Posted on 03/16/2021 7:40:40 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Dr. Marty Makary of Johns Hopkins School of Medicine was bold in his projection that we’ll have herd immunity by April. This has been disputed by those who are nowhere near his level of expertise when it comes to public health, but I get the pushback since it shreds the Democratic Party’s COVID lockdown regime. In an op-ed for The Wall Street Journal, Makary says that we’re underestimating natural immunity and with the pace of vaccinations, we’ll reach that critical benchmark towards reclaiming normality by tax season.
“About 1 in 600 Americans has died of Covid-19, which translates to a population fatality rate of about 0.15%. The Covid-19 infection fatality rate is about 0.23%,” Dr. Makary wrote. With those figures, he estimates that two-thirds of the country has already had the infection. We’re rapidly approaching 100 million vaccinations. It’s not an insane projection, but one he says other health experts are afraid to push for fear of impacting the rate of vaccinations. That’s not their job, he argued. Good health news should be disseminated, not buried. There was pushback, and there will be more when he recently wrote about the vaccine protocols.
The good doctor cited an Israeli study that shows those given the Pfizer vaccine are virtually “bulletproof” four weeks after the first dose. That’s the keyword right there. So, we can be returning to normal if the CDC wasn’t so busy peddling exaggerated threats about the virus and being stricken with fear, which Makary noted with their latest guidelines. Is it ‘follow the science’ or ‘be afraid, be very afraid'?
Get the shot, wait a month, and start rebuilding our lives. That’s fair. That seems to be based on the science, which the CDC might be ignoring. You be the judge (via WSJ):
Parts of the new guidelines are absurdly restrictive. For example, the CDC didn’t withdraw its advice to avoid air travel after vaccination. A year of prevaccine experience has demonstrated that airplanes aren’t a source of spread. A study conducted for the defense department found that commercial planes have HEPA filtration and airflow that exceed the standards of a hospital operating room.
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An unpublished study conducted by the Israeli Health Ministry and Pfizer showed that vaccination reduced transmission by 89% to 94% and almost totally prevented hospitalization and death, according to press reports. Immunity kicks in fully about four weeks after the first vaccine dose, and then you are essentially bulletproof. With the added safety of wearing a mask indoors for a few more weeks or months—a practical necessity in public places even if not a medical one, since you can’t tell on sight if someone’s immune—there is little a vaccinated person should be discouraged from doing.
On a positive note, the CDC did say that fully vaccinated people who are asymptomatic don’t need to be tested. But that obvious recommendation should have come two months ago, before wasting so many tests on people who have high levels of circulating antibodies from vaccination.
In its guidance the CDC says the risks of infection in vaccinated people “cannot be completely eliminated.” True, we don’t have conclusive data that guarantees vaccination reduces risk to zero. We never will. We are operating in the realm of medical discretion based on the best available data, as practicing physicians have always done. The CDC highlights the vaccines’ stunning success but is ridiculously cautious about its implications. Public-health officials focus myopically on transmission risk while all but ignoring the broader health crisis stemming from isolation. The CDC acknowledges “potential” risks of isolation, but doesn’t go into details.
It’s time to liberate vaccinated people to restore their relationships and rebuild their lives. That would encourage vaccination by giving hesitant people a vivid incentive to have the shots.
Throughout the pandemic, authorities have missed the mark on precautions. Hospitals blocked family members from being with their loved ones as they gasped for air, gagging on a ventilator tube—what some patients describe as the worst feeling in the world. In addition to the power of holding a hand, family members coordinate care and serve as a valuable safety net, a partnership that was badly needed when many hospitals had staffing shortages. Separating family members was excessive and cruel, driven by narrow thinking that focused singularly on reducing viral transmission risk, heedless of the harm to the quality of human life.
He added the mental health issues that have exploded due to the lockdown regime that teachers’ unions, Democrats, and the liberal media ignore. Kids are committing suicide. Anxiety and depression have also spiked among students. Loneliness and isolation are going to be the real ‘long haul’ symptom of this pandemic, which could be alleviated partially if our experts actually gave us advice that wasn’t so covered in crap.
Just one question. What do we do if the science goes around in circles.
The WSJ just fell for the Brain Fog as a long running symptom. The fact 30-60 million people have stop self medicating with magic coffee beans and work and gone to pot and unemployment is totally ignored. Brain Fog was given as a symptom to Joe so he would be altruistic step into the volcano. Our Joe should step into a volcano come to think of it.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/they-got-covid-one-year-ago-theyre-still-sick-11615838402
Rmember in the days past where some “official” declared wearing masks was not a good idea. And this would be contained in 3 weeks to 30 days. And six foot distancing* should be advised. Now someone says, “Meh, maybe 3 feet is okay.”. Now I see that vaccinations may become a yearly thing like flu shots. We don’t get those either. Our bodies, our choice.
*From 1890’s German tuberculosis guidelines I hear. Nobody ever questioned that. We’ve been duped.
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Just say no to the vaccine. “My body my choice” - right?
Far too often the libs want to have it both ways and the vaccine is a perfect example of that cognative dissonance. Either the government has the right to decide your medical treatments, or the individual citizen does. This has the potiential to lead to some very interesting conversations.
Does a business have a right to require you to wear a mask? What about wearing a star of David? Or an “I had an abortion t-shirt”
Does a business have a right to deny service if you do not tell them about your vaccine? What about telling them if you have HIV/AIDS or a list of your sexual partners?
Does a business have the right to require it’s employees to get a medical test? For Covid? For STDs? For mental issues? For xxx? If a business can require a test, can it require a medical proceedure, like requiring a woman to get an abortion? Or requiring employees to show proof of sterilization / contraceptive use?
The citizens of this nation need to think about where this road “ends” and then determine if this is the right direction. Sadly, I fear many citizens are only conserned about today and not thinking about where the powers that they are willing to give up to the state will ultimately end. Too many are willing to be a slave to feel “safe”.
I got my first shot a few days ago - but I don’t know which type it was and nobody is answering the phone where I called to set up the appointment. (South Carolina).
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Prayers up!
“Science” has fully endorsed one miracle this year.
The miracle—they managed to determine the long term effects (five years, ten years, twenty years) of vaccine with less than a year of testing.
Believe!
Believe!
You didn’t get a card with information about your shot and the date for the next dose? They’re also supposed to provide an information sheet about the vaccine and its risks.
I clearly need help;)
Just checked the appointment card for my next shot and you were correct - it shows Pfizer and a lot number!!!!!!!
Being old is getting old;)
That's going to lead to a bad place too- "your papers please" (spoken with a thick German accent).
The trouble is, if we include the 1% of the population most scientifically educated among us, that is 8 million “scientists”.
And their is a wide spectrum of opinions and conclusions among scientists on any given subject - certainly the subject of vaccines.
If you are a politician, top bureaucrat, or Big Pharma lobbyist - how hard is it to find a well-respected scientist who agrees with you? Not hard, I would think - especially when you pay them ungodly amounts of money for their expertise.
So, I don’t know which scientists to believe - but if I was going to pick some to distrust, I’d start with the well-paid ones.
Marty is banned on Facebook and linking to him on Twitter has a “misinformation” tag.
Zuckerberg and the Twitterati obviously know more about Public Health than Epidemiology professors do.
This doctor is setting himself up to be officially scolded by Johns Hopkins. Between their Applied Physics lab and the medical school, Hopkins receives around $3 billion every year in free fed loot. The corporation of JH cannot let this dude break-dance in the kayak. Waiting for the official corporate clarification.
Thanks for the very interesting link.
I smell funny math here. How is the infection fatality rate calculated? Since anyone testing positive will likely have at least two tests, dividing deaths by positive tests to get the 0.23% number would be waaaaay off and thus his 2/3 infection rate equally far off. And that doesn't even count those dying with vs. dying from COVID.
This top scientist says to stop all the vaccines immediately or an uncontrollable monster will be unleashed:
He is not alone with this common sense thinking at JH.
It was probably Jack Daniels.
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