COVID spike proteins alone can cause COVID-like illness, without an active infection.
Please note that this was discovered in mice, and the spike proteins were injected, not inhaled.
One implication is that COVID vaccinations that cause cells in the body to produce spike proteins may be causing illness in the same way. And perhaps not just in vaccinated people, if spike proteins are being shed by the vaccinated.
Another implication is that there may not have been nearly so many active infections during the pandemic as we thought.
It appears from a cursory search that some COVID tests will come back positive based on spike proteins alone, although the ones in the vaccines are probably different enough to not be detected.
This song is haunting, although not directly applicable to my personal experience.
There's an interesting semi-parallel in Revelation 7:17 and 8:1:
"...and God shall wipe all tears from their eyes. And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour."
Some years back there were some public comments from famous authors about the Susan in the Narnia books not being present for the Final Battle and what followed. It was framed as bigotry against women and people of average morals.
Neil Gaiman's came in the form of a short story, "The Problem of Susan," which from an excerpt I found is apparently quite vile.
Gaiman has fallen out of public favor as allegations against him have begun to surface.
Two other authors were J. K. Rowling, who ought to know better, and Phillip Pullman, who also writes vile stories, I've been told.
Pastor Douglas Wilson has a lucid, sensitive, and rather long rebuttal to the Problem of Susan; link below.
My own, lesser contribution here, is that C. S. Lewis was a fan of George MacDonald, and MacDonald wrote some vivid portrayals of spiritual devolution. In The Princess and Curdie, Curdie was given the ability to discern which beast a person's moral character was descending into by holding their hand. In ...
