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Virologist Christian Drosten: Naturally Acquired Immunity Is Not Like Eating Steak, or Something

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Virologist Christian Drosten: Naturally Acquired Immunity Is Not Like Eating Steak, or Something

Also, Markus Söder on the necessity of vaccine mandates, and superspreading in the Icelandic parliament.

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Virologist Christian Drosten: Naturally Acquired Immunity Is Not Like Eating Steak, or Something

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Germany’s foremost Corona astrologer, Christian Drosten, ventures to lecture Twitter on the nature of human immunity:

If you think you can train your immune system through infection, you must also believe that you can train your digestive system with steak.

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Christian Drosten @c_drosten
Wer glaubt, durch eine Infektion sein Immunsystem zu trainieren, muss konsequenterweise auch glauben, durch ein Steak seine Verdauung zu trainieren.
2:03 PM ∙ Dec 29, 2021
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Seriously, immune response vs. “strong immune system” is like learning vs. intelligence. I can memorise a poem, but that doesn’t make me more intelligent. I can survive an infection, but I have not “strengthened my immune system.”

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Christian Drosten @c_drosten
Im Ernst: Immunreaktion vs. "starkes Immunsystem" ist wie Lernen vs. Intelligenz. Ich kann ein Gedicht auswendig lernen, bin dadurch aber nicht intelligenter geworden. Ich kann eine Infektion überstehen, habe dadurch aber nicht "mein Immunsystem gestärkt".
3:10 PM ∙ Dec 29, 2021
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I’m amazed at how many misunderstandings and misconceptions exist surrounding infection, vaccination and immunity. With a bit more knowledge, many here could avoid aggression and instead make better decisions for themselves.

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Christian Drosten @c_drosten
Ich bin erstaunt, wieviele Missverständnisse und falsche Vorstellungen über Infektion, Impfung und Immunität bestehen. Mit etwas mehr Wissen könnten sich viele hier ihre Aggressivität sparen und stattdessen für sich selbst bessere Entscheidungen treffen.
10:07 PM ∙ Dec 29, 2021
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There’s a lot that could be said in response to this drivel, the product of a truly mediocre mind, which is ever toying with incoherent metaphors and rejoicing in semantic victories. Everything Drosten says applies equally to immunity from vaccination, but he ignores that point, because his real purpose is to cast indirect, implicit aspersions on immunity from infection. Of course, nobody should be surprised that the man who called Corona “a minor illness … a cold” on 2 March 2020 was just a few months ago saying quite different things. As late as 3 September, Drosten was still able to acknowledge that

Immunity from infection is more robust in the long run. My goal as virologist Drosten, is … I want to have vaccine immunity and then, on top of that, I want to have my first infection, and my second, and my third at some point.

I don’t know, that sounds an awful lot like training to me.


Meanwhile, Markus Söder, minister president of Bavaria (CSU), continues his disturbing totalitarian spiral, with remarks made at a press conference just before Christmas:

And with a vaccine mandate, we can also control this better. With a vaccine mandate, there is a clear option for control. Who is to be vaccinated, when and how. At what intervals and why, then you can structure it much better and ultimately also try to get ahead of the waves instead of always running after them.

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TheRealTom™ 🙂 @tomdabassman
Völlig weggetreten. Parallelwelt. #SoederRuecktritt #Impfung
2:13 PM ∙ Dec 29, 2021
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This is the same man who recently told Bild that the coalition government “should not be telling us what to eat,” in response to the demands from the Food and Agriculture Minister for higher meat prices. On Christmas, he voiced hopes that a vaccine mandate will help us overcome social divisions.


Finally, the heavily vaccinated Icelandic parliament has been hit with a wave of Corona infections, which started among the opposition parties and soon spread into the cabinet.

Jólin eru í uppnámi hjá Birgi eins og fleiri hundruð manns sem greinst hafa undanfarna daga.
tfw PCR positive

Three ministers have now tested positive; run this incredibly stupid article through Google translate to see how they’re spending their time in quarantine: Finance Minister Bjarni Benediktsson is hard at work on a jigsaw puzzle, Science Minister Áslaug Arna Sigurbjörnsdóttir is eating take-out, and Foreign Affairs Minister Þórdís Kolbrún R. Gylfadóttir is hanging out with her cat. This is obviously a highly dangerous disease, worth every inch of the social and economic destruction we have wrought, in our futile attempts to contain it.

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Dennis Field
Writes Down From Up
Dec 30, 2021Liked by eugyppius

'There’s a lot that could be said in response to this drivel, the product of a truly mediocre mind, which is ever toying with incoherent metaphors and rejoicing in semantic victories.'

That's a line I'll remember.

The denial of natural immunity to me is the most obvious flaw with the push for universal vaccination. When Dr. Gupta keeps pressing Rogan to get vaccinated even though he's probably got better immunity than him, it gets creepy. Like drug dealer pushing drugs creepy.

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Writes The Liberal Loud Mouth
Dec 30, 2021Liked by eugyppius

That's just nonsense, what Drosten said. He's comparing an apple to a rock. The immune system LITERALLY has to be trained. It's why kids get sick constantly, then stop getting sick constantly.

It's why doctors tell parents not to shield their children from germs, but to allow them exposure to them BECAUSE it trains their immune system to learn how to fight things off.

The immune system is literally designed to LEARN. That's why an infection generally takes the same time to fight off because the body takes a few days to LEARN how to defeat a bacteria or virus, then fights it off and then you get better.

What a load of horse crap.

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