Why COVID-19 Vaccines Cannot Stop the Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 Variants

Introduction

The “public health” establishment has been deliberately lying to the public in order to manufacture consent for the policy goal of achieving high uptake of COVID-19 vaccines.

As I’ve been extensively documenting, this includes lying from the start about the effectiveness of natural immunity compared to the immunity induced by vaccination. Due to the inferiority of natural immunity, we’ve been endlessly told, people who have already recovered from SARS-CoV-2 infection still need to get vaccinated to be able to have effective immunity.

Relatedly, the official disinformation about natural immunity has been accompanied by claims that everyone must get vaccinated to prevent the emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 variants.

The more unvaccinated people there are, the argument goes, the more chances that SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, has to infect people and spread, and therefore the more chances it has to mutate into a variant that could be more infectious, cause more severe disease, or escape the population’s existing immune defenses.

By getting vaccinated, we’ve repeatedly been told, we will be denying the virus the opportunity to evolve.

This might sound superficially plausible, just as many people believed the early false claims that rapidly waning antibodies in people who had recovered from COVID-19 meant that they were quickly losing their natural immunity.

People were susceptible to that disinformation because, as a result of the pre-pandemic vaccine propaganda with which we were always bombarded since early childhood, they had already been indoctrinated into the false belief that circulating antibodies equal immunity; therefore, more antibodies equals better immunity and fewer antibodies equals less immunity.

Similarly, the claims that everyone needs to get vaccinated to stop SARS-CoV-2 from evolving must surely sound plausible to anyone indoctrinated into the false belief that the COVID-19 vaccines stopped infection and transmission of the virus.

It is no secret at this point in time that the vaccines are not highly effective at preventing infection and transmission. And yet, we continue to see the argument coming from the “public health” establishment and the major media that we all need to get vaccinated to stop new variants from emerging.

The false claims about rapidly waning natural immunity depended on concealing from the public the fact that it is normal for antibody levels to wane quickly at first from peak levels reached after an acute infection, and that this is consistent with immunologists’ understanding of how long-term immunity develops. The deception depended further on concealing the fact that the scientific evidence overwhelmingly indicated that natural immunity would be robust, broad, and durable—likely to last  for decades if not a lifetime.

Similarly, the false claims that the COVID-19 vaccines can stop SARS-CoV-2 from evolving depend on concealing from the public the fact that mass vaccination itself incontrovertibly puts selective pressure on the virus to mutate into an escape variant.

The deception depends on concealing the fact that it is understood within the scientific community that escape variants are more likely to emerge under conditions of suboptimal immunity.

It depends on obfuscating the fact, also uncontroversial in the scientific literature, that suboptimal immunity is precisely what the vaccines deliver.