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Sounds a lot like what Geert Vanden Bossche warned the world about last year.

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Herd immunity is based not only on the transmissibility of the disease, but also on the behavioral changes the disease causes. For example, a disease that knocks you on your ass, also limits your social interactions.

What if the Covid Vax lowers symptoms so you continue to interact normally but doesn't lower transmissibility?

In essence, the vaccines may have raised the herd immunity threshold.

Maybe we were done and then vaxxed our way into the current waves.

That would suck.

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Something other than what was promised is going on that's for sure. Perhaps it is time to revisit some assumptions:

1) immunity = protection from viral infection & replication. We have never tested for rna sequences believed to be indicative of a particular viral species at this scale ever before. Moreover, traditionally, testing followed presentation of illness, so a naive assumption has been that if illness declines so does the virus, and if illness in a population disappears well so has the virus. But what if viruses normally rarely cause illness, doing so after all reflects a robust immune response that hampers viral replication. Wouldn't evolution favor viral replication without over stimulating the immune response that results in illness? If so, we need to rethink what we believe “immunity” to be … as it would be as much a feature of viral activity as that of the host in which it operates. So, “herd immunity” meaning the virus is driven completely out of a population is likely false, at least in many if not most cases. This is just wild speculation of course.

2) these shots are “vaccines” — why in the world would we ever think that producing a version of a protein assumed to have been part of the wild virus from 2019 in order to stimulate antibody production narrowly targeted to that spike protein would really yield the effect of a vaccine? Seems like the most that can be claimed is that this is a rather dangerous preventative tonic that lasts for a few weeks and nothing more. Calling it a vaccine leads to false thinking about what these shots deliver and what we might expect from them. (see “Sapir-Whorf” hypothesis)

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Or you can just look at this chart. This is all the ICUs in the US. Light blue line. Then it is all of the occupied beds as a national average. Dark blue line. Then it is the number of beds occupied by Covid patients. Red line. See pre-vax winter and post-vax summer. Tell me what you see...

https://app.powerbi.com/view?r=eyJrIjoiODMzMWUxODEtNzMyNy00NWJjLWIzNTktYzJiZGMxMjFiMTgyIiwidCI6IjQ4ZGIxMmFjLTVkYzMtNGQ1MS05N2VkLTVhM2RkZTYxOTlmYyJ9&pageName=ReportSectionf97385449b74f863ad3b

Now search for the University of Alabama hospital in Birmingham. See same datapoints. How's it look?

The dancing nurses of TikTok and their "our hospitals cant take this" are lying.

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I’m not sure if you saw the message yesterday I added to a previous article, but looking at VT, a highly vaccinated state, and their biweekly summaries, it appears over the last four weeks they’ve added 28 deaths, 23 of which were breakthrough. Additionally, by my math on CFR, the breakthrough CFR is a magnitude higher than the remaining, presumably unvaccinated or partially vaccinated population (though testing levels likely result in bias here).

This is not a good sign if indeed the state ends up playing catch up.

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“It will also be brutal on the unvaccinated who, ironically, would need protection FROM the vaccinated”

By this do we mean unvaccinated and w/o natural immunity? Are we expecting that natural immunity will still hold, even in the face of these vaccine-selected hotter strains?

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El gato…What in the world is going on with the flu. There is just no way it disappears. That just does not make any sense to me. Is just everything getting lumped into Covid to scare people and push new vax technology. Also a while ago I listened to a virologist say that we would not be able to differentiate Covid from ADE unless autopsies were done. When you look at the graph of the United States (as a whole) we have more deaths for this time of the year than last year this time. That doesn’t make any sense with so many people vaccinated and the vaccine decreasing hospitalization and death by even just 50%. Why would we be seeing more deaths?

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"there is very plausible case to be made that these vaccines are actually increasing spread and may well be selecting for hotter, more dangerous virus. "

Excuse me for reiterating the obvious: Historically, the normal course of a viral epidemic would be an initial exponential high spike followed by a second and third wave, eventually dying out from herd immunity. The fact that this epidemic is being extended with multiple large waves after 18 months and promising to continue into a second year should be evidence in itself that the vaccines, being the novel factor, are the probable cause of extending the viral spread.

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I’m in Vermont. I gave up trying to find data on who exactly is dying here—Gov Scott says it’s 85% the unvaxxed. But, last time I checked, 97% of people 65+ were vaxxed. So I figure anyone over 65 was jabbed.

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very early for respiratory virus spike!!

vt and me have 'outdone' the neighbors per my resident karen, nh has done bad per my karen. we live in metro boston part of nh!

so vt and me are "catching up". maybe people are more mobile when vaxxed? for me. vt and nh we have leaf season starting in a week or two more mobility and tourists from ny, ct and nj.

today boston covid panic radio: 1700 new +pcr and 13 new deaths. idk what data base......

so far i take a live free or die approach, i am vaxxed i do quercetin etc and i only mask in medical facility when required.

sick of the covidian panic!

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Perfect Bill Gates’esque weapon:

1. Depopulate

2. Rollover more power to tech oligarchs

3. Transfer more money to hospitals from the taxpayer and therefore to the wealthy stockholders

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Gato, why do you say southern states peak flu and respiratory season is in August? That doesn’t seem to be the case, as a southerner who lived in the South until 1999. It’s blasted hot there in August. Most people stay inside in air conditioned homes and apartments from at least June until September. Maybe that is why they had big outbreaks in summer? Lots of indoor spread. Flu season doesn’t start in the south usually until at least November and doesn’t really get going well until January. I remember having 104 fever caused by influenza which struck me on March 31st one year, a day that will live in infamy. That’s later than most influenza, but not out of the realm of possibility. I’d be happy to hear an answer to my question to you. Thanks, cat.

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Well I wondered why suddenly a lot of people were masking up again. I stopped watching tv leading up to election, & stopped following Maine cdc announcements when it became clear they're spewing bs. We were flay as a pancake last year & tourism way down. This year more normal & the "furrigners" from NY & points west are still plentiful. Maybe brought covid variants with them?

We still aren't having fall weather. Not even close to having 1st frost & neighbor is selling tomatoes from her garden. So I'm not sure season is to blame.

Still days are shortening a bit & many dense cloudy ones, so maybe enough to lower d3 levels?

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Why try and make sense of bankers and big business deciding medical policies? The media keep broadcasting that there is a deadly virus out there and the vaccine is the answer. People don't see articles like this in large numbers. How many read your blogs compared to those who hear or read MSM?

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The low numbers in northern New England up till now is one of the most baffling aspects of Covid in the U.S. Spread from NY and southern New England should've led to higher numbers in northern New England last year, but it didn't happen.

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"these are simply not false and the US data on vaccination status has become a disaster."

I think you meant "these are simply false" or "these are simply not true"?

Anyway these trends are obviously all just because we stopped requiring masks. :)

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