The latest Covid Juice release is for sale in Germany as of Monday, and Health Minister Karl Lauterbach was first in line. There’s abundant evidence that he’s not a great fan of vaccination; he got his third dose in secret, well after the rest of the vaccinators, and his claims to have gotten a fourth are subject to considerable doubt. No matter: he’s learned from past mistakes, and while he’s denounced the “exorbitant” profits of vaccine manufacturers and called vaccine injuries “dismaying”, the Vaccinator Stand is the only booth still open at the Covid Circus, so Lauterbach has made himself the face of it. He turned 60 in February, so technically he counts as old and vulnerable enough to warrant a fifth (or a fourth) vaccination.
From Die Zeit:
[Lauterbach] has ruled out state virus measures despite rising infection statistics. Germany is “much better prepared”, he said, and there is additionally “broad immunity” in the population. “We don’t need any contact restrictions” …Voluntary masking is still advisable for those who are infected and cannot avoid social contacts, said Lars Schaade, the President of the Robert Koch Institute.
Lauterbach advises caution despite the lack of Government action. Corona is “not a cold”, and permanent damage – for example from Long Covid – remains a possibility. Lauterbach therefore recommends vaccination above all for people who are particularly at risk. “People over 60 years of age and risk groups should get vaccinated, preferably against influenza as well,” said the Minister.
In a separate piece timed to coincide with the rollout, Die Zeit called up a Bremen epidemiologist who says he expects masks to return to clinics and care homes, and who holds out hope for expanded vaccine recommendations in the course of the winter. I’m quite sure some care homes will once again impose inhumane mask requirements, but there’s no chance vaccine regulators will urge wider uptake. We’re in a long, slow process of deradicalisation, and that only runs in one direction.
On the Left, Tageszeitung (taz)– basically a cut-rate German Guardian – has already registered its displeasure that the vaccines are a) no longer free and b) no longer being urged on absolutely everybody:
It’s not so easy to stay healthy in Germany. Now that virtually all protective measures have been lifted, vaccination is also on the block. The Standing Commission on Vaccination (STIKO) couldn’t bring itself to recommend the booster for everyone. Now only certain, narrowly defined risk groups are allowed to be immunised… The rest will have to explain why they want to be vaccinated. …
What is more, because the health insurance companies hide behind the STIKO recommendation, you have to pay for the vaccination yourself. At a cost of probably just under €50 per jab. In view of the vaccination campaigns ‘Sleeves up’ (2021) and ‘Vaccination helps’ [2022], this is totally absurd. The Federal Ministry of Health spent €287 million and €38 million on these campaigns. The motto for 2023 would then rather be: “Well, let’s see.”
In the USA, the CDC recommends vaccination for all people over six months of age. From the very start of the pandemic, STIKO has acted with extreme hesitation and thus contributed to the general uncertainty. It’s partly responsible for the growing number of vaccine sceptics in Germany.
Indeed it’s interesting that the Health Ministry has so quickly forgotten its vaccination appeals from just last year. With a little more introspection, taz might’ve drawn some important conclusions from this curiosity. As for STIKO and vaccine hesitancy, I fear they’ve gotten it backwards. The regulators are plainly trying to preserve remaining public faith in vaccines by reining in their mass Covid jab campaigns.
Holger Schelp, Chairman of the General Practitioners’ Association in Bremen remarked to local media this morning that there will be no “great rush” for the new jabs, admitting that “interest is so low that many practices have not even ordered the vaccine”.
The official recommendation… is that everyone who is 60 or older, or who belongs to an at-risk group, should be vaccinated.
The evidence supporting this recommendation isn’t very strong though. It’s based on small numbers. We doctors don’t know how many people we’d have to vaccinate to prevent an infection, or how many we need to vaccinate to prevent a death. … I think that’s a bit embarrassing for a large-scale vaccination effort.
Most colleagues therefore tell their patients the official line, and then add unofficially that, in all honesty, there is no good knowledge about whether they should get vaccinated or not. Patients should therefore go with their gut feeling. We also don’t want to vaccinate anyone who might feel pressured to get the jab. We want them to say: “Yes, I need it.” Or to say with a clear conscience: “No, I’m sceptical, I’m not going to get vaccinated now.” (emphasis added)
That may not sound like much, but you need to remember that these are words from an important medical bureaucrat in the most heavily vaccinated German state.
This, then, is how it ends. All the Very Important Science People have been wrong about everything, which means that none of them can pull the plug on this farce. They’ll continue their doubtful performances, selling slightly updated versions of failed pharmaceutical products and making claims well in excess of the evidence to an ever shrinking audience of virus enthusiasts. These dead-enders will shriek that they’ve been abandoned; they’ll write long meandering columns full of hand-wringing about “crowded waiting rooms, trains, classrooms and offices”, pleading that we need more “hybrid teaching” and more vaccine outreach, all of it to a suddenly indifferent political class. With all eyes on the upcoming state elections in Bavaria and Hesse, nobody cares what they have to say. The major papers are closed to their fears, although virologically nothing has changed since last Fall, when Covid was dangerous enough to warrant lingering mask mandates and wall-to-wall vaccine marketing. Even virus fangirl Christina Berndt has been brought into line, penning mild vaccine FAQs for the Süddeutsche Zeitung. Forgotten is the Oktoberfest scaremongering to which she treated us just 12 months ago.
Covid was the original focus of the Plague Chronicle, and for that reason it will always be an important theme of this blog – but as political stories go, this one has played out. For lockdowns and mass vaccination to come back, they’ll need a new virus. I have no doubt at all that they’re already looking for one.
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Why are people like Bourla allowed to get away with this blatant corruption? We know why, corruption at every level. The system is a self-perpetuating, revolving door of government officials, public institutions, pharma CEOs, and scientists whose only interest is funnelling money into an outdated medical paradigm that views illness and disease as something that requires magic bullet solutions. Its a perfect business model, unhealthy people create repeat business. As Robert F Kennedy Jr says $60 million profits from vaccines, but $600 million profits from medicines to treat the side effects. Iatrogenic illness is the third largest cause of illness and death in the USA. Thanks to Pfizer it probably now ranks #1.
My neighbour, a 78 yr old woman who was previously fit as a fiddle, believed the nonsense and stupidly had 4 Covid jabs. She is now effectively disabled. Sight damaged; hearing damaged; can’t concentrate on anything and continual “brain fog;” trouble standing and balancing; racing heart; can’t walk more than a few yards without support and is permanently exhausted.
She now needs constant care, which is a massive problem as she lives alone. So far her family has rallied round, but that can’t continue indefinitely due to their own circumstances.
This is so sad, and not uncommon. Her family should contact the Covid Vaccine Damage Legal Fund for help with Government compensation if they have not already done so. <code>https://www.cviblegalfund.co.uk/</code>
Perhaps we should consider the Italian approach:
Former Health Minister Roberto Speranza, who enforced vaccinations can no longer move without police protection. The Italians are waiting for him everywhere and shouting “Murderer”
https://twitter.com/luca04548/status/1776233970805395809
Wouldn’t want them to do a Mussolini on him would we.
Hancock deserves the same treatment.
He certainly does ! Btw Has AB really had to pay 40k for the shyster’s legal fees ?
At least some are waking up. Boris should be on the run wondering when someone will break his door down with a mall hammer.
He should be wondering after shouting GET BOOSTED at every opportunity !!..
Tony Soprano justice required !
It’s not just the bosses and it’s not just this technical breaking of some rule/law. The whole thing from start to finish stinks to high heaven – from before the “pandemic” was announced through to the “trials” and the “emergency” use authorisation and the mandates/huge propaganda effort. Pharma, politicians and “regulators” in a unholy alliance. If some laws have not been broken then there’s something wrong with the law.
I’m glad that someone is going after Bourla. His conduct was appalling.
I remember a video of him at the WEF crowing about vaxxports ensuring ‘compliance’ – a CEO who openly talked about population control, promoting the mandating of his company’s product, a jab paid for by governments (ie us) that would personally make him wealthy.
I shudder at the quote “there are kids that will have severe symptoms”. Lies and damn lies! Kids were never in danger, especially not to the extent that their and our freedoms should be shredded and left in tatters. How many kids actually had severe symptoms? I’d wager zero.
Bourla and the whole rotten regulatory gravy-train must fall, but given what we’ve seen I’m not confident of that. If it happens it won’t happen quickly.
The post office fiasco shows how these people close ranks even when wrongdoing is proven beyond doubt.
An interesting article from Trust The Evidence re claims made for vaccine injuries.
https://trusttheevidence.substack.com/p/who-is-afraid-of-helen-mcardle-and
Some kids – a very few – might have had severe symptoms. But that’s because they were already extremely vulnerable due to other serious health issues. That MAY have been a justification to give some of them an experimental product on the basis of an individual risk assessment but was absolutely no justification to jab millions of children who were perfectly healthy and at no risk.
What makes an individual so monumentally morally corrupt? where and when did such festering decay start? clearly there is no afterlife in Bourla’s mind to concern him, and clearly he believes himself protected from ever having to be held accountable for the misery and deaths that he has caused, because there are so many vested interests who think like him surrounding him. One can only hope that some form of divine intervention takes place as I fear he will live out his life in luxury and decadence protected and satisfied by his own hubris.
Yes just like Dr Mengle, evaded capture in South America and had a stroke in his pool.
£34,800 : less than three times the penalty meted out to a lovely young couple for opening their cafe during a non-existent pandemic.
There truly is NO JUSTICE. Don’t hope for it.
Sadly that will be the case. No-one will ever be held to account for the scamdemic. There are too many powerful people involved in creating it ….. and too many bought and paid “little helpers.”
The truth is being drip fed out. The following are all new publicly available reports on C19 vaccine. Public Inquiry needed.
https://www1.racgp.org.au/ajgp/2024/april/long-covid-sufferers-can-take-heart?fbclid=IwAR0_LO6qgqBlf-Of5kix-wpuAVmNDtk1tYm4LJyIx-Rvn3SeFbEDGo3bK0c
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35084966/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38024037/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8600071/
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/postural-tachycardia-syndrome/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37243095/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36219031/
All explained by Dr John Campbell on you tube.
I Blame the Politicians for allowing & coercion 100%