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Covid Restrictions dying off

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If we always knew that the vaccines did not prevent the spread of Covid, why were people forced to get vaccinated or lose their jobs? We were told taking the vaccines was to protect others, just like the lie about masks. It's like you people didn't live in the same timeline as the rest of us these past couple of years. You all forget what was said and when. Then when the truth comes out, you pretend you knew all along. You will not sit there and gaslight the rest of us.

Even President Vegetable said that the vaccines will prevent the spread of Covid. Guess that makes him a liar, then. I wonder if the Washington Post has a running tally of Biden's lies or is that just reserved for the Orange Man? Hmm...
I literally provided the very documents from when the approval happened. They were transparent from the start about about uncertainty. As for why it’s important to get vaccinated, even if unsure if it could prevent the spread or not, there was still enough to show that both prevented infection in some and kept others alive when infected. Which is still important when you are dealing with a rapidly spreading virus. How people respond to the information of vaccines availability isn’t relevant. Job not wanting unvaccinated employees is the best way to prevent the spread as the unvaccinated still present a high risk to the rest of their workplace. Also masks do help prevent the spread of viruses and you don’t have any paper that proves they don’t. The only ones who claimed they aren’t effective, don’t have no idea what they are talking about. But again, I still provided the very papers and articles that you continue to refuse to read. You are questioning me when the very link is from December of 2020 and includes this
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But since I know you won’t open it because you refuse to
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I literally provided the very documents from when the approval happened. They were transparent from the start about about uncertainty. As for why it’s important to get vaccinated, even if unsure if it could prevent the spread or not, there was still enough to show that both prevented infection in some and kept others alive when infected. Which is still important when you are dealing with a rapidly spreading virus. How people respond to the information of vaccines availability isn’t relevant. Job not wanting unvaccinated employees is the best way to prevent the spread as the unvaccinated still present a high risk to the rest of their workplace. Also masks do help prevent the spread of viruses and you don’t have any paper that proves they don’t.
Science doesn't have to prove a negative. It's the responsibility of the one making the claim that they do work to prove it. That's never been done. The research the CDC used to persuade the rubes to wear face diapers was a flawed study. Once again, show peer reviewed documentation that face masks work.
The only ones who claimed they aren’t effective, don’t have no idea what they are talking about. But again, I still provided the very papers and articles that you continue to refuse to read. You are questioning me when the very link is from December of 2020 and includes this
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Source: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa2034577
But since I know you won’t open it because you refuse to
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You completely skipped over President Vegetable's proclamation that vaccines prevent the spread of Covid. Dr. Fauci made similar claims back in the day, along with the CDC director. You are not going to be allowed to memory hole actual spoken words and the fact that these people were not corrected. The people who spoke up were attacked, banned from social media and had their reputations destroyed.

But getting you to admit that everybody who went on TV is a proven liar is the sweetest part of all of this. *chef's kiss*
 

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Its kinda funny to look back at how many people lost their shit at Covid restrictions when at the end of the day they really weren't all that bad at all. And hey, we got contactless deliveries and movies that will now immediately release to streaming services out of it. I dunno, at the end of the day, despite how upset a lot of people were, these last 2 years were really not that bad, and I even got Covid twice lol (seems to only have a mild affect on me, especially after the vaccination).
 

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Amazing how politics make some lose their literacy, pulling out articles left and right, says it is real because it supports their beliefs, without checking the contents of what they read, understanding the context of such research, the conflicts of interests (if any), research the authors involved to see if there isn't any bias that goes against significant evidence, not bother to counter research to see if what they believe actually hold true.

But no, lets insult the others instead, lol.

I've read plenty of peer-reviewed articles being wrong a few years later, because of new development of a particular subject. That doesn't mean much unless the evidence is sound and hard to refute.
 

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