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It Was A ‘Vaccine Strategy’ From The Start

by Alex Starling
18 March 2023 7:00 AM

HART’s recent ‘Null Hypothesis‘ article postulates and evidences a succinct summary of the happenings of the last three years: “The hypothesis that will likely stand the test of time goes like this: a nasty — if not particularly unusual — respiratory disease season was turned into a catastrophe by human misadventure, and this catastrophe was compounded by efforts to save face and justify the unjustifiable“.

In answering the question “what happened”, we did not attempt to tackle the obvious follow-up question (apart from a brief discussion about social contagion): “why did it happen?”

The sceptical community – living up to its decentralised worldview – is not short of opinions and theories, robustly debated. These are too numerous to cover in detail in this short piece: it suffices to say that they cover a wide spectrum ranging from calamitous ineptitude (and innumeracy) of politicians and civil servants, deceitful and underhand sales and marketing by nefarious global corporations, efforts by the elite to enrich themselves by impoverishing the middle classes and the digital enslavement of the masses, through to some more esoteric beliefs covering depopulation agendas, eugenics and long-in-the-planning Satanic plots… the list just goes on and on. 

As many of the most ardent supporters of both pharmaceutical and non-pharmaceutical interventions (PIs and NPIs) begin to wake up to the collateral damage they helped bring about, it is instructive to stand back and observe tried-and-tested Biblical precedent being re-enacted. Few are not enjoying seeing the pantomime villain Matt Hancock being hoist by his own self-promoting petard via the Oakeshott WhatsApp trove. After all, who does not take some satisfaction from the fall of a petty tyrant? But much like the goat that gets bestowed with the sins of the community in Leviticus (“the goat will carry on itself all their iniquities”) before being cast out into the wilderness (thus avoiding a full and frank ‘lessons learned’ exercise), the demonisation of this preening ’cock (or monkey) does not necessarily get us much further in terms of identifying whodunnit — who was the organ grinder? After all, a self-promoting chancer whose self-confessed epidemiological education is based on a studious viewing of the film Contagion is demonstrably not an evil Blofeld mastermind. Indeed, some sceptics have attempted to use the Telegraph’s Lockdown Files to scotch any discussion of conspiracy and underscore their belief that the disastrous events of 2020-2022 were ‘merely’ a cock-up.

But that simplistic take assumes that the former Secretary of State for Health was more than just a bumbling low-grade chaos agent intent on filling his boots via fast-track procurement channels. Loathsome though he might be, Hancock and his cronies are a symptom – not a cause – of the pit we find ourselves in. Why did he – and the Prime Minister at the time, Boris Johnson – get themselves into such a pickle such that they were not able to navigate a more rational – and less damaging – course through the crisis?

The answer is probably to be found somewhere within what one might term the ‘pandemic preparedness industry‘ as outlined a few months ago in the Daily Sceptic:

The response to the COVID-19 pandemic represented the triumph of a pseudo-scientific biosecurity agenda that emerged in 2005 and has been pushed ever since by a well-organised, well-funded and well-embedded network of ideologues. These fanatics promote and perpetuate the ideas underpinning the draconian new approach by publishing them in leading journals, planting them in public policy and law, pushing them in the media and smearing those who dissent, however eminent or well-qualified.

This avenue of investigation is, we believe, more likely to lead to the source of our misadventure than attempting to rationalise ‘scorched earth’ attempts at containment, suppression and eradication of a killer virus. There was only ever a warped logic to these actions, unless – one way or the other (perhaps for the ‘greater good’ or simply for old-fashioned crony capitalist ends) – you wanted to create a favourable backdrop for a new set of medical interventions that might otherwise have met with limited take-up or even downright opposition. Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty advised government ministers in February 2020(!) that Covid was not deadly enough to justify fast-tracking vaccines. Put another way, earth could not have been scorched in this way if seasonal respiratory disease had not been given a name such that ‘scariants’ could be “deployed” to “frighten the pants off” the general populace.

Whether the driving force behind these fanatics is saintly goodwill, pure greed, corruption – or even a Luciferian conspiracy for that matter – is beside the point. What is essential to understand is how a nasty seasonal respiratory disease season was weaponised to drive one of the greatest policy failures of all time. There does not necessarily need to be a single cartoon villain masterminding events for multiple parties to conspire (‘breathe together’) to create a great evil.

With this backdrop one does not even need to ferret around in the weeds to find out more. Last summer’s detailed Politico/Welt Special Report sheds plentiful quanta of light on the matter (emphasis mine):

Four [supra-national] health organisations, working closely together, spent almost $10 billion on responding to Covid across the world. But they lacked the scrutiny of governments… While nations were still debating the seriousness of the pandemic, the groups identified potential vaccine makers and targeted investments in the development of tests, treatments and shots.

The four organisations had worked together in the past, and three of them shared a common history. The largest and most powerful was the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, one of the largest philanthropies in the world. Then there was Gavi, the global vaccine organisation that Gates helped to found to inoculate people in low-income nations, and the Wellcome Trust, a British research foundation with a multibillion dollar endowment that had worked with the Gates Foundation in previous years. Finally, there was the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, or CEPI, the international vaccine research and development group that Gates and Wellcome both helped to create in 2017. …

The World Health Organisation (WHO) was crucial to the groups’ rise to power. All had longstanding ties to the global health body. The boards of both CEPI and Gavi have a specially designated WHO representative. There is also a revolving door between employment in the groups and work for the WHO: Former WHO employees now work at the Gates Foundation and CEPI; some, such as Chris Wolff, the deputy director of country partnerships at the Gates Foundation, occupy important positions. Much of the groups’ clout with the WHO stems simply from money. …

“They’re funded by their own capabilities and or endowments and trusts. But when they step into multilateral affairs, then who keeps watch over them?” a former senior U.S. official said. “I don’t know the answer to that. That’s quite provocative.”

Consider this small early 2020 cameo featuring senior executives from one of these four organisations:

When it first became clear that this disease was appearing, Richard [Hatchett] and I sat down and said, we know what happened with the last swine flu pandemic, where wealthy countries bought up all the doses [of Pandemrix] that were… available for the developing world, we have to try to do something different about that.

Most normal people draw entirely different conclusions from the swine flu saga, not least the absolutely devastating tale of Pandemrix, a giant swindle involving misuse of taxpayer funds to purchase these doses in the first place, the substantial human damage that they then caused, a subsequent cover-up and then further cost to the taxpayer compensating those affected. 

Contrast this with CEPI’s ‘mission’: “Vaccines are one of our most powerful tools in the fight to outsmart epidemics. The development of vaccines can help save lives, protect societies and restabilise economies.”

There you have it: the ‘saviour vaccine’, a sacred cow extolled with messianic zeal. It seems that one of the world’s greatest policy failures happens to neatly coincide with the stated aims of the Fantabulous Four. Food for thought given that there is no example of a vaccine ever defeating a sudden onset viral epidemic, let alone a ‘pandemic’ (there is also the question of whether viral pandemics are in any way even a hypothetical threat to modern societies — unless, of course, one incorrectly pins the blame for iatrogenic collateral damage on said virus). 

Following the money, therefore, it is not that much of a surprise what came next: while — as pointed out above — “nations were still debating the seriousness of the pandemic” (i.e., correctly monitoring the possibility of a more-serious-than-usual respiratory disease season), the Fantabulous Four were busy setting the scene with targeted investments to create fertile ground to fulfil their aims. Consider then:

  • Who might have benefited from a social media campaign showing those faked ‘deaths in the street’ in China? 
  • Who might have considered funding a social media ‘bot army’ to promote lockdowns, interventions that as per Neil Ferguson’s ‘seminal’ fear-mongering March 16th 2020 paper could only conceivably make any sort of logical sense if they were followed in short order by a ‘saviour vaccine’, as explicitly stated by Ferguson and co-authors in that paper (“these policies will need to be maintained until large stocks of vaccine are available”)? 
  • Who might have benefited from squashing an early ‘lab leak’ theory that might have implicated some of the Fantabulous Four and the justification for a fast-track vaccine rollout?
  • Conversely, once said rollout had been successfully funded and procured at eye-watering expense, who might have benefited from refloating the ‘lab leak’ theory to help justify future ‘pandemic preparedness’?   
  • Who might benefit from tightly controlling media output and censorship (after all, “true content… might promote vaccine hesitancy”)? Who was writing this script?
  • WHO might wish to publish — in 2022 — detailed recommendations about how those in authority should respond to a ‘vaccine crisis’ (defined as any occurrence that “will most likely or has already eroded public trust in vaccines… and may create uncertainty”)?
  • Why only the vaccine ‘pillar’ of the WHO’s wish list, the ACT-A (Access to Covid Tools Accelerator), received the funding that was sought? And why did all others on that ACT-A list — most notably cheap therapeutics that might have saved many lives (while of course competing with lucrative vaccines) — remain well short of their funding targets?

This congruency of the categorical trinity — means, motive and opportunity — is difficult to explain away. It is true that much that happened from March 2020 was anarchic, uncontrolled, panicked and unscripted. But there was method to the madness, an ultimate aim to the chaos, namely to make way for a ‘saviour vaccine’ that would only be accepted if the intended recipients had had ‘the pants frightened off them’, i.e., were sufficiently afraid of the alternatives to risk such an unproven medical intervention. 

It may conceivably be that many people involved in the Fantabulous Four believe that this collective action was necessary. But collective action – however well meaning – that is dictated by a group and imposed on everyone else is tyranny, pure and simple. It gets worse if authorities are sufficiently captured by this tyranny such that they deploy subversive psychological weaponry on their citizens and suppress any dissent. 

These are grave misdeeds that led to great harm, both in terms of bad outcomes and collateral damage from unnecessary non-pharmaceutical interventions, but also from the utterly unnecessary coercion used to foist pharmaceutical interventions on those that did not need them. 

Even if we presuppose that there are no evil Blofeld-types standing behind all of this, it is beyond doubt that a fanatical ideology has inspired an evil tyranny.  As per the Daily Sceptic: “This ideology is the enemy, and seeing it for what it is is the first step to defeating it”.

This process has begun.

First published by the Health Advisory and Recovery Team (HART). Sign up for newsletters here.

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A. Contrarian
A. Contrarian
7 months ago

First off and most importantly, she is not a vegan. There is no such thing as a part time vegan, you either believe it’s 100% wrong to eat animal products and avoid them full time with no exceptions (and last time I looked, eggs came from a chicken’s bottom and can’t be mentioned in the same category as tofu, nuts and seeds), or you’re just someone who chooses not to eat meat and dairy sometimes.

I will say this though, I have watched Masterchef on and off for years and she frequently pops up as a restaurant critic judge. I had absolutely no idea she was vegan (which is probably, as said above, because she is not) because as far as I remember she chows down on her meat and two veg with just as much gusto as the rest of them.

Nor has she used the show to bang on about her principles, which is perhaps the biggest shock of all.

Last edited 7 months ago by A. Contrarian
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Dinger64
Dinger64
7 months ago

“Can a Vegan Really Save MasterChef?”
Less of a flying f#@k I couldn’t give! Sorry

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Sceptical Steve
Sceptical Steve
7 months ago

The basic premise of the article collapses as soon as you recognise that Grace Dent has regularly been a judge on the show, and has never (to my knowledge) had any reservations about eating “normal” food when she’s been asked to review it.

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Smudger
Smudger
7 months ago
Reply to  Sceptical Steve

Wicki

‘She has been “mainly vegan” since the early 2010s, describing herself as plant based or a flexitarian’.

Typical screwed up Guardianista.

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Mrs.Croc
Mrs.Croc
7 months ago

Food critic for the Guardian was enough for me!

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MajorMajor
MajorMajor
7 months ago

I don’t care.
My wife, bless her, cooks every day. She has always put a tasty, nutritious meal on the table.
She has never watched a single episode of Masterchef.
As far as I can tell from watching the adverts for it, the program is not about cooking. It’s a cheap, cliched form of entertainment. Predictably “diverse” competitors, fake drama, dubious creations.

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WillP
WillP
7 months ago

Like Bake Off it’s already in its death throes. How many more pop-up wonders and Gastro-Pub sous chefs can we watch?

A presenter with a border-line eating disorder will finish it off.

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Old Arellian
Old Arellian
7 months ago
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I hope so

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RTSC
RTSC
7 months ago

Just the BBC doing its Masters’ bidding (hint, that’s not the Telly-Tax payers) and promoting a “plant-based” diet for the future …. basically gas-lighting their viewers, mostly now the elderly and brainwashed virtue-signallers.

They’re destroying the show, as surely as they destroyed Top Gear when they similarly disrespected their audience.

Never watched it; never will.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
7 months ago

Given the wages Dent will be on I am sure she will quickly regain her taste for meat and fish.

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psychedelia smith
psychedelia smith
7 months ago

No because nothing the BBC does is about the success of BBC programmes, It’s about the BBC parading their impeccable metropolitan political credentials, purposely alienating viewers they believe don’t share this moron-think, shoehorning net zero propaganda into every available orifice and committing commercial suicide across four channels.

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transmissionofflame
transmissionofflame
7 months ago
Reply to  psychedelia smith

It’s a political campaigning organisation masquerading as a media company

The media stuff is just a means to an end

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Cotfordtags
Cotfordtags
7 months ago

Strange because the other day, she did a programme all about Greggs and had no problems eating their full range particularly the real sausage rolls

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Tonka Rigger
Tonka Rigger
7 months ago
Reply to  Cotfordtags

That I can identify with. There’s always time for an Uncle Gregory’s sausage roll.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
7 months ago
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Gregg’s sausage roll, otherwise known as the Manchester dummy.

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
7 months ago

“Torode, it should be noted, was blissfully unaware”

Not sure what is more laughable, this or the vegan judge.

I’ve not kept up to date, though. What did Wallace do, actually?

Keep writing, Cracker Jack!

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JXB
JXB
7 months ago

MasterChef – repetitive, dull, boring.

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Marque1
Marque1
7 months ago

She(?) has a jaw like a snowplough; or Desperate Dan. Cow Pie anyone?

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Gezza England
Gezza England
7 months ago
Reply to  Marque1

There is a pic of her in oversized black framed glasses and her eyes screwed up like she has put acid in them. Not quite sure why you would ever have posed for such a photo.

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videosteve
videosteve
7 months ago

Grace Dent will be fine.

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The Real Engineer
The Real Engineer
7 months ago
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We shall see, but I doubt if her choices for winner will have much to do with the food.

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Jackthegripper
Jackthegripper
7 months ago

As I don’t watch live TV I don’t pay the TV tax which supports the BBC. I therefore couldn’t give a rats backside about Masterchef, I programe I never watched when gullible enough to pay the licence fee.
The Stop Press is interesting and explains the recent drive to once again ‘encourage’ eating highly processed crap that is supposed to look and taste like meat!

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Twm Morgan
Twm Morgan
7 months ago

A brilliant article that had me chuckling. Well done, Jack, and thank you!!

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Covid-1984
Covid-1984
7 months ago

I’m totally amazed ANYONE watches BBC anymore. I dumped then 3 years ago and I am nearly £470 better off. That’s someone’s heating allowance.

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bfbf334
bfbf334
7 months ago

“According to the Mail, the market for vegan food has shrunk by £38 million in the past year.”
Fantastic news.

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The Walrus
The Walrus
7 months ago

“Flexitarian” – I guess that’s like “gender fluid”. Another nonsense woke term.

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