I believe when we were told that herd immunity could not be naturally obtained only the shots would produce herd immunity was a carefully crafted narrative to ensure more money for the manufacturers and investors. Our lives were of no consequence, the only thing that mattered was the pot of gold at the end of the gravy train. So many enriched themselves at our expense. I wonder if these people laughed amongst themselves about the grand deception?
I lived through this madness and I still can't figure out how it happened that the entire world (or at least the western world) could be hoodwinked into abandoning reason and taking direction from a few terrified public officials and greedy oligarchs. My family got covid early when our daughter's college shut down. She came home with a cough and we all ended up with this unremarkable cold coupled with a bothersome cough. We never got it again until a few months after we got the vaccine (mandated by employers and university) and again it was akin to a cold. I don't know anyone under 80 who died, but I know of multiple divorces brought on by the stress, and I believe there is a generation of children whose missed/masked years of education will have a negative impact on them for the rest of their lives.
I recall that at some point Boris Johnson came out in favor of herd immunity. I’d be curious as to whether the sudden about-face among scientists and the media coincided with that. We can’t underestimate how much of this was starkly political and premised on doing the opposite of what politicians the media didn’t like said to do.
Worth to point out that pandemic plans in place in many countries were actually aligned with the thesis you wonderfully reiterated in your piece. They were written based on science and research at times where there was no emotional pressure. Why they were not followed and improvisation took over is the mistery of those years.
Given that the vaccine neither stop you from getting sick nor stopped you from spreading the virus be described as herd immunity. Meaning had healthy people been allowed to live their lives normally we would have ended up in the same position we are in today but without the vaccine side effects? Side effects that seem to be getting worst over time.
The whole response to the pandemic seems like they knew the virus was engineered in a lab and responded by moving the focus on the vaccine in part knowing it was manufactured and had no idea how it would react in the world.
Kinda like responding to an email sarcastically to your friends only to learn later you replied all by mistake and now you’re panicking hoping you can redirect focus on something else.
There doesn't seem to be true herd immunity against coronavirus, neither via natural immunity or vaccination as our acquired immunity fades. The virus will continue to spread.
It's pretty much like the common cold, some cases of which are caused by another coronavirus. The virus becomes less virulent and more ubiquitous. Long-term low level exposure, as with other endemic viruses, means you tend to get less severe illness also.
I believe when we were told that herd immunity could not be naturally obtained only the shots would produce herd immunity was a carefully crafted narrative to ensure more money for the manufacturers and investors. Our lives were of no consequence, the only thing that mattered was the pot of gold at the end of the gravy train. So many enriched themselves at our expense. I wonder if these people laughed amongst themselves about the grand deception?
'we were told that herd immunity could not be naturally obtained only the shots would produce herd immunity'
That was exactly the moment when I said "Now hold on just a goddamn minute…" and started to question everything else.
I lived through this madness and I still can't figure out how it happened that the entire world (or at least the western world) could be hoodwinked into abandoning reason and taking direction from a few terrified public officials and greedy oligarchs. My family got covid early when our daughter's college shut down. She came home with a cough and we all ended up with this unremarkable cold coupled with a bothersome cough. We never got it again until a few months after we got the vaccine (mandated by employers and university) and again it was akin to a cold. I don't know anyone under 80 who died, but I know of multiple divorces brought on by the stress, and I believe there is a generation of children whose missed/masked years of education will have a negative impact on them for the rest of their lives.
I recall that at some point Boris Johnson came out in favor of herd immunity. I’d be curious as to whether the sudden about-face among scientists and the media coincided with that. We can’t underestimate how much of this was starkly political and premised on doing the opposite of what politicians the media didn’t like said to do.
I could be wrong, but I think he was in favor of herd immunity early on. It didn't take long for them to wrestle him into line.
Worth to point out that pandemic plans in place in many countries were actually aligned with the thesis you wonderfully reiterated in your piece. They were written based on science and research at times where there was no emotional pressure. Why they were not followed and improvisation took over is the mistery of those years.
'who either towed the line'
That should be 'who either *toed* the line'.
Interesting article.
Given that the vaccine neither stop you from getting sick nor stopped you from spreading the virus be described as herd immunity. Meaning had healthy people been allowed to live their lives normally we would have ended up in the same position we are in today but without the vaccine side effects? Side effects that seem to be getting worst over time.
The whole response to the pandemic seems like they knew the virus was engineered in a lab and responded by moving the focus on the vaccine in part knowing it was manufactured and had no idea how it would react in the world.
Kinda like responding to an email sarcastically to your friends only to learn later you replied all by mistake and now you’re panicking hoping you can redirect focus on something else.
There doesn't seem to be true herd immunity against coronavirus, neither via natural immunity or vaccination as our acquired immunity fades. The virus will continue to spread.
It's pretty much like the common cold, some cases of which are caused by another coronavirus. The virus becomes less virulent and more ubiquitous. Long-term low level exposure, as with other endemic viruses, means you tend to get less severe illness also.