Remember those days? It was only four months ago your Marxist employer was fully ready to fire you in the name of sCiEnCe and for the greater good. What about all those pilots and nurses who can’t get their jobs back because of Fauci?
Now, we are entering a period where parents are going to inject their infants with a substance that has been banned in a dozen countries. This isn’t anywhere near over. But the video is excellent.
mRNA Covid vaccines offer essentially no defense against Omicron only months after a booster shot, according to a major new study from British researchers.
Both antibody and T-cell protection are nearly non-existent, the scientists found.
In an even more worrisome development, when vaccinated but previously uninfected people suffer breakthrough Omicron infections, their T-cell response is biased toward earlier versions of Sars-Cov-2 – not to the Omicron variant that has actually infected them.
In other words, the mRNA shots appear to permanently wrongfoot the immune systems of people who receive and bias them toward producing T-cells to attack variants that no longer exist – even though they never were infected with those variants at all.
The T-cell problems are particularly surprising and worrisome.
While antibodies are the first line of defense against infection and try to clear the virus from the bloodstream, T-cells are the crucial second line. They attack and destroy infected cells and also work with other parts of the immune system to produce more and better targeted antibodies later.
Vaccine advocates have claimed endlessly that mRNA-generated T-cells help keep people from becoming severely ill with Covid even after frontline antibody protection against infection disappears.
This study suggests that supposed protection may be a myth, and the low death rates from Omicron are simply a result of Omicron’s general lack of virulence in vaccinated and unvaccinated people alike.
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The study also provides additional evidence that the way the mRNA shots work may leave vaccinated people even more vulnerable to infection and reinfection over time.
The jabs cause people to make one type of coronavirus antibodies. But the study suggested the immune system’s ability to beat the virus also depends on other antibodies – and the shots hamper the production of those.
Scientists have been loathe to admit, much less discuss, the potential long-term problems that mRNA vaccine suppression of broad antibody production may cause.
In this case, though, the authors were concerned enough to acknowledge the issue. They wrote that overall immunity may benefit from parts of the coronavirus that are “exposed only during infection.” Even so, they buried that warning in highly technical language deep in the paper, a sign of the political sensitivities that surround any criticism of the vaccines.
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The prestigious journal Science published the paper, which is based on analysis of antibodies and B- and T-cells in a group of British healthcare workers whom the researchers have followed since March 2020.
The researchers were focused primarily on Omicron’s potential to cause reinfections in vaccinated people who had already been infected with earlier variants of Covid. But they also examined its potential to cause first-time infections in previously uninfected but vaccinated people. Those are the findings that are most interesting for anyone interested in vaccine failure.
Unfortunately but unsurprisingly, the scientists did not look at the immune responses of anyone who was not vaccinated – with or without previous infection. Thus the paper offers no direct comparison of the way Omicron may affect antibody and B- and T-cell responses in vaccinated and unvaccinated people.
Why didn’t the researchers include unvaccinated people? Maybe because nearly all British adults are vaccinated and most boosted, so the authors wanted to concentrate on the risks Omicron poses to vaccinated people.
Or maybe because they worried about what they’d find if they directly compared the two groups.
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Nonetheless, the paper shows clearly that vaccinations and booster doses offer at most a few weeks of protection against Omicron.
None of the “triple-vaccinated, infection naive” people the researchers studied had antibodies able to neutralize Omicron within 14 weeks after the third dose. And the researchers found a T-cell response to Omicron in only 1 of 10 people who had been triply vaccinated but not previously infected.
In addition, the researchers found that a group of previously uninfected but vaccinated people who then became infected with Omicron had a much stronger T-cell response to earlier variants.
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As is typical with papers that present findings this damning, the researchers did not explicitly draw the most worrisome conclusions their data suggests.
But they did openly suggest the fact that the immune response in vaccinated people is biased toward earlier coronavirus variants rather than Omicron even in people who weren’t infected with those earlier variants could help explain “frequent B.1.1.529 (Omicron) reinfections with short time intervals between infections are proving a novel feature in this wave.”
Less clear is what, if anything, anyone can do about this imprinting. The authors noted that efforts by vaccine makers to produce newer mRNA shots that cause the body to produce the Omicron spike have largely failed to overcome the problem, probably for the same reason – the initial imprinting is too strong.
In the meantime, though, Omicron remains relatively mild. As long as it does not mutate to become more dangerous, vaccine advocates can continue to pretend that the billion-person clinical trial of 2021 is not ending catastrophically.
Was corona just the warm up?
This is not a drill.
UPDATE 0936 MST: Today being Tuesday, we pray the Sorrowful Mysteries, the third of which is the Crowning with Thorns. Fruit of the mystery: Moral Courage. It literally takes 0.0000001% moral courage to recognize and determine with moral certainty that Bergoglio is not pope. Popular opinion is not the arbiter of truth, Bishop Schneider. Also, saying that Benedict can’t be pope because Bergoglio is pope is not an argument; it’s Begging the Question. You should know better.
If you have any public role in the Church at all, even if a blog or podcast, please keep Luke 14:26-27 in front of you as you read what follows. Wolves are endangering souls. -NVP
Today is the Feast of Saint Basil the Great, Bishop, Confessor, and Doctor of the Church. As a Doctor, his teachings are part of the Magisterium. Isn’t that cool? We should take notice.
BTW, I highly recommend the new Benedictus monthly missal. It’s a great companion to your 1962 missal, with daily meditations which are excellent. Its $5 per month. https://praybenedictus.com/
Epic rant from Dr. Briggs. J6, Ray Epps, Putin, Ukraine, elections, Michigan Gretchen Witch, SCOTUS assassins, Show Trial… and how it all ties together with The Science.
BY BRIGGS ON JUNE 13, 2022
Well, let’s see how “our” democracy is doing.
Ray Epps is an agent provocateur working, not for the government, but on the government’s behalf. We know he doesn’t work for, not directly for, the government, because they, the government, say Epps was questioned about Jan 6 and that he didn’t work for the government. Which if he did work for the government they would have lied and said, “Ray who?”
Epps was hilariously filmed many times (clips here) during the events of Jan 6 and the night before. My favorite is where he, a large man, was shouting to the crowd, “Tomorrow we go in the Capitol!” and other similar inciting words. He was immediately booed by the crowd who began chanting “Fed! Fed! Fed!”
The crowd knew. And here is how we can know. Epps did not attempt to quiet the “Fed!” shouts, nor engage with anybody who was calling him out. Not that night, nor the next day. An honest man would have said something.
After the 6th, many people were arrested and tossed incommunicado into the dungeon for the crime of trespassing. Some linger in jail still. Nobody important, mind. Just regular people who grew too enthusiastic over what happened in the “election.”
But Ray Epps walked. The one man they had the most evidence on. Evidence which you can see for yourself, not having to rely on American’s federalized police force (FBI).
Now those of us on Team Reality know about Epps, and know that he was working, indirectly, to incite an incident, an incident which could then be used as it is now being used, as a tool for the left to crush its enemies. That they didn’t arrest Epps, and did arrest nobodies, is proof positive that much of what happened was an inside job. Which, as I say, all of us know.
Point is: the regime knows we know. And yet they are so inept, or so confident, that they didn’t even make a show of arresting Epps. Corrupt, but competently corrupt, regimes in the past would have done to at least give a better show to the farce.
I’m fifty-fifty on whether they are just that rock stupid or they are stuffed to the gullets with hubris. Maybe thirty-seventy, because how many of your normie friends have even heard of Epps?
What else? Here’s a small sampling. You will have your own favorites, which you can put into the comments…
Read the rest and leave a comment: https://www.wmbriggs.com/post/40204/
Last night was the eighth anniversary of the murder of Fr. Kenneth Walker, FSSP, inside the Mater Misericordiae rectory in Phoenix. We know for a fact that Fr. Walker was able to receive the sacraments before he died, thanks be to God. We also know that Fr. Walker had a great devotion to our Blessed Mother, and the Rosary. So he would have prayed the fourth glorious mystery three days a week, at minimum. The fruit of the mystery is a well provided death. I pray for him, but I also pray to him, though not nearly enough. I’ve reprinted the following a few times on this somber day:
Folks, keep your head on a swivel, and stay confessed. In this world of chaos, you really don’t know what is coming next. This goes for everyone, of course, but especially priests.
Fr. Z. wrote a piece related to this a few years ago, on the third anniversary of Father’s murder. Fr. Z repeats words of advice he gave at the time HERE.
“Fr. Kenneth Walker, FSSP, was murdered in Phoenix and another priest (Fr. Joseph Terra, the pastor) badly injured by assault. Pray for Fr. Walker. RIP. At that time I posted the following, which seems no less urgent today than it did then. Indeed, it could be more urgent still, given the trajectory of current events.
“Reverend gentlemen, the murder of one priest and the assault on another in Phoenix compels me to remind you to…GO TO CONFESSION. Our schedules are busy. Sometimes we have to drive even farther than lay people. But go to confession. Take the time to do this for yourself. Much has been given to us. Our accounting before God will be more severe than that of lay people…Moreover, consider well your living conditions and security. If you haven’t done so yet, begin to develop a situational awareness. Seek advice from professionals. This is not just a matter of personal concern. It is also a concern for those who depend on you for the sacraments. A priest in the ground or in the hospital is one priest fewer to see to the spiritual needs of people in these darkening times. You, Fathers, are a precious resource, only slowly “renewable”. If you are not concerned for the sake of your own person, be concerned for the sake of those who need you…I might now add to seek, along with advice, perhaps also training.”
Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord,
and let perpetual light shine upon them.
May the souls of the faithful departed,
through the mercy of God, rest in peace.
Amen.
Breaking news from the site of Miss B…
Dear Ann,
The lawyer Chris Ferrara was on YouTube Friday in a discussion during which he said, “He partially resigned, whatever that means.” This from a seasoned attorney.
I am a housewife and I know exactly what it means, an impossibility. You are so correct about these people twisting themselves into pretzels. The host did not follow up that stupidity with a question to find out what ‘whatever that means,’ means.
I refrained from commenting as I was so exasperated I feared using intemperate language. It took me hours to calm down.
Thank you for all you do.
P
Here’s the video. Your timestamp is 11:56. In an effort to be helpful, I have transcribed, word-for-word, the exchange. Someone REALLY ought to ask Counselor Ferrara why EXACTLY his steel trap of a legal mind has zero interest or intellectual curiosity about the JURIDICAL TRUTH of the validity of Pope Benedict’s attempted partial resignation, and thus the true identity of the Vicar of Jesus Christ on Earth. If this isn’t squarely in Counselor Ferrara’s wheelhouse, what in the world is?
Remember well, in June of ARSH 2016, the last time I saw Ferrara in person, he stormed up to me while I was chatting with Mike Matt and said:
My answer is simple: WHO DO I HAVE TO BE?
Here’s the video, just made, with transcript. 11:56 is your timestamp.
ZERO intellectual curiosity about the juridical, canonical validity of what Counselor Ferrara explicitly acknowledges as a dubious act.
ZERO.
Even though Fr. Nicholas Gruner, founder of The Fatima Center and Counselor Ferrara’s spiritual father, openly, publicly declared in ARSH 2014 that Pope Benedict’s attempted resignation was canonically invalid per Canon 332.2. Fr. Nicholas Gruner commemorated Pope Benedict at the Te Igitur until Fr. Gruner’s sudden death in ARSH 2015. This video at the 5:25 mark proves this beyond any shadow of a doubt.
God forgive me, but lawyers, as a race, make my skin crawl.
Our Lady of Fatima, pray for us.
St. Raymond of Penafort, pray for us.
Holy Trinity, One God, have mercy on us.
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By Kennedy Hall
(LifeSiteNews) – Daily Wire‘s Matt Walsh has excoriated Fox News for their support of transgender ideology.
Yesterday the well-known conservative pundit took aim at a special report by Fox News which celebrates the decision of a 14-year-old girl named Ryland to live as a boy and her parents for having supported her in this imposture since she was 5.
“The reporter says that the child announced a new gender as a toddler,” Walsh wrote on Twitter. “Does Fox want us to believe that BABIES can choose their gender? This is the most extreme, radical, dangerous form of gender ideology. And it’s being promoted on Fox News.”
He continued: “The poor kid is 14 now with a permanently altered body, condemned to live forever with an identity imposed as a small child. It is horrifying, evil, and sick. And it is what Fox chose to promote.”
“I know for a fact that many people at Fox do not approve of this and never would have agreed to air radical far left trans propaganda. But Fox reporter Bryan Lenas chose to do this story and someone at Fox chose to put it on the air. Everyone involved should be fired immediately.”
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