There Was No Pandemic Mastermind

There Was No Pandemic Mastermind
Madame Tussaud’s Waxwork Museum, London, December 2015, Star Wars display, Luke Skywalker fights Darth Vader with glowing lightsabers, while being watched by the Emperor RichartPhotos/Shutterstock
Steve Templeton
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“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart.” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn

There is a lot of celebratory football-spiking going on in COVID response-skeptic social media circles.

When two groups of people are diametrically opposed to one another on a singular issue, and the beliefs of one of those groups is validated by events, the other group may just wish to slink away and “put everything behind them.”

I think this is happening with the COVID-19 pandemic. After years of misleading, politically-driven information campaigns designed to increase vaccine uptake, the CDC has finally admitted something that everyone knew, but most couldn’t say, that SARS-CoV-2 infection-acquired immunity protects against severe disease upon reinfection just as well or even better than vaccination.

Steve Templeton
Steve Templeton
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Steve Templeton, senior scholar at Brownstone Institute, is an associate professor of microbiology and immunology at Indiana University School of Medicine—Terre Haute. His research focuses on immune responses to opportunistic fungal pathogens. He has also served on Gov. Ron DeSantis’s Public Health Integrity Committee and was a co-author of “Questions for a COVID-19 commission,” a document provided to members of a pandemic response-focused congressional committee. Follow him on Substack.
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