Damage control, with a quick-fix rearranging of data. Real world evidence is plain for all to see. Just look at last Winter's COVID spike following flu shot season. We'd all gotten the social distancing, mask mandates, dining bans down, yet we got hit with the most massive COVID wave to date.
My own experience with non-influenza illness following the flu shot was similar. Sick with astonishing swiftness 3 years running, once I decided to start getting the flu jab for my new job.
NEVERMORE!
Actually there are many people who now believe it was the severe lockdowns during the winter that caused the winter surges.
It is well known that when people stay closed up indoors that virus spreads easier and are more contagious then when people are outdoors.
"the winter transmission boost is likely to be a lot larger because of one factor on which virtually all experts agree on: in most of the country
people will be spending more time indoors, where the coronavirus is transmitted far more effecienty"
"A study from researchers in Japan, based on contract tracing, found that infected people were 19 times more likely to pass on the infection
when they were indoors than outdoors."
https://www.medrxiv....2.28.20029272v2
They have also found that the Covid is more infectious in low relative humidity weather...like during the winter.
"Epidemiological research suggests that anything below 40% will help the virus thrive." During the winter the indoor relative
humidity usually can drop as low as 15% typically in most states....so that is just another factor that can increase the transmission
of Covid during the winter.
There is also the fact that during the winter months the body does not appear to perform as well at fighting viruses:
"A march epidemiological metastudy from researcher at Yale and in Switzerland, suggests that dry air indoor helps to preserve the virus and
at the same time impairs the immune system's ability to fight off when it first takes hold in the nose or elsewhere in the airway:
https://www.annualre...y-012420-022445
https://medicine.yal...i/?tab=research
So, I think this past winter surge had nothing to do with the flu vaccine, but everything to do with the insane lock downs and and how the cold
weather affects Covid transmission and how the body fights the infections.
And I know there will be some people who will respond to this saying...but what about the Delta surge during the summer. Well that is a different
situation for two reasons:
1. The Delta variant is known to be more transmissible then the first variant so it probably didn't matter much when it hit.
2. But more importantly...I think that in a roundabout way the Covid vaccines had a lot to do with the surge....I can't count how many times I have
seen or ran into people over the summer who were coughing or sneezing out in public and thought it was fine because they had been vaccinated.
I remember once situtaion where I was standing in line at a retail store and this lady in line started coughing and coughing and the person in
front of her and the one behind her distanced themselves from her and in repsonse she said "you have nothing to worry about I have
had my two shots". I just thought that was the stupidest comment. You have a lot of these people who believe since they got the
Covid vaccine they can not pass it on to other people so they go out in public and are coughing and sneezing with the attitude there
is nothing to worry about. So I think a lot of these people who did not understand that the vaccine did not keep it from spreading were
out and about spreading it if they caught it and were not symptomatic.....or some of them could have been symptomatic and still out spreading
because they didn't think they had anything to worry about since they had gotten the vaccine.
Edited by lancebr, 09 October 2021 - 09:47 PM.