more bad news about the jab

Not good news for my jabbed peeps:

New Science Shows Vaccines Help Omicron Spread: Peer-Reviewed Study

A team of 19 scientists from the United Kingdom have published new research that helps explain why countries with the highest vaccination rates are experiencing the highest numbers of what they call “breakthrough infections,” as well as reinfection with other variants of COVID-19.

This research article, published on June 14, 2022 in the peer-reviewed journal Science, has been downloaded nearly 277,500 times in less than two months. That is very unusual for a densely worded highly technical scientific study.

We can only speculate the reason so many people have been reading it. But what this study suggests—which many clinicians and research scientists have expressed concerns about—is that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines as well as the booster shots may be making our immune response less effective against the Omicron variant of the virus.

If this is correct, it means that the vaccine itself is leading to widespread infection. Instead of stopping the virus, it appears that the mRNA vaccination programs around the world may have inadvertently made the virus more ubiquitous.

Higher Vaccine Uptake Leads to Higher Infection Rates

As the British scientists point out, countries with higher vaccine uptake rates are experiencing high numbers of primary infections and frequent reinfections with SARS-CoV-2.

In contrast, in places where vaccine campaigns have not been widely implemented—including most countries in the continent of Africa—people are not becoming infected.

Again, I'm trying to keep perspective, here. Billions have taken the "vaccines," but so far as I know, the number of adverse outcomes is in the high thousands, not the millions or the billions. So statistically speaking, the probability that you'll be adversely affected by the jab is pretty low. That said, the unrelenting stream of bad reports about the jab makes me leery of ever getting one myself. Heart problems, neurological problems, sudden death among the young and healthy—these all feel like red flags to me. 

Is it all a bunch of fearmongering? Again, to be fair, maybe some of it is. Then again, the above article mentions that the recent British results were published in the journal Science, which is a reputable, peer-reviewed journal. More and more such news seems to be coming to the fore, and all of it makes me glad I remain un-jabbed. 

Dr. John Campbell, on YouTube, recently did a video about data on adverse effects of the jab coming from Germany. The stats were higher than he expected, but still far less than 1%. So the rational response to the prospect of being jabbed is that you probably don't need to flip out. At the same time, there remains the specter of a non-zero probability of some sort of adverse effect (Dr. Campbell reviews a list of possible effects). How you react to that non-zero probability is, as always, up to you. None of my jabbed friends and acquaintances has dropped dead yet; they all seem perfectly healthy. I, however, have slid into the anti-vaxxer category and actively shun being jabbed. 

I'm libertarian enough in my own worldview to let you make your own choices after assessing risks your own way. Still, I keep my fingers crossed that nothing bad will happen to the people I know who've taken this particular measure.