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I mean, I agree. I have serious concerns about the potential for over-sensitizing the adaptive immune system, even with the current vaccines. I also fundamentally disagree with vaccinating just against the spike protein rather than the whole virus (particularly given how immunogenic and therefore pathogenic the spike is; we're injecting [genetic material that codes for] the most dangerous part of the virus with these vaccines IMO)

I'm just pointing out how effective the vaccines would have to be for this strategy to make sense (and that's ignoring the whole matter of people that refuse to get vaccinated against COVID, like me).

Simply put the whole strategy doesn't make sense on utilitarian grounds. I don't need to invoke any libertarian principles to argue against why this is so insane.

Side tangent: Unfortunately many who are on my side of the fence as far as skepticism of mass vaccination, believe equally absurd things like the notion that we can eradicate SARS-2 by having the whole world all take ivermectin at the same time. This idea was non-ironically advocated for by Bret Weinstein...



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