The arrogance of ignorance

Over on Twitter, MSNBC host Chris Hayes, who is one of the most overwrought beta males in a cable universe filled with them, writes:

So far, over 25K people have liked this Tweet, and if you make the mistake of reading through the replies, it is abundantly clear that a good 2/3 of Hayes’ followers attempting to dunk on Allen West not only don’t know that neither the vaccine nor monoclonal antibodies are actually “free” — Big Pharma is paid by US taxpayer dollars for both — but more crucially, they don’t know that the vaccinated can still acquire and pass on the virus.

I’m being quite serious. And it’s horrifying to consider.

I mean, imagine following a news personality on Twitter and watching a purported news channel like MSNBC and not knowing, at this late death, that the vaccines you’ve taken can’t prevent you from catching or transmitting COVID; or that, as these vaccines wane, you’re actually at a higher risk of both getting and transmitting the virus than every unvaccinated person who has already had COVID-19 and carries a library of acquired immunity. This is clearly backed up by the Israeli and UK data, and now something along the lines of 29 studies from all over the world.

According to UK and Welsh data, the vaccinated are also more likely to die from a “breakthrough” case than a Covid-naive unvaccinated person, while all-cause mortality is up as well, signaling potential additional deaths from adverse events associated with universal vaccination.

But you won’t hear that from Chris Hayes or MSNBC.

Then there’s the difference in mechanism of action between monoclonal antibodies and the mRNA or adenoviral “vaccines” that these cocksure morons don’t seem to understand. The MAB “target SARS-CoV-2 spike RBD and have been shown to neutralize the viral load in vivo, preventing virus-induced pathological sequelae when administered prophylactically or therapeutically […].”

The gene transfer therapeutics, conversely, don’t target the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, but instead instruct your body how to make them, then sneak them past down-regulated toll-like receptors, resulting in a potentially permanent change to both your cells and your immune system.

Reading through the replies to Hayes’ Tweet, it’s impossible to believe that many — if more than a handful — of MSNBC’s audience knows any of this.

One of the major consumers of monoclonal antibody treatment are those who have been fully vaccinated but have acquired COVID-19 as a “breakthrough” case carrying an elevated viral load. MAB are an early treatment meant to stop viral replication; they use “two noncompeting IgG1 antibodies (casirivimab and imdevimab) […] in a cocktail approach…to minimize mutational viral escape.” Which is to say, they are a safer version of Merck’s anti-viral Molnupiravir pill that may soon hit the market:

Molnupiravir works by incorporating itself into the genetic material of the virus, and then causing a huge number of mutations as the virus replicates, effectively killing it. In some lab tests, the drug has also shown the ability to integrate into the genetic material of mammalian cells, causing mutations as those cells replicate.

If that were to happen in the cells of a patient being treated with molnupiravir, it could theoretically lead to cancer or birth defects.

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“Proceed with caution and at your own peril,” wrote Raymond Schinazi, a professor of pediatrics and the director of the division of biochemical pharmacology at the Emory University School of Medicine, who has studied NHC for decades, in an email to Barron’s.

Scientists are split on how serious a risk this is, and in the absence of detailed data on Merck’s animal tests, and long-term human safety data, it’s difficult to know for sure.

Meanwhile, Quercetin (and over the counter drug) or HCQ, both ionophores, allow zinc into infected cells, where the zinc attacks an enzyme that prevents the spike protein from replicating. It carries no risk of mutating the virus because it doesn’t enter its genetic material; it merely disrupts replication (which we’ve known since well before the current SARS virus), while Ivermectin, used in conjunction, binds with healthy cells to prevent the virus from entering, shortening the replicating process and decreasing viral load.

Both drugs are on the WHO essential medicines list and are two of the safest medicines on the planet.

But there’s no money in generics, so, y’know…here comes Molnupiravir, likely under the next EUA.

And the ignorant arrogance of those who ingest MSNBC like they do wine spritzers will have them gobbling these pills by the fistful in the Volvo on the way to their 3rd, 4th, and 5th booster shots.

And they’ll look down their noses at you — right up until they keel over, a smug look stretched across their faces right up until the lights go out for good.