Getting Schoolchildren to Wear Face Masks is Impractical
The Spectator has published a great piece by Calvin Robinson, the teacher who featured in a recent job advertisement put out by the Department for Education. He thinks it’s completely impractical to get schoolchildren to wear face muzzles.
Has anyone who is recommending the use of masks in schools ever spent any significant amount of time working with young people? It seems unlikely.
Children simply will not wear their masks correctly, if at all. Girls will constantly be adjusting them; boys will be flicking them across the room and pulling each others’ elastic bands. They’ll all be pulling them down to their necks at break time, resulting in pieces of food and drink being spilt inside. That, and the fact that they’ll be wearing them around their necks, mirroring the behaviour of adults they see on public transport, further trapping bacteria. If anything, face masks will be detrimental to the health of young people.
Of course, there is much to be debated about whether face masks are beneficial at all, with the deputy chief medical officer, Jenny Harries, recently announcing that they may, in fact, increase health risks. I’m not a medical expert; I’ll leave the science to the professionals. What I do know is that masks will not work in a school environment.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Camilla Tominey has written a good piece for the Telegraph about the Government’s hopelessly mixed messaging around school safety
Brazil – Not the Disaster We’ve Been Led to Believe
Today I’m publishing a great piece about Brazil, debunking the ‘disaster’ narrative in the international media. In fact, the lifecycle of the epidemic in Brazil has followed the same pattern as everywhere else, provided you break it down into different regions, and in spite of the high death toll it has experienced fewer deaths per million than many European countries, including the UK, and fewer deaths per capita than neighbouring Peru, which has had one of the strictest lockdowns in the world. It’s by the same person who wrote the “Postcard From Brazil“, one of our best international dispatches to date. This new piece is a must read. Here’s an extract:
People without a single clue between them talk like Bolsonaro could have locked down the country by decree and Brazilians would have obeyed passively like in Auckland, and we would have the same death toll as Denmark. These people have never been to Brazil. The effort it would have taken to suppress the unruly and increasingly desperate population of 207 million highly unequal people spread out from megacities to jungle tribes would have required full on martial law being reinstated in a country that was a military dictatorship until the 1960s. Even that might not have worked. Blood would have been shed for sure. Seriously, is this what the ‘progressives’ want? The subjugation of one of the most free spirited countries on Earth by the military? All to try, and surely fail, to snuff out a vírus so deadly you have to be tested to see if you have it? Has the world gone crazy?
Don’t answer that.
The author also makes a very good point about why Brazil’s public health advisors have generally been more sensible than their counterparts in the UK and the US.
Brazil has, without a doubt, some of the world’s best epidemiolgists, virologists, and infectologists, and it is a pleasure to read their non-ideological takes on things. Why? I’d speculate it is because they have actually had consistent, day-in, day-out, on the ground experience dealing with real epidemics (zika, dengue, yellow fever) instead of researching them from the ivory tower. Nobody here generalises about how things might go based on the progress of the Spanish Flu, but instead rely on observation of the unfolding epidemic as it takes place. I’ve even read them putting forward the heretical theory that BLM protests in US states with high levels of immunity (New York, New Jersey, etc.) probably didn’t contribute much to cases, while states that had ‘suppressed’ Covid at first (Florida, California) and had low levels of immunity saw surges as an obvious result of the massive superspreader protests. Refreshing to leave bizarro world for a while, isn’t it?
This piece is highly recommended. Worth reading in full.
Australian Rules Balls
A journalist friend of mine posted this on her Facebook account yesterday. Heartbreaking.
I just spoke to my ‘little’ brother (39) who (like the rest of my family) is Australian; he lives in Queensland. On Aug 1st our 81 year-old mother had a severe stroke. The only reason she survived is that, miraculously, my brother and his family happened to be visiting her at her home in NSW at the time; the difference between life and death. Last week she was discharged from hospital in Wagga and so having spent the previous few weeks packing/disposing of her belongings, my brother prepared to take her back home, where he and his family have rearranged their house to accommodate her.
In order to be allowed to cross the state border from NSW to QLD both my brother and mother had to have Covid tests and the appropriate paperwork — mostly electronic — in place.
However, at the border, after a drive of nearly 800 miles, whatever the paperwork was meant to be it was not sufficiently in order and as a result my brother and mother had to spend 3 days in a (quote/unquote) ‘shitty motel’ waiting for some jobsworths to join the dots. At no point was anybody able/willing to join those dots sufficiently to see that detaining an 81 (she’s 82 next week) year-old recovering stroke victim in a motel for several days was perhaps less than ideal, given that the alternative would simply have been to allow her to cross the border (this is a state border, remember, not another country) in a comfortable car with her son and be driven to the family home… 40 miles away.
The grotesque absurdity — not to mention irony —of forcing a frail octogenarian who had already tested negative for Covid to spend any time at all in a motel in order to protect… well, who precisely? (And from what? ‘Catching’ a stroke?)… is not lost on either me, my brother or indeed our mother. The only upside is that they weren’t attempting to travel out of Victoria, which is now effectively a police state. Anyway, they got home eventually and while they are currently forced to self-isolate for a fortnight, my mother (and my stoic/heroic little bro) are, somewhat against the odds, doing fine. The moral of this story: THERE ARE MANY OTHER (FAR MORE POTENTIALLY LETHAL) MEDICAL ISSUES FOR THE ELDERLY BEYOND COVID-19.
Manchester Police Break Up Party For Terminally Ill Child
There’s a shocking story in the Mirror about Manchester Police’s over-zealous enforcement of lockdown rules.
A police chief said “we can’t win” after officers were called to a terminally-ill child’s birthday party amid accusations of a heavy-handed approach to people breaking lockdown rules.
Chief Constable Ian Hopkins of Greater Manchester Police, used the case as an example of the tough decisions officers are facing each day during the coronavirus pandemic.
The incident was dealt with via “a quiet word”, but the Chief Constable has revealed the force has been compared to “a police state” over the way it has tried to enforce social distancing rules.
Actually, Chief Constable, there is one way you could “win”. You could exercise a little discretion in your enforcement of draconian lockdown rules – or simply ignore the rule breakers altogether.
Even NHS Test and Trace Admits Cases Are Falling
Good story in the Telegraph about case numbers falling. They weren’t going up according to the ONS infection survey, but now even NHS Test and Trace has conceded defeat.
The number of people testing positive for coronavirus has declined for the first time in six weeks – despite an increase in tests.
Only 6,115 positive cases were recorded by NHS Test and Trace across England between Aug 13 and 19, down from 6,616 in the previous week.
The figures were released on Thursday, as ministers decided whether to impose more local or regional lockdowns in order to suppress the virus.
Restrictions remain in place in Greater Manchester, parts of Lancashire, Leicester, Luton and Northampton.
Since the beginning of July, the statistics provided by Test and Trace had shown a steady weakly rise of positive results, outstripping the increase in the number of tests conducted.
They were used as evidence by some experts to argue for the reintroduction of lockdown measures.
Can the pointless local lockdowns now be lifted, please?
Free Speech Union is Looking For a Chief Legal Counsel
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Round-Up
- ‘Take the piss out of the Guardian at your peril‘ – The humourless woke newspaper is using copyright claims to go after satirical websites that mock its output
- Amusing Facebook post about cancel culture – This is worth a watch
- ‘Kansas Democrats’ Covid Chart Masks the Truth‘ – The Health Secretary of Kansas has been caught fiddling the stats to make it look as though the Governor’s mask order has been effective
- ‘Hazmat officials board Ryanair flight at Stansted and drag off Covid-infected passenger‘ – Talk about OTT!
- ‘Lockdowns and Mask Mandates Do Not Lead to Reduced COVID Transmission Rates or Deaths, New Study Suggests‘ – Good write up of the National Bureau of Economic Research working paper showing that lockdowns and mask orders don’t work
- ‘Europe is at last waking up to its lockdown folly‘ – Excellent column by the Telegraph‘s Sherelle Jacobs
- Ivor Cummins Explainer on the Cadedemic – Very good YouTube video by Ivor Cummins on the Casedemic
- ‘Yale prof: “Evidence overwhelming” for fighting COVID with hydroxychloroquine‘ – More evidence in favour of HCQ
- ‘Wahaca to shut a third of restaurants‘ – Another of my favourite restaurant chains is in trouble
- ‘Rolls-Royce loses £5.4bn in first six months of 2020‘ – Jesus Christ. Will there be any British companies left at the end of this?
- ‘Biggest cities deserted as only 17% of staff return to the office‘ – Project Fear on steroids has done its work. Depressing story in the Times
- ‘You are now 67 times more likely to die from something other than Covid‘ – And seven times more likely to die from pneumonia or flu (and it’s August)
- ‘Enough is Enough‘ – Good editorial in Monocle by Tyler Brulee
- ‘Good Hope Hospital’s Dr Ron Daniels says: “Don’t fear second wave – coronavirus is getting less angry”‘ – Birmingham NHS consultant says no need to worry about a second wave
Theme Tunes Suggested by Readers
Four today: “Don’t Stop the Carnival” by Alan Price, “No Common Sense” by Yvonne, “Mixed Messages” by the Bangles, “Insult Your Intelligence” by One Inch Punch, “Brainwashed” by the Kinks and “Hook, Line and Sinker” by Frankie Swain
Love in the Time of Covid
We have created some Lockdown Sceptics Forums that are now open, including a dating forum called “Love in a Covid Climate” that has attracted a bit of attention. We’ve also just introduced a section where people can arrange to meet up for non-romantic purposes. We have a team of moderators in place to remove spam and deal with the trolls, but sometimes it takes a little while so please bear with us. You have to register to use the Forums, but that should just be a one-time thing. Any problems, email the Lockdown Sceptics webmaster Ian Rons here.
Small Businesses That Have Re-Opened
A few months ago, Lockdown Sceptics launched a searchable directory of open businesses across the UK. The idea is to celebrate those retail and hospitality businesses that have re-opened, as well as help people find out what has opened in their area. But we need your help to build it, so we’ve created a form you can fill out to tell us about those businesses that have opened near you.
Now that non-essential shops have re-opened – or most of them, anyway – we’re focusing on pubs, bars, clubs and restaurants, as well as other social venues. As of July 4th, many of them have re-opened too, but not all (and some of them are at risk of having to close again). Please visit the page and let us know about those brave folk who are doing their bit to get our country back on its feet – particularly if they’re not insisting on face masks! If they’ve made that clear to customers with a sign in the window or similar, so much the better. Don’t worry if your entries don’t show up immediately – we need to approve them once you’ve entered the data.
“Mask Exempt” Lanyards
I’ve created a permanent slot down here for people who want to buy (or make) a “Mask Exempt” lanyard/card. You can print out and laminate a fairly standard one for free here and it has the advantage of not explicitly claiming you have a disability. But if you have no qualms about that (or you are disabled), you can buy a lanyard from Amazon saying you do have a disability/medical exemption here (now showing it will arrive between Oct 3rd to Oct 13th). The Government has instructions on how to download an official “Mask Exempt” notice to put on your phone here. You can get a “Hidden Disability” tag from ebay here and an “exempt” card with lanyard for just £3.99 from Etsy here.
Don’t forget to sign the petition on the UK Government’s petitions website calling for an end to mandatory face nappies in shops here (now over 30,000).
A reader has started a website that contains some useful guidance about how you can claim legal exemption.
And here’s a round-up of the scientific evidence on the effectiveness of mask (threadbare at best).
Shameless Begging Bit
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And Finally…
In my Spectator column today I take aim at the BBC. I wasn’t impressed by Tony Hall’s speech to the Edinburgh Television Festival.
Reading the speech Tony Hall gave to the Edinburgh Television Festival, I was struck by his upbeat, confident tone. The outgoing director-general of the BBC talked about how its reporting of the coronavirus crisis had brought its core mission as a public service broadcaster into sharper focus and boosted its popularity, particularly among 16- to 34-year-olds. He said his goal when he arrived at the BBC was to reach a global audience of 500 million by 2022, its centenary year, and this target has now been revised upwards to a billion by the end of the decade. “But it needs extra investment from government and that bid is with them right now,” he said.
Doesn’t Tony Hall realise that the BBC’s future is hanging by a thread? The corporation struck a deal with the government five years ago whereby it promised to cover the cost of providing free TV licences to the over-75s in return for hiking up the licence fee, and it has now reneged on that deal. As of this month, three million pensioners will have to fork out £157.50 a year if they want to watch television — not just the BBC, but any live TV at all. In response, Oliver Dowden, the Culture Secretary, said the government would look seriously at decriminalising non-payment of the licence fee. If that happens, the BBC is toast. Who in their right mind is going to pay a voluntary fee to the BBC just for the privilege of owning a television set, particularly when they’re already subscribing to Sky, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Apple TV, Disney+ and God knows what else?
Doesn’t Tony Hall realise that the BBC’s future is hanging by a thread?
Seemingly oblivious to this iceberg hoving into view, the cheerful captain boasted about the £100 million he has ring-fenced in the commissioning budget to pay for ‘diverse and inclusive programming’ and the 20 per cent ‘diverse-talent target’ he’s put in place — as if that’s going to save the ship. When Hall talks about ‘diversity’ you can bet your bottom dollar he doesn’t mean commissioning more programmes from Brexit-supporting, Tory-voting global warming sceptics. Nor does he mean over-65s, with the exception of Sir David Attenborough. Nor, I suspect, will the BBC be including people who live in rural areas in its ‘diverse-talent target’, particularly if they hunt or shoot. No, he means more BAME people, even though they only make up 13 per cent of the population.
But, of course, the thing that’s done the greatest harm to the BBC’s reputation this year is its coverage of the coronavirus crisis.
The BBC has done colossal harm to its reputation since the beginning of the pandemic by faithfully regurgitating all the information it’s been fed by the public authorities, becoming little more than a propaganda arm of 10 Downing Street. A responsible public service broadcaster would have stepped into the breach after parliament was suspended, scrutinising the big government decisions such as clearing out hospital wards, cancelling all non-emergency surgery, suspending cancer screenings, shutting down GP practices and turning the NHS into a Covid-only service.
But instead of challenging this daft strategy, the BBC did everything it could to make it seem sensible, broadcasting story after story about patients battling with the virus, kept alive by selfless and exhausted NHS staff. We’ll be living with the consequences of that failure for years, with one eminent oncologist predicting we’ll see 30,000 preventable deaths from cancer alone in the next decade.
Worth reading in full.
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Phew. Lots of numbers, graphs, research, thanks for the work you’ve done here.
I’d be really interested to see you do a similar piece attempting to explain the huge increase (I forget the exact numbers but the increase was something like 20x above average) in professional sportspeople dropping like flies from December 2020 onwards (I believe the research I saw talked specifically about 2021 in total, even though it was obvious it was happening as the year was passing)?
I have no idea how many deaths have been caused by the Covid vaccines, but can anyone show me evidence from anywhere in the world that the Covid vaccines are safe?
I don’t personally know anyone who died because of the Covid vaccines but I personally know three people who have suffered permanent damage because of the Covid vaccines.
I read this when it first came out 2 days ago and highlighted by Steve Kirsch.
We will have to wait and see what Denis Rancourt’s rebuttal to Hoeg’s claims were.
However, if it was 17 million or 1.7 million or 170,000 deaths from the experimental jab they should be stopped NOW.
17 million dead post stabs seems low – out of the 7 billion stabbed this gives a death rate of 0.25%. I would gander that it is more likely 4-8 x that level.
How many were injured – a billion?
Hoeg – who wrote this article sounds like another pharma shill, couching her anti-anti-stabbers in graphs and numbers which mean little.
Surely she is not ‘anti vaxx’ but ‘cautious’ about the mRNA poisons…blah blah blah.
The analysis is simple. Dec 2020 they rolled out the jags. How many who were stabbed died who wouldn’t have died vs the unstabbed. The ratio is 95% vs 5%.
The data is available and easily digested (unlike this article).
I did not find this article difficult to digest – I found it less thorough than many.
Big Pharma were permitted to bring out vaccines in a tenth of the normal time and it was permitted by weak, and may I say, woke politicians who have largely indeminified these companies. The death rate per million is too high whatever it is and one of the issues that has been lost in debate is that the vaccine failed to either stop the virus or its spread.
The enemy that was as great as that was the ‘Lockdown’ policy which had a domino effect from N Italy and then China, across the world bar Sweden. That policy killed the most people and should be the one with as great an investigation as the vaccine.
Denis Rancourt has how replied to Hoeg’s criticism.
https://denisrancourt.substack.com/p/my-response-to-tracy-beth-hoegs-criticisms?publication_id=1767404&post_id=141020553&isFreemail=true&r=1ninci
“Furthermore, avoiding inappropriately scaring people – be it about Covid or the vaccines – is good public health.”
I’m not sure these two things are equivalent. The downside of scaring people inappropriately about “covid” was trillions of dollars wasted, billions of lives disrupted etc etc. The “downside” of “scaring people inappropriately” about “covid vaccines” is that they won’t take any more “covid vaccines” which have hardly been tested, are probably not safe and you don’t actually need them.
Indeed. But the real question is “Was it appropriate to scare people into taking a toxic, untested, experimental medical intervention that they did not need for a pandemic that did not exist?”
What is appropriate now is to generate enough concern in those who have taken this awful jab to do whatever they can to ameliorate the effects. There are all sorts of detox protocols being developed by authentic qualified doctors who are not compromised by big pharma. The World Council for Health is a good starting point.
Great work and good to see decent, civilised discussion, an increasing rarity these days. However, as they are still being pushed, even mandated in some countries, I have a horrible feeling that despite all the evidence and despite all the calls for the jabs to be withdrawn, the concept of jab-induced immune damage, illness and death is becoming worryingly normalised. Is it because we’ve had decades of psy-ops indoctrination & media propaganda giving Big Pharma so much slack on drug and vaccine harms (thalidomide, guardasil, fentanyl, rotavirus, swine flu, etc) that we’re becoming inured to it? It wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest, given the massive increase in mRNA platform development for drugs right across the board despite its inherent and so far unresolved problems. If so, it does not bode well for humanity.
17 million excess deaths.
All I know I’ve never seen so many ambulances and hearses.
Lets not forget on Ted Talk in about 2010 Bill Gates said that he wanted to reduce the worlds population by 10-14% using …. guess what ….
Why are so many minor celebrities under 60 dying suddenly?
Microsoft Windows 11 updates?
I yield to no one in my contempt for Gates, but repeating this does our credibility no favours. What Gates meant was that if people in less developed countries had access to vaccines, then infant mortality would fall and they would not feel the need to have very large families (i.e. to guarantee someone would be there to look after them in their dotage).
Now we may not agree with his many assumptions here, but the idea that he accidentally let slip his demonic plan to reduce the world population by lethal injection is a little ridiculous.
I would tend to agree.
Below is a link to one of his blog posts, from 2016.
I do not know how anyone with at least one iota of normal life experience could read it and not realise that – in very many respects – he is a complete fool.
https://www.gatesnotes.com/Smells-of-Success
Sadly, he is a very rich fool. Problem, that.
I’m sure a lot of us have anecdotal stories about deaths and injuries.
Since the jabs were rolled out four people on my small Estate (with about 24 residents) have had strokes: three are dead, one is in a bad way and has now gone to a Care Home.
Two other neighbours have developed undiagnosed, debilitating neurological problems.
Husbands of two friends (both late middle age) have had heart attacks. One of them had another booster and shortly afterwards another heart attack; he is now semi-disabled.
Five acquaintances have developed cancers; three dead, one terminal, one is receiving treatment and may survive.
Then there’s a litany of friends and acquaintances who have recently had various medical problems requiring treatment: blood clots; an undiagnosed neurological disorder; a liver problem which required surgery; plus the usual “I’ve got Covid again; I feel awful; I don’t know what’s wrong with me, I never feel well.”
Something doesn’t add up here. The table above shows that New Zealand has never had any excess deaths. Every other source has shown NZ has been suffering a huge number of excess deaths. Ditto Australia, Israel etc etc.
Also every article I’ve seen shows an absolute coincidence between the introduction of vaccines and excess deaths in the following weeks. Suddenly that’s not the case?? It certainly was the case in early 2021 in the UK.
Finally Denis Rancourt provides a clear explanation as to why he choose the Southern Hemisphere countries that he did. (I believe it was to use their ‘summer data’ when flu should be low). If this author hasn’t found that out I expect she hasn’t looked very hard.
So even with a cursory glance, there seems to be significant issues with this narrative.
There is, of course, more to this matter than vaccine mortality.
The vaccines, covid and influenza, give rise to Giant Cell Arteritis (GCA).
The corticosteroid treatment of GCA can cause severe dementia.
‘The most important and common complications are cerebrovascular disorders including cerebral venous sinus thrombosis, transient ischemic attack, intracerebral hemorrhage, ischemic stroke, and demyelinating disorders including transverse myelitis, first manifestation of MS, and neuromyelitis optica. These effects are often acute and transient, but they can be severe and even fatal in a few cases.’
A review of neurological side effects of COVID-19 vaccination, Feb 2023
‘Studies have investigated the mechanism by which mRNA vaccines induce GCA; the onset of this condition is attributed to cross-reaction of produced antibodies with tissues. In addition, conventional GCA, SARS-CoV2 infection, and adverse reactions after vaccination against SARS-CoV2 promote excessive production of interleukin-6, which may be involved in the pathogenesis. Therefore, the use of an mRNA vaccine against SARS-CoV2 may be linked to the development of GCA.’
Development of giant cell arteritis after vaccination against SARS-CoV2: A case report and literature review, June 2023
‘Our brief narrative review confirms that a steroid dementia syndrome exists. According to several experts’ opinion, steroid dementia syndrome is an overlooked diagnosis.’
Does a steroid dementia syndrome really exist? A brief narrative review of what the literature highlights about the relationship between glucocorticoids and cognition, 15 March 2023
‘“I was excited to know someone did this study that really validates what we’ve known for a long time — that steroids cause brain atrophy and a lot of neuropsychiatric symptoms or side effects,” he stated.’
Prescription steroids affect brain structure, study finds, Medical News Today 06 Sept 2022
The paper “COVID-19 Vaccine-Associated Mortality in the Southern Hemisphere”, by Denis G. Rancourt, Marine Baudin, Joseph Hickey, and Jérémie Mercier, can be found here:
https://denisrancourt.ca/entries.php?id=133&name=2023_09_17_covid_19_vaccine_associated_mortality_in_the_southern_hemisphere
Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg questions why Rancourt’s team analysed only 17 countries and why these 17, and why did they look at the Southern Hemisphere and not the Northern?
Rancourt’s paper analyses mortality data from almost all the South American countries, as well as South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and some southern equatorial countries, i.e. a comprehensive and representative selection. Those countries were presumably chosen because they had reliable and publicly available statistics covering the period of analysis. Seventeen is, in my opinion, a large enough selection if resources are limited. Finally, Denis Rancourt has already published papers analysing northern hemisphere countries: USA, Canada and France.
I have copied Denis Rancourt’s abstract to the paper below, which describes how the 17 million number was calculated. Further details are naturally in the paper itself.
Seventeen equatorial and Southern-Hemisphere countries were studied (Argentina, Australia, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Malaysia, New Zealand, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, Suriname, Thailand, Uruguay), which comprise 9.10 % of worldwide population, 10.3 % of worldwide COVID-19 injections (vaccination rate of 1.91 injections per person, all ages), virtually every COVID-19 vaccine type and manufacturer, and span 4 continents.
In the 17 countries, there is no evidence in all-cause mortality (ACM) by time data of any beneficial effect of COVID-19 vaccines. There is no association in time between COVID-19 vaccination and any proportionate reduction in ACM. The opposite occurs.
All 17 countries have transitions to regimes of high ACM, which occur when the COVID‑19 vaccines are deployed and administered. Nine of the 17 countries have no detectable excess ACM in the period of approximately one year after a pandemic was declared on 11 March 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO), until the vaccines are rolled out (Australia, Malaysia, New Zealand, Paraguay, Philippines, Singapore, Suriname, Thailand, Uruguay).
Unprecedented peaks in ACM occur in the summer (January-February) of 2022 in the Southern Hemisphere, and in equatorial-latitude countries, which are synchronous with or immediately preceded by rapid COVID-19-vaccine-booster-dose rollouts (3rd or 4th doses). This phenomenon is present in every case with sufficient mortality data (15 countries). Two of the countries studied have insufficient mortality data in January-February 2022 (Argentina and Suriname).
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Synchronicity between the many peaks in ACM (in 17 countries, on 4 continents, in all elderly age groups, at different times) and associated rapid booster rollouts allows this firm conclusion regarding causality, and accurate quantification of COVID-19-vaccine toxicity.
The all-ages vaccine-dose fatality rate (vDFR), which is the ratio of inferred vaccine-induced deaths to vaccine doses delivered in a population, is quantified for the January-February 2022 ACM peak to fall in the range 0.02 % (New Zealand) to 0.20 % (Uruguay). In Chile and Peru, the vDFR increases exponentially with age (doubling approximately every 4 years of age), and is largest for the latest booster doses, reaching approximately 5 % in the 90+ years age groups (1 death per 20 injections of dose 4). Comparable results occur for the Northern Hemisphere, as found in previous articles (India, Israel, USA).
We quantify the overall all-ages vDFR for the 17 countries to be (0.126 ± 0.004) %, which would imply 17.0 ± 0.5 million COVID-19 vaccine deaths worldwide, from 13.50 billion injections up to 2 September 2023. This would correspond to a mass iatrogenic event that killed (0.213 ± 0.006) % of the world population (1 death per 470 living persons, in less than 3 years), and did not measurably prevent any deaths.
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She didn’t manage to convince us that the Jabs are actually safe & effective did she ! 17 million maybe a worst case scenario but even if it’s miles out it’s still heinous ! Also if she’s proved right & it’s only say, half that number then it’s ok is it ! NOT …!!!
She did not say that at all.
She wants these products off the market.
There is a debate about how many deaths were caused by these vaccines. I like her thought process. It is not simple. Have been looking at Sweden’s data and in this highly vaccinated country we have not seen the levels of excess deaths. Now this does not prove anything, but I agree with the author that more work is needed.
Could the batches used be relevant to where deaths/injuries from the vaccine occurred?
Thank you for this excellent article.
i think we can only work this out by analysis of vaccinated and non-vaccinated groups. And we need large numbers. Using the VAX-Control group (https://vaxcontrolgroup.com/) may be good, but ideally public health data from multiple countries should be used.
i do challenge the healthy vaccine bias. You could argue that people who are more health conscious were more likely to do research before being vaccinated and reject vaccination?
I also think the emphasis on deaths and cardiac related issues may miss important other side-effects.
The fact of the matter is that these jabs ARE causing injury and death and as Andrew Bridgen pointed out in his recent speech on excess deaths other vaccines have been “pulled” with far far fewer deaths occurring.
Just stop the bloody things now!
The most important conclusion to be drawn from this article is that “Controversial claims and interpretations should lead to conversations and more data, not cancellations.”
Thank you to The Sceptic for publishing this article by somebody who clearly understands the complex statistics involved and who hopefully does not have any vested interest in one or other side of the debate.
What we have needed from the outset is open and honest debate not unqualified “fact checkers” and cancellation of legitimate research, analysis and observations in MSM, social media and medical and scientific journals. We have not needed pharmaceutical representatives, scientists, doctors and advisers dependent on funding from those with a clear vested interest, global organisations funded by those with an obvious agenda, charitable funds heavily invested in the pharmaceutical industry etc presenting a one sided narrative and cancelling and censoring debate.
We have never needed the completely unethical mandates. We have always needed policies to be determined on the basis of a thorough risk benefit analysis. Legally valid informed consent should never have been abandoned. Policies should always have been based on the precautionary principle and the dictum of primum non nocere. Doctors should not have been silenced and threatened with erasure from the medical profession.
Need I go on?
Bravo to the Daily Sceptic for publicising a genuine, sincere, article from sceptic-through-to-her-bones Dr Hoeg. Really enjoyed reading this intelligent critique of a great interview.
I don’t pretend to understand all of this …. but I am quite relaxed about someone challenging a scientific/evidence-based theory on the basis of another scientific/evidence-based theory.
What I refuse to accept are the blatant lies spouted by the Covid Propagandists which are not scientific or evidence-based ….. and which refuses to admit or address the issue that the experimental jabs have clearly had significant harms for a great many people.
Before even looking at the detail, one thing which is blatantly obvious is that this particular researcher has taken the published average deaths to determine expected mortality WHICH INCLUDES the inflated excess figures and does not consider either that one would expect mortality to decrease after an alleged pandemic of significance. You cannot state that there are marginal decreases when the figures you are using are inflated!
Having now had time to read Denis Rancourt’s original paper, I am afraid Dr. Tracy Beth Hoeg’s critical article does not take Rancourt’s earlier papers nor his current conclusions into account.
Hoeg firstly displays only 9 of Rancourt’s 17 graphs (possibly due to lack of space) showing mortality against vaccine rollout, stating that “the peaks of all-cause excess mortality do not clearly correspond to the vaccine rollout nor is any association that does exist consistent in appearance and timing from country to country”.
As I wrote in my above post, Rancourt states in his paper that “Nine of the 17 countries have no detectable excess ACM in the period of approximately one year after a pandemic was declared on 11 March 2020 by the World Health Organization (WHO) …”. This alone is a clear indication there was no deadly virus circulating in those countries.
Concerning this pre-vaccination period (from WHO declaration of a pandemic to vaccine rollout), Rancourt writes, “We attribute this [mortality] variability in the pre-vaccination period to large country-to-country differences in aggressive medical and government measures, convoluted with underlying population structures of fragile individuals, similarly to the large state-to-state differences in the USA …”. As in UK and many other countries, governments emptied hospitals, cancelled operations, locked residents in care homes, etc., which is clearly not beneficial to prolonged health.
Then, “By comparison, the patterns and magnitudes of ACM by time are relatively consistent, from country to country, in the vaccination period (Figure 6): all 17 countries have significant excess ACM in the vaccination period, virtually all 17 countries have large peaks of excess ACM in early-2021 when the COVID-19 vaccines are first rolled out, followed by a peak in excess ACM in early-2022 (the nominally January-February 2022 peak) when boosters are rolled out.”
In summary, “We attribute this relative constancy from country to country of excess ACM by time of the vaccination period as being due to the large uniformity in timing of COVID-19 vaccine and booster rollouts across the 17 countries; whereas medical and government measures were generally more disparate in the pre-vaccination period.”
The possibly two main points of Rancourt’s 180-page paper are:
(1) Absence of excess mortality until the COVID-19 vaccines are rolled out and
(2) The COVID-19 vaccines did not save lives and appear to be lethal toxic agents.
The first point is repeated in all his papers, i.e. that mortality comparisons between neighbouring countries, states and provinces repeatedly show THERE WAS NO PANDEMIC.
His second point is, I think, expressed lightly!
Thank you for doing this. It is e trembly important to get the facts. Confirmation bias on both sides is a huge problem.
Terribly important
Dennis Rancourt has now replied to Hoeg’s criticism.
https://denisrancourt.substack.com/p/my-response-to-tracy-beth-hoegs-criticisms?publication_id=1767404&post_id=141020553&isFreemail=true&r=1ninci