If you are still trying to tell me that mass vaccination will reduces infections and transmission and will bring about the end of the global pandemic then you are either an idiot or a liar.
And don't give me the line, "Nobody could've seen Omicron coming!" The emergence of a vaccine-evasive variant like O was inevitable from the moment we started mass vax into a global pandemic with a leaky, non-durable vax against a mutable, highly-infectious virus.
Instead you counted your shot counts like rosary beads. And just assumed that your high priests like Anthony Fauci knew the "real truth". And vilified anyone who tried to explain evolutionary biology 101 to you as a heretic.
Saying "Nobody could've seen Omicron coming!" is like saying "Nobody could've predicted that raising the minimum wage to $100 would result in mass unemployment 6 months later!" These are complex, adaptive orders that aren't static. But there are some well-established regularities
So anybody ready to listen now about the risks of vaccinating into a global pandemic involving a mutable virus with a leaky, non-durable vaccine?

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7 Jan
“CONCLUSIONS: Protection afforded by prior infection in preventing symptomatic reinfection with Alpha, Beta, or Delta is robust, at about 90%. While such protection against reinfection with Omicron is lower, it is still considerable at nearly 60%.” medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
Vax in previously infected actually REDUCES protection from infection from 62% to 56%. NEGATIVE VE for vaccination of those with NI. @MartyMakary see Table 3
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20 Dec 21
Someone recently asked for a thread on the evidence of higher AE for vaccination of Covid survivors v naive recipients. EVERY study I am aware of so far is consistent with this finding. Please update or correct the list that follows.
Efrati nature.com/articles/s4159… "Short-term severe symptoms that required medical attention were found in 6.8% among the post-infected individuals, while none were found in the infection naïve population."
Menni ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/labs/pmc/artic… "Systemic side-effects were more common (1·6 times after the first dose of ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 and 2·9 times after the first dose of BNT162b2) among individuals with previous SARS-CoV-2 infection than among those without known past infection."
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17 Dec 21
Just to clarify my interest for my new followers (thank you!). I am concerned about vaccinate mandates, especially for those with natural immunity (like me). So my focus is on (1) whether policymakers should recognize NI as part of any mandates and (2) whether mandates are legal.
I don't generally comment on the efficacy of vaccines in preventing serious illness and death. I don't comment on any specific risks of vaccines or non-vaccination (myocarditis, etc.) except as they relate to compelled vaccination. Those are not directly relevant to mandates.
I don't comment on the efficacy of particular therapeutic treatments (repurposed drugs, etc.). Those are questions that you should decide with your doctor. That is my WHOLE POINT--everyone has different circumstances and medical histories. One-size-fits-all medicine is barbaric.
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17 Dec 21
David Leonhardt, "Omicron Threatens Red American: In many communities mot adults remain unvaccinated." He says, "Omicron seems to be qualitatively more contagious than any earlier variant." Omicron must be spreading faster in low-vax states? nytimes.com/2021/12/17/bri…
I'll use the list on Becker's Hospital Review. The 5 least-vaxxed states (from 51-46): Idaho, Wyoming, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana (note a combination of warm and cold weather states). 5 most-vaxxed (from 1-5). beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/…
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10 Dec 21
Most readers here recognize that one of the major reasons for the superiority of NI>vax is the presence of IgA antibodies. Good illustration here of the inferior level of IgA abs production provided by vaccines and rapid decay. journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
For non-technical readers, basic idea is IgA antibodies are produced by in the nose and respiratory passages and are the first line of defense against respiratory viruses. Current gen vax is intramuscular injection and as Figure 2 shows here, produces minimal IgA protection.
This is why vaxxed get infected. But more than that, vaxxed can get infected and carry virus in their nose and mouth for days before immune system activates. So vaxxed (1) produce same viral load as unimmune, unvaxxed and (2) can superspread without knowing it for days.
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8 Dec 21
Another early and important paper on NI, vax, and boosters from the canary in the coal mine (Israel). Some novel and original data here on so-called "hybrid immunity" (the first I've seen at least). medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
Baseline finding reaffirms yet again uncontestable conclusion: NI provides superior and far more durable protection against infection than vaccination. Protection of NI at 8-10 months is equivalent to vax at 0-2 months and protection of NI at 12+months to vax at ~3 months.
Figure 3C is booster data. Authors definition of "Booster" is interesting: "Booster: Individuals who received a third (booster) dose 12 or more days previously and had not been infected before the start of the study period." Why 12 days?
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