kiterboy said..Vaccine Enhanced Immune Escape
Vaccine enhanced immune escape occurs when a poorly designed or weak vaccine helps create new variants.
This happens in the exact same way as antibiotic resistance and regular old evolution.
In the case of evolution, if you want to make an organism stronger, you put it under evolutionarily unfavorable conditions. This way you kill all the weak examples of the organism and leave just the strong ones.
If you want heat resistant bacteria, put a petri dish full of bacteria under moderately high heat to kill 99% of the bacteria. Save the 1% that were able to survive, allow them to grow, and repeat the process over and over again while turning up the heat a little each time.
Do this until you have a population of bacteria that are all extremely heat resistant.
The same process occurs with antibiotic resistance.
When you only take half your meds, you kill 99% of the bacteria and leave only the 1% that were more resistant to the drugs.
Before they were a small part of the population but you've changed the conditions of their environment, so that they have an advantage.
You've killed all the normal bacteria that the mutant variants had to compete with so the antibiotic resistant bacteria are the only strain. So they surge in population to take over your body and now the antibiotics don't work very well either.
The principles apply to viruses and vaccines.
If you produce a vaccine that elicits a weak immune response, you are creating an unfavorable environment for the virus. You'll kill the weak 99%, and leave the 1% mutant virus particles that are not hindered by the vaccine's antibodies.
Whereas before these mutants were only a tiny part of the population and would have been unlikely to gain significantly in population.
Now the environment is in their favor and these mutant virus particles surge in number because they no longer have to compete with the other virus particles and your bodies defenses do not work against them.
They are now highly likely to transmit to the next person, whereas before they would likely not have been able to leave the host in which the mutation occured.
The current covid vaccines are good at creating variants for three reasons.
First, some vaccine manufacturers require two shots and now also boosters because the first shot produces a very weak immune response.
Second, the vaccines are very leaky. Even after you have gotten a full immune response from both shots, you can still get and transmit the virus onto others.
Well, which virus particles are likely to get passed on by a fully vaccinated person? Clearly they will be those virus particles that have the ability to multiply quickly while avoiding the antibodies produced by the vaccines.
This will create very virulent and antibody resistant variants. Watch for these variants in the news as time goes on, we're already seeing things like Delta, Lambda, Eplsion, etc.
As we implement boosters, they will start to come at faster and faster rates, and over time data scientists will start to see timed correlations between the implementation of mass boosters and the emergence of new strains.
Third, the vaccines do seem to help reduce the severity of the disease when people are infected (although this may change as new variants emerge).
Why would this be a concern?
Well, because of the leakiness of the vaccines we just spoke about. If you have very low symptoms but you can still get and transmit the virus, then you won't even realize that you're sick and you'll be spreading the virus to even more people as an asymptomatic carrier.
So, these vaccines will only increase transmission by creating more and more asymptomatic carriers (although this may not be a bad thing, if everyone in the world gets the virus and everyone is asymptomatic, then there's really no need to care about covid anymore.
But this is an unrealistic idealization that is unlikely to occur, some people will still get sick and die or suffer long haul covid).
One additional point to address here is the claim that the unvaccinated are causing the emergence of new vaccine resistant variants.
Let me be clear, the unvaccinated absolutely have the ability to facilitate the creation of new variants. However, it would require a statistically enormous number of people to get the virus before they could produce a new variant by chance.
This is because a mutant virus particle will only make up a small portion of the virus population inside a person's body. Therefore, it is highly unlikely that this particular particle will be able to spread to a new person.
Whereas, in the vaccinated, their weak immune response specifically selects for the mutant variants. It is highly likely that if a vaccinated person passes on the virus to another person, the particles they pass on will be those that have the ability to escape from the immune response elicited by the vaccines.
An analogy would be if you did an experiment with 500 room temperature petri dishes filled with bacteria and 500 heated petri dishes with bacteria, then found a heat resistant variant but didn't know which dish it came from.
It would be absurd to think that the heat resistant strain of bacteria came from the room temperature petri dishes. It would possible, sure, but completely improbable that the heat resistant strain had suddenly appeared in a room temp petri dish. There would be no reason for it to become a dominant strain in that environment. Logically, statistically, and evolutionarily, it must have come from the heated petri dishes.
This is a very basic and obvious conclusion, but the media and government bureaucrats in lab coats are trying to tell you that the absurd thing is true.
They're trying to say that the unvaccinated (the room temperature petri dishes) are where the vaccine resistant strains are coming from.
Geert Vanden Bossche is a virologist who has been sounding the alarm on this issue, you can visit his website or see a full collection of his videos down below:
www.geertvandenbossche.org/Evidence of cov2 immune escape:science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2021/06/30/science.abi7994Article from 2015 that explains how imperfect vaccination (like the Pfizer and moderna that require at least two shots to be effective) can create immune escape variants:journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1002198Article from 2021 explains that unless vaccination is done quickly, there will be a high probability of escape mutants:www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-95025-3CDC warns COVID-19 may be a few mutations away from evading vaccines. The virus isn't mutating to avoid the vaccines because of unvaccinated people, it's because the vaccines are putting evolutionary pressure on the virus:nypost.com/2021/07/27/cdc-covid-19-may-be-a-few-mutations-away-from-evading-vaccines/