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I should have been more clear with my wording - I was thinking in terms of what is the potential upside for someone who has already had Covid to then proceed to get vaccinated.

I'm pretty clear on what the incentive is from the standpoint of Parma companies. I'm still unconvinced about there being any medical upside for the patient.

Re: your first point, I understand that antibody protection drops off over time, but having been exposed to the actual virus (or at least one version of it) empowers a broader response by the innate immune system than the vaccine alone.

For some reason the official narrative tends to downplay the importance of the innate immune system (Memory T-cells and such), yet AFAIK naturally acquired immune response is generally considered to be superior to artificially acquired. Of course getting the latter does require getting exposed to and surviving the pathogen...

As University of Guelph Viral Immunologist Dr. Byram Bridle (who is actively involved in Covid vaccine development) puts it:

"Acquisition of natural immunity by an ever-growing number of people means fewer people require vaccination to reach herd immunity...natural immunity = broader immunity; these people should be less susceptible to infection if an immuno-evasive SARS CoV-2 variant emerges."

In his presentation, Bridle emphasizes that the combination of the types (narrowly targeted) of vaccines and the way in which they are rolled out will actually drive the development of variants able to evade the vaccines and that those who have acquired natural immunity will likely have superior responses to vaccine-evading variants than those vaccinated with the currently available vaccines.

And doesn't plan for he or his family to be taking them.

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Antibody protection drops over several months

Vaccines are less effective with certain new variants

Vaccine profiteers want eternal revenue streams

NIH and FDA are excluding existing, out of patent protection, antivirals and OTC remedies, and emphasizing only vaccines, lockdowns and social distancing.

@MrWebster & US military weaponized IMF loans.

August 17, 2000 Russia Repays IMF Debts

The IMF lent Russia billions of dollars during the summer of 1998 to try and prevent the devaluation of the rouble, whose collapse brought the world financial system close to melt-down. Russia is still the biggest borrower from the IMF, with $12.6bn in loans outstanding. The IMF suspended its programme with Russia last year following allegations that the Russian central bank diverted part of the loans to off-shore accounts. However, there are hopes that the IMF will reach agreement with the new Putin government that will allow lending to resume by the autumn.

The size of Russia's repayments - which reached $3.6bn during the year - will make it easier for the IMF and Russia to reach that agreement. Russia still owes the IMF billions of dollars. But its ability to repay has been boosted by the strong export earnings from its oil and gas sector, and strong performance from the economy, which is now projected to grow at around 7% this year. President Putin has pledged to make economic reform his top priority.

March 8, 2021 Bailouts From Beijing: How China Functions as an Alternative to the IMF

Since China began lending large quantities of money to the developing world in the mid- 2000s, suspicions have swirled that these loans compete with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), offering comparable amounts of money in exchange for very different promises.

Whereas the IMF conditions its loans on commitments to economic reform, China typically lends for specific infrastructure projects, built by Chinese companies. Those who believe that the IMF’s prescriptions for economic reform represent the surest route to stability and prosperity express alarm that China might doom these countries to another cycle of debt and default, while critics of the IMF might cheer China’s lending as a source of “policy space” for governments to choose their own development strategy. Whatever their normative interpretation, most observers agree on the basic logic at play: Chinese loans present a new option for countries that would rather not go to the IMF.

February 7, 2019 Leaked Wikileaks Doc Reveals US Military Use of IMF, World Band as "Unconventional" Weapons

WASHINGTON – In a leaked military manual on “unconventional warfare” recently highlighted by WikiLeaks, the U.S. Army states that major global financial institutions — such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) — are used as unconventional, financial “weapons in times of conflict up to and including large-scale general war,” as well as in leveraging “the policies and cooperation of state governments.”

The document, officially titled “Field Manual (FM) 3-05.130, Army Special Operations Forces Unconventional Warfare” and originally written in September 2008, was recently highlighted by WikiLeaks on Twitter in light of recent events in Venezuela as well as the years-long, U.S.-led economic siege of that country through sanctions and other means of economic warfare. Though the document has generated new interest in recent days, it had originally been released by WikiLeaks in December 2008 and has been described as the military’s “regime change handbook.”
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Indeed, the myth of World Bank and IMF “independence” is quickly eroded by merely looking at the structure and funding of each institution. In the case of the World Bank, the institution is located in Washington and the organization’s president has always been a U.S. citizen chosen directly by the president of the United States. In the World Bank’s entire history, the institution’s Board of Governors has never rejected Washington’s pick.

#2.2 Or are they?