“All of the vaccines curently in use stimulate antibodies against a particular epitope on the spike protein.”
You sound knowledgeable. Is this the spike protein which attaches to the ACE2 receptor?
What I know for sure, make that cock-sure, is that since taking jabs 15 months ago I have visited 60 restaurants, done 5 Caribbean cruises, about 100 visits to buy groceries and buy stuff at Home Depot, 50 visits to cancer hospital to escort my wife fighting cancer for 4.5 years, and many visits to bank, post office, my family doctor, Quest labs every 6 months for routine blood work, and a few visits to Orlando airport to drive arriving guests home etc etc.
And not a single infection of covid. Got tested many times, before each cruise and a few at home tests using kits.
Yes, the original Wuhan version.
The beef with Vandenbossche is more more that he’s claiming that vaccine-induced immunity is “driving” the virus to evolve. If there’s a distinction in his theory from those of Lysenko, he has exerted little effort to make that clear.
It’s not that there isn’t selection pressure (to use the imperfect analogy that seems common in the trade), it’s that virii mutate all the time anyway, from the inevitable transcription errors, and single-strand RNA viruses are the most prone to that.
He has to know this. He could clarify his point, he could publish in a peer-reviewed journal so that other subject matter experts could weigh in, but he doesn’t.
This has nothing to do, by the way, with the safety or efficacy of the vaccines. They could well be as flawed as the critics allege.
But this guy doesn’t seem to be on the level, and a healthy skepticism seems warranted.