Harvard Prof. on Covid Science Denial by Both Government and University

Comments of Harvard University Prof, Martin Kulldorff via the Daily Skeptic

On the scientific community’s denial of natural immunity…

We’ve known about natural immunity since 430 BC during the Athenian plague. So this is not a new concept. It would have been shocking if the immunity from the vaccine was better than the immunity from having recovered from Covid. So by pushing these vaccines on those who already had Covid, was both unnecessary and unethical, but it also diminishes the trust in public health authorities and diminishes the trust in vaccines. […] These vaccine fanatics (e.g., Canada's low-IQ PM, Justin Trudeau) who insisted that everybody should be vaccinated, including those who already have immunity from having recovered from Covid, I think they have destroyed the confidence in vaccines in general, to an extent that a small group of pre-Covid, so-called anti-vaxxers had never succeeded.

On the reaction to the Great Barrington Declaration…

The difference was that it came from three people other than one person. All of the three of us have worked on infectious disease technology. […] All of us came from reasonably respectable universities: Oxford, Harvard and Stanford. So it was impossible to ignore. We were attacked, including by the NIH Director Collins and Anthony Fauci and Jeremy Farrar at the Wellcome Trust here and Christian Drosten in Germany who called us pseudo-scientists. But I think the key thing was to show the public that there was not scientific consensus for lockdowns.

On whether he was supported by Harvard after speaking out…

No, I didn’t get much defence from the university, no. […] I got private emails from many of the faculty members, many of whom I’d never heard of before. So there was support, yes, from individuals. […] I think that’s a huge problem for science as we move forward, because science can only thrive with discussions. It’s a process. And if we don’t have open discourse about science, science is going to die.

On the problems with epidemiological modelling…

I think these models where you predict a certain number of people are going to die, are pretty useless. And the key thing is what is the optimal strategy to use? So in the case of Covid, in the beginning, we didn’t know exactly what was the infection-fatality rate, which is what’s the risk of dying if you get infected, because we didn’t know how many people had got infected. The optimal strategy doesn’t depend on if it’s 0.1%, or 1% because the optimal strategy depends on the difference, the relative risk in the difference by age or some other factor. So in terms of deciding what is the optimal thing to do, these models that Imperial College developed, I think were very useless.

On the effects of mishandling the pandemic…

I think there will be an enormous distrust in public health agencies. I think there will be an enormous distrust in science, in the scientific community. I think that will take decades to repair, if it can be repaired, I don’t know. I’m sure there will be consequences, political consequences as well. They’re obviously enormous public health consequences from the collateral damage, which I mentioned. I think there’s also economic consequences of these lockdowns that we’re starting to see now. So I think the consequences are profound. And maybe we are in a tipping balance in terms of whether we accept this as the standard way of doing things, which I think would be terrible, or maybe we go in a different direction, where we say, this was a fiasco, let’s make sure it doesn’t happen again.

How, After One Year, Immunity From Infection Beats the Vax Better Than Ten to One

A Danish study confirms what any immunologist who'd been consulted at the outset of the vaccination campaign would have said, namely: that natural immunity is long-term, possible for life, whereas immunity from vax-induced antibodies fades to nothing in months. 

Which explains the imposition of lockdowns, mask mandates for kiddies, and the destruction of normal social life. They all served to prevent a relatively harmless virus spreading through the population and providing long-term immunity before everyone had been frightened and bullied into being jabbed multiple times. 

This was a crime against their own people imposed by supposedly democratic governments.

 

Red line = Natural immunity from infection
Yellow line = Immunity from infection plus vaccination
Green line = Immunity from vaccination

Vertical axis: Infection risk reduction
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The Lies That Vaxxers Tell

1. We're all in this together. 

We are certainly not all in this  together if that means we are equally at risk from Covid. As the following graphs show, there is a 5,000-fold difference in risk of death from Covid between the newly born and the nearly dead.

Image source: Nature, November 2020: Age-specific mortality and immunity patterns of SARS-CoV-2)

2. By spreading the virus, the unvaccinated are a mortal threat the all those around them.

It's true that the unvaccinated spread the virus, but that's no argument for vaccination. 

Those at greatest risk of infection from the unvaccinated are the unvaccinated, who have no reason to complain of the risk to which they are exposed by other unvaccinated persons. 

True, the unvaccinated may infect the vaccinated, but we have it from Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Director of the US Center for Disease Control that the vaccinated can have: "similarly high SARS-CoV-2 viral loads" to unvaccinated people. What that means is that there is no difference in risk of infection posed by the vaccinated versus the unvaccinated. 

3. And if the vaccinated can get and spread the virus, tell us again, what was the point of the vaccine?

Oh, yes, it was to reduce disease severity. 

But is that a reason for mandatory treatment with an untested vaccine that has already killed tens of thousands, caused adverse reactions in millions, and may cause serious long term harm to health and human fertility?

4. And, did you say, everyone must be vaccinated because potentially severe Covid in the unvaxxed creates a burden on medical services. 

But don't we pay for medical services directly or through taxation? What's wrong with calling on those services if we get sick for whatever reason? 

Are mountain biking and sky-diving to be prohibited because someone could break a leg and need hospital treatment? 

Is eating to the point of obesity, the consumption of alcohol, or the smoking of tobacco or hemp to be made illegal because such activities increase the risk of a multitude of diseases needing medical treatment?

In any case, aren't the vaccinated, confident of their immunity to severe illness, more likely to catch and spread the disease than the unvaccinated who know the virus could kill them? 

And isn't the elevated social confidence of the vaccinated the reason there is always a spike in Covid cases following a major vaccination drive -- and if that's not the reason, people need to find out what exactly is in the vax before they agree to getting the shot?

5. Until everyone is vaccinated hospital intensive care units are at risk of being overloaded. 

That was the scare story a year ago, but was it true? Take the Canadian Province of British Columbia: with a population of five million, hospitals there have a total of only 206 intensive care beds, yet throughout the Covid epidemic there have always been ICU beds available. 

Furthermore, since the Government of Canada has used Covid as justification for adding to the national debt an amount equal to one third of Canada's annual GDP, it could certainly have provided an abundance of cash for a few dozen extra ICU beds in British Columbia and elsewhere had they been needed. 

6. Everyone must be vaxxed even if they've already had Covid.

This is complete nonsense. Natural immunity from past infection is vastly superior to whatever benefit there may be from the spike protein mRNA injection.

The main effect of the toxic spike-protein-generating vax is to induce production of some short-lived anti-spike protein antibodies. 

Natural immunity, however, arms your memory T-cells with a record of the entire Covid viral genome. Thus the T-cells of someone with natural immunity will recognize the virus, whatever the variant, and activate every other branch of the immune system to deal with the infection promptly before mass virus multiplication and illness occurs. The evidence from experience with SARS-COV1 indicates that such immunity will last many years if not for life.

The only conclusion to draw from the above is that our rulers are either hysterics acting mindlessly, or there is a hidden agenda behind the world-wide mass vax campaign. 

What could such an agenda be? 

Big Pharma profits? Global depopulation? Vax passports as a prelude to a full Chinese-Communist-style form of social credit? Something else?

Time now to challenge the idiotic Covid narrative spewed by the Governments of Justin Trudeau, Boris Johnson, Sleepy Joe Biden, and the rest of the untrustworthy holders of high office world-wide. 

And if you're a Canadian voter opposed to vax passports, vax mandates, and vax lies don't be fooled by the morons at the National (Com)Post telling you that a vote for the People's Party is a vote for Trudeau. 

If you don't vote for the party offering what you want, what exactly do you expect from a government formed by a party offering what you don't want? 

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Lockdowns, business closures, ballooning public debt and deficits, interrupted schooling, adverse vaccine events including death — over 12, 000 in the Province of Ontario alone: these are among the many costs of the war on Covid. 

What have been the benefits? 

No doubt in the early stages of the epidemic some Covid infections, and hence deaths, were avoided by measures to "flatten the curve." Because of the costs, however, such draconian measures could not be maintained indefinitely. Rather, they were imposed to limit viral spread until the many novel so-called vaccines for Covid then under development became available for use, albeit without the usual multi-year-long human and animal safety testing. 

Beginning in January of this year, "vaccines" have been rapidly deployed in many countries. The results, however, have been disappointing. In Israel, for example, one of the first countries to achieve majority "vaccinated" status, vaccine efficacy (in preventing illness, not infection) declined from over 90% initially to a percentage in the low twenties after six months. The decline in effectiveness means that maintenance of high immunity will require "booster" shots at intervals of just a few months.

In the United States, the Center for Disease Control reported that the "vaccinated" are not protected from infection and may carry as heavy a viral load as the un-"vaccinated". The "vaccines" thus fail to provide immunity from infection or to prevent viral spread, although they apparently reduced risk of severe illness. 

Thus the situation today in Canada, as in many other countries is that although a majority of the population have been "vaccinated" against Covid, normal life continues to be prohibited, supposedly to protect the "vaccinated" from the un-"vaccinated." 

In truth, however, the un"vaccinated" are likely in greater need of protection from the "vaccinated" than are the "vaccinated" from the un"vaccinated". That is because, as noted above, the "vaccinated" are not immune to infection and may carry a high Covid viral load. Thus the "vaccinated" may be as likely as the un"vaccinateded" to spread the disease. Indeed, due to a false sense of immunity, the "vaccinated" may spread the disease more readily than the un"vaccinated." Such an effect may explain the phenomenon observed in many countries of an upturn in Covid infections following the onset of mass Covid "vaccination."

As a consequence of current Canadian policy, we exist in an unstable equilibrium with Covid. Most of the population, having been protected by the various social control measures plus "vaccination" from what would in most case have been a mild or asymptomatic Covid infection, lack the robust and durably full-spectrum immunity that follows infection.

Covid "vaccines" are not only short-lived in effect but also leaky, which is to say unable to provide full protection against infection or disease. What that means is that most members of a fully "vaccinated" and continually re-"vaccinated" population will, in time, experience a mild a Covid infection. Only with the natural immunity thus induced will long-lived and possibly life-long protection from future infection be achieved. 

“In my opinion, the current Israeli Government is as guilty as Joseph Megele. They have permitted human experimentation on our own people” “I would like to discuss, regarding children, the only reason you would want to treat a child (with the vax) is if you believe in child sacrifice. Let me explain. Anytime you evaluate any therapeutic you need to look at it [in] three perspectives. Is it safe? Does it work? And do you need it? Just because you have the capability doesn’t mean that you have to use it. It has to be a medical necessity. There has to be a need for it it. Look at the CDC, the statistics for [healthy] children under the age of 18, the survival rate is 99.998% with no treatment.” Dr. Vladimir Zelenko testifying on Israel's Covid vaccination program before the Ma'aleh Adumin Rabbinic Court in Jerusalem Israel.

But if this is the unannounced strategy behind the "vaccination" campaign, it is insane. First, the cost per life saved will be astronomical, meaning that money is being spent far less well than it could be on other life saving measures. Second, it is a strategy that ignores the fact that a large number of people already have full-spectrum Covid immunity from infection. Recent estimates put the proportion of the US population with immunity acquired through infection at 20%. Assuming a similar rate of natural immunity in Canada, that would imply the existence of 7.5 million Canadians upon whom the Government of Canada, in league with the Provinces, is intent on forcing a needless "vaccine," plus endless "booster" shots.

What we see in Canada is thus mass-scale medical malpractice. Vaccination comes at a cost in money, time and risk to human health. It should only be compelled in the case of dire national emergency, which the Covid epidemic is not. Moreover, the current mass vaccination campaign should have excluded those with natural immunity, which in turn, would have required Federal and Provincial governments to make provision for the determination of the immunity status of every citizen. This could yet be done (but won't be) by making available a T-Cell immunity test to all citizens.

As for those without immunity, they should have been divided into vulnerables and invulnerables. It would then have been possible to allow the latter group, including the vast majority of the population -- i.e., those under fifty without conditions predisposing to severe Covid illness, to lead a normal life and take their chances with the virus. Most, in time, would become infected asymptomatically or otherwise, thus acquiring robust and durable immunity, probably for life. 

For the vulnerables, vaccines should have been made available as a freely chosen option and with a full understanding of the limitations of the immunity thus provided, the risks entailed and the need for perhaps endless boosters.

In addition, vulnerable individuals in voluntary self-isolation, should have been offered free home delivery service for food and medicine, while those of working age should have been granted the right to work from home where such an arrangement was feasible. 

Instead we have a Fascistic and dim-witted state seeking to bully everyone into a potentially endless course of "vaccinations" and life restrictions. No wonder the People's Party of Canada, the only party to offer a common sense response to Covid, has popped in the latest Ekos poll to almost 12%, up from 1.6% in the last Federal election. 

Evidently, Canadians in growing numbers see that Justin Trudeau's Liberal Party, the Conservative Party of Canada and the New Democratic Party -- the main contenders for power in the forthcoming election and all supporters of current government Covid policy -- are unworthy of office. 

The problem for Canada is too many bureaucrats, academics and lame-brained journalists sucking at a government or corporate tit, ready always to relay any edict, however idiotic, criminal or insane, issued by the imbeciles and psychopaths at the top. 

Faced thus by the serried ranks of bogus scholars, intellectuals and journalists, the multitude can do no other than follow the fake science, and submit to whatever monstrous plan the powers that be ordain. Hence Canada's ongoing Covid catastrophe. Likewise, the US and British Covid lunacy, and the lockdown tyranny of the lame-brained Australian and New Zealand governments intent on the phantom of zero Covid.

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Why are governments forcing the jab on millions upon millions of citizens who already have robust and durable Covid immunity from past infection that is vastly superior to the short-lived and unreliable immunity from the so-called vaccines?

In Canada there are  currently 1.49 known Covid cases, and perhaps ten times that many unknown cases, that could be identified by appropriate testing, for example with a T-cell test.

Why should any of those Covid recovereds be forced to accept "vaccination"? And since obviously they should not, why is the Government of Canada promoting vaccine passports, rather than immunity passports? Why the mania to jab everyone?

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... "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."

Read the full interview: 

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