that it prevents transmission? Was that claim made by Pfizer and Moderna in their regulatory filings for submission for FDA approval? I don't think it was?
By johnforbes
#134532
Apparently, according to Yale, that is true more for the short run.

The intriguing question is whether vaccines somehow compromise the immune system over the long haul.

If so, that would be a cruel irony.

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