Aegrescit Medendo

There is a covid wave coming in the fall to the Northern Hemisphere. The wave will be much worse in highly vaccinated regions, because it will be a pandemic of the vaccinated.

The well-known Latin phrase aegrescit medendo is often translated as “the remedy is worse than the disease.” But it also means “the disease worsens with the treatment.”

The covid vaccines meet both meanings of the phrase, but here I will focus on the second one.

Before we go any further, let us be clear, whether it is “delta” or “omicron” or “centaurus” or whatever other pseudo-scientific names they give to “variants” or “subvariants,” they are all SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes covid.

A pharmaceutical product that “protects” against early iterations of covid but makes one more susceptible to sickness when exposed to later iterations clearly does more harm than good, both on a personal level and on a population level.

On a population level, one does not have to be an expert in evolutionary theory to see that the almost inevitable result of such a scenario would be the emergence of versions of covid that are impervious to the pharmaceutical product, because the versions of the virus that are susceptible will cease to exist.

On a personal level, it means that the pharmaceutical product can best be described as poison, as it has not bolstered the ability of an individual’s immune system to respond to covid, but rather damaged the individual’s ability to respond.

Unfortunately but predictably, this is the scenario that we are now facing.

There is a covid wave coming in the fall to the northern hemisphere. The wave will be much worse in highly vaccinated regions, because it will be a pandemic of the vaccinated.

Why do I say that?

At this point, virtually everyone on the planet has been exposed to covid. Some people were first exposed before they were vaccinated, and some were first exposed after they were vaccinated.

Those who were vaccinated before first exposure have harmed themselves. Many of them will continue to become infected with covid over and over again. And when they become infected, the vaccines will interfere with their ability to clear the infection.

There are cities (San Francisco) and whole countries (New Zealand) in which almost everyone was vaccinated before first exposure. These places closed their borders, terrorized their people, shut schools, churches, and businesses, and forced nearly their entire populations to submit to multiple vaccine injections.

But instead of “ending the pandemic” the mass vaccination campaigns have had the opposite effect — the pandemic is never-ending.

Take a look at San Francisco, where there are currently more people hospitalized with covid than at any time other than the two winter surges:

When covid spreads in populations that have not poisoned themselves, the trajectory is a bell-shaped curve. The number of “cases” goes up, followed by hospitalizations and then deaths, and then all of these numbers go down in a fairly symmetrical fashion. That’s why we call them “waves.”

But the current covid “wave” in San Francisco does not appear to be receding. Just as vaccinated individuals have difficulty clearing covid, so do vaccinated populations.

Take New Zealand, one of the most heavily vaccinated countries in the world. New Zealand is in the Southern Hemisphere. So it is winter for them and a covid wave is to be expected.

What is unexpected to some is the fact that covid in New Zealand is not coming and going like a wave, but engulfing the country like a flood:

Let’s contrast New Zealand with South Africa, a country in the Southern Hemisphere in which few peoples have been vaccinated:

Where would you rather be right now, South Africa or New Zealand? Which country appears to have achieved herd immunity to covid?

Where is the pandemic over, in the country that is unvaccinated or in the one that is vaxxed and boosted?