A headline reads:
New COVID Virus Variant Identified in Africa Is “Highly Transmissible and Vaccine-Resistant.”Except that all covid variants are "Highly Transmissible and Vaccine-Resistant," and that goes for the original Wuhan strain as for any other.
Moreover, it is a fact universally acknowledged by those who know anything that the Covid vax does not stop the spread.
On the contrary, we know from UK data that the vax massively promotes the spread among all age classes above the age of 29.
And that's not surprising. Possessed of a greater, though questionable, sense of security, the vaxxed take less care than the unvaxxed to minimize the risk of viral transmission, with the result that they spread the disease more readily.
The vaccine apparently reduces the case rate among children and adults under the age of 30. However, the incidence of serious illness and death in these age classes is so low that vaccination may be deemed detrimental precisely because it restricts viral spread and hence the acquisition of long-term and robust natural immunity.
That the vax promotes the spread is a good thing
By spreading the virus in those over the age of 30 while limiting disease severity, the vax pushes the population toward herd immunity: that is, toward the widespread acquisition of natural immunity from infection that does limit transmission.
That the vax promotes the spread is a good thing
By spreading the virus in those over the age of 30 while limiting disease severity, the vax pushes the population toward herd immunity: that is, toward the widespread acquisition of natural immunity from infection that does limit transmission.
Such immunity is what will slow the endless circulation of the virus throughout the population.
As for the use of "vaccine resistant," in that scare headline, what does it mean?
We've known for months, thanks to a statement by the Director of the US Center for Disease Control, Rochelle Walensky, that the vaccinated can carry as high a viral load as the unvaccinated. So vaccine resistant must refer to something other than infection resistance. Presumably, therefore, it means that the new variant causes illness that is not limited in severity by the vaccine.
But where's the evidence?
None is available, so the "vaccine-resistant label probably means nothing at all.
The so-called vaccines for Covid produce nothing like the full-spectrum immunity induced by infection. Thus, if the vaccines are useful, it is by virtue of the fact that they:
(a) reduce disease severity, and
(b) promote viral spread and hence the acquisition of natural immunity from infection.
The downside to the use of the currently available Covid vaccines is that they promote viral differentiation by providing a competitive advantage to mutants resistant to the vaccine induced antibodies.
It is possible that some such vaccine-induced variant will prove more virulent than existing strains, in which case we could be in for a global die off — some people would view that as a positive: Prince Charles and his Davos friends, perhaps, as in "Setting ourselves on a new and more sustainable course," etc.
However, none of the presently propagating strains are injurious to more than a very small proportion of children and young adults. Thus, injecting young people with the toxic spike protein, aka vaccine, a substance known in some cases to cause serious harm or even death, is unjustified.
In fact, with half or more of the population in many countries having, as in the UK, Covid recovered status, it can be assumed that the vast majority of children and young adults already have durable and robust Covid immunity from infection.
Thus, to force injection of the toxic spike protein into young people in the name of public health is an outrage and a travesty of science, though testimony, surely, to the power of pharmaceutical company lobbying.
Related:
Quebec Gov't Caves in Face of Revolt by 12,000 Healthcare Workers: The rebels do essential work in a high risk environment. Hospitals are rife with Covid so most healthcare workers have already had Covid, which means they have full-spectrum natural immunity far superior to the short-lived antibody response to an injection of toxic spike protein.
'It's a storm in a teacup': South African medics try to calm fears over 'Omicron' - the new Covid variant threatening Christmas - as Europe's first case is found in Belgium and Von der Leyen calls for EU-wide travel ban from southern Africa Gotta love these Daily Mail Headlines. The give the whole story in summary.
This Covid variant has multiple mutations in the spike protein against which the current generation of vaccines induce inactivating antibodies. As a result the protection from severe disease provided by the current generation of spike-protein-generating vaccines will be lessened if not altogether eliminated.
However, such adaptation of the virus will not greatly reduce naturally-acquired immunity, which depends on multiple mechanisms unaffected by changes in the spike protein.
It may thus be that the vaccine increases the ultimate toll in Covid disease and death by preventing widespread infection with the original Wuhan viral strain, which would have provided immunity to subsequently emerging strains.
