Thread by @elleprovocateur

"Those being vaccinated now are, whether they realize it or not - part of the phase 3 experiment. They're part of a #vaccination #experiment. And the companies have openly acknowledged this in their reports to the regulatory agencies." - Dr Byram Bridle

#Covid19 Symposium 2021: Dr Byram Bridle, Viral Immunologist, University of #Guelph

#CndPoli #Canada

ovc.uoguelph.ca/pathobiology/p…

theconversation.com/profiles/byram…

Note that Bridle is a strong proponent of vaccines. ["As a viral #immunologist who develops immunization strategies to prevent infectious diseases and treat cancers, I teach the value of high-quality, well-validated vaccines & passionately promote their use."]

Slides 1-4:

Slides 5 & 6.

Slide 7.

2009 swine flu. Vaccine "Pandemrix-AS03": "For 2 yrs after the vaccine was used there were up to 14-fold & 7-fold increases in the diagnosis of narcolepsy in children/adolescents & adults... vLikely due to autoimmunity against neurons in the brain."
See symptoms👇

Slides 8-11. "Are COVID-19 vaccines as effective as we have been told?"

Slides 12 & 13. "Of concern:

• Growing numbers of headlines proposing vaccination of #pregnant individuals & #children
• Should not be done without demonstration of safety and efficacy in a phase 3 clinical trial"

#mRNA #Pfizer #BioNTech

Slide 14. "What is the risk of emergence of #SARSCoV2 variants that can evade vaccine-induced immunity?"

Slide 15.

"However, more than a year into the pandemic a huge unanswered question is:

How close/far are we from natural #HerdImmunity?"

The following is commentary I wish to highlight from this same lecture.
Bridle: "The reality is we've probably acquired quite a lot of natural #HerdImmunity. We're probably much closer to herd immunity than we even appreciate - & certainly much closer than we were - which was 0."

"We had zero natural immunity essentially, at the beginning of the pandemic. But if you have gone with an isolationist policy, strict isolationist policy, you might have low levels of natural #HerdImmunity. And indeed, also we've done a very poor job of tracking this."
#CndPoli

"In Canada we're not bothering to test people for pre-existing #immunity before vaccinating them... It's going to take months & months to get everybody vaccinated & our leaders have told us that it's too difficult, it's too time consuming to test for pre-existing immunity."

"...our leaders have told us that it's too difficult, it's too time consuming to test for pre-existing #immunity.

>>>"That's not true."<<<

"I totally agree with the other speakers. We're going to have to live, and I've been preaching this for a long time - we should have a long time ago, been learning how to live with this virus."

"So what this is, this is very much like influenza viruses where we see the exact same thing... every year new variants emerge. That's another virus that readily mutates. This #coronavirus is almost certainly going to become like the #annual #influenza virus."

"Now we have the data. We know that the #vast #majority of people are not susceptible to severe and certainly lethal #COVID19. So the other approach is naturally acquired #immunity."

"I do think that most people could, and had we adopted this strategy, most countries could probably be very close to #HerdImmunity right now, having naturally acquired it without a whole lot of deaths & severe illness, because most people are not susceptible."

"Most of our #kids could have been back in school in face-to-face learning, acquiring this #natural #immunity... And the reality is, yes, we have to protect these populations. We know [who] the relatively few people are that need a lot of protection."

"...in #Canada we're spending a billion dollars a day, our federal gov't, on #COVID19, [&] their COVID-19 policies. If we had most people back, we wouldn't be destroying our economy. We'd have incredible resources that we could direct in protecting the people that need it."

"And arguably we would be able to achieve #natural herd immunity through all the relatively, you know, the people that are, have low risk. They're low risk from #SARSCoV2. And if they achieve #herdimmunity the highly susceptible people will be protected."

"So here in #Canada, even when vaccinated, once vaccinated, it's like life before being vaccinated. We still have to wear the #masks. We still have to do the two meter #distancing, etc. Because there is no assurance that these vaccinated individuals aren't spreading the virus."

On #masks: "I recommend everybody go and do a quick Google search on what is the personal protective equipment, #PPE, for a containment level [] three. Or in some countries they call it biological safety level 3 pathogen which is what #SARSCoV2 is. You'll be amazed..."

#BC, #Canada: "... we might have as high as 50% of people naturally immune to the virus now, among adults. And again, it should be higher among children... we might only need 60% to have #herdimmunity. So we might already have a province in Canada that's very close naturally."

"personally, if I don't have it already, I would probably, because I'm in a low-risk demo., [] prefer to have natural #immunity honestly. & not that narrowly focused immunity. Just so that even if I do get infected w/ a novel variant, [it's] almost certainly going to be blunted."

"Because I don't want to be at #risk of having an immune-evasive, & more dangerous, more potently disease-causing version. That I won't be exposed to that, while I have no immunity whatsoever or the improperly narrowly focused immunity."

#COVID19 #Vaccines #CndPoli

"I know that my #ImmuneSystem will have #naturally induced the, you know, the appropriate bias. It'll be programmed properly to respond optimally to future variants, & future, you know, completely different versions of the #coronavirus that might emerge in the future as well."

>>>"I would argue that the people, you know, had we done this right, we could have already had, in many countries, have achieved #HerdImmunity naturally. And therefore have saved many lives of the highly susceptible demographics."<<<

#CndPoli #COVID19

"Because again, you know, over 99% of us are not at particularly high risk, you know of the severe disease & death. That's more than enough people that we need to achieve #HerdImmunity... And again, like I said, we're #vaccinating people who probably have #natural #immunity."