This is the writing of a “Marxist” anti-vaxxer. They obviously (and somewhat reasonably) don’t listen to mainstream media, so it’s more difficult.
Lockdowns aren’t detrimental if done in a humane way, but people indoctrinated with liberal hyper-individualism don’t understand solidarity and the importance of community. China’s lockdowns were very effective, and had minima side effects since they went along with really strong community support and clearly defined metrics of when to restrict and open up. Other socialist countries fared very well too. In contrast to that, western governments told us to stay home and fend for ourselves.
Calling the vaccines experimental is simply ignorant.
It’s not particularly constructive to use the information we have today to criticise decisions made in 2020 or 2021. We can however use what we know now to prepare better for the next pandemic. In a lot of ways we got lucky with how mild Covid is, compared to something like MERS or Ebola. There are indeed a lot of lessons to be learned from Covid and the responses, but capitalist nations are beholden to capital, lives and health don’t matter, and all inconvenient lessons will be made to disappear.
There is huge gap between recognizing the monopolist practices of pharmauceutical companies and advocating against medicine. By that same logic people would have to eat grass and live in a hole in the ground because other necessities are also often provided by monopolists.
Who determines what is and isn’t medicine? Recently, opiates were a medicine. Now they are a crisis.
They are still medicine, though. They’re still used legitimately.
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These kinds of takes are only possible by hyper-individualized westerners, who have to completely ignore the success of China’s lockdowns (and their extremely low death rates because of it), and exclude it from their analysis.
Medicine and medical science exists outside the united states and its pharma companies.
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The only arguments you can use legitimately are that:
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boosters cause harm, weakening the body beyond its ability to deal with the antibodies generated using first two doses. This is a well vetted effect, causing many countries to mandate only the initial two doses. The first two doses are ample to develop resistance against all variants of COVID except for the harmless Omicron variant as it stands (which even ended up spreading in China).
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the effectiveness of USA/UK made vaccines was purposely inflated in media for profit generating purposes, compared to Indian/Chinese/Russian vaccines. In the end, Indian and Chinese inactivated strain based vaccines have been the safest with just as high effective rate.
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we all saw the nonsense USA and Western countries claimed about origins of COVID being manmade in China. Later, the Lancet commission report debunked it with 2 years of research, and western media was quick to call them a “shameful” organisation.
Lockdowns have been very much effective in containing the spread and decreasing the fatality presented by Alpha, Delta and Delta plus variants. It is the key difference between USA suffering ~10 million deaths while China saved ~15 million lives. (Obviously people partying at beaches and clubs instead of making lockdown effective is the core reason, besides misinformation people calling it a flu, which could perhaps only be said about Omicron variant practically.)
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