Here is a riddle:
Why were German politicians so eager, in summer 2021, to vaccinate children? Why did they place public pressure on vaccine regulators to recommend child vaccination?
Even a few months ago, I would’ve said this was no great mystery. Before August 2021, everybody still operated on the insane assumption that the vaccines would eradicate Covid. They believed (or professed to believe) that a vaccination rate in excess of some magic number would end the pandemic, and that magic number was presumed to be unachievable if children were spared the jabs. I’d still say that was the case, but a recent news story has caused me to consider this question more deeply. Where did the specific pressure come from? What drove, for example, random regional ministers of education to mount their own appeals to vaccinate schoolchildren? What did these dumb people ever know about viruses or reproduction numbers or population immunity? What was going on?
There has been a lot of talk in the German press about the need for an appraisal of pandemic policies. This talk has flowed in directly inverse proportion to anybody’s willingness to actually appraise anything. Almost the only exception is the state parliament of Brandenburg, where Alternative für Deutschland is strong enough to have forced the convening of a Corona Investigatory Committee. The revelations so far have been extremely eye-opening, despite the limitation of the inquiry to Brandenburg and substantial obstruction from the political establishment.
The Committee publishes no protocols, many of its sessions are closed to the public, and with a few exceptions the media studiously avoids reporting on its work. Nevertheless, every time its members meet, something new and very bizarre comes to light. During its third session, in October, the Committee summoned Britta Ernst, Minister of Education in Brandenburg from 2017 to 2023, and also since 1998 the wife of Chancellor Olaf Scholz. At one point in the proceedings, the CDU politician Saskia Ludwig asked Ernst a very important question, namely the one that stands at the head of this post: why did Ernst advocate the vaccination of children in 2021?
The Nordkurier reports on the exchange that ensued:
Ernst had always campaigned in favour of vaccination and said in November 2021 that a “high vaccination rate” was “crucial for child welfare”. Ludwig asked… whether Ernst would repeat this statement given the current level of knowledge about the risk of side effects when vaccinating children against Covid.
Ernst… replied that the recommendation of STIKO [the Standing Committee on Vaccination] had been decisive for her.
STIKO “set the standard” and she had “no doubts about the work of STIKO”, which is why she had “naturally adopted its findings, which it makes on a scientific basis”. Regarding her statement from November 2021, she said: “I suspect that this quote regarding the vaccination rate referred primarily to adults.” Ernst continued: “In addition, STIKO also recommended the vaccination of children and adolescents, and we followed this recommendation.”
In other words, Ernst was just Following the Science. She was just doing what the expert regulators of STIKO told her to do.
Except, that’s not true at all. Ernst was calling for the vaccination of teenagers as early as July 2021, well before STIKO had made any such recommendation. She was circulating flyers among Brandenburg schoolchildren that assured them they might even be able to get vaccinated without their parents’ permission. And what is more, she was demanding that STIKO expand its recommendation to include everyone over 12 years of age.
From an rbb return-to-school article published on July 29th 2021:
The new school year begins in Brandenburg in just over a week. Primary school pupils will then be required to wear masks and there will continue to be plenty of ventilation. The Minister of Education believes that schools are in a good position – but there is still a need for action when it comes to vaccination.
Brandenburg’s Education Minister Britta Ernst (SPD) is calling for children and young people to be vaccinated from the age of 12. …
Until now, the Standing Committee on Vaccination (STIKO) has advised that 12 to 16-year-olds should only be vaccinated if they have certain preexisting conditions. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has already approved the vaccines from Moderna and BioNtech/Pfizer for this age group.
Ernst called on STIKO to issue a clear recommendation in favour of these vaccinations. The committee has already established that the incidence of infection among children is not dangerous and that illnesses among children are not severe. “This gives us further support in favour of opening schools,” Ernst said. A clear recommendation from STIKO, however, would be “helpful in any case, because many parents are naturally unsure how they should act”.
It wasn’t just Ernst. The day before, the Minister President of Brandenburg, Dietmar Woidke, had also renewed his demands that STIKO approve the vaccines for healthy adolescents:
On rbb television, Brandenburg’s Minister President Dietmar Woidke (SPD) once again called for the vaccination of children aged 12 and over to be considered. “STIKO already recommends vaccination for children with pre-existing conditions,” Woidke said. He would welcome it if … STIKO were to make a recommendation for the vaccination of adolescents in view of the spread of the Delta variant. According to Woidke, Delta has increased the risks for children and adolescents. STIKO must now weigh “the risk posed by Covid and the risk that vaccines may pose to younger age groups”.
Confronted with these contradictions at the Committee last month, Ernst became oddly evasive. She said vaguely that “many parents were waiting for a recommendation from STIKO” and that she “seem[ed] to remember that children in other countries were already vaccinated”. She did not refer to Woidke or describe any broader discussions within the Brandenburg Government, although demands for child vaccination were clearly bigger than her. Nor did she refer to pressure from teachers’ organisations or any specific epidemiological goals.
The excuse about parental pressure is very strange and unsatisfying, when you think about it. First, the vaccines had already been approved by the EMA for the 12-and-up group. Parents who really wanted to jab their kids just had to find a willing doctor. Second, and more importantly, it is not the job of state education ministers to pass the concerns of local jab-crazed parents on to national medical regulatory bodies in the media. Why can’t Ernst clearly describe her motives? Where did the demand to vaccinate children come from?
At another revealing moment, Ludwig asked Ernst about a pro-vaccine flyer circulated among Brandenburg schoolchildren. This flyer assured kids that “there are hardly any long-term side effects; the vaccine is broken down quickly by the body”. It also enthused that “in some cases, you can even be vaccinated without your parents’ consent”. Here, too, Ernst had no good answers. She would say only that the flyer merely described “the legal situation” and “that underage girls are given contraceptives by doctors without parental consent”.
I looked into this flyer, which is a creepy exercise in marketing vaccines to children. The version that was circulated in Thüringen is still online:
Ernst couldn’t say much about its contents because it came from on high. The flyer was funded by the Thüringen Health and Education Ministries, and masterminded by odious health communicator, Erfurt professor and villain-of-the-blog Cornelia Betsch. In later months, Betsch would go on to advise the Government on how to nudge German vaccine uptake higher. We are dealing with the upper reaches of the German vaccinator-industrial complex here, in other words. The flyer was designed according to interviews its authors conducted with teenagers at the Henfling Gymnasium in Meiningen, for the purposes of figuring out how best to manipulate kids into getting excited about vaccines.
There are two things about this document that make it extremely obnoxious. The first is that it is full of highly manipulative propaganda. It tells children that “the virus spreads primarily among the unvaccinated”, that “if you are not vaccinated, you have a greater risk of becoming infected”, that “the virus is becoming more contagious”, that “it is very rare to be infected despite vaccination and it is rare to infect others” and that “if you are vaccinated, you also protect others who can’t be vaccinated”. It contains a specific section explaining that the vaccines won’t impact fertility, and so I expect it was targeted specifically at girls, for whom the get-vaccinated-to-protect-your-family subtext would be especially effective.
The second obnoxious point is that this flyer, advising teenagers to seek the jabs even in the absence of parental permission and providing them with the contact information of local vaccination centres, was published on July 14th 2021. That is, it came out in advance of any official STIKO recommendation that this age group should be jabbed at all, and just two weeks before leading Brandenburg politicians like Ernst and Woidke began calling for STIKO to expand their recommendations to include teenagers.
There was, then, an unauthorised child vaccination campaign underway in summer 2021, which consisted of vaccine propaganda circulated to school children on the one hand, public pressure on vaccine regulators on the other hand, and who knows what else on however many other hands. It was timed around the summer holidays, for the clear purpose of scaring children into seeking the jabs before they returned to school. For some reason, Ernst will not tell the Brandenburg parliament why she participated in this campaign, and she will not say who its orchestrators were.
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And yet ‘he’ wanted another 4 years … or rather the Biden whisperers did.
Now that’s disinformation.
But why, exactly, do America’s real rulers want creatures like the Biden-dolt or the Harris-halfwit to be president of the United States? What’s the gain they’re hoping for?
But the puppeteer gets all of the control without appearing in public.
They’re just brainwashed, and have totally swallowed the relentless “Orange Man Bad” propaganda.
Despite the overwhelming evidence that the media lies like a cheap watch some people still switch on and watch it, and believe it.
As (Twain?) said, “It is easier to fool someone than to convince them they have been fooled.”
Now Orange Man is pretty far from perfect, but given the alternative he positively shines in comparison. And I don’t recall the division there is now under POTUS 45.
As an aside, if anyone fancies some mild entertainment, check out The Dor Brothers on YouTube. It’s absolutely stunning, and not a little unnerving.
Or Dark Brandon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ3r_qu7TWc
Lots of money obviously.
Because it’s a good legitimate cover for their behind the scenes looting spree
Poor old sod thought he was President of the USA.
I don’t think he even thought that!
So, and we have people… and listen, there are people who…. so. Ah shucks… And America, Medicare has foreign… Coming through the door of this great… Huh. Syria, Russia, Guatemala, Germany, Chile, the President has, er… It’s vital that the planet air y’see. Children need er… OK that’s me done here. God Bless! They’re telling me…. er…. now where was it… IT’S NOT RIGHT! KEEP … ER … Ok folks…
What worries me is just what the Biden administration is doing in its last days to compromise the Trump presidency.
We have the same mental incapacity problem here, but at the other end of the age scale. Our ‘leaders’ are immature adolescents who only have one skill, which is to shout out loudly everthing that their superiors have told them to…
And a total inability to practise critical thinking.
Peter Mandelson to be the next ambassador to the U.S;
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/peter-mandelson-uk-ambassador-us-donald-trump-b2667479.html
The whispering snake, as portrayed on Spitting Image.
“The extent of Jeffrey Epstein’s contact with former UK cabinet minister Lord Peter Mandelson is laid bare in a newly released report that describes repeated meetings between the disgraced financier and the politician he knew as “Petie”. The internal JPMorgan report from 2019, filed to a New York court on Tuesday, found that “Jeffrey Epstein appears to maintain a particularly close relationship with Prince Andrew the Duke of York and Lord Peter Mandelson, a senior member of the British government”.
https://www.ft.com/content/07238b43-48e6-4e7b-96d2-d50a4ada4646
Excellent that this has been published, just at the right moment.
The Dark Lord rises again.
Not just the White House. Almost all of the media also covered up his dementia.
It’s hard to decide where the biggest crooks and liars reside: politics, or the MS media?
They hid it during the 2020 Presidential campaign. He was already suffering from dementia when he was nominated, which is why they kept him locked in the basement until the votes were counted.
Votes counted and then the required additional votes printed and counted.
Nope they didn’t hide it. —-We could all see it.
Yes, “we” could all see it, but there are so many grifters and useful idiots in the USA and in the world who found it in their interest to ignore and go along with the lie.
Communists want power. It doesn’t matter to them if the power is competent. They are evil minded simpletons.
Given that Belgium prospered for many years with no government at all, it is possible to argue that cabbages, lettuces, octopii and other seers might make the best governors of all; benevolent despots that at least offer decent nutrition as expiation for policy blunders?
Dementia does not appear overnight and is progressive. It is certain his wife and family members and close associates knew this before he stood for election.
Anyone observing and paying attention – public, media – seeing the obvious signs during his Presidency would work backwards and realise this. The White House doctor would certainly have been aware from day one of the Presidency of his condition.
The cover-up started before the Primaries electing him as candidate.