I recently noted that South Korea, poster child for the ‘contain and vaccinate’ strategy, had reached the same level of excess mortality as Sweden. Despite keeping infections to a minimum until after its vaccine rollout, the country has ended up with the same total death toll as Sweden – which took a famously relaxed approach to dealing with Covid.
South Korea sustained the vast majority of its excess mortality in one major post-vaccination wave during March of this year. Another country that’s seen a deadly post-vaccination is Singapore. In October of last year, excess mortality reached 30%, and didn’t fall back to zero until the end of January.
It now appears that Singapore has joined South Korea in the ranks of ‘contain and vaccinate’ countries to reach parity with Sweden. This March, the country experienced a second deadly post-vaccination wave, which took excess mortality back up above 30% – as shown in the chart below:
Note that, by the start of March, Singapore had administered enough booster doses to cover almost 70% of the population – far more than Britain or the United States (see below). So vaccinating almost 80% of over 80s and almost 90% of those aged 60–79, and then ‘boosting’ similar numbers, didn’t stop two deadly post-vaccination waves.
One caveat when comparing South Korea and Singapore with Sweden is that excess mortality in Sweden was mostly sustained in 2020 – as opposed to late 2021 or early 2022 in the other two countries. This means the people who died in South Korea and Singapore lived slightly longer than those Sweden.
As you may recall, Singapore isn’t the only country that’s on to its second, deadly post-vaccination wave.
Despite taking an early lead in the ‘vaccination race’ and getting 80% of over 60s double-vaccinated by mid-January, Israel has now seen two waves where excess mortality exceeded 30%. In fact, in the country’s latest wave, excess mortality topped 40% – something that didn’t happen in 2020:
Singapore and Israel’s numbers are very difficult to reconcile with commonly heard claims of 90% vaccine effectiveness against death. Indeed, they suggest that vaccine effectiveness against death could be less than 50%.
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So the truth is emerging. No shortage of gross attempts to deal with real problems, in particular, those that cause risks of their own.
In my experience if I try to tell someone that Sweden actually did better than most countries I get one of the following reactions:
– they don’t believe me.
– they don’t care
– they are irritated that I’ve brought it up
I have still to encounter someone genuinely curious who shows any sense of being alerted to the possibility that they’ve been misinformed.
Yet I bet that in a few years time, the same people will be telling you how they agreed with you all along and knew it was all bollocks and will feign indignation that you should doubt that they were not on the same side as you all along.
Once the narrative changes to how the politicians and health authorities were conned by the pharma companies, then people will agree they were misinformed. They just have to be told what to think first by the mainstream narrative, not the likes of you or me
Correct. The Lockdown Enthusiasts and those who just went along with the nonsense go immediately on the defensive if you mention “Sweden.” They aren’t interested in the facts.
The Swedes are so compliant they would have made the other strategies work.
If Chuck Noris was a country, he’d be Sweden.
Oh no! It’s almost as if – well, as if you’re saying the vaccine doesn’t really work…
Say it ain’t so! That vaccine was going to be our way out of the havoc and chaos caused by the virus – well, the governments really caused the havoc and chaos, but they were of course forced to take all these damaging actions by the virus, to save… well, to save naff all it would appear.
As for the caveat about Sweden getting the deaths in somewhat earlier, Tegnell did say that, that deaths would be brought forward for some people, but for most it would be by a matter of weeks or months. As most deaths will have been in care homes, after turning them into virtual prisons for 2 years, it’s debatable whether the extra years were very much of a gift. In addition, some of the elderly who died ‘of’ corona would have died of the flu during this period, had it not gone into hibernation.
No no no, JD. The vaccines work just fine. Sweden did have a lockdown, just not an official lockdown and Swedes are extremely sensible and just did a lockdown on their own without being asked to and Sweden is quite near Denmark and Denmark did something else, and was better at something and population density and Sweden is cold but not as cold as Finland, so you can’t compare apples and oranges and the vaccines work really well and so do lockdowns and Singapore is an island and population density so you’re wrong.
Guess the downtickers don’t understand your sarcasm.
All over 50s to be offered a booster vaccine in the UK…
The only good thing about that is with each booster, fewer people will be stupid enough to take another shot of something that very clearly does not work. It will also become clearer, I expect, that the most vaxxed will be the largest number that become infected, ill and end up in hospital. At which point it will become impossible to hide the link between the toxic sludge and the adverse events/destroyed immune systems.
I have a friend who sees those affected by the vaccination as collateral damage to save the rest of us…
I know, isn’t it exciting? The conversations will be all about who’s had it, who’s still to get it, who’s got Covid again for the umpteenth time, how it’s about time as there’s another wave coming, it’s necessary with the flu coming as well etc, etc.
If course there’s always the weather/climate to talk about but that’s another tricky area…
My ex-friend who liked to tell me what a disaster Sweden was hasn’t apologised to me yet. Tosser.
“Indeed, they suggest that vaccine effectiveness against death could be less than 50%.”
Might I suggest 0% on the grounds that they are killing people.