Maria João Pires has pulled out of the chamber music series ‘due to personal reasons’. Jean-Efflam Bavouzet has cancelled his recital. Further changes are anticipated.
We hear that the number of Covid cases among the disbanded Verbier Festival Orchestra reached 22.
We’ve been given to understand that tonight’s Lebrecht…
From the last Lebrecht Album of the Week…
Pablo Casals conducts a gloriously old-fashioned 1971 performance…
The Chinese-Australian pair of comedy fiddlers have called…
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Why should young, healthy people get a risky vaccine against… coughing and, if they’re unlucky, a sore throat?
The vaccine is not risky at all.
Covid with effects which can last for months and months is risky.
Check your facts.
Peter, 4000000 deaths from Covid so far, it’s not enough for you?
According to the media…
Because, while perhaps not that dangerous for themselves, they can spread it to people, for which the disease is quite dangerous, perhaps lethal – people pushing 80 like me.
Idiot (sorry to be using such words, but Peter’s thoughts really border on the insane)!
You and others here are entirely correct but honestly…..after a year and a half of Covid, we still have to explain to people like Peter? This is beyond outrageous. This is why early education is so important…I think one takeaway from this crisis is that we need to invest more in education and health care.
Dear Mr. von Bahr,
I’d never in my life believe I would be called an idiot from a nobleman with “Von” in is name! Now, I do believe that if you are afraid of getting covid, it’s better that you take the vaccine yourself. Isn’t that a better solution than requiring people who don’t need it to take it?
Hochachtungsvoll,
Peter J.
I will try to be more polite this time. And at least I am not anonymous…
According to latest research, the risk of getting the new Delta variant, if you are fully vaccinated, is just below 10% (8,7% to be exact). I am fully vaccinated, true, but those 8,7% scare the bejesus out of me. Since I am not likely to give it to myself, I would be getting it from someone else, namely people like you.
Let me make a simile. Would you run blindfolded over a motorway, if your chances of getting to the other side unhurt would be 91,3%??? I can tell you: I wouldn’t.
And that’s precisely the risk I would be taking, if I had to trust that you, and people like you, would be safe to meet. It is everyone’s DUTY to stop this, but people like you are hindering just that.
Got it now?
Robert von Bahr
The point of the vaccine, is not to stop you getting Covid, but to stop you getting seriously ill when you get Covid.
The vaccine is not going to eliminate Covid. So you have two choices. You can stay isolated forever; or you will need to accept that you will occasionally mix with people who have covid. Your personal terror is not going to affect the fact that mixing with people will mean mixing with people who might have Covid; and you will mix with people who have Covid whether or not they have been vaccinated.
Vaccine is not only for yourself, for others, e.g. audience, other guests, hosts and musicians etc etc.
Not really. The vaccine will not eliminate Covid, and some people with the vaccine will still get Covid. The main benefit of taking the vaccine is that you are much less likely to get seriously ill.
Vaccine is not for yourself but for others as well, e.g. other musicians, guests, hosts audience etc etc.
Have you ever heard of MIS-C? No, of course not, because you do not have a curious enough mind to vet your information.
While long-term effects are unknown, there’s reason to suspect they may be severe. A Pfizer biodistribution study5,6 demonstrates the synthetic mRNA does not stay near the injection site as initially assumed. It is, in fact, widely disseminated in your body within hours of injection.
It enters your bloodstream and accumulates in a variety of organs, primarily your spleen, bone marrow, liver, adrenal glands and, in women, the ovaries. The spike protein — which we now know is pathogenic and causes disease in and of itself — also travel to your heart, brain and lungs. Once in your blood circulation, the spike protein binds to platelet receptors and the cells that line your blood vessels. When that happens, one of several things can occur:
It can cause platelets to clump together — Platelets, aka thrombocytes, are specialized cells in your blood that stop bleeding. When there’s blood vessel damage, they clump together to form a blood clot. This is why we’ve been seeing clotting disorders associated with both COVID-19 and the vaccines
It can cause abnormal bleeding
In your heart, it can cause heart problems
In your brain, it can cause neurological damage
In your blood vessels, it can cause vasculitis, including Kawasaki disease, antiphospholipid syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, scleroderma and Sjogren’s disease.7 These conditions significantly increase your risk of death, in some cases raising mortality by 50 times compared to people who do not have these conditions
Regardless of the tissue, the spike protein can also impair your mitochondrial function, which is imperative for good health, innate immunity and disease prevention of all kinds.
When the spike protein interacts with the ACE2 receptor, it can disrupt mitochondrial signaling, thereby inducing the production of reactive oxygen species and oxidative stress. If the damage is serious enough, uncontrolled cell death can occur, which in turn leaks mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) into your bloodstream.
These are potential problems for adults which there are no long term results.
Because of a miniscule amount of MIS-C you want to put this untested crap in kids?
Would you please provide the full reference and/or a link to the study you have copy/pasted from here?
No reference will be forthcoming, of course. It’s copy-pasted from the blog of a libertarian anti-vaxxer, who in turn copy-pasted most of it from a post by an osteopath anti-vaxxer who’s made a fortune flogging vitamins, dietary supplements and tanning beds to combat whatever disease is in the news (used to be avian flu, now it’s covid). The entire tirade is full of inaccuracies, half-truths, confusion and fallacious arguments. Caveat lector.
To Hayne: this is fake and criminal news.
I suppose you joined the anti-vaccine demonstrators in Paris, who wore a yellow star to say that they were treated worse than the Jews during the Shoah!!!!
Next time you are going to say that 9.11 never existed or that John Kennedy is still alive on a desert island?
Posing as an intellectual doesn’t mean you are right! You are simply spreading misinformation every bit as much as that bitch Marjory Taylor Greene!!
https://sharylattkisson.com/2021/07/exclusive-summary-covid-19-vaccine-concerns/
Concerned Canadian doctors had to get a FOIA to have Pfizer release info on mRNA vaccine not remaining at site of injection.
https://trialsitenews.com/did-pfizer-fail-to-perform-industry-standard-animal-testing-prior-to-initiation-of-mrna-clinical-trials/
https://www.dropbox.com/s/v2im834kdp950cm/Pfizer_ovaries_study_in_English.pdf?dl=0
Dr. Robert Malone, the inventor of the mRNA vaccine (you know, the one who is erased from wikipedia) says the vaccine causes lipid nanoparticles to accumulate in different organ tissues, especially ovaries. Yeah, yeah, what does he know? There’s much more stuff out there but it’s obvious all you people care about is the narrative.
It doesn’t bother me but the hate is sure strong in lefties:)
As you might know, a single scientific finding is rarely a revolution; notable advances are seldom founded on one person’s “eureka” moment, but on years of foundational work by many unrecognised researchers.
Though on his blog, Malone credits himself as the “inventor of mRNA vaccines”, his 1989 paper in fact reported RNA transfection (of firefly luciferase) mediated by cationic lipids (a technique, *not* a vaccine). The scientific community generally attributes the initial finding to Philip Felgner, whose research on lipofection technology was already being published by the mid-1980s. Katalin Karikó has spent decades studying mRNA for potential therapeutic strategies. She and Drew Weissman worked on adapting the approach for mRNA-based vaccine delivery. That’s the “narrative” (which anyone can look up at PubMed or GoogleScholar, and by reading their work).
Oddly, your (fear-mongering, partial) analysis does not address mRNA lability in environments resembling a mammalian organism, nor do you mention the effect of a normal immune response to presence of the spike protein in the body (due to disease or to vaccine), i.e., antibody clearance of the antigen. You tell only part of the story, intentionally to cause alarm, or because you don’t read the literature, only fact-starved blogs that sustain the ideas you want (and want others) to believe.
Just so everyone knows: around half of the people in the orchestra who tested positive were vaccinated. The Delta variant is to blame. We’re not out of the woods yet.