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Haha perfect. IllegalArgumentException for the npcs.

Narrative 2.0 is really beginning to take shape. It’s got to include props for the vax, but also appease the people who are sick of Covid restrictions and vax passports and acknowledge natural immunity which is a LARGE group of people after Omicron blew through.
It’s all about claiming victory without giving up too much ground.

I'm not sure the vaxxed will have natural immunity to any variant of the virus ever again. Their immune systems were likely badly damaged by the vaxx.

HunterTits says

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Ted does have a computer science degree. We were in the same freshman dorm together too.

Patrick says

Their immune systems were likely badly damaged by the vaxx.

My immune system is fine; it's my brain I'm worried about.

The vaccine presumably got my immune system to recognize one of the 29 proteins of the virus.
It should not inhibit my immune system response to the virus and the other 28 proteins, but I guess I will find out.

Sorry, didn't mean to offend anyone.

Thing is, Original Antigenic Sin means the immune system of the vaxxed will likely always try to produce antibodies to the alpha spike protein no matter which new spike proteins evolve, resulting in a loss of immunity to the new versions.

Patrick says

Sorry, didn't mean to offend anyone.

I don't think anyone was offended. This is what I've commented on in the past though. People have vaccine remorse after getting Omicron. They did what they were told and it didn't work. The masks didn't work as we all knew. I know I'd be bitter as fuck. I didn't bite though.

Not a knock on anyone that did, but you tell me to take 15 days to stop the spread and I'm good after that. Gave zero fucks. Been on 20 plus one way flights over 2 years. Got sick twice, one mild and one rough, but neither were bad enough to even visit a doc. No positive test after I think 6 tests or so.

My only hesitancy of going back to normal is Dems taking a victory lap leading up to November. I personally don't want to give them that. This got dragged out an extra 12 months and I'm hoping it bites Dems in the ass.

Still worried about fearless leader. @Patrick, are you PureBlood with No natural immunity at this point?

I am pure of blood, @EBGuy

I'm pretty sure I had some version of it in Nov 2019, before it was officially a thing. That's because everyone in the office got a cold on the same day, and this cold was very strange to me, a metallic taste or smell to it. But it wasn't bad enough to stay home, just an inconvenience.

Or maybe that wasn't it. In any case, neither wife nor I got seriously ill at any time. We're still both fine.

But why would you even worry about me when the overall survival rate is 99.7% and half the dead come from nursing homes? That gives me a 99.85% survival probability. Probably higher, because I'm pretty healthy. And you know, I have some ivermectin on hand just in case. That cuts my risk in half again, bumping my survival probability up to 99.92%.

Cities, school districts, and other powers that be are STILL enforcing and in some cases initiating mask and jab mandates as we converse. The Dems, the academic and the medical industry are falling all over themselves to promote fear and compliance with the authoritarian narrative.

The Canadian Truckers are calling attention to the hypocrisy but will it be enough, I think not. That is because the media is dictating to a large portion of the population what is acceptable thoughts, and essentially they have insured that the people are divided against themselves, while he globalists continue their march toward total control of every person, and ultimately see genocide as their goal. Anyone who will not serve the globalists agenda will be eliminated, probably starting with people with sincere religious beliefs.

Patrick says

Thing is, Original Antigenic Sin means the immune system of the vaxxed will likely always try to produce antibodies to the alpha spike protein no matter which new spike proteins evolve, resulting in a loss of immunity to the new versions.

But the alpha spike, specifically, is what makes the virus infectious in humans. So, if new variants don't have that spike they will (hopefully) not be infectious to humans. The danger is that an alpha-spike mutation comes along that is still infectious but that the narrowly-tailored "vaccine" won't recognize.

Better to have everyone run out and get the omicron variant so that they might have more broad-based immunity. Unfortunately, there's also the worry that those with the "vaccine" that catch omicron will have their body tram-line long the already trained alpha spike and so not develop long lasting and broad immunity — at that point we'll see that those who didn't take the vaccine are the only ones safe moving forward.

I think the omicron spike is even more effective at infecting people than the alpha, though far less dangerous.

It makes sense to me that OAS is the reason the vaxxed are getting omicron at twice the rate of the unvaxxed.

Patrick says

I think the omicron spike is even more effective at infecting people than the alpha, though far less dangerous.

It is likely due to this factor: Omicron replicated faster than all other SARS-CoV-2 in the bronchus but less efficiently in the lung parenchyma...Omicron was more dependent on cathepsins than other VOC tested, suggesting that the omicron variant enters cells by a different route than other variants. The lower replication competence of Omicron in human lung may explain the reduced severity of Omicron that is now being reported in epidemiological studies although determinants of severity are multifactorial.
From : SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant replication in human bronchus and lung ex vivo
It does seem likely that omicron's affinity for clilia (in the bronchial tubes) both explains why it is more easily passed on (in respiratory system versus lungs) and why it is less virulent (doesn't attack the area of the lungs where the gas transfer takes place).

Patrick says

But why would you even worry about me when the overall survival rate is 99.7% and half the dead come from nursing homes?

That is a fair question. Was definitely more worried about some of you guys during the delta wave as I had someone close to me do the Buffy the Vampire slayer ride to the hospital.
That said, I've been listening to the soothing voice of Dr. John Campbell on the Youtube (he really was the Walter Cronkite of this pandemic) and he was pretty reassuring as he monitored the South Africa (and then UK) situation with omicron.
Pretty interesting to see this South African doctor hit back at some of her critics.
Soon after identifying the new strain Dr Coetzee, chair of the South African Medical Association, said that for most patients in her country Omicron was likely to cause “mild” symptoms including fatigue and scratchy throat.
“Because of all of Covid’s mutations, all of these scientists and politicians who aren’t from South Africa were contacting me telling me I was wrong when I spoke out, that it was a serious disease … they were telling me I had no idea what I was talking about, they kept attacking me,” Dr Coetzee said.

EBGuy says

Patrick says

But why would you even worry about me when the overall survival rate is 99.7% and half the dead come from nursing homes?

That is a fair question. Was definitely more worried about some of you guys during the delta wave as I had someone close to me do the Buffy the Vampire slayer ride to the hospital.
That said, I've been listening to the soothing voice of Dr. John Campbell on the Youtube (he really was the Walter Cronkite of this pandemic) and he was pretty reassuring as he monitored the South Africa (and then UK) situation with omicron.
Pretty interesting to se...

We had delta and it def takes away a decent chunk of your vo2max IF it enters the lungs, but no more than a mild pneumonia or moderate bronchitis, and any of those happen as complications from resp. infections such as cold/flu every day. Nothing has changed with covid, NOTHING. It just infected more people than the usual cold/flu bugs and was likely created in a lab for enhanced virulence/transmission. Compared to some of the flus I had in my life this was a walk in the park although it had a longer tail, i.e. full recovery to full exercise capacity took 3-6 weeks, similar to bronchitis and pneumoniae. Also I'd take covid anytime over a stomach virus as I hate nothing more than vomiting and my youth drinking binges are a relic of the past ;) Esp. for children and anyone in good health covid is far far less deadly than stomach bugs, flus and many other resp. viruses. They only arrived at the current lethality rate by fudging the numbers by including everyone who dies WITH covid as opposed to of, and by possibly DELIBERATELY infecting nursing home patients where any highly infectious bug culls like wildfire. Covid is a mild to moderate resp. virus, anybody claiming anything else is talking bullshit.

mell says

Esp. for children and anyone in good health covid is far far less deadly than stomach bugs, flus and many other resp. viruses.

My one child is doing an outdoor sport (lots of running) and has to be masked. Oh, and we had to plead a "booster exemption" (multi-page email with multiple references). Reminds me, I need to call my state senator and assembyman to say no to the mandates.
We're pro-vaccine but can't support California lawmaker's school COVID vaccine mandate
Two physician epidemiologists argue in this op-ed the likely costs of Sen. Pan's bill would not be worth the benefits

Only one Bay Area county won't drop mask mandate next week
This news comes as eleven counties in the region — Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma, and the City of Berkeley — said Wednesday they would fall in line with the state and drop the indoor mask mandate after Feb. 15.