What Was the Point of Denying Natural Immunity?

 On Nov. 13, 2020, just as the vaccine was being rolled out (surely a sheer coincidence that it was just after the election), the World Health Organization (WHO) made a hugely significant change to its website.

It pertained to the section on herd immunity—the concept theorizing how a new pathogen goes from pandemic to endemic, from socially disruptive to manageable. It’s about how a society gets back to normal. Previously, the website said it happens with immunity upgrades through exposure plus vaccines.

On this day, the WHO changed its website. The science hadn’t changed. But the body presuming to guard and govern world health changed anyway. The website suddenly struck out natural immunity and even put it down. The new text said: “Herd immunity is achieved by protecting people from a virus, not exposing them to it.”

Wow, amazing news? You mean that for all viruses, we will now rely only on vaccines, even though natural immunity has been the way that humanity evolved with viruses from the beginning of time? And even though natural immunity and exposure are how infectious disease went from being possibly the number one problem humanity faced over most of history to becoming a relatively minor problem in the modern age?

That’s right: The WHO announced that now scientists and their potions would protect the whole of humanity from everything! Astounding. And unbearably false. It just so happened that this grand reveal happened just as COVID vaccines were about to hit the market.

There was a minor uproar online, but it was enough even to reach the inner chambers of the organization. And so by Jan. 4, 2021, the website of the WHO dialed back its absurdity a bit. Herd immunity “happens when a population is immune either through vaccination or immunity developed through previous infection,” the site now said. It added, however, in case there was any doubt, that the WHO “supports achieving ‘herd immunity’ through vaccination.”

This is surely one of the most bizarre chapters in the history of public health. We’ve known about natural immunity for at least 2,500 years. It’s a basic concept without which there is no understanding of disease at all. To think that the WHO tried to wipe it out with a website change is beyond belief.

The month before the WHO came out with its preposterous claim, British medical journal The Lancet had more-or-less trumpeted the same blather. As the Norfolk Group has written:

“In October 2020, a widely circulated Memorandum published in The Lancet, a top British medical journal, questioned infection-acquired immunity. It stated that ‘there is no evidence for lasting protective immunity to SARS-CoV-2 following natural infection,’ claiming ‘scientific consensus’ for this view. The Memorandum was co-authored by several senior US scientists, including Drs. Marc Lipsitch (Harvard), Ali Nouri (president, American Federation of Scientists) and Rochelle Walensky (Harvard). With extremely few reinfections at the time, clear evidence for the existence of infection-acquired immunity, and despite what we know about other coronaviruses, on what basis did these scientists question that infection with SARS-CoV-2 provided lasting protection from severe disease for recovered individuals and, early on, from reinfection? What was the rationale for The Lancet editor-in-chief, Dr. Richard Horton’s, decision to publish the Lancet Memorandum that questioned infection-acquired immunity after SARS-CoV-2 infection without citing supporting data and which ran in opposition to well established immunologic principles?”

The Memorandum in question was supposed to be a response to the Great Barrington Declaration. They called it the John Snow Memo. Today, it’s nothing if not embarrassing.

Of course, the evidence rolled in from all over the world over the coming months that natural immunity to this pathogen works exactly as one would expect. It is robust and broad and lasting.

Simply incredible.

Then what happened? Something absolutely remarkable. It turned out that the vaccine failed to prevent infection or transmission. That is to say: Vaccination turned out to make no contribution to herd immunity or public health. Not just some but none. Forget the idea that we would vaccinate our way out of this mess. Nope. Far from it: The pandemic would end the old-fashioned way, same as every pandemic of the past: through natural exposure and recovery.

This fiasco has to rank among the most egregious failures of public health in history. The world’s most respected institutions actually opened themselves up to be major sources of massive disinformation for the entire planet Earth. And then, everything they promised turned out to be a complete lie.

Why did the WHO change basic immunological realities? I have my own theories. They’re so captured by industry and Big Pharma in particular that they WANTED the population to stay immunologically naïve and unprotected in order that they could market and test a new technology.

Again, that has to rank among the most egregious experiments in modern life, and it’s one that utterly and completely failed.

If you think about it, and if this is true, this accounts for nearly all the insanity of government for the better part of three years. It explains the deprecation of early treatments. It explains the relentless and bizarre demand to “flatten the curve” even though there was no threat to the healthcare system. The point was to preserve the non-immune state of the population as long as possible so that they could get shots in the arms of everyone, even those who didn’t want them or need them.

It explains the lockdowns. It explains the closures and capacity restrictions. It explains the travel restrictions. It explains the demand that we put ourselves under house arrest and avoid contact with anyone. If we had to go out, we were told to “socially distance” and mask up. It was all a plot to keep us vulnerable to the pathogen that the vaccines were supposed to magically whisk away, even though we’ve never in history had a vaccine for a widespread coronavirus respiratory infection that mutates quickly.

In fact, we’ve also long known that getting repeatedly vaccinated for a fast-mutating virus is itself a great danger due to “immunity imprinting” and “original antigenic sin”—making us sicker than ever. And not only that: More and more mutations are also given strength by the vaccination itself, in which case the vaccination not only prolonged the pandemic but even added a new layer of unusual sickness on top of that.

They actually put profit and industrial capture ahead of matters of health. And they did it for the entire planet. They experimented with the world’s population to create a new platform technology for perpetual boosters not only for this virus but all diseases. This is the only possible explanation. It’s a scandal of epic proportions.

Once you understand this, if you were already angry about what has happened to us, you would add another layer of fury. Crucially, none of these errors in judgment have any justification in ignorance. They knew. They just decided to ignore science and experience and replace it with industrial propaganda, at great expense to the health of the population all over the world.

Will you ever regain your trust in public health? You shouldn’t, not until there’s full accountability and open admissions of wrongdoing.

Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute, and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of The Best of Mises.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/what-was-the-point-of-denying-natural-immunity_5053980.html

Why the sudden surge in UFO sightings with Chinese balloon saga?

 The recent publicized spate of UFOs spotted over North America has left some wondering whether aliens are invading Earth — but the reason for the sightings is not so out-of-this-world, experts say.

“At any given moment, thousands of balloons” float thousands of feet above the ground, including many sent aloft by the US government and military and private entities, Paul Fetkowitz, president of Kaymont Consolidated Industries, a maker of high-altitude balloons in Melbourne, Fla., said to the New York Times.

While the objects have long been observed by pilots, military personnel and civilians, it only seems as if there are more at least partly because of the recent sightings being publicized, experts say.

Another reason for the sharp rise in sightings may stem from the US government’s efforts to publicly “destigmatize the topic of UAP” and publicly note and “recognize the potential risks” they pose, both as an aviation hazard and “potential adversarial activity,” such as spying.

“For years, you didn’t hear anything about balloons. Now, we’re on the lookout for any kind of flying object,” Terry Deshler, an emeritus professor of atmospheric science at the University of Wyoming, told the outlet.

US Air Force fighter jets recently shot down four suspicious objects in a little over a week — famously beginning with a Chinese spy balloon that was downed over the Atlantic Ocean after it traversed the entire country.

Three additional unidentified flying objects — one over Alaska on Friday, a “small, metallic balloon” over northwestern Canada on Saturday and a third, octagonal object over Lake Huron on Sunday — were then ordered shot down by President Biden.

The last three objects have not been linked to China, other countries or aliens, for that matter.

Air Force Gen. Glen VanHerck, head of US North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and Northern Command (NORCOM), made sensational headlines Sunday when he said he couldn’t rule out little green men, forcing the White House to quickly issue a clarification the next day that the US has “no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity” tied to the objects.

A map of the objects recently shot down over North America.

A former NORAD commander suggested Monday that the most recently shot-down trio may have been launched by non-Chinese adversaries to test the US’s reaction.

The seeming proliferation of suspicious airborne objects could simply stem at least partly from focused attention on what the US government now refers to as “unidentified aerial phenomena,” or UAPs — which have long been observed by pilots, military personnel and civilians, according to reports.

In recent days, the US also has sought to enhance its radars and atmospheric trackers to more closely monitor the nation’s airspace after the incident with the Chinese balloon.

Experts warn the move could result in a rash of false alarms about the objects.

There also is the psychological phenomenon known as the “frequency illusion” — a type of cognitive bias that causes people to notice things more after first hearing about them, the Daily Beast noted.

In addition, the latest spotting of high-up objects comes as the Pentagon has undertaken a new push in recent years to investigate military sightings of UAPs.

This past summer, the Pentagon formed the All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, which has reviewed 366 reports of UAPs, finding them to be mostly items such as balloons, drones, birds or aerial clutter.

Still, 171 sightings remain officially unexplained.

According to the Pentagon, there are 171 cases of “unidentified aerial phenomena” that remain officially unexplained.

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Each year, the National Weather Service launches about 60,000 balloons into the stratosphere, which extends to a height of roughly 30 miles, according to the Times.

The agency’s balloons are designed to reach an altitude of 20 miles, far higher than any of the objects detected in the past few days.

By comparison, the typical commercial plane cruises between about 6 and almost 8 miles above sea level, according to USA Today.

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A NASA science balloon getting inflated at a launch site in Australia on April 29, 2010.

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An Air Force member deploying a weather balloon aboard the USS Portland on Dec. 11, 2022.

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Fetkowitz said these weather balloons were designed to eventually burst and break into fine particles, though some might have been under-inflated and could remain intact as they float aimlessly because they never fly high enough to burst.

“A balloon launched in Denver might land in New Jersey,” he told the Times.

NASA also runs a program in Texas that has launched more than 1,700 balloons on lengthy scientific missions over the years with payloads weighing up to 4 tons, the outlet reported.

https://nypost.com/2023/02/14/why-the-sudden-surge-in-ufo-sightings-after-chinese-balloon-saga/

White House says ‘thousands’ of objects in skies could be used car lot balloons — not aliens

 There are hundreds, “if not thousands,” of unknown objects soaring in the skies — but they’re likely just used car balloons or other benign crafts and not aliens visiting Earth, White House officials said Monday.

“There are no UFOs. This is not an invasion of the aliens,” White House Homeland Security Adviser Liz Sherwood-Randall said in a virtual briefing with governors after the US military shot down three flying objects last weekend, according to Fox News.

“I mean, it’s funny, but it’s not funny because people are communicating this on platforms that are widely viewed,” Sherwood-Randall said.

But despite Sherwood-Randall’s assurance to the elected officials, the government is still unable to identify the trio of recently-downed objects.

The first was shot down off Alaska’s Arctic coastline Friday, the second over Canada’s Yukon Territory Saturday and the third over Lake Huron on Sunday.

The image provided by the Department of Defense labeled Gimbal, from 2015, an unexplained object is seen as it is tracked as it soars high along the clouds.

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On the call to governors Monday, Sherwood-Randall said there are “hundreds, if not thousands” of objects in the sky.

Most are believed to be mundane and could be things like “used car lot balloons” to aircraft launched by commercial businesses, she added.

“It’s true that there are things that are being identified that don’t resemble anything else, that largely don’t present a threat, and we have to figure out what to do about them,” the White House advisor told governors. “And it turns out, there are hundreds, if not thousands, of them.”

Air Force Gen. Glen VanHerck, the head of US North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and Northern Command (NORCOM), said Sunday that he couldn’t rule out aliens after the weekend shoot-downs.

“I’ll let the intel community and the counterintelligence community figure that out.” VanHerck said.

However, officials walked back his comments Monday.

Remnants of the large balloon drift above the Atlantic Ocean, just off the coast of South Carolina, with a fighter jet and its contrail seen below it on Feb. 4.

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Gen. Glen VanHerck, Commander of United States Northern Command and North American Aerospace Defense Command, initially couldn’t rule out alines before officials walked back his comments.

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“I know there have been questions and concerns about this, but there is no — again, no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent takedowns,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said during her regular press briefing.

White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby also said he doesn’t “think the American people need to worry about aliens with respect to these craft. Period.”

The White House is creating an interagency task force to study the mysterious objects this week.

Navy personnel recover a mysterious high-altitude balloon from the Atlantic Ocean.

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Authorities are working to find and retrieve debris from the three most recent objects shot down.

Officials say debris from the first unidentified object, described as the size of a small car, likely landed on Alaska’s offshore ice while the second two debris fields are believed to be in the Canadian wilderness.

The trio of shoot-downs follow the downing of a high-altitude Chinese spy balloon on Feb. 4 off South Carolina’s coast.

The latest objects are believed to be much lower-flying and smaller than the Chinese spy balloon, which was roughly the size of three buses.

https://nypost.com/2023/02/15/white-house-says-thousands-of-objects-in-skies-could-be-used-car-lot-balloons-not-aliens/