The Truth About Vaccines, page-12498

In my last newsletter, I discussed how the public is being lied to about how immunity to SARS-CoV-2 works in order to manufacture consent for COVID-19 vaccines. If you missed it, you can read it here. To briefly summarize: ·Since last summer, the propaganda claim has persisted that antibodies rapidly disappear after recovering from infection, and so people lose their immunity. ·But every single "expert" and "authority" making that claim knew that loss of antibodies does not mean loss of immunity due to the existence of other immune responses. They all knew that waning antibodies after recover is normal. ·Moreover, early reports of disappearing antibodies were shown to have reached invalid conclusions since later studies showed that, in fact, in most people develop antibodies capable of neutralizing the virus that are persistent. So, now, let's look at bit more closely at why antibodies do not equal immunity, as we are led to believe by vaccine propaganda.

Humoral vs. Cellular Immunity

You've probably heard about "T cells" at some point in the public discourse about COVID-19. While whenever discussions about immunity occur in the mainstream media, the focus is always about antibodies circulating in the blood, or humoral immunity. But this is just one branch of the immune system. There is also cellular immunity, which is broader. There are "helper" CD4+ T cells that coordinate the immune response, including the development of B cells that churn out virus-specific antibodies. There are also "killer" CD8+ T cells that are involved in clearing an infection by destroying infected cells. With SARS-CoV-2, as with many other viruses, the immune system learns and remembers how to fight off infection. There is both T cell and B cell immunologic memory. This is why a declining antibody titer is no cause for concern: memory B cells differentiate into plasma cells that that take up long-term residence in the bone marrow, where they remain ready to be called upon to rapidly ramp up production of virus-specific antibodies in the event of reexposure. That this long-term memory exists for SARS-CoV-2 has long since been established by scientific research. But that's not all...

Pre-existing Immunity to SARS-CoV-2

You may also have heard that, contrary to early assumptions that the human population was completely immunologically naive to SARS-CoV-2, it turns out that there is actually a certain background level of immunity due to cross-protective immune responses from prior infections with human coronaviruses that are a common cause of common colds. It is true that these cross-reactive immune responses exist. Prior infections with "common cold" coronaviruses have indeed been shown to induce T cell memory responses that cross-react with SARS-CoV-2. While this pre-existing immunity may not prevent infection with SARS-CoV-2, it is likely to moderate the severity of illness so that symptoms are milder or nonexistent. As it turns out, the belief that immunity to common human coronaviruses is short-lived -- which was cited to help fuel the propaganda claim that immunity to SARS-CoV-2 is short-lived -- was wrong. Prior to the pandemic, there was actually sparse research into immunity to common coronaviruses. More recent research has shown that, indeed, these coronaviruses, too, induce immunologic memory. This helps to explain studies finding that one-fifth to one-half of the population have pre-existing cross-reactive immune responses to SARS-CoV-2. While infection with SARS-CoV-2 has been shown to induce robust and long-term immunity, it remains to be seen whether the vaccines can induce similarly immunologic memory. The mRNA COVID-19 vaccines have been shown to induce memory B cells, but whether these will differentiate into long-lived bone marrow plasma cells remains to be seen. However, it is instructive that the vaccine manufacturers are already developing and aiming to gain emergency use authorization for "booster" shots. In sum, the CDC's argument that people who've recovered from SARS-CoV-2 infection still need to get fully vaccinated because experts don't know how long immunity lasts is idiotic, anti-science propaganda. Jeremy R. Hammond Independent Journalist and Author JeremyRHammond.com