(Non-) Update to "(Not) Coming Up"

More on "Original bla bla bla." Plus: Positive barbecue news!

For once I have not burdened the email subscriber with the “beta” release of a post that goes on to be heavily edited in the following 24 hours. There were not really any updates to Friday’s entry.¹

But as another prompt for the same subject covered in “(Not)…” has come up, I will offer a few additional remarks. These remarks arrive late, both because yesterday and today have been mostly devoted to errands, and because the prompt in question, “More on Original Antigenic Sin and the Folly of Our Universal Vaccination Campaign,” by the blogger eugyppius, was difficult to read.² Thankfully it is brief, or I don’t think I would have made my way through it inside of a week. It is just that uninteresting.

To avoid the same crime, I will dispense with formality. Most of the post is already answered and addressed by “(Not)…” Here are the few remarks which I would add:

• Antibodies are not immunity.

• B Cells are not immunity.

• Since cellular immunity, both innate (Natural Killer Cells) and memory (T Cells) can fend off related strains of respiratory infections in the respiratory epithelium itself without any issue, why would the immune system bother to update circulatory flu antibodies? Merely to please human scientific expectations? This sincerely seems to be what has driven so much curiosity into an otherwise obvious phenomenon - there is a script contained within medical dogma, and damn nature for daring not to follow it.

• (A repeat:) Dengue Virus is sui generis. It is injected into the blood by mosquitos, possibly at quite high doses - as in from multiple bites in a given night, considering that mosquitos are not picky about snacking off each-other’s “left-overs.” Not only does this possibly create the pre-conditions for antibody dependent enhancement (by, potentially, mis-training the immune system into non-antiviral, pro-inflammatory responses), respiratory viruses should not get into the bloodstream much during subsequent viral challenge (again, thanks to T Cells which recognize the entire suite of proteins of a particular “platform” of virus). If they do, this may or may not result in an update to the immune response - but, as discussed on Friday, the immune systems of adults are less flexible (including T Cell epitope responses).

• Eugyppius’s claim, “Despite the efforts of public health authorities everywhere, most people catch the flu before they are ever vaccinated, and so flu shots have little opportunity to undermine population-wide immunity to influenza A” is likely incorrect. It seems like this statement was derived from the common unawareness of how high childhood flu vaccine uptake is in the US.

  The actual figures for how many American parents needlessly subject their children to poison-laden annual flu vaccines are so jaw-dropping one can only hope they are, in fact, utterly erroneous. From this year’s (retrospective) CDC “Persons 6 Months and Older” report:³

  

  source: cdc.gov

  And in 2010:

  

  Yes, this is how many children are subjected to the shot concocted for a given year. (Rates for “6 months - 4 years” are even higher in both years than the displayed “-17 years” values.⁴)

  Subjecting children to “leaky” pseudo-vaccines for flu in advance of natural encounter has been going on for over a decade. It may be true that this has enhanced outcomes for later infection with different strains; but it hasn’t brought about the apocalypse. Why should it? Natural immunity against respiratory viruses is not strictly about antibodies, even if some forms of immune dysfunction derive from antibody interactions.

Here I will stop. I could wade into the implications “protective, but not sterilizing” T Cell immunity has for vaccines, but I think the circularity of the meaning of “Original…” in vaccine use was sufficiently discussed in Friday’s post. To recap:

• Who cares what vaccine developers are worried about?⁵

I don’t have any issue with the more apocalyptic conclusions which are appended on both sides of eugyppius’s “deeper look” at the “mechanism” of the phrase I am tired of reading and writing. I think it is quite likely that those conclusions are correct - the Covid vaccines will trap humanity in an “endless pandemic.” But just how the trope of Original Antigenic Sin leads to that conclusion is not actually argued anywhere in the text.⁶ Instead, the boogeyman is merely described; the differences between that boogeyman and coronaviruses are ignored; the similarities (promotion of vaccines to children in advance of natural encounter) likewise.

Additionally, I still stand by my own explanation for why Covid-vaccination seems to increase the likelihood of infection, and possibly indirectly increase the likelihood of exposure and infection for the unvaccinated, as laid out in Forever Spike.⁷

I feel a bit ashamed for writing and, if I meet my promised deadline, publishing my “Covid vaccine-induced cancer” theory on Halloween week. If I could have finished it last week, I gladly would have taken off from posting until the holiday passed. Late October should be a time for happier thoughts.

To make up for this offense, I will offer bright news. Phil's BBQ, in San Diego, might not be the only good barbecue in California, but I assure you it’s perfectly easy to try 100 other places before finding a second one. Tragically, during all my beach trips this summer (which is to say, after the lifting of ridiculous indoor mask rules in San Diego “for the ‘vaccinated’”), I did not have time to swing by. Thus, yesterday was my first time being back to Phil’s since The Pandemic™. Naturally I was anxious to find out if the experience still really matched the former, flawless standard.

Perhaps we are descending to widespread death and civil war. And probably, economic collapse that will render our cities and suburbs useless, and thrust everyone living into those places into crisis. Whatever happens, the end of our current comfortable chaos seems to be almost at hand. Even Google has scaled down their efforts to update the view of the world offered in Maps, or so it seems from my own use of the app - not exactly a sign of confidence.

But here and now, in October, 2021, you can pull off of Sports Arena Blvd in San Diego and eat brilliant ribs next to fifty other maskless diners, pulling all the paper towels you need off your table’s dedicated roll. There is still light and beauty in the world, even in the most improbable places.

1. I did add “footnote 11” regarding Dengue Virus, to clarify that even Dengue should not really be classed into the infection-centric “meaning” of the vague term that I am tired of reading and writing.

2. eugyppius. “More on Original Antigenic Sin and the Folly of Our Universal Vaccination Campaign.” (2021, October 26.) eugyppius.substack.com

3. See: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/fluvaxview/interactive-general-population.htm (Accessed October 27, 2021.)

4. From “table” view:

Source: cdc.gov

5. In fact, the revival of interest in “Original…” may be entirely an outcome of researcher frustration at the failure of the modern revival of adult vaccination. Rather than question the prior myths about the supposed brilliant success of (childhood and adult) smallpox vaccination, for example, researchers searched the literature for a possible defect in the human immune system to blame for their own ineptitude. Thus, the elevation of Francis’ 1960 paper into a “smoking gun” for why natural immunity is just “too dern stupid” for vaccination to work effectively!

6. In fact, I think it’s just as likely that the antibody dependent enhancement “trap” will work merely because it is announced that it has worked - even if Covid-vaccinated individuals who experience a “breakthrough infection” in advance of the arrival of a sufficiently mutated strain of SARS-CoV-2 in fact are protected by their more wide-spectrum, post-“breakthrough” immune response.

7. See “Forever Spike.”