We all knew infection was the best protection.

Statistically speaking, yes, comparing the group who had had COVID vs the group that was vaccinated, in subsequent COVID infections those who had had the disease were less likely to die.

Because those in the infection group who were most likely to die of COVID had already died. Turns out surviving COVID is a good indicator of your ability to survive COVID.

The statistics on unvaccinated first-time COVID vs vaccinated first-time COVID tells a very different story.

This kind of bullshit frustrates me so much.

We tried immunity via infection. Over a million people died.

Has Rand Paul ever gotten a cold? He must have only done so once and now has lifetime immunity.

I remember the time I got the flu. Boy was it awful, but I'm so glad I can't ever get it again.

Yeah, infection is the best protection... If you survive your first infection, which an awful lot of people didn't, and many more still developed life long disability as a result.

So I think I speak for most when I say I'd rather take the vaccine, so my chances of dying/being hospitalised were way lower if I ever got the real thing.

"Infection is the best protection" sounds fucking crazy

I get the context, I get the point

But it's still crazy

My favorite is that these chucklefucks treat COVID like it was all Dr Fauci's fault, as if every major country in the world didn't also have vaccine strategies in place. The moment you explain the rest of the world doing it better than America, they stare at you like deer in headlights.

The core problem with all this anti-vax bullshit, is that Vaccines worked..and they worked too well.

We have entire generations now that have never seen the terrible consequences of Polio, Smallpox, Measels (Although thats quickly changing, Go America! /s), or any other disease thats been eliminated (at least at one point.. Go America! /s) from popular concern and conscious.

and as a result, they have no idea what crippling horrors that they have been, and are actively, protected from.

and because humans are, generally, stupid and irrational and a lot of them lack the capability to think about anything beyond what they can see within 3 feet around them, they scream about the vaccines and call them evil because they have absolute no experience with the alternative, which is the diseases themselves.

Rand Paul is vaccinated. Reminder to tell anyone who brings him up that fact.

remember rand paul is the other SENATOR of kentucky, along with mitch.

Reminder: The neoeugenics movement wants to ban vaccines for the masses, so that the poor will die from preventable diseases.

I think the problem was rooted in public trust. Many people were required to vaccine due to their work or where they lived and vaccine manufacturers were largely sheltered from product lawsuits. Putting these two things together has a corrosive effect on public trust.

https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/can-i-sue-if-im-harmed-by-the-coronavirus-vaccine.html

I don't think the "science" Rand Paul follows is really science .

Or, more likely, he submitted false results and went un-vaccinated

Unless he faked the creds.

Well, no, conservatives operate on 'rules for thee not for me'. There's no reason to assume Paul was vaccinated based on events he attended requiring vaccination.

I don't doubt that he was, but you can't draw a line between the things listed in the post.

medical science has shown that long covid fucks with the brain. now, is this an "easy out" for stupid people, or do we really have to consider it

Rand Paul is compromised.

Infection is the best protection? Alright then Rand, please get infected with HIV so that you may be protected from it in the future. Better yet, expose yourself to Marburg virus so you’ll never have to use a vaccine ever again. Doesn’t sound so smart now does it?