COVID DENIALISM AND THE REVISIONIST HISTORY OF THE PANDEMIC
BY PAUL CAMPOS / ON FEBRUARY 28, 2023 / AT 9:20 AM / IN GENERAL
Here’s a stirring apologia bouncing around social media right now:
The GOP has a lot Going for Them !!!
We were right about the lab leak.
We were right about natural immunity.
We were right about masks.
We were right about lockdowns.
We were right about the vaccines.
We were right about boosters.
We were right about them faking COVID numbers.
We were right about the deadly hospital protocol.
We were right about ivermectin.
We were right about evil Dr. Fauci.
We were right about the WHO.
Guess who was wrong about everything?
It’s important to recognize how this kind of lunacy gets intellectually laundered, as it were, by putatively respectable right wing propaganda outfits like National Review. Here’s NR’s editors more or less arguing that the anti-vaxxers were right.
Go figure, it turns out that natural immunity from a Covid infection is at least as effective at protecting you from reinfection with the virus as two doses of the vaccine.
That’s the conclusion of a meta-study that reviewed a total of 65 studies from 19 different countries, comparing how much a Covid-19 infection protected a person from subsequent reinfection and illness, and how that protection compared to getting vaccinated. The study was published in the Lancet and financed by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, among others. . . .
Since early 2021, as the country argued about Covid vaccines, the concept of previous infection was largely ignored, dismissed, or hand-waved away. Those who preferred not to get vaccinated, and who contended that they had sufficient protection because of a previous infection, were often treated as reckless cranks and lunatics. Some lost their jobs. And now, this study indicates, their instincts were right all along.
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2023/02/covid-denialism-and-the-revisionist-history-of-the-pandemic
