I met an elderly man in a restaurant recently. He asked, ”When will it end?" He was referring to what we have all grown so accustomed to calling “the pandemic.” My response to him was rapid and brief. “Never,” I said.
I repeat once again, concerning the COVID-19 outbreak, I am trying to make sense out of the science and statistics about the virus, as well as its affects on all of us. Today I will focus on the CDC recommendations for fully vaccinated people in order to explain why I responded as I did.
A study published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report published on August 6, 2021 regarded an outbreak of COVID and the COVID-19 vaccine. This outbreak occurred in Barnstable County, Massachusetts in July of this year. There were several interesting take aways from this study.
469 cases of COVID-19 were associated with “multiple summer events and large public gatherings“ in one town in Barnstable County. Of these 469 cases, 346 (74%) were fully vaccinated.
That’s right; the majority of those infected were “fully vaccinated.” The classic definition of a vaccine – as we have historically known them – says it “protects against a disease.” Previously, once an individual is vaccinated “subsequent exposure DOES NOT RESULT IN THE DISEASE”. As you can see from this and many other reports and studies, today’s COVID-19 Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) “vaccine” does not meet this definition.
Thanks in part to this study, it is now well known that an individual who has been fully vaccinated for COVID-19 can still contract the infection. I know there are those that assert the infection will not be as severe or will not end in hospitalization. This may very well be the case, but since there are no double-blind referenced studies validating this (that I am aware of) we have no proof. So, until that happens, we will not truly know the answer to this assertion.
Of the 346 fully vaccinated individuals diagnosed with COVID-19 in the Massachusetts town, 301 (87%) were males with a median age of 42 years. I had to dig further and read a little bit between the lines to come up with a possible reason for this. I found a note in the study stating that “events were marketed to adult male participants.” This begged the question as to whether these were related to homosexual activity. You see, HIV is an immunocompromising condition, and the use of HIV drugs cause immune system suppression. Then I came upon a footnote in the article which noted, “A preliminary analysis matching cluster-associated COVID-19 cases with the state HIV case surveillance data identified 30 cases with verified HIV infection; all were virally suppressed…”.
Other conditions that will suppress immune function include those taking chemotherapy, those with autoimmune conditions, or those who are receiving treatment for an autoimmune condition.
A Real Disease With Detection Bias
This virus is real and the Delta variant is highly transmissible. Understanding that the “vaccine” does not prevent you from getting the infection helps us to understand the CDC recommendations that say fully vaccinated people who feel that they may have been exposed to someone with COVID should wear a mask for 14 days or until receiving a negative test. But it is confusing when they go on to state that you should “refrain from testing following a known exposure if asymptomatic.”
Quoting the Massachusetts outbreak study: “As population-level vaccination coverage increases, vaccinated persons are likely to represent a larger proportion of COVID cases, .... asymptomatic breakthrough infections might be under-represented because of detection bias.”
In other words, as more people get vaccinated, we will have more of those people getting COVID. That sounds ridiculous enough on its own. But add to that the vaccinated, COVID-infected, UNTESTED folks, and you get unsuspecting carriers spreading COVID without knowing they are doing so, all entirely within CDC COVID-19 guidelines.
In short, I believe we have a “vaccine” that is not effective in preventing infection. Instead, when combined with the CDC’s caution to avoid testing, it is fully effective in spreading COVID undetected throughout a community.
I realize that this conclusion goes against the narrative that we have heard from the “experts.” However, like so much of what we have seen regarding actions taken since the onset of the pandemic, we've gotten a lot wrong. All the “facts” about the coronavirus, COVID-19, and the EUA COVID-19 vaccines will change as we move forward and learn more in the days ahead. We must be flexible, then, in order to truly keep people safe.
Meanwhile, with the recommendations as they are now, my statement to my new friend that I met in the restaurant is true. This may “never” totally end. At least not in the near future.
Coming Up.
I have recently been in contact with a medical colleague – a rheumatologist – who practices in New Jersey. He has studied vaccines for many years. In my next newsletter, I will highlight some eye-opening findings from a few of his published research articles.