The COVID-19 pandemic brought about a massive vaccine rollout under the Trump administration with the early mRNA vaccines authorized in December of 2020. Subsequent boosters came out in September [1] of 2021 during the Biden administration and private sector and governments initiated vaccine mandates [2], causing workers across the country to lose their jobs. Even President Biden tried to mandate the vaccines at a national level but ended up withdrawing his OSHA mandate after it was defeated in the Supreme Court.
Former Michigan firefighter, Tim Rugg, who was on the job for 23 years with the city of Ann Arbor as a firefighter, fire inspector and fire investigator, was one of the people who lost his job after he refused to get a COVID-19 vaccine. He was denied a religious exemption from Ann Arbor’s vaccine mandate and he was fired in December of 2021. Rugg says he was also denied unemployment benefits because the State of Michigan determined that he was terminated for “misconduct.”
Since that time, Rugg has not been able to find employment anywhere else including working on an ambulance as an EMT or even getting a job cleaning airplanes and providing customer service at the Oakland County International Airport, having been a former flight attendant with Northwest Airlines.
With short staffing all over the country in all industries, it’s hard to understand why Rugg hasn’t been able to find a job. When Michigan News Source inquired if he gets asked by potential employers if he’s been vaccinated, he said, “Yes, I have been verbally asked about my Covid shot status. Surprisingly some of those questions came from Human Resources during the interview.”
Rugg, as you probably already know, is not an isolated case. An untold and uncounted number of Americans have been fired for not taking the Covid vaccine. And even though the mandates have largely been pulled back all over the country, that doesn’t help those who have already lost their jobs or have been denied services.
In Michigan, there were many who got on the vaccine mandate bandwagon including Michigan State University, the University of Michigan and Wayne State University who had mandates for students as well as employees. Health systems all across Michigan also required COVID-19 vaccination among staff and contractors including the Detroit-based Henry Ford Health System, Beaumont Health and Spectrum Health. Private companies like Walmart [3] also required workers to get vaccinated.
Those paying attention to any of the early government reports and FDA authorizations of the mRNA vaccines could see that the vaccines were offered without any promises to stop infection or the spread of the virus even though the media portrayed the vaccines differently. The FDA stated [4], in fact, when discussing the emergency authorization of the Pfizer vaccine in December of 2020, “At this time, data are not available to make a determination about how long the vaccine will provide protection, nor is there evidence that the vaccine prevents transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from person to person.”
It was clear to see that as a “vaccine”, the mRNA vaccines were really a failure from day one. That could be why the CDC decided to change the definition of what a vaccine is in early 2022 as the vaccines were proven to be less and less effective. The earlier definitions said that vaccines were given to “prevent disease” and “produce immunity to a specific disease.” The new definition [5], still in effect today, says that vaccines are a “preparation that is used to stimulate the body’s immune response against diseases.”
Now we find out even more disturbing information about the vaccines from a medical journal report [6] out of Elsevier’s Cell Host and Microbe, in which the NIAID’s (National Institute of Allergy and Infections Diseases) former NIAID director Anthony Fauci is one of the authors.
The shocking news? As Just the News [7] puts it in their headline “Fauci paper suggests feds knew COVID vaccines were doomed from the start: ‘Decidedly suboptimal.’”
The report [8], which is authored by Fauci and two other MD’s, is titled “Rethinking next-generation vaccines for coronaviruses, influenzaviruses, and other respiratory viruses” and it basically points out that the wrong approach was most likely used because the vaccines were based on the mRNA platform of providing systemic immunity instead of mucosal immunity.
In a nutshell, what this means is that because the vaccines were administered in the arm rather than the nose, they were less effective and took longer to work. They didn’t stop the virus when it initially entered the body through the nasal passage.
What is needed for mucosal immunity is a vaccine that stops the virus in its tracks when it enters the body at the nasal cavity – a vaccine that enters the mucus layer inside the nose that helps the body make antibodies that can “capture” the virus before it has a chance to enter our cells and cause havoc. This kind of immunity is called “sterilizing immunity” or the ability to totally prevent infection. It actually combats the virus before it can cause symptoms. This kind of immunity can also establish highly protective memory B and T cells.
What is the mucosal immune system? According to Frontiers [9], a large research publisher and open science platform, who published an article called “Mucolsal immunity in COVID-19: A Neglected but Critical Aspect of SARS-CoV-2 Infection,” it is the “largest component of the entire immune system, having evolved to provide protection at the main sites of infectious threat: the mucosae. As SARS-CoV-2 initially infects the upper respiratory tract, its first interactions with the immune system must occur predominantly at the respiratory mucosal surfaces, during both inductive and effector phases of the response.”
Fauci’s paper discusses the importance of mucosal immunity and asks for the use of this method in future developments of vaccines. A day late and a dollar short, it seems after spending so much time and money on experimental, largely ineffective mRNA vaccines that were mandated across the country.
Luckily, however, there seems to be progress on this rarely reported and seemingly hidden mucosal approach.
The Irish News [10] has a report on something called ViraVac [11], which is exactly what the doctor ordered. It’s a powder that is mixed with saline that can be used as a COVID-19 vaccine by squirting it up a person’s nose. The vaccine is being produced in India and is approved as their primary vaccine and booster. The powder was developed by scientists at Lancaster University in the UK and the two-dose nasal vaccine produced in India was developed by Washington University in the United States. The vaccine doesn’t have to be stored at low temperatures or be administered by medically trained people which allows mass vaccination in a shorter period of time.
The Irish News reports, “Elsewhere around the world, scientists have been trying to perfect their own nasal vaccines – because the more we learn about the virus, the more some believe that targeting the immune system this way is the best chance of halting the march of Covid for good.”
This kind of vaccine, as stated earlier, works on different parts of the immune system. Vaccines given in the arm produce T-cells (they knock out infected cells) and B-cells (they produce antibodies that attack invading pathogens) and are predominantly in the bloodstream and organs with hardly any in the mouth and nose guarding the point of entry. The vaccines given in the arm simulate a systemic immune response while an aerosol vaccine is designed to simulate respiratory viral infection, leading to rapid immune response.
Muhammad Munir, a Professor in Virology and Viral Zoonoses at Lancaster University says that because Covid enters the body via infected droplets that gain entry mainly through the nose or mouth, the logical approach is to focus the immunological fight there.
He goes on to say that because the area is lined by a mucus membrane that continues to the gut and is enriched with an armory of immune cells “If a vaccine is inhaled or given as drops through the nose or mouth then it will prime these cells, which are the first line of defense, to act quickly. These nasal immune cells get to work in a couple of minutes – whereas the immune cells made by intramuscular vaccines get to work six to eight hours after entry of the virus.”
And that is valuable time. Munir says, “If just one virus particle successfully sticks to one cell it takes over that cell and replicates to produce a million more viruses in an eight-hour cycle.”
The nasal vaccine has the advantage because the immune cells it can produce can act immediately. It can be effective at the beginning rather than fixing the problem after damage is already done.
In Fauci’s January 2023 report, he agrees with other NIH experts that this is an approach that should be pursued. And it’s not just that the COVID-19 vaccines are ineffective. They admit that the influenza and RSV ones are not up to snuff either.
The co-authors of the report admit that all of these viruses, including the common cold, have something in common that allows for re-infections – they have very short incubation periods, rapid host-to-host transmission and replication in the nasal mucosa rather than throughout the body. Because of that, they say, “these viruses do not stimulate the full force of the adaptive immune response, which typically takes a week or more to mount” and the authors note that mucosal immunization appears to be the optimal route for the viruses of interest when feasible.
The doctors also said that these viruses “have not to date been effectively controlled by licensed or experimental vaccines” even after 60 years of experience and they call the track record of the flu vaccine “less than suboptimal” and “would be inadequate for licensure for most other vaccine-preventable diseases.”
They report, “Over the years, influenza vaccines have never been able to elicit durable protective immunity against seasonal influenza virus strains” and “none of the predominantly mucosal respiratory viruses have ever been effectively controlled by vaccine.”
Even Bill Gates [12], talked about aerosol vaccines last month while sitting down with Australia’s Lowy Institute, in a discussion about global health, pandemic preparedness, food security and climate change. He said, “We think we can also have very early in an epidemic a thing you can inhale that will mean that you can’t be infected. A blocker. An inhaled blocker.”
Currently, Michigan deaths since the beginning of the pandemic are sitting at 37,766 with 85% of the deaths occurring with adults who are 60-years-old and older. There have been more than million [13] people killed from COVID-19 in the United States and more than 102 million cases.
During the rush to develop COVID-19 vaccines to save potential victims of a viral pandemic, one has to wonder why a preponderance of the time and money wasn’t spent on a mucosal vaccine when the information available to the scientific community clearly illustrated that it would be the optimal way to stop a virus infection.