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Evidence that vaccinated people can and do contract and spread the virus undermines the rationale of vaccine passports
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By Gwyn Morgan
Contributor
Troy Media
The
creation of multiple COVID-19 vaccines in an astonishingly short period
was a stunning achievement by the biotech industry. The vaccines were
approved for “emergency use” in just a few months, rather than the eight
to 10 years normally required of previous vaccines.
Most Canadians were more than willing to accept that risk.
According to federal government data,
over 85 per cent of Canadians 12 and older are now “fully vaccinated,”
including yours truly. This has been hugely important in reducing the
dreadful carnage in care homes and deaths of others with weakened immune
systems.
And
yet, we’re not as far along as we had hoped to be. Just last spring,
rapidly diminishing COVID infection rates seemed to indicate the
pandemic was nearing an end. As summer turned to fall, however, the more
contagious Delta variant gained a foothold. Soon, case numbers and
hospitalizations were rising again.
That
increase was widely blamed on the unvaccinated, creating a division
that’s torn at the social fabric of our nation. These days, you’re
either a vaccinated ‘good Canadian’ or a villainous ‘anti-vaxxer,’
forbidden from working in the public service, going to restaurants, gyms
or sports events, or using public transportation.
In
a flagrant violation of the basic Canadian rights and freedoms that we
all cherish, the prime minister issued an edict forbidding air travel,
even for those with a negative COVID test.
Increasingly,
however, it’s becoming evident that the facts don’t justify a binary,
zero-one distinction between vaccinated and unvaccinated. As we
double-vaxxed are learning, to our disquiet, vaccination doesn’t provide
the protection against the virus we had counted on.
It’s
now clear that fully-vaccinated persons are getting and transmitting
the virus. A coach and 10 players of the fully-vaccinated Ottawa
Senators hockey team tested positive for the virus. These players then infected their families.
Similarly, hundreds of Canadian soldiers who participated in a training exercise at Canadian Forces Base Petawawa had to be quarantined after a COVID-19 outbreak. A spokesman for the military said “everyone participating in exercise was fully vaccinated.”
Ontario’s
Dec. 10 COVID report that the vaccinated accounted for 57 per cent of
new cases confirms the stark new reality that vaccine passports are not
only unreliable, they’re dangerous. When I began research for this
column, I was puzzled as to why those ‘protected’ by being vaccinated
would worry about catching the virus from the unvaccinated. Now it’s
those vilified unvaccinated who need to worry about the reverse.
Yet
the vaccination establishment powers on, with children as young as five
being coaxed with candy into rolling up their sleeves – despite the
fact that healthy children who contract the virus almost never get
seriously ill.
Just
17 Canadians under age 19 have died of the virus in the past 18 months,
and most had serious comorbidities. That number is roughly the same as
the pre-pandemic 12-month average for the seasonal flu. And we don’t yet
know the extent of more serious side effects, such as myocarditis. The
virus vaccines were approved for “emergency use.” Where’s the child
emergency?
Meanwhile, startling new research, financed by Pfizer and published in the Lancet Medical Journal, found
the protection level of the Pfizer vaccine administered to most
Canadians drops to less than 50 per cent after just five months. Waning
efficacy of vaccines has health officials authorizing a third and even
fourth booster shot.
No
one knows if the protection period will continue to wane, but it seems
increasingly clear that trying to hold back the virus with vaccines sets
up an endless booster-shot gerbil wheel.
If never-ending booster shots aren’t the answer, what is?
A study
published in the journal Nature found that many people who have
recovered from SARs-CoV-2 will make antibodies against the virus for
most of their lives. This ‘natural immunity’ effect is comparable to
that developed for measles and other viral diseases. That explains why
Germany treats recovered persons the same as fully vaccinated.
That
begs an important question I believe health authorities need to answer:
Since the vaccinated people who contract the virus experience only mild
symptoms, why keep giving booster shots rather than letting the much
more sustainable natural immunity effect achieve the ‘normal’ we all
long for?
Clear
evidence that vaccinated people can and do contract and spread the
virus undermines the fundamental rationale of vaccine passports.
And
yet, in never-never land, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau – fresh from
COP 26, where he pledged to lead the world off fossil fuels – has
announced he intends to also lead the world out of the COVID pandemic
with the creation of a “global vaccine passport.”
The
70 per cent of Canadians who didn’t vote for him might be hoping his
quixotic global mission takes him a long way from our shores.
Gwyn Morgan is a retired business leader who has been a director of five global corporations.
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