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Is The Pandemic Over?
American Thinker.com ^ | March 16, 2021 | Thomas T. Siler, MD

Posted on 03/16/2021 4:49:46 AM PDT by Kaslin

After a year now of dealing with the SARS-COV-2 virus, we have learned a great deal about the pandemic. The elusive goal has been to acquire herd immunity and have life go back to normal. However, our mainstream media and some governmental health authorities have ignored parts of the scientific picture that could help us understand herd immunity. They have placed excessive importance on vaccination as the only way to herd immunity. This is not entirely true. There is scientific data showing that we may be closer to herd immunity and the end of the pandemic than the media and government let on.

At the start of the pandemic, we were told that the SARS-COV-2 was a “novel” virus, meaning a brand-new virus that has not been seen before. If this were true, then it would be much harder to treat or make a workable vaccine.

Fortunately, this was not true. SARS-COV-2 is in the family of coronaviruses and shares common characteristics with other members of the same family. Four coronaviruses commonly circulate in our population and cause symptoms of the common cold. Did persons have some cross-immunity to the “new” SARS-COV-2 virus from previous infections with other viruses in the Coronavirus family? The answer was yes.

T cells (a type of white blood cell) and antibodies can both be measured to study immunity. Studies of T cell function in 2020 showed that patients who had not been exposed to SARS-COV-2 in several countries had evidence of cross-reactivity from known coronaviruses and SARS-COV-2. The range of cross-reactivity ranged from 18% in Sweden to 51% in Singapore.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: sarscovid2
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1 posted on 03/16/2021 4:49:46 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Yeah, but liberals want to wear masks forever and socially distance themselves from conservatives for perpetuity.


2 posted on 03/16/2021 4:54:57 AM PDT by no_go_lie
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To: Kaslin

It was NOT a pandemic.

It WAS a scamdemic by the communist party incl the deep state members.


3 posted on 03/16/2021 4:56:39 AM PDT by newfreep (“Leftism, under all of its brand names, is a severe, violent & evil mental disorder.”)
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To: Kaslin
The china flu was not a pandemic except in the media misuse of the name. Follow the money and statistics and it is just a regular flu season with typical manipulation by the drive by media and political power grab. Did they really cure the regular flu and pneumonia or did they just call everything covid?
4 posted on 03/16/2021 4:57:48 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Kaslin

The trend lines, at least in the US are looking very good.


5 posted on 03/16/2021 4:58:14 AM PDT by Kozak (The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.)
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To: Kaslin

The curves have not been flattened.


6 posted on 03/16/2021 4:58:17 AM PDT by PGalt (past peak civilization?)
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To: no_go_lie

“Yeah, but liberals want to wear masks forever and socially distance themselves from conservatives for perpetuity.”

I’m all for that.. liberals have a distinctive, pungent odor about them. Best we stay as far from them as possible.


7 posted on 03/16/2021 4:58:24 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Enough. Divide the country.. now. )
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To: no_go_lie

socially distance themselves

Don’t want them around me either...

There was never anything to this but a huge over reaction and a growing sense that people would trade any freedom for “safety”. It perpetuated itself, built on itself and now they won’t relinquish their power.

Its really time to end this at an individual level...make it unenforceable. Wherever possible.


8 posted on 03/16/2021 5:01:08 AM PDT by Adder ("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
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To: no_go_lie

There are many here on FR who are quite willing to do the same. Such a shame.

If we don’t stand up to the overlords, these bastards will rule us forever with their deceptions.


9 posted on 03/16/2021 5:03:43 AM PDT by FamiliarFace
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To: Kaslin

What about COVID-21, COVID-22, COVID-23, and any other scamdemic the government is going to foist on the public?


10 posted on 03/16/2021 5:06:12 AM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: no_go_lie

“Yeah, but liberals want to wear masks forever and socially distance themselves from conservatives for perpetuity.”

Just what I was thinking. And in an effort to keep the ball rolling, now they’re telling the sheep to be very afraid of variants.


11 posted on 03/16/2021 5:09:56 AM PDT by brownsfan (Term limits! Without term limits, we are doomed.)
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To: Kaslin

Trick question. It never was a pandemic. Just a test for worse things to come and how people will respond. Call it a social experiment.


12 posted on 03/16/2021 5:15:10 AM PDT by Old Yeller
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To: PGalt

Which curves?


13 posted on 03/16/2021 5:17:03 AM PDT by John W (Trump/Pence 2020)
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To: Kaslin

It will never be over in Blue States


14 posted on 03/16/2021 5:18:04 AM PDT by EC Washington
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To: Kaslin

I’ m sure they have just begun to realize the “pandemic’s” usefulness...
So far, the left has used it to begin the destruction of the middle class, and it was VERY advantageous to stealing a national election.
So, one is left to wonder- where will they take it next?


15 posted on 03/16/2021 5:19:52 AM PDT by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: EC Washington
As long as democrats are in power over the federal government, as blue states know they'll raid the treasury roll out more printing on the money presses for them.
16 posted on 03/16/2021 5:20:21 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: John W

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/fauci-coronavirus-projected-death-toll-is-dropping.html

Fauzi curves. He was on the mound pitching. His curve went wild. Good thing the stands were empty. Spectators could’ve been killed.


17 posted on 03/16/2021 5:21:05 AM PDT by PGalt (past peak civilization?)
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To: Kaslin

All I need to recall about COVID and how government has “handled” the “crisis” is that A YEAR AGO we were being told by the “experts” ‘two weeks to flatten the curve’.

People’s collective memory is way too short and... Whoa! LOOK! A SQUIRREL!


18 posted on 03/16/2021 5:39:59 AM PDT by Joe Brower ("Might we not live in a nobler dream than this?" -- John Ruskin)
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To: Kaslin

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19 posted on 03/16/2021 5:44:28 AM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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More Covid-related deaths...

https://www.kiro7.com/news/trending/indiana-man-shot-mother-his-child-killed-4-after-dispute-over-stimulus-money-reports-say/XSLLKCEJXZCQFLAYQE6PNERF6A/

Condolences to...


20 posted on 03/16/2021 5:50:43 AM PDT by PGalt (past peak civilization?)
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