As infections (a.k.a. colds) rise once again, the UKHSA is encouraging over-75s to make sure they’ve had a jab in the last six months. UKHSA Chief Medical Adviser Professor Susan Hopkins said:
It is clear that the increasing prevalence of Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 are significantly increasing the case numbers we have observed in recent weeks.
We have seen a rise in hospital admissions in line with community infections but vaccinations are continuing to keep ICU admissions and deaths at low levels.
Our data also show that 17.5% of people aged 75 years and over have not had a vaccine within the past six months, putting them more at risk of severe disease. We urge these people in particular to get up to date.
The latest ONS infection survey figures, released Friday, show that the BA.4 and BA.5 wave appears to be slowing down in England and Wales (though not in Scotland) but has not yet (as of week ending June 18th) peaked.
Genomic data suggest BA.2 is largely on the way out and and the new variants are to blame.
But how protective really are the vaccines against death from Covid? We’re told around 90%. However, as Dr. Noah Carl has pointed out, it’s hard to reconcile that with all the highly vaccinated countries which have experienced waves of excess deaths during Covid surges since mid-2021. Perhaps the biggest surprise has been the excess deaths associated with Omicron waves in highly vaccinated countries, despite Omicron being shown to be as much as 90% less deadly.
Many countries – including Israel, the U.S., Norway, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Iceland, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea, Japan and Chile – have seen large and even record excess death peaks during Covid waves since the vaccine rollout.
These are highly vaccinated places.
But take a look at their excess deaths. Iceland and Chile hit new peaks during Omicron in 2022.
Northern European countries Finland, Norway, Denmark and the Netherlands had substantial excess deaths since mid-2021. Not all the excess deaths are Covid deaths, but apart from Denmark, these countries experienced significant excess deaths during the Omicron waves.
Former Zero Covid fortresses Australia and New Zealand have also not found that vaccination and the mildness of Omicron have prevented a considerable wave of excess deaths during the Omicron waves.
The most striking examples are the East Asian countries of Hong King, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea and Japan, where the waves of deaths during the pandemic did not even appear until post-vaccination, and in the case of Hong Kong, South Korea and Japan, not until Omicron. For Hong Kong you might blame it on the low vaccine take-up in the elderly, but that doesn’t apply across the board. Is there some kind of innate susceptibility difference that has caused such striking discrepancies between world regions over the course of the pandemic?
Israel also hit a new record peak in excess deaths, while the U.S. had large post-vaccine peaks including one during Omicron.
South Africa, on the other hand, has not fared significantly worse despite having far lower vaccination rates.
In the face of data like these, it’s hard to credit claims of 90% effectiveness against death. What’s going on? Is it because those older people most at risk from the virus are the ones the vaccines protect least well? Vaccine injuries will be playing a part in excess mortality, but many of these waves of excess deaths coincide with Covid waves.
It would be nice to think someone would eventually do a study that tests this question properly and finds out what’s really going on. But there’s no sign of that yet.
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This seems to be normalising the idea that you need a jab every 6 months.
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It does indeed. The over 75s I met recently are pretty desperate to get the next jab. One of them has already had 4. She’s never had Covid either so is convinced about the vaccines…
Will it stop at the over-75s? Consensus among family and acquaintances is that they will take no more jabs. Among colleagues, I suspect the fanatics from 2021 will join the queue, while even the ones who claim to never need the news (“MSM? Whassat?”)might just have second thoughts. The self-righteous pedantic ones will get an argument, and to hell with it.
>Consensus among family and acquaintances is that they will take no more jabs. Among colleagues
Yes, that appears to be much more common in my colleagues and friends. Nobody I know is saying “yes, bring it on” – at least not publicly. Maybe, just maybe, the increasing visibility of vaccine side effects and claims in the mainstream media is starting to trickle down.
Indeed it would, but I’m not holding my breath for that. They don’t want to rattle the cage yet. An element of mythical marketing and being selective with the truth is more like it at present.
Ramping up the fear of rising infections to increase the numbers wanting to take the boosters is the pre-cursor to the reintroduction of other useless measures, like masks.
Public Health Alliance has just released this:
URGENT NEWS!
Good morning PHA family!!
We have an update to share. We have received info this morning from a government source, that suggest the government will be bringing back the masks in approx two weeks and are preparing for civil unrest. At this moment, we have no reason to think this untrue, and the source is trusted.
In response, the core team are keen to ensure the messaging we now use is one that keeps everything calm and the vibration high. Mass peaceful non-compliance is absolutely key. Gov would love to see unrest and violence spill out onto our streets so they can try and ‘increase security for our safety’ and bring in greater restrictions and visible control, so how we move forward over the next two weeks is critical to get right.
Peaceful mass non-compliance is what THEY can’t handle. They’ve got nowhere to go with it. There’s nothing they can do. But there are still many out there who will feel angry, resentful and reactive. It is up to us, and other groups across the U.K., to ensure we keep moving forward with building the new and a peaceful refusal to comply. We must not allow this to play into gov hands. There are so many of us now that the gov can’t win this, but it’s important we all stand firm in our actions and beliefs and continue to support those around us who may feel wobbly or reactive.
We have had word that Tesco have started putting up new mask stickers and we’ve no doubt other large organisations have been instructed to do the same so seems like this will rollout very quickly. This insinuates they are panicking, so it’s never been more important that PHA lead by example by staying in a place of calm positivity. The gov have nothing but are now in their death throes and will chuck what they can at us. Let them. Ignore them. Focus on those around you who are feeling the negativity and let’s make it our aim to focus that energy into achieving something positive in their local community.
Now is a time to show the world our unity and strength. Now is the time to reach those on the fence and show them there’s an incredible and powerful way to take action – Community Compassion and positive action. Gone are the days where the media and other nefarious agencies get to dictate the narrative. Counter at every move, all over social media, in your own conversations, stick our stickers on their stickers, posters out in your community, actions YOU take. Make them positive. Make them empowering. Make them about ignoring the morons in gov, and about building the new and caring for each other.
As we head into the eye of the storm, we must remember why we are here, why we are the ones who have been awakened and have been getting prepared for this moment. We have the power to help lead our fellow people into a space of power, peace and prosperity. Gone are the days of old. We build the new and we build it together. We absolutely have the power to end this attack on us swiftly, effectively and peaceably. They will do all they can to stop us. But nothing can stop us from coming. Nothing. There’s too many of us now. Let’s make sure we do this OUR way. Not be thrown into panic or fear because of the threats they make or action they take. They’ve got nothing. We’ve got everything. Let’s just help those who do feel the fear to find a way though it without violence or negativity. Let’s shine our light brighter than ever before and keep it simple. Ignore them. Peaceful mass-compliance is the way forward.
Let’s do this. Let’s end this war. And let’s do it with the biggest of smiles.
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The lousy bastards.
Hmm. Well I was in Tesco yesterday and they remain free of covid signage. I am not sure I agree with this ‘statement’. Of course it would be a useful distraction technique for the government and it’s current woes, but it’s getting a bit old hat now – I would expect them to think up something a bit more original.
The masses won’t comply once the fear is ramped up again. Those who are fed up with it but unawake, will, especially when the food shortages hit, cause civil unrest. Which is just what they want to bring in martial law to quell all dissent.
I have a question…..So yet another jab raises antibody levels…so what does continuously raising antibody levels, when you aren’t ill, do to the body?
It’s patently not normal, or something your body would be doing on its own, constantly…..anyone have any idea?
It weakens the immune system and leads to antigen imprinting, that is when the immune system is provoked (pathogen invades the body) the immune system will produce antibodies to the antigen component of the original CoV 2 virus it has had hammered into to it to produce.
Ergo, it is no use against variants of CoV 2 and if you are really lucky, no use against other pathogens. Aka Vaccine Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. This is well understood (except Govt advisors) – has been for about 50 years or more.
https://www.brighteon.com/94f1cb0e-3ab3-40d0-9df7-81d293b75707
The bottom line for humanity is that it’s not good.
The only bottom line it’s good for is pharmas…
Dr Tess Lawrie has written this article
https://drtesslawrie.substack.com/p/no-more-injections-for-healthy-people/
Doctors for covid ethics have these theories
https://doctors4covidethics.org/shots-and-shingles-what-do-they-tell-us/
And this
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027869152200206X
…thanks to all who answered much appreciated….
‘We’re told around 90%.’
Oh? Is that relative risk reduction or absolute risk reduction? I’ll take an intuitive guess, it’s relative risk reduction, and absolute risk reduction is probably around 0.5% or in other words next best thing to none.
And – it takes about 14 days for the immune system to respond to the vaccine during which time, the individual has virtually no protection from the virus and is more likely to get it. So CoVid vaccination is to be a continuous process.
And how is it with all this vaxing that has been going on that we have an out of season virus spreading among a highly vaccinated population?
This means it is vaccinated people spreading the disease and filling the hospitals.
Chief Medical Advisor? Ha!
When it’s argued logically, I find it very difficult to refute the clear evidence that the vaccine is increasing the spread of COVID and therefore in those at low risk, it should not be given. Do no harm must apply.
A friend asked me to explain why the vaccinated are catching COVID and I wasn’t sure of the answer. I tried an analogy of Hadrians wall. Either the wall isn’t as big as it used to be so the virus can get over the wall into your body easier than when the wall was 20′ higher.
Or the defenders sitting on top of the wall have been prevented from adapting to the new weapons of the invaders. In effect, they’ve got a sword when then invaders now have guns.
So the former is the vaccine has made it easier to get into your body and the later is the immune system has been weakened to fight the new variants as all it’s been programmed to do is fight the original variant.
I’ve read of both but anyone care to enlighten me on the real reason for this uplift in cases per 100k in the vaccinated? Don’t like talking crap
More information from the post introduction of the toxic bioweapon injections signals in data in Germany & Switzerland
https://swprs.org/covid-vaccines-and-fertility/
Perhaps ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ will turn out not just to be dystopian fiction, but a horribly true prediction. Of couse, all ‘handmaids’ would be unvaccinated!
All the “elite” males will need to be toxic bioweapon injection free too.
They’re not vaccines – an American friend of mine calls them kill shots.
There is a major scandal brewing here, and not just from covid vaccines but influenza vaccines as well as a cause of Dementia
One of the well known side effects of influenza vaccines, and covid vaccines as well, in the aged is Polymyalgia.
‘Influenza vaccine was the most incriminated vaccine (61.5%) for PMR reports’
Giant cell arteritis or polymyalgia rheumatica after influenza vaccination: A study of 12 patients and a literature review. Science Direct Feb 2021
‘This case-series highlights that PMR can follow vaccination against COVID-19. This potential link between vaccination and new onset or relapse of PMR/giant cell arteritis was previously described with influenza vaccine’
Polymyalgia rheumatica following COVID-19 vaccination: A case-series of ten patients. National Library of Medicine Dec 2021
The treatment of Polymyalgia involves massive doses of steroids.
‘Polymyalgia rheumatica causes muscle pain and stiffness, especially in the shoulders, and can also cause people to feel like they have the flu, with mild fever, fatigue, and malaise. Corticosteroids are the current treatment option, but they have downsides.
“Treatment often requires a long course of steroid therapy, often up to two years, which can have serious side-effects in this older population. Steroids can cause skin fragility, diabetes, osteoporosis, cognitive disturbances.’
Hospital for Special Surgery Nov 2015
Steroids may cause irreversible cognitive impairment in the elderly.
‘glucocorticosteroids may also induce functional disorder of additional brain regions (e.g., frontal and temporal lobe) which are important for cognitive and emotional processing. As the cortisone-induced cognitive disorder had not remitted completely after six months, reversibility of deficits in learning and memory remains unconfirmed in our patient. It is possible that the elderly are at greater risk for persistence of cognitive impairment after taking steroids.
The neuropsychological test results together with the psychiatric disorder point to dysfunctional temporo-frontal circuits in steroid dementia.’
The moral of the story, to me, seems to be that, if you are in robust health, at whatever age, prudence would suggest avoiding both the influenza and covid vaccines (particularly, obviously, if you have already had covid) if you can.
And if you cannot avoid the covid vaccine, due to government mandated travel restrictions, for example, some form of recourse at law may very well become available in due course.
I’m 69, and had one flu shot 5 years ago. Living on my own in the countryside with animals to care for, I thought it best to have it even though the only other vaccine I’ve ever had in my life was tetanus. I developed polymyalgia symptoms not long afterwards. I refuse to take steroids because of the side effects and weight gain – I’m a professional equestrian trainer- so manage it with good diet, cannabis leaf capsules and supplements. But Im certain it was that wretched jab that caused it. No way any more of that poison is coming near me. I was suspicious of the Covid jab from day one, and am so glad I didn’t take it.
>One of the well known side effects of influenza vaccines, and covid vaccines as well, in the aged is Polymyalgia.
Sometimes you read something and stop dead. I’ve just read up on this and it’s exactly what a friend is suffering from. Of course, it could be coincidence and age but makes you stop and think.
Morning: COVID-19 Vaccination Reactivates Highly Contagious Virus: Studies
https://www.theepochtimes.com/reactivation-of-chickenpox-virus-following-covid-19-injections-on-the-rise_4549574.html
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Scotland is inviting people – I think the over 70s – to attend a vaccine clinic to get a flu vaccine and a shingles one at the same time…
I suspect that the reason the death rate is still quite high with omicron is that although it normally causes a mild form of the disease, it’s relatively novel and so elderly people may not have cross-immunity to it, especially if their immune system has been confused by the jabs. Most mild respiratory diseases pass elderly people by because they have cross-immunity, but without that cross-immunity even a mild respiratory virus can tip elderly people over the edge.
The criminal aspect of the government and medical profession’s response to a new common cold coronavirus is that the common cold is well known to be more dangerous to the elderly and infirm than influenza:
‘Unexpectedly Higher Morbidity and Mortality of Hospitalized Elderly Patients Associated with Rhinovirus Compared with Influenza Virus Respiratory Tract Infection’
NLM NIH Feb 2017
Particularly coronaviruses amongst the elderly in care homes:
‘These findings underscore the virulence of human CoV-OC43 in elderly populations…’
The paper also reports that SARS PCR tests showed positive for Coronavirus OC 43! In 2006! Known about for years!
‘Subsequent testing by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction confirmed HCoV-OC43 infection. Convalescent serology ruled out SARS. Notably, sera demonstrated cross-reactivity against nucleocapsid peptide sequences common to HCoV-OC43 and SARS-CoV.
Conclusions
These findings underscore the virulence of human CoV-OC43 in elderly populations and confirm that cross-reactivity to antibody against nucleocapsid proteins from these viruses must be considered when interpreting serological tests for SARS-CoV.’
NLM NIH Nov 2006
I remain incandescent about the continuing national, international, global incompetence (or worse, venality) that has been on display within the medical profession and national leaders, governments with regard to what was, quite clearly (and identified as such by a coronavirus expert in China Feb 2020), simply a new common cold coronavirus. .
Protected? The government wants to polish off as many ‘useless eaters’ as possible, especially the elderly! I’m 69, an no way is that poison coming anywhere near me!
No one knows what’s going on here but to get a feel of the complexities it’s worth reading Robert Malone’s recent substack on “immune imprinting”. He summarises the situation on the jabs: they don’t work, are not completely safe, were designed for the original virus, don’t prevent Omicron infection, viral replication, spread and so on. They are likely to be negative because of ADE, VAED, VAIDS, immune escape, immune imprinting (OAS) and so on.
Geert vanden Bossche thinks the current problem is ADEI – antibody dependent enhanced infection – and will lead to problems for the serially-jabbed in due course because we will never get to herd immunity. The young and healthy need to stop taking the jab and treat infections/outbreaks with anti-virals.
With everyone we know over 70 contracting covid post third booster than coerced by the nhs to,get a fourth injection. When will this gov’t, the nhs be brought in front of a tribunal for criminal negligence and murder? Many many adverse events in this age group, we are all witnessing.
Some wise words from Drs Geert Vanden Bossche and Paul Alexander.
https://substack.com/redirect/2/eyJlIjoiaHR0cHM6Ly9wYWxleGFuZGVyLnN1YnN0YWNrLmNvbS9wL2RyLWdlZXJ0LXZhbmRlbi1ib3NzY2hlLWFza2VkLWlmP3Rva2VuPWV5SjFjMlZ5WDJsa0lqbzFPRE13TWpnek55d2ljRzl6ZEY5cFpDSTZOakV3T0RrMU5UZ3NJbWxoZENJNk1UWTFOakUzT0RrMk9Dd2lhWE56SWpvaWNIVmlMVFUzT1RNMU5pSXNJbk4xWWlJNkluQnZjM1F0Y21WaFkzUnBiMjRpZlEuZUdYRzBWbnk1cEJCODFnOGgxT1ktalBGdFAybF9MaUZFX2FEZ2Ytazh3WSIsInAiOjYxMDg5NTU4LCJzIjo1NzkzNTYsImYiOnRydWUsInUiOjU4MzAyODM3LCJpYXQiOjE2NTYxNzg5NjgsImlzcyI6InB1Yi0wIiwic3ViIjoibGluay1yZWRpcmVjdCJ9.3NdoKkUKytFyhdjIosv8Rx8iD1R9NsUex3TKraz7bsU?
Canada….a problem has popped out.
https://expose-news.com/2022/06/26/foi-shows-covid-injections-cause-more-deaths/
>Perhaps the biggest surprise has been the excess deaths associated with Omicron waves in highly vaccinated countries, despite Omicron being shown to be as much as 90% less deadly.
Is this really that much of a surprise considering that the rates in the vaccinated are 3-4 times higher than the unvaccinated*? The more people catching COVID in the first place must logically lead to a rise in deaths – for those where the debatable effectiveness of the vaccine was never going to help.
Any I missing something?
* appreciate there make be other factors in the UKHSA data here around population sizes but it would have to be a pretty big confounder to wipe out a 3-4 uplift in cases. Of course, it might even work the other way, i.e. it’s higher than 3-4.