Originally posted by ChrisPlatt On The World radio program yesterday I heard a report that in Indonesia and some other predominantly Muslim countries
there is resistance to Sinovac due to the mistaken notion that it contains pork ingredients and is therefore haram (forbidden).
Chris
Same type of idiots that say vaccines contain aborted babies.
Originally posted by ChristianRock Our family had the Covid back in July, and I have nice antibodies already, so no, not getting the vaccine...
Originally posted by ChristianRock Here's the interesting thing.... back when I had it, they were saying the antibodies were only going to last 3 months. 3 months later, they said 6 months. Now that I'm getting close to 6 months, they are saying 8...
When I had it in March they said they didn't know but best bet would be six months and the safest way to behave was to assume that you had no immunity. Only time will tell, but if what I previously stated about the virus suppressing the immune response is shown to be true then some of the vaccines (the mRNA ones, not the ones inserting the spike protein gene in another coronavirus) may well provide significantly better immunity than actually contracting the wild virus. That means it would be beneficial to everybody, including those that have already had CoViD.
It'll be quite some time until I'm offered it but when offered I will certainly accept. It's everyone's duty to their fellow human beings to get the vaccine if they can.
Originally posted by gaweidert Does anyone really believe that as of January 13, 2021 the official death toll in China from COVID-19 is only 4,634? Or that they went 8 months with no deaths from the virus while it ran rampant over the rest of the planet.
This from an article on the Al Arabiya web site on January 14 of this year.
No way. China is among the many countries where official numbers are completely wrong. There are three reasons for this, the effect of each varies depending on the country:
(1) the government doesn't want to admit they have such a bad problem because they feel it reflects badly on them (when in fact what reflects badly is lying to their populations and doing less than possible to solve the problem)
(2) vast rural areas with very limited healthcare where it's not really possible to determine the cause of death
(3) the real infection and death rates contradict the (right-wing) political leanings of leaders who are the type who believe what they choose rather than believe what the evidence shows. Leaders like Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro who say it's "just a flu" etc etc
China, Russia, India, Brazil.... I'm sure the list goes on.