Told You So: Vaccines Don’t Stop You From “Getting” COVID-19

NBC News reported that “at least 125,000 fully vaccinated Americans have tested positive for Covid and 1,400 of those have died.” This news comes as a shock to those who believed the hype that getting vaccinated created a bubble of impenetrability around them. It was an obvious piece of information for those who remember how disease actually happens. When the government’s definition of “getting” COVID-19 is properly understood, the picture becomes clear. “Getting” COVID-19 is simply defined as the (largely flawed) PCR test indicating the likely presence of the pathogen in a person’s system – in any amount, and with any (or no) symptoms.

At the risk of becoming a broken record, we must take this opportunity to once again reiterate some basic facts about communicable diseases:

• You can have a pathogen in your system (like the SARS-Cov2 virus) and not develop the associated syndrome (COVID-19). In the COVID-19 era, you will still be counted as a “case.”
• Receiving a vaccine will bolster your immune response, but it does not prevent the associated pathogen from reaching your body. Vaccines are not without associated risks.
• A vaccine will not prevent a person who carries the associated pathogen from potentially spreading it to others, although it makes it less likely since transmissibility is linked to severity of symptoms.
• While vaccines (just like natural recovery) bolster a person’s immune system, they do not guarantee that a person cannot become sick or die due to developing the syndrome.

Among other obvious conclusions reached in the NBC article:

• The elderly were much more likely to have severe symptoms if they developed COVID-19 even after being vaccinated.
• In many cases, state officials did not know if the individuals died from COVID-19 or with COVID-19. The same purposeful confusion employed since the beginning.
• Officials are happy to count asymptomatic “cases.”

According to NBC’s reporting, the CDC is just now realizing that getting vaccinated doesn’t necessarily prevent a person from becoming infected with or spreading a virus. Epidemiologists and people who use their brains have known this for far longer than COVID-19 has been a thing. We’ve also known that reports of the supposed transmissibility of the so-called Delta variant are mere guesses since there currently exists no test that can differentiate between what “version” of COVID-19 is present in a person’s system.

What does this mean?

It means that there is no panacea for dealing with a new infectious disease. Yes, vaccines can potentially help those who face high risk. Yes, therapies will help as they are developed. Yes, there remains no data to support the efficacy of lockdowns, masking, or so-called social distancing. Airborne viruses reach every immune system eventually. No amount of freedom-destroying mitigations, economic damage, or society-wide psychological stress will stop the spread or change general health outcomes.

The current push to force vaccinations and go back to masking has nothing to do with the virus and everything to do with the virus of authoritarianism and institutional incompetence on display in our government officials, and their need to cover up for it.