Joel S Hirschhorn, Ph.D.<\/p>\n
Rather than control the pandemic, vaccines now appear instead to be contributing to it\u2014with alarming implications, Vanden Bossche warns.<\/p>\n
Virologist Geert Vanden Bossche predicts a vicious wave of covid-19 that will be driven by the vaccinated, or, more accurately, by the scientifically dubious policy of repeated mass vaccination.<\/em><\/p>\n ANTWERP, Belgium\u2014I spent nearly three hours in this historic city on October 11 in an interview with Geert Vanden Bossche, who has devoted years to studying the complex interplay between vaccines and the human immune system. In our talk, this Belgian veterinarian-turned-virologist and vaccine researcher made unsettling predictions for the future.<\/p>\n I can only hope that Vanden Bossche, 62, is wrong. Let\u2019s for the moment assume he is, that there are significant variables that can and often do intervene. That will make this story easier to read as well as write.<\/p>\n From the start, I asked Vanden Bossche to speak, uncharacteristically for him, in as simple terms as possible.<\/p>\n The short version is this: He predicts a vicious wave of covid-19, with cases already rising in parts of Europe. The coming re-emergence of SARS-CoV-2 will escalate quickly, he contends, and make all other waves pale in comparison. It will, he believes, be driven by the vaccinated, or more accurately, by the misdirected and scientifically dubious policy of repeated mass vaccination.<\/p>\n Vanden Bossche has long asserted that the global covid vaccination program, unprecedented in human history, would put enormous pressure on the virus to mutate; his warning has repeatedly been proven true. While the unvaccinated gained long-lasting, adaptable natural immunity from covid infection, the vaccinated harbor a confused and mostly unhelpful array of old-variant anti-spike antibodies; Vanden Bossche believes these so complicate the immune response that more serious disease from new variants will result. In the vaccinated, the SARS-CoV-2 virus, he predicts, will imminently turn a corner from more contagious to more virulent.<\/p>\n \u201cThe losses will be huge,\u201d Vanden Bossche, dressed in a scarf and light jacket, told me across a table in a sunny outdoor caf\u00e9. Hospitals will be overwhelmed, he believes. Stability will be shaken. He has told his 20-something children (two daughters and a son), to prepare for this, even though he and his family are unvaccinated. \u201cLiterally there is no immunity, no single protection left for the vaccinated,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n First, let\u2019s pause here. Vanden Bossche is well-respected.\u00a0<\/strong>He was\u00a0involved<\/a>\u00a0in vaccine science at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the\u00a0Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization<\/a>, a German\u00a0institute<\/a>\u00a0and two pharmaceutical companies. He is a knowledgeable scholar of\u00a0vaccinology<\/a>.<\/p>\n He got it right early on. But is he right\u00a0<\/strong>now?<\/p>\n James Lyons-Weiler, an\u00a0evolutionary biologist and\u00a0published<\/a>\u00a0biomedical research scientist, admires Vanden Bossche, but demurs. He sees a population that, vaccinated or not, has been widely exposed to the virus and gained protective antibodies to other proteins than the vaccine-based spike.<\/p>\n \u201cEvolution simply won\u2019t allow the emergence of a virus that is both deadly and highly transmissible,\u201d he said, and others agreed. \u201cCertain viruses could potentially spread through humanity. In terms of the end of civilization, this is not the one.\u201d<\/p>\n Steve Kirsch, a leading vaccine critic, on the other hand, supported the dire next-wave theory, writing to me: \u201cVanden Bossche has been extremely accurate in his predictions. It\u2019s puzzling to me that world health authorities are following the advice of the experts who got it wrong instead of the experts who got it right.\u201d<\/p>\n Tess Lawrie, a physician-expert in evidence-based medicine and a founder of the World Council for Health, agreed that vaccines pose immense immunological danger, but not necessarily on the timing of disaster. She wrote in an email, \u201cI do agree that humanity is in grave danger and that many people are likely to die in the next few years.\u201d (Her statement is copied in full below.)<\/p>\n When I told Vanden Bossche I needed to ask others about his prediction, he was not pleased. He sees himself as one of few people worldwide\u2014\u201cin all modesty,\u201d he said twice\u2014who understands the \u201ccurrent vaccine-shaped pandemic.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFinding different opinions is easy, but if you cannot judge whether the science behind them is sound,\u201d he wrote to me, \u201cthen it all easily ends up in a cheap fact-checking exercise.\u201d I told him I disagreed. Surely, an end-times kind of article needs other views, of which there are more below.<\/p>\n In an interview at an outdoor caf\u00e9 in Antwerp, Geert Vanden Bossche said of the next wave of the pandemic, \u201cThe losses will be huge.\u201d\u00a0(Mary Beth Pfeiffer)<\/em><\/p>\n In our interview, Vanden Bossche, who is known widely by his first name, Geert (pronounced\u00a0Heert<\/em>), listed certain vaccinated people who may be spared in the coming covid wave:<\/p>\n I\u2019d note here that his predictions apply only to mRNA vaccines.<\/p>\n Strikingly, in making his prognostication, Vanden Bossche said something hopeful: He suggested a way forward. His simple fix, which he admits may be impractical in the current environment, would induce the herd immunity that has literally escaped vaccines.<\/p>\n \u201cYou can only correct this if you intervene with something that reduces the transmission rate,\u201d he said. \u201cYou use antivirals\u2014mass administration of antivirals that are safe, effective, broadly accessible to people, and that can be produced and acquired at an affordable cost.\u201d<\/p>\n He specifically pointed to\u00a0ivermectin<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0hydroxychloroquine<\/a>, which have been used for decades for other diseases and show prophylactic and treatment efficacy in many trials in mostly low- and middle-income countries.<\/p>\n Although the drugs have been all but banned from covid-19 protocols, Vanden Bossche said their large-scale prophylactic use would prevent individual infection and community spread, making the pandemic \u201cvery easy\u201d to stanch.\u00a0Covid would die.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat herd immunity does,\u201d Vanden Bossche said, \u201cit dramatically reduces the transmission rate of the virus to a level that is so low, even if a person has no immunity, that the likelihood to get a productive infection is remote.\u201d<\/p>\n Rather than control the pandemic, however, vaccines now appear instead to be contributing to it.<\/p>\n Triple-vaccinated people were more likely to become sick with most Omicron variants in a recent Kaiser Permanente\u00a0study<\/a>\u00a0of 16,418 sequenced covid samples. In an August 2021\u00a0report<\/a>, 74 percent of covid positives in a Massachusetts outbreak were fully vaccinated, outstripping the state\u2019s 69 percent vaccination rate. A Canadian Liberal Party\u00a0analysis<\/a>\u00a0last June found six times more fully vaccinated\/boosted Ontarians in ICUs than unvaccinated, in a province with a 77 percent vaccination rate. If that\u2019s not enough,\u00a0data<\/a>\u00a0from the United Kingdom shows four- and five-fold higher per-capita covid rates\u2014across every age group but under 18\u2014in triple-vaccinated people.<\/p>\n The trend toward ever-more-vaccinated patients in hospitals\u2014driven by what is called a \u201cleaky\u201d vaccine\u2014will only escalate in coming weeks and months, Vanden Bossche contends.<\/p>\n What astounds him and many other vaccine critics is how such obvious vaccine failures are dismissed. In many conversations in Europe over eight days, I encountered people, as in the U.S., who embrace the warts-and-all jab paradigm. They take comfort in their booster shots. They dismiss side effects that they did not get\u2014except for one who did. They believe they are protected from serious illness and death, which may, for limited periods and in discreet populations, be true. But evidence is growing that this small benefit is dwarfed by the larger\u00a0vaccine risks and, whether Geert is right or not, its future implications.<\/p>\n In Vanden Bossche\u2019s calculation, the issues of\u00a0adverse vaccine effects and death<\/a>, and of vaccine efficacy itself, no longer take center stage. Compared to what may be coming, those concerns are \u201cpeanuts,\u201d he said in what he called his\u00a0last video<\/a>, and where he explains the mechanisms behind his prediction.<\/p>\n Vanden Bossche\u2019s forecast is built on how the immune system works (immunology), how viruses change under environmental stress (virology and evolutionary biology), and how vaccines intervene to ward off disease (vaccinology). To listen to him speak or to read his manifesto is an exercise in follow-the-dots concentration. But stripped of molecular jargon, as one doctor told me, it\u2019s pretty basic. Geert boiled it down for me, perhaps a little too well.<\/p>\n \u201cFor people who are vaccinated, right now, the virus is evolving in a direction that will not only make it highly infectious but also very virulent,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m really sure of it.\u201d<\/p>\n He referred me to a computer engineer and entrepreneur, John Heathco, who studied Vanden Bossche\u2019s theory. \u201cI strongly believe that he will end up being correct in his assertions,\u201d Heathco wrote in an email.\u00a0\u201cI\u2019m reluctant to opine as to when this will occur\u2026but in my opinion his analysis is sound, and I\u2019ve yet to see a reasonable refutation of his hypothesis.\u201d<\/p>\n What keeps Vanden Bossche awake at night are the twin phenomena of \u201cantibody-dependent enhancement,\u201d or ADE, and \u201cimmune refocusing.\u201d It\u2019s widely accepted that the repeatedly vaccinated have an array of antibodies built for another viral variant\u2014they \u201cescape\u201d immunity, namely fail to prevent infection. Under ADE, these \u201cnon-neutralizing antibodies\u201d turn lethal, enabling viruses to enter cells rather than keep them out. Under\u00a0immune refocusing<\/a>, the immune system is further hobbled, \u201cdecoyed\u201d into responding in ineffective ways.<\/p>\n While ADE has been documented in\u00a0dengue fever<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Ebola virus<\/a>, the literature is predictably unsettled for covid-19. What is clear is that more vaccinated people are getting sick\u2014what Lyons-Weiler calls the \u201cvery definition of disease enhancement.\u201d One example is Manitoba, Canada, where 89.3 percent of covid\u00a0deaths<\/a>\u00a0last May were among vaccinated\/boosted patients.<\/p>\n These vax-generated antibodies \u201care putting tremendous pressure on viral virulence,\u201d Vanden Bossche states in his final video. \u201cAnd there is no doubt that the virus, as it has done all the time along, will also overcome yet another humoral immune pressure.\u201d The result is that the vaccine will fail to do the one thing it was capable of, namely curbing severe illness. \u201cAnd that is going to be a real catastrophe,\u201d Vanden Bossche asserts.<\/p>\n He predicts the emergence, within \u201cnot more than two or three months,\u201d of the variant to end all variants.<\/p>\n \u201cFor me this is going to be the end of western civilization,\u201d he said, a phrase he used several times in our conversation. \u201cThe hospitals will crash. The rest of society is just going to follow.\u201d He recalls the history of other plagues that culled humanity, times when the human order was reshuffled during years of subsequent struggle and upheaval.<\/p>\n Dr. Lawrie\u2019s response did not address rapid mutations and imminent die-offs. Instead, she explained the insidious process playing out in vaccinated people that undergirds her own prediction.<\/p>\n \u201cThe covid injections give the cells throughout the body a recipe to make a foreign protein (known as the spike protein). The body then makes antibodies and T cells to fight this foreign protein,\u201d she wrote. The abundence of these proteins leads to constant inflammation, she wrote, \u201creducing the ability of the immune system to respond to other infections.\u201d Thereby immunocompromised, the vaccinated are susceptible to infections, cancers, and autoimmune disorders. (Lawrie\u2019s full statement is copied below.)<\/p>\n No one should get any more such covid vaccines, Lawrie contends.<\/p>\n In our conversation, Vanden Bossche faulted the growing belief that technology\u2014specifically referring to vaccine development\u2014can solve society\u2019s problems. \u201cPeople have forgotten about one thing and that is biology,\u201d he said, making an eminently fair point.<\/p>\n Is it fair to ask, however, if biology can so specifically be predicted now?<\/p>\n Dr. Paul Marik, chief scientific officer of Front-Line COVID Critical Care Alliance, credits Vanden Bossche for seeing the perils early on of mass vaccination. But the mutations he predicted, so far at least, have made for a less harmful pathogen, following the usual course of viral evolution. And the case that antibodies are enhancing infection in covid-19 has not been made, he said.<\/p>\n \u201cOmicron turned out to be less virulent,\u201d Marik said. \u201cHe has to be careful making these predictions.\u201d While Marik agrees that mRNA vaccines are harmful, he admits, as did others, that he doesn\u2019t quite follow Geert Vanden Bossche\u2019s detailed doomsday explanations.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cHe may understand,\u201d he told me. \u201cNobody else does. That\u2019s the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n Dr. Sin Hang Lee, a pathologist and\u00a0published<\/a>\u00a0expert in molecular diagnostics, also believes covid will become \u201cless of a problem even with ADE infection. We will live with it (with all its descendants) for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n Another doctor, who asked not to be identified, said Vanden Bossche was \u201cscaremongering.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThose who tell the vaccinated that terrible things will be happening to them are giving the vaccinated an excellent reason not to believe anything else they say,\u201d this doctor told me.<\/p>\n Vanden Bossche\u2019s answer to his critics\u2014there are many on mainly pro-vaccine sites on the Internet\u2014is that their criticism has nothing to do with science.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m a very serious guy. For me to go on all this social media,\u201d he said, \u201cto speak out with all this passion. I take it very seriously. What we are doing right now\u00a0[in response to this pandemic],\u201d he continued, \u201cI cannot imagine how we can sustain our society for the kind of crisis I am predicting.\u201d<\/p>\n Who is unscathed in this scenario? he asks rhetorically and answers.<\/p>\n \u201cAfrica will win this battle,\u201d he said, pointing to a continent where immune systems are hardened by natural elements and\u00a024 percent of\u00a0people\u00a0are vaccinated<\/a>, compared to 64 percent\u00a0worldwide. \u201cThis one,\u201d he said, \u201cwill be won by Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n As I was writing this, a\u00a0Washington Pos<\/em>t\u00a0story<\/a>\u00a0came across my desk, about a coming \u201cvariant swarm\u201d this winter, with examples I\u2019d seen from Vanden Bossche\u2019s video.\u00a0\u00a0Then came a\u00a0tweet<\/a>\u00a0from Dr. Eric Feigl-Ding, a vaccine cheerleader and epidemiologist, about highly evasive variants that are \u201cworse than CDC has been admitting\u2026surging over 11%.\u201d<\/p>\n Not long ago, I might have called these messages fear-mongering in the service of more shots in more arms, which they all too often are. But then I thought, not for the first time, \u201cWhat if Geert is right?\u201d<\/p>\n Dr. Lee, who believes inadequate covid tests have exaggerated case counts, added context. Many of these new cases, he said, might simply be the seasonal flu.<\/p>\n \u201cI do agree that humanity is in grave danger and that many people are likely to die in the next few years.<\/p>\n However, I do not agree that there is nothing that can be done. We all have the power of choice and the best choice for everyone is to not take any more jabs and to take back responsibility for our health. Choosing healthy diet and lifestyles as well as trying some of the detox solutions being brought forward by many doctors and integrative health professionals is a good start. (We have a\u00a0detox guide<\/a>\u00a0on the WCH website and have received good feedback on it.) It seems reasonable that choosing to \u201cclean up one\u2019s act,\u201d both physically and spiritually, will improve longevity.<\/p>\n Re mechanism: The covid injections give the cells throughout the body a recipe to make a foreign protein (known as the spike protein). The body then makes antibodies and T cells to fight this foreign protein; the abundance of spike protein keeps the body in a constant state of inflammation and the immune system busy, reducing the ability of the immune system to respond to other infections\u2014i.e., it suppresses the immune system and people are effectively immunocompromised and susceptible to infections,\u00a0cancers<\/a>, autoimmune disease.<\/p>\n Another mechanism is thought to be that the spike protein-preoccupied immune system overreacts when exposed to a similar pathogen, and one gets the release of cytokines and an allergic\/anaphylactic type of reaction.\u00a0<\/strong>There are other mechanisms of harm too, for example,\u00a0chronic multi system inflammatory processes cause inflammation of the lining of blood vessels leading to blood clots, bruising and bleeding, and other vascular disorders.<\/p>\n They should definitely not be called vaccines as they are not vaccines. This nomenclature is part of the problem and how they escaped the usual pharmacokinetic requirements.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\nOne Way Out<\/h2>\n
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\n<\/div>\nDr. Tess Lawrie\u2019s Statement October 20, 2022<\/h2>\n