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Keeping the Terror Narrative Alive

by Dr Carl Heneghan and Dr Tom Jefferson
11 June 2024 3:19 PM

Over a year ago, we reported that all the ducks (not a pun) were being lined up for the next round of fear-mongering.

We tried to explain the role of fear in controlling people – perhaps not a very detailed explanation – but we all experienced it and what do you expect from two old geezers?

So, if you want to gauge the way the wind is blowing, we suggest keeping tabs on what horror the UKHSA is next going to concoct, thanks to models, tabs on WHO warnings and tracking Sir Patrick Vallance’s forecasts or that well-known scientist Tony Blair.

On June 5th, the WHO announced the first case of human death by a novel strain of influenza H5N2 in Mexico, in a 59-year-old whose human contacts all tested negative and had no history of bird, poultry, mountain lion or skunk contacts. 

The 59-year-old had multiple pathologies, but the WHO did not report the viral load or testing for other pathogens apart from SARS-CoV-2, so it’s impossible to assign the cause of death with the scarcity of information reported. 

The media were quick to pick up on the WHO announcement: ‘Another Bird Flu Variant Reaches Humans: What To Know About H5N2 — After First-Ever Confirmed Death,” reported Forbes.

However, no one seems to have checked the facts. The announcement drew a firm response from Mexican Health Secretary Jorge Alcocer, who attributed the death to kidney and respiratory failure. Mr. Alcocer denied the WHO announcement that the man’s death was caused by H5N2 that had never before been found in a human: “I can point out that the statement made by the World Health Organisation is pretty bad, since it speaks of a fatal case (of bird flu), which was not the case,”  Alcocer said.

Mexico is likely still bruised by being the reputed epicentre of the 2009 influenza ‘pandemic’. Whatever is going on, keep watching and prepare yourselves, as the next pandemic is inevitable given the efforts to ramp up the fear. However, a pandemic of what? We wonder.

Dr. Carl Heneghan is the Oxford Professor of Evidence Based Medicine and Dr. Tom Jefferson is an epidemiologist based in Rome who works with Professor Heneghan on the Cochrane Collaboration. This article was first published on their Substack, Trust The Evidence, which you can subscribe to here.

Tags: Avian influenzaBird FluFear-mongeringPandemicPandemic PreparednessPropagandaWHOWorld Health Organisation

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Marcus Aurelius knew
Marcus Aurelius knew
1 year ago

He who believes the authorities have their ducks in a row will forever be a duck.

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sskinner
sskinner
1 year ago
Reply to  Marcus Aurelius knew

Sitting…

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FerdIII
FerdIII
1 year ago

Scamdemics. The only pandemic during the Rona dystopia was that of fascism and stupid.

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stewart
stewart
1 year ago

The WHO and their henchmen like Blair and Vallance are like a biker gang driving around looking for trouble, constantly trying stir up shit somewhere.

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zebedee
zebedee
1 year ago

If you are anxious about epidemics then relax with a discrete stochastic simulation – a game of cards that doesn’t grow exponentially and averages to the standard model.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4LgSjGo6Xc

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RW
RW
1 year ago

Just as with COVID death, H5N2 death means death after a positive test for H5N2.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  RW

Even though in this case a positive test was impossible.

Yep, the new Scamdemic H5N2.

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Heretic
Heretic
1 year ago

Well done to that Mexican Health Secretary Jorge Alcocer for telling the truth to the people, in defiance of the Marxist Ethiopian Terrorist still in charge of the World Health Organization.

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Ron Smith
Ron Smith
1 year ago
Reply to  Heretic

It seems to be going the way of Monkeypox, or should that be Moneypox.

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
1 year ago
Reply to  Ron Smith

Or even Monkeybollox.

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sskinner
sskinner
1 year ago

Considering humans have been interacting with just about all the animals on the planet for millennia and that we have migrated around and colonized all of the planet, why is it only recently that viruses decide to jump species?

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RW
RW
1 year ago
Reply to  sskinner

That’s because the human race has been infected with WHO roughly in the same way a certain Nostromo crew member got infected with alien lifeform. Periodic outbursts of pandemics WHO uses to sustain itself are the inevitable consequence.

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pjar
pjar
1 year ago
Reply to  sskinner

They’re doing ‘gain of function’ research which is apparently investigating how viruses might develop to jump species… having seen how that went with Covid, they’ve decided it couldn’t possibly go wrong again and are carrying on, with different viruses.

For geeks, they seem woefully ill-informed about a certain genre of sci-fi books and films!

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RTSC
RTSC
1 year ago

A pandemic of bullshit is my best guess.

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