Can u check into the whole hydra thing? I saw a video of one in the vaccine but I haven't seen or read anything else about that... However this was recent info
Your theory is lost when factoring in concern for others: elders that don't want the vaccine(given treatment is available but being suppressed), while a treatment that had won the Nobel was being suppressed vaccine missions to third world countries were halted(those poor children, so that's elders and children), blood clots in adults(?). Mandatory vaccination, your theory falls apart at, mandatory vaccination(of an untested vaccine for an never treated, rather, not allowed to be treated virus) And how many of those 1:500 died with and not of covid? Q
@@AminJones The media are brainwashed into serving big pharma, thats why they bash early treatment and why they denie the fact that natural immunity is 13 x stronger than vaccine immunity.
But mutations are definitely not rare at all. It is very likely that each infected person grows many mutations during the clinical course of the disease. Mutations that will evade our vaccines are a different matter. But even then just a matter of time.
@@wholeNwon He meant bad mutations are rare(the kind that make the virus more potent). Most mutations usually have no effect, or harm the virus instead
The best example of that helmet one is very real. The metal helmets introduced in WWI decreased casualties in the sense of deaths, but causalities include injuries that take you out of the war so there was actually an increase in casualties because while deaths went down, the number of non-life threatening injuries went up. So, statistically, the safer metal helmets increased causalities, but they actually increased the safety of the soldiers despite the statistics.
Well stated!! I have an antivaxxer fiancée and it is beyond logic. Otherwise an intelligent, if not FIESTY Gal. She's burnt, I am going to get vaccine today!
To expound on the base rate fallacy: 28% of car accidents involved alcohol. This doesn't mean that sober drivers are more likely to crash than drunk drivers. It just means on any given 7-day period, there are more sober drivers than drunk drivers. Drunk driving for the most part only occurs Friday and Saturday nights. Sober drivers drive all 7 days. Even though most car accidents don't involve alcohol, you are far more likely to crash when drunk than sober.
uncertain is the only position he is aloud to take, if he believes vaccines are the wrong answer he has no choice but not share it,,its not ok to be smart,,if you see people you know suffer severe consequences "coincidentally" the same week of the vaccine,,you shouldn't make the smart decision and avoid it like the plague, but shut off your thought and take the poison as the big pharma cult leaders tell you to, even though the only thing it does is hurt people and does not do anything they say it does ,and the cult group is protected from any repercussion,,shut off your thinking and take the poison ,,,,,ummmm well maybe its ok to be smart,,,,but its not ok to think for yourself,, you must let others do the thinking for you ,call me a coocoo ani vaxxer but i personally know individuals who suffered severe consequences from vaccines so i will not bend to the cults coercion, harassment and subhumanizing me for choosing not to take there poison, just because they censor and say its untrue on those who dare tell the truth doesn't make the people i know not have those ill effects,, and no matter how many vaccines you get there will always be another virus for them to use as excuse to "convince" (coerce harras and threaten) you to take there next poisonous cocktail
This was done very well, but it was also incredibly pro-vaccine and with the vaccine mandate. He barely mentioned mask, when masks were the result of Thailand only having 11 cases of covid the entire first year of the pandemic. Got to love America and its vaccine mandate. Disgusting
@@sncy5303 You do realize that 99% of most people in the U.S. are NOT anti-vaxxers and Covid deniers, right? It's just that the media labels ANYONE who has ANYTHING different to say about Covid-19 or vaccines to be "right-wing conspiracy nut jobs who are against all science". You know, despite the fact that things like the Tuskeegee syphilis project existed. If the media WASN'T constantly antagonizing and demonizing people, there wouldn't be anyone against covid-19 vaccines! Except in case of anti-government sentiments. But then that wouldn't be anti-vaxx, but rather anti-authoritarianism.
As for our country, a lot of statistics is taught but the thing with statistics is, it is very easy to lie with data. Also, the way statistics is taught is much more of formulas and equations with no regard to what a certain formula might mean in a real-world setting.
Geography gets taught in schools - yet we got flat-earthlers. People are able to not learn A LOT of things that get taught in schools, especially in math.
@@eclipseslayer98 TBH little statistics is taught in schools elsewhere. Even in the highly competitive Chinese education system, you are not going to learn baseline fallacy unless you are going to study STEM subjects or medicine in university. This is also my first hand experience.
Thank you. Uncertainty has been hitting me harder than anything else and this didn't give me certainty, but it did give me some VERY NEEDED hope inside that uncertainty.
I’m going to share this every time one of these talking points comes up on social media. Thanks for putting so much time and effort into this explainer.
But studies already show that if your not on the risky tiers (obesity, other conditions, old, not exercising) The rate of asymptomatic/survival is high (forgot exact numbers) What if im willing to take a low-risk bet? The only thing that prevents me is. They say. The more people (even vaccinated) gets infected, the more the virus mutates and therefore prolong the pandemic. No scientist. But how long is this mutation gonna last? Cause sure as hell I'd like to find love/be active in my 20s (without seriously hurting someone of course)
@@NicitoStaAna "What if im willing to take a low-risk bet?" 700,000 dead Americans is a low-risk bet? "The more people (even vaccinated) gets infected, the more the virus mutates and therefore prolong the pandemic" Yes. The more people that get infected, the more the virus will mutate. Which stands to reason why more people should get vaccinated to better stem that infection
@@chrishaven1489 I never said anything bad on vaccines. So not sure why you put the second part Researched it myself, death rate is super complicated and can easily lead to false assumptions. So in some countries it's 1.2%, some it's 10%. (And also depends on who it targets) Ie. 700k dead may be. 650k old/immunocompromised/bed-ridden people. My main concern is lockdowns. (My country is still on lockdown, no real re-opening) Why should 90% of population be on lockdown when only the 10% is on any real danger. If anything, a logical solution is to identify these high risks, vaccinate and keep them on quarantine And let everyone else (vaccinated) go on with their lives. I'd like to have a breakdown of deaths by known high-risk. (But again researched it. It's not as simple as getting ratios to avoid fallacies)
@@NicitoStaAna If you watch the video again, maybe you can answer your own questions. "Why should 90% of population be on lockdown when only the 10% is on any real danger." even if YOU are not in danger, you give the virus just one more chance to mutate into something else........ I'm glad the lockdown over here is pretty much over, I'm Dutch, But you do have to be vaccinated or tested 24 hours before when you want to go to dinner or a movie.
@@stonedmountainunicorn9532 Well in my country of Philippines (Roughly 1.2% death rate) Im vaccinated and 20s. And still have restrictions (al fresco dining is at 30%) Weekly cases are down to 50k (from 100k just a month ago) Last i Checked. My city is already 99% of target population vaccinated. (Non-essential Workers+high-risk) And last I heard. Starting for general vaccination To be fair. Our vaccine mostly came from China. (Probably the weakest vaccine of them all. Some countries don't even considered that brand of vaccine to be vaccinated. And still has to go through stricter procedures for getting into those countries despite technically vaccinated) But I took it cuz it's better than nothing. (And still 80% less risk for hospitalizations) That was around June or July. Now im seeing vaccines having less strength in 6 months (even on the good vaccines) And natural immunity is better It's almost December/January and still on lockdown/quarantined. So what was that vaccine for? It probably did help. Part of me thinks a better policy is for some vaccinated people be allowed to go out. This is what will lead to continuous natural immunity. No need for booster shots when my booster is known as risk being infected before the 6 month vaccine expiry starts. Again. Why should 90% of non-dangerous people still be in lockdown when the real danger is only at 10%? Why lockdown us 90% when we got vaccinated and waste the precious 6 month gap as an opportunity to get natural immunity?
Neil deGrasse Tyson once said something akin to "If a person didn't arrive at a conclusion through logic, making logical arguments is unlikely to change their mind." While I find videos like this very helpful and appreciate the dedication, it's kinda depressing to think that the people who need to hear this most, A: won't watch this video, or B: won't be persuaded by logic and facts. I've come to think these videos just help reinforce an unintentional echo chamber of like-minded people. I know that sounds cynical, but there's not much in the common person to be hopeful about. Seems like the past 5 years has been a precipitous and steady decline of human intelligence and willingness to be persuaded by facts. We're living in Nicolas Negroponte's "The Daily Me". Everyone has their own truth and nobody is going to be persuaded by information outside of their own personal truth. It's discouraging and exhausting.
For me it helped answer some of my questions like why get the vaccine if you already had the disease. Do while I'm on science's side of the fence, it's still helpful in teaching me.
@@nebulan It helped me as well. It's very informative, but I believe that we are not the people who need to be convinced. I'm very skeptical that the people who need convincing can be convinced. That's the issue. I know truly good and intelligent people who are so turned around on this, and many other, issues that should be simple. Politics plays a large part, but everything from viruses to sex is politicized these days, and that's a huge issue.
@Tim v H That's a big philosophical topic where I'm sure my opinion wouldn't be very well received. Lol. I don't believe creating conscious life is moral or right. Continuing life is only logical because once conscious life is brought into being, taking away that life is the greater immoral act. Keeping this experiment going is illogical - it's emotional and instinctual.
I wish the CDC would stop telling the world to take their masks off. The woman who runs the CDC should retire, resign, whatever, and apologize for the entire world for when she told them it was safe not to wear masks. It was a lie then, and they knew it. The WHO has never told you to take your mask off. The Tokyo Institute has never told you to take your mask off. The Mayo Clinic has never told you to take your mask off. it's too bad the United States had such a huge bilateral deal as an investment into the vaccine. Cuz now they have this huge mandate agenda because they're trying to turn it into a business. It's disgusting. Everyone who gets that shot, it's going to get another one in a few years, and another one in a few years, and another one in a few years, what will they charge you 10 years from now to keep your Elite self alive? :(
@@yackablejohnson1485 By your logic we are never removing masks because COVID will always be a risk. Well guess what I am vaccinated and the pros of not wearing a mask outweigh the increased risk of getting COVID for me, the chance I get COVID and end up in the hospital are basically zero and that's really all I care about
@@yackablejohnson1485 That was 100% political. Pressure to say the US was doing well enough to remove masks. Those of us in healthcare knew better. I’ve been in that room several times - being pressured to paint a picture with a rosy glow. These administrative agencies are run by experts, but they are appointed by the President. It works when the politicians use them for their expertise and not undermine them.
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv Wait first and foremost,, What are the Pros and cons for wearing a mask, and no getting vaccinated wont make you 100% immune for the vaccine have you even watched the video jezz
I think how he meant to put the seatbelt thing is that before seatbelts and were invented there were less admissions to the hospital for car accident related injuries because most of the time people ended up dead so they wouldn’t go to the hospital therefore when seatbelts were introduced the number of car accident related hospital admissions skyrocketed because more people were surviving the accident but still getting injured and needing to go to the hospital so it makes it look worse but in reality they’re less deaths and more injuries so the severity of what’s happening to the people is lowering the same number of accidents would’ve happened with or without the seatbelt it’s just that less people are actually dying because of it
Nobody is saved or survives life. There's always one death, just at different times. The longer we live, the more serious illnesses we suffer, the more we cost the health care systems, the more we have to pay for living while no longer productive, and the greater the pollution and higher costs for housing, etc.
@@homewall744 True, but does that mean we should allow people to die? Would you never read a book because it will inevitably end one day if you do read it?
Today in Ontario, we had 192 breakthrough cases and 300 on the unvaccinated side. However, that means about 1 case for every 55,400 vaccinated people vs 11,485 unvaccinated. But the severity of the disease is where you see the real difference. The hospitalization rate was 1 in 247,200 for the vaccinated vs 1 for 32,200 for the unvaccinated. As for ICU cases, the difference was even more dramatic: 1 ICU case for every 708,600 vs 1 for every 47,200. Vaccines work!
When the first thing this video does is gaslight people about the definition of vaccine and what it does, I can say "Chicken Noodle Soup is a vaccine, and it works." Why can I say that? Because the bar for what a vaccine is was lowered from "Granting immunity" to "reducing symptoms and improving patient outcomes." How many boosters do people need for the 'old' diseases like measles and polo? Three? Four? Ten? No, it was one; and just one. Vaccines provided a lifetime of protection because your immune system is what's providing that protection. You get a disease and recover from it your body will be able to defend against it for the rest of your life or until your immune system gets weakened. Yet look around, what are you being told? That vaccines are your only hope, and nothing about your own immune system. Hell, the idea of natural immunity itself is being attacked. This isn't to mention that people do have their reasons for not getting vaccinated: The primary one being that their immune system is already weak, or other pre-existing conditions that makes vaccines riskier; which means a doctor would not recommend getting a vaccine. IE: A population of people who are highly susceptible to risk of hospitalization in the first place. You can't just take a correlation and then assume causation, yet that's what so many people are doing. If you actually care about "science" then what you should be doing is trying to prove yourself wrong, not prove yourself right.
@@rahn45 I feel tired just reading your comment. Let's start with the weirdest one, "Chicken Noodle Soup is a vaccine" - no, by definition, it is not. Chicken noodle soup is a meal, and may provide relief from feeling ill, but there's no mechanism of action that equates it to a vaccine. You can't even call it medication; at best it's a "supplement" Vaccines, at least modern ones, have never had the bar of "granting immunity"; they just don't work like that. Natural "Immunity" doesn't provide immunity either; maybe prolonged resistance, but not outright immunity. Some vaccines for certain disease tend to induce longer term immunity, perhaps long enough to be considered a lifetime, which brings me to the next point. Equating the Measles virus to the current CoV-2 virus is like equating an iguana to a dolphin; they don't even belong in the same phylum, and naturally, evolution will have lead them down different paths. Even within the coronaviruses itself, there's amazing variance in infectiousness, specificity, and lethality. Even the SARS-CoV-1 virus of 2004, arguably the closest analog to SARS-CoV-2, is drastically different. Dogs, cats, and pigs all have their own strains of coronaviruses, and none have caused major disease outbreaks in humans despite our proximity. Will that change? Possibly. But they are not the same thing, so the immune system's reaction to it would not be the same. Would you equate COVID-19 to HIV? Herpes? Rabies? In other words, where one vaccine may confer a lifetime resistance to a particular disease, it doesn't mean a vaccine will do the same for another. Vaccines are a relatively safe way to induce your natural immunity to start working, as opposed to "rolling the dice", as it were, with suffering through the actual disease itself. As we learn more about this particular virus by buying ourselves time to do so, we come up with different pre-and-post-exposure prophylaxes. The people for whom vaccines are not recommended due to being immunocompromised is the prime example of why those of us who can, should. They rely on us for their safety, their protection. We are their line of defense against catching this disease themselves. Many of them have had to wait on treatment and medical attention specifically because the anti-vax population is taking up hospital space. The fact you're insinuating that they're to blame is frankly shameful.
My ex is a nurse. When I said I'm fully Vaxed, she explained to me exactly what you just said. I thought dagnabidy what was the point? Now you have enlightened a lot of people. Thank you
That's the problem with science communication, something is lost when translating it to laypeople. I have a degree in physics, but when I go to the doctor, they use highly technical jargon a layperson wouldn't understand, let alone an educated one.
Funny stuff. But really, the only way this pandemic crap ends is if people are not lied to by sick industries causing it, making the public turn a blind eye to their money funding hell holes, which fuels disease - ruclips.net/video/zJHdMqgZMiY/видео.html Close attention to the #1 point 👍
I don't think our biggest enemy is uncertainty. I think it's other people who are so uncomfortable with uncertainty that they are desperate to cling to untruths and misinformation, are unwilling to embrace uncertainty, and allow others to die rather than be confronted with the reality that life is uncertain.
The antivaxer aren't afraid of uncertainty hence why they are out and about not caring if they get COVID. It's the people locking down and wearing 12 masks who are afraid of uncertainty
@@macethorns1168 Given that the virus isn't called Covid, I think that's unlikely! Giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming you meant SARS-Cov-2, they are obliged to put that because no form of PPE is 100% effective; the wording is most likely 'not guaranteed to prevent the transmission of SARS-Cov-2"
@@macethorns1168 if the mask stops any % of water molecules escape it, then its better than nothing,if it says its not protecting at all its for lawsuit protection.
Me looking in description for sources: "Bruh their only reference is a Google Doc? Damn, I'm kinda dis-" Clicking it and seeing that the Doc is just a list of 30+ sources: "...Ah."
@@insertname9581 He didn't delete it. RUclips did, because you probably swore. What he says is facts. How can you deny facts when they're in front of you? Facts don't care about your feelings. And no that statistic isn't true. A healthy 22 year old died in the same hospital I was in. I almost died from Covid as well, a 21 year old kickboxer and BJJ player. So you lied about the stats, which explains why you denied facts. You don't care about the truth, just your political views
@@insertname9581 Kids also stayed at home most of the time before the vaccines were available, so they were less likely to become exposed to covid and get sick.
@@insertname9581 Ok I thought you were linking random non-sense articles so they were being deleted, but I literally linked a page of the CDC about Italian food and my comment got deleted. Also on the topic of how lazy I am? Extremely.
I’m glad this video was made. I personally understand what’s going on, but I know there are a lot of people who don’t understand or are skeptical. The seat belt analogy is a great way to put things into perspective.
@@maegary8107 You have to look at the percentage of vaccinated people being Hospitalized vs the percentage of unvaccinated being hospitalized. I'm sure the Unvaccinated havea MUCH higher hospitalization rate. Also, that's kinda the point of the video.
During WW1, the British got their soldiers to wear helmets. After that, the number of cases with head wounds _rose_ significantly. That looks counter-intuitive until one considers the number of _deaths_ from overhead artillery shrapnel dropping significantly as well. Those soldiers would likely have died if it weren't for the helmets.
That's the problem. Most people are looking at the wrong statistics. Of course when more people get vaccinated, there will be more hospitalizations of vaccinated people. The problem is that people try to use that to "prove" vaccines don't work.
@@xxKrazyKxx In other words, and please do note that this is non-mathematically inclined me trying to explain this in a verbal way, people are ignoring the fact that this statistical system is not static in nature but it is evolving. (For those who are unaware; the term "evolution" does NOT mean "improvement," it means "change over a period of time.")
I’m early and I wanted to ask if you could make a video about mushrooms some day. I love your videos and always wondered why the average person knows so little about mushrooms
Mushrooms are so weird and interesting! Adam Regusea made a few videos about mushrooms. I found the one about farming mushrooms to be interesting. It's more of a science than farming!
A lot of this comment section gave me a -10 psychological damage hit. Thank you for this; it helped. I also want to learn more about mushrooms. The evolutionary line in particular for fungus is very interesting to me
its not ok to be smart,,if you see people you know suffer severe consequences "coincidentally" the same week of the vaccine,,you shouldn't make the smart decision and avoid it like the plague, but shut off your thought and take the poison as the big pharma cult leaders tell you to, even though the only thing it does is hurt people and does not do anything they say it does ,and the cult group is protected from any repercussion,,shut off your thinking and take the poison ,,,,,ummmm well maybe its ok to be smart,,,,but its not ok to think for yourself,, you must let others do the thinking for you ,call me a coocoo ani vaxxer but i personally know individuals who suffered severe consequences from vaccines so i will not bend to the cults coercion, harassment and subhumanizing me for choosing not to take there poison, just because they censor and say its untrue on those who dare tell the truth doesn't make the people i know not have those ill effects,, and no matter how many vaccines you get there will always be another virus for them to use as excuse to "convince" (coerce harras and threaten) you to take there next poisonous cocktail
@@humility-righteous-giving my mom had cancer and she got both doses and she was fine. My 86 year old great grand mother got it as well and she's alive and well. Call it what you want but it's not poison
@@humility-righteous-giving you call yourself “critical thinking” when you lack the ability to do so. My family (over 100 people) have all been double vaccinated and didn’t die, develop a heart condition, get blood clots or have any strokes. Many of my friends and their families have all been double vaxxed, and nobody died. Not getting the vaccine is selfish, you are allowing this virus to mutate further and further and are also directly killing anyone who legitimately cannot get the shot because of other health issues. So I would suggest putting that name of yours to use and actually do some critical thinking before spewing antivax nonsense on RUclips.
@@insertname9581 actually youtube has a habit of deleting them for some reason so it's likley not him. Also just because a bunch of people come here to troll and spread misinformation doesn't mean they're right. He's a biologist, and I find PBS a very reliable and unbiased source of information.
Given most widepsread disease outbreaks throughout history have lasted 3-5 years I'm not surprised it's still around and also won't be surprised when deaths from it still happen in 2024-2025.
Try not to look at it too much as a statistic, REAL PEOPLE (not npc’s) loved ones, depression has been made and suicides have happened. Don’t be a selfish douche that only sees the world and people as numbers
It could stick around for a long time, I don't understand the mindset that getting vaccines and masks will eliminate the disease cause it obviously won't
@@Kabup2 HIV isn't that big of a deal, at least not nearly what it was in the 1980's when even just getting a blood transfusion could infect you with an certain death sentence. It's partly why hardly anyone is putting much of a coordinated global effort into curing it, it's not considered a real existential threat compared to the Black Death, Covid, SARS, Ebola, etc. Mainly due to mostly morons having sex with people they shouldn't be having sex with (ie blackmarket unscreened hookers and needle junkies) and catching it rather than being airborne and out of their direct control and infecting anyone and everyone.
Our biggest enemy is those who lie all the time. Than they expect you to trust them during important time. Than they threaten you if you don't follow them. That's our biggest enemy. When people stop lying. There will be 100× more trust.
This statement is so vague I’m not sure if you’re mad at Republicans causing more deaths with horrible Covid measures, or if you’re QAnon or something. Edit: never mind, fellow Vowsh viewer.
@@beneficent2557 the pharmaceutical companies are no different from the weapon makers who kept the war in Afghanistan going so they could get rich. This virus will not go away even if it does if you know what I mean. The got Bin Laden, didn't end anything.
Some people think there were lied to when some one changes their mind as new information is discovered, but these same people do not see a problem with commentaries without evidence, it something I do not get. No one knows the right answers when new problems appear, we need to analyze, think get data, etc; and in the process we will go thru multiple ideas some correct some not. Basically life in general.
Correlation is not causation! The above line is crucial to science! My math teacher taught me this when I was 14 years old. His example was that there a proportionate relation to the amount of sold ice cream to drowning cases, ergo ice cream leads to drowning. Today I am electrical engineer, and when I am at family dinners or parties, and I hear people make this presumption(correlation is not causation), it’s important not to belittle them but kindly explain that their focal point is compromised by their optic. I think that we have all made this error of perception at one point, so don’t belittle others that do the same. ❤️❤️❤️ - love this channel!
The central method of science is the attempt to prove your theory wrong. The more attempts against it that fail, the more reassured that you're close to the truth. Thing is when it comes to this particular topic the question I find myself asking is "If it doesn't grant immunity, then how can it be considered a vaccine?" It's the most obvious question that was dodged in this video with "Well no vaccine is 100% effective" ignoring decades of science behind vaccines that grant that full immunity for a lifetime. How many booster shots does one need for measles? Polio? Or the other 'old world' diseases that have been treated with vaccines? It's almost like the immunity is granted through our immune systems, and the idea behind a vaccine is to teach our immune system how to fight said disease without getting sick. That the only time immunity isn't gained is due to a weakened of dysfunctional immune system. With that idea behind vaccines in mind what are we seeing? People getting sick from the vaccine and people getting sick despite being vaccinated. That the narrative has become "Well you get less sick" instead of "You don't get sick" If the requirement for something to be a vaccine is "less sick" then Chicken Noodle Soup is a vaccine.
@@rahn45 first: it's the first kind of the vaccine against covid 19, so it's really good that we have this high efficiency rate against death with such little time in the development with this vaccine, it will get better over time Second: You have the same problem with influenza, you have to get every year another vaccine to be protected and even that's no guarantee
Wow u r indoctrinated aren't u lol. Yes i had my inoculations as a child but this is different in that it comes with a agenda attached and those who say it doesn't r either ignoring facts in plain sight or simply lying. The way u nazi's want to run the world is not how i want to live so sorry but good luck implementing this 🐃💩.
@@MastalinkZ I completely agree with the first point. The flu vaccine is changed due to it rapidly evolving every year. So, far Covid hasn't does so and the most recent version is the Delta variant. Yet, people still need to get booster shots rather than a different vaccine due to it evolving like the flu. (It wouldn't be a completely different vaccine for Covid due to how it works, but it shouldn't require boosters while Covid hasn't evolved.)
@@rahn45 the "its not 100% effective" wasn't an attempt to dodge the question, he even said people said thins kind of dumb stuff 200 years ago, before we knew stuff like antiviruses even existed. Please watch the entire video before commenting something about it
i had covid twice, both times i got really sick. the moment i was allowed to get vaccinated because getting sick with it was awful. i still have alot of breathing issues now, the shortness of breath is basically here to stay for me. now even laughing hard can put me into a big coughing fit. covid is no joke. even vaccinated stay safe please. you never know what can happen
@@bapt_andthebasses Which is why I get a flu shot each year. When I was a strong, healthy teen (before influenza vaccine), I was in an influenza epidemic and got encephalitis. Was sick for more than a month and took more than another month to fully recover.
I was having a very low and uncertain day today, your video has really perked me up. I just want to say thank you ❤ My uncertainty doesn't come from vaccines, I already agree with everything you've said. Your talk about uncertainty has just made me feel so much better about various other things in my life.
@@insertname9581 Comment's are "deleted" because they get down-voted and removed by the RUclips algoritme, not by the channel owners... (they don't have time for that)
@@insertname9581 "LOOK AT THE OFFICIAL DEATH RATES & DO YTOURE OWN RESEARCH WHY DO YOU THINK PEOPLE ARE AGAINST IT?" - And why are people against it ? Did they have more faster and convinient way to acquire herd immunity that i'm not aware of ? And why do you think that kids didn't get the virus ? In USA "6,177,946 total child COVID-19 cases reported, and children represented 16.4% (6,177,946/37,611,563) of all cases" that's due to American Academy of Pediatrics.
To jump off the last messages of this video, really would like you guys to do a series on critical thinking and Bayesian reasoning. There are others out there, but they don't have the production value and often tend to be steeped in a lot of esoteric philosophical jargon. Something using relatable current examples would be great.
Honestly, this video should be picked up by govermnents all over the world and dubbed into as many languages as possible so people of all backgrounds can get access to this kind of amazingly well delivered information. Hats off to everyone involved in the making of this!
It does a good job of science communication, but I'm afraid that it is too American to be distributed worldwide, such as the American football example at 6:35. Many people around the world don't know what American football is.
@@cfromnowhere You don't need to know anything about football to understand that part. All you need to know is they wear helmets and get head injuries for it to make sense and he explains and illustrates both. I don't understand the actual rules of football at all and that doesn't affect my understanding of it.
The problem I have is… “if you can’t question it, then it isn’t science” I understand people don’t want bad information out there but freedom of speech is there to allow discussion. Also I’m not anti-vax but I’m completely against vaccine mandates ya know? Thanks for explaining vaccines, ever since the beginning the covid numbers have been inflated, (a hospitalization for covid doesn’t mean that the person was so sick with covid they had to be hospitalized) many times it just means they were tested in the hospital while they were there for something else. Same with deaths… many, many covid deaths especially in the beginning were inflated, many people who died who just happened to have covid at time of death were counted as a covid death.
@@robinchandler5279 "And somehow they totally ignore the deaths and severe side effects from the vaccine." No, they don't, they acknowledge them but also point out that they're infinitesimally less likely than severe harm from contracting Covid.
My mum just got COVID She's at very high risk since she's prone to repository infections But she's been double jabbed and all she's got is the inability to smell It could have been far worse, in fact, i was expecting the worst
glad she's doing okay. And I hope the smell/taste thing comes back, because wouldn't living without forever be awful? How would you convince yourself to eat, right?
If there is one thing that reading about science has taught me it is that it made me realize how important it is to be honest about uncertainties. Because if we aren't aware about what we are uncertain about we cannot find out what is actually going on. And also there is the fact that for all things learned through science. Uncertainty can be very low. But never zero. So any truth can be challanged. Nothing is holy in science. Just more or less certain. And the science of vaccines is certain enough to get my support.
@@osmosisjones4912 Have to survive the infection to attain that immunity, and best hope you don't have long covid as well and deal with symptoms for months after your virus recovery.
@@osmosisjones4912 "and 100% of young and healthy survive it ." - Then start a petition to inject the actual virus into younger and health people so they can no longer be potential reservoir for virus. If you don't want a vaccine, tha'ts fine - get the virus. The main purpose is to get immunity collectively to slow down circulation of the virus in the population.
The scary thing is we don't know if the people who have had covid may have shortened life spans. We don't know the effects of old age on a covid-weakened body. I mean it could lie dormant and be active again once old age weakens our immune system. And to think that at some point we will all experience being infected with this, oh my god goodbye tonight's sleep.
So basically you mean everyone on earth ? Vaccinated or not … we will all get Covid . And I can also make the same statement about people who took the vaccine . And have you seen the studies coming out that say being vaccinated after having natural immunity are having adverse health issues ?
I got my second Pfizer shot in early March, got Covid in early September. It was like a very mild cold, just stuffy nose and sore throat for a few days. I have an underlying condition and feel so grateful for receiving the hard work of scientists and medical workers and being protected from a serious infection. My antibodies will dwindle in a few months so I will get a booster when needed. I don't know why people don't value their lives.
I absolutely love your work, I've been taking a course on designing effective Science Communication and I have to say your content is next level. I think I'll start referring people to your videos more. Thanks for all the hard work you do!
I was just noticing he does a really excellent job in this, way better than NdT for instance. I notice he is careful to include himself with humor like, "We can all be fooled by >common everyday mistake
He's quick with his witt and humor which makes the monologue easier on the ears and it gets you hooked to actually listen. As you sadi he isn't talking down on people who don't know much on the topic and also he isn't just telling on "facts" or when je does he's actually explaining them and making sense.
The way I imagine dangerous variants arising is, each infected person is playing the lottery. The chances for any one person to get the 'virus jackpot' and generate a really dangerous variant is very low. But as the number of people getting infected, and getting sick and infecting others, goes up, then the number of people playing the lottery also goes up. The chances of that rare mutation happening when 1 billion people are playing the lottery are greater than if only 100 people are.
Except if you vaccinate the whole population with a vaccine that still allows transmission of the virus, it's gonna be more likely that you spread virus particles with genes for which the vaccine doesn't work, thus creating vaccine resistant strains. If you get natural immunity, you probably will end up with less dangerous strains instead.. cause it will be like you describe.
@@brianc5581 Hmm...good point. So I guess let's try and just let some people tough it out, even though some of them may get really sick and die, taking up hospital beds in the process, and let natural selection do its thing. History shows that most viruses respond well to only vaccinating the most vulnerable, and letting everyone else get natural immunity after getting so sick that they stop being productive in our economy.
@@chillsahoy2640 Who will get sick and die? Young people? More young people die of the flu. If we can't handle this we need to upgrade our healthcare system. And do we have any examples in history where we vaccinated people with a vaccine that still allowed a virus to spread?
How many doses of measles vaccine have been administered world wide, and how many people vaccinated for measles still get it? I would enjoy seeing some comparisons to Covid. Hopefully next video.
@@justinhowell3527 that were mostly on their way out anyway. Average age of death is equal to life expectancy. I still think we should develop vaccines and make them available and advise the vulnerable, but mandating vaccines and firing people for not doing so is just insanity. You’re not saving any lives doing that.
@@solarydays Well that's a completely different story. chickenpox is fairly innocent virus for children, but can be pretty severe for adults, hence the system of a "chickenpox party" or "Pandemic party" as it's also called makes sense in that case. But still there is a smal risk, as where modern vaccines pose even a smaler risk. So a modern vaccine still is the safer bet...
my history teacher once said (btw we should not have talk about this in class lol) : "history always repeats itself, like a theather just the costumes and backround is different" let that sink in (not that sink)
I majored in math and science plus I have an autoimmune disease. Science tries to approximate life, to find answers to questions that are often so complex that answers don't really exist. And randomness comes in and messes it all up. I've noticed that non-scientist like to tell the masses how things "are" and that we "know" and these are "laws" which gives people a false sense of security. But science changes, our understanding adjusts, and we are often teaching out of books with info from 30, 40, even 100yrs ago. Stay Smart, embrace the uncertainty
@@cptrikester2671 Precisely. Whether Covid was intentional or not, it's being used by the far left to gain as much power as they can. It is terrifying.
This came out at just the right time. In my household of 5, the 3 of us who could be vaccinated all tested positive last week. thank you for explaining!!
I can't believe this channel is still making videos, period.
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Joe, I respect your dedication to science but the most glaring point of a video about vaccines was lacking: the problems experimental vaccines have, including the still unknown problems. Because these vaccines _are_ experimental, and there are various problems being reported, from spike protein actions to attacking the cardiovascular system. I would appreciate if you could make a new video about it.
My thanks to you and your staff for the really interesting and understandable videos you have made. I teach engineering at a local university, and your approaches in explaining a topic have been fun to watch, and your approach to presenting a topic to my class has been helpful and an important tool to be used whenever possible. Although I am retiring in December, I will continue to enjoy your videos and wish you continued success.
The problem i see, is about the politics around it. Some places are just abusing their new powers. Some places, like QC, are ignoring the democratic system on matter that are not relate to Covid, juat because the PM has special power from covid
its not ok to be smart,,if you see people you know suffer severe consequences "coincidentally" the same week of the vaccine,,you shouldn't make the smart decision and avoid it like the plague, but shut off your thought and take the poison as the big pharma cult leaders tell you to, even though the only thing it does is hurt people and does not do anything they say it does ,and the cult group is protected from any repercussion,,shut off your thinking and take the poison ,,,,,ummmm well maybe its ok to be smart,,,,but its not ok to think for yourself,, you must let others do the thinking for you ,call me a coocoo ani vaxxer but i personally know individuals who suffered severe consequences from vaccines so i will not bend to the cults coercion, harassment and subhumanizing me for choosing not to take there poison, just because they censor and say its untrue on those who dare tell the truth doesn't make the people i know not have those ill effects,, and no matter how many vaccines you get there will always be another virus for them to use as excuse to "convince" (coerce harras and threaten) you to take there next poisonous cocktail
Can you make your reference docs easier to read in the future? (Maybe include the title if it's not in the hyperlink) I'm having trouble finding data about how the vaccines were tested.
fckng right mate, I sometimes dislike people for not knowing english because it's hard to get a reliable source from our country (our own language), resulting on them believing in some shitty useless journalist's articles / obscure websites / hoax videos... and then they'd tell that shitty information to whomever they encounters.
I give you permission to quit trying. Look, if stupid people die, that's just evolution in action. And it's not a bad thing. Let them chose to die. Then, in the future, you'll be irritated by their stupidity less! I applaud every time a covid denier dies of it. yay, Mother Nature!
@@wendysgarden4283 The problem is that every denier who gets it spreads it to more than 1 other person; if they were to stay in bed once they felt ill, they would be doing us all a favour, but unfortunately they don't.
@@wendysgarden4283 Classic liberal, applauding the death of people they don't agree with. We'll see who's laughing when you deal with lifelong repercussions from the vaccine :)
I had my booster and I a felt awful the next day. I guess my immune system does work … it caught those tiny antigen particles and went nuts. Tylenol and a day of rest took care of it. Way better than getting COVID. No desire to go through that.
lol booster. you are still screwed the efficacy falls with time. natural immunity is only cure. its basic biology. its like people are brainwashed . COVID kills wether vaxxed or not. look at israel vaccinated people are being hospitalized .
@@drumetul_dacic Please tell me you weren’t being serious with that comment because if you are being serious you need to go back to school and know the difference between the immune system and the anatomy of the human body.
@Errol Brown i mean the whole issue of why some wanna make vaccination mandatory its well the big danger to live, and well the seemingly ilogical misstrust on all the work thats been put on solving the problem, they understand people fear, but they also understand that said fear can hurt people and more than just the people that don't, but also the people that can't get it cos x health condition or even people who already got it, extra viral vectors and all that, it is one of those for the "greater good" kind of issues. tho there is the other camp on the scientific comunities, the one that understand said obligatory its a bad idea, since the only thing it actually gives its fuel to the fires of the antivaxer camps, just gives them a escape goat, similar to how you can't band all the flat earth nonesence from medial platform or else they'll use it as "they're silencing us", over all would make matters worst. and from personal experience, get vaccinated if you can, obviously if you have worries, check incompativilities these have with health issues(they already do checks before giving you one, tho helps to know before hand) and if you still don't feel its ready yet or safe, just be extra careful when going outsidde and around people as its already needed and all the protocol we're all tierd to get repeated by now Religion gives answers and treats questioning badly, science gives questions, and answers that usually just gives more questions(well at least thats how it usually is for both), Religion's answers aren't requiered to be explain, you gotta belive them, while Scence's answers are requiered to be explain and proved
@Errol Brown "If I ever end up in either camp, vaccinate or not to vaccinate, then it will make it much easier for me to cease thinking for myself and commit to groupthink" Hmmmmm. Refusing to believe in something because everyone else believes in it is just as dodgy as believing it because everyone else believes in it. Just because everyone believes 1+1=2 doesn't mean you should automatically distrust it anymore than you should trust it because everyone else believes it does. The truth is what it is irrespective of how many people or how few believe in it
@Errol Brown "Is one a Republican or a Democrat? What does that mean? Usually it means that they will commit to an idea even if they do not have all the details. They will vote for a person based on their party affiliation in most cases unless they are an independent" I assure you, Covid is indiscriminate in who it infects, irrespective of their political affiliations "However there are many who accuse those who choose not to get a vaccine at this time or in the near future as "anti-vaxxers". This is strong language used to stir up vitriol against those who choose not to take one at this time" I don't condone vitriol and abusive language. However, I do think it's worth noting that unvaccinated people have a higher chance of catching and spreading the virus. So, in this context, unless you're immunocompromised or have any other conditions, being unvaccinated is very much comparable to being a drunk driver. You're driving recklessly on the road and you're gonna hurt someone. While the vitriol towards vaccine hesitancy is unacceptable, it doesn't come from nowhere. Just because they're assholes, doesn't mean they're wrong. "Personally I'm not interested in the synthetic versions of the vaccines and prefer to wait for a version that is more adaptable to fighting current and Future variants" Synthetic? You expecting them to use an anti-covid plant? The current vaccines are already effective against covid and its variants. Even against the delta variant, albeit not as effective as it is against the og virus, but effective enough to keep you out of hospital
You should try to upscale your video to 4k and upload it then. Your video seems to be suffering from just a low bit rate/low resolution. Its the best option instead of getting a new camera lol. I only say this to help and do not mean to be condescending :) just discovered your channel actually and this is my first video! Love it!
It all can be boiled down to "do I know more about a subject than thousands of experts?". Unfortunately smart people will generally not need this video to reach these very basic conclusions.
That's not at all the problem. It's all about communication. The problem is how to educate people without raising suspicion of hidden agendas. The attitude "if you disagree then you're stupid" is exactly what is driving skepticism.
@@martinkunev9911 Why is it that only some people need this extra communication to understand basic principles? Anyone who needs extra information or *special education* to understand that your first inclination should be to trust the virtually unanimous scientific/medical community over your own logical fallacies... is probably not reachable via additional education. Sure, some skepticism can be healthy given valid reasons, but this is the text book difference between a fool and someone with at least semi-average intelligence.
@Steven ThompsonOnce my doctor(s) provide me advice I will take it... Just like literally anything else medically related that isn't politicized. Life isn't that tough to navigate. I'd say 50% of navigating life is simply trusting experts over charlatans.
@Steven Thompson It's slightly anecdotal, but I don't know a single human being (United States) that doesn't have a doctor they can consult with, or have a TV, newspaper, magazine, word of mouth about what any given number of doctors are saying about taking the vaccines. Do various news sources give conflicting advice, and often bring on a minority of doctors to muddy the waters? Absolutely, which is increasing evidence to show that it's just an intelligence problem of those choosing adverse information to fortify their ignorance. You're trying to complicate this because you're wrong, and I respect the persistence.
Here's my best metaphor for why vaccines work and are good, using football (substitute for whatever sport). 1. You know nothing about football, but you've played baseball before. 2. Getting infected is like being thrown straight into a football game and expected to know what to do, and win. Some people will work it out on the fly and be able to do a sufficient job, and know how to play well enough for the next game. 3. Vaccines are a training camp teaching you what football is, and how to play it. For some people they still won't 'get' it', but for most they'll be far better prepared when they get into their first football game. 4. Boosters are like having a refresher course on how to play football, because you never got thrown into any football matches in the last season, so you might not remember the important points from the original training session (or your first game). 5. Getting vaccinated despite having a natural immunity is like getting the training course *after* you finish your first game. You'll have a better understanding already, but the training course is a good education. Regardless, you still have to play the game when you get thrown into it. Depending on your experiences you may play better or worse.
@Mcheetah not to dismiss your attempt at undermining the metaphor for a political argument...but that's not how football usually plays out when one side has no clue.
Most vaccines that need boosters aren't a new shot every 6 months though. As someone who's afraid of needles that sounds like hell. I already have immunity from getting covid which is said to last longer than vaccine immunity. I hope they get the research they need for these vaccines to make them more effective and longer lasting. Or that they find a way to vaccinate without using a needle. I've been hoping for that last one for years.
@@BrentHollett Not a single person I know ever goes to get the flu shot. If you catch the flu it's only 2-5 days of being sick even when you're old. You don't usually worry that the flu will kill or cause longterm effects or about it's contagiousness. The flu vaccine is one of those vaccines that don't really matter if you get it or not. The boosters for COVID aren't different from the initial vaccine you get, the flu shot is different every year to try to keep up with the different strains that they predict will be around that year.
It's kind of misleading because the definition of a COVID death is extremely loose. A COVID death is ANY death that happens within 28 days of positive test and it doesn't matter if your COVID diagnosis is what lead to your death. No one has combed through the data to see what the number of people who actually died due to covid complications really is and likewise we have excess deaths and some of those excess deaths are COVID deaths we are missing (though it's wrong to label them ALL as COVID deaths like some experts do). Point is measuring the true number of deaths from this pandemic is very difficult
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv On the other hand, there's all the people who died because they couldn't get a hospital bed, or because some Trumper asshats hoarded their Hydroxychloroquine. So it probably all evens out.
More infectious does not mean more deadly. The recent variants are less deadly but more infectious. The common cold is another corona virus made up of multiple variants. Once deadly it has mutated to a more benign variant. This is the norm for a virus as it mutates to survive.
I hope they're studying the immunity in bat populations too where there's many kinds of sars viruses because their antibodies have dealt with it for so many generations that I think studying and comparing it to our infancy immunity would be so beneficial information and knowledge wise. Kind of "learn from the masters that already walked the road before you".
Bats do not have a immune system like ours. Bat's immune systems doesn't wage war like ours does. Bat immune systems tend to peacefully coexist with viral infections.
@@osmosisjones4912 ... Vaccines are specifically designed to give you a strong immune response with a very low risk of illness/reaction (low risk, stronger immunity). Naturally acquired immunity through infection gives you a weaker ongoing immune response and has far greater risk of leading to serious disease (high risk, weaker immunity). The unvaccinated are roughly twice as likely to catch COVID-19 a second time, as compared to someone who is vaccinated (a lot depending on lifestyle choices here: mask wearing, social distance, crowds/etc.).
@@osmosisjones4912 PLEASE, Please, Please, go back to immunity 101 (Hell, biology period would be a GREAT idea for you.). It is Painfully obvious that you skipped over the important stuff in school, AND (if you went, that is…) college… With the vaccine, your immune system’s response to the virus is more likely to have a positive outcome; you LIVE, just making sure that is clear…
The fast food restaurant that I work at is in a college/tourist town. For the past 2 weeks from 9pm-430am we are the only place open to eat. All of the night crew at taco bell said I quit and walked out and 90% of McDonalds has quit. The college has a population of 25000 people and I'm tired. The place where I work does pay us nicely but we are all tired and over it.
8:00 if some research shows this to be true, does it make sense to demonize someone who's had it that doesn't get vaccinated? They still have the same overall protection.
I wouldn't say its right to demonize them because they do have some protection, but getting the vaccine anyways would be a good move to further boost their chances at longer term immunity or against a different variant than they had that could possibly get them worse the next time around.
In the Uk Covid passes are available for people who can prove a positive pcr test in the previous 6 months. It’s understood that infection confers some immunity.
@@danpreston564 To my knowledge we don't have that in Canada, it's vaccination or a negative test. Natural immunity isn't counted really, you can have it but without a vaccine or a negative test you can be denied entry to certain places. They don't even need to do the negative test either, they can say no entry unless you're vaccinated. Which is smthg I had to deal with at a funeral home recently, they didn't let me in to identify my dead grandpa just because I hadn't gotten my first vaccine yet. If a restaurant or smthg wants to do that okay but I feel like it's not appropriate for all businesses.
I just wish people would listen to rational, science based information like this. I have a friend who refuses to believe the science and even mocks it calling it, "The ScienceTM" like it's something fake. Can't reason with her at all.
You did a terrific job of explaining why it's ridiculous to keep counting "cases" of COVID-19 and testing perfectly healthy people. The example of measles infections that don't lead to disease was perfect. We don't obsessively test everyone for measles. We don't need to obsessively test for COVID-19 either. Thank you!
A similar thing happens when motorcycle helmets are made mandatory. The number of head injuries from motorcycle accidents go up, which seems counterintuitive right? Well, a lot of those people are getting head injuries instead of being a smudge on the pavement. Head injuries go up when motorcycle helmets are required because more people are surviving to be diagnosed with head injuries instead of death
To me a booster reminds me of doing drills for a disaster, or a skill recertification test. Like, "yeah I know we haven't had to deal with this recently but let's make sure you can still do it."
Absolutely! And the increased magnitude of side effects in later doses is indicative of the body taking it VERY seriously in those later drills. Which is a good sign!
Let's not give into our political beliefs. Also, let's not talk about where the virus came from or the side effects of the vaccine and the side effects of lockdowns.
Here's some more great COVD info from our friends on Out Of Our Elements on PBS Terra ruclips.net/video/9SLLRHGn6EY/видео.html
Can u check into the whole hydra thing? I saw a video of one in the vaccine but I haven't seen or read anything else about that... However this was recent info
Its okay to be brainwashed
@@jedadruled984 lol, hail hydra
Your theory is lost when factoring in concern for others: elders that don't want the vaccine(given treatment is available but being suppressed), while a treatment that had won the Nobel was being suppressed vaccine missions to third world countries were halted(those poor children, so that's elders and children), blood clots in adults(?).
Mandatory vaccination, your theory falls apart at, mandatory vaccination(of an untested vaccine for an never treated, rather, not allowed to be treated virus)
And how many of those 1:500 died with and not of covid?
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@@AminJones The media are brainwashed into serving big pharma, thats why they bash early treatment and why they denie the fact that natural immunity is 13 x stronger than vaccine immunity.
10:42 "Given enough chances, even rare events can happen frequently"
Such an obvious yet wise quote
But mutations are definitely not rare at all. It is very likely that each infected person grows many mutations during the clinical course of the disease. Mutations that will evade our vaccines are a different matter. But even then just a matter of time.
@@wholeNwon He meant bad mutations are rare(the kind that make the virus more potent). Most mutations usually have no effect, or harm the virus instead
Dude Perfect!!!
Sir, you are a Boltzmann brain.
@@TheModeler99 I am aware.
The best example of that helmet one is very real. The metal helmets introduced in WWI decreased casualties in the sense of deaths, but causalities include injuries that take you out of the war so there was actually an increase in casualties because while deaths went down, the number of non-life threatening injuries went up. So, statistically, the safer metal helmets increased causalities, but they actually increased the safety of the soldiers despite the statistics.
Survivorship bias?
@OwO this is getting old very quick
Well stated!! I have an antivaxxer fiancée and it is beyond logic. Otherwise an intelligent, if not FIESTY Gal. She's burnt, I am going to get vaccine today!
That's a statistical trap called survivorship bias.
Bravo!!!
To expound on the base rate fallacy:
28% of car accidents involved alcohol. This doesn't mean that sober drivers are more likely to crash than drunk drivers. It just means on any given 7-day period, there are more sober drivers than drunk drivers. Drunk driving for the most part only occurs Friday and Saturday nights. Sober drivers drive all 7 days. Even though most car accidents don't involve alcohol, you are far more likely to crash when drunk than sober.
Sober drivers on their way to cause 72% of car accidents
Wow that was a really good point
@@BigBushy101 "It shouldn't matter if I drive drunk if you drive sober! Sober people are crashing too!"
Loved the way you brought uncertainty into the matter, a central character here. Even touching on psychological events.
uncertain is the only position he is aloud to take, if he believes vaccines are the wrong answer he has no choice but not share it,,its not ok to be smart,,if you see people you know suffer severe consequences "coincidentally" the same week of the vaccine,,you shouldn't make the smart decision and avoid it like the plague, but shut off your thought and take the poison as the big pharma cult leaders tell you to, even though the only thing it does is hurt people and does not do anything they say it does ,and the cult group is protected from any repercussion,,shut off your thinking and take the poison ,,,,,ummmm well maybe its ok to be smart,,,,but its not ok to think for yourself,, you must let others do the thinking for you ,call me a coocoo ani vaxxer but i personally know individuals who suffered severe consequences from vaccines so i will not bend to the cults coercion, harassment and subhumanizing me for choosing not to take there poison, just because they censor and say its untrue on those who dare tell the truth doesn't make the people i know not have those ill effects,, and no matter how many vaccines you get there will always be another virus for them to use as excuse to "convince" (coerce harras and threaten) you to take there next poisonous cocktail
@@humility-righteous-giving wtf is up with your use of commas?
@@humility-righteous-giving take the L from fortnite
Covid isn’t that serious
@@SerPapus Your comment is part of exactly what I'm talking about with "psychological events"
This was done so well. His tone was also perfect for delivering a clear message without judgement.
@@sncy5303 gg's peasant
I couldn't disagree more. The tone was patronizing, as was the music.
This was done very well, but it was also incredibly pro-vaccine and with the vaccine mandate. He barely mentioned mask, when masks were the result of Thailand only having 11 cases of covid the entire first year of the pandemic. Got to love America and its vaccine mandate. Disgusting
@@sncy5303 You do realize that 99% of most people in the U.S. are NOT anti-vaxxers and Covid deniers, right? It's just that the media labels ANYONE who has ANYTHING different to say about Covid-19 or vaccines to be "right-wing conspiracy nut jobs who are against all science". You know, despite the fact that things like the Tuskeegee syphilis project existed. If the media WASN'T constantly antagonizing and demonizing people, there wouldn't be anyone against covid-19 vaccines! Except in case of anti-government sentiments. But then that wouldn't be anti-vaxx, but rather anti-authoritarianism.
@@sncy5303 oh shut up
This man has a way of explaining things in a very non-political way. He's not trying to make anyone feel stupid. I don't think we deserve him tbh.
I hope PBS pays him well.
@Elijah Ellington _hmmmmmmmmmmm_
There is so much common sense logic here, I cannot believe a large majority of people struggle to understand
@@JamesonNichols I also hope he gets paid well! Yay!
I mean it sounds like he's talking to preschoolers but if that talks to antivaxxers then be it...
The fact that so much time needs to be dedicated to explaining the baseline fallacy makes me really hate how little statistics is taught in school.
The public education system in America is literally worse than trash. Source - First hand experience.
People would trust officials without knowing anything about statistics if those officials were upfront and haven't lied so many times.
As for our country, a lot of statistics is taught but the thing with statistics is, it is very easy to lie with data. Also, the way statistics is taught is much more of formulas and equations with no regard to what a certain formula might mean in a real-world setting.
Geography gets taught in schools - yet we got flat-earthlers.
People are able to not learn A LOT of things that get taught in schools, especially in math.
@@eclipseslayer98 TBH little statistics is taught in schools elsewhere. Even in the highly competitive Chinese education system, you are not going to learn baseline fallacy unless you are going to study STEM subjects or medicine in university. This is also my first hand experience.
Thank you. Uncertainty has been hitting me harder than anything else and this didn't give me certainty, but it did give me some VERY NEEDED hope inside that uncertainty.
Should also think of how to mitigate the loss or lessen the risk of loss
Please also do your own research before making big decisions.
Uncertainty is a part of life. The difference between a baby and a grown up is learning how to deal with it in a positive manner.
The person who said “do your own research” is leading you down a rabbit hole of untruth
I’m going to share this every time one of these talking points comes up on social media. Thanks for putting so much time and effort into this explainer.
But studies already show that if your not on the risky tiers (obesity, other conditions, old, not exercising)
The rate of asymptomatic/survival is high (forgot exact numbers)
What if im willing to take a low-risk bet?
The only thing that prevents me is.
They say. The more people (even vaccinated) gets infected, the more the virus mutates and therefore prolong the pandemic.
No scientist. But how long is this mutation gonna last?
Cause sure as hell I'd like to find love/be active in my 20s (without seriously hurting someone of course)
@@NicitoStaAna "What if im willing to take a low-risk bet?"
700,000 dead Americans is a low-risk bet?
"The more people (even vaccinated) gets infected, the more the virus mutates and therefore prolong the pandemic"
Yes. The more people that get infected, the more the virus will mutate. Which stands to reason why more people should get vaccinated to better stem that infection
@@chrishaven1489
I never said anything bad on vaccines. So not sure why you put the second part
Researched it myself, death rate is super complicated and can easily lead to false assumptions.
So in some countries it's 1.2%, some it's 10%.
(And also depends on who it targets)
Ie.
700k dead may be. 650k old/immunocompromised/bed-ridden people.
My main concern is lockdowns.
(My country is still on lockdown, no real re-opening)
Why should 90% of population be on lockdown when only the 10% is on any real danger.
If anything, a logical solution is to identify these high risks, vaccinate and keep them on quarantine
And let everyone else (vaccinated) go on with their lives.
I'd like to have a breakdown of deaths by known high-risk. (But again researched it. It's not as simple as getting ratios to avoid fallacies)
@@NicitoStaAna If you watch the video again, maybe you can answer your own questions.
"Why should 90% of population be on lockdown when only the 10% is on any real danger."
even if YOU are not in danger, you give the virus just one more chance to mutate into something else........
I'm glad the lockdown over here is pretty much over, I'm Dutch, But you do have to be vaccinated or tested 24 hours before when you want to go to dinner or a movie.
@@stonedmountainunicorn9532
Well in my country of Philippines
(Roughly 1.2% death rate)
Im vaccinated and 20s. And still have restrictions (al fresco dining is at 30%)
Weekly cases are down to 50k (from 100k just a month ago)
Last i Checked. My city is already 99% of target population vaccinated. (Non-essential Workers+high-risk)
And last I heard. Starting for general vaccination
To be fair. Our vaccine mostly came from China. (Probably the weakest vaccine of them all. Some countries don't even considered that brand of vaccine to be vaccinated. And still has to go through stricter procedures for getting into those countries despite technically vaccinated)
But I took it cuz it's better than nothing. (And still 80% less risk for hospitalizations)
That was around June or July.
Now im seeing vaccines having less strength in 6 months (even on the good vaccines)
And natural immunity is better
It's almost December/January and still on lockdown/quarantined.
So what was that vaccine for?
It probably did help. Part of me thinks a better policy is for some vaccinated people be allowed to go out.
This is what will lead to continuous natural immunity. No need for booster shots when my booster is known as risk being infected before the 6 month vaccine expiry starts.
Again. Why should 90% of non-dangerous people still be in lockdown when the real danger is only at 10%?
Why lockdown us 90% when we got vaccinated and waste the precious 6 month gap as an opportunity to get natural immunity?
Neil deGrasse Tyson once said something akin to "If a person didn't arrive at a conclusion through logic, making logical arguments is unlikely to change their mind." While I find videos like this very helpful and appreciate the dedication, it's kinda depressing to think that the people who need to hear this most, A: won't watch this video, or B: won't be persuaded by logic and facts. I've come to think these videos just help reinforce an unintentional echo chamber of like-minded people. I know that sounds cynical, but there's not much in the common person to be hopeful about. Seems like the past 5 years has been a precipitous and steady decline of human intelligence and willingness to be persuaded by facts. We're living in Nicolas Negroponte's "The Daily Me". Everyone has their own truth and nobody is going to be persuaded by information outside of their own personal truth. It's discouraging and exhausting.
You are so right
For me it helped answer some of my questions like why get the vaccine if you already had the disease. Do while I'm on science's side of the fence, it's still helpful in teaching me.
@@nebulan It helped me as well. It's very informative, but I believe that we are not the people who need to be convinced. I'm very skeptical that the people who need convincing can be convinced. That's the issue. I know truly good and intelligent people who are so turned around on this, and many other, issues that should be simple. Politics plays a large part, but everything from viruses to sex is politicized these days, and that's a huge issue.
@Tim v H That's a big philosophical topic where I'm sure my opinion wouldn't be very well received. Lol. I don't believe creating conscious life is moral or right. Continuing life is only logical because once conscious life is brought into being, taking away that life is the greater immoral act. Keeping this experiment going is illogical - it's emotional and instinctual.
@Tim v H The answer to almost every problem we have is "there are too many people".
I wish the cdc would explain things like this.
I wish the CDC would stop telling the world to take their masks off. The woman who runs the CDC should retire, resign, whatever, and apologize for the entire world for when she told them it was safe not to wear masks. It was a lie then, and they knew it. The WHO has never told you to take your mask off. The Tokyo Institute has never told you to take your mask off. The Mayo Clinic has never told you to take your mask off. it's too bad the United States had such a huge bilateral deal as an investment into the vaccine. Cuz now they have this huge mandate agenda because they're trying to turn it into a business. It's disgusting. Everyone who gets that shot, it's going to get another one in a few years, and another one in a few years, and another one in a few years, what will they charge you 10 years from now to keep your Elite self alive? :(
@@yackablejohnson1485 By your logic we are never removing masks because COVID will always be a risk. Well guess what I am vaccinated and the pros of not wearing a mask outweigh the increased risk of getting COVID for me, the chance I get COVID and end up in the hospital are basically zero and that's really all I care about
They do have information targeted for the rest of us. It’s just not getting to us. Sigh….
@@yackablejohnson1485 That was 100% political. Pressure to say the US was doing well enough to remove masks. Those of us in healthcare knew better. I’ve been in that room several times - being pressured to paint a picture with a rosy glow. These administrative agencies are run by experts, but they are appointed by the President. It works when the politicians use them for their expertise and not undermine them.
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv Wait first and foremost,, What are the Pros and cons for wearing a mask, and no getting vaccinated wont make you 100% immune for the vaccine have you even watched the video jezz
"And maybe, JUST maybe, this will be the last time we do this."
Amazing foreshadowing
I think how he meant to put the seatbelt thing is that before seatbelts and were invented there were less admissions to the hospital for car accident related injuries because most of the time people ended up dead so they wouldn’t go to the hospital therefore when seatbelts were introduced the number of car accident related hospital admissions skyrocketed because more people were surviving the accident but still getting injured and needing to go to the hospital so it makes it look worse but in reality they’re less deaths and more injuries so the severity of what’s happening to the people is lowering the same number of accidents would’ve happened with or without the seatbelt it’s just that less people are actually dying because of it
I think that's called Survivorship Bias in statistics.
This! It's a good analogy to tell people who are vaccine hesitant :)
@@feeelf You can tell them, but they are immune to logic anyway.
Nobody is saved or survives life. There's always one death, just at different times. The longer we live, the more serious illnesses we suffer, the more we cost the health care systems, the more we have to pay for living while no longer productive, and the greater the pollution and higher costs for housing, etc.
@@homewall744 True, but does that mean we should allow people to die? Would you never read a book because it will inevitably end one day if you do read it?
Today in Ontario, we had 192 breakthrough cases and 300 on the unvaccinated side. However, that means about 1 case for every 55,400 vaccinated people vs 11,485 unvaccinated. But the severity of the disease is where you see the real difference. The hospitalization rate was 1 in 247,200 for the vaccinated vs 1 for 32,200 for the unvaccinated. As for ICU cases, the difference was even more dramatic: 1 ICU case for every 708,600 vs 1 for every 47,200. Vaccines work!
Superb 👍
It's common sense thing but dumb people still don't understand
When the first thing this video does is gaslight people about the definition of vaccine and what it does, I can say "Chicken Noodle Soup is a vaccine, and it works." Why can I say that? Because the bar for what a vaccine is was lowered from "Granting immunity" to "reducing symptoms and improving patient outcomes." How many boosters do people need for the 'old' diseases like measles and polo? Three? Four? Ten? No, it was one; and just one. Vaccines provided a lifetime of protection because your immune system is what's providing that protection. You get a disease and recover from it your body will be able to defend against it for the rest of your life or until your immune system gets weakened. Yet look around, what are you being told? That vaccines are your only hope, and nothing about your own immune system. Hell, the idea of natural immunity itself is being attacked.
This isn't to mention that people do have their reasons for not getting vaccinated: The primary one being that their immune system is already weak, or other pre-existing conditions that makes vaccines riskier; which means a doctor would not recommend getting a vaccine. IE: A population of people who are highly susceptible to risk of hospitalization in the first place. You can't just take a correlation and then assume causation, yet that's what so many people are doing.
If you actually care about "science" then what you should be doing is trying to prove yourself wrong, not prove yourself right.
@@rahn45 the old diseases which you mentioned aren't evolving like COVID
@@rahn45 I feel tired just reading your comment.
Let's start with the weirdest one, "Chicken Noodle Soup is a vaccine" - no, by definition, it is not. Chicken noodle soup is a meal, and may provide relief from feeling ill, but there's no mechanism of action that equates it to a vaccine. You can't even call it medication; at best it's a "supplement"
Vaccines, at least modern ones, have never had the bar of "granting immunity"; they just don't work like that. Natural "Immunity" doesn't provide immunity either; maybe prolonged resistance, but not outright immunity. Some vaccines for certain disease tend to induce longer term immunity, perhaps long enough to be considered a lifetime, which brings me to the next point.
Equating the Measles virus to the current CoV-2 virus is like equating an iguana to a dolphin; they don't even belong in the same phylum, and naturally, evolution will have lead them down different paths. Even within the coronaviruses itself, there's amazing variance in infectiousness, specificity, and lethality. Even the SARS-CoV-1 virus of 2004, arguably the closest analog to SARS-CoV-2, is drastically different. Dogs, cats, and pigs all have their own strains of coronaviruses, and none have caused major disease outbreaks in humans despite our proximity. Will that change? Possibly. But they are not the same thing, so the immune system's reaction to it would not be the same. Would you equate COVID-19 to HIV? Herpes? Rabies?
In other words, where one vaccine may confer a lifetime resistance to a particular disease, it doesn't mean a vaccine will do the same for another. Vaccines are a relatively safe way to induce your natural immunity to start working, as opposed to "rolling the dice", as it were, with suffering through the actual disease itself. As we learn more about this particular virus by buying ourselves time to do so, we come up with different pre-and-post-exposure prophylaxes.
The people for whom vaccines are not recommended due to being immunocompromised is the prime example of why those of us who can, should. They rely on us for their safety, their protection. We are their line of defense against catching this disease themselves. Many of them have had to wait on treatment and medical attention specifically because the anti-vax population is taking up hospital space. The fact you're insinuating that they're to blame is frankly shameful.
My ex is a nurse. When I said I'm fully Vaxed, she explained to me exactly what you just said. I thought dagnabidy what was the point? Now you have enlightened a lot of people. Thank you
That's the problem with science communication, something is lost when translating it to laypeople. I have a degree in physics, but when I go to the doctor, they use highly technical jargon a layperson wouldn't understand, let alone an educated one.
So when you get a variant, you could say "I can't believe it's not COVID!"
Old people might chuckle at that.
Funny stuff. But really, the only way this pandemic crap ends is if people are not lied to by sick industries causing it, making the public turn a blind eye to their money funding hell holes, which fuels disease - ruclips.net/video/zJHdMqgZMiY/видео.html
Close attention to the #1 point 👍
wuhan virus
"Molnupirivir" I can't believe it's not Ivermectin
I am not old!
chuckle
I don't think our biggest enemy is uncertainty. I think it's other people who are so uncomfortable with uncertainty that they are desperate to cling to untruths and misinformation, are unwilling to embrace uncertainty, and allow others to die rather than be confronted with the reality that life is uncertain.
You mean like the people who buy masks that *clearly* state "does not prevent the transmission of COVID" and then they wear them anyway? Or...?
The antivaxer aren't afraid of uncertainty hence why they are out and about not caring if they get COVID. It's the people locking down and wearing 12 masks who are afraid of uncertainty
I think you are right about this
@@macethorns1168 Given that the virus isn't called Covid, I think that's unlikely! Giving you the benefit of the doubt and assuming you meant SARS-Cov-2, they are obliged to put that because no form of PPE is 100% effective; the wording is most likely 'not guaranteed to prevent the transmission of SARS-Cov-2"
@@macethorns1168 if the mask stops any % of water molecules escape it, then its better than nothing,if it says its not protecting at all its for lawsuit protection.
Me looking in description for sources: "Bruh their only reference is a Google Doc? Damn, I'm kinda dis-"
Clicking it and seeing that the Doc is just a list of 30+ sources: "...Ah."
He explained confirmation bias without saying the term. Impressive.
Yeah. Conservatives be crazy haha
@@insertname9581 He didn't delete it. RUclips did, because you probably swore. What he says is facts. How can you deny facts when they're in front of you? Facts don't care about your feelings. And no that statistic isn't true. A healthy 22 year old died in the same hospital I was in. I almost died from Covid as well, a 21 year old kickboxer and BJJ player. So you lied about the stats, which explains why you denied facts. You don't care about the truth, just your political views
@@insertname9581 Kids also stayed at home most of the time before the vaccines were available, so they were less likely to become exposed to covid and get sick.
@@insertname9581 Link some scholarly articles and clinical studies that have been peer reviewed.
@@insertname9581 Ok I thought you were linking random non-sense articles so they were being deleted, but I literally linked a page of the CDC about Italian food and my comment got deleted. Also on the topic of how lazy I am? Extremely.
I’m glad this video was made. I personally understand what’s going on, but I know there are a lot of people who don’t understand or are skeptical. The seat belt analogy is a great way to put things into perspective.
Never the less fully vaccinated are still landing in the hospital
@@maegary8107 and?
@@maegary8107 Oh no a bunch of 90 years olds with poor immune systems are dying who would have thought
@@maegary8107 You have to look at the percentage of vaccinated people being Hospitalized vs the percentage of unvaccinated being hospitalized. I'm sure the Unvaccinated havea MUCH higher hospitalization rate. Also, that's kinda the point of the video.
I love the irony of you stating with such certainty, your supposed full understanding of the topic. That's hilarious.
During WW1, the British got their soldiers to wear helmets. After that, the number of cases with head wounds _rose_ significantly.
That looks counter-intuitive until one considers the number of _deaths_ from overhead artillery shrapnel dropping significantly as well. Those soldiers would likely have died if it weren't for the helmets.
That's the problem. Most people are looking at the wrong statistics. Of course when more people get vaccinated, there will be more hospitalizations of vaccinated people. The problem is that people try to use that to "prove" vaccines don't work.
@@xxKrazyKxx It does prove what we already know: vaccines aren't 100% effective. Nor will they ever be.
@@dcarbs2979 it depends on your definition of effective. Remember, vaccination is not immunization.
@@xxKrazyKxx In other words, and please do note that this is non-mathematically inclined me trying to explain this in a verbal way, people are ignoring the fact that this statistical system is not static in nature but it is evolving.
(For those who are unaware; the term "evolution" does NOT mean "improvement," it means "change over a period of time.")
@@kaizokujimbei143 more so that it is a system and a single statistic doesn't give you the whole picture.
I’m early and I wanted to ask if you could make a video about mushrooms some day. I love your videos and always wondered why the average person knows so little about mushrooms
Mushrooms are so weird and interesting! Adam Regusea made a few videos about mushrooms. I found the one about farming mushrooms to be interesting. It's more of a science than farming!
A fun fungi video!
Mushrooms and puff balls and bracket fungi. So many. They're wonderful.
There's a really good mushroom video on Startalk, I highly recommend it.
A lot of this comment section gave me a -10 psychological damage hit. Thank you for this; it helped. I also want to learn more about mushrooms. The evolutionary line in particular for fungus is very interesting to me
I really love this video, it's insightful, truthful, and goes straight to the point. I just wish more people would actually listen.
its not ok to be smart,,if you see people you know suffer severe consequences "coincidentally" the same week of the vaccine,,you shouldn't make the smart decision and avoid it like the plague, but shut off your thought and take the poison as the big pharma cult leaders tell you to, even though the only thing it does is hurt people and does not do anything they say it does ,and the cult group is protected from any repercussion,,shut off your thinking and take the poison ,,,,,ummmm well maybe its ok to be smart,,,,but its not ok to think for yourself,, you must let others do the thinking for you ,call me a coocoo ani vaxxer but i personally know individuals who suffered severe consequences from vaccines so i will not bend to the cults coercion, harassment and subhumanizing me for choosing not to take there poison, just because they censor and say its untrue on those who dare tell the truth doesn't make the people i know not have those ill effects,, and no matter how many vaccines you get there will always be another virus for them to use as excuse to "convince" (coerce harras and threaten) you to take there next poisonous cocktail
@@humility-righteous-giving my mom had cancer and she got both doses and she was fine. My 86 year old great grand mother got it as well and she's alive and well. Call it what you want but it's not poison
@@humility-righteous-giving you call yourself “critical thinking” when you lack the ability to do so. My family (over 100 people) have all been double vaccinated and didn’t die, develop a heart condition, get blood clots or have any strokes. Many of my friends and their families have all been double vaxxed, and nobody died. Not getting the vaccine is selfish, you are allowing this virus to mutate further and further and are also directly killing anyone who legitimately cannot get the shot because of other health issues. So I would suggest putting that name of yours to use and actually do some critical thinking before spewing antivax nonsense on RUclips.
@@Foon558 Ffs I spat out my soda reading your comment 😂 These people need to start thinking!
@@insertname9581 actually youtube has a habit of deleting them for some reason so it's likley not him. Also just because a bunch of people come here to troll and spread misinformation doesn't mean they're right. He's a biologist, and I find PBS a very reliable and unbiased source of information.
Joe: “Hopefully this is the last video we make on Covid I hope I don’t regret saying that”
Three months later: “I got Covid”
Given most widepsread disease outbreaks throughout history have lasted 3-5 years I'm not surprised it's still around and also won't be surprised when deaths from it still happen in 2024-2025.
Try not to look at it too much as a statistic, REAL PEOPLE (not npc’s) loved ones, depression has been made and suicides have happened. Don’t be a selfish douche that only sees the world and people as numbers
It could stick around for a long time, I don't understand the mindset that getting vaccines and masks will eliminate the disease cause it obviously won't
@@tonychopp2952 statistics are always true though, you are extremely biased
Much more than 3-5 years. Remember HIV? Almost 40 years now.
@@Kabup2 HIV isn't that big of a deal, at least not nearly what it was in the 1980's when even just getting a blood transfusion could infect you with an certain death sentence. It's partly why hardly anyone is putting much of a coordinated global effort into curing it, it's not considered a real existential threat compared to the Black Death, Covid, SARS, Ebola, etc. Mainly due to mostly morons having sex with people they shouldn't be having sex with (ie blackmarket unscreened hookers and needle junkies) and catching it rather than being airborne and out of their direct control and infecting anyone and everyone.
Our biggest enemy is those who lie all the time. Than they expect you to trust them during important time. Than they threaten you if you don't follow them. That's our biggest enemy. When people stop lying. There will be 100× more trust.
It would also help if the people we are supposed to trust stop getting caught not taking this supposedly serious threat seriously.
This statement is so vague I’m not sure if you’re mad at Republicans causing more deaths with horrible Covid measures, or if you’re QAnon or something.
Edit: never mind, fellow Vowsh viewer.
The same pharmaceutical companies which caused the opioid epidemic are now taken at face value. Its disgusting.
@@beneficent2557 the pharmaceutical companies are no different from the weapon makers who kept the war in Afghanistan going so they could get rich. This virus will not go away even if it does if you know what I mean. The got Bin Laden, didn't end anything.
Some people think there were lied to when some one changes their mind as new information is discovered, but these same people do not see a problem with commentaries without evidence, it something I do not get.
No one knows the right answers when new problems appear, we need to analyze, think get data, etc; and in the process we will go thru multiple ideas some correct some not. Basically life in general.
Correlation is not causation!
The above line is crucial to science! My math teacher taught me this when I was 14 years old. His example was that there a proportionate relation to the amount of sold ice cream to drowning cases, ergo ice cream leads to drowning. Today I am electrical engineer, and when I am at family dinners or parties, and I hear people make this presumption(correlation is not causation), it’s important not to belittle them but kindly explain that their focal point is compromised by their optic. I think that we have all made this error of perception at one point, so don’t belittle others that do the same. ❤️❤️❤️
- love this channel!
The central method of science is the attempt to prove your theory wrong. The more attempts against it that fail, the more reassured that you're close to the truth.
Thing is when it comes to this particular topic the question I find myself asking is "If it doesn't grant immunity, then how can it be considered a vaccine?" It's the most obvious question that was dodged in this video with "Well no vaccine is 100% effective" ignoring decades of science behind vaccines that grant that full immunity for a lifetime. How many booster shots does one need for measles? Polio? Or the other 'old world' diseases that have been treated with vaccines? It's almost like the immunity is granted through our immune systems, and the idea behind a vaccine is to teach our immune system how to fight said disease without getting sick. That the only time immunity isn't gained is due to a weakened of dysfunctional immune system.
With that idea behind vaccines in mind what are we seeing? People getting sick from the vaccine and people getting sick despite being vaccinated. That the narrative has become "Well you get less sick" instead of "You don't get sick" If the requirement for something to be a vaccine is "less sick" then Chicken Noodle Soup is a vaccine.
@@rahn45 first: it's the first kind of the vaccine against covid 19, so it's really good that we have this high efficiency rate against death with such little time in the development with this vaccine, it will get better over time
Second:
You have the same problem with influenza, you have to get every year another vaccine to be protected and even that's no guarantee
Wow u r indoctrinated aren't u lol. Yes i had my inoculations as a child but this is different in that it comes with a agenda attached and those who say it doesn't r either ignoring facts in plain sight or simply lying. The way u nazi's want to run the world is not how i want to live so sorry but good luck implementing this 🐃💩.
@@MastalinkZ I completely agree with the first point.
The flu vaccine is changed due to it rapidly evolving every year. So, far Covid hasn't does so and the most recent version is the Delta variant. Yet, people still need to get booster shots rather than a different vaccine due to it evolving like the flu. (It wouldn't be a completely different vaccine for Covid due to how it works, but it shouldn't require boosters while Covid hasn't evolved.)
@@rahn45 the "its not 100% effective" wasn't an attempt to dodge the question, he even said people said thins kind of dumb stuff 200 years ago, before we knew stuff like antiviruses even existed. Please watch the entire video before commenting something about it
i had covid twice, both times i got really sick. the moment i was allowed to get vaccinated because getting sick with it was awful.
i still have alot of breathing issues now, the shortness of breath is basically here to stay for me. now even laughing hard can put me into a big coughing fit.
covid is no joke. even vaccinated stay safe please. you never know what can happen
Flu is not a joke. People died from it.. be well.
@@bapt_andthebasses Which is why I get a flu shot each year. When I was a strong, healthy teen (before influenza vaccine), I was in an influenza epidemic and got encephalitis. Was sick for more than a month and took more than another month to fully recover.
I got pregnant from an alien..
@@bapt_andthebasses ok? Yeah, that's why we have a vaccine for that too.
@@jako_the_maned_wolf3133 and i'm sure 100% of people is taking it.. so that no new variants appear
I was having a very low and uncertain day today, your video has really perked me up. I just want to say thank you ❤
My uncertainty doesn't come from vaccines, I already agree with everything you've said. Your talk about uncertainty has just made me feel so much better about various other things in my life.
@@insertname9581 that's okay buddy, you believe what you wanna believe ✌
@@insertname9581 Comment's are "deleted" because they get down-voted and removed by the RUclips algoritme, not by the channel owners... (they don't have time for that)
@@insertname9581 considering on the amount of comments you’ve spammed, obviously some of your comments are deleted smh
@@insertname9581 "LOOK AT THE OFFICIAL DEATH RATES & DO YTOURE OWN RESEARCH WHY DO YOU THINK PEOPLE ARE AGAINST IT?" - And why are people against it ? Did they have more faster and convinient way to acquire herd immunity that i'm not aware of ? And why do you think that kids didn't get the virus ? In USA "6,177,946 total child COVID-19 cases reported, and children represented 16.4% (6,177,946/37,611,563) of all cases" that's due to American Academy of Pediatrics.
To jump off the last messages of this video, really would like you guys to do a series on critical thinking and Bayesian reasoning. There are others out there, but they don't have the production value and often tend to be steeped in a lot of esoteric philosophical jargon. Something using relatable current examples would be great.
When you get a vast topic to talk about....This type of caption is the best way to look different from Vsauce.
Honestly, this video should be picked up by govermnents all over the world and dubbed into as many languages as possible so people of all backgrounds can get access to this kind of amazingly well delivered information.
Hats off to everyone involved in the making of this!
Humankind
It does a good job of science communication, but I'm afraid that it is too American to be distributed worldwide, such as the American football example at 6:35. Many people around the world don't know what American football is.
@@cfromnowhere I’m Aussie, and I like this, soooo
@@cfromnowhere You don't need to know anything about football to understand that part. All you need to know is they wear helmets and get head injuries for it to make sense and he explains and illustrates both. I don't understand the actual rules of football at all and that doesn't affect my understanding of it.
Thank you for creating content that is informative and digestible for a layperson like myself
You have to be a layperson to believe this crap
@Him A layperson is someone who is not knowledgeable about a given topic. A M for example is a layperson suffering from the Dunning-Kruger effect.
@@BlinkyLass LMAO
Well researched, a thought-out presentation and delivered in a great way. Thanks for this video.
The problem I have is… “if you can’t question it, then it isn’t science” I understand people don’t want bad information out there but freedom of speech is there to allow discussion. Also I’m not anti-vax but I’m completely against vaccine mandates ya know?
Thanks for explaining vaccines, ever since the beginning the covid numbers have been inflated, (a hospitalization for covid doesn’t mean that the person was so sick with covid they had to be hospitalized) many times it just means they were tested in the hospital while they were there for something else. Same with deaths… many, many covid deaths especially in the beginning were inflated, many people who died who just happened to have covid at time of death were counted as a covid death.
And somehow they totally ignore the deaths and severe side effects from the vaccine. By not acknowledging them, they increase distrust.
@@robinchandler5279 "And somehow they totally ignore the deaths and severe side effects from the vaccine." No, they don't, they acknowledge them but also point out that they're infinitesimally less likely than severe harm from contracting Covid.
Can we please take the time to appreciate that because they mention COVID-19 they get no ad revenue meaning this is just for our benefit ♥️
Talk about Vax injuries
1 in 500 people have died..and there are still those who are denying it is even happening. Thanks for the perspective.
My mum just got COVID
She's at very high risk since she's prone to repository infections
But she's been double jabbed and all she's got is the inability to smell
It could have been far worse, in fact, i was expecting the worst
guess that's a good news that she got the vax
You guys are all brainwashed.
@@alex-w8p2e brain washed, how? please explain your thinking. extra points if you use evidence.
My uncle died from covid. The doctors said that it could have been even worse if he was not vaccinated.
glad she's doing okay. And I hope the smell/taste thing comes back, because wouldn't living without forever be awful? How would you convince yourself to eat, right?
If there is one thing that reading about science has taught me it is that it made me realize how important it is to be honest about uncertainties. Because if we aren't aware about what we are uncertain about we cannot find out what is actually going on. And also there is the fact that for all things learned through science. Uncertainty can be very low. But never zero. So any truth can be challanged. Nothing is holy in science. Just more or less certain.
And the science of vaccines is certain enough to get my support.
Great recap! And it's good to have an update on where we stand now.
One of the best science communicators out there, thank you Joe!
@@osmosisjones4912 Have to survive the infection to attain that immunity, and best hope you don't have long covid as well and deal with symptoms for months after your virus recovery.
@@osmosisjones4912 your name is so ironic it's just sad. You're literally the opposite of osmosis jones.
Let's praise Almighty Science(TM). amen
@@osmosisjones4912 "and 100% of young and healthy survive it ." - Then start a petition to inject the actual virus into younger and health people so they can no longer be potential reservoir for virus. If you don't want a vaccine, tha'ts fine - get the virus. The main purpose is to get immunity collectively to slow down circulation of the virus in the population.
The scary thing is we don't know if the people who have had covid may have shortened life spans. We don't know the effects of old age on a covid-weakened body. I mean it could lie dormant and be active again once old age weakens our immune system. And to think that at some point we will all experience being infected with this, oh my god goodbye tonight's sleep.
So basically you mean everyone on earth ? Vaccinated or not … we will all get Covid . And I can also make the same statement about people who took the vaccine . And have you seen the studies coming out that say being vaccinated after having natural immunity are having adverse health issues ?
I got my second Pfizer shot in early March, got Covid in early September. It was like a very mild cold, just stuffy nose and sore throat for a few days. I have an underlying condition and feel so grateful for receiving the hard work of scientists and medical workers and being protected from a serious infection. My antibodies will dwindle in a few months so I will get a booster when needed. I don't know why people don't value their lives.
A lot of people are pro vaccine. Many are not pro vaccine mandate.
I got pfizer too. I got my second shot last week. No side effects except arm swelling. Hoping for no long term effects
Without a control group, a lot of information becomes meaningless.
Oh you mean like all the "info" about masks doing anything?
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv Masks are actually useful tools for slowing the spread of covid, but okay....
Anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers technically became our control group.
I absolutely love your work, I've been taking a course on designing effective Science Communication and I have to say your content is next level. I think I'll start referring people to your videos more. Thanks for all the hard work you do!
I was just noticing he does a really excellent job in this, way better than NdT for instance. I notice he is careful to include himself with humor like, "We can all be fooled by >common everyday mistake
He's quick with his witt and humor which makes the monologue easier on the ears and it gets you hooked to actually listen. As you sadi he isn't talking down on people who don't know much on the topic and also he isn't just telling on "facts" or when je does he's actually explaining them and making sense.
The way I imagine dangerous variants arising is, each infected person is playing the lottery. The chances for any one person to get the 'virus jackpot' and generate a really dangerous variant is very low. But as the number of people getting infected, and getting sick and infecting others, goes up, then the number of people playing the lottery also goes up. The chances of that rare mutation happening when 1 billion people are playing the lottery are greater than if only 100 people are.
Except if you vaccinate the whole population with a vaccine that still allows transmission of the virus, it's gonna be more likely that you spread virus particles with genes for which the vaccine doesn't work, thus creating vaccine resistant strains.
If you get natural immunity, you probably will end up with less dangerous strains instead.. cause it will be like you describe.
@@brianc5581 Hmm...good point. So I guess let's try and just let some people tough it out, even though some of them may get really sick and die, taking up hospital beds in the process, and let natural selection do its thing. History shows that most viruses respond well to only vaccinating the most vulnerable, and letting everyone else get natural immunity after getting so sick that they stop being productive in our economy.
@@chillsahoy2640
Who will get sick and die?
Young people?
More young people die of the flu.
If we can't handle this we need to upgrade our healthcare system.
And do we have any examples in history where we vaccinated people with a vaccine that still allowed a virus to spread?
How many doses of measles vaccine have been administered world wide, and how many people vaccinated for measles still get it? I would enjoy seeing some comparisons to Covid. Hopefully next video.
i got measles after getting my vaccine. only felt a bit of a fever and had the spots, but never did i feel like i was dying. glad i was vaccinated
@@solarydays chicken pox isn’t as deadly as COVID, this isn’t t hard man, use your brain.
@@solarydays 99.5% survival rate, which means it will kill over 1.5 million Americans
@@justinhowell3527 that were mostly on their way out anyway. Average age of death is equal to life expectancy. I still think we should develop vaccines and make them available and advise the vulnerable, but mandating vaccines and firing people for not doing so is just insanity. You’re not saving any lives doing that.
@@solarydays Well that's a completely different story. chickenpox is fairly innocent virus for children, but can be pretty severe for adults, hence the system of a "chickenpox party" or "Pandemic party" as it's also called makes sense in that case. But still there is a smal risk, as where modern vaccines pose even a smaler risk. So a modern vaccine still is the safer bet...
my history teacher once said (btw we should not have talk about this in class lol) :
"history always repeats itself, like a theather just the costumes and backround is different"
let that sink in (not that sink)
Let the sink in
"History doesn't repeat itself but it rhymes."
Knock knock. Hey it’s me. The sink. Let me in!
What the sink doin
I had Covid in February. Got my vaccine in April. Glad to reduce my chance of getting it again and spreading it to others who may be more vulnerable.
thank you for being a good citizen. And I hope you don't have long covid or other complications down the road!
This video aged like milk lmao
Why did the CDC change the definition of vaccine in 2019?
“Maybe, just maybe, this will be the last time we do this.”
Enters Omicron.
Mr. Besmart, how come you are not talking about the blood brain barrier and teratogens???
Same way they dont talk about the terrible discriminations and human right violations they support.
It is hard to find quality such as this.
Keep fighting the good fight!
I majored in math and science plus I have an autoimmune disease. Science tries to approximate life, to find answers to questions that are often so complex that answers don't really exist. And randomness comes in and messes it all up. I've noticed that non-scientist like to tell the masses how things "are" and that we "know" and these are "laws" which gives people a false sense of security. But science changes, our understanding adjusts, and we are often teaching out of books with info from 30, 40, even 100yrs ago.
Stay Smart, embrace the uncertainty
This feels very poetic after watching today’s vlogbrothers video
Just when you think you're done with COVID videos, there's a breakthrough case!
You will see Covid videos a lot, in the next decade.
After a certain point they're not "breakthrough cases"...they're just "what happens".
@@macethorns1168 but they NEED to keep the FEAR meter high.
@@cptrikester2671 Precisely. Whether Covid was intentional or not, it's being used by the far left to gain as much power as they can. It is terrifying.
This came out at just the right time. In my household of 5, the 3 of us who could be vaccinated all tested positive last week. thank you for explaining!!
I can't believe this channel is still making videos, period.
Joe, I respect your dedication to science but the most glaring point of a video about vaccines was lacking: the problems experimental vaccines have, including the still unknown problems. Because these vaccines _are_ experimental, and there are various problems being reported, from spike protein actions to attacking the cardiovascular system. I would appreciate if you could make a new video about it.
My thanks to you and your staff for the really interesting and understandable videos you have made. I teach engineering at a local university, and your approaches in explaining a topic have been fun to watch, and your approach to presenting a topic to my class has been helpful and an important tool to be used whenever possible. Although I am retiring in December, I will continue to enjoy your videos and wish you continued success.
The problem i see, is about the politics around it. Some places are just abusing their new powers. Some places, like QC, are ignoring the democratic system on matter that are not relate to Covid, juat because the PM has special power from covid
its not ok to be smart,,if you see people you know suffer severe consequences "coincidentally" the same week of the vaccine,,you shouldn't make the smart decision and avoid it like the plague, but shut off your thought and take the poison as the big pharma cult leaders tell you to, even though the only thing it does is hurt people and does not do anything they say it does ,and the cult group is protected from any repercussion,,shut off your thinking and take the poison ,,,,,ummmm well maybe its ok to be smart,,,,but its not ok to think for yourself,, you must let others do the thinking for you ,call me a coocoo ani vaxxer but i personally know individuals who suffered severe consequences from vaccines so i will not bend to the cults coercion, harassment and subhumanizing me for choosing not to take there poison, just because they censor and say its untrue on those who dare tell the truth doesn't make the people i know not have those ill effects,, and no matter how many vaccines you get there will always be another virus for them to use as excuse to "convince" (coerce harras and threaten) you to take there next poisonous cocktail
15:43 "Uncertainty is what makes science so exciting! It's the fuel that drives it."
Yes, we should embrace uncertainty (with caution).
This video should have way more likes.
Can you make your reference docs easier to read in the future? (Maybe include the title if it's not in the hyperlink) I'm having trouble finding data about how the vaccines were tested.
hopefully this gets captioned in arabic so I can show this to my family and educate them in this topic
fckng right mate, I sometimes dislike people for not knowing english because it's hard to get a reliable source from our country (our own language), resulting on them believing in some shitty useless journalist's articles / obscure websites / hoax videos... and then they'd tell that shitty information to whomever they encounters.
I'm enjoying how ever so subtlely he is slowing down the explanations.
Thank you for explaining this so perfectly. I'm exhausted trying to fight the non believers.
I give you permission to quit trying. Look, if stupid people die, that's just evolution in action. And it's not a bad thing. Let them chose to die. Then, in the future, you'll be irritated by their stupidity less! I applaud every time a covid denier dies of it. yay, Mother Nature!
@@wendysgarden4283 yeah just leave us alone
@@wendysgarden4283 The problem is that every denier who gets it spreads it to more than 1 other person; if they were to stay in bed once they felt ill, they would be doing us all a favour, but unfortunately they don't.
@@wendysgarden4283 Classic liberal, applauding the death of people they don't agree with. We'll see who's laughing when you deal with lifelong repercussions from the vaccine :)
Yo, love ya Joe (and team). So non-pretentious and genuine.
This is very well put together. So much information and so clearly explained.
I had my booster and I a felt awful the next day. I guess my immune system does work … it caught those tiny antigen particles and went nuts. Tylenol and a day of rest took care of it. Way better than getting COVID. No desire to go through that.
If you cut a finger off, you will also feel bad the next day. Does that mean that you got stronger?
lol booster. you are still screwed the efficacy falls with time. natural immunity is only cure. its basic biology. its like people are brainwashed . COVID kills wether vaxxed or not. look at israel vaccinated people are being hospitalized .
@@drumetul_dacic Please tell me you weren’t being serious with that comment because if you are being serious you need to go back to school and know the difference between the immune system and the anatomy of the human body.
Get ready to feel awful once every six months with the rate of boosters coming out and other variants. Things are not looking good for 2022.
@@ExileOfGods school = indoctrination camp. No wonder you are so brainwashed.
Death is the ultimate uncertainty in life and you basically explained exactly why people fall for religion
Including the religion of "science."
@@dustinabc science is not religion. BRUH
@Errol Brown i mean the whole issue of why some wanna make vaccination mandatory its well the big danger to live, and well the seemingly ilogical misstrust on all the work thats been put on solving the problem, they understand people fear, but they also understand that said fear can hurt people and more than just the people that don't, but also the people that can't get it cos x health condition or even people who already got it, extra viral vectors and all that, it is one of those for the "greater good" kind of issues.
tho there is the other camp on the scientific comunities, the one that understand said obligatory its a bad idea, since the only thing it actually gives its fuel to the fires of the antivaxer camps, just gives them a escape goat, similar to how you can't band all the flat earth nonesence from medial platform or else they'll use it as "they're silencing us", over all would make matters worst.
and from personal experience, get vaccinated if you can, obviously if you have worries, check incompativilities these have with health issues(they already do checks before giving you one, tho helps to know before hand) and if you still don't feel its ready yet or safe, just be extra careful when going outsidde and around people as its already needed and all the protocol we're all tierd to get repeated by now
Religion gives answers and treats questioning badly, science gives questions, and answers that usually just gives more questions(well at least thats how it usually is for both), Religion's answers aren't requiered to be explain, you gotta belive them, while Scence's answers are requiered to be explain and proved
@Errol Brown "If I ever end up in either camp, vaccinate or not to vaccinate, then it will make it much easier for me to cease thinking for myself and commit to groupthink"
Hmmmmm. Refusing to believe in something because everyone else believes in it is just as dodgy as believing it because everyone else believes in it. Just because everyone believes 1+1=2 doesn't mean you should automatically distrust it anymore than you should trust it because everyone else believes it does. The truth is what it is irrespective of how many people or how few believe in it
@Errol Brown "Is one a Republican or a Democrat? What does that mean? Usually it means that they will commit to an idea even if they do not have all the details. They will vote for a person based on their party affiliation in most cases unless they are an independent"
I assure you, Covid is indiscriminate in who it infects, irrespective of their political affiliations
"However there are many who accuse those who choose not to get a vaccine at this time or in the near future as "anti-vaxxers". This is strong language used to stir up vitriol against those who choose not to take one at this time"
I don't condone vitriol and abusive language. However, I do think it's worth noting that unvaccinated people have a higher chance of catching and spreading the virus. So, in this context, unless you're immunocompromised or have any other conditions, being unvaccinated is very much comparable to being a drunk driver. You're driving recklessly on the road and you're gonna hurt someone. While the vitriol towards vaccine hesitancy is unacceptable, it doesn't come from nowhere. Just because they're assholes, doesn't mean they're wrong.
"Personally I'm not interested in the synthetic versions of the vaccines and prefer to wait for a version that is more adaptable to fighting current and Future variants"
Synthetic? You expecting them to use an anti-covid plant?
The current vaccines are already effective against covid and its variants. Even against the delta variant, albeit not as effective as it is against the og virus, but effective enough to keep you out of hospital
You should try to upscale your video to 4k and upload it then. Your video seems to be suffering from just a low bit rate/low resolution. Its the best option instead of getting a new camera lol. I only say this to help and do not mean to be condescending :) just discovered your channel actually and this is my first video! Love it!
It all can be boiled down to "do I know more about a subject than thousands of experts?". Unfortunately smart people will generally not need this video to reach these very basic conclusions.
That's not at all the problem. It's all about communication. The problem is how to educate people without raising suspicion of hidden agendas.
The attitude "if you disagree then you're stupid" is exactly what is driving skepticism.
@@martinkunev9911 Why is it that only some people need this extra communication to understand basic principles? Anyone who needs extra information or *special education* to understand that your first inclination should be to trust the virtually unanimous scientific/medical community over your own logical fallacies... is probably not reachable via additional education. Sure, some skepticism can be healthy given valid reasons, but this is the text book difference between a fool and someone with at least semi-average intelligence.
@Steven ThompsonOnce my doctor(s) provide me advice I will take it... Just like literally anything else medically related that isn't politicized. Life isn't that tough to navigate. I'd say 50% of navigating life is simply trusting experts over charlatans.
@Steven Thompson It's slightly anecdotal, but I don't know a single human being (United States) that doesn't have a doctor they can consult with, or have a TV, newspaper, magazine, word of mouth about what any given number of doctors are saying about taking the vaccines. Do various news sources give conflicting advice, and often bring on a minority of doctors to muddy the waters? Absolutely, which is increasing evidence to show that it's just an intelligence problem of those choosing adverse information to fortify their ignorance. You're trying to complicate this because you're wrong, and I respect the persistence.
Here's my best metaphor for why vaccines work and are good, using football (substitute for whatever sport).
1. You know nothing about football, but you've played baseball before.
2. Getting infected is like being thrown straight into a football game and expected to know what to do, and win. Some people will work it out on the fly and be able to do a sufficient job, and know how to play well enough for the next game.
3. Vaccines are a training camp teaching you what football is, and how to play it. For some people they still won't 'get' it', but for most they'll be far better prepared when they get into their first football game.
4. Boosters are like having a refresher course on how to play football, because you never got thrown into any football matches in the last season, so you might not remember the important points from the original training session (or your first game).
5. Getting vaccinated despite having a natural immunity is like getting the training course *after* you finish your first game. You'll have a better understanding already, but the training course is a good education.
Regardless, you still have to play the game when you get thrown into it. Depending on your experiences you may play better or worse.
Nice, like it!
@Mcheetah not to dismiss your attempt at undermining the metaphor for a political argument...but that's not how football usually plays out when one side has no clue.
Most vaccines that need boosters aren't a new shot every 6 months though. As someone who's afraid of needles that sounds like hell. I already have immunity from getting covid which is said to last longer than vaccine immunity. I hope they get the research they need for these vaccines to make them more effective and longer lasting. Or that they find a way to vaccinate without using a needle. I've been hoping for that last one for years.
@@sprigganpanda the Flu shot is yearly because of new variants.
Literally the same thing.
@@BrentHollett Not a single person I know ever goes to get the flu shot. If you catch the flu it's only 2-5 days of being sick even when you're old. You don't usually worry that the flu will kill or cause longterm effects or about it's contagiousness. The flu vaccine is one of those vaccines that don't really matter if you get it or not. The boosters for COVID aren't different from the initial vaccine you get, the flu shot is different every year to try to keep up with the different strains that they predict will be around that year.
1 in 500??? I knew a lot of people died, but wow, that really puts it into perspective. I checked the math and it pans out.
It's kind of misleading because the definition of a COVID death is extremely loose. A COVID death is ANY death that happens within 28 days of positive test and it doesn't matter if your COVID diagnosis is what lead to your death. No one has combed through the data to see what the number of people who actually died due to covid complications really is and likewise we have excess deaths and some of those excess deaths are COVID deaths we are missing (though it's wrong to label them ALL as COVID deaths like some experts do). Point is measuring the true number of deaths from this pandemic is very difficult
@@AdamSmith-gs2dv On the other hand, there's all the people who died because they couldn't get a hospital bed, or because some Trumper asshats hoarded their Hydroxychloroquine.
So it probably all evens out.
A loooot more people die each month from smoking. So why don't they ban cigarettes?
Great question! I’m for it
thank you for touching on long covid. I would love if you made a video talking about what we do and don’t know about it
man, so sad that the people who need the most to watch this video are unlikely to ever watch it...
The year is 2022, I'm on my 8th mandatory Booster shot this quarter. Everything is fine.
COVID-19: slowly getting better
Uno Reverse Card: HELLO THERE...
The variants come from another multiverse. Damn loki.
More infectious does not mean more deadly. The recent variants are less deadly but more infectious. The common cold is another corona virus made up of multiple variants. Once deadly it has mutated to a more benign variant. This is the norm for a virus as it mutates to survive.
I hope they're studying the immunity in bat populations too where there's many kinds of sars viruses because their antibodies have dealt with it for so many generations that I think studying and comparing it to our infancy immunity would be so beneficial information and knowledge wise. Kind of "learn from the masters that already walked the road before you".
"Why do bats have so many viruses?" - Washington Post
Bats do not have a immune system like ours. Bat's immune systems doesn't wage war like ours does. Bat immune systems tend to peacefully coexist with viral infections.
@@osmosisjones4912 ... Vaccines are specifically designed to give you a strong immune response with a very low risk of illness/reaction (low risk, stronger immunity). Naturally acquired immunity through infection gives you a weaker ongoing immune response and has far greater risk of leading to serious disease (high risk, weaker immunity). The unvaccinated are roughly twice as likely to catch COVID-19 a second time, as compared to someone who is vaccinated (a lot depending on lifestyle choices here: mask wearing, social distance, crowds/etc.).
@@osmosisjones4912 ... I'd recommend to study up on how the immune system works a bit more.
@@osmosisjones4912 PLEASE, Please, Please, go back to immunity 101 (Hell, biology period would be a GREAT idea for you.).
It is Painfully obvious that you skipped over the important stuff in school, AND (if you went, that is…) college…
With the vaccine, your immune system’s response to the virus is more likely to have a positive outcome; you LIVE, just making sure that is clear…
The fast food restaurant that I work at is in a college/tourist town. For the past 2 weeks from 9pm-430am we are the only place open to eat. All of the night crew at taco bell said I quit and walked out and 90% of McDonalds has quit. The college has a population of 25000 people and I'm tired. The place where I work does pay us nicely but we are all tired and over it.
8:00 if some research shows this to be true, does it make sense to demonize someone who's had it that doesn't get vaccinated? They still have the same overall protection.
I wouldn't say its right to demonize them because they do have some protection, but getting the vaccine anyways would be a good move to further boost their chances at longer term immunity or against a different variant than they had that could possibly get them worse the next time around.
In the Uk Covid passes are available for people who can prove a positive pcr test in the previous 6 months. It’s understood that infection confers some immunity.
@@danpreston564 To my knowledge we don't have that in Canada, it's vaccination or a negative test. Natural immunity isn't counted really, you can have it but without a vaccine or a negative test you can be denied entry to certain places. They don't even need to do the negative test either, they can say no entry unless you're vaccinated. Which is smthg I had to deal with at a funeral home recently, they didn't let me in to identify my dead grandpa just because I hadn't gotten my first vaccine yet. If a restaurant or smthg wants to do that okay but I feel like it's not appropriate for all businesses.
It’s over until the next variant comes along. We’ve reached herd immunity to every variant to date. Simple.
That’s awkward in my area there’s been a sudden spike of Covid cases
One of the best videos I’ve seen. Thank you!
I just wish people would listen to rational, science based information like this. I have a friend who refuses to believe the science and even mocks it calling it, "The ScienceTM" like it's something fake. Can't reason with her at all.
Go watch fauci vs fauci.
find smarter friends. you'll live longer.
You did a terrific job of explaining why it's ridiculous to keep counting "cases" of COVID-19 and testing perfectly healthy people. The example of measles infections that don't lead to disease was perfect. We don't obsessively test everyone for measles. We don't need to obsessively test for COVID-19 either. Thank you!
A similar thing happens when motorcycle helmets are made mandatory. The number of head injuries from motorcycle accidents go up, which seems counterintuitive right? Well, a lot of those people are getting head injuries instead of being a smudge on the pavement. Head injuries go up when motorcycle helmets are required because more people are surviving to be diagnosed with head injuries instead of death
Well done!
This is a very clear explanation that hopefully will dispel some of the misinformation out there.
Thank you joe ❤️
Always love the patience, the effort of this channel's videos. Thank you Team It's Okay To Be Smart. *appreciate!
To me a booster reminds me of doing drills for a disaster, or a skill recertification test. Like, "yeah I know we haven't had to deal with this recently but let's make sure you can still do it."
Absolutely! And the increased magnitude of side effects in later doses is indicative of the body taking it VERY seriously in those later drills. Which is a good sign!
Let's not give into our political beliefs. Also, let's not talk about where the virus came from or the side effects of the vaccine and the side effects of lockdowns.
The venn diagram of people denying these facts, and the people who don't wear seatbelts might be a single circle.
The fact that the Ad before this video was for some snake-oil cure for bad eyesight... I just can't. 🤣