{"id":75580,"date":"2021-12-26T00:04:00","date_gmt":"2021-12-26T06:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=75580"},"modified":"2021-12-25T10:24:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T16:24:16","slug":"75580","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=75580","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No protection against Omicron?<br \/>\nFrom what we&#8217;ve seen with all these breakthrough infections, almost from the moment that lots of people were &#8216;fully vaccinated&#8217;, it&#8217;s not just this <em>latest mutation<\/em>, but the bug, period.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>BLUF:<br \/>\nWhat this tells us is what the data have been telling us all along:<br \/>\n<em><strong>That the vaccines provide no protection against Omicron, and can even make it more likely for you to be infected with the virus.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\nWhile boosters may reduce that threat, it would only be for 30 days before that boost faded and the probability of being infected would return to that of the unvaccinated,\u00a0or higher.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/scotthounsell\/2021\/12\/24\/new-vaccine-study-suggests-mrna-vaccines-actually-increase-probability-of-being-infected-with-omicron-after-90-days-n496628\">New Vaccine Study Suggests mRNA Vaccines Actually Increase Probability of Being Infected With Omicron After 90 Days<\/a><\/p>\n<p>With the spread of Omicron for the last couple of months, members of the Branch Covidian Cult have been freebasing their latest fix for panic, fed to them by their dealers and the other members of the fear cartel. As they froth at the mouth, demanding that we partake of their mind-altering drug-of-choice, their monotonal chant drones on, demanding we \u201cfollow the science\u201d and \u201ctrust the scientists\u201d absent a single study supporting their fear, without identifying a single scientist whom we should trust, and, more importantly, why we should trust them.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/scotthounsell\/2021\/08\/30\/the-science-is-settled-dr-fauci-should-lose-his-license-n435183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Fauci has become a meme<\/a>\u00a0of himself in recent months (and especially over the last seven days), as the claims he\u2019s made regarding the virus and its origins have proven to be anything from laughably ridiculous to<a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/scotthounsell\/2021\/11\/01\/fauci-lied-funding-and-research-authorized-by-fauci-and-collins-continued-outside-of-us-government-ban-n467490\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00a0dangerously misleading<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Oftentimes, the decree from the cultists to \u201cfollow the science\u201d means to only follow the \u201cscience\u201d they\u2019ve been fed by people who claim to be the science and not the totality of the science, as we at RedState have pointed out time and time again. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/70\/wr\/pdfs\/mm7010e3-H.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">initial CDC mask study<\/a>\u00a0only showed a 1.32% advantage to mask mandates, within the margin of error for that data set, meaning that suggesting that mask mandates work or that the data suggests they do is, at the very least, unsupported by that same data. When I have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/scotthounsell\/2021\/11\/08\/the-latest-covid-data-out-of-germany-is-yet-more-proof-that-mask-and-vaccine-mandates-are-ridiculous-n471973\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">previously compared the data<\/a>\u00a0between states or countries that have mask mandates to states and countries that don\u2019t have those same mandates, it showed that mandates have had no effect in slowing or stopping infections, hospitalizations, and deaths. Yet, the cultists continue their chants, alleging that those questioning\u00a0<em>their<\/em>\u00a0data are in fact, conspiracy theorists and that they are peddling dangerous misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>When Omicron began its initial spread, I was quick to analyze the data coming out of South Africa because I was less worried about that same data being fudged by our government before we had access to it. I found that the data showed that while Omicron is certainly more transmissible than previous variants, it certainly was much less severe and deadly than previous variants including Delta.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/scotthounsell\/2021\/11\/29\/the-latest-covid-data-offers-yet-another-factual-rejection-of-covid-vaccine-effectiveness-narrative-n483116\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nearly a month ago (November 29th)<\/a>, I stated that the data coming out of South Africa provided \u201cfactual rejections of [the] COVID vaccine effectiveness narrative,\u201d as the majority of early cases were found in the vaccinated despite the fact those same people represent a minority of the population.<\/p>\n<p>In South Africa, nearly every early case of Omicron was in fully vaccinated people, despite only 23.8% of the population being vaccinated at the time. While that data would suggest that vaccinated people are more likely to be infected with Omicron than the unvaccinated, I stopped short of saying that because it was still very early in the spread of Omicron and the data could change. What was clear, though, was that South Africa was in the midst of an outbreak of a new and more transmissible variant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/scotthounsell\/2021\/12\/13\/cdc-data-global-sources-show-majority-of-omicron-variant-cases-are-among-fully-vaccinated-n490806\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Again on December 13th<\/a>, I tackled this myth that Omicron was going to make it worse in the US, by updating that data out of South Africa, this time showing that there was even more data to suggest that not only was Omicron nowhere near as severe as the fear-nibarbital consuming cultists want you to believe. With an astounding 1100% increase in cases, South Africa only had an 8.32% increase in deaths. Again, at the time, South Africa\u2019s vaccination rate was below 25%. Meanwhile,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/explorers\/coronavirus-data-explorer?zoomToSelection=true&amp;time=2020-03-01..latest&amp;uniformYAxis=0&amp;pickerSort=asc&amp;pickerMetric=location&amp;Metric=Cases+and+deaths&amp;Interval=7-day+rolling+average&amp;Relative+to+Population=true&amp;Align+outbreaks=false&amp;country=USA~ZAF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the United States<\/a>, with more than double the vaccination rate of South Africa, has nearly twice the new caseload and five times the rate of death from COVID than that of South Africa. That data would suggest that being vaccinated makes you more likely to be infected with Omicron than being unvaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>Making such a bold claim was something I still held short of actually doing as I feared earning the undeserved eye of social media fact-checkers, who could ban the link or label it as misinformation.\u00a0 It wouldn\u2019t be the first time a vaccine has made the situation worse either, as admitted by Anthony Fauci early in the pandemic.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/scotthounsell\/2021\/12\/15\/watch-fauci-said-in-march-2020-that-vaccines-could-actually-make-people-worse-n491477\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As I reported December 15th<\/a>, Fauci said during a Facebook Live event with Mark Zuckerberg in March 2020 that vaccine development must include the potential that vaccines could make people worse. While I had my suspicions that the vaccine may actually make you more likely to be infected with Omicron than being unvaccinated, I was careful to make sure that I made clear I wasn\u2019t specifically stating that.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cYet, while I claim that the vaccine lacks the efficacy they suggest it has, I have never said that the vaccines could make it\u00a0<em>more<\/em>\u00a0likely that you\u2019re infected with COVID-19.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fauci went on to state that vaccines which he supervised the development of, \u201cactually made individuals more likely to get infected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, data from a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2021.12.20.21267966v2.full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new study<\/a>\u00a0suggests negative effectiveness, that is the very thing Fauci warned as a potential: a higher likelihood of being infected with Omicron than if you had simply been unvaccinated, 90 days after being vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>The study, entitled \u201cVaccine effectiveness against SARS-CoV-2 infection with the Omicron or Delta variants following a two-dose or booster BNT162b2 or mRNA-1273 vaccination series: A Danish cohort study,\u201d shows that both mRNA vaccines maintained a better than 50% effectiveness against previous variants of COVID-19, that effectiveness drops to nearly zero 60 days after the vaccine is administered and actually provides a negative response after 90 days. In fact, initial vaccine efficacy against Omicron for both vaccines tested was below that of the effectiveness against Delta after more than 90 days.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_496673\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-496673\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-496673\" src=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/F1.large_.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/redstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/F1.large_.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/redstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/F1.large_-730x376.jpg 730w, https:\/\/redstate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/F1.large_-1110x572.jpg 1110w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"660\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-496673\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Vaccine Effectiveness against Omicron. Credit: MedRxiv.org screenshot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>When factoring for the confidence interval, both vaccines show a potential of causing negative effectiveness after 30 days, and the data show that only the Pfizer vaccine has results that indicate a positive effect for the first thirty days. Moderna\u2019s vaccine consistently shows the potential of cause in negative results, that is, a higher likelihood of infection, from the date of vaccination forward.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What this tells us is what the data have been telling us all along: That the vaccines provide no protection against Omicron, and can even make it more likely for you to be infected with the virus.\u00a0 While boosters may reduce that threat, it would only be for 30 days before that boost faded and the probability of being infected would return to that of the unvaccinated,\u00a0<em>or higher<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am sure that we won\u2019t hear about this study in the mainstream media, and the Biden Administration won\u2019t be using\u00a0<em>this<\/em>\u00a0science to form their policy decisions.<\/p>\n<div class=\"thm-piano-promo\">\n<div class=\"tp-container-inner\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No protection against Omicron? From what we&#8217;ve seen with all these breakthrough infections, almost from the moment that lots of people were &#8216;fully vaccinated&#8217;, it&#8217;s not just this latest mutation, but the bug, period. 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