Thursday, September 16, 2021

Just A Coincidence, I'm Sure...

 h/t Vlad Tepes

COVID-19 vaccines: tested, safe, and effective. Oopsie.




















Boosters Forever

How significant is it that the two top FDA officials responsible for vaccine research resigned last week and this week signed a letter in The Lancet that strongly warns against vaccine boosters? This is a remarkable sign that the project of government-managed virus mitigation is in the final stages before falling apart.

The booster has already been promoted by top lockdown advocates Neil Ferguson of Imperial College and Anthony Fauci of NIH, even in the face of rising public incredulity toward their “expert” advice. For these two FDA officials to go on record with grave doubts – and their perspective is certainly backed by the unimpressive booster experience in Israel – introduces a major break in the narrative that the experts in charge deserve our trust and deference.

What’s at stake here? It’s about more than the boosters. It’s about the whole experience of taking away the control of health management from individuals and medical professionals and handing it over to modelers and government officials with coercive power. […]

At no point in these 19 months have we seen a clear admission of failure on the part of government officials. Indeed, it’s mostly been the opposite, as the agencies double down, claiming effectiveness while citing no data or studies, while social media companies backed it all by taking down contrarian posts and brazenly deleting accounts of people who dare cite dissenting science.

The vaccine was the biggest gamble of all simply because the program was so expensive, so personal, and so wildly oversold. Even those of us who opposed every other mandate had hopes that the vaccines would finally end the public panic and provide governments a way to back out of all the other strategies that had failed.

That did not happen.

Most people believed that the vaccine would work like many others before them to block infection and spread. In this, people were merely believing what the head of the CDC said. “Our data from the C.D.C. today suggests that vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don’t get sick,” Rochelle Walinsky told Rachel Maddow. “And that it’s not just in the clinical trials, it’s also in real-world data.”

“You’re not going to get COVID if you have these vaccinations,”President Biden said, reflecting what was the common view in the summer of 2021.

That of course turned out not to be the case. The vaccines appear to have been helpful in mitigating against some severe outcomes but it did not achieve victory over the virus. Israel’s surge in infections in August was among the fully vaccinated. The same happened in the UK and Scotland, and that precise result began to hit the US in September. Indeed, we all have vaccinated friends who caught the virus and were sick for days. Meanwhile, team natural immunity has received a huge boost from a large study in Israel that demonstrated that recovered Covid cases gain far more protection than is conferred by the vaccine.

The fallback position then became the booster. Surely this is the answer! Israel was first to mandate them. Here again, the problems began to show, as yet another magic bullet of disease mitigation failed. Then the inevitable headline came: Israel preparing for possible fourth COVID vaccine dose. So think about this because there is a sense in which the vaccines rank among the biggest failures: in a matter of a few short months, we’ve gone from the claim that they fully protect to they are pretty okay provided you get regularly scheduled boosters forever.

9 comments:

Victory Favors The Prepared said...

They have to keep using force. They can’t allow a control group to exist because it will prove how Malthusian this whole scheme really is.

Anonymous said...

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SiGraybeard said...

The problems with the Covid vaccines are so obvious that anyone barely familiar with these things should see it. It's a tribute to the fallibility of experts that these so-called experts think the answer is more vaccines.

In engineering we often say, "you have to be a Ph.D. to be that stupid."

The vaccines inoculate you against two specific proteins from the spikes. That's all. That means that the slightest mutation in those proteins allows the virus to get past that protection. If there's one thing coronaviruses can be counted on to do it's mutate. Selection pressure assures that when those spike proteins change, those viruses survive and soon become the dominant variant.

The rest of the virus envelope has lots more proteins (I've read 52 but don't recall where) so that people who have had the infection and survived are going to react to those other proteins and they'll be better protected against these variants. This is exactly what we're seeing.

That's why natural immunity from actually having the virus is better than the vaccine. Almost like it was designed from the start to be the best way to protect against a disease.

From the start, we should have been vaccinated those with the highest risk (over 75, with diabetes, obese, clotting conditions, a few others) and tell everyone else to do what they're comfortable with.

Eric Wilner said...

Should you truly wish to test the quality of your tinfoil, fire up the ol' JHU dashboard and look at the graphs for various countries in Southeast Asia.
Hmmm, a whole bunch of nothing until this summer, then a whole bunch of cases. What were they doing right all this time, that they suddenly stopped doing?
Looked at another way... next to no cases until they started vaccinating. Is this an artifact of whatever vaccine they're using in that part of the world causing positives on whatever test they're using? Or is something else going on?

Anonymous said...

With all those Israeli vaccinations, Bill Gates and his vaccine monopoly plandemic stands poised to actually do what Hitler couldn't. Too many mRNA vaccine doses are toxic, just ask Moderna.
I don't know if even he could afford enough security after they figure it out.

John Wilder said...

Latest (this is a rumor): cancer up 20x in jabbed people. Theory is that inflammation leads to cancer, and the mRNA "created" spike protein is causing lots of inflammation.

Nick Flandrey said...

Looked at another way... next to no cases until they started vaccinating. Is this an artifact of whatever vaccine they're using in that part of the world causing positives on whatever test they're using? Or is something else going on?

--better availability of the test mainly is my guess. Most places didn't have a good test, and weren't testing widely until fairly recently.

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pyrrhus said...

It's certainly become clear that the "experts" want us dead, and always did...

Anonymous said...

Ding ding ding.
Winner winner chicken dinner!