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Still never had Covid? Thank your genes: Three in 10 people have a gene that blocks infection [?]
Washington Now ^ | October 14, 2022 | Caitlin Tilley,

Posted on 10/16/2022 3:13:54 PM PDT by BenLurkin

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To: Jonty30

If you have O- blood, your risk was basically cut in half.

My sister has O negative and she got it. She was vaxxed and boosted.

I have B negative, had two jabs, no booster, never got it. I have several friends who were jabbed and boosted and got it twice.


41 posted on 10/16/2022 4:04:12 PM PDT by angry elephant (Been with Trump since huge 2016 Washington state rally in May.)
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To: AppyPappy
using your logic, no one ever had cancer.

Really? You don't think they've ever pulled a tumor from someone, or have done, say, a biopsy to find cancerous cells? Why on earth would you use that example as a rebuttal?
42 posted on 10/16/2022 4:11:57 PM PDT by fr_freak
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To: newfreep

For us old folks it could possibly be that we all had the child hood diseases, as I did. Never had the Flu or the vaccine. Haven’t even had a cold for years. No covid and no vaccine. I have been taken all the essential vitamins for years. I added Zinc. I already had all the others. Strong immune system.


43 posted on 10/16/2022 4:16:03 PM PDT by WVNan (q)
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To: BenLurkin

I got it twice. Wasn’t fun but recovered. My friend was around us all sickos and never got it. He is Indian so I imagine his immune system is quite strong from growing up in Hyderabad.


44 posted on 10/16/2022 4:22:24 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: BenLurkin

The Nature Medicine article that the posted story from washington now links to states the study was submitted in Dec 2021 !!! wasn’t accepted until Oct 7 2022 and published Oct 13 2022.

They knew this info well before millions and millions of people got shots, yet they (doctors and those in authory positions) still use almost no guidelines of who to eliminate from pushing shots on?

this is super sickeningly evil


45 posted on 10/16/2022 4:22:38 PM PDT by b4me (Repeated lies does Not equal TRUTH. )
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To: BenLurkin

the hundreds of thousands who died pre-vax in 2020, mostly in hospitals and age care facilities. how come we never heard about masses of health care workers getting it?

there is a story there.


46 posted on 10/16/2022 4:23:24 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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To: BenLurkin

Never had the vaccine. Might have had covid in Feb 2020, not sure. Sure haven’t had it since then.


47 posted on 10/16/2022 4:24:37 PM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: BenLurkin

never got covid or the flu and I am 54


48 posted on 10/16/2022 4:26:47 PM PDT by TexasFreeper2009
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To: angry elephant

Having a half-chance does not remove the risk entirely. There are still other health conditions or diet or her BMI to consider.

If my risk is otherwise 20%,but because I have O- blood I only have a 10% chance of getting it, it doesn’t mean I won’t get it. It just my risk is about 10%.

Your sister probably still had some protective measure from it getting worse than it was if she had another blood type.

https://www.verywellhealth.com/type-o-blood-covid-19-5074429


49 posted on 10/16/2022 4:32:58 PM PDT by Jonty30 (Some men want to see the world burn. It is they that want you to buy an electric car.)
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To: MAGAthon

Health care workers were wearing tons of protection.


50 posted on 10/16/2022 4:33:16 PM PDT by Fuzz
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To: BenLurkin

My daughter we would say CANT get covid-she got the vaccine but due to reaction did not get any boosters. She worked as a volunteer with JVC , Jesuit Volunteer Corp with the homeless in Cleveland. She lived in a small house, communal kitchen and 2 bathrooms with 7 other volunteers all who got covid . She did not, Her boss had covid for a week and came into work and she worked across the desk from her. People would routinely walk into this Catholic Resource Center and test positive for Covid-she did not get it. I used to think it was because she has sinus problems and had to frequently clear her nose and sinus-idk-maybe genes


51 posted on 10/16/2022 4:33:26 PM PDT by TECTopcat
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To: BenLurkin

yeah what a shock. those of us paying attention, suspected that there was natural immunity to the virus by early, mid 2020. many exposed were just not getting it. of course the CDC didn’t care and didn’t lift a finger to investigate.

as an aside, i’ve read that 95% of people have no problem with the polio virus, too. it’s only 5% of the population that are susceptible to the paralysis symptoms.

given that this has been known forever and all the high tech genomic data is available on the virus and how it acts on the susceptible, how come we don’t just treat the 5% and leave the rest of our kids alone?


52 posted on 10/16/2022 4:36:56 PM PDT by dadfly
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To: BenLurkin

Or…. We’ve had it, didn’t give a crap about reporting it, like a good little zombie, got over it, and moved on with our lives. Because it was a minor flu to almost every single person.


53 posted on 10/16/2022 4:37:30 PM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: marron
Or, it was so mild you didn’t know you had it if you didn’t get tested.

Early in January 2020, we both got what felt like a 12 hour "flu", but the symptoms quickly went away the next day. It wasn't too long after that when the "panic" Covid news started. We just assumed we had minor case of covid. We also never got the shots. The only test I had was because of the test requirement before seeing the MD for some other issue. That test was negative.

54 posted on 10/16/2022 4:37:35 PM PDT by Deaf and Discerning
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To: BenLurkin

As I have posted during Covid B$, my wife and I have been amazed at how some people seem to be immune to all blends/variations of Covid.

We have seen in our west coast families where the husband, usually in good physical shape gets the Covid from Delta to whatever. They get hammered by the virus.

Yet their wives, who live,eat with and sleep with them, don’t get it. Usually, the kids of all ages don’t get what Dad got.

We have seen the same happenings with our family members in the midwest and SW.


55 posted on 10/16/2022 4:38:24 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Anyone, who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commiit atrocities!!" ~ (Voltaire)!, )
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To: SunkenCiv; BenLurkin

How Viruses Infiltrated Our DNA and Supercharged Our Immune System!:

“Evolution, it turns out, is really good at irony.”

By Ed Yong

Hundreds of millions of years ago, prehistoric viruses inserted their genes into the genomes of our ancestors. They found their way into eggs or sperm, and then into embryos.
As they passed down from one generation to the next, they picked up mutations that disabled their ability to infect new cells. Eventually, they became permanent fixtures of our genomes, as much a part of our DNA as our own genes.

Today, these ‘endogenous retroviruses’ or ERVs make up 8 percent of our genome. They are genetic fossils—remnants of our viral ancestors, and records of epidemics past.

ERVs are not passive stowaways. They provided raw material for evolution, in the form of viral genes that our ancestors could tinker with and put to new use. For example, syncytin, a gene that’s essential for creating the placenta, came from a virus; in the words of Carl Zimmer, “If not for a virus, none of us would ever be born.”

ERVs also contain sequences that dictate when and where genes should be switched on. So when they first infiltrate a genome and hop around, they can rapidly and radically re-wire entire networks of genes. Edward Chuong, Nels Elde, and Cédric Feschotte from University of Utah School of Medicine have now found the most dramatic example of this re-wiring. They have shown that some ERVs that have shaped the evolution of our immune system, are now controlling the activity of critical immunity genes.

Which means that we defend ourselves from some viral infections with the repurposed remains of ancient viruses.

When we suffer from infections, two proteins called IRF and STAT coordinate our immune responses. They hover over our DNA, looking for particular sequences that they can stick to. When they find these docking sites, they land and activate nearby genes. And when Chuong looked at these docking sites, he found that many of them came from ERVs. By hopping around our genomes, these viruses created new ports for IRF and STAT, and changed the portfolio of immune genes that they turn on.

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/03/how-we-repurposed-viruses-to-defend-ourselves-from-viruses/471702/


56 posted on 10/16/2022 4:43:16 PM PDT by Grampa Dave ( Anyone, who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commiit atrocities!!" ~ (Voltaire)!, )
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To: BenLurkin

Dr Yeadon explained that those who survived a bout of SARS in 2003 were tested again in 2021 and they maintained their hard earned immunity.

That researcher then tested the SARS 2003 survivors with Covid-19 and they were immune.

Both SARS and COvid are coronaviruses and you don’t have to get each specific virus to have immunity to it - many of us had some exposure to sufficient coronaviruses to give us immunity or partial immunity so our illness, if we had it, was not so severe.

Of course, those driving the Plandemic knew we had some immunity but that would ruin their plans so they declared Covid a ‘novel’ virus (would mean none of us had any immunity) and used their lies to push the need for ‘vaccines’.

But they knew Covid wasn’t novel and that many had some immunity - that’s why Nancy Pelosi had her hair dresser open her shop for her, and showed up without a mask on. That’s why the elites continued to gather and play maskless.


57 posted on 10/16/2022 4:43:46 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ConservativeMind

Sounds like our story. Never vaxxed. The only two in our family of 16 that didn’t. I had a fever for a couple of days and never tested positive. But when I got the antibody test, I was off the chart, so obviously I had it. My wife ended up in the hospital and tested positive twice.

As for the family, 11 of the 16 vaxxed came down with Covid.


58 posted on 10/16/2022 4:44:12 PM PDT by redangus
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To: cherry
Since summer of 2020, I've been taking D3, Zinc, C, and L-Lysine every day. They all have virus inhibiting properties.

And I don't smoke or drink, I eat a healthy diet, but don't go nuts about it.

59 posted on 10/16/2022 4:47:31 PM PDT by Psalm 73 ("You'll never hear surf music again" - J. Hendrix)
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To: BenLurkin

“It may partly explain why some people never get the virus…”

May partly, eh?

That’s quite definitive.

Lol. The press and their headlines.


60 posted on 10/16/2022 4:47:43 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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