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Dear Jefferson County Board of Health,
Updating my public comment zoomed in from the ballpark yesterday, the
Mariners' early 3-2 lead fortunately persisted to the end, with their
early strong hitting petering out but replaced with strong pitching
that stifled Yankees offense!
https://media.avcaptureall.cloud/meeting/1fde854a-dfa0-4a12-b0a0-b5ff8ab392f3
I kept one ear to the Board of Health meeting during the remainder of
the game, so appreciated the heartening report about paper mill
particulate matter and the new owners' attending to neglected
maintenance of Aerated Stabilization Basin ponds. Commissioner
Brotherton asked a good question about how things may have changed
since the 2018 data on which the particulate report was based, so I
hope there will be follow-up studies.
I spoke in my public comment about two worlds, one being the
non-vaxed for whom Covid is old news, the other being the
multiply-boosted getting Covid over and over again. Health Officer
Berry responded that the lack of Covid recurrence in the unvaxxed is
because they don't undergo as much Covid testing.
A much more plausible explanation is that the unvaxxed have developed
longstanding, perhaps lifetime natural immunity after having
recovered from contracting Covid, even from extremely mild cases that
may have gone unnoticed.
By contrast, any temporary immunity from the original Covid vax is
now waning and current boosters peter out after 3 months, according
to Berry's report to the County Commisioners on September 3, 2024.
https://www.peninsuladailynews.com/news/covid-19-rates-are-high-on-peninsula/
That may also be due to the well-known "original antigenic sin"
phenomenon whereby immune systems preferentially imprint on the
variant present at the time of initially vaxing, leaving "the immune
system 'trapped' by the first response it has made to each antigen,
and unable to mount potentially more effective responses during
subsequent infections" by new variants. That's one reason why
vaccination is essentially inappropriate when it comes to respiratory
infections prone to rapidly mutating variants.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_antigenic_sin
Another reason why the vaxed have proven so susceptible
to bounceback Covid is the discovery that "IgG4 Antibodies Induced
by Repeated Vaccination May Generate Immune Tolerance to the
SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein" so that "repeated vaccination with the mRNA
vaccines may not be a protective mechanism; rather, it constitutes an
immune tolerance mechanism to the spike protein that could promote
unopposed SARS-CoV2 infection and replication by suppressing natural
antiviral responses."
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10222767/
In other words, after getting the first booster shot, the vaxxed
immune system may give up fighting Covid and switch into tolerance
mode, merely masking symptoms while potentially remaining dangerously
contagious to others.
Berry also responded about the importance of vaxxing infants and
pregnant women, which I feel is extremely ill-advised. Infants need
to develop their natural immune system, so mustn't be antigen
imprinted and immunocompromised by early Covid vaccination...
especially given that Covid risks decrease the younger the
patient. Pregnant women were never included in the "warp speed"
experimental trials so they and their unborn babies should not be
exposed to unknown risks.
Your truly,
Stephen Schumacher
Port Townsend