COVID can be dangerous and deadly moreso if you are old or unhealthy. If young and well your risks of bad complications are much lower, probably equivalent to a flu. But in real life risks are never zero nor one hundred percent so we need to think through things logically without bias and use some common sense.
Let's talk medical interventions and immunity.
There are two antibodies we test for when looking for COVID exposure and/or immunity
1- S-protein otherwise known as Spike protein - this can be found if you were injected with the mRNA treatment from Pfizer, Moderna or J&J as well as if you had a COVID infection.
2- N or Nucleocapsid protein - so far this has only been found if you had a COVID infection. So the N-protein can distinguish between response to a mRNA treatment and an actual infection.
Both of these antibodies can decline below detectable levels if you are not exposed to COVID for a time period which is unique for everyone.
Scenario One:
You are not vaccinated against COVID. If you listen to the White House you will soon be responsible for doom, gloom, death and destruction this holiday season. My advice- don't listen to politicians and bureaucrats for medical/health advice.
So you get exposed to COVID, get symptoms of COVID and survive, as 99.9% of people do, with differences due to age and health status.
As a result of the COVID infection you will develop antibodies against BOTH the S and the N proteins ALONG WITH probably all the other proteins on the virus no one talks about. This is how our immune system naturally works. All of these antibodies are formed against multiple proteins on the virus, plus other parts of your immune system have now been trained to spot the COVID virus. If/when you get re-exposed to COVID your now trained immune response will quickly fight COVID off and you probably will never know it or perhaps you get the sniffles before clearing the virus. By having all these different antibodies, not to mention T-Cells (a topic for another day), it’s like we have the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast Guard, Police , Sheriffs, Militia , Firemen, neighborhood watch, Cowboys etc all ready, willing and able just waiting to be called upon to keep us safe from COVID again. In fact all of these independent self defense forces are now trained to act in concert for the best outcome. We call this NATURAL IMMUNITY and it appears to be lifelong against COVID unless a new strain has occurred that has multiple mutations. We can’t fully prove it is lifelong as we don’t test people for the length of their life, but it is implied. Adults, think about Chicken Pox. You probably had it when you were younger and developed lifelong immunity to it. You have been exposed to Chicken Pox again multiple times throughout your life yet you never had the disease affect you again. This is the beauty of how our immune system works in a natural setting.
Scenario Two:
You get double vaccinated with the mRNA injections for COVID PRIOR to ever being exposed to COVID. As a result you develop antibodies against the S-protein or Spike protein ONLY. The mRNA injections are specific to only the Spike which is also further specific for the original Alpha or Wuhan strain. This differs from being exposed to the natural virus where your immune system learns how to produce antibodies to ALL of the proteins on the virus.
You then encounter COVID. If you encounter the Wuhan strain then the mRNA injection can be helpful. You either don't get sick or your clear the illness quicker. So yes, early on in COVID when we were dealing with the original Wuhan strain the mRNA injections helped.
But a virus that mutates quickly like coronaviruses do, is going to do just that when it is pushed by natural selection. The virus mutates in the hosts, in this case us, to avoid being stopped or slowed by the results of the mRNA injection. These mutations have EVOLVED to AVOID the defenses that were developed by the Wuhan specific spike protein antibodies in the mRNA injections. These Wuhan spike antibodies prevent the Wuhan strain but not necessarily the mutations that evolved to evade it, i.e. Delta and now Omicron variants.
The lucky evolved mutations that avoid the immune defenses survive and spread from person to person, hence they become the new dominant strain. The most common strains were the original Wuhan, then Delta took over and now it looks like Omronic. Think for a moment if a new dominant strain would have evolved this quickly if not pushed to evolve due to the mRNA injection? If we didn’t have mRNA induced antibodies to slow the spread of Wuhan, it might have remained dominant. We could have either been thru the pandemic already OR more people could have died as the Wuhan strain appeared to be the most deadly. We will never know.
So the Wuhan strain had trouble circulating with all the mRNA antibodies, so it pretty much went away to be replaced by strains that EVADED the injections. Delta was the most known followed now by Omicron.
Thinking back to our immune defenses, it's like we were trained and prepared by the mRNA injection to only defend ourselves against the Wuhan spike protein, so we only used our Army. We didn't cross train with the Navy, Air Force, Marines, etc to prepare for other proteins on the virus that did not mutate. The mRNA injection has our immune defense looking almost solely for the Wuhan spike protein. If the spike protein changes/mutates our army may not do as good a job defending us.
So the mutations that have developed were pushed to evolve due to the single specific mRNA codes of the COVID mRNA injections. The mutations arose in people vaccinated against COVID once they were exposed to COVID. They then spread the mutated variants to others. The initial Wuhan virus gets outnumbered and fades away and is replaced by the new more contagious variant Delta that is not recognized well by the antibodies formed from the mRNA injections. The media has called these breakthrough infections in vaccinated people who get COVID. I just call them infections.
People exposed to COVID who have not been mRNA injected are less likely to spread a new mutation as each mutation in a body is in competition for survival against the others. The original strain will most likely overwhelm any mutant strain that forms in someone not jabbed with mRNA. This is also why a mutant strain is spread more easily in someone with protection against the original strain. The original strain is knocked out by the antibodies against it from the mRNA treatment, but the mutant strains survive and spread. This appears to be why when we get a new dominant mutant strain, the previous strains fade away. So do not believe what you hear in the media that the unvaccinated were responsible for the mutations and the further spread of COVID. It is actually the opposite.
Please do NOT believe the propaganda about COVID being a disease of the unvaccinated. Anyone and everyone regardless of mRNA treatment status can get COVID. If you are paying attention to what is going on in the world, COVID cases are as high as ever, from both it being more contagious as well as we have never ever tested so many people for a virus before. The more you test the more you find.
But some good news. The Omronic strain while being more contagious is far less deadly so far. There have been very few deaths reported worldwide from Omronic as well as much fewer hospitalizations.
All in all here is what will most likely happen.
COVID is endemic and is here to stay, but hopefully as the less deadly strain, and hopefully it packs the punch of a bad cold at its worst.
We will all get exposed at some point.
Keeping ourselves healthy and metabolically, nutritionally and immunologically sound is our best defense.
If you get COVID get in touch right away with your treating physician and get options for early treatments.
Remember this.
There are many options against COVID other than the Fauci duo of Vaccines and Ventilators.
As always comments and civil discussions encouraged.
I have been sending cards to our out of state friends for the holidays. One friend called to say his sister moved to Graften Vermont (pop. 900). The rule there is if you are not vaccinated your name is put on a flyer that is posted around town. His sister just got pulled over last week and ticketed for not wearing a mask in the car, driving alone to the store. She and her husband did not opt for the shots. Neighbors and friends are turning in one another if the rules of that town are not followed.
We are lucky to have you as our doctor!