This is from a released NYT piece:
While Kamala Harris is experiencing no symptoms, her positive test has renewed concerns about President Biden’s exposure to the virus.
By Peter Baker and Aishvarya Kavi
A few thoughts on this, in no particular order:
-Covid vaccination is non-sterilizing (at best) and poses some challenges such as Original Antigenic Sin (OAS) and a nasty proclivity for causing problems in younger people. Being generous, one needs to ask questions about what the real risk/benefit story is here.
-EVERYONE can and almost certainly will get covid. An upside to this is in general covid appears to have followed the trend of most flu-like illnesses in that it has become more virulent yet less fatal. The possible exception here is covid may be killing more kids now than in the beginning of the pandemic. This may be a feature of the virus alone, or, it may be becasue our kids are far less healthy than they were three years ago. Either way, we are yet again, trading risk that has mainly been focussed on older populations and shifted it to the younger populations. There were ample warnings about this likelihood and they were uniformly dismissed as “misinformation.” This is why it is absolute madness to allow some kind of tecnocratic gate keeping to happen on information.
-Testing is a farce. A good friend was supposed to fly to the US from Mexico but he kept flagging “positive” on his pre-flight covid test. He was then and continues to be, completely asymptomatic. The way testing has been and continues to be used is less than worthless. It boggles my mind how much disruption, loss of productivity, fear and social unraveling has occured due to the testing process alone.
-Respiratory illnesses have killed a lot of people, every year, for a very long time. This piece is from 2017, so before information was curated for purely political ends(ISH). If you read through that the folks most affected are the elderly (most deaths occur in those 75 and older) and in kids in developing countries who lack access to proper treatment and are also likely malnourished.
If President Biden’s health is really of concern here, he should have his vit-D checked and brought up to an appropriate level. Exercise, sleep and a healthy eating program is a non-negotiable factor.
All of this will NOT hurt his cognitive performance….but NONE of this will be part of the plan, not for the President, not for any of us peeyons. Yet ironically this is the ONLY methodology we can bank on to lower His ( and our) risk. He is vaxxed to the literal gills and this may only be a liability at this point….it’s a worthy discussion if the vaccine is helping a 75 yo with pretty clear metabolic issues (someone who might benefit most from possibly mitigating the severity of a covid infection) when we factor in OAS and the reality the President (and all the folks multiple vaxed at this point) may be tuning immune response in such a way that they are less able to clear novel variants. I do not remotely propose to have an answer to this but I’ll be damned if too few people are even bothering to ASK. What I know for certain is anyone who thinks biology happens without inherent tradeoffs is an idiot. Anyone who approaches public health without a thought towards tradeoffs is both an idiot and dangerous beyond calculation. But I guess much of the problem is being allowed to ask these questions and discuss these tradeoffs. What I’m suggesting here is at once well within the accepted scientific framework of immunology, yet is also “misinformation” becasue it does not fit with the accepted framework. Ironically, that will hurt and kill people while open discussions would have optimized for minimal suffering.
Anyone who does not see that the vaccines are priming the immune system to 'test positive' at the very least, is beyond repair. I'm surprised they keep admitting that quad-jabbed people are still testing positive for The Thing. Just let it go already.
OAS is making the vaxxed more likely to contract COVID as they can’t mount a proper defense. Check their CD8 counts and u may find the more vaxxed and boosted one is, the lower the CD8 counts. CD8 kills the virally infected cells so less CD8, the virus may stick around longer.
If you wouldn’t put gasoline in a Tesla, why are you injecting mRNA from a past model no longer on the road into your body?