Biden's sweeping vaccine mandates will only further erode public trust
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Would an 'Immunity' Mandate Instill More Public Confidence?
— Biden's sweeping vaccine mandates will only further erode public trust
by Jesse Pelletier, MDSeptember 20, 2021
The policy lacks the precise language needed to adequately speak to those who understand something about this virus. There now exists the need to make distinctions between categories and eventually degrees of immunity.
The simple classification of vaccinated versus unvaccinated lacks the nuance required to satisfy the scientific mind.
The Biden policy unfortunately continues to ignore other means of acquiring immunity, which may include natural infection and single doses of mRNA vaccine. We cannot turn away from that which has been known all along: this is not a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Many of the unvaccinated have been previously exposed to SARS-CoV-2 or had COVID-19. They have some immunity. This is a pandemic caused by a highly infectious virus that mainly manifests in the immunologically naive. Recent
data from Israel continues to build upon the notion that immunity in people who survived a prior SARS-CoV-2 infection is robust and durable -- perhaps even more so than in the unexposed but vaccinated. Ignoring these facts and blindly forging ahead with blunt policies will continue to unravel vital threads of trust that remain in the system.
There is no doubt that vaccination continues to be the single most important strategy to lift us out of this pandemic, and people should not seek out natural immunity. But we must be honest, fair, and open (according to the OECD) in order to maintain trust.
What Biden and others really should require is not proof of vaccination, but rather proof of
immunity. This could mean showing a vaccine card, evidence of sufficient antibody levels, or past documented infection. A sufficient antibody level or standard would need to be set and antibody testing would need to be made more accessible.
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