We knew what the right move was back during the onset of the pandemic and we know it now.
The most logical path forward, for both the vaxxers and antivaxxers, would have been to follow the silenced Great Barrington Declaration (https://gbdeclaration.org/) of Focused Protection from the onset. Both sides of our collective response was doomed to fail from the onset.
The right move has always been and will always be full disclosure.
Thinking we could develop an effective coronavirus vaccine in 1 year to stop a pandemic was asinine. Then attempting to shove it down the throats of the American public through mandates and public shaming was even worse.
Every place that attempted GBD style mitigation - “isolate the vulnerable” - failed completely. UK in early/mid 2020, Sweden, etc.
In modern society isolating entire groups simply isn’t possible, especially from a high infectious airborne virus.
For the past two years, what Western governments have done to the next generation — all in the name of keeping them safe, of course — has been calamitous. Instead of trying to ameliorate problems for our children that were al...
To do so, let's look at Sweden... one of the Brownstone articles had the following chart showing excess deaths of 30 nations in Europe. Everyone wants to focus on Sweden's lack of lockdowns, but this chart shows a strikingly lower excess death rates in all three Nordic nations compared to the rest of Europe. In fact, Sweden, Finland and Norway are at the very bottom of the chart. Researchers should be asking, "What is different between the Nordic nations and the rest of Europe?! Why are they having so much better outcomes?"
The obvious place to start looking is vitamin D levels. The Nordic nations have the highest vitamin D levels in Europe. Another reason to look at vitamin D levels is that the Covid mortality and case rate has disproportionally hit Sweden's darker-skinned populations and immigrants. Remove those non-Scandinavians and the mortality/case rates for Sweden become even lower.
Fauci (Dr. Safe and Effective himself) takes vitamin D. IIRC, he emailed someone that he takes 5,000 IU daily. For reference, the RDA of vitamin D is only 600 IU daily. At the other end of the spectrum, the Front Line Covid Care Coalition recommends 5,000-7,000 IU daily. The fact that these two extremes of the vaccination debate both take far more vitamin D than "science" recommends should tell you something. Every doctor I've asked since the pandemic began takes vitamin D.
A great study shows that there is basically zero waning of vaccines against severe disease -- when you carefully account for confounders such as eligibility and severity of disease.
But- when you stratify by vaccine/booster eligibility, the apparent month-by-month waning is no longer apparent -- adjusted odds per month very similar over time (8/n) pic.twitter.com/am8Z4K1qlD
— Westyn Branch-Elliman, M.D., MMSc., FSHEA (@BranchWestyn) May 23, 2022
2 "vaccine" doses, then 2 "booster" doses, get sick, take pills for 30 days, get sick again.
The pharmaceutical companies and their bought off friends claim this is all normal. Millions of people accept that claim hook, line and sinker.
We live in effed up times.
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“It’s not just that they rebound. It’s that they rebound and it seems like they start from the beginning, their virus goes way up,” Siedner said. “It’s a really unique phenomenon.”
I guess it will be called a smashing success when they get the 5th dose to last a day or two longer than the 4th.
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Study shows fourth dose of Pfizer COVID vaccine wanes faster than third - 24MAY2022
A study from Israel published today in BMJ shows that the effectiveness of a fourth dose of Pfizer-BioNTech's mRNA COVID vaccine waned faster than a third dose in adults ages 60 and older.
The study took place over 10 weeks beginning in January 2022, and compared outcomes of 69,623 adults with three doses of Pfizer with 27,876 adults who received four doses. The study was conducted when Omicron was the dominant strain in Israel.
300k dead Americans at the hands of Antivaxxers. Natural immunity in tatters. It’s been a terrible week for the antivaxx crowd.
Cases and deaths have been going nowhere but down for months and you're still on here trying to foment fear? Case rates are much higher right now among the vaccinated and boosted than among the unvaccinated, so I don't know where you are coming up with the assertion that natural immunity is somehow in tatters (other than you love to make things up). Omicron succeeded in doing what shots alone could not. Enjoy that fact. Stop living in fear.
300k dead Americans at the hands of Antivaxxers. Natural immunity in tatters. It’s been a terrible week for the antivaxx crowd.
Cases and deaths have been going nowhere but down for months and you're still on here trying to foment fear? Case rates are much higher right now among the vaccinated and boosted than among the unvaccinated, so I don't know where you are coming up with the assertion that natural immunity is somehow in tatters (other than you love to make things up). Omicron succeeded in doing what shots alone could not. Enjoy that fact. Stop living in fear.
Omicron generates remarkably poor immunity when it infects unvaxxed people. The reason severe cases are not rising is because:
1) Most people, especially high risk, are vaxxed
2) Many people caught earlier strains of COVID that gave better natural immunity
3) Omicron causes milder disease
Raw case rates are meaningless right now given the huge amount of home testing and such.
There is direct evidence, posted and discussed in the last few pages, showing that Omicron infection leads to weak and overly specific immune responses upon infection in non-vaccinated individuals. Omicron-derived natural immune is garbage – it simply will not protect against future COVID infections, especially as the dominant strain shifts.
There is no evidence that 'Omicron is doing what shots could not.' The only reason we aren't seeing mass death from Omicron is vaccination. But, tell that to the 300k dead unvaxxed Americans who could have been saved by the vaccines but for the fearmongers.
Importance The performance of immunoassays for determining past SARS-CoV-2 infection, which were developed in unvaccinated individuals, has not been assessed in vaccinated individuals. Objective To evaluate anti-nucleocapsid...
Antivaxxers cultivated highly infectious new strains of COVID. Now the rest of us are paying the price.
Thanks antivaxxers!
DanM, as usual, gets it completely backwards.
I don't know whether or not this is true but I do know it was the vaxed that spread these strains across oceans and boarders as travel in most instances was limited to the vaccinated.