Until Covid came along, I had always felt that Natural Immunity was the real deal. That is what I learned in Med School, and prior to 2020, I pretty much thought that the concept of Natural Immunity was widely believed and accepted.
But then somehow. all of the sudden, Natural Immunity somehow became a mystery! All of the sudden if you had documented Covid, you were no longer immune to Covid, and needed a Covid vaccine. Let’s be clear, I am not an anti-vaxer, having had the two initial vaccines plus a booster, but I am a pro-natural immunity individual. One would think that after this long a period of time, this issue would be settled. Why is it still controversial? Could it be that rather than being a medical issue, it became a political issue?
Just imagine all of the confusion that would have occurred if the long standing concept of the effectiveness of natural immunity had withstood the onslaught of political doubters! If “those who know best” would have come out and said that natural immunity to Covid was the real deal, what would have happened? … Chaos!!! If those who already had documented Covid were naturally immune and thus did not require a Covid vaccine, so be it. That makes sense. However, what about those who self tested at home. Would we have taken their word for it? How could their positivity be proven? … It couldn’t.
So could it have been that because “those who knew best” saw the potential chaos coming, they decided to lie about the effectiveness of natural immunity? Hmmm … did their end justify their means? Perhaps in theory, this approach could be argued. However, were the penalties imposed on individuals because they had documented Covid and thus refused to be vaccinated justified? We’re they penalized because they were right?!
This retrospective question becomes even more important in light of a recent study summarized in the Epoch Times:
“People who recovered from COVID-19 and received a COVID-19 shot were more likely to suffer adverse reactions, researchers in Europe are reporting. Participants in the study were more likely to experience an adverse reaction after vaccination regardless of the type of shot, with one exception, the researchers found. Across all vaccine brands, people with prior COVID-19 were 2.6 times as likely after dose one to suffer an adverse reaction, according to the new study. Such people are commonly known as having a type of protection known as natural immunity after recovery.”
So to me, not only were “those who know best” wrong about the concept individual’s natural immunity, but also apparently their bullheadedness also caused those who had natural immunity to suffer more adverse reactions when they were forced to get the Covid vaccine!
3/18/24