Approaching a Post-Vaccination Era

If we are going to write a roadmap for a future (hopefully near future era) where vaccination is always optional, we are going to need an immunology textbook.

Last week I contacted both well known and lesser known physicians and scientists in various fields of medical and biological sciences, to help write Textbook of Human Immunology for the Post Vaccination Era. Nearly a dozen responded and are choosing topics to write about.

Now I am expanding this call more broadly.

Human immunology is an ever-developing science, a compendium of understanding of various immune cells and biochemicals and their interactions with each other, with the rest of the body and with the outside world.  Vaccination, contrary to centuries of sometimes advertising and sometimes coercion, does not play the heroic role toward optimal immune resilience that many people imagine. Likewise, there is a generally unappreciated vastness of immune function apart from injected interventions.  So I want us to lay some groundwork of current understanding of human immunity that is independent and apart from vaccination, to give the next era some academic basis for their further learning.

I sent the following letter by email last week, and now present it to my readers.  Please also forward this message to any other scientist or physician whom you think may want to participate.

On the other hand, please let me know if you are aware of anyone else who has already launched a similar endeavor, so we don’t re-invent each others’ wheel.

Introductory letter:

Hello, doctors.

I would like to compile an anthology of writings for the following future book:

Textbook of Human Immunology for the Post Vaccination Era.

Core content of book 

I think that each of a number of authors could contribute one or more chapters on various immune cell and cytokine functions and their interactions, as well as chapters on the roles of nutrients, hormones, and perhaps even such controversial topics as an immunity role, or at least an anti-pathogen role, of red blood cells and oxygen, as well as exercise. These discussions would rely heavily on and refer to the published medical literature.  Some of that content may not look terribly different from the commonly used medical school immunology textbooks now in use, at least regarding the innate immune system.  Chapters on adaptive immunity would likely be more of a contrast.

Historical background discussion 

There should also be some chapters on how the world, or a significant proportion of its people, may be moving toward a post-vaccination era in as unscientific a way as we first moved into that era: first trust of authority figures promoting vaccines, and then distrust of the same.  As the history buffs among you know, there has been an irregular sine wave of those trust-distrust cycles, as some relatively harmless, and then some highly toxic, vaccines have appeared, made their morbidity/mortality impacts, and then disappeared among various populations around the world since the time of Jenner. Did the human immune system change during those many varied vaccine trends? Are we living in a 21st century model of the human body? Or have we inherited the biochemistry and immune functioning of our distant ancestors who populated nearly every continent, (without heating or cooling!) before vaccines were developed? (And how are the Amish doing by the way?) Historical information will be valuable and fascinating. One of our authors will briefly discuss extant knowledge of hundreds of documented epidemics, but that is all I will say on that for now.

Need for and current lack of such a textbook 

Crucially for such a textbook and its impact, our appreciation of the vast scope and intricacy of the entire innate and adaptive immune systems has advanced to the point where those of us in the sciences can now understand better than ever the limitations on any value that at least intramuscular vaccines may have ever had, from the criteria of pan-immune effects and risk/benefit assessments.  We understand the relatively small role played by B cells and antibodies in overall immune function. The public is beginning to sense this, but has not yet heard comprehensive scientific explanations for contemporary knowledge of the vast human immune system ever more eclipsing what may be nothing more than superstitious assumptions that the vaccine delivery process and biochemical mechanisms of vaccines could have a net benefit on immune function.  Neither the public nor academia has yet been given the scientific community's comprehensive exposition and assessment of the course of human immune function when simply left unvaccinated, both over a lifetime as well as in situations of pathogen exposure.

Possible social impact of such a textbook

I think that the need for this textbook is strongest among those who can envision or wish to live in a world where vaccination is not forced or sanctified as the only accepted or permissible path to competent immune function, as well as among those who would like to learn more about immunology, and how immune competence happens and develops in unvaccinated individuals and populations.  We have too little data on the latter, but enough to compile and write about I think. 

Such a textbook can be written up to the standards of medical school use, while accessible, at least as a reference work, to a well-educated lay audience.  Public allegiances to old medical paradigms and old-school practitioners are shifting quickly.  You likely know that at this writing only about 2% of US toddlers have been given the COVID-19 vaccine, a month after the FDA authorized it for that age group.  I think it may be overly optimistic to interpret this as a 98% vaccine skepticism / caution rate among the population generally.   Many primary care and other providers had already gone on record as advocating for the COVID vaccines.  Later exposure of failings of those vaccines quickly and devastatingly erodes trust in those same practitioners.  So there are large shifts in public views of conventional medical and pharmaceutical institutions now occurring that those in the social sciences could likely discuss for years in the future.  Of course, all that discussion would be beyond the purview of such a textbook as I am proposing, but it does also suggest to me a need for it to be written in the near future, besides the need for a textbook-type exposure of contemporary understanding of innate and adaptive immune complexity, with and without intramuscular injection of liquids of widely varying content and ultimate bodily impact.

Additional veterinary content?  I am thinking that the scope of the textbook would be too large already to also accommodate any chapters involving veterinary or mammalian vaccination, of domesticated and/or wild populations, but maybe a majority of you who would like to participate feel otherwise, and maybe veterinarians of your acquaintance would be interested. 

All of the above would be strongly influenced by your interests and thoughts.

Communication about this project 

Some of you are very well known, and some are very private, so private that you would consider using a nom de plume for this project.

Are there immunologists, epidemiologists and other scientists whom you would like to forward this to, or whom you would like me to contact?  Please feel free to forward this if you like.

Please let me know if you would like an active role in this project, or would like to contribute a chapter, or part of one, even if not yet sure which topic (i.e. chapter on macrophages, chapter on zinc, etc.) If so, please consider if you would want such writing under your own name, or as part of an anonymous group of writers.  Either way is fine, and I understand current political pressures.

Also, if any of you know of a scientist or physician already contemplating or embarking on a similar project, I for one would more likely encourage similar efforts already underway, than re-inventing the same type of wheel.  So please let me know about that too.

Thank you for considering this project.

Colleen Huber, NMD
Naturopathic Medical Doctor, AZ License 06-948
CH (at) ImmunologyText (dot) com