The alarmist claims of Neil Ferguson and his modelling team at Imperial College have fuelled vaccine scepticism and led to needless lockdowns being imposed all over Europe, according to several leading scientists. The Telegraph‘s Ambrose Evans-Pritchard has more.
The Covid modellers at Imperial College have begun to back down. About time too. Over the past few weeks, they have made extreme claims about the omicron variant that cannot be fully justified by fundamental science, let alone by clinical observation.
Academic etiquette restrains direct criticism, but immunologists say privately that Professor Neil Ferguson and his team breached a cardinal rule by inferring rates of hospitalisation, severe disease, and death from waning antibodies, and by extrapolating from infections that break through the first line of vaccine defence.
The rest are entitled to question whether they can legitimately do this. And we may certainly question whether they should be putting out terrifying claims of up to 5,000 deaths a day based on antibody counts.
“It is bad science and I think they’re being irresponsible. They have a duty to reflect the true risks but this is just headline grabbing,” said Dr Clive Dix, former chairman of the UK Vaccine Task Force.
Needless to say, these headlines have spread as fast as omicron itself. Britain is the Covid laboratory of the developed world, and what Imperial says right now has global resonance. Its dire warnings are contributing to some European countries imposing full or partial Christmas lockdowns.
Governments are so alarmed by the possibility that healthcare systems might collapse under pressure that they have neglected the opposite risk – and much more probable outcome – that omicron will largely bounce off a population where almost everybody has cell immunity from vaccines or past infection, and in the case of Britain where most vulnerable people have been triple jabbed for good measure.
“To talk of 5,000 deaths a day is a very high number. It is risky to push apocalyptic scenarios that are highly unlikely to happen,” said Professor Francois Balloux, Director of the UCL Genetics Institute.
“What I am more worried about is a loss of trust in governments and public institutions for crying wolf. The mood is changing everywhere.”
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Lockdown, lockdown, do it now, if not for us then to save the children
Please God lockdown
Omicron was a bit embarrassed about being so ineffective so it called it’s cousin from southern Sudan — enter OMICRON 2 !! Already at a cinema near you!!
Great. Can we have our lives back now CUNTS?
Sajid says…
So was victim numero uno triple jabbed I wonder ?
Makes no odds, this was always baked in regardless. If I remember correctly the expiry on the self certification for VAX passports was 15th December. It was leaked out but I can’t find the page now.
The true believers will lap it all up for the greater good regardless.
Does look like they are going to struggle to get the deaths in the numbers they want/need.
They’re working on that by denying health care to the elderly for the next 3 months. And they won’t have died from the untreated diabetes, high blood pressure, heart attacks, undiagnosed cancer – nope, you can bet it will be the lurgy, even if they have to plant a fake positive PCR test on the corpse.
no he was an unvaccinated 25 year old professional sportsman, but they’ve kept it quiet…
Or maybe not!
‘Really, I think the safety record is incredible with these vaccines. They’re very impressive with their safety record.’ (12:15)
https://youtu.be/cSXBf0DHD9M
This was Sally Cutler responsing to Nigel Farage asking if she had any concerns regarding the Pfizer report doing the rounds, wherein an astounding number of adverse events is listed. Cutler utterly swerved the question and instead offered gushing praise for the ‘safety record’ of the ‘vaccines’. She could be a politician. But she’s a professor of medical microbiology. And evidently part of the cult.
This is the ‘standard’ stuff we have come to expect from ‘experts’. They simply avoid unwanted data and facts. This pathetic creature avoids the question and simply asserts that these pseudo vaccines’ safety record is ‘incredible’, thus begging the question by assuming the very thing on the table.
Moreover, the Pfizer report aside, given the stunning and unprecedented number of reported adverse events to Yellow Card, and given the undereporting factor, how on earth can this woman say with a straight face that these vaccines’ safety record is incredible’? Unless she means incredibly bad, which of course she doesn’t, then we have yet another case of a ‘vaccine’ advocate abusing language.
Farage let her get away with swerving his question. I wouldn’t be surprised if he failed to notice that she swerved the question. I don’t think his heart’s really in the debate.
Watch as Professor Fenton shakes his head in disbelief as this woman demonstrates she’s either ignorant of the adverse events data linked to these pseudo vaccines or is well aware, couldn’t give a toss and is lying through her teeth (I favour the latter here). Farage surely sees Fenton shaking his head and laughing at this woman’s claims, yet he doesn’t bring him in to respond. Fenton would have wiped the floor with her.
What a joke.
See also
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-59639973
The jab whose first two injections don’t work on the new variant does work if you have a 3rd dose.
No, I don’t understand either.
Or maybe he’s just on a percentage commission, like some salesmen.
Truly astounding level of bullshit in that article. TLDR: more is always better.
The antibodies bind less to the target due to mutation and repeated dosing with the same vax. Autoimmune disease ahoy.
https://mobile.twitter.com/gerdosi/status/1387413025926361093
Sally Cutler was pitted against a British journalist in Salzburg on the Dan Wootton Show about three weeks ago to discuss the Austrian lockdown of unvaccinated and the plans for mandatory vaccines. She was all for it but had no evidence to back up her support for the measures even when asked by the ex-pat guy. He wiped the floor with her. She was an absolute embarrassment to academia. All she could say smugly was that she had contacts in Europe and they had assured her that things were really bad there.
When the British chap said that he lived 5 miles from the main hospital in Salzburg and asked her to explain why he himself had witnessed that it was totally empty, she retorted that we only had his word for it and as she wasn’t in Austria she wasn’t in a position to validate his claim. Judging from her smirk she regarded that as a clever ‘gotcha’ answer but it just made her look pathetic.
She is clearly wheeled out loaded with the usual mainstream sound bites but nothing of any substance to support the narrative.
Fenton shooting straight. That woman is a disgrace. “The worst adverse event you see is a sore arm”.
Actual deaths and she’s there saying just a a sore arm is all. My god.
I know someone who lost consciousness for 30mins straight after his first dose. He’s now being pressured by friends to get the second because he is feeling left out of their nights out.
Why do you keep reporting this obvious COVID bullshit streaming in from South Africa as “suggests its less serious”? Taking the (one-off, as always) numbers as granted, IFR for Wuhan would be 4%, Delta 10.1% and Omicron 3.8%. That’s obvious BS because it’s missing an important qualification: It should have been for 1000 infections the SA health authorities found. Chances are that authorities in SA spend a lot less on mass testing of healthy people than they do in England, hence, the numbers are entirely meaningless.
How do you come to that conclusion? The figures quoted were for hospitalisations.
Isn’t this obvious? People are supposed to be hospitalized when they become so seriously ill that home care is no longer an option. Hence, this is an approximation of the number of those who had died hadn’t they been hospitalized, ie, of the infection fatality rate.
Government scientists today announced that Omicron is not the greatest threat to humanity due to next weeks discovery of Super Omicron.
It’s a miracle world: Each new Sars-CoV2 variant is so much more transmissible that all others pale in comparison to it. Reasoning backwards, something which can be hugely improved with each iteration must have been pretty puny to begin with.
I got delta, that wasn’t even the worst cold I had THIS YEAR.
The real flu, now that was BAD!
MSM is trying to make fun of people wanting to protect themselves with cheap and proven drugs. Ivermectin has been FDA approved for human use since 1996. It also beats Pfizer’s new wonder drug hands down, and costs next to nothing. Ivermectin doesn’t make tons of money. So they know the Covid shot is on its final gasp, so they take it add something different to it, rebrand under another name and charge 20 times what they would for ivermectin. I cannot wrap my head around this nonsense. When I explain this to my relatives they label me as crazy and ask me if I know better than science. I don’t make up these information out of my ass. All this information is true and proven. For some people it is near impossible for them to wake up. They are comfortable in their clown world life. If you want to get Ivermectin you can visit https://ivmpharmacy.com
Is this spam? See this kind of post on many articles here.
Dr Robert Malone says getting Omicron could be like getting a traditional vaccine, which uses a live attenuated form of the virus, produces no, or mild, symptoms and conveys broad spectrum immunity. Bring it on!
Interview with Dr Robert Malone:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/global-totalitarianism-is-a-bigger-threat-than-the-coronavirus-itself-mrna-inventor/
How did World Economic Forum know about new variant in South Africa back in July 2021?
https://web.archive.org/web/20211126173158/https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/07/how-scientists-detect-new-covid-19-variants/