Late yesterday—yes, my busy week seems to be morphing into TWO busy weeks—I posted a brief discussion of Alex Berenson’s recommendations on how to begin a discussion with True Believers in the injections. His recommendation was to begin by asking a simple question: If the vaccines really work, then what’s going on? Meaning of course, What’s with all the reinfections, the injuries, etc.?
Two items in that regard this morning.
First, there’s a big new Israeli study out. The advantage of Israeli studies is that, by and large, Israel keeps reliable and relevant statistics on health matters. The Israeli researchers set out to try to understand “the time course of natural and hybrid immunity.” Why did they do this? Because:
We know that prior Infection with SARS-CoV-2 provides substantial natural immunity against reinfection. However, recent studies have shown strong waning of the immunity provided by the BNT162b2 vaccine.
Here is that study:
Protection and waning of natural and hybrid COVID-19 immunity
The Israeli researchers did something smart. They studied reinfection rates “according to time elapsed since the last immunity-conferring event,” because “waning” is a process—it occurs over time.
Karl Denninger does a deep dive into this enlightening study. His major point is that, in sorting through the data for different categories of individuals, the only data that really matters has to do with severe reinfection. As he says, nobody cares if you sneeze a bit. Therefore, we shouldn’t care about reinfection per se—that alone is actually a positive event, in that it confers added immunity.
Here’s the conclusion of the Israeli study. Note that they confirm that natural immunity is superior:
CONCLUSIONS
Protection from reinfection decreases with time since previous infection [i.e., we’re talking about natural immunity], but is, nevertheless, higher than that conferred by vaccination with two doses at a similar time since the last immunity-conferring event. A single vaccine dose after infection helps to restore protection.
KD, doesn’t leave it at that. Here is his summary of what the Israeli study shows:
What all this tends to show as a bottom line is that the current program going forward—continual boost injections coupled with continual “breakthrough” infections is a likely recipe for disaster. It doesn’t look like any sort of solution, whereas natural immunity has promise:
While it is is true that being jabbed after or before infection does indeed reduce the risk of being infected with a third immunity-generating event if you do get infected it has demonstrated negative effectiveness in the recovered cohort when it comes to severe outcomes. …
Given that vaccination after infection increases the risk of severe outcomes over someone with natural immunity if you get a second infection being vaccinated after infection is likely harmful, and not a little either. … Given the deterioration in protection from severe outcome if infected after recovery and then vaccination, which is quite significant for all except the youngest cohort, it is likely that being infected twice not only produces superior resistance to infection it also avoids the severe outcome risk increase.
Note that none of this includes the risk from the jabs themselves. To the mortality and morbidity ("severe" outcomes) you must also add that which comes directly from the medication, since no drug is ever without said risks.
What is clear is that natural immunity is superior both in terms of protection from repeat infection and from severe outcomes. In addition being boosted had negative or no effectiveness in preventing severe outcomes among everyone except those under 40, where there were too few events to get clean statistical evidence. This implies that vaccinated immunity, when "refreshed", does not alter the course of a breakthrough infection yet that was the remaining leg on which the argument rested, that it prevented severe outcomes. That should be evident in the data with a significant decrease in severe outcomes across all cohorts and it is not.
What's worse is that a third event (infection) after recovering and then being jabbed led to increases in severe disease risk if you got a breakthrough, and quite-materially so, over simple recovery.
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And finally this data also demonstrates that being infected after vaccination produces a materially faster immunity decay than infection alone which is solid evidence that vaccination in fact materially impairs the natural immunity process. ...
There’s much more discussion at the link, of course, but this gives you a good bottom line. What’s going on is simply that the vaccines don’t really work in any meaningful sense. So, what IS going on? That’s where this second item offers a disturbing hypothesis.
The second item is a substack post by Harvard to The Big House:
Bottling-Up the Quasispecies Origins of SARS-CoV-2’s Enigmatic Furin-Cleavage Site.
You may recall that this author did early and yeoman work on Covid origins. For example, this is my earliest bookmarked item for Covid:
Logistical and Technical Exploration into the Origins of the Wuhan Strain of Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Posted on January 31, 2020 by harvard2thebighouse
So, for me, he has some cred. Otherwise I wouldn’t be posting this.
Let me state right up front: This post is way over my head in terms of the science being discussed, so I’ll be presenting mostly conclusions as I understand them. I’ll be happy to entertain any suggested explanations that make any of this a bit more understandable for non-scientist readers, such as myself.
However, as I understand what the author is saying, what was going on at Wuhan, financed by sociopathic individuals in the US medico-scientific establishment, was an attempt to develop a vaccine for SARS-like viruses. So, importantly, we’re talking about SARS Classic, the virus that supposedly jumped from animals to humans in 2003 (?). This is plausible, because we know the Chinese have been investigating SARS Classic since then.
Now, when we talk about “vaccine research” at Wuhan, what the author believes we’re specifically talking about is a potential LAV = Live Attenuated Vaccine. So, a live virus that is “attenuated” or made less pathogenic so that it presents no real risk, will in fact be non-symptomatic when injected, but will result in immunity to the full strength virus. Unfortunately for the world, that experimental vaccine turned out to be not so attenuated when it got out of the lab somehow or other during the Wuhan Military Games in Fall of 2019.
The problem with these LAV’s is that—and again, I won’t attempt to explain this—they can revert to full strength, full pathogenic, form.
The author discusses, at considerable length, how all this works—and that’s way over my head. However, he also points to some specific indicators that this is what happened, as well as the implications. Significantly, he argues that this is NOT the first time that this type of research has gone bad—not the first time an experimental LAV has reverted to full pathogenicity.
Here are the concluding paragraphs:
So in the many months since the COVID-19 Pandemic began, it’s abundantly clear the people who started it and are profiting the most from it have instructed the media not to talk about “serial passage” at all, nor the past links to vaccine research and past viral outbreaks, including the 1977 H1N1 outbreak linked to military vaccine gain-of-function work as well as the 2009 H1N1 endemic, both likely from serially passaged LAVs that were able to make their way back to full strength much faster than the scientists who designed them anticipated.
And so the silence from absolutely everyone when it comes to the connections our ongoing pandemic might have with vaccine research and serial passage is mirrored by the media’s refusal to discuss the millions and millions of culled farm-minks as a link to the obvious intermediate animal host. Since mink point directly to lab ferrets, their very close cousins, which were used during the 2012 gain-of-function experiments that led to a moratorium against the practice, and were almost certainly used to attenuate the SARS-like LAV, that would emerge at the Wuhan Military Games as SARS-CoV-2 - ferrets are the go-to animal to use for airborne vaccine work.
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And it’s almost certainly the past reversions of H1N1 LAVs in 1977 and 2009 that seemed to eventually just melt away, which sociopaths like Richard Ebright and the rest of his sweaty socially-retarded buddies at JASON are using to assure everyone that SARS-CoV-2, another LAV that’s reverting, will just melt away in just a few more months - just like H1N1 seems to have done twice. ...
Our novel coronavirus is not a naturally spreading and evolving virus, and it has not become endogenous to human populations after thousands of years of coevolution - it is reverting back towards a highly-pathogenic SARS-like chimera that our immune systems will be entirely helpless against, and is going through the same unexpected epistatic gatekeeping mutations that OPV does on its way back to full virulence, which vaccines are also entirely helpless against.
In the case of SARS-CoV-2, this gatekeeping results in the sudden emergence of new strains that appear evolutionarily impossible - like Omicron. And so long as transmission is ongoing, there is nothing that is going to stop this pandemic except more death, because transmission means more gatekeeping, and gatekeeping means continued steps closer to the original strongest version of this highly-pathogenic virus.
What he’s referring to here is the stunning number of mutations in the Ominous Omicron variant, which has taken most scientists totally by surprise. What he’s presenting here is a worst case scenario. I believe there are arguments against such a scenario. For example, the fact that Ominous Omicron appears to be very mild. However, I admit to my near total ignorance in these matters.
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Our novel coronavirus is a LAV derived from the work being done at UNC, the only place on earth trying to make a LAV for SARS-like viruses, which are also obviously not going to be fully acclimated to the human genome like the human influenza virus, which seems to have been with us at least since the Trojan War thousands of years ago.
Until SARS-CoV-2 is understood as a LAV that’s deattenuating towards a highly-pathogenic chimeric coronavirus that’s going through gatekeeping mutations and has no intention whatsoever of following the assumptions drawn from observing natural evolution or even the paths of the H1N1 LAVs which melted back into their original endogenous human hosts - humanity is going to continue to be standing on its head as it attempts to battle this pandemic, and misunderstanding the basic fundamental nature of what its up against.
Again, playing devil’s advocate: We don’t seem to be seeing reversion or deattenuation toward a “highly pathogenic chimeric coronavirus”—or, perhaps, not yet. However, that, in itself, seems to me not to be an argument against the author’s hypothesis per se.
It’s something we seem to be particularly good at, since all the way back in 1977 when the first H1N1 LAV emerged to a mass global panic, a massive push was made to create and distribute vaccines against what was thought to be a potentially pandemic strain. But it turns out that one of the ways a LAV isn’t a natural virus, is that when you attempt to vaccinate against it, neurological side-effects appear to proliferate among the vaccinated population, as the virus blows through this attempt at protection.
That’s something else we know for sure about the “side effects”: there have been constant reports of neurological symptoms among the injected population.
Because unfortunately for all of us, this isn’t the first time we’ve all been down the horrific rabbit-hole of trying to rush out an incredibly profitable vaccine against an enigmatic mystery virus that’s really a military LAV that deattenuated faster than expected. A vaccine which only provides weak and temporary protection - but also causes wide-spread side-effects because it turns out the pharmaceutical companies were lying about their vaccine studies, and knowingly risked the lives and livelihoods of tens of millions of Americans so they could make as much money as quickly as possible: [60 Minutes Video re Swine Flu Vaccine]
So I present this FWIW. It’s a very interesting hypothesis that, on its face, explains what’s been going on.
Alternative views? Confirming views?
Typically, I think when your body encounters a novel virus, truly novel, it develops multiple prongs of defense- different antibodies against the different proteins the virus encodes for its replication, plus the killer T-cell defenses that identify virus infected cells. It may simply be that the immune system's "memory" precludes the development of new antibodies and defenses against variants of the same virus. This would be the source of Original Antigenic Sin- the old defenses are generally good enough against a mutant variant, and evolution has selected for those immune systems that don't waste resources needlessly.
If I had to guess, I would say the vaccines that raise only antibodies against the engineered spike protein are in some way interfering with the development of antibodies against the other proteins COVID generates on actual infection. Perhaps the presentation and recognition of those other viral components by the MHC cells is being inhibited by previous innoculation against the spike protein alone. In short, the immune system is "remembering" an infection against the spike protein alone when you vaccinated, and thus isn't generating much of a defense against all the other proteins the virus uses to replicate itself. Sure, the virus needs the spike protein to replicate itself, but any one infected cell produces huge numbers of all of these proteins- interdicting only one of those proteins is going to be far less effective than interdicting all of them at the same time.
I hope I am wrong- that actual infection after vaccination gives the equivalent protection of being infected and recovering without vaccination. However, the evidence is mounting that this might not be the case.
More confirmation that the vaccines are the wrong path comes from Bartram. "More vaccinated people appear to be dying from covid than are officially counted. This is also likely to lead to vaccine efficiencies being overestimated." Because the vaccinated have longer mild symptoms, until the infection gets the upper hand and kills them. (Of course proper treatment would still help them heal, they just are not given it.) -- https://bartram.substack.com/p/are-deaths-in-the-vaccinated-delayed