The unvaccinated with natural immunity are not dying at the rates that vaccinated people are.

I came across this article: https://hatchardreport.com/is-the-small-kingdom-of-qatar-about-to-change-global-pandemic-policy/

They discussed the study being done on the UNVACCINATED people and incidence of re-infection.  The study was not linked to the article, so I went digging and found it.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.07.06.22277306v1

What is discussed here is the immune protection from reinfection of covid in people who were NOT vaccinated, but had covid in the past, and built up purely natural antibodies to the virus, not vaccine s-antibodies from the vaccine.  Remember in previous posts, it has been studied that 92% of unvaccinated people with covid will form the n-antibodies, but only approximately 46% of people vaccinated will form the n-antibodies, which they hypothesized is why vaccinated people get repeated covid illnesses.

Anywho.  Back to the ranch.

In the article above, they studied individuals from February, 2020 through June 5th, 2022.  These were the findings:

Effectiveness of pre-Omicron primary infection producing n-antibodies to protect against a repeated pre-Omicron virus infection was 85.5%.  Effectiveness peaked at 90.5% in the 7th month after the primary infection, but waned to ∼70% by the 16th month post infection.  Protection dropped to 50% in the 22nd month and <10% by the 32nd month. Effectiveness of pre-Omicron primary infection against Omicron reinfection was 38.1%.  and declined with time since primary infection.  So lets break this down first.  Those who had alpha and delta, the protective qualities against re-infection to alpha or delta were strong and robust up through the 16 month post infection mark, and still stayed at a 50/50 protection against getting alpha or delta again at the 22nd month mark.  Well THAT blows the narrative that people needed a covid vaccine after having delta or alpha to prevent re-infection!   It notes that Omicron was not as well defended with previous alpha/delta infection.  People were only 38% protected (well, that is better than the flu vaccine efficacy in any given year but I digress), but protection against omicron was not as strong as it was at giving protection to re-infection by a previous variant.

Then the article goes on to say THIS!

Effectiveness of primary infection against severe, critical, or fatal COVID-19 reinfection was 97.3% irrespective of the variant of primary infection or reinfection, and with no evidence for waning. Similar results were found in sub-group analysis of people over age 50.  HOLD THE TRAIN HERE.  FULL STOP.  So, among those unvaccinated, who had a previous infection WITH covid, any variant, delta or alpha or omicron, have a 97% protection against catching severe or deadly covid by ANY variant reinfection, and NO evidence that protection goes away.  Read that again.  And read that again.  If you are unvaccinated, but caught covid in the past, you MAY catch covid again as the variants they release are inherently different, but your body remembers the construct of the previous infection and while you may have mild symptoms, achy, stuffy nose or cold like symptoms, you are NOT going to develop a severe illness or a fatal case of covid.

CONCLUSIONS Protection of natural infection against reinfection wanes and may diminish within a few years. Viral immune evasion accelerates this waning. Protection against severe reinfection remains very strong, with no evidence for waning, irrespective of variant, for over 14 months after primary infection.  (They only know 14months so far because that is the length of time they had to study the robust 97% protection…..updates to this article will report future lengths of time that it still shows that protection level).

Well I’ll be gosh darned.  HOW many times did I say “if you had covid, you do not need a vaccine”.  I can count numerous times that I had my ass handed to me by someone on facebook for saying “hey, didn’t you just have covid like 2 weeks ago?  Why did you get a vaccine today?”.  Non-medical people told me I was crazy and that data said the vaccine plus antibodies were “better”.  I asked them for the data to support that and never got it.  Because CBS and MSNBC telling you that story is not clinical data to support it.  If you had covid, YOU NEVER NEEDED A VACCINE.  Why did the talking heads say you needed a vaccine post covid infection?  They had no data to support that!  Trust me, I looked hard for ANYTHING clinical study related that said you needed a vaccine if you already had covid.  There was nothing but Fauci articles saying to get the poke poke.  Nothing clinical trial data indicated.  What a sham they sold.  My hypothesis here?  They had no grounds to state that a vaccine post covid infection would offer anything positive for covid, but they darn well know what is in that covid vaccine so they made sure to scare people about “waning immunity” to get the poke poke into your arm.  Because getting that poke poke into humans was the end goal of all of this anyways.  The virus and variants themselves are just the poster child to sell the fear, while the real danger to the people is the vaccine they promote.   I sit here and think of all the nurses and physicians and healthcare employees I know that just willingly fell for the “get the poke after you had  the virus” sham.  There are a lot of them.  God bless them.

The reduced severity of illness does match up to the personal experience we had in my household.  My husband and I both got alpha variant in March 2020.  It was a very different beast than omicron.  Alpha hit both of us respiratory wise.  My husband was short of breath going down our stairs at home.  The head pressure and amount of sinus congestion I had was PROFOUND.  We both felt pretty rotten.  We slept with a Kleenex box between our pillows because one of us was blowing our nose at any given minute.  Omicron, however, was not as bad.  My husband had 3 days of fever, achy, and snotty nose.  I had 5 days of achy legs, weird smell/taste, and no appetite.  Nothing as severe as round 1 was.  So our infection with alpha did offer us the benefit of round 2 with omicron being annoying but less severe.  We also both caught omicron late in the cycle, not when it first hit, so I am guessing our antibodies protected us for a bit from it.  It was late January before I got omicron.  The hubs had it over Christmas.