Harvard Epidemiologist Says the Case for COVID Vaccine
Passports Was Just Demolished
by Jon Miltimore, Aug. 30, 2021, Fee dot org

A newly published medical study found that infection from
COVID-19 confers considerably longer-lasting & stronger
protection against the Delta variant than vaccines.

“The natural immune protection that develops after a
SARS-CoV-2 infection offers considerably more of a shield
against the Delta variant than two doses of the Pfizer-
BioNTech vaccine, acc. to a large Israeli study that some
scientists wish came with a ‘Don’t try this at home’ label,”
the Scientific American reported Thursday. “The newly
released data show people who once had a SARS-CoV-2
infection were much less likely than vaccinated people
to get Delta, develop symptoms from it, or become
hospitalized with serious COVID-19.”

Put another way, vaccinated individuals were 27 times
more likely to get a symptomatic COVID infection than
those with natural immunity from COVID.

A Death Blow to Vaccine Passports?
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The findings come as many govts around the world are
demanding citizens acquire “vaccine passports” to travel.
New York City, France, & Quebec & British Columbia are
among those who have recently embraced vaccine passports.

Meanwhile, Australia has floated the idea of making
higher vaccination rates a condition of lifting its
lockdown in jurisdictions, while President Joe Biden is
considering making interstate travel unlawful for people
who have not been vaccinated for COVID-19.

Vaccine passports are morally dubious for many reasons,
not the least of which is that freedom of movement is a
basic human right. However, vaccine passports become
even more senseless in light of the new findings out of
Israel and revelations from the CDC, some say.

Harvard Med School prof Martin Kulldorff said research
showing that natural immunity offers exponentially more
protection than vaccines means vaccine passports are both
unscientific & discriminatory, since they disproportion-
ately affect working class individuals.

Nor is the study out of Israel a one-off. Media reports
show that no fewer than 15 academic studies have found
that natural immunity offers immense protection from
COVID-19.

Moreover, CDC research shows that vaccinated individuals
still get infected with COVID-19 & carry just as much of
the virus in their throat & nasal passage as unvaccinated
individuals.

These data suggest that vaccinated individuals are still
spreading the virus much like unvaccinated individuals.

The Bottom Line
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Vaccine passports would be immoral & a massive govt
overreach even in the absence of these findings. There
is simply no historical parallel for govts attempting to
restrict the movements of healthy people over a
respiratory virus in this manner.

Yet the justification for vaccine passports becomes not
just wrong but absurd in light of these new revelations.

People who have had COVID already have significantly more
protection from the virus than people who’ve been vaccinated. Meanwhile, people who’ve not had COVID and choose to not
get vaccinated may or may not be making an unwise decision.
But if they are, they are principally putting only
themselves at risk.

https://fee.org/articles/harvard-epidemiologist-says-the-case-for-covid-vaccine-passports-was-just-demolished

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