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Dr Mike Yeadon's avatar

Marc, nicely done. Those who managed to stay awake during my interview with Del Bigtree on Highwire might recall my infamous identification of “the Covid lies”?

https://media.livecast365.com/highwire/thehighwire/content/1623692217868.mp4

One of those lies was exactly as detailed here. I called it “prior or shared immunity”. That because of circulating, common cold-causing coronaviruses, a substantial proportion of the population already had immune memory to parts of the “new” virus. The numbers I had then for cross-reacting, memory T-cells in blood, were lower than you’re now illustrating, but still so large, at 30-40%, that herd immunity was present already or imminent.

Most people understand that herd immunity means that the bulk of the population is protected. That’s true. What many have as an incorrect expectation is that, in a population said to have herd immunity, no one will catch the illness. That’s never been true. What cannot happen is a severe epidemic of clinical illness in such a population, involving such a large proportion of the people that the health system would collapse. All lies.

Bottom lines: regardless of the extent & effectiveness of prior- or cross-immunity, the only people at serious risk of severe outcomes & death are those close to the end of their lives. The old and already chronically ill.

What’s even worse than your correct conclusion that a vaccine was never needed is this: the only people at risk cannot benefit from vaccination, because their immune systems are weak. That’s why they’re at risk in the first place. Vaccination of people with weakly responsive immune systems is hopeless. ‘Flu vaccines confer almost no benefit to the bulk of the population seeking it, those who might die from ‘flu.

So, yes: we’ve been lied to, like I’ve been saying since spring 2020. Not well-intentioned mistakes. The non-pharmaceutical interventions were not imposed out of “an abundance of caution” but to destroy the economy & civil society. Those proposing such “measures” from national public health departments KNEW that the things they insisted be done, such as lockdowns, masks, mass testing & border restrictions, do not work.

Regardless of what that famous public health epidemiologist “Doctor” Bill Gates tells you, a novel vaccine will never be the appropriate response to a new virus outbreak for obvious reasons. The time taken to develop a new vaccine & demonstrate long-term safety is always longer than any pandemic could last.

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Thomas S. Roosth, M.D.'s avatar

Good!

Perhaps they can get the machinery of justice moving.

Also, the damage, to an extent that is still not known, done to the immune systems of many millions of people is a tragedy that is incomprehensible.

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