Outraged. Wendy Bell is outraged, my friends.
An astute reader sent a link with a brief message:
I found Wendy’s source for her outrage today.
The link is to this article at the right-wing "news" source The Blaze. The lede:
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention does not have any records of an unvaccinated person with a COVID-19 reinfection transmitting the virus to another person and admitted that it does not collect such information.
Keep that in mind as you read through how Wendy outrages on it.
At about 9:52 in to her Facebook rant, Wendy outrages:
Because I told you, when you fight with adults, that's one thing. But when you go after our kids the gloves are off and it's war. And the war I'm waging today is against any person, any governor, any president, any doctor, any teacher, any school administrator, any lackey county executive who tells you your kid should be vaccinated.
And I'm going to tell you why.
Ah. A golden-oldie. And anti-vaxx rant!
She continues the outrage:
And the war I'm waging today is against any person, any governor, any president, any doctor, any teacher, any school administrator, any lackey county executive who tells you your kid should be vaccinated.
And I'm going to tell you why.
I have a seething bitterness in my mouth.
We have been lied to. We have been manipulated. We have been threatened. The bribes of yesterday are now the tracking of you and your decision making of today. With the ultimate goal being getting a syringe that your does not need in their body now.
Any my friends, we have the proof that it's not necessary.
The jig was up long ago but I think the nail in the coffin of Covid and the fear and the hysteria and the manipulation and the endless lies on TV -
[She makes some sort of Doo-doo-doo sounds here] - Breaking news ticker.
And the sheep being led, believing that they could actually have faith not only in their government but in the science and the data.
And this is what she looks like when she says "science and the data":
Oh, look! Another golden-oldie! The Wendy Finger quotes!
On to what Wendy's thinks is proof of the guv'ment's Covid lies:
It's all garbage.
And the one person who's peeled back the nasty scab of this giant farce is a young lady by the name of Elizabeth Brehm – she happens to be an attorney in New York.
Siri & Glimstadt is her lawfirm. And this one individual in September, because she couldn't get the answers that she needed, had to file a request, had to go to the court system and file a Freedom of Information Act request – a FOIA asking for something that we should all have easily accessible at our fingertips.
She requested from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention something very specific:Documents reflecting any documented case of an individual who never received a Covid-19 vaccine, was infected with Covid-19 once, recovered, then later became infected again and spread Covid to another person.Somebody who didn't get the jab but who had Covid, who recovered. Then somehow got Covid again and spread that virus to someone else during that reinfected status.
The CDC responded to this young woman just a few days ago admitting they have no evidence of someone - whose natural immunity pumps beautifully through their ever perfect body - no evidence of someone who's been infected and recovered spreading the virus to another human being.
Why is that significant?
Because there's no reason for people who've had this virus - and we can safely estimate that 150 million Americans have – there is no reason to force vaccination on anyone who has natural immunity.None.
And they know it.
Wendy seems to be making the point that a vaccine mandate is unnecessary for someone who's already had Covid because having Covid gives someone something called "natural immunity" (something that "pumps beautifully through their ever perfect body") and therefore no vaccine is ever needed after. Ever.
She also draws the wrong conclusion about what the CDC actually said in their FOIA response. Which was:
A search of our records failed to reveal any documents pertaining to your request. The CDC Emergency Operations Center (EOC) conveyed that this information is not collected.But go back and look at what Wendy said and what she's hoping her adorings infer from what she said.
No evidence.But the CDC said they don't collect such evidence - not that there's no evidence to collect.
There's a difference.
So is there actual science regarding what Wendy's outraging on?
Yes. For example there's this:
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been much uncertainty about how long immunity lasts after an unvaccinated person is infected with SARS-CoV-2.
Now a team of scientists led by faculty at Yale School of Public Health and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte have an answer: Strong protection following natural infection is short-lived.
“Reinfection can reasonably happen in three months or less,” said Jeffrey Townsend, the Elihu Professor of Biostatistics at the Yale School of Public Health and the study’s lead author. “Therefore, those who have been naturally infected should get vaccinated. Previous infection alone can offer very little long-term protection against subsequent infections.”
Wendy, have a nearby medical professional explain this to you. It's the study mentioned above. It shouldn't be that difficult to find an MD close by, right?
"Natural immunity" wanes. That's the point here. So does immunity gained from the vaccines - hence the need for the booster.
Then there's this: A comparison between the chances of being reinfected and the chances of a post-vaccination "breakthrough" infection are also the subject of, uh, science.
Like here:
Among Kentucky residents infected with SARS-CoV-2 in 2020, vaccination status of those reinfected during May–June 2021 was compared with that of residents who were not reinfected. In this case-control study, being unvaccinated was associated with 2.34 times the odds of reinfection compared with being fully vaccinated.
Or here:
Among COVID-19–like illness hospitalizations among adults aged ≥18 years whose previous infection or vaccination occurred 90–179 days earlier, the adjusted odds of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 among unvaccinated adults with previous SARS-CoV-2 infection were 5.49-fold higher than the odds among fully vaccinated recipients of an mRNA COVID-19 vaccine who had no previous documented infection (95% confidence interval = 2.75–10.99).
But don't mistake me, reinfection is rare according to this academic medical center in Houston:
While rare, reinfection with COVID-19 is possibleImmunity isn't universal, and it's certainly not simple. Case reports and studies also show that reinfection with COVID-19 is possible — albeit rare.
"Another recent study found that not only can a person get COVID-19 a second time, reinfected individuals can carry significant amounts of the virus without showing any symptoms — raising concern about inadvertent transmission of the virus during reinfection," warns Dr. Martinez.
Wait. Stop. Look at all that again. Doesn't all that medical science more or less completely contradict Wendy Bell's non-medical assertions about how vaccines for the already infected are unnecessary because of all that natural immunity beautifully pumping through all those ever perfect bodies?
I am sorry, Wendy, that the science doesn't agree with your feelings on this matter. But let's be clear: Facts don't care about your feelings.
The more you steer members of your audience away from the vaccines the more you're putting their health and well being at risk.
That's also a fact that doesn't give a damn about your feelings.
