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>And this raises the big question: if the vaccine is so effective against the virus, preventing infections and severe Covid, then why didn’t it save lives at the height of the pandemic against the Alpha-variant? The most likely answer is that the risk of this vaccine essentially cancelled out any Covid benefit from the vaccine. Regardless, there was no death benefit. [...]
>In the age of Delta, vaccines do not meaningfully reduce transmissions or stop infections. They do not reduce overall medical resource utilization, as we showed. The best evidence available shows that they do not reduce mortality – and since [the vaccine] uses the Alpha spike protein, you will get 100% of the risk, but only 40-60% of the benefit in the age of Delta. The virus has moved on. The vaccines produce narrow immunity that encourages new variants. Their efficacy wanes after 6-8 months. And for Covid-survivors it likely produces no long-term benefit, and they are known to have a 2-6 times higher rate of adverse events. Likely no benefit, just harm. tldr. At age 22, you never would have received any statistically significant benefit from an injection, even for the alpha variant. Based on this information, you should be able to draw your own conclusions.
