Herd or Shared Immunity vs. Vaccination -- Explained in A Very Simple Way

by Dr. Lim Ju Boo

Rev. 30/01/2021 7:44PM

 

The Scenario:

 

Let A, B, C, D … represent 4 individuals in a population.

None of them were initially infected by Covid-19 virus.

Imagine A first gets infected.

Person A if he survives then produces an antibody against the virus.  

Let us call this antibody or immunoglobulin as Ig.

Ig. now gets tagged on to the virus to weaken it.    

Let's now imagine the weakened virus carrying the tagged Ig. escapes into the air to infect person B.

Person B recognizes it as a human Ig. tagged along with a strange virus.

Person B then adds on his own Ig. to trim down the virus further.

The virus now gets a double dose of Ig.

The virus then escapes again into the air and infects person C.

Person C also recognizes this new virus and downgrades it further with the same or more appropriate antibodies if the virus has mutated.

This is a triple dose of the same or different types of antibodies against the already doubly weakened virus.                                                                                                                                      

Person C then infects the 4^th person D.

 

Chain Reaction:

Person D recognizes the same, and shares its immunoglobulin alongside those already contributed by persons A, B and C, and if necessary, by modifying its Ig. further if the virus tries to fight back by mutating into multiple strains.

This chain of natural immunological barricades goes all the way down to infect persons EFGHIJK… causing multiple infections, each person infecting several people at the same time.

This causes a multiple chain reaction of infections to rise exponentially until the entire population of the world may be affected, but it will respond appropriately by matching their continuously changing natural “vaccines” to match up the virus ongoing mutations trying to “survive” (exists).

It becomes a tit-for-tat biological scenario for the survival of the fittest as prescribed by Natural Selection in Evolution.

As the virus begins to deteriorate after being challenged by our combined and multiple immunological defenses, the number of new infections gets less and less and the rate of recovery from infected people begins to rise very swiftly until all the current 7.9 billion world’s population recovers completely. 

It will be an exponential rise in infections, and yet an even faster accelerated rate of recovery we can expect. 

We call this as herd, shared / cooperative /combined or communal immunity, or whatever name we wish to give it. 

This is the natural law of survival for the human species which is part of Darwin evolutionary medicine or Darwinian medicine towards our better understanding of health and disease. 

Unfortunately, a third of the world’s population need to be sacrificed first for the remaining to survive. We may label this as a “bottleneck genetic drift” if we like for the better survival of the remaining population. 

This was also similarly seen in all ancient and past pandemics before any pandemic curve flattened as decreed in Revelation 9:18.

Ironically, currently one-third of the world's population was told to observe mandatory lockdowns involving 2.6 billion worldwide in 42 countries or territories to contain the coronavirus.

 

Natural vs. Artificially-induced Vaccination:

 

Absolutely no artificially-designed vaccine of any kind, not even mixtures of variant types can outperform our body’s natural vaccine that defends itself continuously as a living body that works like a flowing river.

The most beautiful thing about herd immunity versus vaccination contradictory to what politicians and vaccines producers think, or pretend they do not know is, vaccines against Covid-19 or any infection takes many, many years to develop and undergo safety trials, and vaccination has to be done one-by-one, from person-to-person with limited supply of vaccine and personnel across huge populations of hundreds of millions to billions of people, compared to the speed of exponential chain reactions of herd immunity spread across the same population yet to be exposed.  

 

Herd Immunity via Vaccination:

Of course we can also acquire herd immunity artificially via vaccination, but is it safe as the reliability, efficacy and safety is hotly debated both by the scientific and medical community as well as by the lay public? 

My feeling is, there is nothing like having mass immunity acquired naturally through natural selection, although it may be only slightly slower initially till multiple cross infections becomes established. 

Furthermore, a mono standard vaccine or polyvalent vaccines produced from several mutated strains can never catch up with the speed the living body that responds naturally to meet changes in the mutating scenarios by the virus.

In short a vaccine is fixed and 'dead' once out of the factory, but a living body is not dead or fixed but is constantly adjusting and changing to meet changing environments and new challenges.

That's the beauty how we are fearfully and wonderfully made; marvelous are Thy works, and that my soul knoweth right well (Psalm 139:14).

This is natural vaccination or natural medicine. I personally prefer to coin it.

I am optimistic this pandemic would decelerate very fast as more and more are exposed by sharing our immunological defenses collectively.

This is how Nature works, ordained by decree and prescribed by natural selection for our survival on Earth.

I trust this simple, down-to-earth explanation helps instead of trying to understand those complicated issues and controversies about the efficacy and safety of several types of artificially-designed vaccines that have been causing a lot of distress to people and global uproar, as well as agreement and disagreement and stress among doctors and scientists till today.

 

Lim ju boo

Postdoctoral CE in Evolution (University of Cambridge, 2019