Last year, a very large, peer-reviewed Israeli study examined two groups - those who had had COVID but had not been vaccinated, and those who had been vaccinated but who had never had COVID.
The study found that those who had already had COVID were thirteen times less likely to catch COVID a second time than those who had been vaccinated. Those with natural immunity were 22 times less likely to have symptomatic COVID than those who had been vaccinated. Of the 62,000 people with natural immunity, not a single one was hospitalized with COVID during the study period - and not a single one died.
Though we couldn’t have compared vaccines to natural immunity three years ago, we could have done studies which would have clearly demonstrated the robust protection offered by natural immunity during the Spring and Summer of 2020, and had empirical results before COVID infections took off in the Fall of 2020.
Doing such research would have had very important public health consequences. Once it was clearly known that those who had recovered from COVID were extremely unlikely to catch it a second time, hospitals could have staffed their highest risk positions with doctors and nurses who had already recovered from COVID. Nursing homes could have placed those with natural immunity in those front-line positions with the most direct patient contact. Both actions would have saved many thousands of lives.
Anti-vaxxers have been portrayed in the mainstream media as right-wing conspiracy theorists, but a great many of the doctors and nurses who refused to get vaccinated, did so because they had already recovered from COVID. Those staff quite correctly maintained that it was stupid to waste (then scarce) vaccine doses on someone who didn’t need them. They also argued that there was zero justification in forcing them to take an experimental vaccine that almost certainly offered them far less protection than what natural immunity gave them.
Instead Governments fired such health care professionals, making North America’s overloaded and stressed healthcare systems even more stressed and overloaded.
When Canadian and American Governments launched their vaccine passports, no exemptions were given for those with natural immunity. We now know that those with natural immunity presented far less risk of spreading COVID in the community than those who had been fully vaccinated. Because the necessary science had not been done in a timely fashion, millions of Canadians and Americans were subjected to unnecessary social isolation.
Why did the US Government, who talked so much about ‘following the science’, not actually DO the science required to see whether infection with COVID provided the same robust natural immunity that infection with all previous viruses typically provided? Given the extremely important benefits of confirming the robustness that natural immunity offered, why wouldn’t the US Government do this obvious research?
Why did US public health authorities constantly call into question the protection offered by natural immunity without doing the scientific research which could have quickly settled the issue? The only group that benefitted from this ongoing lack of clarity re natural immunity were the vaccine manufacturers. But surely the CDC wouldn’t put the interests of Pfizer and Moderna ahead of the needs of the American people, would they?
PS: On a completely unrelated topic, if you know of any Poles or Polish-Canadians, be sure to let them know the Canadian Parliament gave a standing ovation to a 98-year-old Nazi collaborator who was a member of the 14th Waffen Grenadier Battalion of the SS. That battalion was infamous for being responsible for burning alive 500 to 1000 Polish villagers in the Huta Pieniacka massacre. (If this was a response to the Polish Government’s recent decision to stop sending weapons to Ukraine, it seems a trifle excessive!)
Brought to you by the same Justin Trudeau Government which has been working tirelessly to drive India further into the welcoming arms of Russia and China…
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Is It Just Me
Or Do The Chronically Masked
Look Like They Have Strapped
Their Own Suicide Notes
To Their Faces ?
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