Geert Vanden Bossche PhD and his warning to the world against 'Immune Escape'
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Geert Vanden Bossche PhD, DVM is an internationally recognised expert in vaccine development. He has acted as global director of a number of vaccine programs around the world, including for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Teaching and working in virology his entire professional life, Geert is raising the alarm over the global vaccination rollout and lockdown methodology which he believes is causative in the immune escape fears being raised by journals such as The Lancet and Science in January/February 2021.
He presents scientific evidence that ‘innate’ immunity is the actual determinant in recovery from and prevention of COVID-19. This is distinct from ‘acquired’ or ‘adaptive’ immunity where pathogenic response in T Cells and B Cells confers a memory upon the immune system. Vaccines work on the ‘adaptive’ immune system, not the ‘innate’ immune system.
His research points to over-zealous infection control procedures, as well as vaccines that do not produce sterilising immunity, as the two key drivers of evolutionary pressure upon Sars-Cov-2 that may result in vaccine-resistant phenotypes of the virus. If correct, this predicts much larger waves of COVID-19 including in younger, previously resistant people. He describes our current actions to combat Sars-Cov-2 as a ‘giant experiment’ and grossly irresponsible on such a global scale.
3:22Placing pressure on viruses without stopping transmission forces mutations
6:00Sars-Cov-2 requires hosts and cannot survive without one
7:20The analogy of antibiotic resistance to explain vaccine resistance
9:38Mass vaccinations during a pandemic are contra-indicated
10:40Extended vaccine dosing intervals creates opportunity for Sars-Cov-2 immune escape
11:20Being an asymptomatic carrier produces a suboptimal immune state
12:58We are creating a worse problem than natural pandemics
14:30Infection prevention measures and lockdowns are pressuring Sars-Cov-2 to mutate into new strains
17:57The ‘innate’ immune system is the most important determinant in COVID-19 outcomes
20:16We are weakening our innate immune systems by isolating them from exposure to pathogens
22:18Australia and New Zealand are so isolated from Sars-Cov-2 that they have become the most susceptible in the world to bad COVID-19 outcomes
23:44Lockdowns prevent mortality at the individual level but create disasters at the population level
25:28Allowing a natural pandemic cycle
27:06The virus itself teaches us how to intervene without causing immune escape
27:40Antibodies are not responsible for elimination of COVID-19 because they comes too late. The mechanism responsible are NK Cells in the innate immune system
30:04In natural pandemics viruses jump between immunological populations
32:19Surges in antibodies (adaptive immune system) post infection outcompete natural antibodies (innate immune system) thus suppressing innate immunity
35:00In pandemics, the likelihood of encountering a virus explodes
36:35Young people will soon get COVID-19 because of higher likelihood of encounter combined with suppressed innate immunity
37:05In a normal pandemic, viruses feel no mutation pressures (the story of herd immunity)
39:22We are creating asymptomatic carriers and achieving the opposite of herd immunity
41:57The Spanish Flu – over in 2 years. Naturally.
44:10A summary of how we are pressuring Sars-Cov-2 to escape immunity and target young people
46:43We have already created mutated strains so ‘letting the pandemic run’ may have been an option at the beginning but not now
49:00Properly assessing the impact of human intervention
50:15The binary of pro-vaccination vs anti-vaccination is not nuanced enough
51:08Geert’s dire warning – ‘we are at the eve of a huge disaster’
54:12Testing Geert’s hypothesis – watch the countries who have large vaccination coverage
58:40This is the first time in the history of humanity that we have intervened in a pandemic in such an aggressive way
59:41How long until this hypothesis is proven?
1:01:05What would prove Geert’s hypothesis incorrect? Spoiler: endemic and benign outcomes.
1:02:22Where is the scientific evidence that we are heading toward herd immunity?
1:03:52Sterilising immunity would change the game by closing sources of immune escape.
1:04:42NK cell based vaccines (innate immunity) and introducing memory to NK cells.
1:05:58The only scientifically reasonable approach is to completely eradicate the mutated strains through bolstering innate immune systems
1:07:55How NK cell vaccine technology would work
1:10:57The lack of interest in NK cell immunity
1:13:24Mass global vaccination can only cause 2 outcomes: massive success or massive failure - anything in between is temporary and illusory
1:14:55Innate cellular immunity will allow the destruction of infected cells and thus successful intervention in ongoing disease processes like cancer
1:21:46There is no one currently funding innate immunity technologies such as NK cell memory
1:23:40Natural approaches to strengthen innate immunity: good general health
1:27:39The most important defence during the pandemic: our innate immune system
1:28:01Do NOT vaccinate young people against COVID-19 (because of innate immune suppression, and specific antibodies do not explain viral recovery)
1:30:31Distinguishing between immunological populations, not just simple demographic populations
1:33:02Are there any immunological populations that we should still vaccinate with current vaccines that don’t confer sterilising immunity?
1:33:50Sterilising immunity vaccines will not be possible because they are based on adaptive immunity (T cells and B cells)
1:37:32Strong innate immunity at any age is not appealing to big pharma because you can’t sell it but it’s a powerful protective measure
1:40:20What would be the best response humanity could mount to destroy Sars-Cov-2/COVID-19?
1:42:05We cannot determine the level of natural antibodies, but we can determine the level of specific antibodies
1:44:15If positive for specific antibodies your innate immunity is suppressed, so stay isolated until the titers disappear
1:45:55Geert has worked inside the major vaccination companies and their work is exceptional, but it misses the point
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