Colin Powell Dies Of Covid Complications

[Sparko]

No, you showed that it has (maybe) not happened yet. We're just now getting to three and four shots.

That's now how it works. ADE is caused when an antibody is formed that actually enhances a virus's ability to infect a cell. It's an aberrant antibody caused by a defective vaccine that rather than blocking the virus, it makes it "better" at infecting a cell. It doesn't mean your body becomes "dependent" on antibodies, or has too many antibodies. If it were going to happen they would have noticed it happening already, but it doesn't happen.

[JimboJSR]

That's now how it works. ADE is caused when an antibody is formed that actually enhances a virus's ability to infect a cell. It's an aberrant antibody caused by a defective vaccine that rather than blocking the virus, it makes it "better" at infecting a cell. It doesn't mean your body becomes "dependent" on antibodies, or has too many antibodies. If it were going to happen they would have noticed it happening already, but it doesn't happen.

Yup. MILLIONS of doses, with many in the UK now getting their third dose. No sign of ADE.

ADE ain't happening.

[Starlight]

So go get it. What's stopping you?

A third dose isn't available to me in my country yet. Hopefully that will change in future. I will take a third dose the moment it's available to me, just as I did for the first dose.

But I don't NEED to. My immunity is sufficient to ward off reinfection for a pretty substantial time. And my body has proven that it can fight it off effectively.

Your current immunity level gives reasonable resistance to infection. Reinfection could still occur for you, and then other people could catch it off you, and then they could die from that. To protect those around you, it is worth increasing your own immunity levels as much as possible, to reduce the risk as much as possible of you getting reinfected and then killing someone by spreading covid from you to them. I know I would feel terrible for the rest of my life if I were to kill a family member or friend in such a way by not taking a simple precaution such as vaccination to reduce the risk of doing that to the extent that I could.

[oxmixmudd]

how the hell is that "wrong"? Breakthrough infections can and do happen and those individuals can and do pass on covid, you utter walnut. Are you now denying the existence of breakthrough infections, science denier?

I know you struggle with understanding simple English, but try to grasp what I wrote, instead of kneejerking like a dense twit.

What is wrong G is that you are talking single instance wrt individuals, and FF is talking statistically within a population.

If 100 people get sick that are unvaccinated, less that 10 of them will get sick if they are vaccinated. Thus there is less virus in circulation. 10x less. So even if individual cases produce equal amounts of virus, when people are vaccinated there is still 90% less virus circulating in the population.

When it comes to a virus with an R factor < 10, that 10 fold reduction in transmissability in the fully vaccinated population still means the virus can't spread enough to survive.

[Juvenal]

I've had a weather eye out for signs of folks saying, nope, not too soon, and it seems like Maureen Dowd has decided to be first to light the path. I kinda hated her for all the right reasons already — because I'll never be able to write as well as she does — and this stokes that fire.

Colin Powell and ‘Guernica’
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WASHINGTON — If we could unlock the puzzle of Colin Powell, maybe we could understand why America cracked up.

General Powell was the best America had to offer. He was the son of Jamaican immigrants in the South Bronx who became a hero in Vietnam and then the first African American secretary of state.

He was smart and charismatic, with an easy laugh and a Corvette Stingray. At Washington parties, even ones where Jack Nicholson dropped in, people gravitated toward Powell.

You can see where that's going.

And no, cause ya asked, you didn't actually need to google up Guernica.
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Powell should have paid more attention to his Rule No. 8: “Check small things.”

When U.N. officials covered up a tapestry of Picasso’s antiwar masterpiece, “Guernica,” before his speech, Powell should have checked that small thing. The discordance of the secretary of state selling the bombing of Iraq in front of the shrouded image of shrieking and mutilated women, men, children, bulls and horses spoke volumes.