Showing posts with label antibody-dependent enhancement. Show all posts
Showing posts with label antibody-dependent enhancement. Show all posts

Thursday, August 5, 2021

Time To Acknowledge Covid Vaccine Failure and Recognize That Infection-Acquired Herd Immunity Is What We'll Get

 The new-technology, Covid so-called vaccines are "leaky."

Probably few readers understand what it means for a vaccine to be "leaky." Allow me, therefore, to explain: 

A leaky vaccine is one that protects the vaccinated while allowing them to spread the pathogenic agent to the unvaccinated. Cool, hey: it's a vax that kills all those stupid anti-vaxxers. 

A further feature of the leaky Covid vax, is that the vaccine induced antibodies facilitate the reproduction and transmission of viral mutants beyond the control of the vaccine. This this is occurring is evident from Covid outbreaks among the vaccinated now being observed both in Israel and Australia

But no prob, Big Pharma has the answer: vaccine boosters, top-ups, extenders or whatever they call what are in effect new vaccines against new viral strains arising through vaccine-induced immune escape. 

Immune escape is when vaccine-induced antibodies eliminate the original viral strain (the Wuhan strain in this case) from the cells of a vaccinated individual, thereby clearing the path for multiplication of any antibody resistant mutants that may have emerged and which will readily infect the vaxxed as readily as the unvaxxed.

Then there's the risk (never evaluated in the case of Covid vaccines) of vaccine-induced antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE). That is, enhancement of viral infectivity and virulence, as explained here

Now, we are thus faced with the prospect of an unending stream of potentially more dangerous covid variants each having escaped control by the latest iteration of the vaccine. 

It is now apparent, therefore, that the professional epidemiologists were correct: covid should have been allowed to spread without restriction except among the most vulnerable, those being chiefly the old and the obese. In that way, we would by now have acquired durable, robust, population-wide, immunity: that is robust, durable, full-spectrum herd immunity against all Covid variants. 

While it is late, it is not too late to go for natural immunity. This, however, cannot be achieved with the original Wuhan strain of the virus in countries where most of the population has already been vaccinated against the Wuhan strain. 

Instead, it will be necessary to isolate a variant that is no more virulent than the Wuhan strain (and preferably much less so), but which is unconstrained by the so-called vaccines that have been distributed.

The side effects of this live-virus vaccine should be no worse than the common cold, but its immunological effect will be to induce full-spectrum resistance, including long-lived T-cell immunity to all Covid variants.

But it is a near certainty that no such plan will be adopted. Instead, we appear headed for global depopulation as Covid evolves under the driving influence of so-called vaccines, into an ever more efficient vaccine-resistant killer. 

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When more Covid-19 data doesn’t equal more understanding

Fauci admits the vaccinated can spread Covid as well as the unvaccinated 

So that ends the moral argument for vaccination: The unvaccinated are no more a danger to others than the vaccinated, and probably they are less of a danger since they don't have the sense of security that vaccination provides and which promotes behaviour that heightens the risk of infection.

Thursday, March 11, 2021

Why You Should Refuse the "Vaccine"

You should resist the RNA Covid vaccine because: 

First, there are well defined potential dangers to health consequent on such inoculation, dangers that have not been excluded through long-term safety testing. Hazards include:

Anaphylactic shock leading to possible death, and;

Antibody-dependent enhancement of susceptibility to virus infection and disease manifestation, with reference to which see: 
 
 

Second, vaccine efficacy is not well defined and may be minimal. Hence, the US Center for Disease Control advises those who have been fully vaccinated, meaning those having had two RNA vaccine shots, to:

keep taking precautions in public places like wearing a mask, staying 6 feet apart from others, and avoiding crowds and poorly ventilated spaces until we know more.

So what, really, is the point? 

 Third, unless you are in hospital or a care home, your risk of death from Covid-19 is negligible. 

How so, did you ask?  

Because,

First, more than half of all severe Covid-19 cases are likely hospital-acquired, as this study in Scotland shows to have been the case in December 2020.

Second, in most if not all Western countries, between 40 and 70% of Covid-19 deaths are reported to have occurred in nursing homes.

So excluding hospital-acquired infections and care-home-acquired infections, how many serious infections were prevented by lockdown? Well actually, probably less than none since lockdown itself promoste infection spread within households.  

Fourth, vaccination is being pushed to enforce a requirement for what, in time, will likely become a universal internal passport that every citizen will be required to carry and which will define your social credit score as tech-empowered governments seek to reduce citizenship to helotry.  

Monday, March 1, 2021

Is This the Beginning of the End of the Covid Disaster or Is It Only the End of the Beginning

DAILY MAIL: The city where new Brazilian strain defeated herd immunity: Manaus is gripped by surging cases and record deaths despite 75% of the population getting infected during first wave

This is seriously bad news. The report from Manaus of a surging rate of Covid reinfection means, first, that the virus is mutating so rapid that immunity, whether acquired through infection or vaccination, is extremely short-lived; and second, that any T-cell response* to infection is failing to provide immunity to reinfection by some new strains of the virus.

It is also the case that the wave of reinfections in Brazil, could be evidence of antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE), meaning that antibodies produced in response to vaccination may facilitate infection by, and enhance the virulence of, novel strains of the virus.

If a pessimistic interpretation of the report from Brazil is correct, the Covid disaster is only now beginning to take shape. What we could then expect is:

Not an end to quarantine for international travelers, but an end to international travel.

Not an end to pub and restaurant closures, but an end to pubs and restaurants.

Not an end to work from home, but an end to most work.

Not an end to home schooling, but an end to schools.
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* Immunity to viral disease normally depends on both a long-term T-cell response that resists reinfection, and a short-lived antibody response that combats the disease following infection.

The Covid-19 mRNA vaccines induce an antibody response but no T-cell response. Hence, while they prevent manifestation of disease they do not prevent infection or, therefore, the spread of infection.

Thus, it was to be hoped that because it entailed a T-cell response, resistance induced by infection, unlike that induced by vaccination, would be long-lived. The report from Brazil of widespread reinfection among those previously infected means that this hope was ill-founded.

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