Stop wanking over Sweden for five minutes, will you? Cases are rising in Germany and France. In a number of other W European countries they're either rising or just starting to fall again after rising for the last few months.It was going to do that anyway, as happened in Sweden and pretty much all of Europe.
If Sweden's had carried on rising or flatlined, then maybe...but the trends are too similar to be able to discern a lockdown effect.
What's your explanation for Sweden's winter spike not maxxing out?
Furthermore, if deaths are preponderantly of old and sick people and transmission to them is mainly in health settings, there was no 'health-setting specific lockdown' to put the brakes on those contexts.
So, again, what *specific* mechanism caused the rapid fall-off *in the UK* within a few days of the new lockdown?
DK/NO reports 1/40000 wrt AZ, so probably not insignificantSix suspected blood clots from the J&J vaccine out of nearly 7,000,000 administered doses, and the vaccine is on hold because the "we choose not to live in fear" brigade think it's going to kill them.
Humans really, really, really suck at assessing risks.
Of course it fucking is! Were you born yesterday?Whatever brakes they're applying is not because of peer pressure from the general public
Do you have the protocol for unanticipated vaccine harms during an ongoing trial?Of course it fucking is! Were you born yesterday?
They've no doubt prioritized the elderly and unwell though, right? A fraction of those people will die in any given people, vaccine or no vaccine.DK/NO reports 1/40000 wrt AZ, so probably not insignificant
Typical deflection there. Your statement that trials aren't being disrupted due to public pressure is demonstrably false. There are widespread anti-vaxx movements all over the world. I shouldn't have to point this out to you, since you're obviously sympathetic to them yourself, regardless of whether you're out there waving a placard.Do you have the protocol for unanticipated vaccine harms during an ongoing trial?
If they're departing from that protocol then maybe you're right, but you need to prove it.
Also it doesn't say that vaccination leaves you more vulnerable to infection from variants than if you hadn't been vaccinated - just that it leaves you more vulnerable to infection from variants than you are to infection from "vanilla" covid.
Not at all, it's a very straightforward argument.That's a non-sequitur if ever I've seen one.
You have a tendency to assume the thing you're trying to prove.