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Up to 80% of Sicilians Refuse AstraZeneca Vaccine

by Michael Curzon
11 April 2021 2:48 PM

Despite attempts by the Sicilian President to soothe fears over the relationship between the AstraZeneca vaccine and blood clots, as many as four in five people in the Southern Italian region are refusing the AZ jab. According to the Telegraph, President Nello Musumeci said: “In Sicily, there is an 80% refusal rate of the AstraZeneca vaccine. Every 100 people, 80 say no.” His spokeswoman clarified that the refusal rate is “up to” 80%, rather than 80% dead-on, citing the town of Syracuse as an example, where the rate is 30%. Musumeci urged people to look beyond their personal concerns and to take the vaccine when given the opportunity:

“It is natural [for people to be particularly concerned], but we have a duty to believe scientists when they say it is more dangerous not to get vaccinated than to get vaccinated.”

Italy was among the first nations to suspend the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine in early March due to concerns about its link to blood clots. In an interview with La Stampa, Franco Locatelli, the Italian Government’s top scientific advisor on Covid, said that fears over the AZ vaccine are “understandable, but unjustified”.

“I say that we are offering a vaccine that is safe and effective, which people must accept. That said, if we find ourselves facing a disarming number of defections, we will reconsider the issue.”

Sicily’s refusal rate is indicative of the damage done to the reputation of the AstraZeneca vaccine by reports on its side effects. Similarly, in Denmark, a recent survey found that far more Danes would decline to get an AstraZeneca Covid vaccine than would refuse to get a Covid jab altogether. Reuters reported:

One in three Danes would decline to get a Covid shot using AstraZeneca’s vaccine, local media outlets TV 2 and Politiken reported late on Wednesday, citing a recent survey. …

The survey, conducted by Megafon among 1,053 persons, showed 33% of Danes would decline to get a shot with AstraZeneca’s vaccine. However, only 7% would decline regardless of which Covid vaccine they were offered.

Polling suggests that Brits are more trustworthy of the AstraZeneca vaccine regardless of its links to blood clots. In a new YouGov survey, at least 75% of British respondents said that they trust the AZ jab.

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JeremyP99
JeremyP99
1 year ago

“She also explains how much EAF – electric arc furnace ”

And WHAT powers said ELECTRIC arc furnaces?

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GroundhogDayAgain
GroundhogDayAgain
1 year ago
Reply to  JeremyP99

Wishes and Unicorn farts

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 year ago

Been screaming about the save the planet cult to everyone for decades. Always been at pains to point out that I would happily ignore all the nonsense, were it not for the huge amount of pain and hardship it is causing and will continue to cause.

Ah well. At least I can look at myself in the mirror and know I tried, but it still stings.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago

This an extensive article. ——Those of us who have been looking into this climate/energy issue for a long time have realised for ages what is going on and it has mostly NOTHING to do with the climate. The climate is the excuse for the Eco Socialist Politics. We know that the wealthy western governments (apart from Trump) have fully signed up to this “Sustainable Development” UN political agenda based on the Malthusian way of looking at the world. We in the prosperous west have allegedly used up more than our fair share of the fossil fuels in the ground and are to stop doing that and are fobbing our own citizens off with expensive unreliable energies and technologies that are not up to the job. The energy solutions are mostly niche technologies like wind and solar that cannot provide base load and On Demand energy. ———-Prosperity and well being is directly tied to price and availability of energy. ——By increasing the cost and availability of energy what western governments like the UK one are doing is telling its citizens that will take away their prosperity and lower their standard of living. ———All so they can pretend to save the planet.

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago
Reply to  varmint

Something as big as this isn’t the result of one group of people. It is the confluence of a number of interests.

Eco loons is one.
Socialists who love to tell everyone what to do is another.
Alternative energy lobbies is another.

And a very big one is UK-European establishments that have run the world for the last 200 years and have lost control of the major global oil and gas supplies who will do literally anything, including driving us all into poverty, to defend their global influence.

Any one of these interests by itself isn’t enough to drive such a massive project like Net Zero, but all of them coming together can and are.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  stewart

Lets just call them the Global Government because control of the globe is what their politics is all about.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  varmint

Looks like two thumbs down people think Global Governance is not on the cards, and the UN and WEF are all just hoping to make the world a better place.—–I feel sorry for you.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  varmint

Ultimately the Sustainable Development gig is about Depopulation. This is a war being waged on numerous fronts.

Actual guns and bullets wars and now the new front – the war on food. Running alongside we have Nut Zero and to really cause trouble we had the C1984 which is shortly to be followed by Billy’s newest, Disease X.

When all of the above are firmly embedded what have we got? A poor, malnourished and therefore weak population. Disease X is released and of course it will require a “vaccine” only this one will be far more deadly.

Deagel’s population forecasts don’t seem so far-fetched anymore.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

The De-Population idea came from the Likes of Erlich and Brown. John Kerry was a big fan of this Malthusian idea of too many people and not enough resources kind of garbage. The climate change issue came along and was seized upon by the left as another tool in their box of handy excuses for global government. Net Zero is the latest bag of s..t they are unleashing on an unsuspecting public, and guess what? ——-Not a single MP asked any questions about what this would mean in 2019 and it was simply waved through. —-No one actually put their hand up and said “Eh, how much is this going to cost? Or “Are the technologies even available or can they even be invented? ——What is even crazier is that we have forced ourselves in law to do this. It is like me forcing myself in law to become a brain surgeon when I only drive a truck for a living. ——-Insanity

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  varmint

Good post.

Climate whatever :

Club of Rome “Limits to Growth” 1972.

“What is even crazier is that we have forced ourselves in law”

The rule of law applies only where it suits those in charge as I have posted many times.

The Rule of Law has been so grossly abused these last four years as to now be a complete fiction.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

They don’t know the cost. They don’t know if it can be done, but they are forcing the country in law to do it. ——–I came to the conclusion many years ago that western politicians all suffering from the Liberal Progressive disease and who are fully paid up members of the global government in waiting are utterly poisoned with contempt for their own citizens who they see as simply an inconvenience.

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JohnK
JohnK
1 year ago

Perhaps the military will wake up, and decide that it’s a bad idea to rely on the potential enemies for supply of equipment of whatever kind. A bit like the establishment of the Forestry Commission, but perhaps more like a modern (i.e. renamed) Coal commission.

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wokeman
wokeman
1 year ago
Reply to  JohnK

No chance the military waking up they are the most stupid and compliant of the lot.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  JohnK

“Perhaps” being the operative word.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Imagine that….A woke military coupe de etat!

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wokeman
wokeman
1 year ago

It will take 10s of thousands of ppl dying due to a grid failure in a January freeze before this ceases. Unfortunately the madness is that ingrained all by a fat communist named Michael Mann and his ridiculous hockey stick.

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago

Re open the coalmines (the ones that still can be, as most where capped and flooded to stop them ever being used again!) and create a new department called ‘The green fuel executive’
Do not use the word coal, anywhere!
then all the green lefty idiots will campaign for its progress! Simple, sort the problem with the words they are in favour of hearing

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Dinger64

“the ones that still can be, as most where capped and flooded to stop them ever being used again!”

The suggestion that coal mines cannot be re-opened is a fiction albeit one that the C in C’s may feel emboldened to use.

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

True, but it does make it a lot more expensive and so not as financially viable.
Also,whilst sinking new shafts a lot of careful geography has to be done to make sure of not flooding your new pit by hitting an old flooded tunnel 😳

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago

“steel production from recycled scrap has increased worldwide”

Do you see the problem I see here?
If everyone start using scrap steel there won’t be enough to go around and the price will rise! Not only that, you never have more scrap than new steel as most steel is still in use, you require new steel for a percentage of it to eventually be scrapped, eventually!

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wokeman
wokeman
1 year ago
Reply to  Dinger64

It’s a pointless argument to make unfortunately these lunatics are beyond reason. Their real desire is to kill ppl.

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AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
1 year ago
Reply to  Dinger64

This is the crux of the matter. As you imply, Dings, at some point you’re going to run out of new steel to scrap. Then again, in ‘their’ thinking, there probably won’t be the demand because there will be so few people about to demand anything. Maybe that is the point.

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
1 year ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

No problem. We can harvest rust from the soil using eco-friendly Community sieves, and recycle it into steel using renewable energy. Provided, of course, that we outsource the strip-mining of soil abroad rather than damaging the Natcheral Envirinmint. I imagine we could make hydrogen the same way once the technology comes along.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

😀😀😀👍

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

Next step — Food Security!

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Jon Garvey
Jon Garvey
1 year ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

No problem. We can harvest bacteria from the soil using eco-friendly filters…

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Dinger64
Dinger64
1 year ago
Reply to  Jon Garvey

“No problem. We can harvest rust from the soil using eco-friendly Community sieves”

now i see what the elite envisage!
Something like this, where peasants and serfs dig out the materials needed to make the private jets used by the elites!


monty-python-political-peasants
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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

They would just import cheap labour like they’re doing now, keeps the plebs in a low wage cycle, while sending Brits into some meat grinder. They have killed two birds with one stone there — Depopulation — Demographic decline.

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A Y M
A Y M
1 year ago

“It is a war of different theatres and modes of conflict: simultaneously ‘hot’ (kinetic) in Ukraine, the Middle East and with Taiwan threatened; ‘cold’ (economic) with China, Russia and Iran; and ‘grey’ (psychological, cyber and subversive) with all the enemies of the Free World.”

The “Free World” is anything but.

We are being driven into totally unnecessary wars from MICs and the Global Bankers. The latter looking to distract from the controlled demolition of the debt economy that has fueled the wealth transfer to the bankster cartels and their cadre of billionaires below them in their dream of a multipolar global financial reset into the neofeudal Technocracy. They have been behind or bankrolled both sides of all major conflicts since the Nepoleonic Wars so it’s hard to get excited about Steel production for the next set of incited wars.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  A Y M

Nailed it 👍

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  A Y M

Reminds me of the video by Ivor Cummins ‘Are All Wars Bankers Wars’….It is claimed the Reichsmark was the real threat…Not Hitler? This is a deep rabbit hole to put out there.

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RTSC
RTSC
1 year ago

Dr Prins appears to live in a parallel universe, where we have sensible politicians and Civil Servants, who understand that their primary duty is Defence of the Realm and that everything they do should be underpinned by that responsibility.

Then take a look at the f’wits we have in Parliament and the Eco Nutter Propagandists who infest the Civil Service (and public sector in general) ….. and start learning Chinese; various Indian languages; or Russian …..and/or studying the Koran.

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AethelredTheReadier
AethelredTheReadier
1 year ago
Reply to  RTSC

Yes, the voice of reason has long been absent from any serious policy making. If you’re planning to decimate an economy and society then the last thing you want to do is save jobs, re-open the coal mines, fire up the old power stations, get active with our own strategic gas reserve etc. If anything, what they are doing to us is treason. The whole shoddy lot of them need to be arrested and put on trial. Probably not going to happen but I like to think it would.

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Tyrbiter
Tyrbiter
1 year ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

Being arrested and tried is far too slow and ineffective, they need to be reduced to their component atoms by any means necessary. Strung up and left to rot is one means.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  AethelredTheReadier

“Treason.”

A word I have been lobbing about extensively for a couple or more years on DS.

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JayBee
JayBee
1 year ago

I am all for going after the man made climate change hoax and Net Zero, but using and rationalising their irresponsible lust for war to make the case against it is nutty and net negative.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  JayBee

It exposes their ‘own goal’ though.

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Mark Thornton
Mark Thornton
1 year ago

Excellent article
This level of strategic thinking does not occur in Cabinet
CO2 at 500 parts per million is a Red Herring
The concentration makes it irrelevant
The equivalent of covering 5 meters of a 10,000 metre run
too dispersed

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  Mark Thornton

CO2 = WEALTH. ——-Not Temperature. ————“One has to free oneself from the illusion that Climate Policy is Environmental Policy anymore. We redistribute the worlds wealth via Climate Policy” ——Edenhoffer IPCC. ——It is obvious what he means. The wealthiest emit the most CO2 because they have the biggest houses and appliances, cars and fly about in planes more, and the poor have very little of that. Carbon taxes etc allow government to fleece money from the wealthier people and countries and pass it on to poorer people and countries. ——–Eco Socialism with climate as the excuse, which mainstream media keep reminding us virtually on a daily basis.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago

An absolutely brilliant and clearly presented expose of Nut Zero.

When the C in C’s (Comedians in Charge) where muttering about conscription a few days ago I made the point that it was a waste of time because with Port Talbot gone we no longer had the means to produce arms. Dr Prins spells this out with brutal clarity.

When the pits were closed 30-35 years ago I told everybody who would listen that within 50 years we would be reopening them. OK, my timescale was slightly adrift but that prediction is proving to be valid.

What conclusion must be drawn if the C in C’s fail to act in a manner outlined by Dr Prins?

We are being set up for invasion or destruction by a superior military power.

Perhaps a population of 25 million as predicted by the Deagel forecasts by 2025 is still on the cards.

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

We are supposedly being asked if we will fight for our country. ——Except we don’t have a country anymore. It is just a Region.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  varmint

I will fight for my country. I love my country and always will.

Obviously the first battle would require the destruction of the treasonous barstewards who have got us in to a state where taking up arms is the only option. Ain’t that right Fishy?

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varmint
varmint
1 year ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Yes I used to feel like that too, but our country has been removed. It does not exist anymore. ——In 1950 it existed. Today it is not Britain. It is just an outpost of the global community. It is being overun with the barbarian hordes, and soon our daughters will be made to wear headscarves and told what music they can listen to. —–I will NOT fight for that hell hole.

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Claphamanian
Claphamanian
1 year ago

In our pre-war world, what must change?

If war cannot be fought on Nut Zero, we are surely in a non-war world.

In the interwar period, the original aim of the founders of the EU, Monnet and Salter, was to prevent war. That is, a repeat of the Great War. Such a war needed vast amounts of coal and steel. The first part of their plan, though actually obsolete for obvious reasons when implemented in 1951, was to create the European Coal and Steel Community. This took control of French and German production out of the hands of sovereign states.

If the argument is to be made that today the UK should control her own coal and steel production to manufacture all those ships and guns, we are back in the world of 1914. All those interwar efforts of such notables like Harold Laski and Vera Brittain to prevent war just a noise, signifying nothing. Unlike in 1914, Ukraine has shown that countries today have no large pool of manpower of miliary age and would run out of soldiers if ‘victory’ wasn’t achieved quickly.

Has anyone asked Bhutan or Bolivia if they are in a pre-war world?

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Jackthegripper
Jackthegripper
1 year ago

Excellent article. However, don’t expect any UK government to change course, they seem determined to drive us all into the ground.

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