This paper, published in the Reviews of Medical Virology, confirms what most of us have known since the beginning of the pandemic: a natural infection provides lasting protection, far better than any vaccine. Researchers found a median re-infection rate of just 0.27%, 10 months post-infection. None of the current mRNA vaccines can replicate anything close to that level of protection. And yet we’ve had to endure a years’ worth of denialism regarding natural immunity. This was of course done in order to fool the masses into receiving a suspect inoculation with unknown long-term results. But the pandemic is over precisely due to this durable natural immunity, not the vaccines. But the superiority of natural immunity makes sense. After all, we co-evolved with coronaviruses. Nature has designed our immune systems for just such infections.

This interaction between a dirtbag biker and Hunter S. Thompson, along with the reactions of the audience, speaks volumes. Listen to them laugh and applaud at the biker’s jokes about beating wives, and then beating Thompson for speaking out against the gutter trash who beat their wives and generally act like animals. There’s a strange moral parallel between the biker and mainstream culture that was offended by Thompson’s moral standards, and so he got branded as a beatnik druggy for the rest of his life.