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Jul 24, 2022Liked by eugyppius

Just like the vaccine justification, I would have gotten really sick today and ended up in the hospital had I not eaten sausage gravy and biscuits for breakfast. It was a close call but thanks to my wife mandating the breakfast, I was saved from a horrible outcome today. Imagine if I hadn’t eaten breakfast how bad things would have been.

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It is really odd that we have so many respiratory infections outside of flu season...

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The most concerning thing about an out-of-season wave like this is, what happens in winter? Especially in Europe, where the foreign policy fucktardery of the EU is going to mean cold homes.

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The excess death numbers are the only thing that matters. Mass asymptomatic infection with a bioengineered virus producing toxic spikes that lodge themselves into every organ in the body is a recipe for disaster. Symptoms of infection are your body’s way of informing you that you’ve been invaded and telling you to chill the fuck out and reserve your energy so your immune system can do its job. Unfortunately there are now billions of people who have turned their bodies into spike manufacturing warehouses and they don’t even know it.

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"Crisis is the rallying cry of tyrants". James Madison.

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The balance between the human immune system and the various pathogens that circulate has been thrown off kilter for sure. Some combination of lockdowns, masking, stress, depression, mass vaccination, spraying disinfectant all over the place has upset the equilibrium. I've noticed many more mild infections in myself and my children (all unvaccinated) over the last 2 years. I've got one right now, nothing much, just a mild sore throat and a bit of fatigue and I'm still testing negative for COVID (I haven't had a positive test yet). Before April 2020, I could often go a couple of years without getting anything. It's a step change in overall rates of illness that I'm seeing in my circles.

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In eastern Switzerland, we seemed to be catching everything between February and May. Vaxxed and unvaxxed were getting colds, COVID, stomach flu, etc. Now I don’t hear of too many acquaintances being sick this summer. I wonder if lockdown effects are the main culprit for the disease wave in other parts of Europe. We opened up earlier in Switzerland, then it felt like we got hit with so many diseases that we had not been exposed to for two years. Since other European countries opened up a little later, it would make sense for them to be exposed to those same diseases later as well.

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Jul 24, 2022Liked by eugyppius

I lost my job, my home and couldn’t even go to the shops. I am so glad I didn’t get the vaccine. So to all those that did, I could care less what happens to you. Just like you didn’t care less when I was being persecuted.

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Curious- is there data available to investigate the differences between the vaccinated and unvaccinated population in Europe? In the U.S., the vaccinated are richer, less likely to smoke, less obese, have longer life expectancies and lower death rates, making observational data confounded.

https://inumero.substack.com/p/we-dont-know-if-covid-vaccinations?r=tv61s&utm_medium=ios

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Jul 24, 2022Liked by eugyppius

I just hope more and more vaxxed bite the dust. It is what they wanted after all.

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The main reason it hasn't recovered its prior pathogenicity is because everyone has developed some degree of immunity by now. BA.1's intrinsic virulence was lower than Delta's, but as Omicron evolves it starts to pick up many of the traits that worked so well for Delta again, along with the greater virulence.

Unfortunately, the evidence just continues to pile up that mild infections that don't result in hospitalization are still damaging. There is evidence of sustained elevated pro-inflammatory cytokines and microglial activation in the brain after mild infection, resulting in decreased hippocampal neurogenesis (https://t.co/POV0UnJWZS). There is also evidence of T cell loss in mild infections. And of course, we're dealing so far in 2022 with excess mortality comparable to 2020 and 2021, even in 85+ year olds, the sort of cohorts where you would expect to now see negative excess mortality as the victims already had little life expectancy left.

Overall the whole situation just looks pretty awful to me right now, but as the economic damage from the lockdowns piles up and the whole population has received the science juice, the whole system is now forced to pretend everything is normal again.

If you gave people vaccines with negative efficacy, priority number one is creating the appearance that everything is fine. You don't want to end up facing prosecution like the Philippine health secretary and the Sanofi Pasteur scientists did once the Dengvaxxia vaccine proved to make Dengue worse in children who had never been exposed to Dengue before.

I doubt the vaccinated immune response is completely fixed in place, but the bigger question is whether it matters, when unprecedented mass infection and growing viral diversity means our immune response fails to keep up with the pace at which the virus changes. It's a bit like driving your car into a gully during a race. Sure, it can still drive, it's not permanently wrecked and you can probably get it out again, but you lost the race.

The whole situation just looks a lot worse to me than it did in 2020, when waves were small and infection gave 90% protection against reinfection for at least a year. We don't need some sort of ADE doomsday variant, continual repeated mass infection (~13% of the population in Edinburgh right now) throughout the year, with a virus that puts the immune system on high alert seems enough to cause growing widespread health problems over time.

Countries without mass vaccination right now still look as if they're enjoying herd immunity, so I think it really didn't have to end up like this. Unfortunately, the science-juice leads to the sort of adaptive immune response based on neutralizing antibodies that is easy to overcome through a few mutations, whereas natural immunity shows features (NK cell-mediated antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8992321/) that seem harder to overcome. It seems to me the antibodies themselves will change from breakthrough infections, but the immune system stays stuck in a type of response that is vulnerable to mutation.

In the unvaccinated naturally immune we see superior protection against infection and hospitalization, but importantly, we don't really see consistent evidence of a strong neutralizing antibody response against Spike. The body normally seems to protect against reinfection through other routes (trained innate immunity mainly) and so even if the neutralizing antibody response against Spike changes over time from breakthrough infections, it's still a stunted form of immunity that can prohibit the development of herd immunity when most of the population is affected.

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Jul 24, 2022Liked by eugyppius

It is quite possible that the increase in respiratory disease of all kinds is due to immune systems weakened by the COVID injections.

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Jul 24, 2022Liked by eugyppius

I think it's alarming that the normal summer seasonality used to be that there were few viruses lurking in the summer heat. But this combination of ineffective vaccines and lockdowns has changed that- has it changed that for the future as well? Is there going to be a lasting affect on some people's immune systems? I read this on substack, and although I am not going to pretend I understand it completely- I think it's another approach to understanding how the jabs and particularly boosters, are making people more prone to getting sick with omicron.

https://unglossed.substack.com/p/boosting-tolerance-igg4

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Jul 24, 2022Liked by eugyppius

Winter in the northern hemisphere should be telling. However, Europe in particular, will be distracted by enduring colder weather with less oil and gas supply and inflation. Whether intentional or not, the focus will not be on sars-cov-2 cases.

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Jul 24, 2022Liked by eugyppius

Wastewater monitoring....stay out of our shit, government.

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Jul 24, 2022Liked by eugyppius

Do you not think that the vaccinated billions, if they just accept an infection or two and stop boosting, will eventually get to where they need to be in terms of immunity? Tons of vaccinated people are getting- and clearing- covid. So the system still works, no?

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