Expert: 'Immunity DOES protect against virus!'

Coronavirus: Why Everyone Was Wrong
Biologist and former director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Bern, Switzerland:
“The immune response to the virus is stronger than everyone thought… As an immunologist, I trust a biological model, namely that of the human organism, which has built a tried and tested, adaptive immune system." -- Beda M. Stadler

6-10-20, Beda M. Stadler is a biologist and professor emeritus; he is an important medical professional in Switzerland. This report is about Switzerland and not suggesting that the situation is exactly the same globally. We must look at real data not abstract [computer] models. Stadler said he'd never seen a scientific branch that maneuvered itself so much into the offside or understood why epidemiologists were so much more interested in the number of deaths, rather than in the numbers that could be saved; those with strong immune systems. 
 
The coronavirus [aka Covid-19] is slowly retreating. What actually happened in the past few weeks [May/June 2020]? The experts have missed basic connections that the immune response against the virus is much stronger than we thought.  I am also somewhat annoyed with many of my immunology colleagues who, so far, have left the discussion about Covid-19 to WHO and Fauci ...  it’s time to criticize some of the main and completely wrong public statements about this virus:

1. it was wrong to claim that this virus was “novel” [aka new] –  it isn’t all that new, but merely a seasonal cold virus that mutated and disappears in summer, as all cold viri do — which is what we’re observing globally right now. [Trump was right again!]
2. It was wrong to claim that populations would not already have some immunity against this virus. - Even Anthony Fauci of the USA, the most important advisor to President Trump noted at the beginning at every public appearance that the danger of the virus lay in the fact that there was no immunity against it. In reality, nobody had a test ready to prove such a statement. That wasn’t science, but pure speculation … and therefore false as the human immune system works.
3. It was wrong to claim that Covid-19 could infect a person without any symptoms or even to pass it along. - Epidemiologist fell for the myth and didn’t want to believe that coronaviri were seasonal cold viri that would disappear in summer. Otherwise their curve computer models would have looked differently.
4. It was wrong to cling to computer model reports when the initial worst case scenarios didn’t come true anywhere and now predict a ‘second wave’

Nobody asked for studies to prove that people in certain at-risk groups were dying. When the first statistics from China and later worldwide data showed the trend that almost no children under ten years old got sick, everyone should have made the argument that children clearly have to be immune. For every other disease that doesn’t afflict a certain group of people, we would come to the conclusion that that group is immune.
Just for fun, let’s call this group who refuses to accept common sense fact of immunity: “immunity deniers.” This new breed of deniers had to observe that the majority of people who tested positive for this virus, i.e. the virus was present in their throats, did not get sick:

• The term “silent carriers” was conjured up ‘out of a hat’ claiming that one could be sick without having symptoms [aka asymptomatic]. If this theory becomes naturalized into the realm of medicine, health insurers would really have a problem; if at the end of the day, one didn’t need symptoms anymore to be sick.
• The extremely long incubation time of two to 14 days — and reports of 22 to 27 days — should wake up any immunologist; as well as the claim that most patients would no longer secrete the virus after five days. Both [claims] actually lead to the conclusion that there is — sort of in the background — a base immunity that contorts [twists] the events, compared to an expected cycle [of a viral infection].
• Our antibody immune system effectiveness  is reduced as we get older; malnourished people also have a weakened immune system, which is why this virus does not only reveal the medical problems of a country, but also social issues.

The joke that some virologists claim that those who were sick without symptoms could still spread the virus. The “healthy” sick would have so much of the virus in their throats that a normal conversation between two people would cause the “healthy one” to infect the other healthy one. Explanation: One of five cardinal symptoms of an infection is pain. It’s understandable that those afflicted by Covid-19 might not remember that initially weeks before they had a scratchy throat, but claim that they had no symptoms. But for doctors and virologists to twist this into a story of “healthy” sick people, stoking panic and hysteria that was given as a reason for stricter lockdown measures.

On our way back to normal, it would be good for citizens if a few scaremongers apologized; such as doctors, scientists and those who:

• wanted a triage of over 80 year old Covid patients in order to stop ventilating them
• media that kept showing alarmist videos of Italian hospitals to illustrate a situation that as such didn’t exist
• all politicians calling for “testing, testing, testing” without even knowing what the test actually measures

I suggest that those young and healthy people who are currently walking around with a face mask would instead be better off wearing a helmet, because the risk of something falling on their head is greater than that of getting a serious case of Covid-19.
 
What now as the virus is gone? It will probably come back in winter, but it won’t be a second wave, but just a cold.  [Trump was right again!]
 
*Excerpted and adapted the full original report published in the Swiss magazine Weltwoche (World Week) on June 10, 2020 by Beda M Stadler, biologist and professor emeritus former director of the Institute for Immunology at the University of Bern, Austria here