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By: Decomposed in 6TH POPE | Recommend this post (0)
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I've been thinking about vaccinations a lot lately. I'm greatly concerned about their side effects. I'm also frustrated by the inferior protection they provide compared to the immunity individuals gain from a natural infection. In case you aren't aware of it, natural immunity is vastly better than vaccine immunity. Natural immunity lasts forever while vaccine immunity looks to last between 3 and 8 months.

Natural immunity also recognizes all variants of the virus while vaccine immunity only recognizes and acts against viruses that have a spike protein identical or close to identical to the one the vaccine was designed for. This is an important point. The SARS-CoV-2 viral surface has a lot more to it than just spike proteins. Natural immunity identifies the virus based on its many unique features. Vaccine immunity identifies the virus based on just one. Thus, any change to the spike protein will circumvent the protection provided by a vaccine but will NOT circumvent the protection provided by natural immunity.

Natural immunity is far better. It works against all the variants and it lasts.

That's the argument I see against vaccines.

On the other hand, going commando against SARS-CoV-2 is also bad. While it is the natural course of things for viral variants to be tamer than their parents, vaccinated people are breeding grounds for viral variants that can be more virulent than the original. In fact, given the millions of variants that must exist by now, the chance of a far deadlier variant appearing approaches near certainty.

This isn't just speculation. It's what happened to Marek's disease, a disease that caused lesions in chickens and made them unmarketable until a vaccine was created against it in 1970. Since 1970, Marek's disease has changed from something that only rarely killed chickens to a disease that kills 100% of infected, unvaccinated chickens. So what I'm describing really can happen.

What are we to do? Get vaccinated every 3 months and wait for a virulent variant to arise that the vaccine we took doesn't protect against, or don't get vaccinated and wait for a variant to arise that is likely to kill us if we catch it?

Natural immunity may be the best answer. Delta is a milder version of Covid-19. If you have to get Covid-19, it's the one you want. When you recover, you'll have natural immunity and will never have to worry about Covid-19 again.

Another option is to be inoculated with a vaccine made from attenuated SARS-CoV-2 viruses - but good luck with that since no such vaccine exists in the U.S. We've mocked the Chinese for the low efficacy of their Coronavac vaccine (51%). Coronavac, however, is at least a vaccine in the true sense of the word, made from the whole virus and not just its spike protein. When it works, the protection it bestows should be richer than what the Pfizer, J&J, Moderna or Novavax products yield. After all, the antibodies it produces will recognize SARS-CoV-2 viruses based on myriad characteristics, something none of the competing vaccines can say.

So that's where I'm at this morning. *When* a deadlier variant appears, I'll regret not beefing up my immune system and intentionally catching Delta when I had the chance. So maybe I should. Maybe everyone should.




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