Posted on 01/26/2021 9:47:26 AM PST by Red Badger
Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel painted a long road ahead in the war against the pandemic and just gave a stark assessment of the pandemic, stating there is good reason to expect a need for ongoing booster shots to protect against mutations that could propagate other variants of SARS-Cov-2, the virus behind the global COVID-19 outbreak.
According to Bancel: “I believe SARS-Cov-2 is going to stay with humans forever,” in an interview with Yahoo Finance Live. “We’re going to have to have boosts adapted to a virus-like we have for flu. It’s the same thing, they are both mRNA viruses, and we’re going to have to live with it forever.”
This comes as the company also announced it was also beginning a test of an additional booster dose of its vaccine, in what they are saying is out of an abundance of caution to potentially strengthen the immune response against emerging strains. Bancel noted that while the original two-dose vaccine did, in fact,
preserve a protective response against the South African strain, with neutralizing antibodies diminished six-fold relative to prior variants. “The big question with the boost is going to be the dose,” he said.
“Do you need 25 or 50 or 100 micrograms? The current product that is authorized by the FDA is 100 micrograms, twice: A prime and a boost.” “If a dose was 50 or 25 micrograms, which is possible because your immune system is already prepared, you might not need to have a big increase of capacity,” he said.
This also follows President Biden drawing backlash for providing a pessimistic view of his administration’s ability to combat the coronavirus pandemic in the near future after he recently indicated that the trajectory of the pandemic can’t be changed in the coming months, no matter what Americans do. “If we fail to act, there will be a wave of evictions and foreclosures in the coming months as this pandemic rages on because there’s nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months,” Biden said.
Uh-huh...
Just like the swine flu did...
soooo, we can deny admittance to everyone not vaccinated against the virus?
This experimental “ vaccine” is sure starting to sound not like a vaccine at all....follow the billions of dollars, and gradually uncover the hoax.
NOPE!!!! Many viruses are with us “forever”—flu, measles, pertussis, cold viruses, etc. We don’t mask and distance—we just take vaccines when it makes sense. And we just live with cold viruses!!!!
By next year, we shall probably have much better and safer vaccines (not mRNA, etc.) And judging from the history of coronaviruses that cause the common cold, the novel coronavirus may mutate into something much milder.
We all must be vigilant against tyrants who want to keep us masked and distanced beyond the need for it!!! I’m VERY disappointed that we Orthodox won’t be able to fully celebrate Pascha even though it is on May 2!!!!
The truth is Covid will continue to be a problem until they’ve injected enough mutagens into us to selectively control births and deaths. After that there will be no need for Covid.
The government is the reporting 400,000 Covid deaths in the US. There have only been 40,000 Covid deaths. Does a figure ten times the actual rate scare you enough? It is justifing the continuing lockdown, pending economic collapse, and coming one-world-government. There are some who can justify anything to achieve their ends.
Logically, the virus was going to either totally vanish just after the enthronement, or become permanent.
The war, therefore, if we judge it by the standards of previous wars, is merely an imposture. It is like the battles between certain ruminant animals whose horns are set at such an angle that they are incapable of hurting one another. But though it is unreal it is not meaningless. It eats up the surplus of consumable goods, and it helps to preserve the special mental atmosphere that a hierarchical society needs. War, it will be seen, is now a purely internal affair. In the past, the ruling groups of all countries, although they might recognize their common interest and therefore limit the destructiveness of war, did fight against one another, and the victor always plundered the vanquished. In our own day they are not fighting against one another at all. The war is waged by each ruling group against its own subjects, and the object of the war is not to make or prevent conquests of territory, but to keep the structure of society intact. The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous, war has ceased to exist.
-George Orwell, "1984"
Substitute "war against the virus" for "war" in the above.
Regards,
I am very close to doing a 1960s style mask burning in the public square. Screw these damn masks. And now Fauci wants us to double up! How about we place a mask on our face that will allow us to inhale nothing and exhale nothing! Bet that would work out just fine....../s
The ‘experts’ say that it will eventually mutate out of dangerous to mild to nothing.
What if it goes the opposite way?.............................
Forever? No worries. I will increase my Vitamin D, Vitamin C, and Zinc. I will exercise more. Take ivermectin when feeling ill. And never submit to tyranny and take their vaccines!
There’s nothing which will make it go away. It just won’t have a lot of impact after a bit.
Amazing what an election can do.
logically or otherwise, we were told by Don Jr. the virus would go away the day after the election.
Gee imagine that, it’s almost like the coronavirus variant causing the common cold as a rhinovirus has been around forever and has never had a vaccine or cure.
Exactly! Never Submit to Tyranny!
Or is motivated by self-interest?
This guy isn't exactly the most unbiased claimant in the world.
Regards,
Some viruses have adapted themselves to be useful for body metabolism. Nature is wonderful.
From Wiki:
The Spanish flu, also known as the 1918 flu pandemic, was an unusually deadly influenza pandemic caused by the H1N1 influenza A virus. Lasting from February 1918 to April 1920, it infected 500 million people – about a third of the world’s population at the time – in four successive waves. The death toll is typically estimated to have been somewhere between 20 million and 50 million, although estimates range from a conservative 17 million to a possible high of 100 million, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in human history.
We’re nowhere near those numbers, yet they make us do these stupid things that dont really do anything to prevent anything........................
The prediction of the Moderna CEO is a logical scientific conclusion.
It does not mean the current status quo.
The Spanish Flu was the viral epidemic in the 1918-19 global pandemic.
It no longer has the extent of concern it had in 1918-19, BUT it is still with us, as one of the bugs lumped together as the “Seasonal Flu”.
Treatments for the Wuhan bug will increase and improve immensely, lessening the fatality impact of the Wuhan bug. And the combination of herd immunity from past infections and those who decide to get a vaccination will at worst and at best see the population accepting a new status quo no worse than we have had for decades now with the “Seasonal Flu”, but yes the Wuhan bug will still be around.
The historical natural course of these bugs and our war on them is NOT their elimination but a combination of (a) a reduction in the volume of the variants of a bug that create the most fatalities (because a bug that kills the host dies with it), (b) some herd immunity and some portion of the population vaccinated, and (c) medical improvements in treatments that reduce fatalities, until the bug remains but at a level that has fewer fatalities and is better managed by human medicine.
The Moderna CEO is not promoting Moderna’s vaccine. He is saying what epidemiological science has understood for years.
Then we're all dooo-ooomed!
Seriously: What if a giant asteroid strikes the Earth tomorrow?
Live life!
Regards,
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