Posted on 10/27/2021 8:30:08 AM PDT by Hojczyk
As more Americans receive protection from natural immunity after Covid-19 infection, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has withheld the total number of infections from the public, even though it is undeniably information that belongs to the public.
For months, the CDC updated its website with information including estimates of Covid-19 infected people in the U.S.
However, prior to the Delta variant of Covid-19 spreading widely, the CDC abruptly stopped updating that information.
The last published update as of the time of this publication was May 29, almost five months ago.
At that time, CDC estimated 120.2 million people in the U.S. had been infected with Covid-19. Some scientists believe that estimate was significantly lower than the actual number. However, it still amounted to more than 1/3 of the population, which reportedly numbers approximately 330 million.
Since the Delta variant has spread widely, scientists say the number of naturally-immune is now much higher than it was on May 29. However, CDC will not tell what it is.
CDC last updated the number of previously-infected, or naturally-immune, five months ago On October 5, when I asked a CDC representative for the updated estimate, a spokesman told me that the agency intended to release that number later in the week, which would include the estimate through September, and then would likely update it monthly thereafter.
However, three weeks later, the number still hasn't been updated, and CDC has declined to provide the reason for withholding the information.
I also filed a FOI request for the information, but CDC did not respond to or acknowledge receipt of the request.
The number of naturally-immune is relevant because a growing body of studies says natural immunity is proving as effective or far more effective than vaccine-induced immunity.
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Our government sure does have a penchant for secrecy.
Its almost as if they’re afraid we might be able to think for ourselves. /sarc
H/T EasySt. This exchange speaks to the implications (to the Deep State) of people actually thinking critically about natural immunity:
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A logical analysis of employer mandates; a famous epidemiologist says he would take his kids out of school before injecting them; the Governor calls out the public health experts, and more...
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Good morning and Happy Tuesday, C&C fans! Today’s roundup includes: a logical analysis of employer mandates; a famous epidemiologist says he would take his kids out of school before injecting them; the Governor calls out the public health experts; the Governor recruits uninjected law-enforcement officers; Rogan talks about the horse-dewormer; the Biden Administration discharges more travel mandates; the feds threaten Florida over enforcing its school mask-choice policies, and more.
🗞*COVID NEWS AND COMMENTARY* 🗞
🔥 If an employer can make you get a Covid injection as a condition of employment in order to protect everyone else, why can’t an employer make you get infected with COVID in order to protect everyone else?
It seems to me that the two assertions the pro-injection folks rely on to justify mandates are:
1) Getting injected helps protect vaccinated people.
2) Getting injected is fully justified by the aggregate benefit to the community, and any individual harms caused by the injections are acceptable collateral damage.
Based on those two assertions, if you accept that natural immunity is at least as good as injection immunity, then why not just make everyone get Covid to stay employed?
1) Getting Covid helps protect vaccinated people.
2) Getting Covid is fully justified by the aggregate benefit to the community, and any individual harms caused by the infection are acceptable collateral damage.
So, what’s the difference? You can’t say the relative risk of harm from the injections is lower than risks from Covid infection. LONG TERM RISKS FROM THE INJECTIONS ARE UNKNOWN. There is literally no possible way to compare the risks. We just don’t have the data. So comparative risk analysis CANNOT be the way to distinguish the two policies. At best, all you can say is the risks are equally unknown, making the two options equivalent.
Once you reject comparative risk analysis, what other rationale can explain why an employer couldn’t just make infections mandatory?
🔥 Another question I have about the widely-discredited theory that uninjected people pose a risk to injected people is, if the injections prevent severe illness and death as claimed, what exactly IS the risk? Having a bad cold? Is preventing injected people from possibly getting a bad cold the entire justification for mandates?
💉 Dr. Harvey Risch, Professor of Epidemiology at Yale University, gave several interviews recently. A Pulse of Israel reporter asked him, “should vaccinated be afraid of the unvaccinated?”
RISCH: “No, I’d put it the other way around. The unvaccinated should be afraid of the vaccinated … it is well-known that it is the vaccinated people that generate the mutant strains and not the unvaccinated people. And that corruption of the medical establishment saying the unvaccinated are generating the mutants is an absolute falsehood; it is exactly the opposite. This has been known for a hundred years. It is vaccinated people that are more prone to generate mutant strains.”
Similarly, in a separate interview, Mark Levin asked Risch, “If you’re a parent and have a 7 or 8 year old … what would you do? Would you get your kid vaccinated?”
RISCH: “If the child has chronic conditions that make their risk appreciable, then there’s a reason they should be considered for vaccination. Other than that, if it were my child, I would homeschool them. Honestly, I would organize with other parents, to take them out of the school, and create homeschooling environments. There’s no choice. Your child’s life is on the line. It’s not a high risk. Vaccination is not a high risk that’s going to kill every child by doing so. However it’s enough of a risk that on the average the benefit is higher from homeschooling than it is for vaccination and being in school.”
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Much more at the links…
I was vaccinated 8 months ago, and never got infected with the slightest symptoms, even on the cruise in mid September 2021.
I don’t like getting even colds, so very happy to be free of covid infections. And zero side effects from that nothing burger Moderna vaccine. So getting jabbed ay Publix pharmacy in Feb-March was a very good move, and avoid the Chinese flu.
I say it is about 80% based on my initial study of the princess cruise ship infection statistics.
+80% were either totally immune or partially immune from the beginning.
Nice trick. Now try transmitting a disease you don’t have to someone who has been immunized against it, from a remote workplace, over the Internet. POTUS can explain how to pull off that trick. It has something to do with Science.
Ping.
Now read CDC’s confusing B$ on this critical issue!:
CDC: Antibody (Serology) Testing for COVID-19: Information for Patients and Consumers
SARS-CoV-2 antibody (often referred to as serology) tests look for antibodies in a sample to determine if an individual has had a past infection with the virus that causes COVID-19. COVID-19 antibody tests can help identify people who may have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus or have recovered from a COVID-19 infection.
At this time, researchers do not know whether the presence of antibodies means that you are immune to COVID-19; or if you are immune, how long it will last.
In people who have received a COVID-19 vaccination, antibody testing is not recommended to determine whether you are immune or protected from COVID-19.
Many antibody tests are currently in development or available for use to detect antibodies to SARS-CoV-2. However, not all antibody tests that are being marketed to the public have been evaluated and authorized by the FDA. For details on specific tests authorized by the FDA, see In Vitro Diagnostics EUAs.
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This makes sense.
Antibody testing would be used to track the progress of the virus through the population.
Can’t have that info getting out.
Last year I had to go to a doc in the box to get an antibody test. Couldn’t get one from Big Med.
CoupFlu has NEVER been about public health.
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I’m sure they don’t want people knowing if they have antibodies because if they get tested post vax they will find those antibodies waning over time. They also have to keep up the lie that natural immunity doesn’t work.
The government has declared war on Americans over Covid-19 vaccine shots and yet are letting hundreds of thousands illegals cross the Southern Border and thousands of Afghan “refugees” into the country without requiring them to show their proof of vaccination or making them get vaccinated. What frigging hypocrisy.
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I was vaccinated 8 months ago, and never got infected with the slightest symptoms, even on the cruise in mid September 2021.
What are your antibody numbers, today?
Hope they’re staying way up there. Have you had/will you have your boost?
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