Australia, like many other countries, is aiming for a 70% vaccination rate to stop Covid in its tracks. Great idea. The science sort of agrees that once a population has 70% immunity, herd immunity kicks in.
The only small problem here is that the vaccine doesn’t offer immunity. It never did. Covid vaccines have been proven to reduce the severity of a few selected symptoms by 90-95% with alpha and around 70% with delta.
That’s it.
For herd immunity, even 100% vaccination isn’t enough. Take Gibraltar.
This British possession at the south of Spain didn’t have Covid until they started vaccinating. Then it arrived a killed a bunch of residents. So they doubled down and vaccinated nearly everyone.
Gibraltar is now the most vaccinated place in the world with over 99% of the population fully vaccinated. So could Covid ever come back?
Oops. Gibraltar, with a population of 39,100, has 327 active cases, giving a positive rate of 0.8%. This includes 14 new cases yesterday amongst vaccinated residents.
To translate that into the Australian context, it would mean around 209,000 positive cases AFTER vaccination (i.e. “breakthrough cases”) and 9,000 new cases a day.
Yeah, just imagine the panic. We’re at 200 a day now it’s a national emergency. How do you scale up a national emergency 40-fold?
Keep in mind, this is after around 10% of Gibraltar’s population contracted Covid, so many of them have natural immunity in addition to the vaccine.
So what can politicians do to fight the virus?
Maybe the only thing that’s ever worked: nothing. And stop fear mongering.
The real killer of our time is stress. We know this because Fauci’s own NIH researched this in detail and found that emotional stress is a major contributing factor to the six leading causes of death in the United States: cancer, coronary heart disease, accidental injuries, respiratory disorders, cirrhosis of the liver and suicide.
And the leading causes of stress to Australians? Politicians, bureaucrats, pseudo science, and lockdowns.
It’s common knowledge that vaccines won’t provide herd immunity, and Gibraltar is one more bit of confirmation (along with Israel). And yet Australia’s politicians continue to stick their collective heads in the sand while fervently holding their trousers to cover their asses, hoping that someone else screws up and accidentally does the right thing.
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