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Jan 3, 2022·edited Jan 3, 2022Liked by Daniel

Thank you Daniel. We took most of last week off and am greeted with 1/3 of our team out today, most with apparent Omicron, one with Covid Tequiliaron (common after new years here close to Mexico). I used this paper as I crafted my bleep to the team, which basically said, here is the info, decide for yourself what you should do to weather the storm, and if you are not feeling well... STAY HOME.... we are on the AZ, CA, Baja CA and Sonora border... harvesting lettuce short handed these days... Cheers and Happy New Year

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Unvaccinated person tested positive, after infection, why are we not testing for antibodies tiers before suggesting a vaccine?

Has there been any studies comparing the the effects of natural immunity and vaccines when giving together as to the longevity of the antibodies. Is it best at natural, vaccine, or both.

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Jan 1, 2022·edited Jan 1, 2022

I am really happy to see you willing to bring up topics like ADE, original antigenic sin, etc, without it sounding too woo-woo for those for whom it might sound suspicious if it isn't already being discussed by Fauci, etc. As always, I very very much appreciate your willingness to simply state what you don't know. In my mind, I personally cannot help but add on a sentence or two about the shocking significance of some of the issues raised of the data and research were available to evidence them. Not having a smoking gun means you can't make accusations, but it doesn't diminish the enormity of what might be occurring and, if so, what could be required of us to acknowledge, and actively respond to, particularly in ways that might not be comfortable.

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Excellent piece, Dr. Golden! I enjoyed the review of the function of the immune system, and your willingness to address aspects of this situation that others do not. Thank you.

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I've appreciated your takes on social media through much of this.

One place where I disagree though is in the case of myocarditis. The reason is we don't have a good comparison when only one side is being measured. Myocarditis is being closely monitored post vaccination, but we don't have the same reporting and monitoring mechanisms for infections. Many papers on C19 (as well as before C19) acknowledge there isn't good data on this, and that mild cases of myocarditis might be much more prevalent than realized.

There's a good basis for this being a reasonable hypothesis. Guillain-Barré syndrome, a rare side effect of some vaccines is a much more noticeable one. Infections such as food poisoning and influenza cause many more cases each year than vaccines. It is then not unreasonable to say that any vaccine side effects could be more prevalent from infections. If this is the case for C19 and myocarditis, the risk/benefit would still be for vaccination.

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