Co-Morbodity Update

 So yesterday I posted on why the major issue informing hospitalization is co-morbidity status rather than vaccination status. Here is another chart to highlight this point:

So what we see here is that the comorbid made up 95% of hospitalized patients in this location.  Of those that died, those with at least 1 comorbidity made up 99.1%.

Ninety.Nine. Point. One. Percent.

There are apparently people with 10+ comorbidities and they make up 25% of the dead and an average of 20% of those admitted, sent to ICU and intubated (I presume).

This is what is driving hospitalizations. Not vaccination status.

An Epidemic of The Co-Morbid

 As I write this there is a stepped up campaign to set the American public against each other by no less than the US government via it's various arms. It has enlisted the MSM to carry out this propagandizing. You'll now see various "opinion pieces" about how the 'unvaccinated are killing people" and how the unvaccinated "need to be punished" and "not be accomodated" or "stop setting the terms" and the like.

This is all accelerationist rhetoric which WILL get people killed. We already had a security guard kill someone who was unmasked, though to be fair, that guard was a felon, prohibited possessor who also was a sex abuser. But still, having seen what is going on in places like Australia and France, I have no doubt that there will be violence if things continue along the path they are going. It's almost like the people pushing this stuff don't think that there won't be pushback of the personal kind at some point by people who simply want(ed) to be left alone.

But that isn't the point of this entry. This entry is to show that even by their own data, this is a pandemic of the co-morbid more than it is of any other category. That is, the propaganda that the "unvaccinated are filling up hospitals *because* they are unvaccinated" is a flat out lie.

I repeat. The following claim is flat out false:

Hospitalizations is driven by vaccination status.

So here's a report out of California.

"Hospitals are seeing a greater number of unvaccinated people who are younger and healthier fill up their beds, according to new data released by Los Angeles County.

Among adults and the oldest teenagers who are hospitalized with COVID-19, the median age of unvaccinated or partially vaccinated patients was 51. That’s notably younger than the median age of fully vaccinated patients in the hospital with COVID-19, which was 66."

 At no point in time is 51 considered "young". These are middle age people. In this group co-morbidities such as obesity and diabetes start to take a noticeable toll on the body. All the bad things done during the 20s, 30s and 40s come to a head, if they haven't before. It is also the case, unfortunately that too many people in this group, particularly among the 'unvaccinated" think they don't need to do anything. This is wrong. 

Anyway, in that article is a nice chart:

Also in reference to ages. Mathematically median is the middle number of a set of numbers.  Half of the numbers are below this and half are above that.  You could have a wide spread of numbers in this group but to have a median of 55 given a life expectancy of 85 (higher for women, lower for men) means that the ages skew high.  Continuing

 So on the left side of the chart are 'unvaccinated/partially vaccinated". I think it is a HUGE mistake to group these people. The reason is because it has been shown that people who are "between shots" are actually more susceptible to COVID than either "fully vaccinated" AND "unvaccinated" people. Hence, these "partials" are inflating the numbers of "unvaccinated". However; since I do not have a way to know how many are in the "one shot" group, I cannot separate them out so please keep that in consideration when looking at the numbers.

You'll note that in the "no comorbidities" line that "fully vaccinated" people are just under half the rate of those hospitalized.  That's good. It's also in line with the claims of reduced hospitalizations. However; when you move on you see a trend:

For those with 3+ comorbities (and these often come in groups). the hospitalization rate for the vaccinated is higher than those who are unvaccinated.

For those with Diabetes type 2, which is the one you get for eating shit for decades and sitting on your ass for decades so entirely your own fault, the vaccinated group again has a higher rate of hospitalization.

For those with high blood pressure, which usually comes along with obesity (which is oddly left out here) or having a high stress lifestyle (for whatever reason), the vaccinated group fares much worse than the unvaccinated.

There is no way to avoid the conclusion that it is comorbidity status rather than vaccination status that predicts bad outcomes with COVID.

Now someone is going to look at the upper part of the chart and point out that the unvaccinated have a higher ICU admittance rate and intubation rate. Sure. 3 and 1 percent respectively.  That's within the margin of error when you start dealing with very large numbers of people. But more importantly it doesn't account for the huge differences when looking at comorbidities. In both groups comorbidity status is far more of a predictor of bad outcomes than anything else with the smallest percent gap being about 16%.

One. Six. Percent.

Not 3 and 1 percent.

Those are the facts.

"Just Two Shots..."

 Two Weeks To Flatten The Curve

Wear a mask until we have a vaccine.

We have a vaccine you still need to wear a mask

Take this shot or you can't go to certain events

Take this shot or you can't work.

Take this booster shot

Have you figured it out yet?

All the previous restrictions were test balloons. What? You want grandma to die?

Now:

"Just two shots" they said.

I knew it wasn't going to be just two shots.

And those who took it, particularly as a result of threats to employment, have essentially agreed to all the shots because they already gave consent to their employer to determine what medication they have to put into their bodies.

 That's why I have been warning people, pro-vaccine or not, of the absolute danger of mandates. It's NOT about health.

President Biden on Friday said he and Dr. Anthony Fauci discussed requiring COVID-19 booster shots every five months rather than every eight as previously anticipated.

The shorter timeframe would increase the number of vaccine doses that the US will need to set aside for booster shots — as poorer nations clamor for more US donations.

 Would you let your early Alzheimer's patient determine your medical care?

Cuomo's COVID Kill Spree Worse Than Reported

 While NYS allows and promotes Medical Jim Crow and went out of its way to fine and arrest people for the New COVID Crime of living your life, Andrew Cuomo was given accolades and awards for his "model" handling of COVID in NYS.

The truth was that Cuomo's policies literally killed thousands of elderly in nursing homes. To cover it up and avoid DOJ attention, Cuomo had the documents related to this modified which is a felony.

We all know this.

Cuomo remains, unindicted. He has not been arrested or charged with the clear crimes he committed. While, I remind you again, people in NYS have been fined, arrested and the like for doing things like, living their lives and trying to make a living.

And now that he's out of office, more info has come out.

"The now ex-governor’s infamous fatal nursing home decree certainly led to more deaths than earlier reported, the new governor, Kathy Hochul, revealed on her first day in office. Not only that, but the death count for the state overall is 12,000 more than previously reported by the State of New York."

12,000 more?

Cuomo's felony covered up 12,000 victims.

Why hasn't the state police arrested him?

Oh right, NY "law enforcement" is too busy looking at Trump's tax returns and harassing people on the street and about to be enforcing the Medical Jim Crow to be bothered with such things as felonies committed by the governor. 

“New York now reports nearly 55,400 people have died of COVID-19 in New York based on death certificate data submitted to the CDC, up from about 43,400 that Gov. Cuomo had reported to the public as of Monday, his last day in office,” the AP noted.

Lets put this in perspective. Here's worldometers info on NY as of today:

Cuomo hid nearly 1/5 of all COVID deaths under his watch.

“The July report, which examined the factors that led to the spread of the virus in nursing homes, focused only on residents who died inside long-term-care facilities, leaving out those who had died in hospitals after becoming sick in nursing homes,” WSJ continued. “As a result, the report said 6,432 nursing-home residents had died—a significant undercount of the death toll attributed to the state’s most vulnerable population.”

So it is likely that instead of 6432 dead due to his nursing home policies, it was 18,000 dead due to his policy. Nearly 50% of NYS total to date

And this man is still walking around free (with his nipple rings).

Case Study Vietnam

 So back in Sept of 2020, I commented on Vietnam because people were making grand predictions about who "beat" COVID:

I said:

"The point here is that a lot of people (most calling themselves experts) are making grand predictions and proclamations usually to scare the shit out of the public. You need to be very skeptical of these proclamations, particularly those coming from those with clear political interests."

And now:

 Oh dear. 107 cases  per million people.

Deaths? I put Israel in for comparison since I just posted about that country:

 This is why you wait for long term data. This is why you don't rush and make grand announcements of "success" or "winning" or whatever. You don't make grand predictions about how masks worked and lockdowns worked. You wait for the data to come in.

That's how you do science. Anything else is politics and propaganda.

As a side note, here's the "fully vaccinated" chart (again with Israel as a comparison):

 

Interesting that their case and death counts went up with their percentage fully vaccinated. If you do anyone who got at least one dose:

 

It looks even worse. It's already known that people with one shot (of a two or more shot regimen) are more likely to get ill and die than those who either had no shot or had two or more.

So there you have it folks. Stop with the grand pronouncements and be very skeptical of those who make them.

PS:

My theory on why they did so well up until recently? the original strain of COVID was close enough to whatever "regularly" circulates in that region of the world that they didn't have problems. This latest variant is different enough that the epitopes don't recognize it so it is essentially a "new" disease for that population. In essence, this is their "first wave". This is entirely speculation on my part so take it was a healthy dose of salt. It could also be the case that what they are seeing is an entirely new SARS disease, one that will eventually make its way around the world.

Case Study Israel

 So Israel decided to make its country THE test bed for vaccines. What are the results thus far? Below are charts that all start at Jan 5 which is the earliest "fully vaccinated" date I could find. 

You'll see that they reached a plateau of 65% or so of "fully vaccinated" people in August. The flat part starts around April 15. 

So what happened with cases in that same time period. By the promises and logic presented by the "authorities" cases should have dropped dramatically (even considering the seasonal nature of COVID) and then leveled off as the vaccine "prevented infection" and therefore cases and deaths. Is that what happened?

Well cases did drop. Right around the time that "fully vaccinated" peaked. Then in July there was clearly an upswing. By August 23, the case count was nearly as high as it was when vaccinations had barely begun. 

Is this what you would expect from a "vaccine" that "prevents infection" and "prevents transmission"?

Asking for a friend.

What about deaths?

Well clearly they are "down" compared to where they were in January. However; we do know that COVID is seasonal and as such the upward trajectory could very well continue to climb. I don't know. 

If you include last August in the chart:

You will see that Israel is experiencing greater deaths than that same date last year and if the trajectory continues, may surpass their October 14th peak.

"Safe and effective"

You decide.

The FDA Compares Africans to Horses

 Over the weekend the FDA along with a number of mainstream media outlets decided to propagandize against Ivermectin. They claimed that Ivermectin was a "animal dewomer" that is unsafe. I have personally recommended the use of Ivermectin by those who have COVID. I stake my personal reputation on providing factual information on this website. A lot of times when you don't see posts here it is because I started writing something and during the research I discovered that I was dead wrong and thus couldn't post. Other times I have posted stuff that turned out to be incorrect and I've posted the correction. But always, I post the data so that YOU can read the material yourself. So lets be clear here.

 

 

This is the lifecycle of river blindness.  You don't want this disease. How is it prevented?

Well this thing that MERK created:

Campbell, another Merck researcher, Dr. As of 2008, about 99% of onchocerciasis cases occurred in. For centuries, river blindness onchocerciasis plagued remote communities in Africa, Latin America and Yemen, and there was no answer to this affliction. This victory against river blindness has been possible because of a wonder drug called ivermectin, which now reaches and protects 100 million people across a vast swathe of Africa.

Does the FDA think Africans are Horses? Because Africans have been using Ivermectin to prevent disease hence we know it's safe and it works against certain diseases.

So why is the FDA and all these other media outlets lying to you? You realize they are lying to you. These same people who just approved a "vaccine" with no long term data.

Here's the deal. The dosage used in animals, particularly horses and bovine, are FAR HIGHER than anything you would be taking. By a long shot. This is why The Ghost never, ever recommended you get that stuff.  Furthermore; the Ivermectin pastes given to animals often have other components that may be poisonous to humans.

A responsible and competent FDA would point that out. But the FDA is a wholly captured and corrupted arm of the ruling class who only wants power.

But here's a counterpoint. If Ivermectin is so dangerous to humans, why have they been giving it to Africans?

FDA Plays Ball

 In a move that was not unexpected, the FDA played it's part in the COVID drama [again] and moved to provide cover for various entities both governmental and non-governmental to step up the totalitarianism.

While we are not at the level that Australia has sunk to (that country should no longer even be considered a "demos" and their ambassadors should be kicked out of any and every actual freedom respecting country.

Anyway, Not surprised. As I've pointed out in previous posts, these vaccines have killed more people than the flu shots given since 1990.  A few years ago, that alone would have prevented any kind of approval, much less a mandate from any entity with a healthy fear of lawsuits and bankruptcy.

But these are not normal times and these are not competent agencies. No. This is a country where sitting governors dismiss constitutional restraints as "above pay grade". Where governors enact policies that kills thousands of people, then commit felonies to cover it up and resigns only because he made some women uncomfortable. Where a sitting president can boldly lie to the citizenry about foreign military endeavours and nobody is held to account. And we have political prisoners being held and abused while the "authorities" admit there was no "insurrection plot" of any kind.

Oh and after complaining about police shooting of unarmed people, Ashli Babbit's killer was exonerated. 

And be clear, Ashli Babbit was no more a danger than Ahmaud Arbery was claimed to be.

No, this system is corrupt all the way through and it has enforcers (police) who will kill you if you get out of line (MOVE and WACO for example). No, they are drunk on power and know they are beyond correction. They know even if their policies are reversed years later, they already got the results they wanted and enjoy "qualified immunity".

Anyway. MarketTicker has some interesting points about the current legal ramifications of the FDA announcement:

"The makers can apply for full authorization, of course, but the EUAs are void as of this morning and under black letter law cannot be administered to anyone in the United States as they are now unlicensed and unlawful products in human beings until and unless they are given full approval themselves.  No medical provider can offer or administer any other than the Pfizer Covid-19 shot in the United States as of the moment of that approval."

Personally, I expect the other two to get the rubber stamp soon.

30 Percent of Skinny People Are Obese

 I'll post the link to that quote shortly but I wanted to put the context out there first. One of the leading indicators of severe outcomes for COVID is obesity. However; you'll see in the media vaccine PR stories a lot of people who are not "obese" as we typically understand it. Well here's the reason:

 

 

I've known this for a while. Personally I decided last year to start intermittent fasting (16:8) because I could not lose some belly fat. I couldn't understand why I couldn't lose it given the amount of exercise and running I did. Well we're a year on and I dropped 15 lbs (and lose about 5lbs of water during my long runs). Yes, the belly fat mostly went away.  And yes, 15lbs on my body is a LOT.

Now looking at me before you'd think I wouldn't have weight to lose, but it happened.

In short a lot of "skinny" people think that because they are skinny that they are healthy. A lot of them are not and when COVID hits, a lot of them find out the hard way.

And You Trust These People With Vaccines?

Either:

1) Biden boldly lied to your faces.

or

2) He and his advisers absolutely believed what they said.

In either case these are the people who believe they have the right to:

1) censor people who don't follow the "government narrative" in regards to COVID

2) Consider those who don't follow the "government narrative" in regards to COVID as [potential] domestic terrorists

3) Tell you the vaccines are safe and effective and that you must take them "or else".

After what happened in the past 7 days, if you still actually believe anything said by this man or any of his advisors, you are a total fool.

Why So Harsh?

 So I'm sure a bunch of people were "perturbed" because I said, in regards to the Americans stuck in Kabul: Fuck 'em.

I meant it too.

Why so harsh? Well, like I said before, war is not pretty. Too many Americans in Afghanistan and elsewhere doing "play play" war not really realizing the real stakes. What these people, and a lot of civilians need is a good dose of real deal war.

What exactly did you think would happen to occupiers?

You think it's all "shake hands and be friends" like at the end of a baseball game?

This is war people.

Now you have these American elites talking about how we need to evacuate people and bring 'em to the US?

Why?

Why are these fighting age men on a plane out of the country?

And what part of traitor did they not understand?

If you enlist to help an invading arm, that would be the US, you are a traitor.

What did they think would happen to traitors?

If you know that if you fail or the occupying force leaves, that you are dead men, you either do everything in your power to NOT fail or you don't cooperate.

Freedom, success or death.

That's the contract.

Like the US war for independence. Every one of those people knew that they had signed their death warrant by going against the British. 

Freedom or death.

for 20 years, Afghans and their American masters were "play playing" at war. 

Now reality done set in.

I'm not being harsh. I'm keeping it 100%.

You'll Do As Your Told

 Same women who talk that "I can do anything" and "can't no man...". knows full well they are full of shit.

'Cause when a mofo with a gun, who's willing to use it, and has power comes into town

You put that burka on type quick.

Kabul Falls

Been quiet for a while as I wait for the COVID shoe to drop on my income but recent events warrants popping out of my hole to chat for a bit. Besides I'm bored of writing about COVID. At this point the jig is up on the vaccines and these new Medical Jim Crow popping up across the country are simply the left baring it's teeth and "dropping the mask" as it were. But again, not here to talk about that.

Afghanistan. For those uninitiated these 'backward" people defeated the British, Russians and now Americans. For those of us who saw the Rambo movies, at least knew about the Russians.

The Taliban is an American creation. Created by the US intelligence agencies (who now proclaim that being against medical tyranny is "domestic extremism") in order to route the Russians. The US was good with Osama Bin-Ladin when he was "killing bears" but when he turned on his puppet masters, well, he had to go. But that's how it goes in the intelligence agencies. You're an asset until you are a liability. 

Apparently nobody in these agencies thought that Islamic fundamentalists would look at the 'decadance" of America and say "hmmmm that devil's got to go too..."

Eh, they're backwater...welll back sand goat herders with AKs and no real training. We got nukes.

Yeah, we got nukes. 

Look, The Ghost was against the Afghanistan war from the jump.  The people responsible for 9-11 were Saudis. But anyway, the reason America "lost" this war is simple. War is "too civilized" now.

See back in the day, like, waaay back in the day. A superior force would send a messenger, kinda like that movie 300. We're coming. Surrender or we kill everything and burn what's left. If you had a "good enough" reputation for that, those people would surrender and there would be little if any war. But if the target decided on a "freedom or death" approach, well, there are no "rules of engagement." If it moves and is not on your team, it's dead. If it's un-burnt, it's burnt. If it has a vagina, it's raped.

That's how war used to be. Those were the stakes. Literal "freedom or death". 

The US has and had the ability to completely flatten Afghanistan and kill off much of it's population in the process. It would not have been "pretty" and certainly would have violated "international norms". But it certainly could have been done.

Rule could have been cooperate or die. Tell us where the Taliban is or die. Including wives, children, parents. 

Now for most of you reading this, you're like "that's cruel". Yeah. That's what war actually is. 

The US didn't do that (and really had no justification for such a thing since the Afghan invasion was unjustified to begin with). It decided to pussyfoot arouund and get a lot of soldiers killed or maimed.

For what?

So some so-called "nation builders" could "improve the lives of women" and fly LGBT and BLM flags and virtue signal to people who would throw them off roofs if given the chance. So I have no sympathy for them now. I wouldn't send a single US citizen to help them get out of Kabul.

Fuck em.

Seriously. 

The only people I feel sympathy for are the men and women in uniform who signed up after 9-11 and thought, mistakenly, that they were "protecting America". They should be disabused of that notion by now. I feel for the families that lost people under that illusion. Who lost people because of the arrogance and incompetence of the so called "leadership" who is currently more concerned with "white privilege" than actually defending the country and upholding the rule of law and the rights protected by our supreme document.

Just a few weeks ago Biden said that what we see happening wouldn't happen. 

Now all the world can see the lie and the liars. Same people who tell you that you "have to" wear a mask that viruses pass right through and around, in order to "protect yourself". 

Do you get it now?

Meanwhile the Chinese? Well they'll be doing *business* with the Taliban 'cause they generally understand to mind their own business and DO business.

Meanwhile in America, gasoline prices are up 30% since Joe took office. Food prices are up about the same. Your, and my, retirement accounts have probably lost 30% or more of it's purchasing power.

Private property rights, a fundamental thing in America has been tossed aside and the courts apparently don't care one bit. 

You may think these latter things are not relevant to Kabul. They are. A competent and serious country would not have these things happening.

America left the "serious country'  realm not too long ago. It has now left the "competent" realm.

And all the world has a front row seat.

Bye Felicia!

Cuomo has resigned as NYS governor. 

Be. The fuck. Out.

And to show you how upside down this all is. He is not resigning because he implemented policies that killed, yes, killed thousands of people in NYS AND committed a felony by falsifying reports on the matter.

Nope. He's out because he made some women feel uncomfortable.

Kill NYS residents? That's fine.

Make a female uncomfortable? You gotta go.

Couldn't happen to a better person.

Can we give the Tappan-Zee bridge back it's original name now?

Reality Check 2021

 I remember reading Rich Dad Poor Dad  and The Cashflow Quadrant. Those books changed my life because it changed how I viewed money and employment. Regretably, unlike some people I know, I did not move on that knowledge in the way I should have. I will live to regret it even more. I'll keep this short. It's a Friday and blog traffic usually drops starting late Thursday.

In the Cashflow Quadrant, we learn that the "lowest level" is that of employee. He is dependent upon his employer for his income and hence his life depends upon being employed. The next level up is being self-employed which he referred to as "owning your job". In this case you're not dependent upon 'your boss" but you do have a lot of bosses, your customers, and you need to keep them happy in order to keep your income stream flowing.

Next level was owning a business. In this case you employ other people and employ a "system".

Lastly you have the investor. This person invests in other people's businesses (or property) and they have cash flow from those businesses. Most importantly, THEY don't have to "work" and they have no boss.

Why do I bring this up? Vaccine mandates.

It is entirely unprecedented to have a private company tell an adult that they have to take a medical intervention "or else".  I already explained the difference between childhood vaccinations and telling an adult they have to take "X" or not be able to earn a living. And I won't even get into the denial of public accommodations.

In reality the issue is that it is now the case that businesses own their employees.  They are so comfortable in the fact that they own their employees that they are willing to fire them over personal medical decisions.

The only people immune from this are those who are either self-employed or "better".  Fate handed me the knowledge and I didn't make the move and soon I will pay the price, just as many people are finding out. I feel worse because I knew it was coming but allowed myself to become comfortable.

So this is to any young people reading this. By young I mean 17 and up. If you have the talent and ability and mental fortitude, EXIT the employment trap as soon as you possibly can. The recent events show that they will cut you off and throw you out in a blink of an eye. No matter how you performed. No matter your stellar performance reviews. No matter you mind you own business. 

And you may think everyone should get a vaccine. Fine. I respect that. But that's not the issue. The issue is that once your employer can demand medical intervention on your body, which is your exclusive property, then there is nothing to stop them from demanding anything else.

Exit. As fast as you can. Don't make the mistake I did. 

The Ghost Was Right: Mucosal Immunity

 Way back in March of 2020, I told you about Oil of Oregano:

The researchers noted that this action is likely due to carvacrol, one of the main compounds in oregano oil. While carvacrol was more effective against certain viruses on its own, oregano oil was more effective against respiratory viruses, such as flu viruses.

Because your nasal passages and throat are your early defense mechanisms against airborne diseases:

Filtering prevents airborne bacteria, viruses, other potentially disease-causing substances from entering the lungs, where they may cause infection. Filtering also eliminates smog and dust particles, which may clog the narrow air passages in the smallest bronchioles.

I'm pretty sure most if not all people promptly ignored my suggestion. Well here's "The science"

The mucosal immune system 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. However, almost all studies of the immune response in COVID-19 have focused exclusively on serum antibodies and systemic cell-mediated immunity including innate responses. This article proposes that there is a significant role for mucosal immunity and for secretory as well as circulating IgA antibodies in COVID-19, and that it is important to elucidate this in order to comprehend especially the asymptomatic and mild states of the infection, which appear to account for the majority of cases. Moreover, it is possible that mucosal immunity can be exploited for beneficial diagnostic, therapeutic, or prophylactic purposes.

Oh.

Most attention has been given to virus-neutralizing antibodies, especially circulating antibodies (13–15). However, these can only be effective in the prevention of infection or disease if they reach the mucosal surfaces where the virus is present, and it should be noted that circulating IgA, even in polymeric form, is not effectively transported into secretions (16). 

Short story: The antibodies that those vaccines produce aren't much good when the virus is in the mucus.

"
The serious pathology of COVID-19 occurs in the terminal airways of the lungs, where circulating IgG is the dominant immunoglobulin. The resulting intense inflammation involves multiple molecular and cellular factors, including cells recruited by virus-induced chemo-attractants (17)."

Like we said: COVID is an inflammatory disease. The goal should be  to prevent the inflammatory response.

We contend that mucosal immunity has a major part to play in COVID-19, at several levels. Given that SARS-CoV-2 first infects mainly through the nasal passages, possibly through the eyes followed by drainage into the URT, also through the mouth, we would predict that the first immune responses should be revealed through the mucosal immune system, with the appearance of SIgA antibodies in URT secretions, and also in saliva and lacrimal fluid.

I told you this back in March of 2020. Just sayin'. 

Intranasal vaccines are already available against influenza and others are under development (30, 38). The advantages, in addition to needle-free administration, include the generation of both mucosal (SIgA) and circulating (IgG and IgA) antibodies, as well as T-cell responses. As discussed above, such responses might achieve desirable results not obtained with systemic immunization routes.

So it's not like they don't know about this part of the immune system. They just decided not to pursue it OR at a minimum tell you how to boost your ability to halt the infection at the throat. I'll be honest though, some dentists were discussing gargling, which is also effective, the extent I cannot comment on. But that message was not and is not widespread. There's not much money to be made selling people what they already buy. Oil of Oregano IS expensive though.

Anyway, just another example of how we skeptics have been right about a lot of things.