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Re: Vaccine passports

Post by sheldrake » Sat Sep 18, 2021 9:46 am

Herainestold wrote:
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We will see lockdowns every winter, as the virus mutates and we have to protect the NHS.
The IFR for unvaccinated people who catch it the first time is order of 0.25-0.75% (less than your lifetime risk of dying from lots of other common, preventable causes). This then drops significantly after you've survived it once, unlike flu but similar to measles.

Given the low mutation rate, don't you expect increasing numbers of people in the population to acquire long-lasting immunity from surviving the disease even if vaccine protection doesn't last so long?
I think the IFR for Delta is much higher, probably twice as high, but I couldnt find good figures.I don't know how long infection acquired immunity lasts from Delta, but we know that people can be re infected multiple times. Every time there is the risk of organ damage and Long Covid.
I think Delta is about twice as contagious but I haven't seen data suggesting it's more dangerous to the individual who catches it.

Reinfection multiple times by Covid is *extremely* rare, and second infections are much less dangerous.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulation ... 9/june2021

The Israeli data so far suggests that people who had already survived Covid were much better protected than those who had been double-jabbed with Pfizer (by a factor of around 15-20 iirc)

This is because it's mutation rate is much lower than a disease like flu and the kind of immunity you acquire by surviving infection is more akin to the kind of immunity those of us who had measles or chicken pox acquired
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33064680/

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Re: Vaccine passports

Post by Woodchopper » Sat Sep 18, 2021 9:50 am

sheldrake wrote:
Sat Sep 18, 2021 9:46 am
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Sat Sep 18, 2021 3:30 am
sheldrake wrote:
Sat Sep 18, 2021 1:32 am


The IFR for unvaccinated people who catch it the first time is order of 0.25-0.75% (less than your lifetime risk of dying from lots of other common, preventable causes). This then drops significantly after you've survived it once, unlike flu but similar to measles.

Given the low mutation rate, don't you expect increasing numbers of people in the population to acquire long-lasting immunity from surviving the disease even if vaccine protection doesn't last so long?
I think the IFR for Delta is much higher, probably twice as high, but I couldnt find good figures.I don't know how long infection acquired immunity lasts from Delta, but we know that people can be re infected multiple times. Every time there is the risk of organ damage and Long Covid.
I think Delta is about twice as contagious but I haven't seen data suggesting it's more dangerous to the individual who catches it.

Reinfection multiple times by Covid is *extremely* rare, and second infections are much less dangerous.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulation ... 9/june2021

The Israeli data so far suggests that people who had already survived Covid were much better protected than those who had been double-jabbed with Pfizer (by a factor of around 15-20 iirc)

This is because it's mutation rate is much lower than a disease like flu and the kind of immunity you acquire by surviving infection is more akin to the kind of immunity those of us who had measles or chicken pox acquired
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33064680/
Yes, I agree.

There was some concern that Delta resulted in more severe illness but as far as I remember that hasn't been confirmed.

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Re: Vaccine passports

Post by sheldrake » Sat Sep 18, 2021 10:20 am

I am vaccinated and I don't believe in 'depopulation' conspiracy theories or nonsense about 5G. I do think there has been quite a lot of scaremongering by govt. officials and in the press though

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Post by lpm » Sat Sep 18, 2021 10:41 am

I think it was valid scaremongering at the start. Necessary to jolt an entire population into change. Not at all easy given the huge inertia.

But the scaremongering was always misaligned. Month after month I had to remind highly educated people on this forum about the age-risk gradient.

And now we as a society is struggling to turn the scaremongering off. The press is addicted to doom stories. People have been trained to worry about sabre tooths, so still jump at shadows after sabre tooths have gone extinct. Unvaxxed-Covid is extinct for the vaxxed, yet the vaxxed still attune themselves to protecting against the old disease. The scaremongering directed at schools and children is particularly shameful, damaging education and causing childhood anxiety.
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Re: Vaccine passports

Post by sheldrake » Sat Sep 18, 2021 11:10 am

I think severe measures were necessary until we were confident about the value IFR, but once I understood that IFR suggested a lower risk of death than driving accidents or heart disease from bad diet, I began to see the measures as disproportionate and began to notice Chris Whitty and others openly stating statistical untruths in public at times. I want the vaccines available to everybody who wants them, but I consider vaccine passports downright creepy and I do still suspect that there are some bad actors exploiting the panic to drive through social changes (to say nothing of the corruption evidenced by members of the cabinet).

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Post by shpalman » Sat Sep 18, 2021 5:54 pm

Student unions are going further than government guidelines, in an attempt to avoid virus outbreaks like those of last year

Meanwhile as I mentioned in another thread just now, the news that the Green Pass will be obligatory for work in Italy as of the middle of next month has caused vaccination bookings to triple across most regions, although obviously not necessarily amongst the older people who are at more risk and maybe not so much in the south either.
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Post by Brightonian » Tue Sep 21, 2021 12:50 pm

Am in France at the moment and every café and restaurant has required me to produce my "passe sanitaire". At first I assumed my app's QR code would not be understood by whatever French app is used to read it, instead simply scrolling through the ccertificate detsils on my app that states two doses and they just accepted tbat. However, I then experimented by just presenting my QR code to their scanner and it worked. So unless the French app just accepts anything, I suppose the UK, French and many other countries' certificates are recognised between all of them.

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Post by Bird on a Fire » Tue Sep 21, 2021 12:54 pm

Good news - my mum's hoping to visit me soon and she'll need it.

Do you have to scan the qr code with a special app, or can you just use the browser?
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Brightonian wrote:
Tue Sep 21, 2021 12:50 pm
Am in France at the moment and every café and restaurant has required me to produce my "passe sanitaire". At first I assumed my app's QR code would not be understood by whatever French app is used to read it, instead simply scrolling through the ccertificate detsils on my app that states two doses and they just accepted tbat. However, I then experimented by just presenting my QR code to their scanner and it worked. So unless the French app just accepts anything, I suppose the UK, French and many other countries' certificates are recognised between all of them.
In mid July, we were able to upload our UK generated QR codes (from the NHS App) onto the TousAntiCovid app, and this generated a French QR code. However, for the first few days the Pass Sanitaire app wouldn't accept them. About a week later though it seemed to work with no problem.

There's a very useful website called the local that gives quite comprehensive advice for Brits living in France and those who visit them (one of a range of different country versions accessible versions thelocal.com)
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Do you have to scan the qr code with a special app, or can you just use the browser?
In France, people check your code on your French app with their devices.
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Post by shpalman » Sun Sep 26, 2021 1:39 pm

In Scotland, the Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has urged the Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) to investigate plans for coronavirus vaccine passports.
The move comes amid fears that the scheme could see some Scots “systematically excluded” from places and events.
Why, are they prevented from getting the vaccine for some reason?
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Re: Vaccine passports

Post by shpalman » Thu Oct 14, 2021 9:20 pm

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We're at risk of shortages here in Italy due to the law, which comes into effect in a couple of days' time, which will require everyone to have a Green Pass if they want to go to work. Lots of HGV drivers don't have one, especially those who come from eastern Europe and have had the non-EMA-approved Sputnik.
(People are apparently finally getting the jab now at the last minute and are then unhappy to be told that the Green Pass isn't earned until two weeks after the first dose, I mean, it's not like they haven't months since vaccination was open to all age groups or several weeks notice of this particular application of the Green Pass. But better late than never and the price of rapid tests is being kept reasonable.)
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Post by shpalman » Thu Oct 14, 2021 9:25 pm

Apparently a rule about workplace Green Passes is that the employer isn't allowed to save the QR code - this is exactly what the Politecnico is doing, though, and honestly it's better than having queues while Green Passes are checked every time anyone happens to walk into one of the many campuses or buildings, although I wonder if they check at all. Certainly there should be some spot-checking of students going on, and I haven't seen or heard about any of that.
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Re: Vaccine passports

Post by Herainestold » Thu Oct 14, 2021 10:35 pm

shpalman wrote:
Sun Sep 26, 2021 1:39 pm
In Scotland, the Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has urged the Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) to investigate plans for coronavirus vaccine passports.
The move comes amid fears that the scheme could see some Scots “systematically excluded” from places and events.
Why, are they prevented from getting the vaccine for some reason?
Stupidity.

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Post by Herainestold » Thu Oct 14, 2021 10:36 pm

shpalman wrote:
Thu Oct 14, 2021 9:25 pm
Apparently a rule about workplace Green Passes is that the employer isn't allowed to save the QR code - this is exactly what the Politecnico is doing, though, and honestly it's better than having queues while Green Passes are checked every time anyone happens to walk into one of the many campuses or buildings, although I wonder if they check at all. Certainly there should be some spot-checking of students going on, and I haven't seen or heard about any of that.
Maybe you should check them.
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Herainestold wrote:
Thu Oct 14, 2021 10:35 pm
shpalman wrote:
Sun Sep 26, 2021 1:39 pm
In Scotland, the Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has urged the Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) to investigate plans for coronavirus vaccine passports.
The move comes amid fears that the scheme could see some Scots “systematically excluded” from places and events.
Why, are they prevented from getting the vaccine for some reason?
Stupidity.

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Re: Vaccine passports

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headshot wrote:
Fri Oct 15, 2021 10:53 am
Herainestold wrote:
Thu Oct 14, 2021 10:35 pm
Stupidity.

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Post by shpalman » Tue Oct 19, 2021 3:46 pm

In Italy you need a vaccine passport in order to get into the vaccination hub.

It's obviously not as kafkaesque as it sounds: anyone accompanying the person to be vaccinated (who at this stage is likely to be a child/teen, or an older/vulnerable person having their third dose) needs a Green Pass. Which makes sense considering it's a place where there'll be lots of unvaccinated (or vaccination wearing off) people.
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Post by shpalman » Fri Oct 22, 2021 9:44 am

“If I didn’t have to do it, I wouldn’t, I’m taking it because I need to work.”

Don't care: at least you're taking it. This means you're less likely to show up in the kinds of stats which would trigger restrictions and lockdowns on my freedoms.
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Post by sheldrake » Fri Oct 22, 2021 10:02 am

That is a pretty Kafkaesque argument, shpalman. eta; the other restrictions could be dropped too. It's a political choice.

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That is a pretty Kafkaesque argument, shpalman. eta; the other restrictions could be dropped too. It's a political choice.
Go on then. How would you increase uptake of a perfectly safe vaccine? If people are too stubborn to get it voluntarily, why not mandate it in certain settings?

It gets to a point where a person’s choice not to get the vaccine is damaging to so many other parts of society that a mandate is perfectly acceptable.

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Post by shpalman » Fri Oct 22, 2021 10:42 am

sheldrake wrote:
Fri Oct 22, 2021 10:02 am
That is a pretty Kafkaesque argument, shpalman. eta; the other restrictions could be dropped too. It's a political choice.
At the moment there aren't many other restrictions; basically just wearing a mask in shops and on public transport, and discos aren't at full capacity yet.

Italy decided that the criteria for deciding whether to introduce restrictions in each region should as closing the discos, wearing masks outside, or limiting the table size in restaurants should be based not on case numbers but on non-intensive hospital and intensive care occupancy in each region.

This was an acknowledgement that the vaccines don't necessarily stop you catch covid (although some figures from the local health service suggested that the case rates between vaccinated and unvaccinated people differ by a factor of five) but that the outcomes are less severe. Or rather, the outcomes for an unvaccinated person are similar to those for a vaccinated person about 30 years older.

So there's an extent to which Green Passes prevent unvaccinated people showing up to events* where there might be vaccinated people with mild/asymptomatic infections, and then get infected and show up in the hospitalization stats (as well as be part of a chain of transmission). If vaccinated people infect each other (which is anyway less likely) it won't matter so much since we don't really care about cases as long as they're mild and there aren't too many.

(* - or being in situations generally, I edit to add)
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Re: Vaccine passports

Post by sheldrake » Fri Oct 22, 2021 11:06 am

headshot wrote:
Fri Oct 22, 2021 10:40 am
Go on then. How would you increase uptake of a perfectly safe vaccine? If people are too stubborn to get it voluntarily, why not mandate it in certain settings?
I would say that there's some evidence that mandates actually increase hesitancy.

The other thing I'd do would be to remove the legal liability exemptions where they exist. Lots of people find the position that something is 'perfectly safe' and yet simultaneously 'exempt from liability if it causes damage' incongruous and worrying. Applying pressure to then force them to take it makes them dig their heels in (and I've seen this response from lots of people who are not believers in depopulation conspiracy theories and who have happily taken other vaccines). Increasing trust rather than increasing pressure.
It gets to a point where a person’s choice not to get the vaccine is damaging to so many other parts of society that a mandate is perfectly acceptable.
I was trying to have this discussion in another thread; 'how much danger does there need to be for this to be the case' ? I wouldn't mandate it because I don't think the danger is severe enough for that kind of intrusion, but I accept that's a value judgement it's hard to convince you of.

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Post by Chris Preston » Fri Oct 22, 2021 11:08 am

In Australia we are heading for defacto vaccine passports through proof of vaccination being required by businesses to protect their staff and customers. Two states so far allow your vaccine certificate to be appended to the government QR check in app. Several east coast Universities have already mandated vaccination to be on campus for students and staff. My University is doing a survey on the topic. I have argued we should have the same requirement in order to protect the unvaccinated.
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Post by Chris Preston » Fri Oct 22, 2021 11:12 am

sheldrake wrote:
Fri Oct 22, 2021 11:06 am

I would say that there's some evidence that mandates actually increase hesitancy.

The other thing I'd do would be to remove the legal liability exemptions where they exist.
These are both classic anti-vaccine talking points.
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Re: Vaccine passports

Post by sheldrake » Fri Oct 22, 2021 11:14 am

Chris Preston wrote:
Fri Oct 22, 2021 11:12 am


These are both classic anti-vaccine talking points.
I've Pfizer vaccinated, if it helps you see that I'm not making these points out of some superstitious distrust of vaccines. I do actually think it's reasonable to object to being pressured to take a medication the manufacturer refuses to accept liability for.

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