As the Government’s Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) gives the go-ahead for third-jab boosters for the most vulnerable, political pressure is mounting on it also to approve a wider rollout of boosters as well as inoculations for 12-15 year-olds.
Asked if the JCVI should get a “wiggle on” about decisions on boosters and jabs for children, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson told Sky News: “Speaking as a parent myself, I think parents would find it incredibly reassuring to know that they had a choice as to whether their child would be vaccinated or not.”
Former Health Secretary and current Chairman of the Commons Health Select Committee Jeremy Hunt tweeted: “The latest study from King’s College London showed vaccine effectiveness dropping after six months, so why are we hanging around?”
Is it really appropriate for ministers and MPs to be putting pressure on a Government advisory body to give the answers they want to hear? How is that following ‘the Science’?
For its part, the JCVI has indicated that it wants to wait for more evidence, and also appears to have a split of opinion among its members. However, the Government may have successfully forced the issue, with the Guardian reporting that the committee held a long discussion on children’s vaccination on Thursday, followed by a vote, and that a decision may be announced as soon as Friday.
Previously, JCVI Chairman, Professor Anthony Harnden, had said he thought it “highly likely” there will be a booster programme, with decisions “over the next few weeks”. He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that there are questions about which variant to target with the boosters, and identifying who really needs one.
What we don’t want to do is boost people and then find we have a new variant and we can’t boost them again because we’ve boosted them too soon – and those people might not have needed the booster in the first place. So there’s a lot of very complicated modelling and data analysis that is going on about this at the moment.
JCVI member Professor Adam Finn is clear that the “main objective” of vaccination should be to protect against serious illness, and that the evidence of waning immunity against infection is something to monitor not an urgent call to action.
I think the ZOE study, and a couple of other studies we recently had, do show the beginnings of a drop off of protection against asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic disease. But other studies are showing maintenance of good protection against serious illness and hospitalisation.
In May he told the Today programme that children should not be immunised if at all possible as a matter of principle.
In normal times, just as in pandemic times, we simply wouldn’t want to immunise anybody without needing to. It’s an invasive thing to do, it costs money, and it causes a certain amount of discomfort, and vaccines have side effects. So if we can control this virus without immunising children we shouldn’t immunise children as a matter of principle.
However, Professor Tim Spector, leader of the ZOE Covid Symptom Study app, sees the declining efficacy as mandating boosters, saying: “We urgently need to make plans for vaccine boosters.” In July he called for the vaccination of children to achieve herd immunity against the Delta variant.
Israel is the only country so far to have rolled out third-jab boosters to the population, and as the ‘Swiss Doctor’ notes, it currently has the highest reported infection rate in the world.
Worryingly, the data suggests it is those less than 14 days since their booster who have the highest infection rates – another instance of the post-vaccination spike in infections?
Some experts think this is most likely caused by some combination of additional mixing due to the vaccination programme and temporary suppression of the immune system by the vaccine.
While the main widely-cited studies suggest only moderate drop in efficacy, real-world data from Israel and the U.K. suggests a more radical failure to prevent infection and transmission, as low as 15% (and dropping). Meanwhile, a study from Israel suggests that previous Covid infection provides 27 times stronger protection against new symptomatic infection than double vaccination with Pfizer.
There are also growing signs that vaccine efficacy against serious disease falls over time, with data from Israel indicating protection against serious disease in the over-65s dropping to 55% over six months.
Israel has now said that vaccine passports will only be valid for those who have had three shots, not two.
The U.K. Government and much of the public continue to be firmly wedded to the idea of vaccinating as many people as possible to try to keep infections down, and to keep on vaccinating with boosters to attempt to sustain this.
The evidence-free faith in lockdowns has therefore progressed to an evidence-free faith in vaccines to keep the viral menace at bay, when they do no such thing.
As Sunetra Gupta, Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology at Oxford University, notes, vaccines are best understood as part of focused protection, providing some additional protection against serious disease and death for those at high risk. They should not be used for something they are evidently unsuited for: the effort to reduce infections to permanently low levels via a vaccine-induced herd immunity. She writes:
Vaccines typically do not outperform natural immunity, so it should come as no surprise that Covid vaccines do not offer long-term protection against infection. At the same time, we can be confident that they will continue to work well to prevent severe clinical outcomes. The role of these vaccines is to offer protection to the clinically vulnerable; to foist them upon those who are at negligible risk in the hope of augmenting herd immunity is illogical…
For there to be the collective benefit of herd immunity, the booster would have to provide life-long protection against infection – unless we are willing to accept repeated mass vaccination into the foreseeable future. Aside from being a colossal diversion of limited resources, that would open the door to a permanent state of lockdown as we lurch from one booster campaign to the next.
Instead, we should acknowledge that “the vaccines have already brought focused protection to those who needed it in the U.K. and that now the best course of action is to rely on natural immunity to maintain and consolidate a normal state of living with this virus”.
These are wise words. Professor Gupta diplomatically avoids raising the issue of risks from the vaccines, but these are evidently real – a recent analysis by TrialSite News found that Covid vaccines have 98 times the rate of deaths reported to VAERS as flu vaccines, an increase the researchers conclude cannot be blamed on stimulated reporting – and frequent booster campaigns will only multiply the hazard.
The fixation with vaccination – vaccinate children, punish the unvaccinated, force everyone to be vaccinated, vaccinate everyone again – is approaching something akin to a religious mania, a medieval superstition to ward off invisible spirits that is invulnerable to the weight of evidence that it does not work. Afraid of just returning to living with risk, people it seems cannot let go of the need for something, anything, to banish the looming threat of disease.
As the return of schools in England threatens to bring a new rise in reported infections, parents clamour to jab their children, and the Government confirms it is pressing ahead with its vaccine passport plans for nightclubs, there is currently no sign of salvation in sight from the scourge of vaccine superstition sweeping this land.
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“Police called in over abusive reaction to council’s ‘climate lockdown’ traffic scheme”
Hallelujah.! Are the good people of Oxford and Canterbury finally waking up to what they are trying to do..? Councils should stick to bins and road sweeping instead of ‘saving the planet’
That’s cheered me up on a cold and frosty Sunday. Heartwarming in fact.
The intention is that by 2030 sales of diesel/petrol cars will be banned and so by 2045, when this scheme comes, in petrol/diesel cars will have gone however, with current technology and the current electric situation, we cannot replace all these petrol/diesel cars with electric.
This seems to be preparing us for a future when we will not own our own car, this would be a huge social change as has been recognised in the responses to these schemes. But we need to wake up to the fact that this is really a softening up process and is all about taking away our cars and our personal travel freedoms.
“This seems to be preparing us for a future when we will not own our own car,”
Actually it is pointing to a future where there will be fewer of us about.
The planet will be depopulated and only the elites will have their own vehicles. The slaves will own nothing but they WILL be happy.
I used to work in local government. I had a conversation with a senior colleague who is now a Chief Executive at a council. He told me that they had once sent out a consultation document to all of their citizens. One person had returned the survey having crossed everything out and written in red marker across the page, “JUST CUT THE F~@~ING GRASS!” He had framed it and put it on his wall as a reminder. I wish they all remembered this important comment!
Re “Generation Z too petrified of climate change to have children”:
I haven’t read the whole thing because I don’t want to fund the Telegraph, but I think the whole “having children” issue needs to be talked about. While we sceptics like to talk of various elephants in rooms, overpopulation is an elephant for the political elite. No politician will dare to mention it, for obvious reasons. But it’s clearly very much at the front of their minds, and has been for a long time. A certain royal allegedly said in 1988 “In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, to do something about overpopulation”. Boris Johnson (or was it Stanley?) allegedly wrote in 2007 “I cannot understand why nobody is doing anything about overpopulation”. I have seen speculation linking these comments to a genocidal agenda: this may or may not be true. I’ve seen stickers on bus stops linking the latter comment to the vaccinations.
It may be one reason why the government has been pushing the “climate change” propaganda so much: let’s persuade the masses to procreate less; after all, Aesop (who may or may not have existed) told us that persuasion is better than force. The Telegraph article may itself be a piece of spin to achieve this end.
Speaking for myself: when I was a teenager in the 90s, I wondered why anybody would want to bring children into this hostile world. Maybe whatever the government was spinning at the time worked on me: I was far more credulous then. I might easily have changed my mind since then, but the cruel way in which the government has treated us in the last three years has made me very relieved I still don’t have children, for their sake, with the dystopian future they are likely to face, and the diet of (government-manipulated) social media which can easily form their opinions. When many of us were children, one of the main things considered bad for us was television: “it will give you square eyes”. Perhaps those who spoke against it were right, but not for the reasons they said.
What to do about there being a lot of people in the world? Certainly not state-sponsored genocide. I’m also not fond of the covert coaxing which seems to be the government’s way of doing everything right now; it makes people like me resist all the more, as a matter of principle. Perhaps it’s time for governments to return to telling us blunt economic truths (if they ever did), such as “our lockdowns caused massive inflation”, instead of spinning and dancing their way around everything. I would support incentives to foster or adopt, rather than to procreate. There are lots of frightened children already out there who need safe and loving households.
The elite narrative is Malthusian – that is they view the world as a zero sum game. The reality is quite different – that birth rates self-limit when children are no longer essential to support parents, that material consumption reduces as prosperity increases, and that the earths resources have always been shown to be far greater than was supposed. So we need to encourage growth and prosperity in all its forms, and not support a miserable centrally planned and restrictive economy.
One of the worst, maddest pathologies always was “I’m afraid of babies”.
Let’s not forget, birth rates in the majority of countries are falling rapidly, world wide sperms counts have dropped by more than 40% since 1970 and now child hesitatant generations!
Something we seem to forget as a race is that nature is in control, not us!
It will find its own way to bring the balance back, infertility, and no one has to die to achieve it.
Apparently dropped quite a lot since March 2020 too.
Michael Schellenberg points out in his book ‘Apocalypse Never’ that we produce more than enough food to feed the world population. The reason people go hungry is because of problems with distribution and supply.
As in Ethiopia in the 1980s.
People with large families are already seen as borderline criminal (instead of the heroes they actually are) , and people who protest against killing children in certain public places apparebtly already are criminals.
How on earth are they keeping the ‘dead donkey’ that is the scamdemic going?
Another nail in the coffin….?
https://retractionwatch.com/2022/12/01/buzzy-lancet-long-covid-paper-under-investigation-for-data-errors/
An early and influential paper on long COVID that appeared in The Lancet has been flagged with an expression of concern while the journal investigates “data errors” brought to light by a reader.
…..the paper has been cited nearly 1,600 times, according to Clarivate’s Web of Science. Altmetric finds references to it in multiple documents from the World Health Organization.
According to the expression of concern, dated November 24, a reader found inconsistencies between the data in the article and a later paper describing the same cohort of patients after a year of follow-up. That discovery sparked an investigation that is still ongoing:
Worth a read, it’s quite short…..
..via Dr Claire Craig’s Twitter….Signal noticed in the young as soon as they’d started giving dose one in Israel…..
https://mobile.twitter.com/prof_freedom/status/1601670384402956288
February 2021: E-Mail from Isreali Ministry of Health to EMA asking about “Safety Signal Myocarditis in younger population
Dear All,
I hope you are all well in these difficult times. We are investigating a safety signal of myocarditis / peri-myocarditis in younger population (16-30years) following the administration of the Pfizer Covid vaccine.
We would appreciate if you could share any information on the subject from your country.
…..How many doses of the vaccine were administered to this age group?
…..How many cases of myocarditis/peri-myocarditis were reported in your country
…..Could you elaborate details on these AE cases(time of diagnosis from the vaccine, first/second dose, risk factors etc…
…..Have you assessed the causality between the AE and the vaccine for each case.
We’ll be happy to exchange data on this topic with you…..
First freaking dose…February 2021…..shocking!!
Another piece of information that would tend to show that things were ‘planned’ …?
FOIA’d Contracts Show CDC Expected up to 1,000 VAERS Reports per Day for COVID Vaccines”With up to 40% of the reports serious in nature”
https://jackanapes.substack.com/p/foiad-contracts-show-cdc-expected
This is well worth a read and is truly shocking….
This information means of course that the CDC had been told to expect 1,000 reports per day by those responsible for the “vaccines.”
As Lord Bill of the Gates of Hell has said: “we didn’t do a very good job with the vaccines.”
Supposedly he was alluding to numbers injected but of course what he was actually referring to was numbers killed and maimed.
The fact that the first ‘contract’ was from August 2020, well before vaccines were available, and well before any permission for them was granted is an absolute shocker….I’m currently in a state of so much hatred for these people…..
along with the evidence from the Twitter files..we have been mugged right royally….and I know there’s much more but….lied to, rights taken away, mandates, giant experiment, which they knew would kill and injure, job losses, baby’s jabbed…kids dead..WTF…!!
He could add a few more words to his comment, such as “,like the other products my firm developed”!
Yep.
Top bloke!
https://flvoicenews.com/desantis-florida-will-hold-covid-19-vaccine-manufacturers-accountable/
Gov. Ron DeSantis said that his administration plans to hold vaccine manufacturers accountable for making false claims about the mRNA COVID-19 products that may have caused injuries, and even death, among some who received the vaccines.
“I have Surgeon General in Florida Dr. Joseph Ladapo who’s been really, really strong of just fighting back the narrative and the phony things that people are trying to do and focus on the evidence and so we are gonna work to hold these manufacturers accountable for this mRNA because they said there was no side effects and we know that there have been a lot,” said DeSantis.
Brilliant.
A bit worrying though that he apparently doesn’t support free speech.
Thought that this might appeal to our collective warped sense of humour
Posted on Substack
Enjoy: MERRY CHRISTMAS
It snowed last night…
8:00 am: I made a snowman.
8:10 – A feminist passed by and asked me why I didn’t make a snow woman.
8:15 – So, I made a snow woman.
8:17 – My feminist neighbor complained about the snow woman’s voluptuous chest saying it objectified snow women everywhere.
8:20 – The gay couple living nearby threw a hissy fit and moaned it could have been two snow men instead.
8:22 – The transgender man..women…person asked why I didn’t just make one snow person with detachable parts.
8:25 – The vegans at the end of the lane complained about the carrot nose, as veggies are food and not to decorate snow figures with.
8:28 – I was being called a racist because the snow couple is white.
8:31 – The middle eastern gent across the road demanded the snow woman be covered up .
8:40 – The Police arrived saying someone had been offended.
8:42 – The feminist neighbor complained again that the broomstick of the snow woman needed to be removed because it depicted women in a domestic role.
8:43 – The council equality officer arrived and threatened me with eviction.
8:45 – TV news crew from BBC showed up. I was asked if I know the difference between snowmen and snow-women? I replied “Snowballs” and am now called a sexist.
9:00 – I was on the News as a suspected terrorist, racist, homophobe sensibility offender, bent on stirring up trouble during difficult weather.
9:10 – I was asked if I have any accomplices. My children were taken by social services.
9:29 – Far left protesters offended by everything marched down the street demanding for me to be arrested.
By noon it all melted
Moral:
It all happened because of snowflakes
That is ABSOLUTELY brilliant. Thanks for posting.
Hahaha! Love it. I feel that humour has become quite scarce around here of late, most people are very business-like and on-topic the whole time, so a bit of light relief is much appreciated.
Speaking of scarcity, how’ve you been, BB, as I’ve noticed you’re not on here so much anymore? We got spoiled by your regular ‘BB tsunamis’ of in-coming posts I think.
Anyway, don’t be a stranger.
Change of mind I hope Mogs?
I’ve sent you an email.
I messaged you, hux. My emails are now so over-run with crap I’m missing important ones. I must pull my socks up!
Thanks Mogs. I have just read the email. I am a selfish bugger at times but thanks – great news.
Thanks Mogs,
I’ve had a few challenges to deal with, but haven’t been completely absent, just quiet. Hope to be up to attending a MD4CE meeting this evening with Dr Nagase. If I manage to have enough brain to attend, will report back.
Glad you appreciated it.
BB
I much enjoy and appreciate your posts BB.
Thanks BB. He’s the Canadian doctor isn’t he, who was reporting on the nano-weirdness found in the vials as well as the >stillbirths and <birth rates I think..? Glad you’re still with us!
LOL! But you and I know this is like a true-life fecking diary…….it’s a very weird world when the ‘jokes’ are absolutely true!! Good laugh though…..
Fabulous and true!
Don’t know if people know this website showing where our energy is being generated. It’s the coldest night of the year so far and we are getting 3% of our energy from our great future energy sources. Hmmmmmm
https://grid.iamkate.com/
Wow!
Many thanks for this.
At last! I was wondering what it would take…
Elton John who has linked up with Marmite. It may be a bit marmite, but maybe best avoided now. Other yeast extracts are available.
If you have to be persuaded, reminded, bullied, pressured, incentivised, lied to, guilt tripped, coerced, socially shamed, censored, threatened, paid, punished and criminalised, if all this is necessary to gain your compliance, you can be absolutely certain that what is being promoted is not in your best interest.