It is clear that many are now waking up to the realisation that much of the Government narrative on the pandemic was wrong and that many of the COVID-19 preventive measures did more harm than good. Both candidates for U.K. Prime Minister have recently admitted that the lockdowns were a mistake. In particular, many of the unsuspecting public who submitted to the vaccinations are now beginning to question the need for them. Vaccinations have not fulfilled the claims of manufacturers and governments and few in mainstream science seem to have anticipated the frequent mutations which render the early vaccines largely useless. More are now starting to question the unexpected, and sometimes fatal, conditions which some of the vaccinated mysteriously develop soon after vaccination. Others simply have ‘vaccine fatigue’ and can’t be bothered going for any more jabs.
Furthermore, there are those who know something about immunology and can see that natural immunity from having contracted the virus sets them up with excellent protection (not just antibodies but also the longer-lasting T cell immunity) against many future variants. They have also long recognised that you cannot stop a highly infectious virus spreading, as was acknowledged in the evidence-based U.K. pandemic plan, capriciously jettisoned by Boris Johnson and his ‘expert’ advisors. They can also see that these experts’ recommended means of avoiding the virus (masks, lockdown, social distancing) have not worked, and we are now seeing the results of the ‘Zero Covid’ policy in China, where successive cities are being placed back in lockdown. Meanwhile news is beginning to creep out of the success of natural remedies as well as banned drugs such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, which can protect against the infection and keep it from becoming serious.
Interestingly, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC), which provided the official recommendations on lockdown, masks and social distancing throughout the pandemic, followed slavishly in the U.K. and elsewhere, has now quietly changed its guidance to advocating personal responsibility by stating that “Persons can use information about the current level of COVID-19 impact on their community to decide which prevention behaviours to use and when”. They are now recommending the individual risk assessment and risk-based countermeasures which many of us have been advocating from the start of the pandemic, since the elderly and those with co-morbidities have always been at much greater risk than healthy children and young adults. Indeed, much of the revised CDC guidance could have been cut and pasted from the Great Barrington Declaration. It’s just such a pity that so many of us have been attacked, cancelled and sacked from our jobs for saying this from the beginning.
Although there was much talk early in the pandemic of achieving ‘herd immunity’ through infection or vaccination, we no longer hear anything about this, since it has become clear that vaccination does not bring about herd immunity; achieving herd immunity through infection would negate the validity of the vaccine roll-out. Of course, since vaccinations were introduced, it has become impossible to assess natural herd immunity but there is no reason to suppose that it would not have been achieved in the absence of vaccines; there is plenty of evidence of pre-existing immunity from other coronaviruses.
It’s not clear exactly how many of us are completely unvaccinated; figures range from 5 million (official Government sources) to over 23 million (other sources). This matters, because over 23 million represents around 35% of the U.K. population, a not insubstantial proportion. Interestingly, this 35% is the exact same proportion as the official number of unvaccinated globally. So much for the unvaccinated being a tiny and insignificant minority! We can all remember how governments around the world have tried to stigmatise the unvaccinated as pariahs for the last 18 months because of their ‘selfishness’ in refusing the vaccine, thereby placing others at risk by potentially transmitting COVID-19. Yet all the evidence indicates that vaccination does not prevent transmission of COVID-19, a point that even the vaccine manufacturers now acknowledge. The CDC has also tacitly acknowledged this by stating that “prevention recommendations no longer differentiate based on a person’s vaccination status because breakthrough infections occur”. It even grudgingly allows for natural immunity by stating “persons who have had COVID-19 but are not vaccinated have some degree of protection against severe illness from their previous infection”. And who, after at least two and a half years of exposure to a highly transmissible virus, has not had COVID-19, even asymptomatically? So why bother getting vaccinated at all?
So what are the experiences of the unvaccinated? A recent study led by Dr. Rob Verkerk of the Alliance for Natural Health International, evaluating survey results from 18,500 completely unvaccinated respondents to a survey by the international, U.K.-based, Control Group Cooperative, found that reasons for avoiding COVID-19 vaccination included distrust of health authorities, governments or the pharmaceutical industry, insufficient evidence of safety or effectiveness and concerns over potential injuries or adverse reactions. Over 70% relied on natural remedies for prevention and treatment, while two thirds also used repurposed, generic, off-patent drugs such as ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine, sales of which provide no revenue to the world’s leading pharmaceutical companies.
So were these unvaccinated individuals all Covid-free? No, and that was neither expected nor desired – one cannot build up natural immunity without contracting the infection. Among those who contracted COVID-19 during the reporting period, only 0.4% reported hospitalisation (as either in- or out-patients). Since this was an international cohort, it is not possible to compare this figure to national hospitalisation rates, which are often not available. However, a rate of 0.4% is sufficiently low to suggest that the unvaccinated have not placed a significant additional burden on healthcare systems. While there have been plenty of media headlines mentioning the ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’, the actual evidence for this was always thin on the ground and has since evaporated altogether. This is particularly so when bearing in mind that anyone who contracts COVID-19 within two weeks of vaccination is labelled ‘unvaccinated’. Instead, a recent study showed that, in the U.K., there are an increasing number of COVID-19 cases, hospitalisations and deaths among the vaccinated elderly.
Furthermore, the vast majority of hospitalised Control Group respondents reported no use of natural remedies or repurposed drugs in hospital, reflecting the mainstream belief that these products don’t work and should not be used in a healthcare setting. This meant that any ongoing benefit they might have experienced from these remedies was immediately curtailed. Although not mentioned by the authors, another factor potentially affecting severity of disease in this cohort of individuals who believed in self-care, was the likely lower incidence of comorbidities (obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease etc.), which have been found to predict more severe disease.
Disturbingly, the respondents reported a high incidence of mental health issues. Much of this is likely because of the legalised sacking from jobs due to being unvaccinated (reaching a peak of 29% in respondents from Australia and New Zealand), the personal hate campaigns experienced by many and being a target of governmental victimisation (57% to 61% in Australia, New Zealand, Western and Southern Europe and South America). Other useful nuggets from the survey included the fact that those who reported never wearing facial coverings or masks also experienced the lowest incidence of suspected or confirmed COVID-19, indicating once again that masks are ineffective in stopping a virus.
This paper was originally placed with the preprint server ResearchGate but was removed on the grounds that “the content may expose [ResearchGate] to harm, potential legal liability, or [was] in breach of [its] Terms”. Happily, Dr. Verkerk’s team and the Control Group Cooperative persevered and the analysis and interpretation, in revised and even expanded form, has now been successfully peer-reviewed and published in the much bolder International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice and Research. An excellent commentary on this study has been put out by the Alliance for Natural Health.
Dr. Rachel Nicoll is a medical researcher, lecturer and writer.
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No vax (obviously) got Covid July 2021. Family all got it except the youngest 15 year old. We managed the symptoms with Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, vitamins D&C and Zinc. 2 days were like a bad flu without a cough. Not back to normal until about day 8.
Since then anytime I felt a cold coming I took Hydroxychloroquine half dose with Zinc and Vitamin C. Never got sick again until a month ago with a cold for about 4 days.
No reinfections, never wore a mask, ditto wife. Youngest still never seemed to have gotten it.
Both unjabbed, my husband and I have taken vitamin supplements every day since this started and a couple of months ago I wasn’t feeling well and took myself off to bed for about 24 hours, headache, sneezes, blocked nose – no cough though and bounced back after 3 days. My husband didn’t catch anything. Was it Covid? – don’t know, don’t care. We are both in good health and for that I am grateful but its no thanks to the NHS!
No vax, no mask, no extra supplements, no problem.
Had a 3 day cold once in 2 years. May or may not have been “covid”. Don’t know, don’t care, never tested.
Oh, and made a point of shaking as many hands and giving as many hugs as I could.
Nothing keeps disease away like a happy, cheerful soul.
Same here, one bout of flu-like thing that laid me low for a week or so, one mild cold. About average for me for a two-year period. Plenty of liquids and bed rest for the flu, ignored the mild cold and carried on with life.
Family of 5. No vaccinations. All had Covid at least once, symptoms for each were about 2 days of headache, some back aches. All symptoms gone within a week.
A useful report. Regarding the claim that the “vaccine” product could reduce the virus transmission to third parties, to be fair to the manufacturers, they did not appear to issue such a claim. At least, in the paperwork issued to me by the NHS organisation back in 2021, they stated that they “do not know yet….” I suspect that the claims were generated by the usual suspects, not real specialists in that field.
I never accepted the offer, and have not used it. The last time I had some kind of respiratory infection was early in 2020, before the panic ensued. About a year later, I did shell out to have a private assessment to see if I had any relevant T-cells on board, which was inconclusive, so it must have been something else then. Suggests that I have never suffered from C19 at all, unless it’s so benign that I confused it with my normal seasonal pollen allergy issues.
Strangely my hayfever has been a lot less these past 2 years.
Anecdotal; we have four healthy adults in the house, all under 35. Two people in the house are uninjected, the other two were “fully boosted” at that point, despite warnings from me.
We all caught the virus at the same time, sometime around last October. Admittedly the symptoms were a little different to a regular virus, but definitely not worse.
Myself and the other un-injected got over it in a day. Personally I got through it with a bottle of whisky, pizza and Band of Brothers boxset. The subsequent hangover was worse than the virus.
The other two injected people had it hit them harder and differently. Not only were they physically more ill, but they suffered mentally, which I am attributing to their fear playing tricks on them along with some cognitive dissonance. They were locked up for around 3 days, and were significantly fatigued and generally run down for a week after. Thankfully they have come around to rejecting any more gov’t crap.
Again, anecdotal, but I suspect we all know of something like this.
I had a weird thing several weeks back whereby I had all over body aches, even my fingers and eyeballs ached, but I just took ibuprofen and went about my business, even kept up my exercise routine. The strangest thing is that I lost my sense of smell and taste without having even the slightest sniffle. That’s only ever happened when I’ve had a bunged up nose so that was novel. Taste and smell returned after a week gradually. I lost 4kg in a week as not being able to taste food does dampen one’s appetite for food somewhat.
I don’t test so it was just some random lurgy as far as I’m concerned and nothing to write home about. Life is and always has been full of these occasional maladies that pop up out of the blue. Normal people just get on with their lives and don’t behave like wet blankets.
Lovely article with which to close my evening; the smell of vindication grows sweeter every day. (And walking past the local health centre I noticed a sign up stating that in line with new guidelines, face coverings are now optional).
I’ve taken the FLCCC stuff that I could obtain plus a weekly dose of IVM and my brush with the bug lasted 6 days; husband the same minus the IVM, (although he took a few doses when in the thick of it) and cleared it in about 9 days. No after-effects, unlike most vaxxed acquaintances I’ve spoken with. We are 64 and 70. Neither of us jabbed; would love to be quizzed by a medic so I could gloat about it but unlikely to be given the satisfaction.
I’d enjoy the sensation more, but clearly our betters have more miseries in store for us with the energy prices, especially for those running businesses.
If that fool who’s been at the helm this past couple of years shows me that smirk just once more as he spouts his bs, I won’t be responsible for my actions.
Fit, healthy 60+ female. Think I had Covid in November 2019. Unjabbed; carried on as close as possible to life as normal throughout the restrictions and regularly stretched “the rules.” Regularly take Vit C, Zinc, cod liver oil and echinacea.
Is this the same group that I’m assuming quite a few people here are in SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Control Group that Toby is a member of and suggested Lockdown Sceptics might join? This was way back just as the experimental gene therapy treatment jabs were about to be forced upon us. Just asking.
I remember there was some suspicion around here that the group might have been an attempt at data-gathering of the non-compliant. There was still a wary atmosphere around vaccine passports and making the jabs compulsory before entering public spaces, so many of us elected to safeguard our privacy until the true aims of the group became apparent.
Seems they were ok but those were febrile times – understandably.
You knew all this from the beginning.
I knew all this from the beginning.
But who are we?
According to this peer-reviewed analysis, only 0.4% of participants were hospitalized. And then it mentions ‘…low incidences of severe disease, hospitalization, or death.’
But how do they know how many of the participants died?
As the analysis is based on self-reported monthly questionnaires, if a participant dies, they wouldn’t be able to self-report that they had died, and it’s unlikely that a relative or friend would report to the Control Group Cooperative project that the person died.
So if a participant stops self-reporting each month, how would the authors of this analysis know if the person had died due to Covid, or died with Covid, or died due to some other reason, or was alive and had just stopped self-reporting?
It was just a huge money laundering exercise and lots of government officials and their friends made a fortune out of it. At the same time they managed to scare a large part of the population and not only damage their physical health but mental health too.To try to deny we have Immune systems was the final straw for me! I will continue to hope for an International Court to bring those criminals to justice.