Posted on 08/05/2021 9:59:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Overreaction?
The lockdowns and shutdowns haven’t made sense anywhere. Why would they make any more sense in Gibraltar?
They had 94 deaths before the vaccines. They’ve had one COVID-19 death since.
That’s not what ADE is.
Antibody Dependent Enhancement is when sub-optimal antibodies are created which assist the pathogen in infection rather than neutralizing it. This is common with Dengue fever infections. The Dengue virus has 5 serotypes. When someone is infected with one serotype, the body produces antibodies against it as part of the immune response. If the person is later infected with another serotype, the body can easily mistake it for the first and produce antibodies that bind in such a way that the infection is accelerated rather than halted. This then creates a more serious infection with a generally worse outcome (not necessarily death, but more severe illness at least).
It has nothing to do with “teaching your body to create a virus that your immune system ignores”. That’s nonsense. Nor is it “a well-known infectious process that can allow otherwise inert varieties if a virus to become invasive of the cell”. It only applies to infectious pathogens. It doesn’t suddenly turn nothing into something. It simply opens up new pathways for a virus to increase infectiousness inside the body and target cells which would normally destroy it via immune cell receptors and complement proteins.
Iceland’s jump in cases began July 20th, over two weeks ago. No deaths from it at this point. Iceland has had one COVID-19 death all year. And that death was back in May.
Gibraltar’s case jump peaked July 22nd, over two weeks ago. It’s been coming down since then. And Gibraltar has had one death in March.
It’s funny how through most of last year, everyone here was screaming about how meaningless cases are and that the only important metrics were hospitalizations and deaths. But now that vaccines are out, people against the vaccines (which really puts you in a position of being pro-virus) can’t stop talking about cases. Hospitalizations and deaths? Irrelevant. It’s all about them cases!
Prior to the Delta variant, it was found that the Pfizer vaccine blocked 94% of asymptomatic cases and 97% of symptomatic cases (data from Israel). The original advertised efficacy (before Delta variant existed) was 95%. Even if we just talked about cases, 95% efficacy would yield 5% breakthrough cases, or 8.25 million of the 165 million vaccinated in the US. Do we have 8.25 million breakthrough cases? No, we have about 125,000.
As for hospitalizations and deaths, I can go down the list, state by state. ~97% of the hospitalizations are all unvaccinated. ~99% of the deaths are all unvaccinated. Meanwhile, 80% of the over-65 crowd (the ones most likely to have severe COVID-19 and die from it) are vaccinated. If the vaccine did nothing, 80% of those who are in hospitals and dying from COVID-19 should be vaccinated. Except the exact opposite is being observed in literally every single state in the United States. Red states, blue states; doesn’t matter. They’re all seeing the same results.
So when you say “you’re going to find the COVID vax position less and less tenable”, I can’t help but laugh. People point to these places that are highly vaccinated, but all they can point at are cases. People point to the US and all they can point at are cases, because as soon as I look in a hospital or a morgue, it’s filled with the unvaccinated.
Less tenable? Every day brings another mountain of data reinforcing how critically important the vaccines are to protecting human life. THANK YOU PRESIDENT TRUMP!
Sorry, that should have said Gibraltar has had one death SINCE March. That dead was August 4th. 20% of Gibraltar’s COVID-19 cases are among the unvaccinated (the 99% applies only to the people who are eligible for it), and I have no data on whether the person who died was vaccinated or not. But it remains the only COVID-19 death in Gibraltar since March.
Well when 99% of the eligible population is vaccinated, that doesn’t leave a lot of unvaccinated left.
And we’re still talking about cases. Because if we talked about deaths, we’d be back to looking at 1 death since March in the whole country. Whereas before the vaccinations, they racked up one of the highest deaths per 1 million population in the world.
So by all means, let’s make sure that focus stays on cases, and not hospitalizations or deaths.
You’re being picayune. It’s as if there’s a new virus in that it can now infect you. Go to the link below and watch the vid with the virus guy. He tries to translate, tucker tries to put it in vernacular. We all do it. Professional language from any profession isn’t perfect when it gets translated into everyday language.
The Smoking Jab: Fauci and the NIH Knew Covid-19 “Vaccines” Could Lead to Antibody-Dependent Enhancement
https://ghionjournal.com/fauci-nih-knew-covid-19-vaccines-could-lead-antibody-dependent-enhancement/
There are quite a few vaccines out there. Which vaccine did Gibraltar use? It doesn’t say in the article.
RE: There are quite a few vaccines out there. Which vaccine did Gibraltar use?
If it is Gibraltar, since it is a British Overseas territory., then it most likely will be either Astra Zeneca and/or Pfizer/BioNTech. These are the two most administered “jabs” in the UK.
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