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Dr Mercola points out that "People who are vaccinated still get infected, it only seems particularly good at blunting the disease, and what that tells you therefore is that these vaccines in the vast majority of people are applying a nonlethal pressure, narrowly focused on one protein, and the vaccine rollout is occurring over a long period of time. That’s the recipe for driving variants.” That would appear to be the case, if we do not reach herd immunity. Thus the vaccines will need to be enhanced to compete with the new variants. However, rather than pushing for increasing vaccination, Health experts urge that if people want to get back to normal, a significant portion of the population needs to be vaccinated. As long as a chunk of people across the world are unvaccinated, new strains of the virus will continue to develop and cause problems.
Dr. Mercola's guidance rather than vaccination is "Don’t Fear It, Just Treat It remember there are several different treatment protocols for COVID-19 that appear just as effective for variants as for the original virus, including the following:
· Front Line COVID-19 Critical Care Alliance’s I-MASS Prevention and At-Home Treatment protocol.
· The FLCCC’s I-MASK+ Prevention and Early Outpatient Treatment protocol
· The FLCCC’s I-RECOVER management protocol for long-haul COVID-19 syndrome
These recommend a treatment based on Ivermectin, however, the FDA (see https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/product-safety-information/faq-covid-19-and-ivermectin-intended-animals) states "While there are approved uses for ivermectin in people and animals, it is not approved for the prevention or treatment of COVID-19. You should not take any medicine to treat or prevent COVID-19 unless it has been prescribed to you by your health care provider and acquired from a legitimate source."
Dr Mercola also recommends Nebulized hydrogen peroxide for the treatment of COVID-19. One study reported July of 23 COVID-19 patients (see https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/2021/5592042/, also see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7262503/) recommends "given its low cost and relative safety if used properly randomized trials". Thus Dr Mercola's recommendation still needs to be fully tested. Failing this the only remedy Dr. Mercola appears to encourage is the natural infection which as mentioned above can lead to hospitalization, death or long-term disability. In addition. as has been pointed out both polio and smallpox were overcome by vaccines and not by natural immunity.
Dr Mercola also says: "If we are to depend on vaccine-induced immunity, as public health officials are urging us to do, we’ll end up on a never-ending booster treadmill. Boosters will absolutely be necessary, as the shot offers such narrow protection against a single protein of the virus. Already, data around the world show vaccine-induced protection is waning rapidly in the face of new variants, and Moderna has publicly stated that the need for additional boosters is expected." Again his alternative of natural immunity would appear to say we need to not vaccinate but let nature take its toll. In fact, the Spanish Flu of 1918-1919 did not have a vaccine and thus 'The Spanish flu pandemic of 1918, the deadliest in history, infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide—about one-third of the planet’s population—and killed an estimated 20 million to 50 million victims, including some 675,000 Americans'" see https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-i/1918-flu-pandemic. Also bear in mind in 2018 the US population was 103 million, whereas in 2018 the US population was 328 million and so far there have been 624,000 deaths. The world's population today is about 7.9 billion, and so far there have been 209 million cases and 4.3 million deaths.
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