The Lockdown Files Live, an event at which I’m going to be talking to Isabel Oakeshott about Matt Hancock’s WhatsApp messages that she handed over to the Telegraph, was almost derailed last week when the Emmanuel Centre informed us it could no longer host it. The reason? It had been contacted by Hancock’s people, who said it would be illegal for Isabel and I to “profit” from stolen property. In fact, the WhatsApp messages weren’t stolen – Hancock happily shared them with Isabel – but the Emmanuel Centre didn’t want the aggravation so it pulled the plug. Happily, we’ve managed to find another venue – the Hippodrome – where the event will take place on Tuesday, June 13th. (You can buy a ticket here.) And if you’re one of the people who’s bought a ticket to the drinks reception or the VIP dinner with Isabel and me on Saturday, June 10th – don’t worry. For those people the event will take place on Saturday as planned, only the drinks, the discussion and the dinner will all be at UnHerd’s swanky new headquarters on Old Queen Street rather than the Emmanuel Centre.
Isabel Oakeshott has written about this turn of events in the Telegraph. Here’s an extract:
That the former health secretary could see fit to adopt the moral high ground when it comes to money making of any description is a fresh reminder of his brass neck. This is, after all, a man who summarily dumped his constituents in West Suffolk to prance around the Australian jungle getting ants in his pants and eating camel bits. He told everyone his stint on ITV’s I’m a Celebrity show was all about raising awareness of dyslexia, but few were convinced. It turns out he pocketed £320,000 from his appearance – of which he donated just £10,000 to charity.
As if that was not enough to disqualify him from lecturing anyone about making money, he recently told an undercover reporter that his going rate for providing business advice is £10,000 a day, or “around £1,500 an hour”. Nice work if you can get it! Sadly, the South Korean company he thought he could assist turned out to be fake.
As for the stolen thing? Within a few hours of the Telegraph breaking the Lockdown Files exposé, even he dropped that ridiculous claim. To his regret, he freely shared his WhatsApps with quite a few people, including me.
Worth reading in full.
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Well maybe they know the vaccines don’t work, or at least there is no data to separate the effects of the same parameters which led to the same decline last year?
https://www.facebook.com/groups/johndee333/permalink/942908079777669/
Well there is actually. If you look at analyses of infections by age group, you will see that there are virtually no infections in the over 50s this year compared with last year, and they peak with teenagers now.
The number of tests is also significantly higher this year.
The point is a technical one. You can argue they have an impact. Evidence is another matter.
Sounds awfully like when my parents used to try to take advantage by insisting on extra-good behaviour and a perpetually tidy bedroom on the run up to Christmas with the looming threat of ‘No Santa’. Sadly, the majority of the population have become so infantilised over the last year that this approach towards coercing people into higher vaccination take-up will probably have the desired effect.
I agree, except that the infantilisation of the majority of the population has been going on for longer than just the past year!
Given what I currently know, and given that Big Pharma assertions about the efficacy of these vaccines has been retreating, and given that Big Pharma pay big bucks to get scientific frauds to use fake science to promote these vaccines, I wouldnt be in the least bit surprised if these vaccines do not work at all.
We saw that Zerohedge article about how in the US they were going to use different criteria to define a ‘case’ for vaxxed people. Namely the vaxxed patient has to be ill and have a positive PCR test confirmation using far less cycles than they would for an unvaxxed patient. Meanwhile a ‘case’ for a vaxxed patient could be a healthy individual with a positive PCR test only, with that PCR test being run over many more cycles. Why would they do this? The only reason is to help cover up the fact that not only do the vaccines kill, but they dont do what they are advertised to do.
We need to watch out in the UK for this double standard appearing here, because if we arent careful, it will.
So for once I agree with Sage, the vaccines dont work. At least they dont work to stop Covid.
However, something in the experimental vaccines has maimed and killed thousands.
Not only do they not do what they are supposed to do, Coronavirus vaccines have a 100% failure rate in previous animal studies for creating worse forms of respiratory disease via Antibody Dependent Enhancement. They have the effect of training the immune system to over-react when challenged with wild coronavirus post-vaccination, so much so that the body attacks itself which can lead to death! This is why no Coronavirus vaccine has ever been successfully brought to market.
Sucharit Bhakdi does a good job of explaining this here from the 26 minute mark:
Perspectives on the Pandemic | “Blood Clots and Beyond” | Episode 15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyPjAfNNA-U
The previous animal studies I referred to are detailed here in:
#3: THE UGLY HISTORY OF ATTEMPTS TO MAKE CORONAVIRUS VACCINES
18 Reasons I Won’t Be Getting a Covid Vaccine
https://www.deconstructingconventional.com/post/18-reason-i-won-t-be-getting-a-covid-vaccine
And this paper does a good job of exposing this elephant in the room too:
Informed consent disclosure to vaccine trial subjects of risk of COVID-19 vaccines worsening clinical disease
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ijcp.13795
“Results of the study
COVID-19 vaccines designed to elicit neutralising antibodies may sensitise vaccine recipients to more severe disease than if they were not vaccinated. Vaccines for SARS, MERS and RSV have never been approved, and the data generated in the development and testing of these vaccines suggest a serious mechanistic concern: that vaccines designed empirically using the traditional approach (consisting of the unmodified or minimally modified coronavirus viral spike to elicit neutralising antibodies), be they composed of protein, viral vector, DNA or RNA and irrespective of delivery method, may worsen COVID-19 disease via antibody-dependent enhancement (ADE). This risk is sufficiently obscured in clinical trial protocols and consent forms for ongoing COVID-19 vaccine trials that adequate patient comprehension of this risk is unlikely to occur, obviating truly informed consent by subjects in these trials.
Conclusions drawn from the study and clinical implications
The specific and significant COVID-19 risk of ADE should have been and should be prominently and independently disclosed to research subjects currently in vaccine trials, as well as those being recruited for the trials and future patients after vaccine approval, in order to meet the medical ethics standard of patient comprehension for informed consent.”
Perhaps someone could explain why restrictions are not ending if the “vaccines” work. This is no laughing matter. People I know have been quite distressed that things that should be basic rights have been unattainable.
And whilst we’re at it, with lockdown zealots Peru more than doubling their “Covid death toll” following a review (sneaked in as the 7th story on “Ceefax”), could someone explain what is so good about restrictions anyway. What was that phrase about people who keep trying the same thing and expect different results?
None so blind as those who don’t want to see.
According to Einstein ,it is ‘insanity’
This is desperate stuff from the ATL folk. When will Toby, Will and Michael realise that they’ve been had? The coercive mass vaccination programme was never meant to lead to freedom. Whether vaccines work or not is really hardly relevant at all to what’s going on. What’s going on is: society is being beaten, led and incentivised to accept digital compliance ID and Big Pharma’s wish to see vaccination replace our wonderful “3 billion years in the making” natural immunity is being given free rein.
Incidentally on “natural immunity”…this isn’t a naive view. It’s perfectly valid. It doesn’t deny the use of medical drugs to step in when necessary. But it does say our natural immunity system knows a lot more about us as individuals (each with over a trillion cells) than any GP or other doctor can ever hope to. It doesn’t deny that there are plenty of things that can make us ill e.g. poor sanitation, poor housing, poor air quality, chemical pollution, drug abuse (both legal and illegal drugs), and poor diet. Natural immunity cannot always win against such factors. In some rare cases of disease at different times in history, vaccination may provide a better route to maintaining health. But such cases will always be very small in number.
Let us be in no doubt, Big Pharma wants us to have hundreds, maybe even thousands of vaccinations in our lifetimes going forward. Their holy grail will be oral administration of the vaccines, thus enabling many more to be taken. They are working hard on that!
The vax campaign is totally unnecessary, by now there’s a long list of low-cost, safe prophylactics and treatments that could have brought the “pandemic” to a close a long time ago and that are not vulnerable to viral mutations. One that hasn’t been banned is the carrageenan spray sold by Boots to combat colds and flu, which was found in an Argentinian trial to be 80% effective in preventing COVID-19 . There was a similar trial in Wales, for which we’re still waiting for the results.
Good response…..I laugh at headlines about the virus
being beaten’ etc….it’s all a scam! Part of the drive to digitally control humanity.
They want to lower our average life expectancy to about 65, every Covid policy already had (only) that effect.
But at the same time, we must be continuously drugged up to generate the same kind of revenue to the MIC, medical industrial complex.
The shift happens within it: go long Big Pharma&co, short Otto Bock, B. Braun, Medtronic, BSX&co, or become a shrink, not a heart surgeon or an orthopedic one.
They actively smeared safe and effective drugs to pave the way for the criminal vax rollout, as exemplified by the infamous Lancet sham HCQ studyl
The Lancet Retracts Hydroxychloroquine Study
https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20200605/lancet-retracts-hydroxychloroquine-study
Absolutely unforgiveable behaviour from a so-called respected journal
I don’t think they have much of a view on the vaccines one way or another, they just want the “emergency” to continue so that they hold on to power and attention. Why wouldn’t they?
You have a point – although I think it’s but one strand.
Any impartial observer would note that SAGE has been astoundingly wrong, and is obviously massively unbalanced and ineffective in terms of expertise.
A clear motivation amongst members is significance seeking that they don’t want to abandon in sucking up to the government prior agenda, and concocting evidence to suit. An interesting insight is gained in looking at individuals in terms of funding support, gongs and accreditations etc.
Then compare with members with – say – those of HART. Brown tongues are the give-away, as well as the continued employment of failures like Fergusson, who should have been given a P45 years ago.
Any proper government would by now have shut down SAGE and appointed a proper advisory body. But clearly – the shambles serves a purpose.
Ferguson ain’t a failure. The crazy models have a clear purpose. He is undoubtedly beloved by his master.
Just another proliferator of the Satanic policies wrecking our world
They seem to be seeing things in black and white, all or nothing. It would be interesting to know or have someone intelligently guesstimate how much ‘flouting’ of the lockdown rules there has actually been over the past year plus. What percentage met and hugged, did not wear face masks or socially distance or wash hands. As for the vax, of some 35 people in my small street, I know of 4 of us over 50 not intending to take up the ‘offer’; if that’s anything to go by. My immediate neighbours who are fully vaxxed, all have fairly close exchanges with me (and are aware of my views). The actions of folk generally in this large village/small town do completely contradict what many of them yet seem to say/believe…. which is human nature. If there were a truly deadly virus highly contagious and very nasty out there, I suspect that the disparity between belief and action would not exist. So the idea that people are complying is not quite so cut and dried.
They are seeing things in the red of communism.
Just because SAGE is an idiot’s forum, you really don’t need to strive to qualify for membership.
The Communist Takeover Explained could have been produced yesterday about our current predicament:
The Communist Takeover Explained (1966)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3LTrqv3sFE
I don’t believe the snake oils work. I never thought they would.
I believe that the human immune system works. I’ve still got mine.
Perhaps someone should look more closely at the vaccine Absolute Risk Reduction rather than Relative Risk Reduction; something I’ve been banging on about for ages.
When a manufacturers claim a vaccine is “95% effective” we must bear in mind that this is an estimate of relative risk as opposed to absolute risk, and can be somewhat misleading for the general public who will interpret this as “if I have the vaccine I’m 95% certain of not getting COVID” – this is not what “95% effective” means.
By way of example, in Pfizer’s large trial 8 of their vaccinated group of 18,198 participants went on to develop COVID-19 (0.044% risk), whereas a total of 162 of their un-vaccinated group of 18,325 participants went on to develop COVID-19 (0.88% risk).
The relative risk reduction calculation is thus 100 x 1-(0.044/0.88) = 95%, whereas the absolute risk reduction is a mere 0.88 – 0.044 = 0.84%.
Thus, if you were a vaccinated subject in Pfizer’s trial, there was a 99.96% chance you didn’t develop COVID-19. If you were an un-vaccinated subject there was still a 99.12% chance you didn’t develop COVID-19, the difference being the absolute risk of 0.84%
i.e. vaccination by Pfizer’s product actually reduces your personal risk by less than 1% and not 95%
Something I have been banging on about for ages is that ARR, while useful, depends on the prevalence so it makes no sense to say “the ARR of such and such a vaccine is X”. While it is reasonable to assume the RRR does not vary with prevalence and is a property of the vaccine.
We need to see that tested this winter. Do the vaccinated frail continue to catch Covid in hospital?
You’re not paying attention. They have no intention of labelling vaccinated individuals as + covid cases. Simply will not happen.
Great comment. The magic show continues. Brilliant explanation of some of their new tricks explained here. It cites the CDC, but anyone thinking PHE would never indulge in such trickery is kidding themselves
How the CDC is manipulating data to prop-up “vaccine effectiveness”
https://off-guardian.org/2021/05/18/how-the-cdc-is-manipulating-data-to-prop-up-vaccine-effectiveness/
Your logic is correct. However the prevalence as measured for covid is a function of the RT-PCR test for SARS2. Which are two entirely different things. There is no measurement of prevalence for covid, none at all. We know that the RT-PCR test at 35CTs or above is useless as a measure of prevalence for SARS2. So all the ONS figures of prevalence for SARS2 are a waste of space, completely useless.
The ONLY measurement we have that is sound is the total deaths and comparison on an age adjusted basis. According to this statistic, this so-called pandemic never got anywhere near registering as a pandemic, and in any event was totally over by June 2020 after care homes had stopped being infected by sick people from hospitals.
Now so called vaccines with only trials showing positive results for minimising one severe symptom of something called covid19 are being coerced on the public.
RRR may be accurate as tested, but ARR is also accurate for the ‘benefit’ of the jab under normal circumstances, and normal circumstances have existed since latest June 2020 well before the start of the injections.
Add to this the availability of a variety of efficient medicines that deal with the effects called covid19 and there is no justification for injections, indeed it is a very clear illegal operation.
Now try explaining that to the Moronic British Zombies.
I don’t think you can. I understand the argument, but I can’t get it into my head in a way that I can explain it. The vast majority just go by the top line percentage, as that is easy to understand!
You will find good explanations on Wikepaedia.
Last summer you would have had to vaccinate around 100 people to prevent one symptomatic case of Covid.
The fact that they are coercing the vaccination of the naturally immune completely obscures the truth on the effectiveness of the jabs.
That is one of the purposes of doing so.
Good explanation Mr S. Thankyou. I’m a 72 yr old refusenik for the COV-19 snakeoil, having had armfuls of every vaccine going in my earlier years.
How’s the cat?
Thank you for setting this out so that the innumerate like me can understand it so clearly. Is there a counter-argument about each 0.84% not being much on a personal level but on a population level achieving something useful? I just want to know what the promoters would say.
But it is a huge reduction. I’m no snake oil fan and I’m a “refusenik” myself but….
If you have a 0.5% chance of dying of something, that is 1 in 200. That might sound insignificant but if I was told I only had a 99.5% chance of making it to tomorrow, I might be a bit worried at least. If everyone in my office today was told the same thing, chances are at least a couple of us wouldn’t be back tomorrow.
If that risk reduces to 0%, you might scoff at a 100% RR reduction and say it’s just a 0.5% AR reduction. Either way, it’s hugely significant and absurd to suggest otherwise.
(Btw all the above figures are hypothetical to illustrate a point and not related to Covid)
On the snake oil front though, there is actually a world of difference between 0.044% and 0.84% and to use an AR figure is actually the wildly misleading figure. I have no issue with RR being used. We shouldn’t dirty ourselves by playing their game and using misleading stats.
Remember that the Pfizer trial wasn’t really blinded – side effects were so common, many people knew which jab they’d had. And Pfizer was in charge of it.
It’s only hugely significant in that example because it’s the risk of death. The vaccines have been assessed on reduction in mild COVID symptoms, where even a 100% RR reduction is not particularly interesting given the unusually severe side effects of these vaccines. We don’t actually know what the risk reduction is for death with these vaccines, and there seems to have been little interest in establishing it. It’s quite possible that in frail elderly patients, they increase risk. The Norwegians seem to think so.
A very clear explanation, nice work.
It also assumes, of course, that Pfizer’s trials are legit. Given that it is in their own interest to generate this type of outcome, there are reasons to doubt this.
For a start, didn’t the vaxxed trial group exclude those of an old age with underlying health conditions?
I think that point has been made continually – and a Lancet article was cited only yesterday noting the lack of ARR figures.;
i read that about [ pharmaceutical funded of course]studies showing butter and eggs cause heart attacks or was it statins prevent heart attack s very revealing the different ‘risks’ a nd then the actual risk and am sure i t’s done on purpose too to fool the public
Charge them all with conspiracy to commit or aid and abet misconduct in public office, max. sentence life.
Or, maybe, loss of life?!
Whats all this vaccine talk there is no vaccine, there is experi-mental MRNA GENE THERAPY.
The vector based ones are gene therapies as well.
Only the (useless) Sinopharm one and the upcoming Valneva one are proper vaccines.
The Novavax one screws my head and makes me vomit when I try to understand what category it falls into.
I have decided that if anybody ask me “if I have had the jab yet?”, or whether “I have had the second jab yet?”, my response will be “I am part of the control group in the experiment and therefore will not be receiving the gene therapy treatment”. This should get them thinking…
Or could ask them if they’ve got the clap, or anything else that would upset them, to make the point.
Or…. I am part of the control group therefore I have been inoculated against tyranny…. which is 1000 times more deadly than the unidentified virus.
You can confidently add an ‘unselfishly’ to that as well.
They don’t say that to me. They say: “Have you had YOUR jab yet?” It’s like the WW1 bullets with your name on them.
The question assumes inevitability.
People are generally very shocked when I say that since I have natural immunity I won’t be taking the unknown risks of any vaccine. They have swallowed the early lies that natural immunity either doesn’t exist or is inferior to manmade vaccines.
I offer to email them the peer reviewed studies. I mention Pfizer’s £2bn profits.
How can even a Data Analyst come up with an ‘explosive third wave’ from the single figure covid deaths now. I agree Sage should be ignored, but who are their handlers?
The Communist Party of China
And Gates’ wall of money destabilising science in his ruthless search for glory.
The big secret is the vaccines are useless at stopping the disease and deliver a peptide that is pathogenic in itself.
Shhhh! You’re not supposed to know that. That info is for qualified scientists only, not members of the public.
Gupta has links to the Wellcome Foundation which in turn has links to a software salesman
Those f**kers will scew the ‘data’ any way which suits their narrative.
It isn’t about health, it’s about idiots drunk on power who are fighting to retain it. This only stops when we say it does. Yesterday I went maskless into a shop. No one challenged me. I walked out feeling the world have been lifted from my shoulders.
Feels good doesn’t it? I walked to the park yesterday for the first time maskless (I’m in France where they’re mandatory even in the street – madness). Luckily no cops saw me, or I could have been fined 130 euros for this bad behaviour.
Not only does it feel good, it obviously sends a message of encouragement to everyone else who sees you and it probably wishing to do the same thing.
Agree completely. I do the same in Italy where masks are also mandatory outside. None of the various law enforcement officers are bothered.
I’m in Belgium where masks are mandatory in busy areas and Brussels. The day I walked past 3 very large gun-carrying policemen (the guns were large, not the policemen!) without a mask was a ‘moment’ for me. I guess that had better things to do than shoot a mask denier in front of the EU headquarters!
I have never worn a mask, not once, and have actually had more offers of assistance in shops than normal, maybe they really like seeing people fight this, most hate having to wear them.
Instead of ignoring these so called experts Boris should be sacking them for briefing against the government. These so called experts have destroyed people’s health,our kids education,our economy and burden our children with massive debts for little benefit. So I say sack those who are briefing against the government and Britain.
Err, how about sacking himself first? He’s been the PM over the last 14 months ffs.
This is nowhere near enough of course, he should be thrown in prison where he belongs.
Or go change a few nappies, here and there.
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2021/06/gary-d-barnett/is-this-calm-before-the-storm-meant-to-create-a-war-against-dissenters-and-the-unvaccinated-absolutely/
It’s never been and never will be about the vaccines and whether they work or not, let alone about public health.
It’s only about vaccine passports and how they can be abused.
This article offers a glimpse into our future, come October.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/johndee333/permalink/942922113109599/
you might like to follow this retired NHS statistician and his analyses!
Everybody needs to see this video about the “vaccine”
https://www.bitchute.com/video/NZU2pSlZiI5M/
“I had been assuming that the vaccines do work”
You’re never too old to learn, Will.
Note that Ch.4 is putting out another propaganda ‘documentary’ (about ‘anti-vaxxers’) tonight. Successful and proven medications don’t need this sort of PR blitz. I’m waiting to see an insightful documentary about the pharmaceutical industry, but at this rate, I think I’m more likely to see ‘How tobacco is good for you’.
Reel back a bit. Forget all the detail and RRR figures of the PR campaign for a while.
… and just consider the basics :
That’s enough to treat the stuff with maximum caution.
There has always been a misconception amongst our revered “experts ” that there’s a limitless supply of susceptible people. Ferguson et al made the same mistake 14 months ago in assuming a 100% susceptabilty , oblivious of inherent immunity and infection-gained immunity and now vaccine-gained immunity. Idiotic and dangerous IMHO.
That wasn’t a mistake. Prof Wormtongue doesn’t make mistakes. It was a deliberate manipulative lie.
SAGE’s agenda: 1. Lockdowns keep the masses afraid, so never fully open up again, ever. 2. The “vaccines” keep the people afraid, even after “vaccination”. 3. The vaccinated will blame any “refuseniks” for any lockdown failures ( so divide and rule) . 4. The “vaccines” will help with our bullsh*t “green” agenda by mass depopulation. 5. Depopulation is good for the planet ( and the wallets of the rich and powerful). BAST*ARDS!
Right You Lot On SAGE Listen Up! There is so little difference between the veriants and the original strain of Covid the only place the 3rd wave is in your tiny screwed minds we can and must be let out anything else is unthinkable
I wonder about Bahrain, think they have the second or third highest vaccinated rate in the world yet they seem set for the naughty step red list. Seems like another example of a high vaccinated/high infection rate situation like Chile was.
SAGE are a bunch of Paid for & sellout Snake-oil Pharma servants!! we all know This now. NOTHINg is scientific about this Vaccination Only Pandemic. people know this. There is More Pharma money in this than common sense. these folds are not scientists but servants of the dark. shame on you all
The Only Conspiracy, is against the people
If SAGE members do not believe the vaccines work, will they rule out extending the programme to children? Please??? I don’t believe, even if they are effective, given the virtually zero risk to children from the disease, such an extension to be morally acceptable, but SAGE left its moral compass at home when it set out on this journey.
China, I mean Britain is being run by a bunch of lunatics. Nothing being done makes any sense. Businesses destroyed, kids not educated, old people not protected, chronic illnesses running rampant with no treatment and finally the nhs about to collapse. Yes, that is what your leaders and their intelligent advisors have managed to do in a very short time. Amazing. Virus. What virus.
SACK SAGE! FULL STOP.