Posted on 10/20/2022 10:00:27 PM PDT by lightman
For nearly two years, vaccine expert and virologist Geert Vanden Bossche has been on a mission to raise awareness of why healthy children should not receive COVID-19 vaccines.
Vanden Bossche, who has 30 years of experience in the vaccine industry, claims that it is primarily the unvaccinated children and adults who can generate herd immunity.
“The children are our only hope still, to generate herd immunity,” Vanden Bossche told The Epoch Times. “And herd immunity means, thanks to their natural immunity, they can kill the virus, they can sterilize the virus.”
It is only herd immunity that “will be able, at the population level, to dramatically reduce infectious pressure and to tame the pandemic so that it can transition into an endemic phase,” he added, since the “vaccines cannot do this. On the contrary, the vaccines lead to the breeding of more and more infectious variants, which is enhancing the infectious pressure in the population.”
Herd immunity is defined as when a percentage of the population becomes immune to a disease—either through a previous infection or vaccination—which acts to stop or slow down the spread.
Yet, vaccines have never significantly contributed to ending influenza pandemics in the past. The virus in each pandemic had largely run its course and became endemic.
The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, caused by the H1N1 virus, began in March 1918 and ended in the summer of 1919 without the use of any vaccines. The 1957 Asian flu (H2N2) pandemic ended in 1958 with limited use of the flu vaccine. And in both the 1968 H3N2 (pdf) and 2009 H1N1 pandemics, the pandemic had already reached its peak by the time the vaccines were ready, so demand for the vaccines declined.
The COVID-19 pandemic is the first time that mass vaccination is being done in the middle of a pandemic.
According to Vanden Bossche, mass vaccination with vaccines cannot prevent infection during a pandemic when there is high infection pressure because it leads to immune escape, a phenomenon where a virus can escape the host’s immune system.
The late Nobel laureate and virologist Luc Montagnier was also against vaccinating the entire population during a pandemic. In May 2021, he called the mass vaccination program “a huge scientific error” and that the “history books will show that it is the vaccination that is creating the variants.”
Supporters of vaccination allege that the vaccines do not create more variants, arguing that the virus has mutated several times prior to the vaccine roll out in December 2020 and that the benefits of the vaccines outweigh the risks.
Vanden Bossche disagrees. He said that while variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus can occur naturally, it is the COVID-19 injections that are driving the process. SARS-CoV-2 is the virus that causes the disease COVID-19. Protecting the Innate Immune System
The most important reason why children should not receive a COVID-19 vaccine is to protect their innate immune system from being compromised, according to Vanden Bossche. The innate immune system is the body’s first line of defense against foreign pathogens.
Children are “equipped with a special kind of antibodies that we call innate antibodies,” Vanden Bossche said in a video this summer, which “only lasts for some time during childhood and after that they disappear.”
“These innate antibodies have an incredibly important function because they will help the child to kick off its own immune system,” he said, adding that these antibodies may be able to neutralize SARS-CoV-2 and many other viruses that are encountered.
A study of 65 pediatric participants (younger than 23 years) and 60 adult patients infected with COVID-19 in New York City found that children had a stronger innate response compared to the adult group and their immune system had a higher concentration of several innate compounds. This gives insight to why children, for the most part, fare better with COVID-19 disease.
In addition, when the innate antibodies bind with viruses, this process educates the innate immune system to recognize the virus if it enters the body again in the future.
In a 2009 study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists investigated whether the innate immune cells can retain “memory of prior activation, a function until now attributed only to antigen-specific adaptive immune cells” by studying natural killer (NK) cells.
They found that the innate immune cells could recognize a memory of their previous activation and thus “respond more easily and effectively to the next call for activation,” according to Dr. Wayne M. Yokoyama, professor of Medicine, Pathology, and Immunology at Washington University School of Medicine and the main author of the study.
Vanden Bossche also added that by “binding to viruses, these innate antibodies will prevent your immune system from recognizing self components,” meaning the innate immune system is also trained to differentiate self from non-self, so it doesn’t attack the body’s normal cells, leading to autoimmune disease.
When children are administered the COVID-19 vaccine, Vanden Bossche said that the antibodies induced by the vaccine will outcompete the innate antibodies in binding with the virus, as the vaccinal antibodies have a higher binding affinity to the spike antigen and thus cutting off the innate antibodies in doing its job and to properly train the innate immune system.
Federal and local health authorities have been pushing to increase COVID-19 vaccine uptake in children in the past two weeks.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted authorization for the bivalent booster vaccine in children ages 5 and older on Oct. 12 and the advisory group to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) voted on Thursday to add the COVID-19 injections to the childhood immunization schedule, which then allows states to mandate them for students to go to school.
The CDC messaging now is to encourage everyone 5 and older to get the bivalent booster regardless if they’ve already received two booster doses.
“Anybody ages five years and older is recommended to receive this updated bivalent booster, but people need to have at least completed a primary series … or if they’ve gotten any number of booster doses in the past, they are also eligible to get this updated booster dose,” Dr. Sarah Meyer, chief medical officer at the CDC’s Immunization Services Division, said on Oct. 12.
“So instead of counting how many boosters somebody’s gotten, what we really want to emphasize is that everybody should get an updated booster this fall,” Meyer added.
The CDC says the booster, based on data from eight mice, provides protection against the original Wuhan strain and the Omicron subvariants BA.4 and BA.5.
Dr. Vinay Prasad, a hematologist-oncologist, speaking out against COVID-19 vaccines for healthy children, said that no human data exists to show the new booster protects against any variants.
“I have yet to see human data that the updated booster ‘helps to fight off a wide range of variants,’” he posted in a tweet on Oct. 19. “There are 2 press releases touting human Ab [antibody] titers, with no numerical values provided. And mouse Ab titer data, which is the basis of EUA.”
I CHOSE to get vaccinated (but NOT "boosted")....my CHOICE.
If the vaccination is even half of what it is claimed to be I really don't give a rat's rump whether anyone else is vaccinated or unvaccinated, masked or unmasked, coughing or calm, close or distant!
I am pro VOLUNTARY vax.
I am barely tolerant VOLUNTARY mask.
I am anti MANDATORY vax.
I am vehemently anti MANDATORY mask.
I have ZERO need to "feel safe" on the basis that everyone in a venue, a health care facility, or any other place has dutifully shown their papers.
America will remain "the land of the free" ONLY if we demonstrate that we are "the home of the brave"!
AND MOST IMPORTANTLY: So far as I am concerned:
"Vaccinating" toddlers and children = CHILD ABUSE!
I’ve been saying for going on two years that there can be NO herd immunity until ALL THE VACCINATED have died.
All my family is pure blood and we will remain that way.
Well you’ve been saying nutty things for 2 years and you’re going for 3, then.
I do not know what the impetus is, but something is obviously
up beyond immunization here.
Maybe strains have changed and kids are more at risk than
I realize. Other than that, there’s no need to vaccinate
kids.
So why the push to do it?
if you think there is a migration to red states now
wait til the schools in blue states require this
The Pharma companies retain their status of NO responsibility if the vaccines are REQUIRED by the CDC in the lineup of children vaccines!! This is ALL ABOUT the Pharma companies maintaining immunity from fault!! NOW if there are adverse effects to anyone you must sue the government and we ALL KNOW how well that goes!! This ENRAGES me because true harm comes to kids and they DON’T GIVE A DAMN!!
Government will never, ever force you to do anything good for you.
Never has, never will.
The harder they push, the more there is cause to believe there is a problem with what they are pimping.
‘I’ve been saying for going on two years that there can be NO herd immunity until ALL THE VACCINATED have died.”
That’s a lot of people. And that needs to include a fair number of the populations in our enemy countries, such as China, and the populations of countries, such as Venezuela, who are currently and will in the future send their young men here as invaders.
On the one hand, the idea of lasting “herd immunity” is as big a myth as lasting vaccine immunity.
No matter, in “bad” flu years I got my flu shot for whatever the latest nasty strain was, and a couple times I still got mild cases but generally those vaccs did their job for me. In the past through travel, and these days from my wife (teacher @ private school) and our daughter (goes to same school) I seem rather vulnerable to “other” respiratory viruses, but there’s not much one can do about viruses that are barely identified, much less have specific treatments or vaccines developed for them. Just try to stay healthy in general, avoid exposure in public when the local docs are saying they are seeing high levels of such.
If a kid has a particular risk factor like asthma, then getting a COVID vacc shot may make sense. (I don’t “buy” the tinfoil vaccine posts — I just have NOT seen any such evidence in people around my family, and my wife has a huge social network, mine is “normal”.) But for a typical healthy kid, pushing COVID shots when they do not have much effect on severity or transmission in those kids... just seems like a ploy to send $$ to vaccine mfgrs.)
Fauci was for herd immunity before he decided to murder millions of citizens.
Deep States regard children as just more of Fauci’s beagles.
The globalist elitist army the UN and the CDC have been given control by this rogue illegal administration we are under. This must not hold
Don’t vaccinate your kids, folks, no matter what the CDC says. I will home school my kids first if they make it a requirement to take the poison to attend school.
The only vaccination I’d agree to now is for smallpox, and nobody’s offering it. :(
IMO, HERD IMMUNITY === total STERILIZATION of children so population halts growth.
Pfizer has announced that the price of $30 for Fed purchased vaccines will rise to $130 in 2023 when recipients must pay for shots themselves.
CDC wants mandatory shots added to already very long list of ‘immunizations’ for school attendance.
Start buying books-—they will be in short supply soon———
A relative of mine and his wife both recently were very ill (not hospitalized) with Covid. She’s a doctor in a hospital and he works from home. Both had the first two shots by Pfizer and later the booster. Neither one has any comorbidity factors that would make them more susceptible to infection.
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