Thursday, March 18, 2021

Will Vaccines End the Pandemic?

From Britain, where 35% of the population has now been jabbed with one of the novel RNA "vaccines," the indications are that the treatment works. Among the "vaccinated" both cases and hospitalization rates are falling. 

Thus: 

Even a single dose of the Pfizer or AstraZeneca vaccines helps reduce the incidence of both severe illness and hospitalizations, 

Even a single dose also helps lower mortality.


Still, there are some who say it is too soon to declare victory over Covid. Indeed, it has been argued that mass vaccination during a pandemic is precisely the wrong thing to do.

Why?

Because it will drive viral immune escape, making the virus resistant to, not only the novel "vaccines," but also the body's natural defense mechanisms.

Perhaps the most vocal exponent of this concern is the highly qualified vaccine expert, Dr. G. vanden Bossche. In this interview he expounds the reason for his concern:

Or to summarize Dr. vanden Bossche's thesis, the mRNA vaccines:
(1) suppress disease expression without preventing infection and virus transmission.

(2) induce antibodies effective against current viral strains, while suppressing the production of natural, long-lived, broad-spectrum antibodies effective against novel virus strains. 

(3) because of (1) and (2), vaccines drive the survival and spread of novel viral strains against which the current mRNA vaccines will be ineffective.
Those, collectively, must be the mechanisms that account, in whole or in part, for the phenomenon of antibody-determined enhancement, or ADE -- the enhancement being of viral infectivity and disease severity. 

So are the Brits really winning the war on Covid?

Or are they merely enjoying hubris before nemesis in the form of a renewed and more deadly "vaccine"-induced epidemic?

Ominously, Zero Hedge reports: COVID Cases Are Spiking In A Dozen States With High Vaccination Rates but the details provided are too few to draw any conclusion as to whether these trends could be an early indication of ADE in action.

What is not certain the question of vaccine safety is that expert opinion is uncertain. Thus for example, a review article published only five months ago in the journal Frontiers in Immunology concluded with the following statement:
Potential disease enhancement and other theoretical safety concerns related to each type of vaccine need to be understood and carefully monitored for, while potential suboptimal immunity may need to be overcome. Certain vulnerable populations may respond poorly to vaccination, or the vaccine may predominantly protect against severe disease, rather than infection. If T cells prove critical for protection, it will be necessary to ensure that the included T cell epitopes are recognized by enough HLA types to ensure worldwide coverage.
So if you've already been vaccinated, thanks and congratulations for taking part in the world's largest ever experimental vaccine trial. 

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17 comments:

  1. Now this post appears, but I can't actually comment on it. Why?

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  2. Do my actual comments contain something which is being censored?

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    1. "Do my actual comments contain something which is being censored?"

      That is hard to say, since your comments, other than those above, seem to have been deleted!

      Um, not sure what to say. Do you want to try again in case there was a temporary glitch.

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    2. Perhaps there is a new character limit on comments??? If length might be the problem, you could divide a long comment into several separate comments??? I will experiment on that.

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    3. Speaking of screwed up comment software, I find over at Unz.com, that my responses to the comments of others are consistently linked to the wrong comment, meaning that I have to delete them.

      Is that just the result of a weird bug, or could it be an automatic self-censorship mechanism, instigated after I suggested in response to a profile of a CIA collaborator, that Ron Unz matched the profile?

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  3. This is the only blog I post regularly on, and nearly the only blog I post on. When I can't get through, it makes me feel even more cut off and isolated than I already felt.

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  4. These very short statements do go through, but it isn't a matter of length. I tried cutting up my original comment and posting serially, but it hasn't worked so far. I hate being paranoiac about it, but it feels suspicious.

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  5. I'd be interested in seeing your profile of a CIA collaborator.

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    1. It's interesting that you should say that, because when I returned to UR just now to try reposting my comment, I found that the comment to which my comment referred had disappeared.

      And there's no mistake about that because I saved a copy of my aborted comment, including the comment to which I made reference. Viz.:

      "The problem here is RU choice of player scope – he seems to think the CIA acts in isolation using simple operations, whereas they are highly connected to the Federal and State governments, ‘philanthropic’ foundation heads (e.g. Rockefeller, Gates, etc.), US monied aristocracy/bureaucracy/deep state (e.g. state dept, neocons, FDA, medical related gov’t depts, military related gov’t depts, traditional media companies, social media companies, education-related cultural/historical influencers, etc.), European monarchy, European Aristocracy, Israeli intelligence/military, Israeli government, etc.

      So when you say the CIA is "highly connected" with "... ‘philanthropic’ foundation heads, cultural/historical influencers," etc., you mean, among others, people just like Ron?"

      Presumably, I hit a nerve.

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    2. Do you think because you hit a nerve someone might be monkeying around with your blog to further discourage you? What was the date and time of your comment?

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    3. I agree with both you and the person who wrote the original comment. If RU thinks the CIA acts in isolation using simple operations, he is betraying a remarkable ignorance. He's basically saying he knows nothing whatsoever about the CIA. Sure. He knows quite a bit about the CIA and the way it operates. That much is evident. So I would say RU is feigning ignorance for some calculated reason...This itself is highly suspicious.

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    4. "Do you think because you hit a nerve someone might be monkeying around with your blog?"

      IN a world where intelligence agencies have budgets comparable to those of minor sovereign states, petty, and also massive and outrageous, interference with the rights of individuals is possible and likely.

      But as almost no one reads my stuff, I cannot help but feel contempt for any agency that thought it useful to monitor or interfere in my exercise of free speech.

      Mostly, what I've been trying to do recently is understand the causes, and consequences of the Covid pandemic and the political responses to it. Testing to see whether Ron Unz's zine, as he calls it, is part of the the CIA's "mighty Wurlitzer" is not a matter of great concern to me. Commenting there is really a bad habit. A sort of sadistic exercise of scoring points off crackpots, obsessives, and ignoramuses, and maybe CIA mouthpieces. Despite the excellent comment software that Unz has developed, I shall strive to follow your example and refrain from devoting more of what little remains of my one and only life commenting there.

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  6. We can't know for sure whether it is a software glitch or whatever. We know they're doing things, and likely on a scale which would surprise us if we had information of the full extent. Over the years, I really have run into people who are paid to post comments. Think of that!

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  7. There's something in my original which causes it specifically to not get published. I thought it might be the link, which was to an ABC news clip of Eisenhower, at the time of Kennedy's assassination, saying the American people can't be stampeded. I took the link out, but it still won't publish. (I was trying to say something has changed on a basic level with how much you can count on the American people to keep their heads, not get hysterical, and use their good common sense.

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    1. Interesting. If you were to divide the comment into separate sentence-long posts, it might provide further insight. It would be interesting to know if the censorship is dumb, i.e., dependent on specific forboden key words, phrases or URLs, or dependent on an intelligent agent -- a Google or CIA equivalent of a FaceBook moderator, for example, finding your line of thought beyond the acceptable range of opinion in a "free" society.

      But then do Americans even talk about "freedom" and the "Free World" any longer? The last time I recall freedom in the news was at the time of the absurd drive to rename French Fries, Freedom Fries, i.e., the concept of freedom harnessed to the task of war propaganda.

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  8. You can google up those comments by Eisenhower. I found them very touching and decent.

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