shortened isolation periods, minimal mask-wearing and low coverage of COVID-19 vaccines among childrenThey say advocates of less rigorous measures are driven by financial or self-interest and ignore expert health advice. These criticisms rang true as little as nine months ago when Omicron was devastating Australia,due to low booster coverage. But the nature of the game has changed.
The main thing we ask from vaccines is to protect us against becoming severely ill with a virus, not to protect us against every infection.In countries like Australia and New Zealand, where border and infection control measures have been the core of efforts to get to “zero COVID” it is hard to accept that it no longer makes sense to avoid infection at all costs.
A good example is the rotavirus vaccine, which we give to babies. The vaccine does not stop them getting any rotavirus infection – but stops them having diarrhoea bad enough to end up in hospital . This is success. except that infant immune systems are much better equipped to deal with it, as every virus they encounter is new
nick_coatsworth Protection against getting infected? But what about protection against organ/vascular damage? That’s the issue. Covid wouldn’t be so scary if it wasn’t for the damage it can do to your body.
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nick_coatsworth More harm than good
nick_coatsworth All my VAX FREE friends and family have had Covid ... done and dusted in a few days. Not even sick .. not even a bad cold. Why would you poison yourself with unknown jabs?
Seriously...no one is buying the bullshit anymore Propaganda..do some real journalism and look at the latest study from the British Medical Journal. The Jabs are duds!
RachelBSYD2 LIARS !!!
Bullshit.. The jab is making infection MORE prevalent in young ones..
Bizarre that your writing this whilst more and more mutations that prevent immunity are arising and the numbers of long covid impacted people grow?
Eh hem. LongCovid? New variants? Repeated infections damage immune system? Elephant in the room.
Stage 1: discredit mitigation tactics and normalise mass infection among the populous Stage 2: watch hospitals get overcrowded, and collapse under their own weight Stage 3: complain about how bad Andrews is for letting the hospitals collapse from mass infection Stage 4: repeat
NOT if you are immunocompromised. Good news To be infected
And long covid?
I've been reading things about how the vaccines are causing cancer. Wich one is it
Someone just sent me this. Apparently there was a Covid Inquiry held by Australian Senators interviewing doctors, lawyer etc. Why is there no reporting on this?
Vaccination then infection likely offers worse protection than just infection, sorry - vaccination is narrow immunity, we know this. It's called original antigenic sin, and it's all still up for debate - so stop presenting things as fact.
nick_coatsworth What else is the going to come up with. It's been excuse after excuse. We are sick of it. Oh so now it's better to be vaxxed and be infected for it to work. Make up your bloody minds. Nobody cares anymore we are all done with it. It's actually boring now.
'...the main thing we ask from vaccines is to protect us against becoming severely ill, not to prevent infection of any severity.' This is/was never the definition of a vaccine nor the 'main thing we ask' from them
This is a sensible piece by peter_2611 - who has led Immunisation program decision making all his professional life. I don’t know anyone socially or professionally who, at this point in the pandemic, doesn’t hold a similar view. They’re just not on Twitter.
‘The good news is that infection and vaccination offer much stronger and more long-lasting protection than infection or vaccine alone’. So being infected on top of my vax is helpful to stop me being infected? Seriously .peter_2611? Make it make sense.
fmllolnews Who on earth would listen to Raina. These experts will get it right one day… by admitting they have been wrong this whole time. Paid for hack that takes big Pharma money.
You need to catch up, dummies
McIntyre is a W.H.O bootlicker (PS you’re all participating in the largest drug trial EVER)
migga We the people of Australia are more than the Economy. We are mothers, brothers, daughters, uncles. We are humans with relationships. The sooner we all realise we can live with less and get off the debt wheel the better.
Rubbish.
Lol
didnt our dear leaders just stock up with vaccines for the ba.1 variant thus completely useless
The good news is that this is 🐄 💩
First it was - you will die if you get a don’t get a jab , then get a jab and you won’t die , now get a jab and get and infection and you won’t die 🤣😆 next “get a jab , infection , clot and heart attack” then you probably won’t die
is a joke, your pathetic publication failed to report on the 100,000+ pages of documents that Pfizer was forced to release by courts in the US showing serious adverse reactions and fraud regarding the safety and efficacy of their vaccines.
Last 4 months have had NSW unvaccinated Covid hospitalisations at 0.2% So there’s that. Meanwhile VIC claim their rate was 30.2%, so perhaps moving interstate is the best intervention.
Tell that to the tens of thousands suffering long covid! Get lost with your biased, political opinions! Over it!!
They literally have myocarditis ads targeted for kids now. Please stop.
More long lasting 😝 🤣 maybe this Vax will last 91 days ..
Except…
For once, a sensible and constructive article from a major newspaper on covid.
All this for a virus the over 98% will survive anyway.😳
Utterly insane replies to this as per
sugartymefarm Lies. Natural immunity is far superior. And no risk of myocarditis or death.
Infection also increases risk of heart attack and stroke. I will avoid for as long as possible.
Nothing to see here… 🤦🏻♀️
It is possible to massively reduce the frequency of infection though, which is very worthwhile considering the consequences. Hybrid immunity comes at the cost of damaging your own health and killing other people. Wear a respirator. Get fresh/filtered air. CutDownTransmission
Was evading omicron infection ever actually possible?
Counterpoint
New variants are already escaping immunity.
Mandate these for the Grand Final or you don’t care about grannies or the disabled community 😡
Give it a fucking rest!
Good news. The status quo is best! God help us.
Being that the 'vaccine' wanes so quickly and constant boosting harms the immune system - infection and natural immunity are fine for the majority of the population. Not avoiding infection huh? Took you two years to catch on.
Best to minimise the amount of infections as much as possible though WearAMask
Hybrid immunity is the new catch phrase now that herd immunity has been debunked. What happens when the public work out the cost of their few months of hybrid immunity. And they get sick again and again. Each time their T cells taking another hit. Increasing illness. What a mess
It's hard for the small minority sticking to avoiding at all cost, to accept that what they've been doing since omicron and vaccination in 2022, has been a complete waste of time. So expect a lot of doubling down.
And yet serious consequences of infection! Not a safe article in The Age.
The comparison with rotavirus is ridiculous, they are COMPLETELY different viruses. The writer downplays Long Covid in the vaccinated. No mention of excess mortality linked to Covid19. No evidence provided that hybrid immunity lasts. This opinion piece will age very poorly.
Really? Uganda is doing far better than us with low vaccination rate (only 27.4% full vaccination). Seriously people, get on with life!
Newspapers must still be being paid to push the vaccine narrative. I read that over a trillion dollars has so far been spent peddling the shot so far, not sure if it’s fact but it sounded good.
Basically ppl are realising the covid meme is unsustainable? 😂 Weren't you all going on about how long covid is a serious risk yet supposedly vaxxed ppl are still getting it in high numbers And isn't it established that neither vax/booster stops infection/transmission
Ooh are your big pharma pay masters getting worried that now the ‘pandemic is over’ nobody’s going to want the boosters you are paid to promote? How much money do you make pushing this garbage? And do you remember when ‘cash for comment’ was a thing? One day you’ll all pay.
The Age has zero credibility when reporting on Covid vaccines
What a malicious headline! That is NOT in line with study findings at all. This should be retracted.
nick_coatsworth Superb article and a very realistic portrayal of where we are right now from a true expert in the field. The pandemic is over due to the vaccines and hybrid immunity.
Slowly shifting the narrative so the normies don't go into total shock when you all start reporting that the vaccines do sweet FA 😂
And why are we not reporting on Singapore's latest findings? We can't minimise the pandemic. We don't know enough about it. The virus keeps mutating and we keep pretending it's 2019. The initial infection is becoming less scary than the longterm issues
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RachelBSYD2 Absolutely not. Every study around the world shows the so called vaccine does nothing. The only studies that show any different are the ones paid by big pharma and gov. People have been duped.
I don't believe Australians understand the ramifications of longCOVID and I note that minimising it to a few will suffer is dangerous.
Dr Peter McCullough on children who've died from the jab:
time covid is over and treat like the flu
Seriously, just in case you haven’t noticed Pfizer was forced to release its studies and it wasn’t good it was actually terrifying but I guess facts don’t matter anymore.
This opinion piece skirts around long Covid, rising excess deaths because of Covid & fails to mention that reports from NSW Health & VIC DoH have disclosed that substantial Nos with 3-4 Vax doses are dying of Covid Shameful & misleading 'reporting' by The Age
A fridge would be recalled. Same with a batch of yoghurt. Something has gone horribly wrong.
Lockdowns killed! Also Most Unvaxed people were just fine with Covid. It seems the vaxed get it multiple times. This vax is a major dud and for some it’s been downright deadly. GladImNotVaxed
Zeroes in the mud
what absolute unscientific garbage. This is desinformation.
Thanks for a very sensible well balanced article
Please get your story straight! Just try to tell the same lies as everyone else!
Big claim to make since this version was tested on just 8 mice...people who line up for this are the lab rats
What a farce! Not long ago the Science said the injections were 95% “effective”, now they say impossible not to get infected but get another “vaccine” for additional protection. These people mandated faulty products on the population. Clowns
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