The short answer to the question posed above is that we don’t know. But we do know that the vaccine scientist Yang Xiaoping who developed China’s first vaccine against COVID-19 has been deposed from China’s highest body of state power, the 3,000 member National People’s Congress. One wonders how many people even knew he was a member. There is speculation that his suspension may be connected to the development of the vaccine and possible problems with it that have not been revealed.
The first outlet to break this news was Business Insider which reported the story on April 28th. The story was picked up next day by the Hong Kong newspaper of record, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) and subsequently reported by Asia News and by the Indian outlets World in One News (WION) and the Economic Times.
The reasons for the expulsion are not stated, except in the Economic Times where they are reported as “graft”. However, that remains speculation. For example, Asia Times says that the expulsion is for “serious discipline and law violations” which, according to Business Insider is “a phrase alluding to corruption”.
Strangely, a reliable source in Beijing tells me that, while the news is spreading on the Chinese social networking site Weibo, the news is not being reported officially within China, only on international platforms which he monitors. However, as the news was reported in the SCMP, which increasingly genuflects to the authorities in mainland China, we can be certain that China wants the world to know about Yang’s deposition.
Yang oversaw the development of the Sinopharm’s BBIBP-CorV vaccine, which was widely used in China and also exported to many other countries. The vaccine, which was declared safe for anyone over 18 including pregnant women, was highly acclaimed by the WHO – always willing to do China’s bidding – as being 79% effective both at preventing infection with COVID-19 and at preventing hospitalisation.
What is meant by 79% effective is unclear but almost certainly refers to relative risk reduction, which is virtually meaningless where risk of infection and especially hospitalisation are low, as was the case with COVID-19. This was explained early in 2020 in the Lancet. When reporting vaccine efficacy it is important to report absolute risk reduction (ARR): an individual person’s risk when vaccinated compared with being unvaccinated. But misleading figures regarding the efficacy and the effectiveness from ‘real world’ research of the Sinopharm vaccine continue to be quoted.
However, percentages for ARR are invariably less impressive and, in the case of a range of Covid vaccines, hovered at around 1%. In fact the ARR of the Sinopharm’s BBIBP-CorV vaccine was approximately 0.5% for infection with COVID-9 (NB: not hospitalisation or death). For individuals, the protection offered by Sinopharm’s BBIBP-CorV vaccine is therefore negligible. Moreover, at the time of making the above claims, the WHO also reported “no substantive data available related to the impact of Sinopharm on transmission of SARS-CoV-2”. And no substantive data have been forthcoming.
Of course, this being China, it is hard to get accurate information about the use of Sinopharm’s BBIBP-CorV vaccine within China. The Financial Times reported early after the approval of the BBIBP-CorV vaccine in China that “the lack of transparency over the jab’s efficacy and waning durability has worried many Chinese, particularly parents of young children and the elderly”. But also that “Beijing’s censors have quashed any signs of dissent or questioning of the state’s response”.
It was telling in 2020 that China was reluctant to comment on the vaccine and even when it was adopted by the UAE ahead of China, it made no comment. The UAE approved the vaccine in September of 2020 as opposed to China which waited until December of the same year.
Nevertheless, side-effects from the BBIBP-CorV vaccine do genuinely appear to be mild in several studies. It seems unlikely that something has come to light. After all, the BBIBP-CorV vaccine did not use mRNA technology to induce antibodies; rather it relies on the use of an inactivated virus as an antigen to induce antibodies against COVID-19. This is how most of the vaccines with which we are familiar work, and they are generally associated with few and mild side-effects.
The reasons why Yang Xiaoping was removed from his powerful position having previously been hailed as a hero by the Chinese Communist Party may never be known. It is known, as reported in the outlets above, there is a purge of many senior figures in health care and related commercial companies over corruption and financial irregularities. Yang may be involved and, of course, he may not. One thing is certain, however; he is no longer bathing in the warm glow of Covid vaccine hero-worship.
John MacNab teaches at a university in Hong Kong.
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Cracks are appearing in the climate change concrete! Even NASA seams to be explaining things a little better!
https://phys.org/news/2023-08-nasa-fierce-surface-temperatures-phoenix.html
Good stuff, Dings. The more cracks the better! We have to ditch the entire Agenda 21 though. This is the vehicle for our enslavement above all else and the one they are not going to let go without an almighty fight. Been watching Rosa Koire, author of Behind the Green Mask, speaking 1o years ago and all she said is now happening. Quite scary really in some ways but resolve is strong and I’m off to my local council full meeting next week to give them a broadside because A21 will be happening everywhere and they wiull be part of it, unwittingly or not.
The “Guwardian” calls anyone who disagrees with A21 a conspiracy theorist ,ergo, it is definitely sinister!
They are part of it and to think that I used to respect George Monbiot but at heart he’s just another closet Marxist parading as a greenie. In the Beatles film Yellow Submarine, the Blue Meanies were the evil ones and I think the title ‘Green Meanies’ today is a more accurate depiction of these useful eejjits!
NASA still need to explain why they ‘invented’ 12 new cloud types though.. after 10 had been sufficient for millennia. Mmmn.. I wonder what could be up therenow that’s causing these changes in clouds.
https://www.sciencealert.com/it-s-official-there-are-now-12-new-types-of-cloud
Same way the Met Office keep claiming unnaturally high temperatures at usually chilly Heathrow.
Heathrow. Acres of concrete. Acres of tarmac. Constant jet breath.
How very odd it is a heat trap.
Met should also publish temperatures in nearby villages. Where we live, there can be a 6 degree temperature between the car park at our out of town supermarket, and where we live, less than ten minutes away in a leafy village.
That we fund the Met Office makes this mendacity even worse. UHI is WAY underestimated in the models, as has been shown again and again.
https://t.co/EVsHs9HdGS
Great video by doctors in Trinidad and Tobago, calling on their government to stay clear of WHO’s pandemic treaty and IHR amendments.
John Campbell’s latest…in the same vein..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1ZGbqXrfD8
Global WHO digital health certification
Lots of things strike me here..but I have been thinking for a while now that the massive influx of migrants might be a ‘cover’ to get us all to agree to a ‘passport’ because they’ll pretend it’s to keep track of migrants…(the usual safety-ism)….and people will think that’s a good idea?
Makes sense.. any excuse.. they’re desperate to get those passports up and running..
…and James Roguski made their open letter to the PM of T&T available on his substack:
https://jamesroguski.substack.com/p/trinidad-and-tobago?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Don’t know about you , but whenever I try to edit one of my posts I keep getting a red banner stating “you’re posting to quickly,slow down!”
VERY infuriating!
Its happening to everybody I think.. a glitch..
This may not turn out to be what I would hope..but surely this is a crack in the wall…..? As we have been talking about stuff lately..what if the vaccines contained contaminated DNA..or Genetically Modified Ingredients???…as has been alleged..wouldn’t that also fall into the ‘a drug that has substantially deviated from FDA approval’….one can only hope!!?
https://www.cbsnews.com/detroit/news/michigan-man-suing-covid-drug-manufacturer-after-suffering-two-massive-strokes/
A Lenawee County man is suing a COVID drug manufacturer and a Washtenaw County hospital after suffering two massive strokes.
Attorneys at Ven Johnson Law are suing the maker of Remdesivir over claims that the drug had glass particles when staff at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Chelsea gave it to Dan Nowacki in November 2021.
“Their argument, ladies and gentlemen, has been, ‘Yeah, we know we voluntarily recalled. Yeah, we know there’s glass particulate in it, and we know that two doses were given to Dan, and we know we had a stroke. But since we followed the FDA guidelines and were approved, we have drug immunity. You can’t sue us because it was approved by the FDA.'”
But a Michigan judge ruled for the first time that the “Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness” (PREP) Act does not shield a drugmaker from liability when its medication is contaminated with glass particles.
The judge ruled that Congress did not plan to extend the PREP Act immunity to a drug that substantially deviated from FDA approval and included glass particles.
(The PREP Act was declared by the U.S. Department of health and Human Services for emergency use, and shields manufacturers, administrators and distributors of vaccines from liability claims of loss caused by a drug.)
I don’t want to hope too much, because we have had too many set-backs..but there does seem to be a groundswell of opposite opinions now..doesn’t there?? Surely they can’t keep ignoring all the evidence??
Speech in Parliament from the brilliant Australian Senator Gerard Rennick…
Yesterday I spoke in favour of removing indemnity for pharmaceutical companies.
The moment you remove risk you can guarantee shortcuts will be taken. And that’s exactly what happened with Pfizer.
Pfizer took shortcuts in both testing for safety and efficacy.
They also lied to cover up injuries and the efficacy of the jab in stopping transmission and infection.
Governments are meant to protect people not corporations. They need to be held to account.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Aw5BKpKKNs
And here’s Dr Ashley Croft, over at the Scottish Covid Inquiry, admitting that the jabs cannot be said to have saved lives. Mini clip;
https://twitter.com/smartfarts1/status/1689348556480520192
Speaking of Scotland, 3000 excess deaths so far this year and ‘crickets’ in response;
https://twitter.com/TheRustler83/status/1689604103662436352/photo/1
They didn’t take any shortcuts at all.. there was no testing.. period. None! The US dept of defence was/is running things. All explained by.. Sasha Latypova in depth..
https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/the-role-of-the-us-dod-and-their
But the jabs do contain contamination with plasmid DNA, so this is not just ”alleged”. Kevin McKernon dropped this bombshell ages ago and it has since been replicated by several other scientists. The products also meet the legal definition of ‘Genetically Modified Organisms’, which I previously shared on here. So these are both now established facts. They were also shown to contain various metals, as demonstrated in a research paper from a German group of scientists. Zero adherence to good manufacturing practice and zero regulation results in contamination and huge variability between batches.
…the ‘alleged’ was being a bit sarcastic…the contamination of the quacksines hasn’t yet been universally accepted or reported on in any ’Official’ way as far as I know…. is what I meant…not that I don’t believe it to be true, because I do……
…the difference, particularly in this instance, is that it has been accepted by all concerned that there was contamination…..which is a good start!
It’s a shame they didn’t put that to the Pfizer/Moderna goons in the Aussie hearing. I would like to hear from the horses mouth what they had to say about that particular point. Especially as it’s not just one person who found contamination but multiple scientists’ findings confirming McKernon’s original discovery, which is harder to discount.
Tories are beginning to make small squeaks about all this, which they have supported, initiated or facilitated since before 2010. Most of their MPs and peers continue to want more and faster but voters are waking up to woke.
Tory organs like Speccie and DT which failed to criticise it at the time these policies began and defenestration PMs (and consequently also Ministers like JRM who have since told us they were against it all), these now attack the consequences as click bait.
Those of us who have queries these policies along the way have been treated with disdain, contempt or worse by the political class and MSM. We were right wing, extreme, stupid but now it seems we were reflecting public views and correctly called out the practical consequences.
https://nypost.com/2023/08/09/climate-scientist-admits-the-overwhelming-consensus-is-manufactured/
We are told climate change is a crisis, and that there is an “overwhelming scientific consensus.”
“It’s a manufactured consensus,” climate scientist Judith Curry tells me.
She says scientists have an incentive to exaggerate risk to pursue “fame and fortune.”
She knows about that because she once spread alarm about climate change.
The media loved her when she published a study that seemed to show a dramatic increase in hurricane intensity.
But then some researchers pointed out gaps in her research — years with low levels of hurricanes.
“Like a good scientist, I investigated,” says Curry.
She realized that the critics were right.
“Part of it was bad data. Part of it is natural climate variability.”
……
“The origins go back to the . . . UN environmental program,” says Curry.
Some United Nations officials were motivated by “anti-capitalism. They hated the oil companies and seized on the climate change issue to move their policies along.”
The UN created the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
“The IPCC wasn’t supposed to focus on any benefits of warming. The IPCC’s mandate was to look for dangerous human-caused climate change.”
“Then the national funding agencies directed all the funding . . . assuming there are dangerous impacts.”
The researchers quickly figured out that the way to get funded was to make alarmist claims about “man-made climate change.”
This is how “manufactured consensus” happens.
Judith Curry a hero.
Here’s her blog
https://judithcurry.com/
She backed out of formal climate science sick of being slandered by the likes of Mann the Blob, but is still very active and works with good people (e.g. Nic Lewis on the contested matter of ECS)
Michael Mann is both a creep and a ‘paid liar.. end of!
https://www.hartgroup.org/mhra-twitter-blocking-spree/
The Perseus Report was written to raise awareness about the failure of MHRA to apply proper due diligence to the approval of covid vaccines, the significant harm caused and the risk that permanent changes to approval processes could cause further injuries and deaths from other medicines. The Perseus Group sent our report to MPs and MHRA themselves, so far we have had no response from MHRA or the Government.
We have tried to engage with MHRA on Twitter for the past 4 months, we have been ignored but not blocked, but suddenly we were blocked in July (along with our corresponding author Nick Hunt).
Around a month later, MHRA started systematically blocking vaccine injury victims and bereaved families, and in a further twist, they even blocked other medicine harm victim support groups.
A non-vaccine group reached out to us to see what we could do, given that @PerseusGroup_ was blocked, I tweeted from my personal account to ask why. My personal account was immediately blocked, more and more people messaged me throughout the day to say they had just been blocked.
We banded together and spent much of the day tweeting about the situation, several people wrote to MHRA too.
In a surprising u-turn, we were all unblocked by the end of the day.
A short focused campaign resulted in an immediate change of MHRA’s social media approach (maybe even policy?), it shows what we can do when we band together.
Imagine what could happen if all medicine victim groups and other campaigners worked together, to get an investigation into the failure of MHRA to ensure safety of medicines and devices?
Could we achieve the reform that is desperately needed to save lives?
Eugyppius always a cracking lead. This story is on the level of “Oh my God, IF we all get terminal cancer, we’ll die”. That Covid is not nor ever was as deady as MERS tells us all we need to know about the airhead Ms. Bershteyn, and even more about the wretched state of Academia. Why not just call Universities “Nut houses”, for that is what they are now, with one aim – to wreck every student they get their hands on.
Doing pretty well it seems.
This sums it up:
A set o’ dull, conceited hashes
Confuse their brains in college classes!
They gang in stirks, and come out asses,
Plain truth to speak;
An’ syne they think to climb Parnassus
By dint o’ Greek!
Robert Burns, 1785.
Everybody should watch that video listed above of 6 or 7 police officers arresting and dragging away a highly distressed autistic teenager just for making a comment one of the officers appeared to take exception to. It’s literally proof that the police are breaking the law. Good on the mother for filming and uploading it to social media because her intention was clearly to spread the evidence far and wide that the police are a law unto themselves and the public are to be held in complete contempt, well, unless you’re a JSO d*ckhead blocking the roads. Then they don’t lift a bloody finger! This vid has gone viral since yesterday, even Martina Navratilova sharing and commenting on it. 100% of comments I’ve seen are saying how sick this is. Police brutality at it’s ‘best’. 🙁
Meanwhile, what’s happening with the latest crime figures in England and Wales. Says it all;
https://twitter.com/ThinkingSlow1/status/1689844806111965184/photo/1
The Mail doesn’t appear to show the full vid so here it is;
https://twitter.com/OliLondonTV/status/1689758097114324992
“More than a quarter of secondary pupils ‘persistently absent’”
There’s an anarchic bit of me which thinks that at least they’re not being subject to wall-to-wall wokerati indoctrination for 6 hours a day…
A good point – unvaccinated and uneduated. If they survive abuse at home they’ll maybe form the backbone of the nation’s recovery!
A New Moniker for me to learn this morning ! “B corp” WTF is it 🥴🤯
This is disgusting ( understatement ) on multiple levels, so I’ll just leave it there or I’m liable to go off on one. What I will say though is that I get the distinct impression that the UK police force ( see recent example of the autistic girl vs 7 officers ) and criminal justice system appears to be on a par with the MHRA. Completely ineffectual/sham outfit, utterly pointless and whose loyalties lie with the perpetrators and not the public. The word ‘enabler’ certainly springs to mind also..
”A ‘monster’ father who beat his teenage daughter with a metal bar and left her unconscious in a horrific attack outside her school has avoided jail.
Delivery driver Hussein Alinzi, 59, battered the 15-year old on the morning of her English GCSE exam outside the south Manchester school. He accused her of turning up early to school to secretly meet a boy and berated her for wearing make-up.
The daughter had in fact been advised by teachers to arrive at the school early ahead of her exam – and the only reason she had make-up on was to cover up bruises Alinzi had inflicted on her in earlier beatings, Manchester Crown Court heard.
Following the attack outside the school gates, the youngster was found to have suffered 14 different types of injury – including facial bruising – and was also treated for a bite mark to her left temple. She briefly lost consciousness but came around and subsequently tried to sit the test. However she complained of feeling dizzy and nauseous and was taken out of the exam hall before being admitted to A&E.”
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/monster-dad-left-daughter-15-27470047
Call me cynical ( or Islamophobic. Zero f*cks are given! ) but I’m wondering if a white guy did this would he be sent down? It’s gotten to the point where absolutely nothing would surprise me any more. Domestic violence is hard enough to report then get a conviction but I’d imagine in the Muslim community it’s even harder because women will be too afraid to speak out. Dreadful example of blatant injustice.
This is interesting from Clayton morris from Redacted ….. there is to be a ‘million man’ March in Canada in September..organised by the Muslims community….but coordinating other faiths (and none, I would think) against the LGBTQ propaganda in schools. Apparently when kids go back to school in autumn, they won’t be called he or she ‘until they decide what they are’….!!
would be brilliant if this got a ‘world-wide’ event going…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPPeMwPUzr8
Me starting school in Autumn..
Teacher : what are you?
Me : a c*nt
Teacher : I’m not calling you that!
Me : see you in court.. 😉
Lol! 😂
You couldn’t make it up! Bugs on the barge at Portland. According to GBN, the Home Office have had to remove the immigrants from it on account of legionella in the water supply. Safe and effective, etc.
It’s probably heated by heat pumps.
Bud-lite moment coming for Kellogg´s . . .
Excellent edition of ukcolumnnews today with, among other goodies, Melissa Fleming of the UN stating “We own the science”.
Suck it up, Galileo . . .