Originally Posted by
WHACKMASTER
Interesting. When claiming religious exemption did you need to provide details or explain yourself?
Seriously? If you can “self-identify” as a different gender, you think somebody is going to be able to ask you for a note from your priest or rabbi to prove you are religious?
Doesn’t make not taking good vaccines a good idea though. And as for “I’ve never gotten the flu,” everybody who HAS ever gotten the flu was able to claim that at one time, yet in the end all of us DID get it.
On a more immediate note, there is increasing evidence that tweaking the immune response with almost ANY vaccine decreases your risk of getting and/or severity of if you do get infected with COVID-19, probably through one of the nonspecific antiviral immune mechanisms like interferon.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/art...ad-of-covid-19
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20...mortality.aspx
https://asm.org/Press-Releases/2020/...e-Worst-Sympto
An excerpt:
“Live attenuated vaccines seemingly have some nonspecific benefits as well as immunity to the target pathogen. A clinical trial with MMR in high-risk populations may provide a low-risk-high-reward preventive measure in saving lives during the COVID-19 pandemic,” said Dr. Fidel. “While we are conducting the clinical trials, I don’t think it’s going to hurt anybody to have an MMR vaccine that would protect against the measles, mumps, and rubella with this potential added benefit of helping against COVID-19.”
Mounting evidence demonstrates that live attenuated vaccines provide nonspecific protection against lethal infections unrelated to the target pathogen of the vaccine by inducing trained nonspecific innate immune cells for improved host responses against subsequent infections. Live attenuated vaccines induce nonspecific effects representing “trained innate immunity” by training leukocyte (immune system cells) precursors in the bone marrow to function more effectively against broader infectious insults.
Now is NOT the time to ‘get religion’ against established vaccines with a good track record.