I recently had the pleasure of speaking again with Brett Hawes on his Holistic Health Masterclass podcast about natural versus vaccine-induced immunity to SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
Listen to our discussion here.
We had a great conversation, covering specific topics that include:
- Why I shifted the focus of my independent journalism from foreign policy to vaccines and COVID-19.
- Why claims about the proportion of people who are hospitalized in the US with COVID-19 and are unvaccinated warrant skepticism.
- How the Israeli population has been effectively used to collect data for a mass uncontrolled experiment.
- How policymakers and “public health” officials have necessarily shifted the goalposts for the vaccines since their original promise that mass vaccination would be the path to herd immunity proved to be false.
- How propaganda claims about rapidly waning natural immunity to SARS-CoV-2 were used to manufacture consent for the political agenda of mass vaccination, which was always the endgame of authoritarian lockdown measures.
- How people who recovered from SARS back in 2003 still have antibody and cellular immune responses to the virus all these years later, which suggests that natural immunity to SARS-CoV-2 will likewise be very long lasting.
- How infection with coronaviruses that cause the common cold induces immune responses that are cross-reactive to SARS-CoV-2 and are not only likely reduce disease severity but may even be sufficient to prevent infection.
- How we’re told that even people who’ve recovered from infection need to get vaccinated to boost antibody levels even though a high level of antibodies in people who become infected is associated with more severe disease.
- How infection with SARS-CoV-2 results in induction of long-lived immunological memory so that the immune system is capable of rapidly ramping up production of neutralizing antibodies as necessary in the event of reexposure.
- How the COVID-19 vaccines have a very narrow immunological focus in comparison to the much broader repertoire of immune responses associated with natural immunity.
- What “original antigenic sin” is and how we are now seeing evidence that COVID-19 vaccines—but not natural infections—have this detrimental effect on the immune system.
- What “antibody dependent enhancement” is and why this is also a legitimate concern about COVID-19 vaccines.
- Why people whose immune system were primed by vaccination may be forever dependent on “booster” shots to maintain protection against COVID-19.
- How studies are finding that being fully vaccinated has negative effectiveness against the Omicron variant, which is evidence for original antigenic sin (or antibody dependent enhancement, or both).
- (Correction: in the interview, I said that the study by researchers in Denmark showed that the effectiveness of booster shots also wanes rapidly. Actually, that study did not assess the effectiveness of a booster dose over time. Data from the UK show that this is so. I wrote about these findings in this article.)
- How if COVID-19 vaccine manufacturers produce new vaccines to target emergent variants of SARS-CoV-2, regulators will not require new randomized controlled trials to assess safety and effectiveness, and how flu shots offer lessons about the harmful consequences of rolling out new vaccines without adequate safety data.
- How the New York Times repeatedly claimed that natural immunity offers little to no protection against infection with the Omicron variant by citing a study that showed that natural immunity continues to offer a high level of protection, particularly when compared to the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines.
- How propagandists are exhibiting cognitive dissonance by delivering the message that natural exogenous boosting (“reinfection”) is bad but vaccine failure (“breakthrough” infection) is good and results in “super immunity” (meaning an increase in antibody levels).
- How the CDC’s claim that vaccines induce superior immunity contrasts with the view among scientists that new vaccines need to be developed to more closely mimic the immune responses associated with natural immunity.
- How the entire “public health” establishment—including the CDC, the AAP, the AMA, health care providers, and medical doctors—is engaged in the propagation of disinformation that serves the financial interests of the pharmaceutical industry.
- How doctors who tell the truth, including by recommending early treatments for COVID-19 effective for preventing severe outcomes, are muzzled by being threatened with loss of license for speaking out against the official disinformation.
- How doctors and scientists who tell the truth are also silenced through media and social media censorship.
- Why repeated “booster” shots are an insane solution to the problem.
- How authoritarian lockdown measures only serve to delay the inevitable, if they have any effect at all, and worsen outcomes in the long run.
- Why one effect of mass vaccination may have been to impede the development of herd immunity.
- What “opportunity cost” means and why we must consider natural immunity to be an opportunity cost of vaccination.
- Why the emergence of the Omicran variant indicates that we are moving from the “pandemic” to the “endemic” phase of SARS-CoV-2.
- How mass vaccination puts evolutionary pressure on viruses and bacteria that potentially can result in the pathogen becoming even more virulent.
- How studies show that people who recover from infection are at a higher risk for adverse events from COVID-19 vaccines.
- My own experience with a mild case of COVID-19 as an unvaccinated individual, and the supplement regimen I was on that I believe helps to explain why my symptoms were so mild (including in comparison to a fully vaccinated individual whose fully vaccinated household transmitted the virus to my own family).
No jab=better health!