We Want Them to Understand the Evolutionary Dynamics In a Mass-vaccinated Population: The integration of pseudoscience and polarization into the pandemic response.

The lack of understanding and the pseudoscience it generates lead to an endless stream of articles, books, and Substacks. Here’s another one that has caught the attention of the mainstream media: https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/10/31/wwti-o31.html

Howard’s book shows that neither side really understood the profound epidemiological impact of large-scale infection-prevention measures and mass vaccination during the pandemic. All the loud voices were wrong in thinking the virus would either be naturally controlled by Omicron (or its descendants) or kept in check by (updated) Covid-19 (C-19) vaccines. What all of them missed is that mRNA vaccines or breakthrough infections due to Omicron immune escape variants in previously C-19 vaccinated people (even with non-mRNA vaccines) lead to something called ‘immune refocusing’. This process messes up the immune response permanently, especially in people with high anti-spike antibody levels who get re-infected by more infectious immune escape variants and don’t have strong innate immunity. I’ve made mistakes in my predictions too, but not about the outcome of this man-made immune escape pandemic—just about the timing. Indeed, it still surprises me how long it’s taking for the virus to evolve into a more dangerous strain while being countered by pseudo-protective, non-neutralizing adaptive immunity in highly C-19 vaccinated populations. Nature will eventually reveal how much more time it will take to stop SARS-CoV-2 transmission, even in the absence of herd immunity….