Posted on 12/24/2020 6:34:23 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Maybe you have some sense that something fishy is going on? Same. If it’s not one thing, it’s another.
Coronavirus lived on surfaces until it didn’t. Masks didn’t work until they did, then they did not. There is asymptomatic transmission, except there isn’t. Lockdowns work to control the virus except they do not. All these people are sick without symptoms until, whoops, PCR tests are wildly inaccurate because they were never intended to be diagnostic tools. Everyone is in danger of the virus except they aren’t. It spreads in schools except it doesn’t.
On it goes. Daily. It’s no wonder that so many people have stopped believing anything that “public health authorities” say. In combination with governors and other autocrats doing their bidding, they set out to take away freedom and human rights and expected us to thank them for saving our lives. At some point this year (for me it was March 12) life began feeling like a dystopian novel of your choice.
Well, now I have another piece of evidence to add to the mile-high pile of fishy mess. The World Health Organization, for reasons unknown, has suddenly changed its definition of a core conception of immunology: herd immunity. Its discovery was one of the major achievements of 20th century science, gradually emerging in the 1920s and then becoming ever more refined throughout the 20th century.
Herd immunity is a fascinating observation that you can trace to biological reality or statistical probability theory, whichever you prefer. (It is certainly not a “strategy” so ignore any media source that describes it that way.) Herd immunity speaks directly, and with explanatory power, to the empirical observation that respiratory viruses are either widespread and mostly mild (common cold) or very severe and short-lived (Ebola).
Why is this? The reason is that when a virus kills its host, it cannot migrate. The more aggressively it does this, the less it spreads. If the virus doesn’t kill its host, it can hop to others through all the usual means. When you get a virus and fight it off, your immune system encodes that information in a way that builds immunity to it. When it happens to enough people (and each case is different so we can’t put a clear number on it) the virus loses its pandemic quality and becomes endemic, which is to say predictable and manageable. Each new generation incorporates that information through more exposure.
This is what one would call Virology/Immunology 101. It’s what you read in every textbook. It’s been taught in 9th grade cell biology for probably 80 years. Observing the operations of this evolutionary phenomenon is pretty wonderful because it increases one’s respect for the way in which human biology has adapted to the presence of pathogens without absolutely freaking out.
And the discovery of this fascinating dynamic in cell biology is a major reason why public health became so smart in the 20th century. We kept calm. We managed viruses with medical professionals: doctor/patient relationships. We avoided the Medieval tendency to run around with hair on fire but rather used rationality and intelligence. Even the New York Times recognizes that natural immunity is powerful with Covid-19, which is not in the least bit surprising.
Until one day, this strange institution called the World Health Organization – once glorious because it was mainly responsible for the eradication of smallpox – has suddenly decided to delete everything I just wrote from cell biology basics. It has literally changed the science in a Soviet-like way. It has removed with the delete key any mention of natural immunities from its website. It has taken the additional step of actually mischaracterizing the structure and functioning of vaccines.
So that you will believe me, I will try to be as precise as possible. Here is the website from June 9, 2020. You can see it here on Archive.org. You have to move down the page and click on the question about herd immunity. You see the following.
That’s pretty darn accurate overall. Even the statement that the threshold is “not yet clear” is correct. There are cross immunities to Covid from other coronaviruses and there is T cell memory that contributes to natural immunity.
Some estimates are as low as 10%, which is a far cry from the modelled 70% estimate of virus immunity that is standard within the pharmaceutical realm. Real life is vastly more complicated than models, in economics or epidemiology. The WHO’s past statement is a solid, if “pop,” description.
However, in a screenshot dated November 13, 2020, we read the following note that somehow pretends as if human beings do not have immune systems at all but rather rely entirely on big pharma to inject things into our blood.
What this note at the World Health Organization has done is deleted what amounts to the entire million-year history of humankind in its delicate dance with pathogens. You could only gather from this that all of us are nothing but blank and unimprovable slates on which the pharmaceutical industry writes its signature.
In effect, this change at WHO ignores and even wipes out 100 years of medical advances in virology, immunology, and epidemiology. It is thoroughly unscientific – shilling for the vaccine industry in exactly the way the conspiracy theorists say that WHO has been doing since the beginning of this pandemic.
What’s even more strange is the claim that a vaccine protects people from a virus rather than exposing them to it. What’s amazing about this claim is that a vaccine works precisely by firing up the immune system through exposure. Why I had to type those words is truly beyond me. This has been known for centuries. There is simply no way for medical science completely to replace the human immune system. It can only game it via what used to be called inoculation.
Take from this what you will. It is a sign of the times. For nearly a full year, the media has been telling us that “science” requires that we comply with their dictates that run contrary to every tenet of liberalism, every expectation we’ve developed in the modern world that we can live freely and with the certainty of rights. Then “science” took over and our human rights were slammed. And now the “science” is actually deleting its own history, airbrushing over what it used to know and replacing it with something misleading at best and patently false at worst.
I cannot say why, exactly, the WHO did this. Given the events of the past nine or ten months, however, it is reasonable to assume that politics are at play. Since the beginning of the pandemic, those who have been pushing lockdowns and hysteria over the coronavirus have resisted the idea of natural herd immunity, instead insisting that we must live in lockdown until a vaccine is developed.
That is why the Great Barrington Declaration, written by three of the world’s preeminent epidemiologists and which advocated embracing the phenomenon of herd immunity as a way of protecting the vulnerable and minimizing harms to society, was met with such venom. Now we see the WHO, too, succumbing to political pressure. This is the only rational explanation for changing the definition of herd immunity that has existed for the past century.
The science has not changed; only the politics have. And that is precisely why it is so dangerous and deadly to subject virus management to the forces of politics. Eventually the science too bends to the duplicitous character of the political industry.
When the existing textbooks that students use in college contradict the latest official pronouncements from the authorities during a crisis in which the ruling class is clearly attempting to seize permanent power, we’ve got a problem.
CONTROL! It’s all about control!
I cannot say why, exactly, the WHO did this.
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Think dollars. Billions of dollars in vaccinations.
Got to keep up the hysteria. Forever. To control people. To dispose of their rights. To pump billions into crony capitalist enterprises favored by the government.
Maybe the time has come to “delete” WHO.
When they become totally political and deny science, they’re no longer “useful” to the populace, but only to corrupt socialists & communists.
WHO’s on first.
” Now we see the WHO, too, succumbing to political pressure.”
I don’t believe they are “succumbing” to anything as much as creating & being at the center of the pressure they put on everyone else. Yes it’s political, but for WHO this is what they’ve become and it’s nothing new.
What if their "science" has an agenda that goes against real bonafide science?
To this day the vast majority in the public have no idea what a virus is. These "scientists" have not seen fit to explain the human immune system, they just tell us to "get your four COVID shots."
They have had a good year to explain stuff, but they have instead played on our naïveté for their own monetary benefit.
Fauxi and Gates - GTH.
It has become clear with holiday travel that Americans are getting weary and are seeing through the bull sh*t. One lady on the network news interviewed at a national airport said she was aware of the risk and finds it acceptable. Deblasio and Governor Inslee the Merciless are losing control. I am going to eat lunch today at a restaurant that is defying the lockdown. I may not wear a mask. I am sick of being lied to and tired of the attempts to intimidate me. I’m mad as hell and not going to take it anymore.
Dogmatism has gone full mainstream masquerading as scientism. The scientific method is mostly dead. Any self respecting doctor or researcher who dares to engage in the scientific method or doesn’t carry the pharma party lines will be chased out academia and probably have their license taken away. Medical ethics died decades ago when Ronald Regan indemnified big pharma from liability with their va$$ines.
“What’s even more strange is the claim that a vaccine protects people from a virus rather than exposing them to it.”
The Covid vaccine does NOT expose you to a virus. It is mRNA that makes your own cells produce a spiked protein that is just like the spiked protein on the virus. Your body builds immunity to this protein.
Old vaccines did expose you to a killed or weakened virus.
Interesting article. However, the author blew his toes off when he classified Ebola as a respiratory virus.
Is there “herd immunity” to the OTHER human coronaviruses (OC43,229E, NL63, and HKU1)?
If not, why not?
And, if not, why should SARS CoV 2 exhibit a property not found in the other human coronaviruses?
“Herd immunity” is one of those terms undergraduates like to throw around because smart people use it sometimes.
You can ask to have your food liquified in the blender and then poke a small hole for the straw.
Data point: My brother in law just tested positive for Covid-19 and is experiencing moderate symptoms, including difficult breathing. Being treated at home. His spouse has tested negative and she has zero symptoms.
Great piece. They delete uuman knowledge, gained over centuries, to justify their Control Freak Plans.
“You are doomed, unless you take every vaccine we tell you to!!!
For a friken cold. Not even a bad cold if you are under 50.
The same thing has long been happening with all the “climate change”. The scientific method was thrown out years ago and those who engaged in it were slandered and discredited.
The same thing has long been happening with all the “climate change”. The scientific method was thrown out years ago and those who engaged in it were slandered and discredited.
But that mRNA is used in your cells to make proteins that are the same as on the virus. In effect, exposing your immune system to portions of the virus. The same as if you had the virus from a response standpoint. Therefore, herd immunity should not have had the definition changed.
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