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Jun 17, 2021Liked by Robyn Chuter

Awesome work

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I don't know how I stumbled on your blog, but you are so funny. My first issue with your articles is that you outrightly show your own bias by calling the vaccine, 'injection'. Secondly, you go on this whole argument that the risk of getting COVID-19 is low. I would like to inform the people who may or may not read this horribly bias take of the coronavirus vaccine. The point in getting vaccinated is for public health. It is not individual health, but it is for protecting the people who are unable to be vaccinated due to auto-immune disorders or other disorders that impact their immune system. To obtain herd immunity, healthy individuals need to be vaccinated by about 90% of the population. So your take that its not worth getting the vaccine, is not only irresponsible, but incredibly misinformed. As a microbiologist, the vaccine reduces the replication of the virus within the body, therefore reducing infectivity and the possibility of variation between strains. So while yes, you may be asymptomatic/mildly sick if you contract covid, vaccination will reduce its ability to replicate in your body and thus infect other people. Just because you say vocab words, does not mean you actually know what the hell you are talking about. Leave science for the scientists. Please and thank you. Remember public health, not individual health. IT IS NOT ABOUT YOU. It is about protecting those in your community (i.e children, and the chronically ill) #getvaxxed :)

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It's so amusing when people who claim to have scientific training reveal their complete ignorance. As I recounted in my article Why Australia's COVID-19 exit plan can't succeed

Part 1 (https://robynchuter.substack.com/p/why-australias-covid-19-exit-plan), the current crop of COVID-19 injections do not prevent infection nor transmission of SARS-CoV-2, and in particular have low efficacy against the now-dominant Delta strain.

CDC has acknowledged that there is no difference in cycle threshold between unvaccinated and fully vaccinated breakthrough cases. From my article linked above:

Professor Andrew Pollard, head of the Oxford Vaccine Group which developed the AstraZeneca injection that forms a key plank of Australia's vaccination strategy, has stated flatly that herd immunity is “not a possibility” given the heightened transmissibility of the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2.

Þórólfur Guðnason, the Chief Epidemiologist of Iceland, a small island nation that has fully 'vaccinated' over 69% of its population and partially 'vaccinated' an additional 4.5%, has acknowledged that their aggressive vaccination program has not achieved herd immunity and will not be able to, given the failure of existing 'vaccines' to prevent infection and transmission.

Jeffrey Shaman, an epidemiologist at Columbia University, said:

“In some sense, vaccination is now about personal protection—protecting oneself against severe disease. Herd immunity is not relevant as we are seeing plenty of evidence of repeat and breakthrough infections [my emphasis].”

Covid-19: Delta infections threaten herd immunity vaccine strategy

Andrew Noymer, an epidemiologist at the University of California at Irvine, agreed:

“If the vaccinated can become infected and, we believe from other studies, potentially spread covid, then herd immunity becomes more mirage than oasis.”

Covid-19: Delta infections threaten herd immunity vaccine strategy

There is no public health benefit to these injections because they cannot achieve herd immunity and plainly offer no protection to the immunocompromised or to children (who are at vanishingly low risk anyway). If you wish to get one, after considering the risks and benefits to yourself, that is your right. However, you have no right to intimidate, coerce or in any other way (including through your rather amusing attempts to insult me) persuade others to do so if they conducted their own risk-benefit analysis and decided against it.

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