My info is anecdotal just the same as yours. I guess your anecdotal is backed by your bias which makes it better than my anecdotal that is back by my bias. I think early on with version 1.0 of wuhan, the gene therapy helped some in the short term with no idea what long term could mean.
But at this point, it is the same gene therapy being applied to version 10.0. Just keep taking more and more of it. That makes perfect sense.
It does make sense. Colds you can get over and over again. When infected you don't get immunity for life. You catch a cold. Your immune system is robust for a while and then it fades. At some point you catch a cold again and it bumps up your immune system. How many times over your life do you catch the common cold? Granted it's many variants, but nothing different than here. The reason we don't take vaccines for the common cold is because the consequences don't warrant it. If the common cold had a survival rate similar to Covid, we would be taking vaccines and boosters and more boosters. BTW, with the improvement of technology we might start with cold vaccines. It won't eliminate the cold, but getting vaccinated may still be cost effective to reduce severity.
And my experience is anecdotal, but there is real data that you reject that shows the much elevated death rate among the unvaccinated. It's like a liberal and their social programs. All the real world data in the world isn't going to change their mind because it has become part of their identity.
Hopefully, the covid evolves to variants not much worse than the cold. It seems like it may be. Of course, how much of that is that we all have been exposed at this point and our immune systems, whether vaccinated or not have not waned that much.
But to the serious discussion about who tests positive.
How many times have you chosen to get tested? I've never chosen to get tested, but have had to 3 times.
How often do you think those people wearing triple masked while driving alone have been tested? Probable 300 times at this point.
My wife and I had some chest cold back in January. We didn't run off to get tested. Was that typical or atypical for someone that was vaccinated? Was that typical or atypical for someone that was not vaccinated? I have no data, but my hypothesis is that those that are vaccinated are much more likely to get tested than those that are not vaccinated. If my hypothesis is correct, there will be a much higher rate of detection of meaningless infections in the vaccinated population than the unvaccinated.
If you have 1 serious infection for every 99 insignificant infections. Testing rates will have a huge impact on detection rates. But when it comes to serious infections, ones that require medical treatment, the detection rate will be essentially 100%. For the other ones, it may be very low. The data on serious infections shows a huge benefit from being vaccinated. That's really what vaccines are for. They do not keep the virus out of your body. They allow your body to respond more rapidly and more robustly. Never before have we done so much testing of those that are asymptomatic or minor symptoms. I think it has added to the paranoia and misconception. If we only focused on the hospitalized or worse, the benefits are clear and dramatic. They just don't last a lifetime with a decay constant that seems like it is years, not decades. I think they are being overly aggress on minor infections. We actually want minor infections and exposures while avoiding the bad ones. The middle ground is the best we can do.