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Treat Covid Like the Common Cold, Says the Wellcome Trust – As Leading Israeli Immunologist Blasts Lockdown Consensus: “It’s Time to Admit Failure”

by Will Jones
12 January 2022 8:00 AM

The Wellcome Trust – Britain’s biggest independent funder of medical research, set up by the man whose pharmaceutical firm became GlaxoSmithKline – has called for coronavirus to be “treated like the common cold”. The Telegraph has the story.

Nick Moakes, the charity’s Chief Investment Officer, said restrictions were no longer economically justified and it was time to “live with” coronavirus. 

“I don’t think it can mean going back into regular lockdowns because it is just not economically viable. We don’t do that for the flu, we don’t do that for the common cold,” he said.

“The best case end game is where it is treated like the common cold, like flu. And on an annual basis, those that are vulnerable get a jab against it – and the rest of us have built up a degree of immunity that protects us sufficiently. And we do live with it.”

His comments are at odds with those of the WHO Senior Emergency Officer Dr. Catherine Smallwood, who said on Tuesday that we are “nowhere near” treating Covid as an endemic virus.

However, they are in line with those of Professor David Heymann of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), who has suggested in a Chatham House online briefing that the U.K. is seeing the virus become endemic. According to the Telegraph:

He said: “In general now, the countries that we know best in the northern hemisphere have varying stages of the pandemic. And probably in the UK, it’s the closest to any country of being out of the pandemic – if it isn’t already out of the pandemic – and having the disease as endemic as the other four coronaviruses.” …

Prof. Heymann, a former World Health Organisation (WHO) Assistant Director General for Health Security and Environment, said population immunity was already high.

He added: “That means immunity against serious illness and death after infection if one is vaccinated, or after re-infection if one has had illness before. And that population immunity seems to be keeping the virus and its variants at bay, not causing serious illness or death in countries where population immunity is high.

“I looked at the most recent ONS [Office for National Statistics] report on population immunity, and they estimated about 95% of the population in England and a little less than in other parts of the United Kingdom do have antibody to infection either from vaccination or from natural infection.

“And that, as I said, is keeping the virus at bay. And it’s now functioning more like an endemic coronavirus than one that is a pandemic.”

The apparent shift in narrative from pillars of the lockdown consensus comes as Professor Ehud Qimron, Head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Tel Aviv University and one of Israel’s leading immunologists, writes an open letter lambasting the Israeli and global management of the pandemic. SPR has translated it in full; here’s an excerpt.

Two years late, you finally realise that a respiratory virus cannot be defeated and that any such attempt is doomed to fail. You do not admit it, because you have admitted almost no mistake in the last two years, but in retrospect it is clear that you have failed miserably in almost all of your actions, and even the media is already having a hard time covering your shame.

You refused to admit that the infection comes in waves that fade by themselves, despite years of observations and scientific knowledge. You insisted on attributing every decline of a wave solely to your actions, and so through false propaganda ‘you overcame the plague’. And again you defeated it, and again and again and again.

You refused to admit that mass testing is ineffective, despite your own contingency plans explicitly stating so (“Pandemic Influenza Health System Preparedness Plan, 2007”, p. 26).

You refused to admit that recovery is more protective than a vaccine, despite previous knowledge and observations showing that non-recovered vaccinated people are more likely to be infected than recovered people. You refused to admit that the vaccinated are contagious despite the observations. Based on this, you hoped to achieve herd immunity by vaccination – and you failed in that as well.

Prof. Qimron pulls no punches as he slams those responsible.

You slandered colleagues who did not surrender to you, you turned the people against each other, divided society and polarised the discourse. You branded, without any scientific basis, people who chose not to get vaccinated as enemies of the public and as spreaders of disease. You promote, in an unprecedented way, a draconian policy of discrimination, denial of rights and selection of people, including children, for their medical choice. A selection that lacks any epidemiological justification.

When you compare the destructive policies you are pursuing with the sane policies of some other countries – you can clearly see that the destruction you have caused has only added victims beyond the vulnerable to the virus. The economy you ruined, the unemployment you caused, and the children whose education you destroyed are the surplus victims as a result of your own actions only.

Worth reading in full.

Tags: Big PharmaCommon ColdEndemic CovidIsraelLockdownsWellcome TrustWHO

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
3 years ago

Everything about the WHO is suspect.

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civilliberties
civilliberties
3 years ago

it always makes me shake my head when you hear people and the media say “india has had more deaths than the UK and scare people with supposed high figures” well yes, but india has different factors, i.e. the population of at least 1.4 billion, india’s hygiene and sanitary conditions are considered worse than a lot of Weston countries and also the general health conditions and diseases are also poorer. When the Who and the media spout big figures and ignore the many other factors it really is disingenuous.

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ACEexpat
ACEexpat
3 years ago
Reply to  civilliberties

Interestingly, you would think Covid would have had a bigger impact on California’s large homeless population.

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Dave Angel Eco Warrior
Dave Angel Eco Warrior
3 years ago

Two articles on the WHO figures today. On one hand we are to take the data about Sweden seriously but not the data about India. Personally, I’m taking it all with a large pinch of salt.

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago
Reply to  Dave Angel Eco Warrior

Indeed, we seem to be picking cherries and sour grapes somewhat arbitrarily.

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StoppingtoThink
StoppingtoThink
3 years ago
Reply to  Dave Angel Eco Warrior

Except that the data for Sweden is far more likely to be accurate than the guesstimates for India

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MrTea
MrTea
3 years ago
Reply to  StoppingtoThink

The Indian’s secret was vindaloo.
Vindaloo takes no prisoners.

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Rogerborg
Rogerborg
3 years ago
Reply to  StoppingtoThink

More objectively likely, or more helpful to our preferred narrative?

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MrTea
MrTea
3 years ago

The deaths in India need to be adjusted in order to fit in with The Science (the computer models).
They are having similar problems with the recorded global temperatures, turns out the weather is a climate change denier, they will cancel the weather’s Twitter account asap.

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StoppingtoThink
StoppingtoThink
3 years ago

The WHO seems like a bigger version of the EU – out of touch, irrelevant, and a law unto itself.

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RW
RW
3 years ago
Reply to  StoppingtoThink

The WHO is significantly worse. It’s an unelected gremium of so-called public health experts with the ambition to dicate government policy globally down to the level of who is when allowed to talk to whom and how people must dress in public. This is based on the notion that globally acting health bureaucrats get to decide which human acitivies are essential and which aren’t and can thus be harmlessly prohibited. Considering that people’s lives are usually tighty coupled to there jobs, this basically means grouping people into essential and inessential ones. The essential ones are allowed to work. The others are supposed to remain at home on often meagre government handouts financed by printing money or accumulating debts.

And it gets more evil than that: The WHO would also like to see universal, mandatory COVID vaccination. Even in the best case (which is far from the actual case), a vaccine will always kill some people. Hence, forcing people to get vaccinated is equivalent to decreeing that some of them are so inessential that it’s ok to put them to death by injection.

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BurlingtonBertie
BurlingtonBertie
3 years ago
Reply to  RW

Lead by a terrorist…
What could possibly go wrong?

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MrTea
MrTea
3 years ago

Still the most fundamental aspect of this is that no new pathogenic virus was properly isolated from any sick individuals in China, there was no proof of a new virus that caused a new disease.
When you look into the topic it turns out that virology is a complete joke of a science.
What they call isolation really is a fraud, they don’t isolate anything, they simply mix a sputum sample from a sick patient, mix it with monkey kidney cells as a cell culture host and then starve those cells and poison them with nephrotoxic antibiotics, when the kidney cells die they cliam that it but be virus wot done it.
From there they let a computer analyse all the gentic debris from the toxic soup and get the computer to piece together every possible combination that these bits could convievably make up, they then declare one of these made up sequences to be the new virus.
This is why they have an endless number of variants, the computers can generate endless different possible combinations and the virologists can keep claiming which ever ones they like as being significant.
The whole thing is a colossal fraud as are the vaccines that are claimed to combat these claimed viral infections.

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VeryLittleHelps
VeryLittleHelps
3 years ago
Reply to  MrTea

Don’t fall for the “viruses don’t exist” scam either. There is pathogenic contagion that we call viruses, they just understand very little about them. The part they really don’t like to talk about is “terrain”, the health of the individual plays a much bigger part in how successful a virus is than any vaccine.
When humans play god disaster often follows.

Last edited 3 years ago by VeryLittleHelps
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peyrole
peyrole
3 years ago

Matthew Syed has written an absolutely appalling article in the Sunday Times using the WHO estimates to ‘prove’ how reasonable the UK government’s actions were/are. He also has a swipe at this website and all who ‘sail in her’ ( calling it by its old name).
I commented, needless to say my comment has been removed. The Times doesn’t like the truth. Goodness knows what the interweb will be like with the ‘on-line harms’ legislation.

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civilliberties
civilliberties
3 years ago
Reply to  peyrole

the online harms bill ensures access to100% state viewpoints at all times, no exceptions.

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MrTea
MrTea
3 years ago
Reply to  civilliberties

VPN.

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Julian
Julian
3 years ago
Reply to  peyrole

I didn’t realise we had been namechecked. I always assumed we were too small for anyone to notice. Evidently not. Excellent – a swipe shows we’ve hit a nerve and got people worried.

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D J
D J
3 years ago
Reply to  Julian

Yes, Syed accuses us of cherrypicking data!
Gave me a good chortle after what we have seen with government statistics.

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TheEngineer
TheEngineer
3 years ago
Reply to  peyrole

Mark Woolhouse, a senior government scientist wrote a book about the Covid debacle; appropriately titled “The Year the World went Mad”. He concludes that the lockdowns were not necessary.

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stewart
stewart
3 years ago

They’re just finishing the job.

They exaggerated the risk people were facing from a new pathogen and they are now exaggerating the total deaths. They are writing history, in preparation for the future and leaving no lose ends:

– The virus was super dangerous
– Lockdowns, masks, tests and vaccines saved us.
– Millions still died because we were slow to act.
– In the future we must act very quickly.so that we don’t have 15 million deaths.

That’s the story they are going with and they have the force of international institutions, the corporate media, national governments and major corporations to make sure their version is firmly established.

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MrTea
MrTea
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

Even with their bloated estimates of death the claimed virus was still a damp squib, but they have injected billions of people with their poisons so their work is done.

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Alter Ego
Alter Ego
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

They have left an enormous number of loose ends, and they will unravel. We just have to keep pulling on them.

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J4mes
J4mes
3 years ago
Reply to  stewart

One of the best articles I’ve seen linked to by DS is this one which concerns itself with the Italians kick-starting the covid scam in the West.

If you read it, pay close attention to the section that talks about how the main mechanism of the fraud, the test kit, was developed in Italy in cooperation with the communist Chinese.

It wasn’t long ago MI5 admitted the communist Chinese has infiltrated Westminster.

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Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  J4mes

“In the words of Neil Ferguson, architect of the wildly-inaccurate Covid models that sent the world into a tailspin:

It’s a communist one party state, we said. We couldn’t get away with it in Europe, we thought… And then Italy did it. And we realised we could…”

A single sentence said it all – I will never forget it.

The fact that Ferguson felt so secure in uttering it says it all really – that his position, and that of those he advised was unchallengeable, and that he can have had so little cop on to let the cat out of the bag like that in a televised interview – so what does that say about the quality of his modeling?

Great article BTW. You are right – one of the best DS has linked to

Last edited 3 years ago by Milo
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Catee
Catee
3 years ago

‘The public sector scores high on petty corruption but low on efficiency. The public health service is risible’…
Are they talking about India or the UK?

Last edited 3 years ago by Catee
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Emerald Fox
Emerald Fox
3 years ago
Reply to  Catee

And where was the header picture taken – West Bromwich or Bethnal Green?

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JXB
JXB
3 years ago

Countries with reliable reporting systems, if not with reliable reporting, are showing mostly little above average, or even below.

Nobody in authority tells the truth.

Last edited 3 years ago by JXB
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J4mes
J4mes
3 years ago

What is also highly suspicious is that the evil cretinous scientists are claiming the spike in hepatitis in children may be linked to pet dogs.

Let’s ignore the fact the world has been forced to lockdown over the last two years while politicians (and undoubtedly the scientists themselves) partied and carried on with their lives as normal.

No they need a scapegoat and they want to destroy another joy we have in our lives.

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RW
RW
3 years ago
Reply to  J4mes

I’ve meanwhile read a couple of arguments that keeping of pets should be prohibited because it would be to damaging the the climate.

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J4mes
J4mes
3 years ago
Reply to  RW

Yes it’s quite clear the great reset includes stripping us of pets. Well they can fuck off with their fraud. I will be buying a pup within the next few months.

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CynicalRealist
CynicalRealist
3 years ago
Reply to  J4mes

Can’t heklp but suspect they are taking the lead from China, where pets have been killed byt “the authorities” when forcing their owners into quarantine.Presumably they saw that it was yet another effective way to demoralise people.

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J4mes
J4mes
3 years ago
Reply to  CynicalRealist

I’m sure you might remember in the early days of the covid scam, the dodgy scientists were talking about pets being carriers of covid. Such warnings fizzled away from the scientists poisonous lips, but the memory remained.

Maybe they realised this was one step too far too soon and didn’t pursue it.

Maybe it was the first nudge, while the hepatitis theory is the second nudge, and perhaps the third nudge will be the final one where they’ve effectively granted themselves permission to confiscate our pets ‘for our own safety’.

They will have deemed the public suitably brainwashed by this point to be more willing to give up their beloved dog.

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Milo
Milo
3 years ago
Reply to  J4mes

Do you think the famous dog owners among TPTB will be “giving up” their dogs? or having them forcibly taken from them?

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DanClarke
DanClarke
3 years ago

The WHO has made healthcare in the 1st world countries worse, they should stick to countries who actually need them

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John001
John001
3 years ago
Reply to  DanClarke

What we had here may have made developed country healthcare worse than typical care in India or Africa.

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J Vossos
J Vossos
3 years ago

Anyone involved in the flogging of the fake vaccines is lying. Don’t believe a word they say and do not get any more jabs. You put your health and life at risk with this poison.

Anything these monsters want is for certain not anything you want.

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TheEngineer
TheEngineer
3 years ago
Reply to  J Vossos

Indeed; all in accordance with the UN policy of population reduction.

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thinkcriticall
thinkcriticall
3 years ago

Recent BBC Article on Excess Death – Explained from the DATA!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oq8-mOldEg

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Adrian25
Adrian25
3 years ago

Remember, whatever nonsense they try to impose upon us in the future:
JUST SAY NO!

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DevonBlueBoy
DevonBlueBoy
3 years ago

Highly suspect organisation produces highly suspect data. Well, that’s a surprise – NOT

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TheEngineer
TheEngineer
3 years ago

The WHO is clearly one of our enemy within. Anything that they publish is to be treated with suspicion and extreme scepticism. A truly evil organisation; same as the UN and WEF.

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swedenborg
swedenborg
3 years ago

Thank you for an excellent article.The WHO figures is based on a model which is absurd for countries with reliable real world data.Look at the Nordic countries with reliable data and Sweden with the world’s oldest and also the world’s most reliable death data.How many non discovered deaths of covid in a country with the most reliable death statistics did WHO find with their model? So many that they said Sweden was highest in the Nordic countries.

Nordic countries don’t need WHO estimates.They have real data.See below age stand. adjusted excess mortality.Sweden below Denmark,Finland(both LD the latter more so)and Norway lowest.
Do you believe Nordic raw data or WHO model?

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vivaldi
vivaldi
3 years ago

‘He who pays the piper plays the tune’….Gates has his song sheet and the “terrible” pandemic narrative must be kept uppermost in minds.

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RTSC
RTSC
3 years ago

India used Ivermectin to treat Covid patients so it’s very important to the WHO that India is identified as having one of the worst outcomes from the Scamdemic.

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chas cowie
chas cowie
3 years ago

The WHO has to punish India for using Ivermectin and undermining the “WHO Official” view that Ivermectin doesn’t work.

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Judy Watson
Judy Watson
3 years ago
Reply to  chas cowie

I am sure someone will correct me if I am wrong but didn’t Japan also se ivermectin?

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Judy Watson
Judy Watson
3 years ago

But they still believe China on 5,000 deaths???

Doesn’t make sense.

But having said that none of the ‘rona crap makes any sense.

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