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List of Some COVID Lies Told by Government & WHO

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Sucharit Bhakdi, MD - Antibodies, Lymphocytes & Immune System

Why if you had an infection you have natural immunity and herd immunity is now present!!! Professor Sucharit Bhakdi, MD - Proff that puts an end to the Sars COV-2 Narrative.

Vaccines only present danger and have no benefit! Why multiple boosters will turn your natural immune system to start killing you.

This video is from July 2021.

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Still Loaded With Antibodies 1 Year Later After Covid 19 Infection

Labcorp Antibodies Test Results Positive

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Why Is Natural Immunity Still Being Ignored By The Corrupt Government & Corporate Media?

Blood test results from Labcorp show an unvaccinated family of four people still have antibodies 1 year later after infection. Family of people with ages ranging from 12-48 still are loaded with antibodies.

Can this family get a vaccine mandate exemption?

Our grossly corrupt FDA and Government Advises Against Use of SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Test Results. For one reason only? $MONEY$

Here is the language used by the criminals running the CDC. All eligible people should be vaccinated, including unvaccinated people who have previously been infected and have detectable antibodies.

Numerous immunologic studies (NO STUDIES LINKED?) have consistently shown that vaccination of individuals who were previously infected enhances their immune response, and growing epidemiologic evidence indicates that vaccination following infection further reduces the risk of subsequent infection, including in the setting of increased circulation of more infectious variants.

CDC Website Shows Possible Myocarditisp Side Effects From Those Previously Infected

Risk of an MIS-like illness or the known risks of COVID-19 vaccination such as the rare risk of myocarditis following COVID-19 vaccination for people who meet the following criteria:

Clinical recovery has been achieved, including return to normal cardiac function;
It has been ≥90 days since their diagnosis of MIS-C;
They are in an area of high or substantial community transmission of SARS-CoV-2, or otherwise have an increased risk for SARS-CoV-2 exposure and transmission; and
Onset of MIS-C occurred before any COVID-19 vaccination.

People diagnosed with MIS-C or MIS-A after COVID-19 vaccination

In the rare instance of a person developing MIS-C, MIS-A, or a similar clinical illness after receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine, referral to a specialist in infectious diseases, rheumatology, or cardiology should be considered. Because MIS-C and MIS-A are conditions known to occur with SARS-CoV-2 infection, these individuals should be assessed for laboratory evidence of current or prior SARS-CoV-2 infection. Healthcare and public health professionals should also consider requesting a consultation from the Clinical Immunization Safety Assessment COVIDvax project. In addition, all illnesses consistent with MIS-C or MIS-A occurring in persons who received any COVID-19 vaccine should be reported to VAERS.

FDA today: 42% of children 5-11 have natural immunity

Hilarious George Carlin Video On Germs & Immune Systems

Standup comedian video on "why everyone has turned into a bunch of pussies. Our immune systems can defend for themselves."

Explanation on Why Natural Immunity is Vastly Superior

Here are highlights from this full article.

There are a number of reasons why those who survive SARS-CoV-2 infection can expect to have longer-lasting immunity than those who have received vaccines, especially for the spike-protein-only vaccines. First, and most importantly, the spike protein has fewer immunogenic epitopes than the entire SARS-CoV-2 virus. These epitopes provide a diversity of nAbs and a diversity of memory B- and T-cells. Therefore, if immunity from infection conferred by the spike protein epitopes fails, those with prior infection will have redundant, back-up immunity. As I reported in April 2020, there were 54 immunogenic epitopes in the original SARS-CoV-2 proteome. That number has been expanded.

As evolutionary pressure against the spike protein pushes it away from being neutralized by vaccine induced antibodies, the virus cannot escape due to the other antibodies. The multiple components that contribute to fitness now make the adaptive landscape highly complex; from the virus’ evolutionary point of view, mutations that confer protection against nAbs that bind the spike protein do not also confer protection against nAbs that bind, for example, the M protein.

Similarly, mutations that confer protection to the virus from nAbs that bind the M protein do not also confer protection to the virus against nAbs that bind the SARS-CoV-2 endoRNAase.

Similarly, mutations that confer protection to the virus from nAbs that bind the endoRNAase do not also confer protein against nAbs that bind the SARS-CoV-2, helicase, leader protein, or matrix protein. This redundancy is really a numbers game: the probability that evolution will be able to co-localize all of the immune escape mutations into a single virion is exceedingly low, and decreases multiplicatively as the number of antigen sources are increased.

This Means Boosters with the Same Viral Protein Will be Ineffective and Massively Wasteful

The entire world seems focused on neutralizing antibodies. In a study of “waning immunity” following SARS-CoV-2 infection, the authors focused primarily on antibodies and suggested that re-infection or vaccination might be expected to produce prolonged immunity by keeping antibody levels up. They found that while nABs declined, that memory T- and B-cells increased and thus their estimate of the durability of immunity are likely conservative. However, the productions of neutralizing antibodies by itself is not a measure of immunity against an evolving virus: high nAbs are expected to be produced even in patients in whom first-round immunity has waned. See; "Prospects for durable immune control of SARS-CoV-2 and prevention of reinfection".

To boost the immune system to produce more antibodies that do not work is madness.

Those who are vaccinated will simply experience of boost in nAbs against the original SARS-CoV-2 type, not the more recent types like the Delta variant.

How Multiple Epitopes Should Prevent Viruses from Achieve Immune Escape

Imagine you’re a virus (actually a population of viruses), and you’re happily evolving toward an adaptive fitness peak. The close you get to the peak, the faster you evolve - runaway selection against viruses that are different from you die off due to the nasty neutralizing antibodies from a spike-protein-only antigen vaccine.

You can see the adaptive peak. Soon, you’ll be surrounding by viruses just like you, all capable of infecting every person you run into, vaccinated or not.

You’re just about there… but then you hit a roadblock. Your types start dying off. Other types are increasing, but they, too don’t seem to be able to get to the top of the fitness peak. What’s going on?

On your march to the peak, other neutralizing antibodies attack you, keeping you from taking the hill.

You and those like you cannot surpass the immunity escape threshold.

The population in which you and your kind are circulating have already had SARS-CoV-2 infections, and they have multiple B- and T-cell epitopes that keep you from surpassing the immune escape threshold.

This is reality, not fantasy.

In a study of immune response to other epitopes across the SARS-CoV-2 proteome, researchers found strong humoral responses to many epitopes SARS-CoV-2 proteins, notable strong in M, S and N proteins as well ORF3 protein (See: “The landscape of antibody binding in SARS-CoV-2 infection”. The paper is a good read, solid data, and has citations from 2004 and 2006 on synergistic immunogenicity from epitopes found among various proteins in SARS.

From an evolutionary standpoint, durable immunity to SARS-CoV-2 is expected to be more resilient and far, far more effective - and last decade - when dozens of types of memory B- and T-cells have been generated, preventing the emergence of types that can surpass the immune escape threshold. Multifactorial approaches to control viremia are also available - and will help reduce viremia in every patient, instead of forcing them to sit at home and incubate new variants (See: Who Are the World's Leading Authorities in COVID-19 Treatments?)

Thank you, Dr. Wright.

James Lyons-Weiler, PhD

Why Isn't Anyone Talking About Natural Immunity?

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Unless people were living in total isolation for the last year, they were probably exposed and fought it off with little or no symptoms. This might be why more and more nations are dropping the vax and all the COVID-based, social engineering programs.

Daisy wrote an article recently on the “othering” of the unvaccinated. She went into detail regarding how individuals are blaming the unvaccinated for absolutely everything going wrong these days. I share her concern. There is a long, detailed history of the “othering” of a population leading to all sorts of horrors. However, it is wrong at a more mundane level, as well.

Public discourse surrounding the pandemic seems to focus solely on vaccination as a means of achieving herd immunity. Those who have recovered from the disease and have natural immunity are being completely ignored.

Natural immunity.

The most frustrating thing to me, the past year and a half, has been the constantly changing narrative and the dismissal of formerly well-understood scientific truths. Natural immunity is one of those concepts from freshman biology that many seem to completely disregard these days.

I think this is a natural effect of the “cult of expertise” we have in the United States. Seemingly, anyone with specific credentials is automatically deferred to, regardless of how competent they are… or more insidiously, where their financial interests lie.

If more of us were willing to think critically about the “science” in the news these days, we could be more confident in managing our health. A healthy, confident population willing to argue and drag its feet on accepting medical treatments with which they aren’t comfortable is hard to push around.

A population willing to do anything to just “get back to normal” is not.

We’re not going “back to normal.”

As early as April of 2020, Daisy wrote that we were never getting “back to normal.” And I agree.

But we can move forward a little more well-informed.

I’ve gotten into some discussions with medical professionals about whether people who have recovered from the disease need to be vaccinated. These conversations would have been seen as utterly ridiculous three years ago. However, now, it seems, we all need to relearn freshman biology. So I’d like to review the concept of natural immunity to help organize my thoughts and maybe help others that feel like their heads are in a whirl.

I’ve got my old college biology textbook-Life: The Science of Biology, by Purves, Sadava, Orians, and Heller. I’ve got the sixth edition, published in 2001, so it’s about 20 years old. I also have a newer college biology textbook because I’m a big nerd. It’s Campbell Biology, by Reece, Urry, Cain, Wasserman, Minorsky, and Jackson, published in 2014. Both textbooks detail how our immune systems work, and both say pretty much the same thing.

Our bodies have two major ways of defending against disease.

Our innate defenses are things like our skin and mucus. We’re born with these, and they make it difficult for various pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, and multicellular parasites to enter our bodies. Our bodies also have an immune system that recognizes and attacks any infectious agents that make it past our innate defenses.

Our immune system is really sophisticated, and in healthy individuals, it works pretty well. Suppose some kind of pathogen makes it past the body’s innate defenses and begins infecting cells within the host. In that case, the host’s body will, in turn, start producing antibodies that will specifically attack the invading pathogen. The host body will continue producing antibodies until either the host dies or the invading cells die, and the patient’s body can return to normal.

The best part is, even after the active infection is over, the host’s body will retain the memory of the antibodies it produced during the infection. So if the formerly infected person reencounters the pathogen, the body will immediately have the antibodies to kill the pathogen. They rarely get sick again, and if they do, it’s generally very mild.

Even the incredibly pro-vaccine Wall Street Journal had an article on this recently.

Usually, the WSJ leaves their articles up on the Opinion Page for about a week. However, within twenty-four hours, WSJ buried this article on natural immunity. Jeff had a great article about alternative media just the other day. This definitely feeds into his narrative about how much good info is getting buried right now.

Anyway, the WSJ article discusses mucosal immunity vs. internal immunity. The author (a neurologist) states that while vaccines stimulate internal immunity, they do nothing to address mucosal immunity. The viruses don’t penetrate the host’s organs, which is why most vaccinated people don’t get really sick. But, the viruses still live and reproduce in mucus-lined mouths and nasal passages. That is why vaccinated people with no symptoms are still spreading Covid like crazy. However, those of us that have recovered have both mucosal and internal immunity.

In case you needed further proof of the efficacy of natural immunity.

An Israeli study showed recently that vaccinated people were 13 times as likely to become infected and 27 times as likely to have symptomatic infections as people with natural immunity.

Alex Berenson posted this information on Twitter on August 25, and the platform permanently banned him on August 28. However, medical professionals are starting to make noise about it, such as Martin Kulldorff, a Harvard epidemiologist. Hopefully, more people begin to listen.

The benefits of natural immunity shouldn’t be as shocking as they seem to be.

After all, we’ve been observing this with other diseases for a long time. A case in point: when I was a kid, everyone still got chickenpox. We all got to miss school and stay home for about a week. I’m the oldest of eight kids, and I think the vaccine came out when my youngest siblings were kids. But I know the oldest four of us caught chickenpox.

One of my brothers caught it twice. The first time around, he caught it when I did. We were pretty sick for a few days and had a rash that covered our bodies for about a week. I never got chickenpox again. However, my brother picked it up a second time at school. He only had a very slight fever for one day and four or five blisters the second time around. That was it.

None of what I’ve said above is even remotely controversial.

In fact, if you look at the history of smallpox, records date back well over 2000 years that smallpox survivors nursed the sick. Even then, it was common knowledge that survivors wouldn’t get sick again.

Now, is smallpox exactly the same as Covid? No, not exactly. The story of smallpox eradication is an amazing one. Since then, we seem to keep hoping we can destroy every disease with vaccines. But that’s not necessarily realistic. For starters, smallpox has no recorded animal hosts. This means, once you wipe it out in humans, it’s gone. Covid, regardless of whether it originated in animals or a laboratory, is known to live in many different animal species. It will never really go away. Humans may gain the upper hand at times. But, it will always be living and evolving within a variety of animal hosts.

Now is not the time to despair.

So, should we all throw up our hands in despair over the fact that there is a new disease, unlikely ever to be eradicated, in our midst? No. We’ve been living with the cold and flu viruses for millennia. They won’t be eradicated either because they mutate rapidly and have a variety of hosts.

I’m not trying to be insensitive to the people that have suffered from Covid. And, as it now seems generally accepted that Covid originated in a laboratory, I’m also not trying to downplay the absolutely evil minds involved in making this disease what it is. But we’ve been living with diseases for millennia. We can learn to live with this one too.

Some people feel totally comfortable with the new mRNA vaccines.

Personally, I’m not comfortable with the mRNA. But, I won’t try to change anyone’s mind. I had Covid, and I’ve got natural immunity. I was extremely low-risk for complications from Covid. (In my late thirties, close to my ideal weight, and no outstanding vitamin deficiencies.) And sure enough, I only felt sick for about a day.

I never had any fever or respiratory symptoms. I was achy for about twenty-four hours and tired the day after. My sense of taste and smell disappeared, which was why I got tested. They have not returned, which is depressing because I love good food, but I can live without it. No child on this planet should miss one race or one get-together with friends because I can’t properly enjoy coffee anymore.

Others have had it way worse. You can read about Daisy’s experience with Covid HERE . She has also shared with her newsletter readers that she lost a close family member to Covid – a healthy man in his mid-40s who had no comorbidities. Bernie Carr, the founder of ApartmentPrepper.com, has had a lengthy battle that included hospitalization and long-term dependence on oxygen, and Greg Ellifritz, of ActiveResponseTraining.com, came pretty close to dying himself but is on the mend.

For anyone else who is vaccine-hesitant yet still concerned about the disease itself, there are many other treatment options. Again, humanity treated disease for a long time before vaccines entered the scene. Some of the first doctors to treat Covid patients formed Front Line Covid-19 Critical Care Alliance to develop and share low-cost treatment options. This article talks about managing the symptoms of Covid at home for those who are not sick enough to require hospitalization.

This is not an argument for or against vaccines.

If no one were willing to try anything new, we’d never make any progress. But the trials need to be made by fully informed, consenting individuals. That isn’t what we have right now. What we have now is coercion.

I am trying to argue against fear and hysteria. I want to encourage anyone, like myself, who is even moderately scientifically literate, to revisit your old textbooks. Build your confidence to make your own decisions. There’s too much fearmongering out there surrounding this disease. We’re distracted by a disease that 99.5% of infected people under 55 will survive as our rights are taken away, and our international reputation for being even a little bit competent and reliable falls apart.

Don’t allow yourself to get swallowed up by fear. The same things that mostly kept us healthy in the past will mostly keep us healthy now. Eat nutritious food, exercise regularly, and get sunshine.

Does this mean that if you are healthy, nothing terrible will ever happen to you? Of course not, just as obeying all the traffic rules won’t necessarily prevent some drunk from slamming into you. We can’t eliminate risk in our lives. All we can do is try to stack the odds in our favor.

How will you build your resilience and mental strength?

Resilience and mental strength are a huge part of prepping. Going back to the first principles, educating yourself will help you gain confidence in your decisions for yourself and your family. Confidence will help you stand firm against the rising tide of crazy we see in the world. Are you confident in your preparations? Have you reeducated yourself along the way? Let’s talk about it in the comments section.

Now is not the time to give in to fear. Now is the time to become strong.

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Scott Gottlieb Blocked Me On Twitter For Asking Him About Israel

Scott Gottlieb is selling a book about "Uncontrolled Spread" and is on the board of Pfizer. Is he being truthful or is he conflicted?

How is Isreal doing with Phizer vaccination rates at 90%? Doesn't look so good, does it?

Why didn't you speak to Isreal in your slide presentation? Are you conflicted because you are on the board of Pfizer?

Scott Gottlieb presented this slide on Isreal and totally ignored the core issues of why this data could be with 90% of the population vaccinated.

Scott Gottlieb also presented Are We Already At Herd Immunity at 83.3%? He did give credit to natural immunity which I commend but also credited 63.1% to vaccine immunity which seems extremely overstated considering the vaccinated are getting COVID at extremely high rates.

20.2+63.1= 83.3%

Natural Immunity B & T Cell Memory Triggers Better Response Against COVID

Kim Iversen makes the case for rethinking COVID-19 immunity after a new report appears to cast doubt on the immuno-response of vaccine immunity.

What Type of Person Needs A Vaccine Booster?

How healthy is your immune system?

Vaccines Israel Data, Vietnam Study Shows

A study from Vietnam shows 251x more delta virus load in the nostrils of the vaccinated healthcare workers (2021), compared to the old variants from 2020.

How To Test for COVID Antibodies & Immunity

Testing for Antibodies & Immunity (using new T cell immunity test)

Here is the company Adaptive Bio Tech https://www.adaptivebiotech.com/

Here is the test T Detect https://www.t-detect.com/

T cells, which are a type of white blood cell, are the first responders of the adaptive immune system. They kickstart antibody production, as well as target and destroy harmful viruses and bacteria. T cells persist in the blood after antibody responses wane—up to 10 months after infection (90% sensitivity). Learn more about the role of T cells in fighting COVID-19.

T cells and the body’s response to COVID-19

Your immune system stores a record of every germ it has ever encountered—in special cells called B cells and T cells, also known as memory cells. With this memory, your body can recognize and fight off those germs more easily the next time.

Vaccinated People are 13X Greater Risk of Hospitalization & Catching COVID-19 vs Natural Immunity

New Israeli Study Finds Fully Vaccinated People are at “Greater Risk of Hospitalization” and 13 TIMES MORE LIKELY to Catch Covid-19 Than Those Who Have Recovered and Have Natural Immunity

The study was described by Bloomberg as "the largest real-world analysis comparing natural immunity - gained from an earlier infection - to the protection provided by one of the most potent vaccines currently in use." A few days ago, we noted how remarkable it was that the mainstream press was finally giving voice to scientists to criticize President Biden's push to start doling out booster jabs. Well, this study further questions the credibility of relying on vaccines, given that the study showed that the vaccinated were ultimately 13x as likely to be infected as those who were infected previously, and 27x more likely to be symptomatic.

This should feel like vindication for those who are being extorted into getting the vaccine even though you have natural antibodies and likely immunity to coronavirus.

A new study out of Israel has seemingly confirmed that individuals who have natural immunity have better protection against the NEW DELTA VARIANT than people who are fully vaccinated.

The team of researchers, from Maccabi Healthcare and Tel Aviv University, published their study earlier this week to medRxiv.org.

‘This study demonstrated that natural immunity confers longer-lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, ‘ the team of researchers wrote.

Not just a little bit better either. People who have taken both doses of the Pfizer jab are 13 TIMES more likely to have a breakthrough infection, and are even at a “greater risk for Covid-19 hospitalizations.”

The researchers conducted an extensive study on 800,000 individuals that were broken into 3 groups. People who had received either one or two doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine were compared with unvaccinated individuals who have natural immunity, because they had already recovered from the virus.

SARS-CoV-2-naïve vaccinees had a 13.06-fold (95% CI, 8.08 to 21.11) increased risk for breakthrough infection with the Delta variant compared to those previously infected, when the first event (infection or vaccination) occurred during January and February of 2021. The increased risk was significant (P<0.001) for symptomatic disease as well.

When allowing the infection to occur at any time before vaccination (from March 2020 to February 2021), evidence of waning natural immunity was demonstrated, though SARS-CoV-2 naïve vaccinees had a 5.96-fold (95% CI, 4.85 to 7.33) increased risk for breakthrough infection and a 7.13-fold (95% CI, 5.51 to 9.21) increased risk for symptomatic disease. SARS-CoV-2-naïve vaccinees were also at a greater risk for COVID-19-related-hospitalizations compared to those that were previously infected.

MOST NOTABLY, the study also found – Three months after a 2nd dose, the risk of contracting Covid was 13.06 times higher among the vaccinated and they are 27 TIMES more likely to experience symptoms.

After adjusting for comorbidities, we found a 27.02-fold risk (95% CI, 12.7 to 57.5) for symptomatic breakthrough infection as opposed to symptomatic reinfection (P<0.001) (Table 2b). None of the covariates were significant, except for age ≥60 years.

So, to get this straight – According to these highly credible researchers who conducted a massive study on hundreds of thousands of people, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine won’t just make people more likely to catch new variants – they will also be more affected by symptoms and more likely to end up hospitalized.

This latest data just adds to a mounting pile of evidence that demonstrates the experimental jab’s low efficacy when it comes to stopping the spread of the virus. Even before this most recent study, some researchers had already found that the vaccinated spread the virus as much, if not more, than the unvaxxed.

Dr. Anthony Fauci and the rest of President Biden's COVID advisors have been proven wrong about "the science" of COVID vaccines yet again. After telling Americans that vaccines offer better protection than natural infection, a new study out of Israel suggests the opposite is true: natural infection offers a much better shield against the delta variant than vaccines.

Dr. Malone Sounds Alarm On Liability Coverage Of Pfizer Vax

Flip flop Fauci moving the goalposts again on herd immunity from 70% to 90%.

The data the CDC is using is outdated and there is no way they can get to herd immunity.

The FDA approval of the vaccine is a fascinating bureaucratic shell game. The blanket liability coverage only applies to the Pfizer product. Dr. Malone suggests hold off until the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine is available because it will not have the same legal protections the Government is providing under emergency authorization. In other words, you can sue the company if you are harmed by the vaccine.

Also, the CDC and FDA do not have the data to support any of the claims they are supporting. They have not done studies that incorporate data from varients.

When Are Natural Immunity Passports Coming?

The looming disaster of immunity passports and digital identity

A digital ID that proves immunity will raise serious human rights issues. And the failure of the digital ID industry to deal with the issues of exclusion, exploitation, and discrimination puts the entire industry under question.

'Immunity passports' are a theoretical credential - most likely digital - that someone can prove that they have either had the virus and recovered, or have had a vaccination.

Immunity passports are being hyped as a solution to ending lockdowns around the world by actors including the proponents of digital identity; the digital identity industry; think tanks; and the travel industry.

Yet there is currently no scientific basis for these measures, as highlighted by the WHO. The nature of what information would be held on an immunity passport is currently unknown.

The social risks of immunity passports are great: it serves as a route to discrimination and exclusion, particularly if the powers to view these passports fall on people's employers, or the police.

The digital identity industry - pushing their own products as immunity passport solutions - is failing to protect against these harms: they are interested in building wider digital identity systems, based on their pre-existing models, rather than developing a genuine solution to the risks of these passports.

Immunity Passports have become a much-hyped tool to cope with this pandemic and the economic crisis. Essentially, with immunity passports, those who are 'immune' to the virus would have some kind of certified document - whether physical or digital. This 'passport' would give them rights and privileges that other members of the community do not have.

This is yet another example of a crisis response that depends on technology, as we saw with contact-tracing apps. And it is also yet another instance of trying to rapidly respond to complex problems, as governments did after 9/11, by reaching for identity systems.

Fundamentally, for identity system design form must follow function. Identity systems are complex systems that can alter the relationship between the individual, the state, and all the companies and agencies who are granted power in between.

Yet proponents of immunity passports do not yet know the extent of the problem they are solving. Companies selling their pre-existing digital identity solutions should be viewed with suspicion; this is not a problem that has been 'solved' as we have yet to define what the problem is.

In fact, the scientific validity/rationale of 'immunity' is still under question. It is premature to start designing a system without a better understanding of immunity. Crucial questions have to be answered first:

how and in what ways immunity to the virus is conveyed?
what a testing regime would look like? For example, is it home-based or does it require a lab? Is it something that can be rolled out at scale quickly to broad populations or is it only accessible to some?
how long does immunity last? and
what are the prospects for a vaccine, how long will it last, and how will that be deployed?

Without an understanding of these issues, it is not possible to design a system that both 'works' in terms of giving the information that's needed for public health reasons and for managing the next steps of measures to manage lockdowns including the associated economic and social strains associated, while at the same time protecting fundamental rights.

Once answered, then we will all know what problem the identity system is designed to solve. Without the knowledge of how immunity works, we cannot possibly yet say what the design should be.

And even if that is resolved, the risks to individuals and communities emerging from 'immunity passports' are severe. Read the full article to explore all these issues.

Why Is The CDC and Media Ignoring Natural Immunity?

We’ve got to start respecting people who choose not to get the vaccine instead of demonizing them.

Anthony Fauci has been saying that the country needs to vaccinate 70% to 85% of the population to reach herd immunity from Covid-19. But he inexplicably ignores natural immunity. If you account for previous infections, herd immunity is likely close at hand.

The news about the U.S. Covid pandemic is even better than you’ve heard. Some 80% to 85% of American adults are immune to the virus: More than 64% have received at least one vaccine dose and, of those who haven’t, roughly half have natural immunity from prior infection. There’s ample scientific evidence that natural immunity is effective and durable, and public-health leaders should pay it heed.

Natural immunity is durable. Researchers from Washington University in St. Louis reported last month that 11 months after a mild infection immune cells were still capable of producing protective antibodies. The authors concluded that prior Covid infection induces a “robust” and “long-lived humoral immune response,” leading some scientists to suggest that natural immunity is probably lifelong. Because infection began months earlier than vaccination, we have more follow-up data on the duration of natural immunity than on vaccinated immunity.

Researchers from the Cleveland Clinic published a study this week of 1,359 people previously infected with Covid who were unvaccinated. None of the subjects subsequently became infected, leading the researchers to conclude that “individuals who have had SARS-CoV-2 infection are unlikely to benefit from COVID-19 vaccination.”

What’s the harm of underestimating or disregarding the protection afforded by natural immunity? It almost certainly cost American lives by misallocating vaccine doses earlier this year, and is still doing so in countries where Covid is prevalent and shots are scarce. It continues to delay full reopening and prolongs the state of fear that has many people wearing masks even when there’s no mandate, or reason, to do so.

Dr. Fauci said last Aug. 13 that when you have fewer than 10 cases per 100,000, “you should be able to open up safely and clearly.” The U.S. reached that point in mid-May. It’s time to stop the fear mongering and level with the public about the incredible capabilities of both modern medical research and the human body’s immune system.

As we are once again bombarded with accusations of "ignoring the science" - when even the head of CDC cannot show the "science" she is using to back her decision to make America mask-up again - and suggesting that natural immunity is not enough (you must still get the jab) as policymakers appear to be heading towards the tyrannical control required to achieve "ZeroCOVID" - an impossible dream (that enables trillions more in stimmies and more and more dependence on government handouts.

Ahh yes . . natural immunity may be durable, but it isn't profitable.