The common cold isn't just one virus.

Then why does chicken soup work on all varieties?  A week to ten days and you're cured!

Polio was the first to come to mind. How about Smallpox?

Smallpox requires prolonged face to face contact. It isn’t spread through aerosol droplets like respiratory viruses.

Also polio and smallpox were both old diseases that had been with mankind a long time. There was already partial “herd” immunity through exposure to small amounts of polio in contaminated water, and to cowpox (gives immunity to smallpox). Covid19 on the other hand is a novel virus, new to our species, we have zero immunity to it, and it mutates very rapidly like the common cold. There is zero hope we can ever get rid of it through vaccination. It’s here to stay, it’s a totally different animal than polio and smallpox. More like cold and flu.

Until bartering is made a crime.

It's not as long as you pay your tribute to the various tax authorities.

https://www.thedesertreview.com/news/national/ivermectin-obliterates-97-percent-of-delhi-cases/article_6a3be6b2-c31f-11eb-836d-2722d2325a08.html

Ivermectin obliterates 97 percent of Delhi cases

The vaccines do work. It is statements like this that reveal you’re one of the people who got played.

There is data. But there is no data past about a year for obvious reasons. Do you get your science from reading actual data or from some media hack who want to stir things up?  Whoever has told you the vaccines don’t work has lied to you. You can decide if it was intentional or accidental.

It depends on how you define "work".  They don't keep you from getting COVID.  They do have some effectiveness in keeping it from being severe.  But even that is being questioned.
https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/covid-19-vaccine-comparison

But Israel later reported the vaccine’s effectiveness to be 90% effective against severe disease, but 39% against infection in its population in late June and early July, based on an analysis of the country's national health statistics. This could suggest that it is less effective against Delta or possibly waning over time, which has added to a debate about whether booster shots may be needed and for whom. All of this is still being monitored.

But since we don't know what a "case" is and most infections are asymptomatic and most people with no symptoms don't get tested we have no idea who has it, how effective the vaccine really is, how long it lasts, how its effectiveness changes over time, how effective it is on the various varieties, whether its effectiveness changes based on demographics, general health of the person, diet, supplements, other conditions, other vaccines, and on and on.

They do work?  How do you know?  Yes, I got my two shots and a booster.  I'm doing what I believe is the right thing for me and those close to me.  But I still have VERY grave doubts about big pharma and government policymakers driving the conversation.  Is it effective?  I don't know.  Will it be effective in the future?  I don't know.  Does it cause side effects?  I don't know.  Does it cause SEVERE side effects?  I don't know.  And neither does anyone else.

I'm going go to CVS and talk to their pharmacist. Maybe they'll take my money.

The issue is, I have the card with one dose.  Walgreens wants to start me all over, meaning, they'll shred that card and start a new card, requiring me to get the second shot if I want "proof" I'm fully vaccinated.  Otherwise I could just let them give me one more Pfizer shot and call it a day. I don't have to go back for the third. But if they won't put that shot on my existing card, will I run into problems if American Airlines starts checking cards when you travel?

I just want one more Pfizer shot and them to write it on my existing card. Then I'm through. Maybe if I ever have to show the card nobody will look at the dates.

I cannot believe I could ever be in a situation where I can't travel or take a job because my shots were 86 days apart instead of 45 days apart. But I wouldn't be surprised.

I think it’s painfully obvious at this point that the goal is going to be boosters and new series ad infinitum. There is a strong resistance in me to that.

You have heard that the use of Ivermectin is dangerous, right?  The cases of poisoning in Mississippi got so bad that the state issued a direct warning against trying it. The concentration of what you can buy is too strong for humans. The advice to use Ivermectin is literally poisoning people.

I agree that many people have decided against the vaccines and that is sad because they work.  Ask any HC professional who is dying from COVID right now and the answer is unvaccinated people. Sure, there are some breakthrough cases, but that’s true of any vaccine. Still, you are much, much less likely to get COVID and if you do, it will be a mild case that you can recover from at home. That is a win all around and it’s sad that so many focus on the anecdotal evidence of adverse reactions.

Most people have heard of side effects like myocarditis, but they probably don’t know that there are only 792 confirmed cases out of 183,000,000 vaccinated people.  In the 12-15 range, it was 144 cases out of 6,000,000 vaccinations. If you believe the vaccines are not safe, you have been lied to, played by a media that thrives on drama.

Overall, the death rate for an unvaccinated person who gets sick is about 1.4%, but nearly 20% will have a serious case.  If we don’t control it, everyone will get sick…and we are nowhere close to controlling it.

My bell weather state right now is still Florida. Despite a very high vaccination level, the delta variant is still running wild there, again mostly among the unvaccinated. Since the most recent surge over the last two months, nearly a million more people in Florida have gotten sick. About 14,000 have died and 200,000 have had serious cases.  If there is good news, it appears the delta variant might have peaked, but you can bet there is another one coming next.  Keep in mind that is mostly unvaccinated people, so it’s a million out of the roughly 8,000,000 people who aren’t vaccinated yet, around a 12% infection rate.

People were drinking bleach too and getting poisoned. Want to ban bleach? If you’re an idiot and can’t do math to calculate the right human dose from veterinary paste, sure you’ll overdose. People eat Tide Pods. People are stupid.

except the courts have ruled that the state and local governments can shut down churches... at least here in maskachusetts.

Sure you can. It’s easy. Just ignore these 45 words:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.”

States cannot violate the free exercise clause, no matter how many faithless justices say so.