While Europe has now largely confined Covid vaccination to older and vulnerable groups, the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has chosen a different path. Yesterday, it accepted the advice of an advisory panel and recommended the XBB.1.5 jabs to everyone six months and older. It insists that “the benefits of vaccination exceed the risks for everyone” and hope vaguely that this “universal recommendation” will “ease the rollout of the vaccine and improve access and equity”.
“Let’s keep America strong, healthy,” said Dr. Camille Kotton, a panel member who voted in favour of the recommendation and who is an infectious disease specialist at Harvard Medical School. “Let’s do away with COVID-19 as best we can by prevention of disease through vaccines. Let’s make things clear.”
The argument is not easy to parse. First, the vaccines are alleged to be universally beneficial, although no studies beyond a “CDC analysis” exist to support this broad claim. Second, the universal recommendation is necessary to ensure “equity” and “make things clear”. In other words, more targeted recommendations would sow confusion and limit their uptake among those groups who would benefit from them. Finally, our Dr. Kotton still hopes that the vaccines can “do away with COVID-19”. Either she knows better or she is lying, but once again, in the striving after an upside beyond benefits to the individual, we see an implicit acknowledgment that the vaccines aren’t universally beneficial after all.
An important consequence of the pandemic in the United States has been the alienation of a great part of the population from the project of public health in general on the one hand, and the overt politicisation of the CDC on the other. Before 2020, American medical mandarins at least claimed to work on behalf of society as a whole. Now and again, they even found occasion to worry about how their recommendations would affect their credibility among the entire population. They have since abandoned this mission, adopting a narrow, much more politicised hygiene extremism. Now they have dropped all pretence, appealing only to the highly radicalised Covidians and the pharmaceutical interest. Thus their rhetoric and their advice grows steadily more divorced from reality and reason, even as the actual threat of Covid recedes.
Ironically, the radicalism of the CDC arises from the success of the pandemicist opposition in the United States. America was one of the few Western countries that saw genuine resistance to the lockdowners and the vaccinators, extending even to elements of the political establishment. This opposition did serious damage to the entire enterprise of public health, and now millions of Americans will never care what the CDC says about anything ever again. In Europe, the mainstream parties formed a united front in support of the hygiene dictatorship, permitting our public health institutions to retain some claim to social consensus, however tenuous. On this side of the Atlantic, they still have something to lose, which is an incentive towards moderation.
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“An important consequence of the pandemic in the United States has been the alienation of a great part of the population from the project of public health in general”
There was no pandemic, but other than that, this is excellent news. The “project of public health” has nothing to do with health and it’s not for the benefit of the public.
There was a pandemic of stupidity, where everybody went full-on ‘Chicken Licken’ and forgot how to use their brain or what the purpose of an immune system was. What we need now is a pandemic of civil disobedience! Speaking of which, this person gets my award of the day for demonstrating just that.
https://twitter.com/CartlandDavid/status/1701968861568836066
The ‘project of public health’ is like the Ministry of Truth, the Ministry of Peace, the Ministry of Love, and the Ministry of Plenty, in George Orwell’s 1984.
“The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental, nor do they result from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink.
— Part II, Chapter IX”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministries_in_Nineteen_Eighty-Four
And in the real world, the “War Department” was renamed the “Ministry of Defence”, and there’s a long list of redefinitions beyond that.
‘hygiene extremism’? Can’t we more accurately call it terrorism?
Will this be the same booster which was trialled on just 20 subjects? With no control group? And in which every subject was a mouse?
https://petermcculloughmd.substack.com/p/breaking-pfizer-xbb15-monovalent?r=k5xr1
You’re saying they tested it this time ?!
It was tested both times prior to roll out on mice & then the clinical trials in humans started with the booster campaigns…
As the two lawyers RFK and Aaron Siri repeatedly point out – and I’m sure also Peter McCullough and other good doctors – no vaccine has ever been subjected to a genuine placebo-controlled clinical trial (“the gold-standard for effectiveness research” which can prove cause and effect).
I would never trust a vaccine that was only tested on 20 mice. It would need to be tested on at least 40 mice before I would take it.
I imagine a trial on about 640 MP’s monitored over 15 years might have some merit.
“In Europe, the mainstream parties formed a united front in support of the hygiene dictatorship”
The AfD would seem to be a notable exception to this. The DUP were fairly anti-lockdown too.
Coming from a Catholic/nationalist background, I voted for the DUP, 1st Preference, for the first time, at the last Assembly election last year, the best of a bad lot.
Previously I frequently voted for the SDLP, but never again as long as Colum Eastwood is the leader, after he called for compulsory vaccination for health workers and was the most vocal supporter of vaccine passports.
And the Alliance Party, whom I also often voted for, have become ridiculously woke.
I don’t know much about NI politics, curious that the DUP turned out to be sounder than most on covid.
DUP politicians were almost entirely pro-vaccine but at the same time more in favour of freedom of choice and against coercing people into getting vaccinated, as was just one other party, Aontu, a small pro-life republican party (which splintered from Sinn Fein). The Green Party, also quite a small party in Northern Ireland, oddly said nothing about the vaccines, one way or the other.
One elected politician, the DUP’s Paul Frew, courageously spoke out against the vaccine propaganda and the Covid narrative:
https://twitter.com/paulfrewDUP
Thanks for that info, always good to get a clearer picture from people closer to these things. Sadly almost all the lockdown opponents in parliament were pro-vaccine, though I think most/all of them were certainly not in favour of making them mandatory.
Ha! Screw the WHO and their obsessive vaccination targets. This only relates to Amsterdam but I’m confident if they look at the data in other cities/provinces in the Netherlands they’ll be seeing a downward trend reflecting people’s general declining trust in both vaccines and health authorities. Here’s hoping this signals a general attitude that folk have had enough and the scales are falling from many eyes. The autumn Covid jabs will be another litmus test of public opinion.
”The number of Amsterdam children vaccinated against diseases such as measles has fallen for the third year in a row, according to new figures from the regional health board.
Just 83% of the under-twos in the capital were fully vaccinated last year, compared with above 90% in the years up to 2020. The trend is similar among younger children and teenagers, the health board said.
The World Health Organization has set a 90% target for childhood vaccinations to reduce the risk of a measles or polio outbreak. It has named the mistrust of vaccinations – driven by the coronavirus pandemic – one of the 10 biggest risks to global health.”
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2023/09/fewer-amsterdam-children-are-vaccinated-rate-drops-to-83/
This basically means that the WHO has named itself as one of the 10 biggest risks to global health.
The calculation these sociopaths have made is that the damage their jabs do is within an order of magnitude that they feel confident they can sweep under the rug by the various means at their disposal – control cf corporate media, internet censorship, and general obfuscation.
So they’re just going to plough on with the new money making machine they’ve set up. They might not fully control the “healthcare” institutions in Europe, but they sure control them in the US and that’s good enough for now.
They should have thought it through when deciding to redefine the term “vaccine” for whatever reason – perhaps to avoid the complications of the assessment process for new drugs in general. Novel products should have appropriate new names, rather than cobbling them all together,
“Let’s do away with COVID-19 as best we can by prevention of disease through vaccines. Let’s make things clear. If everyone gets a COVID jab booster every 6 months Pfizer and Moderna kick back millions to me.”
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Test because I haven’t been able to post!
Nonce invalid, I presume?
A nonce is a unique random number used as parameter of some cryptographic protocol. That’s not an error users should ever see. I’ve had a couple of these since yesterday and sent an email to Daily Sceptic gmail address about it.
I think this occurs when the DS website is restarted while we’re filling in comment forms. Our computers think we’re logged in and allow us to fill in the comment form – but the DS server does not think we’re logged in and treats the comment submission as a hacking attempt. Just a guess, of course.
I’m afraid but this doesn’t make any technical sense. HTTP is a stateless protocol on the server side. State tracking is provided on top of that by servers sending so-called cookies[*] to clients which these are supposed to return alongside future requests. Because of this, server restarts don’t matter. The restarted server will get the state cookie from the client and learn from that where it was supposed to be.
[*] A feature invented by Netscape in the 1990s. The server does this by including header of the form
Set-Cookie: name=value
among its response headers. The client is then supposed to include
Cookie: name=value
as header in all future requests (vastly simplified). Nobody knows why it got named cookie.
I was not going to delve into the technicalities as I thought they would have been of limited interest.
HTTP (and HTTPS) is, as you say, stateless and state tracking is indeed layered over this by using cookies or other browser tracking/validation technology.
Server restarts can matter if the cookie sent to the browser is part of a cryptographic pair intended to match the browser to a virtual ‘session’ on the server. If the ‘session’ information is lost on the server after a restart then the other half of the pair held by the browser becomes invalid. If the server application authors refer to this as a ‘nonce’ then we can see why it might be reported in an error message as invalid.
I’ve not investigated what platform DS uses and there are certainly better ways to manage session/state in web applications than what I have imagined here – but I’ve seen worse in the past (in MS Dynamics, for example).
Looks like it’s WordPress.
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/invalid-nonce-error-3/
(I have not read it yet…)
Nonce is, as I already wrote, a technical term and it refers to a random number used in a cryptographic protocol,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_nonce
Judging from the wordpress support site, wordpress people have may have chosen to hijack the term to mean something different. OTOH, that’s over two years old and mentions a different error message. Which means it may well have absolutely no relation to the issue we’re sometimes experiencing here.
I don’t think anybody – except maybe a student hacking on some chat server – would be so criminally incompetent to store client session information for a web site only in memory where it could be wiped by an unplanned server restart. But then, one should never bank on the incompentence of World Wide Wait developers having any limits.
:->
I don’t think anybody – except maybe a student hacking on some chat server and Microsoft – would be so criminally incompetent…
OK my experience of that was over 10 years ago – I hope they’re better than that now.
‘Nonce invalid,’ by any chance?
FFS.
In the UK, ONE person under the age of 14 died FROM Covid, Feb 2020 to Dec 2021
https://www.ons.gov.uk/aboutus/transparencyandgovernance/freedomofinformationfoi/covid19deathsandautopsiesfeb2020todec2021
Ah, but how many 0-14s ‘killed Granny’?
Zero, of course.
Interesting table. <10k died FROM Covid in that period.
2K killed by the jab, according to MHRA, noting also that they believe that only 2% up to 10% of ADRs are reported.
Let’s be generous, and say 10%
Ergo in that time, 20k died from the jab.
Jab therefore TWICE as dangerous as Covid.
..Yes this ‘grinds my gears’…..fu*k the confounders, age strata, or healthy vaccine effect….or whatever else they keep coming up with at ONS….…there is a very simple thing here, easy to see, black and white…open your eyes it’s in front of you obviousness..that is sooo annoying…!!!
Don’t we all agree that we are now at the point where the conversation at the advisory panel goes like this….
We have the new booster
Have you thoroughly tested it for efficacy and safety
Well no, but it’s as safe and effective as the others…..so we don’t need to..
OK..are we still on for that new multi-million dollar bursary next month?
Of course…
OK guys, it’s a go!
Maybe Dr Kotton can explain what ‘emergency’ Convid is causing in babies and children, seeing as that is the only way it can be administered….
A new study in pre-print shows in well-accepted in vitro cell line model (K562) that Pfizer vax inhibits accumulation of embryo-fetal hemoglobin, critical to baby’s development in pregnancy!
Another concerning finding re potential negative impact of mRNA vax on pregnancy outcomes!
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.09.07.556634v1
This makes me fume so much I am in danger of spontaneous combustion! I have no words. Keep banging the square peg into the round hole. I’m sure they’ll have a few takers… Go on, get in that shower, it’s good for you!
“The argument is not easy to parse.”
Now this has rubbed me up the wrong way. Surely there is nobody on DS who actually believes that these damned injections are anything but poisons? Countless references have been given on here proving that these “vaccines” are NOT vaccines and as Dr Mike Yeadon has stated countless times they were clearly produced with the intention to maim and kill. As I always put it, ‘brewed to a recipe.’
Dr Camille Kotton can dress this shyte up any way she wants but the net result is still that she is complicit in mass murder.
Eugyppius wrong again.
Yes I am not sure why anyone would think the evil lies spouted by these people would merit parsing. I’m long past the point where anyone involved in the covid scam gets the benefit of the doubt. Default assumption is that they are filthy liars, until proven otherwise.
Interesting to track take-up for the autumn vax campaign, where payments to the pushers have already been increased. The spring booster campaign in care homes achieved a good bit less than 80% coverage in all except one region (SW England), which I am sure would have been seen as disappointing when there’s a captive audience (and may have also included staff). Soon be time for ‘no mask, no entry’ at the care home I visit regularly, so no doubt a re-run of the doorstep arguments, where I put on a customised mask saying “this mask doesn’t work” or “this is what tyranny looks like” and am then asked to remove it because ‘it upsets people’. Small pleasures…
https://kirschsubstack.com/p/do-you-know-what-safe-and-effective
Do you know what “safe and effective” means according to the CDC? I’m going to tell you.Safe means tested in 50 people and nobody died and only 8% needed professional medical attention. Effective means there is NO evidence whatsoever of a clinical benefit. Got it?Of the 50 study participants that got the Moderna monovalent vax @CDCgov universally recommended today, 1/50 (2%) had a medically-
attended adverse event related to the vax…….
It would be interesting to see how many medics & nurses will take the jab and whether they will be forced to have a booster or lose their job like the care workers. Surely some of them must have sussed it out by now that the jabs are more risky than Covid.
Difficult to offer a straight faced response to this story. A lot of people have become less social in recent years. And this isn’t by force of habit it is simply because people who they might’ve respected before have shown themselves to be cowards and deep in the heart of every human being is the understanding that God hates a coward. A coward knows his transgression even in the moment. And then to consider that we have a system whereby the weakest and most timid of people rise to prominence. It calls on us to ask the deepest questions.
Hmm…
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is there a new election for President next year, in
oh yes…& a new variant, & a nice new vaxx for it?
will necessitate lots & lots of mail in ballots I expect, & lots of old folks in care homes who need ‘help’ with their ballot papers…etc etc.
well, that’s convenient…