Covid Sunday: Do These Dots Connect?

Alex Berenson misses no opportunity to point out that increased vaccination seems to go hand in hand with … increased Covid. Funny, that, right?

For example, from a post of his we recently quoted:

No (mRNA/DNA) vaccines, no epidemic

Well. This is weird.

Britain’s post-vaccination wave just doesn’t seem to want to end. New cases have been stuck at a very high level for five months. And deaths - although lower than they were at the peak of the winter wave - have not gone away and in fact are now rising.

It’s almost as if mass vaccinations of powerful but imperfect vaccines have made the epidemic worse in the United Kingdom (and across Europe and the United States) by interfering with the natural course of the epidemic and the development of natural immunity.

Almost.

I’m sure Pfizer and Moderna and the public health gurus have a better explanation, though. Roll up yer sleeves for that booster!

And Berenson isn’t wrong. Fauci, who has been notably absent from the public eye lately, is hawking (on a NYT podcast) the boost injections. NYT podcast? I’m sure Joe Rogan would have been happy to have little Tony on. Anyway:

“They are seeing a waning of immunity not only against infection but against hospitalization and to some extent death, which is starting to now involve all age groups. It isn’t just the elderly,” Fauci said. “It’s waning to the point that you’re seeing more and more people getting breakthrough infections, and more and more of those people who are getting breakthrough infections are winding up in the hospital.”

As a result of these findings, Fauci warned that vaccinated people should get their booster shot, as it might actually be more important than health officials first realized. “If one looks back at this, one can say, do you know, it isn’t as if a booster is a bonus, but a booster might actually be an essential part of the primary regimen that people should have,” he said on The Daily.

Fauci went on to say, “I think … that the boosting is gonna be an absolutely essential component of our response, not a bonus, not a luxury, but an absolute essential part of the program.”

Oh! Then maybe Dr. Malone is correct in his interpretation of the really weird Bill Gates’ recent statement:

Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD

For those who have not seen it, this is an explicit acknowledgment that the mRNA and rAdV vaccines for COVID are not working well. Bill G is a bit behind the data, as the effectivness of the jabs for preventing disease is also dropping, and not as good as natural immunity.

And the news may actually be worse—not that this hasn’t been suspected earlier. Karl Denninger this morning quotes a peer reviewed study at Nature that’s quite an eye-opener. As KD says, the study is pretty “dense”. First, let’s offer the abstract, prefacing it with a bit of explanation.

These researchers noticed that certain individuals who, a priori, should have been considered highly positive to Covid infection—weren’t turning up as infected by normal measures. The group in question was Health Care Workers (HCW) who remained persistently negative in PCR tests. Guess what hypothesis they came up with to explain this was? They hypothesized that these individuals had cross-immunity from other Human Seasonal Coronaviruses (HCoV). I think that means various forms of what we usually refer to as The Common Cold (TCC). As you can probably guess, the reason the researchers are eager to tell the world about the results of their study is because their hypothesis turned out to be correct. It appears that these Health Care Workers had developed a strong response that aborted Covid infections, based on cross immunity developed from exposure to Human Season Coronaviruses. That’s how I read this gobbledygook. To understand this you need to first know this:

Seroconversion

In immunology, seroconversion is the development of specific antibodies in the blood serum as a result of infection or immunization, including vaccination. During infection or immunization, antigens enter the blood, and the immune system begins to produce antibodies in response.Wikipedia

Seroconversion can occur through vaccination, but also through infection: natural immunity. This is what liberals call “settled science”, but which they try to deny.

So, the abstract:

Individuals with potential exposure to SARS-CoV-2 do not necessarily develop PCR or antibody positivity, suggesting some may clear sub-clinical infection before seroconversion. T-cells can contribute to the rapid clearance of SARS-CoV-2 and other coronavirus infections. We hypothesised that pre-existing memory T-cell responses, with cross-protective potential against SARS-CoV-2, would expand in vivo to support rapid viral control, aborting infection. We measured SARS-CoV2-reactive T-cells, including those against the early transcribed replication transcription complex (RTC), in intensively monitored healthcare workers (HCW) remaining repeatedly negative by PCR, antibody binding, and neutralisation (seronegative HCW, SN-HCW). SN-HCW had stronger, more multispecific memory T-cells than an unexposed pre-pandemic cohort, and more frequently directed against the RTC than the structural protein-dominated responses seen post-detectable infection (matched concurrent cohort). SN-HCW with the strongest RTC-specific T-cells had an increase in IFI27, a robust early innate signature of SARS-CoV-2, suggesting abortive infection. RNA-polymerase within RTC was the largest region of high sequence conservation across human seasonal coronaviruses (HCoV) and SARS-CoV-2 clades. RNA-polymerase was preferentially targeted  (amongst regions tested) by T-cells from pre-pandemic cohorts and SN-HCW. RTC epitope-specific T-cells cross-recognising HCoV variants were identified in SN-HCW. Enriched pre-existing RNA-polymerase-specific T-cells expanded in vivo to preferentially accumulate in the memory response after putative abortive compared to overt SARS-CoV-2 infection. Our data highlight RTC-specific T-cells as targets for vaccines against endemic and emerging Coronaviridae.

KD reads this the same way—one source of T-Cells capable of aborting Covid was The Common Cold:

What They Didn't Tell You

This study is a bit dense -- but has been peer-reviewed, and makes clear that indeed, what I hypothesized was true -- and had to be, given the circumstances with Diamond Princess and elsewhere, in fact validates by scientific fact.

In summary, RTC regions like polymerase, expressed in the first stage of the viral life cycle, are highly conserved among [Human Seasonal Coronaviruses] HCoV and are preferentially targeted by T-cells in pre-pandemic and [Sero-Negative Health Care Worker] SN-HCW samples. A subset of T-cells from donors able to abort infection could cross-recognise SARS-CoV-2 and [Human Seasonal Coronaviruses] HCoV sequences at individual RTC epitopes, pointing to prior infection with [Human Seasonal Coronaviruses] HCoV as one source of pre-existing cross-reactive T-cells. 

"SN-HCW" are health-care workers who were repeatedly exposed and while they did not get sick or seroconvert "(SeroNegative)" showed very rapid response to Covid-19 from cross-reaction as a result of other coronavirus exposures.

Remember that Diamond Princess only had about 20% of the population on board that got sick despite all of them being confined together over an extended period, and even more-telling, there were multiple instances where one member of a cabin pair (husband and wife, usually) got seriously ill while the other not only did not get ill but did not test positive either.  This also occurred among a couple I know early in the pandemic; one (the husband) was killed by the virus, the other (the wife) never got sick.

What's even more damning is that by May of this year about 20% of the population, according to a NEJM study that I wrote on, had seroconverted. This strongly implies that statistically everyone who could get Covid-19 and have a serious problem with it already had done so.

So how is that we had a "surge" this summer and continue to see infections this fall?

It can't happen if there are no susceptible people.

But it is.

So there are susceptible people.

How did they become susceptible when they weren't before in any material size?

We jabbed them.

What KD goes on to suggest is that we aren’t just witnessing what Fauci calls a “waning of immunity.” It’s possible that what we’re seeing—all those “breakthrough cases”—is a result of disrupted immune systems in people who got themselves shot up with experimental gene meds. And he cites the well known fact, dear to Alex Berenson’s analyses, that the surges seem to coincide globally with the widespread use of these injections:

The reasonable hypothesis is that the jabs are destroying pre-existing resistance that formerly was sufficient to prevent significant, seroconverting infections in about 8 out of 10 people, but post-jab that resistance is suppressed either temporarily or permanently and thus they are able to get significantly infected.

Leaving aside the hazards (direct -- myocarditis, abnormal clotting, etc) of the jabs the data supports that there should have been no surge in infections this summer whatsoever as there simply was an insufficient cohort to support them, yet since it happened we created that cohort by an action we took.  Further, the worldwide data is that the surge occurred starting exactly when the widespread jabbing did in multiple nations and areas.

While this does not prove that the jabs have destroyed existing cross-immunity it very strongly points at it.

All of which bodes ill for the future. Think about that. The majority of adults are now injected—certainly in Blue areas. So for the next year they’ll be able to enjoy not only the debacle of the Zhou regime but—simultaneously—a resurgent Covid, possibly on genetically induced steroids. And they’ll have the satisfaction of knowing that they did it to themselves by “following the science.”