Let’s Go, Brandon! Decent Conservatives Now Curse Joe Biden in Public without Dropping F-Bomb

October 13, 2021

End Covid Repression, Let Life Resume

October 13, 2021

October 18: California Parents Plan School ‘Walkout’ to Oppose COVID Vax Mandate

October 13, 2021

A Shasta County grade school has canceled class for Monday, October 18, for a planned school walkout protesting California’s new COVID vaccine mandate for all public and private schools.

QUICK FACTS:

An Oak Run Elementary official confirmed an email was sent by the school stating, “Parents, educators, and students across the U.S. will engage in peaceful noncompliance activities to remind government officials that individuals should have the final say when it comes to their health,” according to a local ABC affiliate.
Chief Business Officer Tiffany Fulkerson shared a Facebook post explaining the walkout.

Letter sent to parents of Oak Run Elementary School students explaining a walk-out day for October 18

SaveCalifornia.com—a nonprofit organization founded in 1999 by Randy Thomasson as part of the Campaign for Children and Families (CCF)—posted a schedule on its website officially listing October 18 with the headline “Statewide School Walk Out: Say You Are Not OK With The Vax” and the flyer below.

Fulkerson told the ABC affiliate that their school does not agree with CA Governor Gavin Newsom’s recent school vaccine mandate because “her small school would not survive” the implementation.
Fulkerson also says the Oak Run school has 11 staff members and roughly 60 students, all of whom would need to be vaccinated to attend in-person instruction once the mandate is in place, reports the ABC affiliate.
Newsom’s mandate is to take place in two phases, the first requiring all children in grades 7-12 to get vaccinated along with all school staff. Students in grades K-6 will be required in the second phase.

SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNTS RALLYING PARENTS TO WALK OUT ON OCTOBER 18:

Momsontheground.ca has more than 8,000 Instagram followers and is posting fliers calling on California parents to “Sit Out 10/18.” See below.

Screenshot taken from momsontheground.ca’s Instagram page

WHAT LOCALS HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THE WALKOUT:

The ABC affiliate’s Daisy Caballero spoke with a long-time Oak Run resident, Joseph Rodarte, who has three students at the school and says he fully stands behind the decision, according to the report.

“Oh, [I] definitely agree with the walk-out,” said Rodarte. “You know, a lot of the people up here are not only associated with the school but we know each other from the community. I went to school with people that work up there now as administrators and whatnot. It’s comforting for me, as a parent, to see my kids go to school where I know people and trust them. So, I trust what they do up there. And, so far, from what I see, they run a tight ship and I like it. [That’s] why my kids go there.”

Jon Fleetwood is Managing Editor at American Faith.

Natural Immunity and Covid-19: Thirty Scientific Studies to Share with Employers, Health Officials, and Politicians

October 13, 2021

(Brownstone Institute) From the beginning of the March 2020 lockdowns for the SARS-CoV-2 virus, the subject of natural immunity (also called post-infection immunity) has been neglected. Once the vaccination became widely available, what began with near silence at the beginning turned nearly into a complete blackout of the topic.

Even now, there is an absence of open discussion, presumably in the interests of promoting universal vaccination and required documentation of such vaccination as a condition of participating in public life and even the jobs marketplace. Still, the science exists. Many studies exist. Their authors deserve credit, recognition, and to have their voices heard.

These studies demonstrate what was and is already known: natural immunity for a SARS-type virus is robust, long-lasting, and broadly effective even in the case of mutations, generally more so than vaccines. In fact, a major contribution of 20th-century science has been to expand upon and further elucidate this principle that has been known since the ancient world. Every expert presumably knew this long before the current debates. The effort to pretend otherwise is a scientific scandal of the highest order, especially because the continued neglect of the topic is affecting the rights and freedoms of billions of people.

People who have contracted the virus and recovered deserve recognition. For that matter, people who prefer an exposure risk to the virus in order to gain robust immunity deserve the freedom to make that choice. The realization that natural immunity – which pertains now to perhaps half of the US population and billions around the world – is effective in providing protection should have a dramatic effect on vaccine mandates.

Individuals whose livelihoods and liberties are being deprecated and deleted need access to the scientific literature as it pertains to this virus. They should send a link to this page far and wide. The scientists have not been silent; they just haven’t received the public attention they deserve. The preparation of this list was assisted by links provided by Paul Elias Alexander and Rational Ground’s own cheat sheet on natural immunity, which also includes links to popular articles on the topic.

1. One-year sustained cellular and humoral immunities of COVID-19 convalescents, by Jie Zhang, Hao Lin, Beiwei Ye, Min Zhao, Jianbo Zhan, et al. Clinical Infectious Diseases, October 5, 2021. “SARS-CoV-2-specific IgG antibodies, and also NAb can persist among over 95% COVID-19 convalescents from 6 months to 12 months after disease onset. At least 19/71 (26%) of COVID-19 convalescents (double positive in ELISA and MCLIA) had detectable circulating IgM antibody against SARS-CoV-2 at 12m post-disease onset. Notably, the percentages of convalescents with positive SARS-CoV-2-specific T-cell responses (at least one of the SARS-CoV-2 antigen S1, S2, M and N protein) were 71/76 (93%) and 67/73 (92%) at 6m and 12m, respectively. Furthermore, both antibody and T-cell memory levels of the convalescents were positively associated with their disease severity.”

2. Comparing SARS-CoV-2 natural immunity to vaccine-induced immunity: reinfections versus breakthrough infections, by Sivan Gazit, Roei Shlezinger, Galit Perez, Roni Lotan, Asaf Peretz, Amir Ben-Tov, Dani Cohen, Khitam Muhsen, Gabriel Chodick, Tal Patalon. MedRxiv, August 25, 2021. “Our analysis demonstrates that SARS-CoV-2-naïve vaccinees had a 13.06-fold increased risk for breakthrough infection with the Delta variant compared to those previously infected, when the first event (infection or vaccination) occurred during January and February of 2021. The increased risk was significant for a symptomatic disease as well…. This analysis demonstrated that natural immunity affords longer lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization due to the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, compared to the BNT162b2 two-dose vaccine-induced immunity.”

3. Shedding of Infectious SARS-CoV-2 Despite Vaccination, by Kasen K. Riemersma, Brittany E. Grogan, Amanda Kita-Yarbro, Gunnar E. Jeppson, David H. O’Connor, Thomas C. Friedrich, Katarina M. Grande, MedRxiv, August 24, 2021. “The SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant might cause high viral loads, is highly transmissible, and contains mutations that confer partial immune escape. Outbreak investigations suggest that vaccinated persons can spread Delta. We compared RT-PCR cycle threshold (Ct) data from 699 swab specimens collected in Wisconsin 29 June through 31 July 2021 and tested with a qualitative assay by a single contract laboratory. Specimens came from residents of 36 counties, most in southern and southeastern Wisconsin, and 81% of cases were not associated with an outbreak. During this time, estimated prevalence of Delta variants in Wisconsin increased from 69% to over 95%. Vaccination status was determined via self-reporting and state immunization records.”

4. Necessity of COVID-19 vaccination in previously infected individuals, by Nabin K. Shrestha, Patrick C. Burke, Amy S. Nowacki, Paul Terpeluk, Steven M. Gordon, MedRxiv, June 5, 2021. “Individuals who have had SARS-CoV-2 infection are unlikely to benefit from COVID-19 vaccination, and vaccines can be safely prioritized to those who have not been infected before.”

5. Large-scale study of antibody titer decay following BNT162b2 mRNA vaccine or SARS-CoV-2 infection, by Ariel Israel, Yotam Shenhar, Ilan Green, Eugene Merzon, Avivit Golan-Cohen, Alejandro A Schäffer, Eytan Ruppin, Shlomo Vinker, Eli Magen. MedRxiv, August 22, 2021. “This study demonstrates individuals who received the Pfizer-BioNTech mRNA vaccine have different kinetics of antibody levels compared to patients who had been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, with higher initial levels but a much faster exponential decrease in the first group.”

6. Discrete Immune Response Signature to SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccination Versus Infection, by Ellie Ivanova, Joseph Devlin, et al. Cell, May 2021. “While both infection and vaccination induced robust innate and adaptive immune responses, our analysis revealed significant qualitative differences between the two types of immune challenges. In COVID-19 patients, immune responses were characterized by a highly augmented interferon response which was largely absent in vaccine recipients.”

7. SARS-CoV-2 infection induces long-lived bone marrow plasma cells in humans, by Jackson S. Turner, Wooseob Kim, Elizaveta Kalaidina, Charles W. Goss, Adriana M. Rauseo, Aaron J. Schmitz, Lena Hansen, Alem Haile, Michael K. Klebert, Iskra Pusic, Jane A. O’Halloran, Rachel M. Presti, Ali H. Ellebedy. Nature, May 24, 2021. “This study sought to determine whether infection with SARS-CoV-2 induces antigen-specific long-lived BMPCs in humans. We detected SARS-CoV-2 S-specific BMPCs in bone marrow aspirates from 15 out of 19 convalescent individuals, and in none from the 11 control participants…. Overall, our results are consistent with SARS-CoV-2 infection eliciting a canonical T-cell-dependent B cell response, in which an early transient burst of extrafollicular plasmablasts generates a wave of serum antibodies that decline relatively quickly. This is followed by more stably maintained levels of serum antibodies that are supported by long-lived BMPCs.”

8. Longitudinal analysis shows durable and broad immune memory after SARS-CoV-2 infection with persisting antibody responses and memory B and T cells, by Kristen W. Cohen, Susanne L. Linderman, Zoe Moodie, Julie Czartoski, Lilin Lai, Grace Mantus, Carson Norwood, Lindsay E. Nyhoff, Venkata Viswanadh Edara, et al. MedRxiv, April 27, 2021. “Ending the COVID-19 pandemic will require long-lived immunity to SARS-CoV-2. We evaluated 254 COVID-19 patients longitudinally from early infection and for eight months thereafter and found a predominant broad-based immune memory response. SARS-CoV-2 spike binding and neutralizing antibodies exhibited a bi-phasic decay with an extended half-life of >200 days suggesting the generation of longer-lived plasma cells. In addition, there was a sustained IgG+ memory B cell response, which bodes well for a rapid antibody response upon virus re-exposure.”

9. Incidence of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 infection among previously infected or vaccinated employees, by N Kojima, A Roshani, M Brobeck, A Baca, JD Klausner. MedRxiv, July 8, 2021. “Previous SARS-CoV-2 infection and vaccination for SARS-CoV-2 were associated with decreased risk for infection or re-infection with SARS-CoV-2 in a routinely screened workforce. The was no difference in the infection incidence between vaccinated individuals and individuals with previous infection. Further research is needed to determine whether our results are consistent with the emergence of new SARS-CoV-2 variants.”

10. Single cell profiling of T and B cell repertoires following SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine, by Suhas Sureshchandra, Sloan A. Lewis, Brianna Doratt, Allen Jankeel, Izabela Ibraim, Ilhem Messaoudi. BioRxiv, July 15, 2021. “Interestingly, clonally expanded CD8 T cells were observed in every vaccinee, as observed following natural infection. TCR gene usage, however, was variable, reflecting the diversity of repertoires and MHC polymorphism in the human population. Natural infection induced expansion of larger CD8 T cell clones occupied distinct clusters, likely due to the recognition of a broader set of viral epitopes presented by the virus not seen in the mRNA vaccine. Our study highlights a coordinated adaptive immune response where early CD4 T cell responses facilitate the development of the B cell response and substantial expansion of effector CD8 T cells, together capable of contributing to future recall responses.”

11. mRNA vaccine-induced T cells respond identically to SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern but differ in longevity and homing properties depending on prior infection status, Jason Neidleman, Xiaoyu Luo, Matthew McGregor, Guorui Xie, Victoria Murray, Warner C. Greene, Sulggi A. Lee, Nadia R. Roan. BioRxiv, July 29, 2021. “In infection-naïve individuals, the second dose boosted the quantity and altered the phenotypic properties of SARS-CoV-2-specific T cells, while in convalescents the second dose changed neither. Spike-specific T cells from convalescent vaccinees differed strikingly from those of infection-naïve vaccinees, with phenotypic features suggesting superior long-term persistence and ability to home to the respiratory tract including the nasopharynx. These results provide reassurance that vaccine-elicited T cells respond robustly to emerging viral variants, confirm that convalescents may not need a second vaccine dose, and suggest that vaccinated convalescents may have more persistent nasopharynx-homing SARS-CoV-2-specific T cells compared to their infection-naïve counterparts.”

12. Immunological memory to SARS-CoV-2 assessed for up to 8 months after infection, Jennifer M. Dan, Jose Mateus, Yu Kato, Kathryn M. Hastie, et al., Science, January 6, 2021. “Understanding immune memory to SARS-CoV-2 is critical for improving diagnostics and vaccines, and for assessing the likely future course of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyzed multiple compartments of circulating immune memory to SARS-CoV-2 in 254 samples from 188 COVID-19 cases, including 43 samples at ≥ 6 months post-infection. IgG to the Spike protein was relatively stable over 6+ months. Spike-specific memory B cells were more abundant at 6 months than at 1 month post symptom onset. SARS-CoV-2-specific CD4+ T cells and CD8+ T cells declined with a half-life of 3-5 months. By studying antibody, memory B cell, CD4+ T cell, and CD8+ T cell memory to SARS-CoV-2 in an integrated manner, we observed that each component of SARS-CoV-2 immune memory exhibited distinct kinetics.”

13. Persistence of neutralizing antibodies a year after SARS-CoV-2 infection, by Anu Haveri, Nina Ekström, Anna Solastie, Camilla Virta, Pamela Österlund, Elina Isosaari, Hanna Nohynek, Arto A. Palmu, Merit Melin. MedRxiv, July 16, 2021. “We assessed the persistence of serum antibodies following wild-type SARS-CoV-2 infection six and twelve months after diagnosis in 367 individuals of whom 13% had severe disease requiring hospitalization. We determined the SARS-CoV-2 spike (S-IgG) and nucleoprotein IgG concentrations and the proportion of subjects with neutralizing antibodies (NAb).”

14. Quantifying the risk of SARS‐CoV‐2 reinfection over time, by Eamon O Murchu, Paula Byrne, Paul G. Carty, et al. Rev Med Virol. 2021. “Reinfection was an uncommon event (absolute rate 0%–1.1%), with no study reporting an increase in the risk of reinfection over time. Only one study esti- mated the population‐level risk of reinfection based on whole genome sequencing in a subset of patients; the estimated risk was low (0.1% [95% CI: 0.08–0.11%]) with no evidence of waning immunity for up to 7 months following primary infection. These data suggest that naturally acquired SARS‐CoV‐2 immunity does not wane for at least 10 months post‐infection. However, the applicability of these studies to new variants or to vaccine‐induced immunity remains uncertain.”

15. SARS-CoV-2 antibody-positivity protects against reinfection for at least seven months with 95% efficacy, by Laith J. Abu-Raddad, Hiam Chemaitelly, Peter Coyle, Joel A. Malek. The Lancet, July 27, 2021. “Reinfection is rare in the young and international population of Qatar. Natural infection appears to elicit strong protection against reinfection with an efficacy ~95% for at least seven months.”

16. Natural immunity against COVID-19 significantly reduces the risk of reinfection: findings from a cohort of sero-survey participants, by Bijaya Kumar Mishra, Debdutta Bhattacharya, Jaya Singh Kshatri, Sanghamitra Pati. MedRxiv, July 19, 2021. “These findings reinforce the strong plausibility that development of antibody following natural infection not only protects against re-infection by the virus to a great extent, but also safeguards against progression to severe COVID-19 disease.”

17. Protection of previous SARS-CoV-2 infection is similar to that of BNT162b2 vaccine protection: A three-month nationwide experience from Israel, by Yair Goldberg, Micha Mandel, Yonatan Woodbridge, Ronen Fluss, Ilya Novikov, Rami Yaari, Arnona Ziv, Laurence Freedman, Amit Huppert, et al.. MedRxiv, April 24, 2021. “Similarly, the overall estimated level of protection from prior SARS-CoV-2 infection for documented infection is 94·8% (CI:[94·4, 95·1]); hospitalization 94·1% (CI:[91·9, 95·7]); and severe illness 96·4% (CI:[92·5, 98·3]). Our results question the need to vaccinate previously-infected individuals.”

18. Immune Memory in Mild COVID-19 Patients and Unexposed Donors Reveals Persistent T Cell Responses After SARS-CoV-2 Infection, by Asgar Ansari, Rakesh Arya, Shilpa Sachan, Someshwar Nath Jha, Anurag Kalia, Anupam Lall, Alessandro Sette, et al. Front Immunol. March 11, 2021. “Using HLA class II predicted peptide megapools, we identified SARS-CoV-2 cross-reactive CD4+ T cells in around 66% of the unexposed individuals. Moreover, we found detectable immune memory in mild COVID-19 patients several months after recovery in the crucial arms of protective adaptive immunity; CD4+ T cells and B cells, with a minimal contribution from CD8+ T cells. Interestingly, the persistent immune memory in COVID-19 patients is predominantly targeted towards the Spike glycoprotein of the SARS-CoV-2. This study provides the evidence of both high magnitude pre-existing and persistent immune memory in Indian population.”

19. Live virus neutralisation testing in convalescent patients and subjects vaccinated against 19A, 20B, 20I/501Y.V1 and 20H/501Y.V2 isolates of SARS-CoV-2, by Claudia Gonzalez, Carla Saade, Antonin Bal, Martine Valette, et al, MedRxiv, May 11, 2021. “ No significant difference was observed between the 20B and 19A isolates for HCWs with mild COVID-19 and critical patients. However, a significant decrease in neutralisation ability was found for 20I/501Y.V1 in comparison with 19A isolate for critical patients and HCWs 6-months post infection. Concerning 20H/501Y.V2, all populations had a significant reduction in neutralising antibody titres in comparison with the 19A isolate. Interestingly, a significant difference in neutralisation capacity was observed for vaccinated HCWs between the two variants whereas it was not significant for the convalescent groups.”

20. Highly functional virus-specific cellular immune response in asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection, by Nina Le Bert, Hannah E. Clapham, Anthony T. Tan, Wan Ni Chia, et al, Journal of Experimental Medicine, March 1, 2021. “Thus, asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2–infected individuals are not characterized by weak antiviral immunity; on the contrary, they mount a highly functional virus-specific cellular immune response.”

21. SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell memory is sustained in COVID-19 convalescent patients for 10 months with successful development of stem cell-like memory T cells, Jae Hyung Jung, Min-Seok Rha, Moa Sa, Hee Kyoung Choi, Ji Hoon Jeon, et al, Nature Communications, June 30, 2021. “In particular, we observe sustained polyfunctionality and proliferation capacity of SARS-CoV-2-specific T cells. Among SARS-CoV-2-specific CD4+ and CD8+ T cells detected by activation-induced markers, the proportion of stem cell-like memory T (TSCM) cells is increased, peaking at approximately 120 DPSO. Development of TSCM cells is confirmed by SARS-CoV-2-specific MHC-I multimer staining. Considering the self-renewal capacity and multipotency of TSCM cells, our data suggest that SARS-CoV-2-specific T cells are long-lasting after recovery from COVID-19, thus support the feasibility of effective vaccination programs as a measure for COVID-19 control.”

22. Antibody Evolution after SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccination, by Alice Cho, Frauke Muecksch, Dennis Schaefer-Babajew, Zijun Wang, et al, BioRxiv, et al, BioRxiv, July 29, 2021. “We conclude that memory antibodies selected over time by natural infection have greater potency and breadth than antibodies elicited by vaccination. These results suggest that boosting vaccinated individuals with currently available mRNA vaccines would produce a quantitative increase in plasma neutralizing activity but not the qualitative advantage against variants obtained by vaccinating convalescent individuals.” Newer version reads: “These results suggest that boosting vaccinated individuals with currently available mRNA vaccines will increase plasma neutralizing activity but may not produce antibodies with breadth equivalent to those obtained by vaccinating convalescent individuals.”

23. Differential effects of the second SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccine dose on T cell immunity in naïve and COVID-19 recovered individuals, by Carmen Camara, Daniel Lozano-Ojalvo, Eduardo Lopez-Granados. Et al., BioRxiv, March 27, 2021. “While a two-dose immunization regimen with the BNT162b2 vaccine has been demonstrated to provide a 95% efficacy in naïve individuals, the effects of the second vaccine dose in individuals who have previously recovered from natural SARS-CoV-2 infection has been questioned. Here we characterized SARS-CoV-2 spike-specific humoral and cellular immunity in naïve and previously infected individuals during full BNT162b2 vaccination. Our results demonstrate that the second dose increases both the humoral and cellular immunity in naïve individuals. On the contrary, the second BNT162b2 vaccine dose results in a reduction of cellular immunity in COVID-19 recovered individuals, which suggests that a second dose, according to the current standard regimen of vaccination, may be not necessary in individuals previously infected with SARS-CoV-2.”

24. COVID-19 natural immunity: Scientific Brief. World Health Organization. May 10, 2021. “Available scientific data suggests that in most people immune responses remain robust and protective against reinfection for at least 6-8 months after infection (the longest follow up with strong scientific evidence is currently approximately 8 months). Some variant SARS-CoV-2 viruses with key changes in the spike protein have a reduced susceptibility to neutralization by antibodies in the blood. While neutralizing antibodies mainly target the spike protein, cellular immunity elicited by natural infection also target other viral proteins, which tend to be more conserved across variants than the spike protein.”

25. SARS-CoV-2 re-infection risk in Austria, by Stefan Pilz, Ali Chakeri, John Pa Ioannidis, et al. Eur J Clin Invest. April 2021. “We recorded 40 tentative re-infections in 14 840 COVID-19 survivors of the first wave (0.27%) and 253 581 infections in 8 885 640 individuals of the remaining general population (2.85%) translating into an odds ratio (95% confidence interval) of 0.09 (0.07 to 0.13). We observed a relatively low re-infection rate of SARS-CoV-2 in Austria. Protection against SARS-CoV-2 after natural infection is comparable with the highest available estimates on vaccine efficacies. Further well-designed research on this issue is urgently needed for improving evidence-based decisions on public health measures and vaccination strategies.”

26. Anti-spike antibody response to natural SARS-CoV-2 infection in the general population, by Jia Wei, Philippa C. Matthews, Nicole Stoesser, et al, MedRxiv, July 5, 2021. “We estimated antibody levels associated with protection against reinfection likely last 1.5-2 years on average, with levels associated with protection from severe infection present for several years. These estimates could inform planning for vaccination booster strategies.”

27. SARS-CoV-2 infection rates of antibody-positive compared with antibody-negative health-care workers in England: a large, multicentre, prospective cohort study (SIREN), by Victoria Jane Hall, FFPH, Sarah Foulkes, MSc, Andre Charlett, PhD, Ana Atti, MSc, et al. The Lancet, April 29, 2021. “A previous history of SARS-CoV-2 infection was associated with an 84% lower risk of infection, with median protective effect observed 7 months following primary infection. This time period is the minimum probable effect because seroconversions were not included. This study shows that previous infection with SARS-CoV-2 induces effective immunity to future infections in most individuals.”

28. SARS-CoV-2 Natural Antibody Response Persists for at Least 12 Months in a Nationwide Study From the Faroe Islands, by Maria Skaalum Petersen, Cecilie Bo Hansen, Marnar Fríheim Kristiansen, et al, Open Forum Infectious Diseases, Volume 8, Issue 8, August 2021. “Although the protective role of antibodies is currently unknown, our results show that SARS-CoV-2 antibodies persisted at least 12 months after symptom onset and maybe even longer, indicating that COVID-19-convalescent individuals may be protected from reinfection. Our results represent SARS-CoV-2 antibody immunity in nationwide cohorts in a setting with few undetected cases, and we believe that our results add to the understanding of natural immunity and the expected durability of SARS-CoV-2 vaccine immune responses. Moreover, they can help with public health policy and ongoing strategies for vaccine delivery.

29. Associations of Vaccination and of Prior Infection With Positive PCR Test Results for SARS-CoV-2 in Airline Passengers Arriving in Qatar, by Roberto Bertollini, MD, MPH¹; Hiam Chemaitelly, MSc²; Hadi M. Yassine. JAMA Research Letter, June 9, 2021. “Of 9180 individuals with no record of vaccination but with a record of prior infection at least 90 days before the PCR test (group 3), 7694 could be matched to individuals with no record of vaccination or prior infection (group 2), among whom PCR positivity was 1.01% (95% CI, 0.80%-1.26%) and 3.81% (95% CI, 3.39%-4.26%), respectively. The relative risk for PCR positivity was 0.22 (95% CI, 0.17-0.28) for vaccinated individuals and 0.26 (95% CI, 0.21-0.34) for individuals with prior infection compared with no record of vaccination or prior infection.”

30. Longitudinal observation of antibody responses for 14 months after SARS-CoV-2 infection, by Puya Dehgani-Mobarakiab, Asiya Kamber Zaidic, Nidhi Yadavc, Alessandro Floridid, Emanuela Floridi. Clinical Immunology, September 2021. “In Conclusion, our study findings are consistent with recent studies reporting antibody persistency suggesting that induced SARS-CoV-2 immunity through natural infection, might be very efficacious against re-infection (>90%) and could persist for more than six months. Our study followed up patients up to 14 months demonstrating the presence of anti-S-RBD IgG in 96.8% of recovered COVID-19 subjects.”

101 Pastors Reject Joe Biden’s Vaccine Mandate Via Letter, Declares ‘We Have No King But King Jesus’

October 13, 2021

On Monday, a group of clergy representing over 100 congregations across the state of Ohio signed a letter addressed to President Joe Biden, outlining the reasons why they oppose his COVID vaccine mandate. In the U.S., the debate rages on as to how Biden’s vaccine mandate is a violation of an individual’s personal and religious freedom and how the use of vaccines totally diminish the importance of natural immunity against COVID especially among those who had a previous infection.

“As clergymen from one hundred and one (101) diverse congregations across North Central Ohio, we would like to note that this unnecessary mandate by your office is in sharp contrast to the statement you made as President-elect on December 4th, 2020 when you stated you would not impose a national vaccine mandate,” the 101 pastors from Ohio declared in their letter, as reported by CBN News.

The letter also underscored how Vice President Kamala Harris declared on October 7, 2020 that she would not take the COVID vaccine “if [then-President of the United States] Donald Trump tells us we should take it.”

The 101 pastors from Ohio also highlighted how COVID has a high survival rate, which has raised issues as to why the Biden administration is insisting on getting the COVID vaccine. They argued that for COVID “with an overall 99.74% survival rate, the federal government should not impose its will on persons by mandating COVID-19 experimental vaccines and removing other alternative treatments.”

According to the Associated Press, “On average about 98.2% of known COVID-19 patients in the U.S. survive.” Moreover, the case fatality ratio is at 1.8%, which means “on average, 98.2% of known COVID-19 patients in the U.S. survive.”

The report added, “Because the true number of infections is much larger than just the documented cases, the actual survival rate of all COVID-19 infections is even higher than 98.2%.”

Despite this, the Biden administration is pushing for more people to get vaccinated through a “unilateral and divisive order” that is “unethical and tantamount to what a totalitarian king would dictate,” the 101 pastors’ missive argued.

The pastors also emphasized Biden’s “derelict policy” of forcing Americans to get vaccinated against COVID while exempting the throngs of “illegal immigrants with no health screening” that went into the country via the border. This policy, they noted, resulted in a “300% increase in COVID cases during a period when vaccines are available.” The pastors then said:

“Mr. President, we believe you too have crossed a line.“

In response to Biden’s vaccine mandate, the clergymen said, “We have no king but King Jesus.“

A clergyman who signed the letter, Pastor J.C. Church of Bucyrus Victory in Truth Ministries,, said that President Biden is merely trying to scare the people instead of protecting them. He told Front Lines Ohio that he and his congregation will refuse to listen to the president and “his godless administration” which he described as having “foot-in-mouth disease for every issue they touch.”

He added that the Biden administration “does not have the scientific data nor the trust of the people, he uses fear to try to get compliance. Authoritarians in Marxist governments use this method.”

Meanwhile, Pastor Jerry O’Brien of Orville Faith Harvest, who also signed the letter said that vaccine testing takes 10 years “to properly evaluate its performance” and that this did not occur with the COVID jab, which means that is has not been properly tested yet. He decried how the Biden administration is using its people as “human guinea pigs.”

“Mr. President, your Administration believes the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness do not come from our Creator GOD but rather from a federal government which does not know its right hand from its left. Your Administration’s politicization of the truth is profound,” their letter concluded.

One church leader, Pastor John Bouquet of Savannah Bethel Baptist church, declared to the Biden administration:

“As this country is taking a turn for the worst, we are telling federal bureaucrats: We do not need your help, the LORD is our Balm of Gilead, He will be our physician, and their will be healing for His people.”

Screengrabbed image showing a few blocks of paragraphs from the pastors’ letter resisting Biden’s unconstitutional vaccine mandate for a virus that has a very high recovery rate when infections occur.

VIDEO: Catholic Nun Says COVID-19 Vaccines Are Globalist Plot For Population Control, Pope Francis Their ‘Spiritual Leader’

October 13, 2021

“And so I say to you beloved, that evil is coming upon us”

A video surfaced online of a Benedictine Nun named Mother Miriam issuing a warning of what she describes as a globalist depopulation agenda involving COVID-19 vaccines, at one point referring to Pope Francis as the “spiritual leader” of globalist elites.

A video going viral shows a nun named Mother Miriam discussing the COVID-19 vaccine as part of a depopulation agenda by globalist elites like Bill Gates and George Soros. In the video, she explains how the globalists are working to kill a large swath of the global population through mass vaccination in order to usher in a “one world order.”

The video clip came from her show, Mother Miriam Live, formerly Heart to Heart with Mother Miriam, a Catholic radio show and podcast affiliated with Life Site News and the Station of the Cross Catholic Radio Network.

Mother Miriam is back LIVE in today’s episode, as she discusses what is the plan behind the “evil” push for abortion-tainted vaccines. She adds that Catholics must be willing to resist even onto martyrdom.

“The group of globalists – everyone involved in this new reset, global economy, one-world order – all of that, enforcing the jab, the COVID vaccine, which is a pathological weapon to destroy our body, that’s what it is. And if you haven’t felt it, if you’ve taken the COVID vaccine and you feel just fine, that is working in your body to destroy it,” said Mother Miriam.

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“What I’ve gathered from all the reports is that the George Soros’ of the world, Bill Gates, everybody involved in this reset, so to speak, and the Holy Father [Pope Francis] is their spiritual leader. I don’t hesitate to say it because I’m not revealing anything that hasn’t been all over the news, the Vatican, and every place else.”

Mother Miriamcontinued, saying that “they want to control the world population, completely have us under their control. The world population is too big, and so this COVID vaccine has been invented to eliminate us, to kill off a great percentage of the population so that what’s left, they have a reasonable hope[…]of killing and controlling the rest of us.”

“I don’t think such a horror novel has ever been written, but it’s true, and I believe it one hundred percent, and I think our time is limited. Very limited now, for this reign of evil, of persecution, of death, to truly take hold of us because as we’ve heard from many, the forces of evil as announced by President Biden concerning his own thoughts, are growing impatient,” she explained.

“We’re too slow in obeying. We’re too slow to buy into their false statements. We’re too slow to obey their dictates. We’re just too slow and we’re holding back the reign of evil.”

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— TJ (@TJ0056) October 11, 2021

“So what’s wrong with us? We need to be put away. We need to be silenced. And so I say to you beloved, that evil is coming upon us, is upon us, but I think we don’t have much time. I don’t even think it’s a few months from now, that we’re going to experience what we’ve never imagined. So now is the time. Now, today, is the day of salvation,” Miriam concluded.

Supply Chain Is One More Example of Biden Failing at Basics of Governing

October 13, 2021

Planes aren’t flying, inflation’s surging, Americans are being held hostage in Afghanistan, the China Flu continues to rage, and now this incompetent moron we call His Fraudulency Joe Biden has bungled the basics of keeping our supply chain moving.

Biden’s trillion-dollar spending sprees, which were not necessary, have resulted in record inflation and price spikes, especially concerning the basics of life in energy and food prices. And yet, he’s still threatening to make things worse by pushing another $3.5 trillion federal boondoggle.

Biden spent much of his presidential campaign warning people not to trust Trump’s coronavirus vaccine. Then, after he allegedly won the election, he had to sell the very thing he’d trashed, and now here we are still living with the pandemic because people don’t trust the vaccine. Gee, I wonder why?

Biden has not only undermined confidence in the vaccine in every way imaginable, but his push for fascist mandates has also resulted in massive flight delays. If you want to talk about failing at the basics of governing, millions of Americans are now unable to go where they want to go.

As far as Afghanistan, this soulless cretin didn’t even have the smarts or the basic human empathy to evacuate our civilians before removing our troops, and now the Taliban are holding hundreds of American hostages, including children.

If that’s not disturbing enough, this idiot can’t even keep our store shelves stocked.

When it comes to the supply chain, I’m not so terribly worried about the fact that our consumer culture (which I am a member of) might not be able to spend a lot of money on shit they don’t need this year. However, I am worried about the small businesses that count on full shelves during the Christmas season to make their year.

All these anti-science lockdowns have already rocked small businesses, and now that much of the country is finally free again, Biden and his idiot transportation secretary, the in-way-way-in-over-his head Pete Butt-Edge-Edge, have completely bungled that.

Getting us our stuff is one of the basics of government. If you can’t do that, what good are you?

Americans want their stuff!

What’s more, the sight of empty store shelves is quite unsettling.

This apocalyptic vibe is not supposed to be part of the American way of life, especially during the holidays.

Americans get it, which is why Biden’s poll numbers — despite billions of dollars in corporate media propaganda to protect him — are sinking in the toilet.

No amount of CNNLOL lies can overcome the pit we all feel in our stomachs when we see the cost of a gallon of gas, or empty shelves, or the rationing (purchase limits) on things like toilet paper.

No amount of New York Times, NPR, and Washington Post lies can erase the fact that children are still in Afghanistan who cannot get out, which makes them hostages.

No amount of NBC, CBS, PBS, or ABC lies can paper over the fact that prices on everything are spiking.

You can sense it. You can sense that there is something very, very wrong. And when Americans see things like cargo ships backed up in Long Beach, they wonder, “Why can’t this be fixed with overnight shifts, overtime pay, and more hiring? That’s what I would be expected to do at my job. Why isn’t this happening, and why was it allowed to get this bad?”

Yes, Americans can live without buying a lot of crap they don’t really need this Christmas, but what they can’t live with is the dread, is the foreboding, is the sick feeling that something is terribly, terribly wrong.

Insanity Wrap: The Biden-China-Oil Connection

October 13, 2021

Welcome to Insanity Wrap, your daily dose of the best of the worst. The Biden-China-Oil Connection is today’s big crazy.

Plus:

First thing we do, let’s fire all the nurses
Kamala insists: The kids stay in the picture
When everyone is a domestic terrorist, no one is

Before we get to today’s big story, here’s a short video to make you lose whatever little faith you might still have in humanity.

This Is Not a Sane World, Exhibit #1,000,006

A nurse is escorted out of her job at a hospital for not taking the vaccine pic.twitter.com/ZwrzaeJ7S6
— Libs of Tik Tok (@libsoftiktok) October 12, 2021

Do you know what this country desperately needs in this time of deadly pandemic?

Fewer nurses.

The Biden-China-Oil Connection

Insanity Wrap probably doesn’t have to tell you that the U.S. is crisscrossed with pipelines. That’s because they’re the most economical — and safest — way to transport dangerous and dirty fluids from Point A to Point B.

Early this year, the U.S. completed construction of a new pipeline connecting the White House in Washington, D.C., to the Chinese Communist Party headquarters in Beijing.

Instead of moving oil around, the DC-CCP pipeline transports money and influence from East to West.

Insanity Wrap shakes our head when we remember that Kipling thought that never the twain shall meet.

To be fair, Kipling never met a creature as ethically and morally (and increasingly, intellectually) stunted as Presidentish Joe Biden.

To wit:

A Chinese state-run oil and gas company linked to the son of the President of the United States, Hunter Biden, hit record levels of production amidst President Biden’s decision to halt the construction of the Keystone XL Pipeline.

Sinopec refines a lot of oil. With the cancelation of Keystone XL, which would have moved Canadian oil to the U.S. for processing, Sinopec gains while the U.S. loses.

Sinopec, also known as China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, is a Chinese Communist regime-controlled oil and gas enterprise. Its “fully-owned subsidiary” Sinopec Marketing Company enjoyed nearly $1 billion in investment from Hunter Biden’s private equity firm BHR Partners.

All those middle-class union jobs Biden likes to drool over in public (increasingly, literally), privately had to be axed to keep Hunter in hookers and blow, and to keep Joe in the lifestyle he’s accustomed to having other people buy for him.

Sinopec’s record-breaking success follows the Biden regime’s assault on American energy independence, including the cancellation of the critical Keystone XL Pipeline and shutting down oil and gas lease sales from federal land in his first days in office.

Did the Big Guy get his ten percent?

Insanity Wrap would be shocked if he didn’t get more than that for such a sweetheart deal, enriching Beijing while killing American jobs and American energy independence.

The worst part? America has grown so corrupt and power has become so consolidated in the executive branch, that Biden was able to accomplish all that with nothing more than his signature on an executive order.

The Kids Stay in the Picture

Just when you thought the most fake human being in the history of the world couldn’t get any more phony there’s this… Her commitment to cringe is truly impressive!

Kamala Harris hired child actors to be part of her widely-mocked NASA space video https://t.co/Cr58v8ZOMK
— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) October 12, 2021

Having seen on many occasions Alleged Vice President Kamala Harris try to work her charms, and now having watched the NASA video, Insanity Wrap has just one question: Since when are American child actors this damn good?

Seriously, every single one of them is some kind of genetically engineered Olivier-Streep-Brando-Freeman-Bergman hybrid.

Harris is the gravitational singularity of human joy, a useless mass so dense that not even a child’s smile can escape.

How those kids managed it is just beyond us.

A Very Public Education

Universities continue to put students in prison-like conditions over fear of COVID

For Insanity Wrap, the best part of college was the lack of supervision.

Not that we always used it wisely, mind you. But getting out of the house and starting the process of building our own world…

…it was thrilling, a tiny bit dangerous, and liberating all at once.

Today’s college kids:

Students who are isolated at OCC are only allowed to leave their room to access the communal bathrooms or grab food from the common area on their floor, multiple students said.
No isolating student is allowed to leave their floor, students said. Deliveries that students order are brought up to their floor between certain hours of the day. There is no time for them to go outdoors.

Plus:

The paper said some students described the conditions as “demotivating” and “depressing.”
“My perception of time was pretty much non-existent, and I pretty much had no motivation. There was nothing to look forward to in there,” student Joy Onawola told the campus paper.

Insanity Wrap doesn’t want to hear one more leftist make one more “For the Children™” argument about absolutely anything ever again or we’re going to get very stabby.

The Craziest Person in the World (This Week)

This attempt by unvaccinated Southwest airline employees at crippling U.S. air travel is the latest reminder that it’s a very short distance from anti-vaxxer to domestic terrorist.
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) October 10, 2021

Insanity Wrap has lost track of all the people who are now considered to be domestic terrorists.

Although we do find it crazy that the new definition of “domestic terrorist” doesn’t include anybody doing any actual terrifying, like when Antifa takes over the streets or BLM succeeds at removing police protection from America’s most vulnerable neighborhoods.

We find it crazy, but not surprising.

Your Weekly Dose of Mandated Unity

Navy engineer’s wife arrested with her husband for ‘selling nuclear sub secrets’ to an unknown foreign power posted pro-BLM rants, raged against Trump and praised Hillary

Oh:

She made multiple posts about supporting The Resistance and in one she retweeted that ‘America is Temporarily Out of Order.’
She also supported liberal ideologies, including the Black Lives Matter movement. Her profile picture reads ‘Black Lives Matter,’ and a post last year celebrating the social media protest against racism called ‘#blackouttuesday.’
One post she shared in 2019 is a photo from an unidentified Women’s March overlaid with the quote, ‘Stay angry, little Meg. You will need all your anger now,’ from Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle in Time.
The accounts her Twitter profile follows are mostly ‘resistance’ accounts in protest of Trump, including the ‘Rogue NASA’ account described as ‘the unofficial “Resistance” team of NASA’ on its bio description.

“Love the Left, hate America” is very nearly axiomatic.

Or did Insanity Wrap waffle too much with the “very nearly?”

How About Some Good News for Once?

BREAKING NEWS – Federal judge rules NY must continue to allow health workers to seek religious exemptions from statewide vaccine mandate. https://t.co/mahOBOofwt
— News12LI (@News12LI) October 12, 2021

One More Thing…

Let's Go Brandon — (Courtesy of Bill Whittle.)

Bill Whittle texted this meme to Insanity Wrap last night and said, “Made this just for you.”

Thank you, sir. May we have another?

Er… another, may we have?

That’s a Wrap for today.

Come back next week for another Insanity Wrap…

…assuming we make it that long.

Floridians Frustrated With Surge in COVID-19 and Violent Crime Related to Illegal Immigration

October 13, 2021

While the Biden administration has imposed a vaccine mandate on American citizens, thousands of illegal immigrants are being released into the population with no vaccination requirements. Meanwhile, the number of violent crimes are escalating in areas where illegal immigrants are settling. Some call it “extremely frustrating.” Others call it “sheer stupidity.”

Mindy Hodge of Clermont in Lake County, Florida, has been following the numbers on illegal immigration in her area. Her interest in tracking the statistics began when her father-in-law was injured in a car accident in Lake Worth when his car was struck by a vehicle being driven by an illegal immigrant. The individual who struck her father-in-law’s vehicle had no driver’s license and no insurance, leaving her father-in-law responsible for replacing his totaled vehicle and paying his own medical bills with provisions from his own insurance policy.

“I was really offended by that,” Hodge told The Epoch Times, adding that the incident inspired her to reach out to a friend who was a retired police officer, who told her “this happens all the time.”

“They get in car accidents, they severely injure people, they kill people,” Hodge said her friend told her regarding his experience in law enforcement. “Then they are told to appear in court for reckless driving, driving without a license, vehicular homicide, and then they just leave and go back to Mexico or Central America and there’s never any accountability.”

Hodge then began conducting her own research, logging on to her local sheriff’s office website to find statistics for her own county.

“I started taking the time frame from Friday to Sunday each week,” Hodge said, explaining that what she saw happening regularly was that 10 to 15 percent of the people that were arrested in her county every weekend were here illegally.

“That’s one of the things our county has on its website—their citizenship status,” Hodge said.

“We’re not a huge county, like Orange or Miami-Dade, but we’re a good-sized county and it just shocked me that 10 to 15 percent of our police resources were being used to deal with people who were here illegally, often being arrested multiple times,” Hodge said. “As a citizen, I used to think that if you were here illegally, or even on a worker visa, if you were caught committing a crime you were sent back. I found out very quickly that’s not the case at all and it’s extremely frustrating for law enforcement.”

Hodge said with regard to the number of arrests of illegal immigrants since the beginning of this year’s border crisis, it isn’t the numbers so much as the severity of the crimes that have increased.

“It used to be they were always picked up for DUI (driving under the influence) or driving without a license,” Hodge said. “Now we’re seeing a lot of aggravated assaults and a lot of domestic violence.”The surprising aspect for Hodge has been the growing number of women being arrested for increasingly violent offenses.

“Females engaged in domestic violence, females involved in aggravated assault,” Hodge shared. “The crimes are becoming more serious than just driving without a license or getting drunk at a bar and driving. They are becoming more violent.”

“With this latest group of Haitians, a large amount of them were sent to Orlando,” Hodge said. “Lake County is right next to Orange County, so we’re like 20 minutes from Orlando, and I find it very interesting that the White House says we have this huge COVID problem in Florida—and that [Gov.] Ron DeSantis is killing people and they’re calling him ‘DeathSantis,’ and Jen Psaki, the press secretary, is saying DeSantis isn’t protecting Floridians—yet they did not test any of these people. They did not make them get vaccinated and then they sent them into Orlando, the place they say is so dangerous.”

‘All by Design’

According to Florida Rep. Anthony Sabatini (District 32), the move to settle large numbers of illegal immigrants in red states is “all by design.”

“They’re bringing in as many illegal immigrants as they can so they can grow their voter rolls,” Sabatini told The Epoch Times, adding that they are doing this “so they can get more Democrats” and “more malleable individuals who will do whatever the woke corporations want them to do.”

“That’s the whole plan,” Sabatini said. “It’s all by design. There’s no accidents here. It’s the Democrats serving their corporate masters.”

Asked about the apparent contradiction of the Biden administration imposing vaccine mandates upon American citizens while allowing thousands of unvaccinated illegal immigrants to filter unchecked into the American population, Sabatini said “they don’t actually care about COVID.”

“COVID is not a real concern for them,” Sabatini said. “They use COVID as a pretext to increase government control, the size of government, government spending, government oversight and just to increase their own power. But in terms of trying to actually eliminate the spread of COVID, they’re obviously not interested in that by the way they’re dealing with these illegal immigrants. They aren’t interested in COVID. They’re interested in cheap illegal immigrant labor and increasing the size of government.”

According to Sabatini, officials in Florida asked border patrol last month how many of the estimated 180,000 illegal immigrants that are pouring into the country each month wound up in the Sunshine State.

“They said about half of the illegal immigrants were aiming to go to Florida,” Sabatini said. “So that would be between 70,000 to 80,000 illegal immigrants coming to Florida every month. I think a conservative, low-ball estimate is we’re getting about 50,000 illegal immigrants in Florida every month.”

Asked how many of these estimated 50,000 illegal immigrants per month have criminal records or are known gang members, Sabatini said “a large amount” of them fall into that category. “The truth is, just coming over makes them criminals. It’s a crime to cross the border illegally so they’re all criminals in that sense.”

In response to the influx, Florida’s attorney general filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration for ignoring federal immigration laws and DeSantis issued an executive order (pdf) prohibiting state agencies from assisting in the illegal resettling of illegal immigrants in the Sunshine State.

“The fact that the Biden administration is putting mandates on U.S. citizens and not putting the same mandate on illegal immigrants is further proof that the decisions of his administration are more about politics and less about keeping Americans safe during a pandemic,” Florida Rep. Blaise Ingoglia (District 35) told The Epoch Times. “Almost every decision by the Biden administration, whether it’s by design or sheer stupidity, hurts our small businesses and the hard working women and men who keep our economy running. People in the private sector know this. It’s about time the bureaucrats in DC realize this as well.”

“I think mandating a vaccine without taking into account natural immunity is wrong on both policy and ethical grounds,” Ingoglia said. “Florida knows this. That’s one of the reasons we are pushing back against mandates. In the end, I think the courts will make the correct decision and Florida and Gov. DeSantis will be proven right yet again.”

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