Fresh dose of copium from The Atlantic
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Some quotes:
The current spikes in cases and deaths are the result of a novel coronavirus meeting naive immune systems. When enough people have gained some immunity through either vaccination or infection—preferably vaccination—the coronavirus will transition to what epidemiologists call “endemic.” It won’t be eliminated, but it won’t upend our lives anymore.
I guess hospitalized double-vaxxed Israelis don't count. Anyway, a bit closer to reality.
Endemicity as the COVID-19 endgame seems quite clear, but how we get there is less so. In part, that is because the path depends on us. As my colleague
Ed Yong has written, the eventuality of endemic COVID-19 does not mean we should drop all precautions. The more we can flatten the curve now, the less hospitals will become overwhelmed and the more time we buy to vaccinate the unvaccinated, including children. Letting the virus rip through unvaccinated people may get us to endemicity quickest, but it will also kill the most people along the way.
I take my words back. Journos are still clinging to that bullshit. Flatten the curve, LOL.
Then they start talking about immunity and things get interesting
The good news is this virus is unlikely to evolve so much that it sets our immunity back to zero. “Our immune responses are so complex, it’s basically impossible for a virus to escape them all,” says Sarah Cobey, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Chicago. For example, levels of antibodies that quickly neutralize SARS-CoV-2
do indeed drop over time, as happens against most pathogens, but
reserves of B cells and T cells that also recognize the virus lie in wait. This means that immunity against infection may wane first, but the protection against severe illness and death are much more durable.
Here they conflate naturally-aquired immunity and vaccine-induced immunity. The latter is anything but "complex". It is focused solely on S-protein (and in some second-generation vaccines - on RBD of S-protein). Here's an
article in Cell which gives an idea of how immune cells, targeted at different viral proteins, mediate each other's activity and form superior immune response. Even "useless" non-neutralizing antibodies to nucleoprotein may play signal role in early detection of the virus.
And as we see in Israel, reinfections aren't nearly as common as vaccine breakthrough cases.
Protection against severe illness and death was, in fact, the original goal of vaccines.
And yet they were advertised as panacea by MSM and Faucis of the world.
But a reinfection or breakthrough infection does reinvigorate the immune response. A breakthrough case acts “
like a booster for the vaccine,” as Laura Su, an immunologist at the University of Pennsylvania, told my colleague Katherine J. Wu.
AKSHUALLY, breakthrough infection is good for you! You're still making outdated antibodies due to antigenic sin, but it's good for you, trust the science!
The virus itself will also change with time. As more people gain immunity via either infection or vaccination, the coronavirus will try to find ways to evade that immunity too. This is a natural consequence of living with a circulating virus; the flu also mutates every year in response to existing immunity. But in the endemic scenario, where many people have some immunity, the coronavirus will not be able to infect as many people nor replicate as many times in each person it infects. “I’m very confident that the rate of adaptation is going to be set by the prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 in the world,” Cobey says. You might think of viral replication as buying lottery tickets, in which the virus accumulates random mutations that very occasionally help it spread. And the fewer lottery tickets the virus has, the less likely it is to hit the mutation jackpot. The appearance of troubling new variants may slow down.
In this part they basically adopt vanden Bossche's theory, but remove any negative moments (vaxxed super spreaders, suppressed innate immunity by vaccines, total
nigger death immune escape) from it.
The transition to endemic COVID-19 is also a psychological one. When everyone has some immunity, a COVID-19 diagnosis becomes as routine as diagnosis of strep or flu—not good news, but not a reason for particular fear or worry or embarrassment either. That means unlearning a year of messaging that said COVID-19 was not just a flu. If the confusion around the CDC dropping mask recommendations for the vaccinated earlier this summer is any indication, this transition to endemicity might be psychologically rocky. Reopening felt too fast for some, too slow for others. “People are having a hard time understanding one another’s risk tolerance,” says Julie Downs, a psychologist who studies health decisions at Carnegie Mellon University.
>1.5 years of incessant fear-mongering from your peers
>WhY aRe YoU ScARed oF tHe VaRuS
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