Vaccines And Variants

H/T Jim

The Daily Telegraph (UK) is reporting that two studies in the US--one at the University of Washington and one at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention--indicate that persons who have been vaxed and then contract Covid are far more likely than unvaxxed persons to contract a variant. Of special concern, according to the article, is the fact that while these vaxed individuals who contract a Covid variant have not died (in the Washington study) they do exhibit a very high "viral load," meaning that they would likely be able to infect others.

You may recall that a vaccine developer whom we cited in the past, Geert Vanden Bossche, expressed a strong concern that the use of these vaccines while the pandemic was still ongoing would tend to foster the development of new variants that might actually be more problematic than the original version. Here's how Vanden Bossche expressed his concern in Vax Hesitancy--Reasonable Or Not? 

In summary, the concerns center around the notion that a combination of lockdowns and extreme selection pressure on the virus induced by the intense global mass vaccination program might diminish the number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths in the short-term, but ultimately, will induce the creation of more mutants of concern.

This is the result of what Vanden Bossche calls ‘immune escape’ (i.e. incomplete sterilization of the virus by the human immune system, even following vaccine administration). This will in turn trigger vaccine companies to further refine vaccines that will add, not reduce, the selection pressure, so producing ever more transmissible and potentially deadly variants.

The selection pressure will cause greater convergence in mutations that affect the critical spike protein of the virus that is responsible for breaking through the mucosal surfaces of our airways, the route used by the virus to enter the human body. The virus will effectively outsmart the highly specific antigen-based vaccines that are being used and tweaked, dependent on the circulating variants. All of this could lead to a hockey stick-like increase in serious and potentially lethal cases — in effect, an out-of-control pandemic.

Not only that, it will be Western nations with high proportions of metabolically diseased, overweight or obese individuals with compromised immune systems that will be hit hardest.

Below is a fairly full excerpt from the Telegraph article. I'm not qualified to comment in any depth. However, I will point out that there is at least one discrepancy between what Vanden Bossche said and what the study author (Pavitra Roychoudhury) says. According to Vanden Bossche the "antigen-based vaccines" are "highly specific". Roychoudhury, on the other hand, maintains that 

"A lot of the antibody responses are pretty broad. The vaccines are not designed to be super specific so they will be able to target the variants."

I'll go out on a limb a bit and state that my impression is that Roychoudhury's tone is that of a cheerleader for the vaccines. Nevertheless, according to the article, she is aware that her findings go against the "prevailing understanding" of what would have been expected. Clearly, this is a "developing situation."

UPDATED: Michael Yeadon: 'Convergent Opportunism' Or Conspiracy?

Readers should be familiar with the name Michael Yeadon by now. Wikipedia has no page for Yeadon, but one Wiki page refers to Yeadon as "a former Pfizer employee and conspiracy theorist." The fact that there is no actual Wikipedia page for Yeadon but that Wikipedia publishes unsourced claims that Yeadon is a "conspiracy theorist" is highly suggestive. Yeadon, in the eyes of the political establishment, is a 'dangerous person.' Someone who must be marginalized--not debated.

In actual fact, Dr. Michael Yeadon was formerly Pfizer's Vice President and Chief Scientist for Allergy & Respiratory. He spent 32 years in the pharmaceutical industry leading new medicines research. Yeadon retired from Pfizer with “the most senior research position”. He has sterling scientific credentials. You can read a fuller bio here, and you can find additional references to Yeadon at this blog here.

Yeadon, along with leading scientists in the fields of virology, immunology, and epidemiology, has been an outspoken critic of the Covid response--especially of lockdowns and the idea of vaccines as the only salvation and route to 'herd immunity.' 'Outspoken' means he states categorically that these response are based on "demonstrably false" propaganda put out by governments. Yesterday LifeSite published most of an interview with Yeadon. I found the interview so remarkable that I'm republishing most of it here. 

You'll recall that yesterday in The Variant Scare And The Global Reset I stated that the Covid story put out by our globalist 'elites' (a term employed by Gov. Ron DeSantis) is one in a series of disinformational campaigns in which we can see

... the global elites marching in narratival lockstep--regarding Covid, regarding Trump, regarding Russia. All aided and abetted by a Tech - Social Media Complex.

In other words, there appears to be a guiding authority behind the narratival lockstep, and the various governments are players in a larger story in which they are not the main actors.

Conspiracy theory? That's what Yeadon addresses at length in the current interview, and he does so from the same perspective that I presented yesterday--the "variant scare" mongering. Since Yeadon is a world class expert in the relevant scientific field it's worth listening to what he has to say.

Here's a link to the LifeSite page--and you'll see that the inflammatory title is LifeSite quoting Yeadon directly:

Former Pfizer VP: ‘Your government is lying to you in a way that could lead to your death.’

‘Look out the window, and think, “why is my government lying to me about something so fundamental?” Because, I think the answer is, they are going to kill you using this method. They’re going to kill you and your family.’

With that background, here are the seven points that Yeadon makes in the interview--as formulated by LifeSite. This should serve as a sort of table of contents: