We Want Them to Understand the Evolutionary Dynamics In a Mass-vaccinated Population: The integration of pseudoscience and polarization into the pandemic response.
The lack of understanding and the pseudoscience it generates lead to an endless stream of articles, books, and Substacks. Here’s another one that has caught the attention of the mainstream media: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/10/31/wwti-o31.html
Howard’s book shows that neither side really understood the profound epidemiological impact of large-scale infection-prevention measures and mass vaccination during the pandemic.
All the loud voices were wrong in thinking the virus would either be naturally controlled by Omicron (or its descendants) or kept in check by (updated) Covid-19 (C-19) vaccines.
What all of them missed is that mRNA vaccines or breakthrough infections due to Omicron immune escape variants in previously C-19 vaccinated people (even with non-mRNA vaccines) lead to something called ‘immune refocusing’. This process messes up the immune response permanently, especially in people with high anti-spike antibody levels who get re-infected by more infectious immune escape variants and don’t have strong innate immunity.
I’ve made mistakes in my predictions too, but not about the outcome of this man-made immune escape pandemic—just about the timing. Indeed, it still surprises me how long it’s taking for the virus to evolve into a more dangerous strain while being countered by pseudo-protective, non-neutralizing adaptive immunity in highly C-19 vaccinated populations.
Nature will eventually reveal how much more time it will take to stop SARS-CoV-2 transmission, even in the absence of herd immunity….
The first cartoon above is what the narrative says (looking from left to right).
However, I would argue that they’ve forgotten the very last evolutionary step, transforming the sweet pussycat into a monstrous sabre-toothed tiger, as depicted in the second cartoon below. Hence, contrary to the narrative, one should NOT read the first image ‘from left to right’ but rather in the opposite direction!
The Coronavirus Still Doesn’t Care About Your Feelings…
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/covid-pandemic-panic-calm-advice
“….Despite the end of the Public Health Emergency in May, Covid-19 remains a pandemic, by definition…”
“…History is replete with examples of pandemics that blazed for decades, sometimes smoldering for years before flaring up again into catastrophe…“
“…This claim—that more disease risk and contagion means the end of a disease event—runs contrary to the science. Many have claimed that widespread SARS-CoV-2 infections will lead to increasingly mild disease that poses fewer concerns for an increasingly vaccinated (or previously infected) population. In fact, more disease spread means faster evolution for SARS-CoV-2, and greater risks for public health. As we (A.C. and collaborators) and others have pointed out, rapid evolution creates the risk of novel variants with unpredictable severity. It also threatens the means that we have to prevent and treat Covid-19: monoclonal antibody treatments no longer work, Paxlovid is showing signs of viral resistance, and booster strategy is complicated by viral evolution of resistance to vaccines.…”
“…and others have pointed out, rapid evolution creates the risk of novel variants with unpredictable severity…”
Geert: I firmly claim that ‘widespread SARS-CoV-2 infections will lead to increasingly mild disease that poses fewer concerns for a previously infected but unvaccinated population’ !
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