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natural immunity was more protective against infection than vaccination (in California during September, 8.3-fold vs 35.0-fold).
Sometimes these statistics are rather confusing I would assume that that is saying that you had an 8.3 fold less likelihood of getting sick again if you had been vaccinated. And a 35 fold less likelihood of getting sick again if you had had covid before.
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Similarly, those who had a previous infection and remain unvaccinated are also highly protected against serious omicron disease.
Given now that CDC recognizes the protective effect of prior infection, it is time to update vaccination policies and school or work-entry requirements across federal and state or county governments. Those with natural immunity should have equal status as those vaccinated. Demonstrating a prior infection is no more difficult than demonstrating vaccination. Many European countries recognize that immunity due to prior infection is equal to vaccination
There are literally books written on this subject and I don’t intend to try to go into depth here but many doctors and virologists and microbiologists are frustrated by the po-little-docs governing our response to the epidemic.
This is going to be similar to the organic versus pesticide farming debate in my opinion. The pesticide industrial complex has increased food production and has benefited the world in many ways and destroyed it in others. DDT, Roundup, etc.
Vaccines have saved many people with crippled immune systems but they are not the glorious solution to all our problems. As we are also finding out with antibiotic resistance. In many respects vaccines are analogous to a Ford Pinto. There are many people who drove Ford Pintos to work and play regularly, and believe that they were valuable automobiles. There are other people who were completely right saying “yeah but _they blow up_ when you hit them from the back.” Our biggest problem today is that the vaccine manufacturers are completely immune from lawsuits by an act of Congress. Do you think that if Ford Motor Company had been _completely immune_ to lawsuits that we would be driving the cars we have today or would we be still driving cars that blow up when they’re hit from behind.
The worst thing about the current vaccines in my opinion is that they target a single Spike protein. They are barely a vaccine at all. As the article above points out; when you are infected with a live virus your immune system is exposed to a variety of other proteins and features of the virus: but what is not mentioned in the article nor anywhere that I’ve seen is that you are also exposed to all the viral mutants that are generated in your body. A covid infection is estimated to have around 10 to the power of 11 viruses. Wow!:-)
With an RNA virus about one in every million is a mutant. This means that for someone who is infected with the original covid virus, their immune system was exposed to about 100,000 mutants albeit at extremely low levels. Which means that in most cases of natural immunity the person had some exposure to Delta, epsilon, omicron, and 99 thousand 9 hundred and 97 other variants and strains. Depending on how early a successful variant arose your immune system may have had a very good grasp on it by the time you got well. It is this exposure to other variants not just other proteins that gives natural immunity an incredible benefit over RNA vaccines and it is literally impossible to study how much is this effect. This is one of the appalling things about our covid testing. The testing is about making our medical industrial complex money and not about protecting people. If they wanted to protect people they would have quickly developed a test for identifying whether you have ever had covid in the past and thus have natural immunity. But this would not sell vaccines. And if you’ve ever had a positive PCR test _without having ever been vaccinated you have a robust natural immunity and _you are the best member of our_ herd immunity!
Booster shots can be important for increasing immunity, but a secondary exposure is far, far more beneficial. Boosters particularly with RNA vaccines _will not_ and cannot increase immunity to another strain or variant. Also, by withholding information on what are actually in the “boosters” that are being touted by the medical industrial complex they are actually endangering people. From what I can tell some of the boosters aren’t really boosters but are new vaccines to the new strains. A booster is _only_ a booster if made exactly like the original vaccine. And of course such a booster will do nothing for any new variant.
There are people today that want bovine growth hormone and antibiotics in their food because it makes their food cheaper and in some cases easier to acquire, there are others that would rather not be exposed to that material.
The Best to you all!