Give this lady a Darwin award (posthumously, of course).
Originally Posted by : Unvaccinated Trump supporter who spread coronavirus conspiracy theories dies of COVID-19
On Tuesday, the Cape Cod Times reported that Linda Zuern, a former member of the Bourne, Massachusetts Board of Selectmen and a Trump-supporting figure in the local Republican Party, had died of COVID-19.
Zuern died at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston of severe complications caused by COVID-19, according to the report. She was 70 years old and had not been vaccinated.
"She was a strong woman who believed in speaking the truth and defending our freedoms in America," Republican State Committeewoman Deborah Dugan told the Cape Cod Times. Dugan was at Zuern's bedside when she died. "I would describe her to people as a little woman but a mighty warrior."
For months, Zuern, a member of the pro-Trump group the United Cape Patriots, had promoted conspiracy theories about the pandemic on Facebook. She has shared articles accusing the World Health Organization of a coverup of the "Wuhan Virus" and claiming COVID-19 is cover for "globalists" to usher in "U.N. Agenda 2030" — a sustainable development initiative right-wing conspiracy theorists assert is a plot to create a one world government.
Zuern also expressed support for the QAnon conspiracy theory, posting their creed of "WWG1WGA" (Where We Go One, We Go All).
Zuern promoted the use of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment of COVID-19 during a Barnstable County Assembly of Delegates meeting in December and questioned whether officials "had looked into preventative measures that people could use besides a vaccine to help build up their immune system," the Cape Cod Times reported.
Peter Meier, chair of the Board of Selectmen, said Zuern cared deeply about others. "She definitely left her mark on the community," he added.
According to the report, Zuern and her mother contracted COVID-19 while returning home from a trip to South Dakota — a state where Republican-motivated policies have let the virus propagate with little control.
Most recently, new research out of Israel makes the case that a prior Covid-19 infection offers far superior immunity than do the vaccinations. Gazit et al. (medRxiv preprint, posted Aug. 25, 2021) compared vaccinated people without prior Covid-19 infections with unvaccinated people who had recovered from prior infections. Matching them by infection/vaccination periods to test their “immune activation” time (16,125 people in each group; i.e., 32,250 people), they found the vaccinated were six to 13 times more likely to have breakthrough infections than were the naturally immune to have reinfection. Adjusting for comorbidities, they found the vaccinated were 27 times more likely to have symptomatic breakthrough infections than were the naturally immune to have symptomatic reinfection. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1....15.21249731v2
Originally Posted by BleedingRed:
Most recently, new research out of Israel makes the case that a prior Covid-19 infection offers far superior immunity than do the vaccinations. Gazit et al. (medRxiv preprint, posted Aug. 25, 2021) compared vaccinated people without prior Covid-19 infections with unvaccinated people who had recovered from prior infections. Matching them by infection/vaccination periods to test their “immune activation” time (16,125 people in each group; i.e., 32,250 people), they found the vaccinated were six to 13 times more likely to have breakthrough infections than were the naturally immune to have reinfection. Adjusting for comorbidities, they found the vaccinated were 27 times more likely to have symptomatic breakthrough infections than were the naturally immune to have symptomatic reinfection. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1....15.21249731v2
But you asked why would anyone who had covid want to get vaccinated. The facts are that previous infection + vaccine is far more effective than previous infection alone. The Israeli study does not dispute this. Everyone is better off vaccinated.
Originally Posted by cdcox:
But you asked why would anyone who had covid want to get vaccinated. The facts are that previous infection + vaccine is far more effective than previous infection alone. The Israeli study does not dispute this. Everyone is better off vaccinated.
Yes it does,
And your study ended in June, again your science is dated before the DELTA VARIANT.
Your study did not prove Vaccine + Natural Immunity is better at all. Furthermore is sampling existed only before Delta was the primary variant.
Originally Posted by Mizzou_8541:
Do you feel good laughing My friend who is a father and husband? He himself wishes he had gotten the vaccine. What proof do you need for this?
Tell you what, why don’t you run down to the hospital. Have him write up a new Facebook post saying the thing you said he said. Have him take a picture with you flicking me off while holding tomorrow’s news paper. Then I’ll believe your pile of dog shit.
And your study ended in June, again your science is dated before the DELTA VARIANT.
Your study did not prove Vaccine + Natural Immunity is better at all. Furthermore is sampling existed only before Delta was the primary variant.
Hence the study is worthless.
Still wrong.
“The findings suggest that natural immunity provides longer-lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease, and hospitalization due to the Delta variant, compared with the protection of the Pfizer-BioNTech two-dose vaccine, the researchers conclude.
In addition, those with natural immunity exhibit additional protection against the Delta variant when given a single dose of the vaccine, according to the results.”
Originally Posted by BleedingRed:
Tell you what, why don’t you run down to the hospital. Have him write up a new Facebook post saying the thing you said he said. Have him take a picture with you flicking me off while holding tomorrow’s news paper. Then I’ll believe your pile of dog shit.
Otherwise agree to disagree
He’s in San Diego. So I can’t run down there. I would say that there is a battalion of marines standing vigil. Those that are near him. Because that’s what marines do. And we will support this kids in perpetuity. I don’t think he can “flick” you off as he is intubated. I can guarantee you though if somehow he recovers we will be on your doorstep.
Originally Posted by Mizzou_8541:
He’s in San Diego. So I can’t run down there. I would say that there is a battalion of marines standing vigil. Those that are near him. Because that’s what marines do. And we will support this kids in perpetuity. I don’t think he can “flick” you off as he is intubated. I can guarantee you though if somehow he recovers we will be on your doorstep.
