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Sorry to sound cross. I believe I explained my point already, but I'll try to re-iterate in a different way.

The CDC measured antibodies and found more variability with natural immunity, then concluded vaccine immunity is more consistent. This is either a huge scientific mistake or just plain dishonest, as antibody level measurement is not shown to be an accurate way to measure immunity. I provided a link to the FDA saying the exact same thing. The CDC then used this erroneous conclusion as part of their big push that everyone has to get vaccinated. To re-emphasize: there is more to your body's defenses than serum antibodies and you can have zero such antibodies and still be protected: https://www.clinicbarcelona.org/en/news/can-you-be-protected....

In contrast, real-world studies like the Cleveland clinic study came out around the same time and showed that natural immunity is working better in practice with no significant variability, but the CDC just ignored those studies entirely even though they were much higher quality than the ones the CDC were citing.

Finally, when a democrat-run administration speaks, or when someone friendly to that administration from the deep state speaks, the corporate media spend about zero effort researching, questioning, or fact-checking it because they are essentially all allies working together. They instead just blindly repeat the message and weaponize it against dissenters. This, combined with the CDC's many mistakes and/or agenda-driven dishonesty, has resulted in great harm and misinformation in American society and possibly the world at large.

If the CDC had not done these things, there may not have been a vaccine mandate from President Biden that had to be shut down at the supreme court level. There may not be as much of the segregation, discrimination, and vitriol that's going on now. These things matter, and the CDC has very clearly acted as an agency with an agenda and not in the best interests of the people: https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2021/02/01/rep_thoma...!

Note that I'm not talking about immunosuppressed people here. I have done zero research on that group but I assume they are a very tiny part of the population that needs to make special considerations for their health, not just for COVID, but for all diseases.




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