As the the more contagious Delta Variant of COVID has increased, the President imposed a new mask mandate on all Federal workers and facilities and he has not ruled out more broad sweeping mandates. Never-mind the fact that such general mandates are not within his jurisdictional authority, or the authority of Congress (see Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution and the Tenth Amendment). This is a matter for the 50 individual states to determine (we call it federalism).

With these current developments as the backdrop we should take a hard look at the facts, especially those facts that are not often reported.

The big push beyond masks is to get everyone vaccinated. However, health officials are ignoring the most effective form of immunity, which is the natural immunity that millions of Americans who recovered from the disease have now acquired. At the bare minimum natural immunity should be recognized to be at least as good as being vaccinated.

Over the past 18 months I have anecdotally noticed this blind spot many times. Now a recent study from Israel, with more concrete evidence, demonstrates that natural immunity is 700% more effective in preventing infection than the vaccines. 

This is significant on several levels. First, those with natural immunity should be publicly recognized as being the least likely to be a risk to others. Second, we now have a better understanding of how to properly treat COVID and with the recovery rate for healthy individuals at least 99%, the fear of getting, and not recovering from COVID is way over-blown. Finally, vaccines do minimize severe reactions to COVID, but since 10 to nearly 40% of those vaccinated are still susceptible to getting COVID and therefore spreading it further, natural immunity is by far the most effective means of ultimately shutting down the epidemic.

Why is natural immunity not recognized as the best immunity from COVID? It seems the public health industry is more interested in getting everyone to comply with their vaccination demands than really getting past the epidemic. Their goals look like they are more focused on industry profit and power rather than ending the epidemic as soon as possible.