Canadian public health officials are reeling following the publication of an investigation in the BMJ criticising Canada’s response to the Covid pandemic. While the report cites some positives, they are eclipsed by the criticisms. Positives include “the involvement of women in decision making”. Negatives include the fact that an “overall impression of adequacy masks important inequalities by region, setting and demography”. Damning indeed. The report cites the lack of “an independent, federal inquiry” which has allowed “others to step into the frame”. Is this a critique of Canada’s Public Health response or a thinly-veiled attack on what the authors refer to as “the so-called National Citizens’ Inquiry?”
The report, published this week, is entitled ‘The World Expected More of Canada‘. It notes that “Canada is among the healthiest and most diverse nations in the world”, that multiculturalism is “protected in national law” and that “amongst a population of 40 million people about a quarter are foreign-born”.
Many will remember Canada chiefly for its totalitarian response to Covid, the fightback from truckers and the state’s attempts to suppress this ‘rebellion’ through the closure of bank accounts. The Trudeau administration no doubt wants to be remembered for competently handling the situation with tough but difficult decisions being taken. This is how many people who wear dark blue suits and white shirts like to see themselves.
The BMJ report suggests that, beneath the veneer of competence, there was a shambolic approach which exacerbated existing health inequalities. The report claims that the failures hit immigrant and indigenous populations particularly badly and that “what saved Canada was a largely willing and conforming populace that withstood stringent public health measures and achieved among the world’s highest levels of vaccination coverage”. As a statistician, I was pleased to note a reference to problems to do with the attribution of deaths “complicated by definitions of death ‘with’ versus death ‘from’ COVID-19 across time and jurisdiction”. I covered this in a talk I gave at a rally in Hyde Park back in July 2020.
Reporting on the article, Canada’s National Post may have hit the nail on the head when it quotes from the report:
According to the BMJ editorial the National Citizens Inquiry (a citizen-led inquiry originally launched by former Reform Party leader Preston Manning) “appears fuelled by vaccine safety misinformation and ideological concerns” about stringent Covid measures. The BMJ goes on to say it “is far from the full, national and public inquiry led by independent experts that Canada’s pandemic performance deserves”.
Is the BMJ article a genuine critique of the Canadian authorities or an attempt to swing the pendulum back towards the official narrative, namely, that Covid was a highly deadly disease which was only fought off through exceptional measures, heroic sacrifices and the work of experts?
Comments on the National Post article seem mostly critical of the Canadian Government and the public health response and suggest that anyone in the ‘official narrative’ camp should have cause for concern:
“Our government sucks. Big league.”
“The Convoy demonstrated that the Federal Government was not following science, but was more interested in autocracy and bullying tactics that saw civil liberties suspended, even though science did not warrant such.”
“The unvaccinated deserve a huge apology from everyone.”
While the idea that ‘citizens’ might have their say may have ruffled a few international experts’ feathers, we clearly do need open and robust debate on these issues. So, how is ‘The Science’ doing?
On a separate front, the Retraction Watch website now lists 346 scientific papers about Covid that have been withdrawn from publication. These range from ‘5G Technology and induction of coronavirus in skin cells’ (first published July 16th 2020, retracted July 24th 2020) to ‘Willingness to Accept COVID-19 Vaccine and Associated Factors Among Adult Household Members in Dire Dawa City Administration, East Ethiopia’ (number 346, published on November 1st 2022 retracted on February 8th 2023). Just think how much fun we could have had if they were still available to read.
It is pretty clear that a significant amount of what might have been considered as ‘The Science’ has turned out to be junk. Retractions work in a variety of ways, the most concerning being those which are the result of concerted campaigns to get something removed by nit-picking or minor ‘administrative’ criticisms. Others may be genuine errors; some are removed because they are duplicates.
There is clearly an attempt to ‘manage’ the science and we need journals such as the BMJ to navigate these challenges successfully and independently. These challenges are clearly very serious. In November 2022, in one of the last acts of outgoing BMJ Editor Fiona Godlee, the BMJ “urged” Facebook to “act over incompetent ‘fact check’ of BMJ investigation”. Having met a fact checker and worked with the BMJ, I’d say the BMJ’s integrity factor is somewhat higher than the ‘fact checkers’.
As well as publishing journals, the BMJ runs events. One of these is the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare. A joint venture with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, the Forum has run in Europe for many years and launched events in Asia prior to the pandemic. I have followed the trajectory of this event over the past few years and was pleased that the June 2022 event went ahead in Gothenburg Sweden. For many, a highlight was no doubt a Northern Lights disco attended by healthcare professionals from across the world. This large scale conference must have taken some guts and planning from the organisers at that still Covid-jittery time.
Events like these provide an important means of practical international exchange outside of the environs of the World Health Organisation (WHO) and similar bodies. Its list of speakers provides an indication of the geographical spread of international experts. Alongside speakers from Europe and the USA, the last pre-pandemic Asian event (held in September 2019) had speakers from Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Singapore Thailand and Taiwan. There was a distinct lack of representation from mainland China. While it may not have helped that the event was held in Taipei, my understanding is that China was not seen as a centre of excellence in healthcare prior to the pandemic. Sixty-one of the 346 retracted Covid articles were Chinese (based on the authors affiliations); none were from the main BMJ journal.
The BMJ was one of many publishers and organisations to provide free access to Covid-related materials during the pandemic. Others included the Financial Times and the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM). This was important. The work of these outlets forms part of an information eco-structure which should be independent of bodies such as the World Health Organisation, which seems worryingly set on world domination. When the RSM hosted a debate on the WHO’s pandemic treaty, I was able to ask: “Can we trust the WHO?” The convenor responded by saying, “Good question.”
So, what do we make of the BMJ’s call for an ‘expert’ inquiry in Canada? Last year, I took part in three of four Covid ‘Evidence Sessions’ run by the Royal Statistical Society. The overwhelming conclusion seemed to be that, while lessons can be learned, most experts had done their particular job to the best of their ability at the time. None questioned the overall picture. A highlight was ‘Hancock’s half hour’, when the former Health Secretary appeared and presented his case. He took two questions at the end and was then chased down the street by his main interlocutor Dr. Heiko Khoo who’d asked him about the veracity of Ferguson’s half a million deaths projection (Khoo is an academic, not a medical professional). The former Health Secretary cockily answered “we locked down”. Official narrative confirmed. At the final session I was able to present my ‘alternative hypothesis’ that the response to Covid “did more harm than good” (or put simply, there was a bit of an over-reaction). In that respect my own COVID-19 inquiry had reached its central conclusion swiftly and with little expense. The more difficult questions are: why did it happen and how do we prevent the next over-reaction?
Nigel Jacklin is a statistician and market researcher. His company, Accord.me.uk, runs the national Medical Media Surveys whose clients include many medical publishers including BMJ.
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That top article is complete horsepoo. What it translates as is; ”1/5 of Brits weren’t daft enough to get a test to see if they had a specific cold virus, and especially not if they had no symptoms at all.”
Everyone will have had exposure to the damn thing by now, even if they were completely unaware of it. We’re over 3 years in FGS. Next!
My thoughts exactly Mogs. I will never have a test. If sticking a piece of bamboo into my brain passes for medicine they can stick it.
In August 2021 I was somewhat poorly with ‘flu-like symptoms for over ten days. So what laid me low? It is probably significant that I fell ill about four days after attending a large family gathering in which the vast majority were jabbed up so it’s a certainty that is where my infection came from – but I can’t say it was the C1984.
The population now has definitely been exposed to whatever bug might have been circulating so I agree:
“That top article is complete horsepoo.”
This is what happens when you give common colds and flu ‘special’ names LOL…!
Who knew so many would fall for the trick? That if you called a common respiratory virus Tom, Dick or Convid..it could take on special powers and elevate it to some higher level of consciousness that would fool the World?
The very same common virus, know about for thousands of years, and which all of mankind has always suffered from, and always will…..It’s a bit of evil genius really!!
“…even if they were completely unaware of it”?
This presupposes the existence of symptom-free Covid. Now we know there’s something odd about this virus compared to all previous respiratory pathogens, such as its transmission via aerosols. But other than a faulty PCR test, there’s nothing at all to substantiate that you can be a symptom-free “carrier” of Covid. Anyone I’ve ever known to test positive for Covid has felt shite for at least a week!
It’s clear to me that many many people are only testing AFTER the onset of specific symptoms. Many may test routinely also, but for instance in hospital workers who have to test every day, probability law dictates that there will be a high number of false positives generated, and these will be from those who test positive but feel completely fine (as in they don’t really have Covid. 1/5 of Brits sounds like a reasonable estimate.
A very good 15min excerpt on Joel Smalley’s ‘stack of a Jessica Rose interview, talking mainly about the jabs, VAERS and touching on lockdown harms. I’d like to watch the full thing though as he’s butchered the editing somewhat and Jessica is always a quality guest because she’s all about the data.
https://metatron.substack.com/p/necessary-safe-and-effective-expert
I agree, she’s always on the ball….but it’s never good news!!
She is reporting more bad news on the jabs in this article….
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/contamination-with-antibioticspike
Anandamide has published a Substack today that everybody needs to understand. The gist of the findings following sequencing of the Moderna and Pfizer bivalent COVID-19 products is that there is a high level of dsDNA contamination in the Pfizer products. This dsDNA contamination is in the form of circular expression vectors containing a spike gene and two antibiotic resistance genes for kanamycin and neomycin.
LOL I posted this earlier on the excess deaths article. We move in the same circles, me and you.
And while I’m on the theme of the Mail running crappy articles, apparently a study in the US demonstrates the non-death jabbed are more likely to get diabetes. Make of this what you will;
”Dr Alan Kwan, a cardiologist who led the study, said: ‘These results suggest that Covid vaccination prior to infection may provide a protective effect against diabetes risk.
‘Although further studies are needed to validate this hypothesis, we remain steadfast in our belief that Covid vaccination remains an important tool in protecting against Covid and the still-uncertain risks that people may experience during the post-infection period.”’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11749827/Now-scientists-claim-youre-likely-develop-DIABETES-youre-unvaccinated-against-Covid.html
I saw that. The comments section is encouraging.
No one buys this. The entire premise is so farcical, it makes the author look like a slavish dolt.
Do they bother with editors concerned with ludicrous claims on DM?
Eh, probably not actually…
Yes I had a quick peruse and thought so too, which is heartening. And who can take any doctor who is allegedly ”doing science” seriously if they say; ”we remain steadfast in our belief..” re the death jabs? I mean, that doesn’t sound like a man of science at all to me, it sounds like a science-denier who’s clinging onto the last wooden plank from his boat to save himself from drowning as his house of cards that he’s wedded himself to thus far has tumbled down. ”belief”?! He also sounds like a right flaming shill. Wonder what his conflicts of interest are if I could be bothered to check…The bioweapon jabs are just a faith-based system of dangerous lies, and I’m willing to bet he’s a bloody masktard to boot! As ever I’ll defer to legit cardiologists and await Drs McCullough and Malhotra’s opinion on this study’s findings.
And in other news –
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9107966/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/dme.14631
Ha, yes exactly. Good find. I thought this topic of diabetes emerging post-jab seemed familiar. I saw it on Dr McCullough’s substack recently. I think he’s citing a different paper to yours;
”It has been said we are in a chronic disease epidemic of diabetes mellitus. Before COVID-19, approximately 10% of diabetes was juvenile Type 1, which is an auto-immune illness characterized by auto-antibodies against pancreatic islet cells. The remaining 90% is adult onset type 2 diabetes characterized by lifelong excess in adiposity and insulin resistance. Mass vaccination with mRNA and adenoviral DNA vaccines may change the epidemiology of diabetes as we know it. There are several papers emerging concerning new onset diabetes and diabetic ketoacidosis after taking a COVID-19 shot. Moon and colleagues reported a well characterized case of new onset type 1 diabetes in an adult temporally related to COVID-19 vaccination.”
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/new-onset-type-1-diabetes-after-covid
“Cancel the Vikings” – Rod Liddle in the Spectator wonders what took them so long to realise the “Vikings may have been a bit right-of-centre and therefore ripe for a spot of cancelling”.
It’s an excellent point. Television is awash with romanticising the blood, gore, rape and pillaging committed by the Vikings. Compare their portrayal to that of the evil English imperialists spreading Western infrastructure and culture.
I am English and proud to be.
I know it’s Rob Liddle so not meant to be taken seriously, but calling the Vikings ‘right wing’ is as ahistorical as saying Edward II was gay, purely projection of current prejudices back into history. I suppose romanticising them is just as bad really but Up Helly Aa looks like fun.
The Vikings didn’t even have a left or a right, they were seafarers, raiders, warriors, farmers and fishermen (not fisherthem!). Must we always attach these political attributes to explain behaviour from the past. It’s so dull. I imagine I would be described as a far right white supremacist just because I didn’t want an effin’ jab, don’t believe in the climate hype, want the mass immigration to stop, don’t believe the msm Ukraine narrative and I’m proud to call myself English and more but I’m just an ordinary fella…
Yep, we’re definitely on the same page Aethelred.
What is the point of the Sy Hersh story ATL…? It has no information that the original, which was already posted, didn’t have?
I’ll repost this, as I posted it later last night…(a re-tweet from El Gato Malo….)
BREAKING: A @Dept of Defense Source Speaking On The Condition Of Anonymity Told Me Details Of How @Joe Biden Ordered The Nordstream Pipelines Destroyed In June But Then Got Nervous & Changed Orders To PLACE THE BOMBS But Make Them Capable Of Later Detonation.
He DID NOT Inform Germany But DID Inform Norway Sweden and Denmark.
The CIA Informed Joe Biden Our Navy Had A Way To Place Bombs On Pipelines & Use A Raytheon Air Dropped Sonar Trigger At A Later Time.
The Navy Had Concerns That A Long Delay Between Placing The Explosives (C-4) & Detonating With A Sonar Drop Buoy Would Cause A Bomb Failure…
https://twitter.com/JohnBasham/status/1626078491560099840
As I said yesterday, I don’t know who this man is, or whether he’s a know reliable source..but then again there have been smears against the Pulitzer Prize winning Hersh……but obviously this story is still running…
This is curious….I haven’t read this anywhere….so are they dropping the ‘quackcine’ quietly?? Not entirely sure what to make of it….
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/find-a-walk-in-coronavirus-covid-19-vaccination-site/
…but it contains this …
Changes to coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine booster doses. After 12 February 2023 you will not be able to get a COVID-19 vaccine booster dose.
Some people who are at increased risk, for example because of age or certain medical conditions, may be offered a seasonal booster later this year. If you are eligible for this, the NHS will contact you when it’s your turn to get vaccinated.
If you follow the link you can find out walk-in-centres in your area…my area shown none at all…..!
https://twitter.com/stillgray/status/1626206903209717761
It’s funny, but worrying.
….genuinely hard to believe the position that utter moron holds…When will I wake up!?
I think the Veep is high as a kite most of the time. I mean this isn’t normal behaviour. She would be better off as a primary school teacher and removed well away from the levers of power.
Still no DS article on the Ohio poison death cloud? Where’s Greta when you want her?
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/ohios-apocalyptic-chemical-disaster-rages
Enjoying her stolen childhood I think…how dare she!
Re the Florida Surgeon General story ATL..this is a more expensive overview from Dr Robert Malone ….
https://rwmalonemd.substack.com/p/warning-florida-department-of-health?sd=pf
https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/17/russia-to-introduce-digital-identity-cards/
Russia pushing Digital ID.
https://off-guardian.org/2023/02/16/discuss-so-whats-with-the-chemical-spills/
An update on the latest US train derailments. They are now more common than varieties of Billy’s viruses.
Short read.
According to Politifact, there are roughly 1000 train derailments in the US each year, so 5 inside a month is not unusual.
WTbloodyF!! 1000 train derailments? How? Why? I mean that is one heck of a lotta trains going horizontal. Imagine if that was over here, there’d be a massive outcry or some sort of reaction other than ‘Oh it’s just another of those pesky train derailments…lucky it ain’t nuclear waste! Ho hum’. !!!!!
LOL!….
https://aviationweek.com/defense-space/aircraft-propulsion/hobby-clubs-missing-balloon-feared-shot-down-usaf
A small, globe-trotting balloon declared “missing in action” by an Illinois-based hobbyist club on Feb. 15 has emerged as a candidate to explain one of the three mystery objects shot down by four heat-seeking missiles launched by U.S. Air Force fighters since Feb. 10.
The club—the Northern Illinois Bottlecap Balloon Brigade (NIBBB)—is not pointing fingers yet.
But the circumstantial evidence is at least intriguing. The club’s silver-coated, party-style, “pico balloon” reported its last position on Feb. 10 at 38,910 ft. off the west coast of Alaska, and a popular forecasting tool—the HYSPLIT model provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)—projected the cylindrically shaped object would be floating high over the central part of the Yukon Territory on Feb. 11. That is the same day a Lockheed Martin F-22 shot down an unidentified object of a similar description and altitude in the same general area.
In the interest of safety and security, HOLD THAT HANDRAIL!!
Have you seen the list of uk hotels full of illegals !! No way back soon ! What’s it all really for ??