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Recently Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche, a PhD scientist involved with vaccine development, has been making headlines with communities of concerned citizens, who are skeptical about the safety of COVID-19 vaccines. This, after an interview with him was published on Youtube.<\/p>\n
To be clear, I consider myself a vaccine safety skeptic too \u2014 because I understand deeply how the medical establishment and government policy can interact to cause the avoidable sacrifice minority subsets of people for the real or perceived benefit of the majority.<\/p>\n
BUT, at the same\u00a0t<\/span>ime I fully acknowledge the potential power and efficacy of the COVID-19 vaccines in helping us achieve\u00a0herd immunity \u2014 to not accept this fact of immunological science in the COVID-19 pandemic is dangerously regressive<\/em>.<\/p>\n After listening to Dr. Vanden Bossche\u2019s video carefully, I was initially encouraged by his statement that the most unusual, and potentially dangerous, aspect of the COVID-19 vaccine campaign is the vaccine\u2019s mass scale deployment in the midst of a pandemic outbreak. This, I agree with 100%.<\/p>\n It is an unprecedented clinical activity in western vaccine science to be indiscriminately vaccinating millions of people daily without regard for who among them may be recently or currently infected.<\/p>\n https:\/\/youtu.be\/9WFfVQZhR6o<\/p>\n BUT, I strongly disagree with Dr. Vanden Bossche\u2019s argument that mass vaccination will cause \u201cimmune escape\u201d by driving emergence of new variants that could bypass vaccine immunity. It is even more troublesome to use this line of reasoning to call for a complete halt to mass COVID-19 vaccination when so many uninfected persons are not immune. In stating this I am not at all naive to the possibility that the SARS-CoV-2 virus can mutate to bypass vaccine immunity. But I know, with mathematical precision, that this is far more likely to occur if we do not have enough people immunized to the current dominant strains of the virus with enough speed.<\/p>\n My point is that it is far more likely that slow and insufficient achievement of population level \u201cherd immunity\u201d, through vaccination, will cause immune escape and vaccine bypass by new mutant variants. It is not vaccination that drives emergence of new variants, it is natural infection of individuals, on mass scale that does so.<\/p>\n Let me explain my position as clearly as I can.<\/p>\n SARS-CoV-2 variants mutate, evolve in, and emerge from, naturally infected hosts: individual infected persons, that is!<\/p>\n So the more persons are naturally infected by the virus, the higher the chances are for variants, capable of escaping vaccine immunity, to emerge. Worse yet, the more people are naturally infected, the higher the chances are that\u00a0variants capable of harming our children<\/em><\/a>, as did the Influenza virus pandemic of 1918, would emerge.<\/p>\n So, in my opinion and contrary to Dr. Vanden Bossche\u2019s contention,\u00a0the single most critical aspect of our en mass vaccine effort that is dangerous from a \u201cvaccine harm\u201d perspective, is the indiscriminate vaccination of those persons who were\/are already naturally infected \u2014 many of whom will even carry asymptomatic natural infections at the time they get vaccinated.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n