variants of concern reporting and concerns about variants
boriquagato.substack.com
- we have a leaky vaccine that is ineffective at best and likely counter productive in stopping spread.
- that vaccine IS effective in mitigating severe cases and deaths (though not nearly so effective as claimed)
- this efficacy looks to be fading over time
many see this and jump to “you need this vaccine to protect yourself and protect hospitals.”
but i see severe issues with this claim. a leaky vaccine that prevents severe cases is, in many ways, the WORST possible outcome.
such vaccines change the evolutionary gradient for a virus. instead of becoming less virulent/deadly, they can tend the other way because the maladaptiveness of killing the host is mitigated in the vaccinated population.
this is exactly what happened with marek’s disease in chickens. not only is it now more lethal to them than ebola is to humans, making it one of if not THE hottest persistent disease known (killing 100% of unvaxxed birds in 10 days), but, it’s now a disease so hot that an unvaccinated chicken cannot spread it. they die too quickly.
only the vaccinated birds spread the nasty strains of mareks. they’re the only ones who live long enough to shed virus.
”Thus, in accordance with the imperfect-vaccine hypothesis, vaccination enabled the onward transmission of viruses otherwise too lethal to transmit, putting unvaccinated individuals at great risk of severe disease and death”
this raises the pressing question of “is this same intensification of virus happening here?”
unfortunately, signs here point to yes.