The Shield Of Faith

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This morning.

Via The Irish Times:

With 3,726 new cases of Covid-19 confirmed in the State in the last 24 hours, it is clear that the epidemiological trends are still going in the wrong direction…

…Unlike previous surges, however, this one is not being met with new restrictions on social and economic life…

…The difference, of course, is that more than 90 per cent of the population is now fully vaccinated against Covid-19. That has placed a protective shield around the community, substantially lowering the death rate and providing very strong protection against serious illness.

In recent weeks, however, the Delta variant has begun to pierce that shield. The jabs continue generally to provide protection against the worst health outcomes, according to the National Immunisation Advisory Committee (Niac), but it has been well-documented that their ability to prevent infection and mild disease wanes over time. This was observed in Israel, where a third-shot booster programme was rapidly introduced. We also know that vaccinated people can transmit the virus….

…the situation will get worse before it gets better. If Israel’s experience is replicated here, a large-scale booster programme with high take-up levels (perhaps encouraged by a three-jab rule for admission to indoor hospitality) will depress the infection curve substantially towards the end of the year. In the meantime, however, hospital admissions and deaths will rise at least through this month. The question now is whether the health system can hold out until vaccines can reinstate that protective shield.

Anyone?

Reinstating the protective shield (editorial, Irish Times)

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23 thoughts on “The Shield Of Faith

  1. freewheeling

    Ireland is the latest country to learn the hard lesson of why there has never been a “vaccine” for coronaviruses. ADE will keep us being jabbed forever, until public opinion calls a halt to it – Pharma corps. have known all this and are well positioned to counteract any challenges against their work.

  2. John

    Obviously the Westboro Baptist cult is alive and well in BS with a bat$hit headline like “The Shield Of Faith”
    The headline should of course have been the “Shield of Science”
    Why make a big deal out of multiple jabs to protect people and save lives?
    Multiple jabs to induce immunity is common enough in medical science not that BS ever concerned itself with science
    E.G. for Hepatitis B the immunity is built after 3 to 4 jabs
    ww.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/vis/vis-statements/hep-b.html

    1. Nigel

      The shield of faith is impenetrable. Nothing can touch you when you are shielded by faith. The shield of faith cannot fail, it can only be failed. Whenever the shield of faith appears to fail, it is, in fact, acting the way it’s supposed to and is reinforced, like JFK jr failing to show up doesn’t prove the prediction that he would turn up wrong, only that it was right in a way the fathless wouldn’t understand but the faithful do.

      The shield of science can be penetrated, is faulty, needs adjustment, updating, has to adapt to conditions, is adminstered by fallible humans and human institutions. Yet when the shield of science doesn’t act like the shield of faith, the shield of science is said to have failed. It’s a wonderful conflation that requires no real reflection on reality.

    2. freewheeling

      > Why make a big deal out of multiple jabs to protect people and save lives?

      Because micro-clotting caused by these “vaccines”, in 62% of people.
      It’s cumulative, building with each additional shot. Will cost, not save, lives.

    3. gallantman

      Remember we were told the first jab was the main one and the second a mere top up. Then it turned out the first one wasn’t that effective but the second one is the real deal. Now the story is that the third one should do the trick……. at some point you’d be right to raise an eyebrow.

      (If this was a consumer product advertising standards would be all over it!!!!!)

  3. Jono

    If you can’t see that the science has failed here then you are the reason why the media is owned by the billionaire class, Consume and carry on…

    1. SOQ

      But has it failed?

      The singular purpose of pharmaceutical corporations is to make as much money as possible, and what better way to do that than to have a indefinite guaranteed income stream from frightened and dependent patients?

      Be under no illusion, those sociopaths are quite prepared to let people die in order to achieve their goals- because that is exactly what happened with HIV/AIDS.

      1. Nigel

        60% of those currently in ICU are from the 7% of the population who aren’t vaccinated, i’d say it’s not doing too badly.

        1. freewheeling

          And yet 7% of the population unvaxxed is suddenly more of a threat and burden to the health system than 100% unvaxxed were a year ago? Think! Do your own investigations around what they are telling (and not telling) you.

        2. SOQ

          You are assuming that vaccine efficacy is a stationary object- it is not.

          It decreases rapidly over a relatively short period of time which is why countries whom are further down this route have the opposite in ICU ratio figures.

          It is quickly turning into a Pharma cash cow.

  4. Cui Bono?

    Hopefully many will cop on now and reject their 3rd jab and start demanding an end to this obvious tyranny.

    Those in complete denial will be the last to realise it.

    1. Nigel

      Do you recommend people with underlying conditions or in vulnerable age groups or frontline health care workers NOT get booster shots?

      1. gallantman

        BTW whatever happened to vaccinating the vulnerable in poor countries before we gorge on booster shots??

        1. Zaccone

          Only 10% of over 80s in Africa are currently double vaccinated. But sure lets throw hundreds of millions of 3rd vaccination shots into our healthy young population here in Europe.

          The WHO has pointed this out multiple times. Not a single media outlet, or politician, in Ireland seems to be discussing the moral implications of this though, for some reason.

      2. Cui Bono?

        I would recommend everyone who is at risk to covid to do a risk/benefit analysis.

        Most frontline health care workers would not be at risk to covid.

        1. Nigel

          Either the vaccine is worthless and/or dangerous, or it isn’t, and the numbers of frontline healthcare workers out with covid makes your second assertion laughable.

  5. Zaccone

    “Either the vaccine is worthless and/or dangerous, or it isn’t, ”

    Thats not even remotely true though is it. In the real world almost nothing is black and white like that.

    Its entirely possible (and statistically does seem to be the case) that the vaccine is very worthwhile for those who’re immunocompromised or 50+. But for 30-50 year old, healthy, people its much more of a toss-up. And for younger people than that its higher risk than covid itself.

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