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Vaccination with dubious “vaccines”, “natural immunity”, i.e., past infections with SARS-CoV2 variants or with other pathogens, years of lockdowns, and excessive masking do not stop epidemics. Literacy does. Learn to avoid getting infected with pathogens.
The verdict: The verdict (updated on August 24, 2021): Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 adenovirus vector vaccine was rather effective in phase-3 trials at preventing severe COVID-19. However, the real-life data show that the protection is short-lived, limited to 2 to 7 months after vaccination. The single-dose Johnson and Johnson vector vaccine creates the shortest period of protection. None of the intramuscular vaccines against COVID-19 limit transmission.
For the most vulnerable groups, in particular, people of advanced age who can not take other prevention, hygiene, prophylaxis, and early treatment measures, Astra-Zeneca-Oxford vector vaccine, two doses, may be a somewhat better option. Tens of thousands of people of advanced age vaccinated in Scotland apparently survived vaccination with Astra-Zeneca-Oxford. Adverse effects of Astra-Zeneca-Oxford vaccine are less pronounced than in younger groups. For younger people, and competent literate normal people of all ages, we do NOT recommend Astra-Zeneca-Oxford vaccine (as of August 2021).
Adeel Afzal, an author associated with Cairo University and the University of Hafr Al Batin in Saudi Arabia, wrote a quality article on molecular diagnostic technologies for COVID-19. It was received by the journal on June 25 and published on August 2, 2020. There is a lot of informative data and figures on RT PCR. We publish here some of Adeel Afzal’s figures, tables, and a couple of our notes.
Also, we publish our hypothesis: People buy antigen test for SARS-CoV-2 in pharmacies, do not go to test centers, do not get infected there. The “Rapid spread” ends.
Learn to avoid epidemic-causing pathogens and infections in general.
As an introduction, there is a mini-course on COVID-19 epidemiology and anthropology.
For the control of the outbreaks of SARS-CoV-2, masks do NOT work. For personal protection, masks should work. Wear a mask in a setting where someone can cough at you, for example, in public transport.
as of November 28, 2020, South Dakota had 116 new daily infections per 100 thousands of the population (see the table above). This shows that virus denial does not work. You need to defy criminal bureaucrats, but you also need to protect yourself from getting infected.
The basic reproduction rate (R0) and the effective reproduction rate (R-effective) are another two concepts that are seriously flawed.
Many are incapable to understand and to respect hygiene and other prevention measures.
Top-down measures can hardly control the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic, but literacy of population can.