Covid: Quotes of the Day -- Harvard Epidemiologist Martin Kulldorff

... "we know that if you’ve had COVID, you have very good immunity, not only for the same variant, but also for other variants, and even for other types of coronaviruses.

We know for example, that if you had a COVID-19 SARS-CoV-2, you have also have immunity to SARS-CoV-1 which we had earlier, a few years ago. It also provides protective immunity to the other four common coronaviruses that are endemic that we’ve all been exposed to, and that we will continue to be exposed to.

So I don’t see any problem with [the] Delta variant. It’s not a game changer.

The best approach is to make sure that our old people get vaccinated to protect them. And then we should not have lockdowns. We should let people live their normal lives.

The key thing is if you had had COVID already ... that protects you against severe disease ...

For example, in the UK, there was a wave of cases that peaked in the mid-July. It was a very sharp increase [but] for mortality it is just a tiny blip. So this is a contrast to before the vaccines and before focused protection, when cases rose and mortality rose in parallel. But the vaccines and the immunity from people who’ve had COVID is decoupling that ...

We can see it (the same pattern) in Sweden ...

We see the same thing here in the U.S. ... in the summer wave ... in the southern states: There have been [more] cases, [but only a blip in deaths].

COVID-19 will always be with us. It’s not going away. We can’t eradicate a virus like this. When people get exposed to it for a second time, a third time, a fourth time, the immune system helps, making sure that it’s not a serious illness ...

Of course, people are born every year and they are susceptible. They haven’t had it. So when children are born, they don’t have the immunity to this particular virus, but we know that the infection is very mild for children.

So as long as children are exposed and their immune system built up, then the next time they are exposed to the virus, their immune system will protected them."

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Why Would Anyone Who Values Free Speech Use Twitter or Facebook?

No thoughtful user of Twitter or FaceBook can be unaware that political speech on those platforms is censored. Moreover, only the dullest or most inexperienced person can be unaware that Twitter and Facebook censor speech to insure conformity with the narrative of the corporate media. But for the benefit of any who may be unaware of that fact, consider this:

True, when Twitter says "This tweet is misleading" that is, technically, not censorship. 

Rather it is indoctrination, designed not merely to keep you ignorant, but to prompt you to assimilate the official line, namely, that "health officials recommend a vaccine for most people", meaning children, and even babies, presumably.

And  that claim is true. Dr. Fauci, the world's best known Covid-related "health official" apparently wants kids and babies vaccinated. 

The problem with that is that Covid vaccines -- which have not undergone long-term testing for possible harmful effects -- are of no demonstrated or reasonably expected value to children. 

Children infected by Covid19, are usually asymptomatic. Death from Covid among under twenties is extremely rare, and much less frequent than death from the seasonal flu. 

As for Martin Kulldorff, author of the tweet found "misleading" by Twitter? 

Just a Harvard Medical School professor with 20 years experience of vaccine research, which fact prompted Zero Hedge to comment:

Because, of course, a 22 year-old graduate in Whiteness Studies sitting in Twitter’s HQ in Silicon Valley knows much more about infectious diseases than a Harvard professor of medicine.

But if you don't care about your mind being shaped and twisted for profit by Silicon Valley and in the service of the Money Power, carry on Twittering.

POSTSCRIPT:

This just in:

Twitter temporarily suspended Georgia GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s account on Sunday after she tweeted an Easter message.

What was this damnable Easter tweet:

“He is Risen – Death could not hold him. Rejoice in the resurrection of Jesus Christ.”

How soon before the US follows the path of the defunct Soviet Union by making the expression or religious faith illegal. 

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Top Scientists Urge End to Covid Lockdowns, Call for Greater Protection of the Vulnerable, Freedom for the Rest

What these people are urging is that the Covid19 virus be allowed to spread freely among those who are least are risk of serious illness or death, thereby achieving herd immunity.

Herd immunity acquired naturally through the spread of a novel infectious agent depends on the acqusition of immunity by survivors of the infection, which thus limits viral spread, since the proportion of the population to which the virus can be spread is reduced. This effect is measured by changes in the so-called Reproduction number or R₀, which is the number of persons to whom each infected person passes the virus. As the virus spreads and the proportion of the population with immunity rises, R₀ falls and, with it, the number of new infections. Ultimately, R₀ reachs a value of one at which point the number of new infections stabilizes at a low level relative to the number at the height of the epidemic. At this stage the virus is said to be in a state of endemic equilibrium, meaning it won't go away but the number of new infections will not flare up as during the epidemic, but remain at a more or less constant low level. In due course, it is hoped that an effective anti-Covid19 vaccine will be available. Then R₀ can be driven well below 1.0 and the disease will become quite rare.

One question this strategy raises is how close is the world or any particular country to achieving herd immunity. According to the Johns Hopkins University Corona Virus Resource Center, the total number of Covid19 cases worldwide is 35 million. or about zero point four percent of the world's population. That implies we are very far from worldwide herd immunity, which would require perhaps four and a half billion infections, or 60% of the world's population. Or so it is believed. However, some research suggests that due to differences among individuals and groups in their social interactions, herd immunity requires infection of only about 40% of the population of concern, or three billion infections worldwide, but that is still vastly greater than the number of infections reported by the Johns Hopkins University Corona Virus Resource Center.

But the number of infections worldwide may be much greater than the data from Johns Hopkins suggest. According to an announcement today from the World Health Organization, global infections now total 750 million, or more than 20 times the Johns Hopkins University estimate. That number, combined with the lower estimate of the numbers for herd immunity, implies that worldwide, the population could already be one quarter of the way to herd immunity. If that is correct, and if as proposed by the scientists calling for an end to lockdowns we protect the vulnerable part of the population, which is to say those over 60 years of age, then we could be shot of Covid19 as a major problem quite soon.

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