To Rand Paul’s great credit, he was relentless in calling out Fauci and company for their shameless downplaying of (and/or outright lying about) natural immunity in the previously infected. The utter absurdity of claiming their stupid, dangerous, useless mRNA vaxxes were somehow superior to natural immunity is one of the greatest government/media establishment whoppers of my lifetime.
Looking past the Epoch times poor journalism, here is what was actually said:
“New CDC study: Among adults hospitalized with symptoms similar to COVID-19, unvaccinated people who had COVID-19 recently were 5 times more likely to test positive for COVID-19 than people who were recently fully vaccinated.” That’s the Oct 29 tween. That’s the quote. Not imagined words created or interpreted.
This is adults hospitalized with Covid-like symptoms, and unvaxed people are known to be unvaxed via the database. Those claiming to have had Covid may or may not have had it. This does NOT say those who were tested previously to have had Covid were 5X more likely to test positive — IF THEY WERE IN THE HOSPITAL WITH COVID SYMPTOMS. It does not say that.
There is no there, there. This article is poorly researched and written.
It is scientists, not the media, not the government, who determined that vaccination is a far superior method of becoming immune to Covid than getting sick.
Antivax rhetoric seems to promote the idea that immunity is an endpoint health goal. It is not. The health goal is to avoid disease. The best way to avoid disease is to get vaccinated.
During infection, viruses force your cells to make tons of mRNA. There are 29 different virus mRNAs that the SARS-CoV-2 virus forces your cells to make.
Can you understand that that having a virus forcing your body to make 29 mRNAs and 29 proteins results in a far higher dose of mRNA and spike protein than you will ever get in a vaccine?