Posted on 04/27/2022 8:21:22 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
A new CDC publication ("Seroprevalence of Infection-Induced SARS-CoV-2 Antibodies — United States, September 2021–February 2022") should clarify for everyone what was always true – you can’t stop a respiratory virus. Despite the warnings of some scientists, who were pilloried then and who should be apologized to and applauded now, the United States and most other countries undertook an absurd exercise in hubris. We were told by our public health experts that through testing and tracing, use of plastic barriers, social distancing, closing schools and businesses, wearing masks, even vaccination, we could limit the spread of CV-19. This was expensive and damaging to all aspects of our population’s lives. And it turns out it was completely useless.
The study is based on seroprevalence work–that is, attempting to ascertain rates of infection by the presence of certain antibodies in the blood. There are several groups which have done ongoing surveys of this type. CDC compliled data from a few of these sources. An astounding 75% of children up to age 11, 74% of children aged 12 to 17 and 64% of adults aged 18 to 49 have been infected. 50% of those aged 50 to 64 and 33% of those over age 65 have been infected, according to this data. I would suspect under-sampling of the older age groups, but the lower rates are consistent with generally lower social contact rates in those age groups as well as a likely much higher use of avoidance tactics, such as social isolation.
Looking at the childhood exposure rates makes it clear that it really is completely unnecessary and foolish to push for vaccinations of young children, especially given the risks of adverse events in these ages compared to the risks from CV-19. Research continues to show that CV-19 infection provides a superior adaptive immunity to that from vaccination.
But the big takeaway, which we probably won’t learn, is that we need to completely overhaul our public health agencies and we need to have a much clearer focus on total public health and well-being when addressing a respiratory virus epidemic and a greater appreciation of the limits of our abilities to impact the course of an epidemic.
But the FAR FAR bigger problem is how subservient the USA population was to government, their belief that the government could do no wrong, and their slavish obedience to government boot on our faces.
I do feel the response was excessively heavy handed. The virus however has evolved into a tamer version.
The original strain was a little worse than standard influenza, lesser than the 1918 pandemic but on par with a few other pandemic influenza outbreaks.
Delta was similar to influenza.
Omicron is less than influenza and on par for the common cold.
When covid goes through the vast majority of the population, it will end.
Vaxxes will have no long term-effect other than to make a large percent of the population more vulnerable to modified virus.
Lockdowns, masks, plastic shields will have no long-term effect.
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