Why "Natural Immunity" Is a Political Problem for the Regime

Mises Wire ^ | 09/21/2021 | Ryan McMaken

[Grandpa Drudge]

Since 2020, public health technocrats and their allies among elected officials have clung to the position that absolutely every person who can possibly get a covid vaccine should get one.

More than 15 studies have demonstrated the power of immunity acquired by previously having the virus. A 700,000-person study from Israel two weeks ago found that those who had experienced prior infections were 27 times less likely to get a second symptomatic covid infection than those who were vaccinated.

The study authors concluded that “individuals who have had SARS-CoV-2 infection are unlikely to benefit from covid-19 vaccination.” And in May, a Washington University study found that even a mild covid infection resulted in long-lasting immunity.

The nonscientific, ideology-induced blind spot for natural immunity also prompted The BMJ (the journal of the British Medical Association) to note that "[w]hen the vaccine rollout began in mid-December 2020, more than one quarter of Americans—91 million—had been infected with SARS-CoV-2…. As of this May, that proportion had risen to more than a third of the population, including 44% of adults aged 18–59."

And yet, the authors note this fact doesn't appear to be a part of any policy discussion at all:

The substantial number of infections, coupled with the increasing scientific evidence that natural immunity was durable, led some medical observers to ask why natural immunity didn’t seem to be factored into decisions about prioritising vaccination.

At this point, it would be embarrassing for the regime to admit what actual scientific inquiry has shown: that natural immunity is generally superior to receiving the vaccine. The regime doesn't like to be embarrassed, and neither do the countless doctors and nurses who have long toed the regime's political line. So expect more of the same.

[monkeyshine]

No problem. I’ve been accused of worse :-).
There are a few monkeys here; afaik all of them joined after me. Often imitated, never replicated.

[JimRed]

Mandating medical treatment for the ‘benefit of society’ is a very, very slippery slope. To zealots, just about anything can be justified.

Yes. I demand that ALL MALE HOMOSEXUALS be tested for the AIDS virus and quarantined; if infected for a year and if not infected for three months (to determine if it is a new infection not yet detectable).