I was interested to hear Sir Patrick Vallance’s excoriating criticisms of the Government’s performance during the early days of Covid on the news this week. No need for me to repeat them because you can read them in Will Jones’s piece here.
Working as a historian and a writer I’m always fascinated by the nature of what passes for historical evidence. One of the most unreliable of all is personal testimony which as we all know is responsible for more miscarriages of justice than any other evidence, and it’s just as unreliable in any other context.
Let’s look back at March 2020, and what do we find? Why, here we have a piece from March 13th 2020 in the Guardian in which Sir Patrick Vallance extolls the virtues of herd immunity, and specifically refutes the value of hard suppression (which of course means lockdown, though back then the word was only just coming into use):
“If you suppress something very, very hard, when you release those measures it bounces back and it bounces back at the wrong time,” he said. The Government is concerned that if not enough people catch the virus now, it will re-emerge in the winter, when the NHS is already overstretched.
Just a few lines earlier, there is the interestingly prescient observation that:
Our aim is to try and reduce the peak, broaden the peak, not suppress it completely; also, because the vast majority of people get a mild illness, to build up some kind of herd immunity so more people are immune to this disease and we reduce the transmission, at the same time we protect those who are most vulnerable to it. Those are the key things we need to do. (emphasis added)
Doesn’t exactly sound like someone champing at the bit to lock everyone down, does it?
Notice that he said ‘our aim’. Our? Who is that. One must assume the Government’s scientific advisers.
Vallance took the trouble to spell this out on TV on the same day, preferring self-isolation as a mechanism to slow the virus down. You can watch a Sky News interview with him here. At four minutes in he points out that a hard lockdown once lifted results in the disease coming straight back, and that therefore it’s far better to go for herd immunity “which would protect everybody” to prevent a second peak.
I didn’t hear what Patrick Vallance had to say today but I did hear what he said at the time. pic.twitter.com/hHribLu6Sj
— Christopher Snowdon(@cjsnowdon) November 20, 2023
He may not have been quick to recommend a full lockdown in March 2020 but he was very quick to change his story within a few weeks. He was already denying he’d ever recommended herd immunity by May 2020, telling MPs, according to Politico, “that when he presented this concept at a press conference in mid-March, he did not mean that the U.K. should try to get immunity through this route. He reiterated that the strategy has always been trying to suppress the peak and keep it below the level at which the National Health Service can cope”.
Just by way of clarification, he added:
I should be clear about what I was trying to say, and if I didn’t say this clearly enough then I apologise. What I was trying to say was that, in the absence of a therapeutic, the way in which you can stop a community becoming susceptible to this is through immunity and immunity can be obtained by vaccination, or it can be obtained by people who have the infection.
Trying to say, but not actually using any of those words originally. Apparently. Interesting because if you want to say something it’s usually best to use the right words, especially at a moment of national crisis. If you try to say something using what you now claim were the wrong words, then people are bound to think you were saying something else. Wouldn’t they?
By September 2020 the BBC had this:
Sir Patrick and the Government have both insisted this [herd immunity] was never official policy. The Government also denies there was any delay in locking down the country, as some critics have suggested.
Emails obtained by the BBC reveal the alarm among the Government’s top scientific advisers at the reaction to Sir Patrick’s words.
In one email from March, Sir Patrick asks for help to “calm down” academics who have expressed anger at his repeated references to herd immunity and the delays in announcing a lockdown.
What do we conclude from this? That he was saying in public different things to what he wrote down in his diary? Do we know when he wrote down his diary? Or what? You tell me.
The truth of course, if there is any truth ever to be had out of all of this, is that back in March 2020 no-one in any position of political or scientific responsibility knew what the hell they were doing, and nor did they thereafter. It’s been a litany of changing narratives, contradictions and denials from day one.
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from the Covid farce, it is that an expert’s expertise is only as good as his last piece of hindsight.
Stop Press: Chris Whitty today conceded to the Covid Inquiry that “with the benefit of hindsight, we went too late” with the first lockdown. Is this the same Chris Whitty who, with the benefit of hindsight in July 2020, told MPs (correctly) that Covid was already falling before the first lockdown? The ‘R number’ went “below one well before, or to some extent before March 23rd”, he said at the time. I’m sure Hugo Keith will be pressing him on this crucial point any minute now…
Stop Press 2: Fraser Nelson makes many of these points and more in the Spectator: “We also learned yesterday that the 4,000-deaths nonsense graph was shown by Vallance at the Halloween press conference because it had been used by Johnson’s advisers to scare him into action – and he felt the public should be shown what he had seen. The story here (which the Covid inquiry missed) was that Johnson was being spun by his advisers and shown misleading data.”
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And Abraham refused to listen to God when God told him to hold his hand, and Abraham cut the throat of his only son, and burned the body on the altar of Covid, and went his way rejoicing, because he was now saaaaaafe.
And Abraham pled with God for the Western world, asking “O Lord, for 10,000 good and righteous souls wilt thou hold off your wrath and not destroy them?”
And God said:
“Look, Sodomy is one thing, but genetically modifying kids is taking the biscuit. You’ve all got to go.”
After an extensive trial on how many children?
given that risk of serious harm for this age group with COVID in healthy kids is like 1 in a few hundred thousand, I think the study should be oooooh about a few million patients minimum to show anything like statistical significance
(not single digit thousands like it probably is)
I agree the risk is essentially zero. Here’s some data to back that up based on all cause mortality in children rather than deaths labelled as covid.
It’s a Florence Nightingale chart of all cause mortality for the age 1-14 age category (which overlaps with the age 12-14 age group in this Moderna ‘approval’) using death data from the weekly ONS publication and based on the Florence Nightingale data representation idea of CEBM. There is week to week variation in this age group because deaths are so few relative to older age groups, but you should still be able to see any covid mortality impact in this age group, if there was one; you can’t.
Can you spot a single week since this all started in March 2020 when the number of all cause deaths in that week in this 1-14 age group were not higher in at least one same numbered week from 2015-2019. There might be one, but from a quick glance I’m struggling to see one.
Does that not broadly suggest that covid has had no affect at all on the age 1-14 age group in terms of mortality impact?
What does that tell you about the logic in inocculating that group with an experiment gene therapy whose short term adverse affects are significant and long term affects are unknown, when covid itself has no mortality impact on this age group?
And here is my chart based on ONS data showing even in relation to deaths labelled with covid (a safe and effective vaccine if it existed could only prevent against deaths from covid) the survival rate for children is as near as you can get to 100%
Before an extensive trial on many children.
I’m currently constructing lighting conductors for my children to make sure they’re safe when out and about.
Brilliant JtH, very witty. I’ll borrow that line – unless you have any objections?
Hadn’t you heard? They are working on a vaccine for lightning.
There are going to be some horrific tragedies in the coming months and next few years.
If some of the doctors and immunologists I’ve been listening to and reading are to be believed, yes there will. Millions of them. I can’t believe what we are witnessing.
War.
The most predictable tragedy. Is surely true.
Time to start serving Notices of Liability to our children’s schools and removing them from school on days when children are being injected. I’m a teacher and will not go to work on days when this is happening. I don’t want to be considered an accessory to war crimes.
All power to you. Thank you.
Thank you for standing up. We need more like you.
It’s odd isn’t it that Russian and Chinese vaccines are… vaccines, but the western world is being forced to undergo dangerous and sometimes lethal gene therapy. But we all happily accept this as normal. At this point I tend to think that any adult ill-informed and lazy enough to trust these drugs deserves what they get, but children? We have a duty to stop this.
…and the Russian and Chinese vaccines are not included in the list of ‘approved vaccines for travel’ that many countries are following.
Personally, I’m not partaking of any of them, irrespective of whatever concoction is in the syringe or wherever they are derived. It’s a no from me. I just cannot understand why any parent would inflict the concoction on their precious children.
My daughter is a member of an on-line ‘mums’ group, and she has been horrified by the number of mothers (usually American) who are not just getting their children vaccinated, but are actually queueing up to do so. These women have blocked their ears to reason and even caution, and my daughter is accused of selfishness and of endangering her child.
We are all learning terrible things about human behaviour in this terrible period of history. Mass psychology in action! Very difficult to ‘save’ the children of parents like that but I feel that as a teacher, I have a duty to throw a spanner in the works and proclaim my opposition.
A number of times over the past 17 months I have been reminded of the scene in The Poseidon Adventure in which most of the passengers unthinkingly follow a crew member to their deaths, despite been warned by Gene Hackman’s character that they are going in the wrong direction!
Very wise. It feels like a twisted initiation ceremony or holy sacrament required to prove you are ready to adopt the new official ideology. I’m certainly not and am committed to seeing that through, no matter where it leads.
Many people scoff about the Deagel prediction that was supposedly posted a couple of years ago – it forecast by 2025 massive population decline in the USA (down to approx 100 million) and the UK (down to approx 15 m) and also significant decline in the rest of Europe. It was assumed that this meant someone was forecasting a nuclear war – except the populations of Russia and China were essentially the same as they are now. Food for thought, but many cannot even bring themselves to consider the implications.
I don’t scoff at it at all. What other explanation could there be for knowingly administering and enforcing severely harmful drugs on a population? If it was about making money or controlling people via certification, the vaccine could be a placebo. I’m left with no rational explanation but biological warfare, and the work of Dr David Martin would appear to support this. Requiring people to make an appointment or queue up for their own annihilation. Terrifying.
Utterly irresponsible – even murderous!
If these jabs are authorised under an emergency, then that emergency must pertain to the recipients. It does not really pertain to adults, but there is absolutely no emergency for kids.
Spot on. At this point the argument for jabbing anyone, let alone kids is so incredibly weak that it’s astonishing that anyone is still falling for it.
I guess we’ll find out the consequences of this move over the coming months.
Or later when it turns out those children grow up just to find out they can’t have children themselves.
Moderna eh!
“Massive fraud in reporting vaccine injuries; withheld data, pretence of “safe and effective”
by Jon Rappoport
August 17, 2021
ONE: A bombshell. Alex Berenson, former New York Times reporter, August 6: “Covid vaccine maker Moderna received 300,000 reports of side effects after vaccinations over a three-month period following the launch of its shot, according to an internal report from a company that helps Moderna manage the reports.”
“That figure is far higher than the number of side effect reports about Moderna’s vaccine publicly available in the federal system that tracks such adverse events.”
300,000 vaccine adverse effects NOT reported to VAERS, the federal database.
Berenson: “The 300,000 figure comes from an internal update provided to employees by IQVIA, a little-known but enormous company that helps drugmakers manage clinical trials. Headquartered in North Carolina, IQVIA has 74,000 employees worldwide and had $11 billion in sales last year.”
“Earlier this week, Richard Staub, the president of IQVIA’s Research & Development Solutions division, sent a ‘Q2 2021 update’ which was labeled ‘Confidential – For internal distribution only’.”
“A person with access to the presentation provided screenshots of the relevant slide, which clearly explains the 300,000 side effect reports were received over ‘a three-month span’ – not since the introduction of the vaccine in December…”
TWO: Independent researcher Virginia Stoner has issued a stunning new report on the VAERS numbers, and the effort by mainstream scientists to minimize the destructive effects of the COVID vaccines. Here are key quotes from her report:
“More deaths have been reported to VAERS from the covid shots than from all other vaccines combined for the last 30 years.”
“There’s a code of silence shielding the massive increase in deaths (and other serious injuries) reported to VAERS from the covid shots. Not only do CDC web pages and press releases omit that inconvenient fact—vaccine research studies omit it as well.”
“The number of covid shots [in the US] administered so far in 2021 (309 million) is roughly the same as all other vaccines administered in 2020 (316 million). But a shocking 36-times more deaths were reported this year from the covid shots than were reported last year from all other vaccines.”
“Someone died from a vaccine they [a medical provider] administered…could it potentially call their professional judgment into question, or result in a malpractice lawsuit? If you were a doctor, or supervisor at a drive-thru covid vaccination clinic, and you were given a choice between spending the evening filing a VAERS report, or having dinner with friends, which would you choose?”
“There are reasons to think death may be one of the most underreported vaccine injuries of all—mainly because the victim is dead, and can’t file a VAERS report. Nor can they prod their doctor into filing a VAERS report. Unless they’re fortunate enough to have a relative or doctor who knows they got the vaccine, knows about VAERS, understands the potential for vaccine injury, and is willing to go through the onerous process of filing a VAERS report, it won’t happen.”
THREE: Open letter from Doctors for COVID Ethics accusing governments and media of lying to the people:
“Official sources, namely EudraVigilance (EU, EEA, Switzerland), MHRA (UK) and VAERS (USA), have now recorded more Injuries and Deaths from the ‘Covid’ vaccine roll-out than from all previous vaccines combined since records began.”
“TOTAL for EU/UK/USA – 34,052 Covid-19 injection related deaths and over 5.46 million injuries reported as at 1 August 2021.”
“It is important to be aware that the official figures above (reported to the health authorities) are but a small percentage of the actual figures. Furthermore, people continue to die (and suffer injury) from the injections with every day which passes.”
“This catastrophic situation has not been reported by the mainstream media, despite the official figures above being publicly available.”
“The Signal of Harm is now indisputably overwhelming, and, in line with universally accepted ethical standards for clinical trials, Doctors for Covid Ethics demands that the ‘Covid’ vaccine programme be halted immediately.”
“Continuation of the programme in the full knowledge of ongoing serious Harm and Death to both adults and children constitutes a Crime Against Humanity/Genocide for which those found to be responsible or complicit will ultimately be held personally liable.”
“Governments worldwide are lying to you the people, to the populations they purportedly serve.”
“The figures above demonstrate that the mRNA vaccines are deadly.”
https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/some-actual-news
How people in positions of authority when it comes to determining the safety of these ‘vaccines’ can ignore this is simply beyond me,
We can ask them, at Nuremberg 2.0.
Given that it has been shown that the protein spike is toxic, not just the whole virus, and the mRNA vaccines produce the spike protein in the body it’s presumably hard to tell the difference between a death from covid and a death from vaccination. Therefore a lot of “covid” deaths that have been reported in the last 4+ months could be vaccine related, meaning that the vaccines are even deadlier than the figures suggest.
Exactly
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/06/210611174037.htm
Discovery identifies a highly efficient human reverse transcriptase that can write RNA sequences into DNA
Plus this could write the mRNA into DNA making Jabbed persons permanently express spike proteins.
“Mainstream scientists” – would that be Big Pharma linked scientists?
“Code of silence” – I believe it’s called “omerta”. So Big Pharma-linked scientists collaborating in a culture of omerta over “vaccine” deaths…
AFTER THE VACCINE IF YOU GET SICK THE DOCTORS WILL NOT HELP YOU. YOU ARE MENTALLY ILL.
A friend who is a salon owner got their first Moderna jab, then caught the lurgy. They have a (known) inflammatory condition and ended up seeking hospital treatment although not admitted. Had their 2nd Moderna jab and reported having really nasty side effects almost as bad as the actual disease, I expect all linked to the underlying condition and overstimulated immune system. If that doesn’t put someone off, I really don’t know what will.
No, haven’t you heard? Adverse reactions are good. They mean the vaccine is working. I read it on the BBC website.
JCVI will make a decision on whether 12-17 year olds should be vaccinated with the shot made by Moderna as part of its deployment programme.
The shitbag arrogance of this statement. ONLY I will make any decisions about my 12 year old’s health, not you murderous cunts!
Well said
I’m taking my kids out of school on days when this is happening (inevitably) in school. Not fair to subject them to the pressure of having to explain to the children of morons why they aren’t taking part. I think its perfectly reasonable to not want our children to be present when biological weapons are being injected into children.
As reported by VAERS, adverse side effect of covid “vaccines” in under 18 year olds in US include:
Loss of consciousness (n=774)
Myocarditis (390)
Seizure (311)
Pericarditis (94)
Blindness (67)
Deafness (47)
Anaphylactic reaction (46)
Loss of personal independence in daily activities (43)
Bell’s palsy (38)
Guillain-Barré syndrome (14)
Death (21)
Now, look me in the eyes and tell me that the benefits of injecting kids with this experimental shit to allegedly protect the adults is worth these sacrifices.
Please review Dr Ryan Cole.Stop the mandate on Rumble; he discloses some facts about the US EUO Pfizer jab and FDA internal rules relating to experimental drug trials which will support your point handsomely
A quick internet search reveals the following: “The MHRA have Big Pharma directors on their board”.
I repeat, how hard can it be to say “the Big Pharma linked MHRA” – or whoever it might be – when mentioning these organisations. Full declaration of interests should be routine, the same as with politicians.
I might add that if sources that are likely to be biased for the pharmaceutical industry are cited, in the interest of balance sources biased against Big Pharma and neutral sources should also be reported. This is surely a minimum requirement for good journalism, and I cannot believe it is that difficult.
There was a time, not so long ago, when ‘conflict of interest’ was enough to ban people with financial interests in a project from involvement with that project.
I realised that this very civilised rule no longer applied when David Cameron’s father was paid a fortune by the government led by his son for having windmills installed on his land.
Yes, I believe a simmilar sort of thing happens in Libya…
Just imagine if I came along to your house and said I need to inject experimental gene therapy into you. You would rightly say no. Imagine if I was after your child? You’d rightly batter me
This is still experimental. No one needs this
This whole thing has had SO many twists and turns, I do wonder whether what they inject into the kids will actually be harmless, saline solution or something with the intended result that they will be able to say, you see, all the kids are fine; meanwhile bringing digital ID/passports in via the backdoor. Or is this too perverse?!
I have heard saline jabs discussed on other forums used possibly in small numbers for those ‘in the know’ but the consensus seems to be that on a large scale this would not work because of all the people who would be required to be in on the conspiracy.
They’ll have alternate production line machinery available to step in for maintenance reasons, I imagine. Then substitute coloured saline to fill the vials and log which batch / boxes they are during those episodes. If the aim is for everyone to have three plus injections, it’s highly likely one of them at least will be the real thing – unless you are one of the elite.
No more or less perverse than anything else we’ve witnessed for 18 months. Except I think the aim is to cause harm and kill; I can see no other alternative at this point.
Does anyone know if anything ever happened with this?
Why are we being quoted the opinion of a foreign medical set-up, who have no say in this country. We have no need to follow the dozy morons
It is now up to the Ursine Forestry Defecation Committee to decide whether bears sh*t in woods.
Oh well, if the UK regulator says its okay then I’m sure it will be fine. They wouldn’t steer us wrong………….