Scientists continue to disregard Darwin's theory and incorrectly and vaguely attribute ‘immune suppression’(!) as the cause of the chronic shedding of evolving SARS-CoV-2 immune escape variants during this 'chronic phase' of the pandemic.
During the ‘acute’ phase of the Covid-19 (C-19) immune escape pandemic, the unvaccinated have been wrongly blamed for breeding immune escape variants, while their shedding of a more diverse spectrum of more infectious variants (compared tothe vaccinated) was simply due to their higher susceptibility to infection with such variants (https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.01.21259833v1). I have, indeed, consistently emphasized that this increased susceptibility ofthe unvaccinated at the beginning of the immune escape pandemic has never been the result of their lack of vaccination, but rather of a combinationof their insufficiently trained cell-mediated innate immunity and the higher level of infectiousness of the circulating variants (https://www.voiceforscienceandsolidarity.org/scientific-blog/following-the-science). The former clearly resulted from the initially diminished viral transmission across highly C-19 vaccinated populations, while the latter was caused by immune selection pressure exerted by the highly vaccinated populations on viral infectiousness. Both underlying causes undeniably originated from the mass C-19 vaccination program.
Recently, there has been a flood of messages suggesting that during the ongoing 'chronic’ phase of the C-19 immune escape pandemic, the immunocompromised are responsible for breeding more distinct immune escape variants. The scientists and so-called vaccine experts spouting this nonsense don't even comprehend the basic principles of evolutionary biology laid out by Darwin!
In reality, it's the dysregulation of the immune system in C-19 vaccinees that leads to chronic immune pathology (commonly referred to as 'Long Covid') and shedding of the currently circulating variants. The persistent shedding of such evolving immuneescape variants is due to the 'persistent’ breakthrough infections in C-19 vaccinees, which can no longer be contained by their dysregulated immune system. None of this has anything to do with the increased prevalence of immune suppression in the population, but rather with the combination of the lack of training of cell-mediated innate immunity in C-19 vaccinees and the higher level of viral infectiousness and productivity of the variants currently circulating in highly C-19 vaccinated populations. The former clearly results from enhanced viral infectiousness, while the latter is now due to growing immune pressure exerted by highly C-19 vaccinated populations on viral transmissibility. Once again, both underlying causes undeniably originate from the mass C-19 vaccination program.
It's a shame that as soon as biology becomes somewhat complex, scientists seem unable to distinguish between correlation and causation, thereby making themselves complicit in misleading the population. While I don't believe there's any malicious intent among the scientists, I do believe there's a significant degree of intellectual laziness.
Geert Vanden Bossche received his DVM from the University of Ghent, Belgium, and his PhD degree in Virology from the University of Hohenheim, Germany. He held adjunct faculty appointments at universities in Belgium and Germany. After his career in Academia, Geert joined several vaccine companies (GSK Biologicals, Novartis Vaccines, Solvay Biologicals) to serve various roles in vaccine R&D as well as in late vaccine development.
Geert then moved on to join the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s Global Health Discovery team in Seattle (USA) as Senior Program Officer; he then worked with the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (GAVI) in Geneva as Senior Ebola Program Manager. At GAVI he tracked efforts to develop an Ebola vaccine. He also represented GAVI in fora with other partners, including WHO, to review progress on the fight against Ebola and to build plans for global pandemic preparedness.
Back in 2015, Geert scrutinized and questioned the safety of the Ebola vaccine that was used in ring vaccination trials conducted by WHO in Guinea. His critical scientific analysis and report on the data published by WHO in the Lancet in 2015 was sent to all international health and regulatory authorities involved in the Ebola vaccination program. After working for GAVI, Geert joined the German Center for Infection Research in Cologne as Head of the Vaccine Development Office. He is at present primarily serving as a Biotech / Vaccine consultant while also conducting his own research on Natural Killer cell-based vaccines.
Email: info@voiceforscienceandsolidarity.org
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