The Vaccine is Effective

Natural immunity is at least equal to and likley stronger then vaccination. This paper adds to the growing body of evidence to support this take. Note the natural immunity remains undiminished after a year while the two shot vaccine regimen has disappeared. It is expected that boosters will be required for life to maintain a level of efficacy as good as natural covid immunity.

For the record the hybrid (vaccination + natural immunity) protection levels are misleading as there is huge variance in the data as a result of a small sample size.

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Effects of Previous Infection and Vaccination on Symptomatic Omicron Infections | NEJM

Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine — Effects of Previous Infection and Vaccination on Symptomatic Omicron Infections
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Previous infection, vaccination, and hybrid immunity all showed strong effectiveness (>90%) against severe, critical, or fatal Covid-19 due to BA.1 infection, but some of the 95% confidence intervals were wide because of small case numbers (Figure 1B and Table 2).

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Note that the booster shots wear off quickly and the expectation is that if these same measurements were made in a couple of months vaccination will have lost most of its efficacy while natural immunity would still be going strong.
 
Alex Berenson provides more info on this important paper showing that natural covid immunity is superior to vaccination:

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The news for Covid vaccines gets worse and worse

A big study says natural immunity protects against Omicron for over a year; mRNA shots fail in months. This is the third paper with awful mRNA data in a week. When will the media even pretend to care?
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A key data set - note that the protective efficacy of natural immunity basically stays the same while vaccine derived protection fades quickly:

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Thanks Pfizer!

My mom, a devotee of Saint Anthony Fauci - America’s Doctor! - found herself in atrial fibrillation following her booster last fall. The afib pa…
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May be Dr Lotty or Covid expert Alex Berensen (. Or any reporter from the Gateway Pundit ) can tell us which states have the highest per capita death rates and what those states vaccination rates are? I’m sure there is zero correlation
 
A paper published in the Lancet this week estimated that covid-19 vaccines prevented around 20m deaths in the first year of their roll-out. But more could have been done. The researchers’ mathematical model suggests that roughly one in five deaths due to covid in low-income countries might have been avoided if the World Health Organisation’s vaccination targets had been met. Our Daily Chart presents the findings.
 
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A paper published in the Lancet this week estimated that covid-19 vaccines prevented around 20m deaths in the first year of their roll-out. But more could have been done. The researchers’ mathematical model suggests that roughly one in five deaths due to covid in low-income countries might have been avoided if the World Health Organisation’s vaccination targets had been met. Our Daily Chart presents the findings.
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The key words here are "ESTIMATED" and "MATHEMATICAL MODEL". Mental masturbation at it's best.

I wonder what the models say about the number of deaths, particularly in poor countries, the western worlds lock downs caused? The global economic catastrophe courtesy of the covid shutdowns will kill far more then 20 million people when all is said and done.
 
Harrycrane said:
May be Dr Lotty or Covid expert Alex Berensen (. Or any reporter from the Gateway Pundit ) can tell us which states have the highest per capita death rates and what those states vaccination rates are? I’m sure there is zero correlation
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Red states....blue states....lather, rinse, repeat.
 
winbypin said:
Red states....blue states....lather, rinse, repeat.
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Yes two years ago you people crowed that the more densely populated blue states had higher per capita death rates ., Bad leadership . You claimed the better rates of the red states was superior leaders and politicians . Well at the end of the day it turned out to be the anti mask and vaccine red states have a majority of the highest per capita death rates . Why wouldn’t I point this out ? This an 80 percent right wing EC who claims red states and leadership is far superior in every way . I simply point out facts that dispute this and prove rheas ideas to be faulty . Then I rinse and repeat it the next month pertaining to another topic . Ref states have less money and higher murder rates as well . Oh and use Gov assistance at higher rates than blue states. Must be the superior leaders
 
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Yes two years ago you people crowed that the more densely populated blue states had higher per capita death rates ., Bad leadership . You claimed the better rates of the red states was superior leaders and politicians . Well at the end of the day it turned out to be the anti mask and vaccine red states have a majority of the highest per capita death rates . Why wouldn’t I point this out ? This an 80 percent right wing EC who claims red states and leadership is far superior in every way . I simply point out facts that dispute this and prove rheas ideas to be faulty . Then I rinse and repeat it the next month pertaining to another topic . Ref states have less money and higher murder rates as well . Oh and use Gov assistance at higher rates than blue states. Must be the superior leaders
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Red states....blue states....lather, rinse, repeat.
 
Stunning observations out of Germany!

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Two VERY striking pieces from Eugyppius

On the fact that the German states with low vaccination rates (basically the former East Germany) have now MUCH lower Omicron infection rates th…
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Behold the latest map of 7-day Corona incidence across the Federal Republic of Germany:

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This is the Omicron BA.5 wave in central Europe, and it is attended by a curious phenomenon: Every day, you can see more clearly the borders of the old DDR in the district-level data. I’ve traced these in green just to make the phenomenon clearer.

Yes yes, there are systematic demographic differences between East and West Germans, and there are probably some differences in testing rates, but above all, there is an important difference in vaccine uptake.

East Germans have direct experience with government propaganda, and have proven more resistent to the vaccination campaign than Westerners. Their reward, after being much maligned by state media, is now higher levels of natural immunity and lower rates of BA.5 infection, which appears to prefer vaccinated populations.

As the effects of vaccine failure grow clearer, you have to wonder how long the pandemicists will be able to publish even simple infection statistics, without raising extremely awkward questions.

This effect was NOT observed pre-vaccine.
 
Huge study showing that the risk for post covid vaccination induced myocarditis is real:

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Age and sex-specific risks of myocarditis and pericarditis following Covid-19 messenger RNA vaccines - Nature Communications

There have been reports of myocarditis and pericarditis following mRNA COVID-9 vaccination. Here, the authors use nationwide data from France and find increased risks of these outcomes in the first week following vaccination, for both the first and second dose, and present age- and sex-specific...
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In conclusion, this study provides strong evidence of an increased risk of myocarditis and of pericarditis in the week following vaccination against Covid-19 with mRNA vaccines in both males and females, in particular after the second dose of the mRNA-1273 vaccine.

Now it's true that the threat from covid vaccine induced myocarditis is still relatively low this supports the idea that it may exceed the risk from covid to those under 40 years old. It's all about the risk/benefit calculation.
 
Actually, the increased risk of myocarditis isn’t caused by the vaccines. It’s caused by a new element they just found in the atmosphere. It’s also caused by all the soil on the earth. People now really need to be careful gardening because the soil can cause your heart to not work and you can die. Be careful breathing air also. This is new and something we weren’t aware of before. Makes total sense though.
 
Lotr, what I just posted is the actual narrative they’re trying to push now, along 6-8 other “new” things that all of a sudden are causing myocarditis in otherwise healthy people. I’m sure you’ve seen them, as well. Anything but the vaccines huh lol.
 
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Twitter is forced to restore Alex Berenson's account and admit publicly that they were wrong to ban him. More to come on what role the government played in Berenson and other Twitter covid commentators being banned:

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COVID Journalist Alex Berenson Settles Suit With Twitter, Is Reinstated Nearly a Year After Refusing to Bend Knee

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PJ media will keep us posted if the Gateway Pundit doesn’t beat them
To the horror of the great Alex Berensen’s twitter status. Alex who along with the Covid whisperer himself right here in the good ole YRWEC have been right since day one on everything Covid . That’s of course after Dr Lotty got off to rough start (. Folks this isn’t a serious virus (. Not as bad as the CMOH winner and all knowing Oxy Limbaugh’ s “. It’s the common cold .
 
Grumpy ? I was laughing my arse off typing that post . Yeah if Berensen and Dr Lotty were British we would be calling them Sir any minute now . I’m sure PJ media will keep us updated
 
Interesting data out of Haiti.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1544342058068049921

To be clear according to the WHO only 1.4% of Haiti's population of 11.6 million people have received two doses of the vaccine. So basically over 98% of Haiti's population is unvacinated. Yet Haiti has seen only 837 deaths of people with covid. That means that in this unvaccinated population if you catch covid you have greater then a 99.99% chance of not dying.
 

Biden and Fauci Botched the Covid Pandemic Response​

Instead of protecting the vulnerable, they bet too heavily on vaccines to achieve herd immunity.​

WSJ
By
Allysia Finley
July 7, 2022 1:08 pm ET

There are many lessons to be gleaned from the U.S. pandemic response. House Democrats don’t care to study them.

The House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis last month issued a deeply partisan report demonizing doctors who purportedly espoused “a dangerous and discredited herd immunity via mass infection strategy.” The report took aim at the Trump administration’s embrace of the October 2020 Great Barrington Declaration, in which epidemiologists Martin Kulldorff (Harvard), Sunetra Gupta (Oxford) and Jay Bhattacharya (Stanford) advocated protecting the elderly and vulnerable while allowing schools and businesses to reopen. This wasn’t a strategy to infect masses of people on purpose. The goal was to minimize deaths and social and economic harm until the country reached herd immunity through infection or vaccination.

The Great Barrington strategy of “focused protection” helped minimize the pandemic’s collateral damage until vaccines became available. The Biden administration then undertook a strategy of herd immunity via vaccination. But when this strategy failed, it doubled down with vaccine mandates.
From the outset of the pandemic, the mainstream medical establishment and government bureaucracy were aligned behind a lockdown-at-all-costs strategy. The Trump White House tapped Scott Atlas, a Hoover Institution fellow and radiologist, for a contrarian perspective. Dr. Atlas endorsed the elements of the Great Barrington strategy. The House report criticizes him for a memo in which he argued that “stopping all cases is not necessary, nor is it possible. It instills irrational fear into the public. Non-prioritized testing is jeopardizing critical resources for truly critical testing and is creating problematic delays in test results for the most important populations.”

He was right on every point. Indiscriminate use of a scarce resource reduces public welfare. When tests were in short supply, Dr. Atlas’s recommendation to save them for high-risk groups such as nursing-home residents made eminent sense. His prescriptions and those of the Great Barrington Declaration aimed to maximize public welfare.

Democrats claim in their report that 130,000 lives could have been saved with more “mitigation,” but this is doubtful. California and New York, which adopted mask mandates and lockdowns during the 2020-21 winter, fared no better than Florida and Texas, which didn’t. What’s more, employment continues to lag significantly in liberal lockdown states. Had all 50 states stayed shut down until vaccines were available, with the federal government paying tens of millions of people not to work—as Democrats ostensibly would have done—we might now be experiencing high unemployment and even higher inflation.

Vaccines ultimately saved the day by reducing the Covid disease burden and giving Democratic states a reason to lift their destructive lockdowns. But the Biden administration bet too heavily on vaccines to confer herd immunity. In December 2020, Anthony Fauci projected that a 75% to 85% vaccination rate could provide a “blanket of herd immunity.” This proved too optimistic.

An ever-mutating and increasingly transmissible virus, combined with waning vaccine effectiveness, made herd immunity a moving target. By spring 2021, Pfizer’s clinical trial data showed that its vaccine was becoming less protective against infection as time passed. Four months after the second dose, vaccine efficacy had declined to 84%, making breakthrough infections more likely and imperiling the Biden administration’s goals. Yet Pfizer honcho Albert Bourla writes in his new book, “Moonshot,” that federal public-health officials feared disclosing this waning efficacy would breed more vaccine hesitancy. The Biden administration kept it under wraps until July, when breakthrough infections in Provincetown, Mass., made it impossible to deny. Stories in the media were corroborated by a study from Israel the same month showing vaccine protection against infection falling to 39%.

Only after the Washington Post published a leaked Centers for Disease Control and Prevention slide presentation showing that vaccine efficacy was declining did the agency acknowledge it. Still, Dr. Fauci in August insisted that herd immunity could be achieved “really easily if we get everyone vaccinated.” He should have known by then that was false.

None of these realities stopped the Biden administration from mandating vaccines for private workers and arguing in court, despite evidence to the contrary, that doing so was “necessary to protect unvaccinated workers from the risk of contracting COVID-19” and “that vaccines dramatically reduce the risk of contracting and transmitting COVID-19.” After the Supreme Court blocked the mandate in January, the administration pivoted to a strategy of focused protection—e.g., distributing antiviral and monoclonal-antibody treatments and booster shots to the vulnerable. Alas, the administration’s orders were too little, too late to help when deaths and hospitalizations soared in winter 2021-22.

Nearly 600,000 Covid deaths have occurred on Mr. Biden’s watch despite vaccines and better treatments—about 180,000 more than under Donald Trump. One lesson is the importance of diverse opinions. The Biden administration paid too much heed to experts such as Dr. Fauci and ignored those who argued against placing all its eggs in the vaccine basket.

Another lesson is that science evolves, and there’s no shame in admitting error. Most scientists were wrong about what it would take to achieve herd immunity. But it’s better to correct mistakes than compound them, which is what the Biden administration did. Why it did is something for a future GOP Congress to investigate.
 
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