Brian Monteith’s article in the Scotsman, highlighted here on Monday, makes a good point. None of our political parties care to talk about lockdowns. None remind us of how fervently they supported masks, social distancing or the Rule of Six. The Tories don’t wish to remember how stringently they enforced futile strictures. Labour and SNP don’t care to recall how they demanded greater restrictions. You could be fined £6,400 for persistently not wearing a mask on a train. Or £10,000 for a birthday party. Remember? They have taken a vow of silence. Including, in the SNP’s case, about the notion of lopping six inches off schoolroom doors to blow the virus away.
This is understandable. In civvy street, it’s becoming hard to find anyone who still thinks that lockdowns were wise. Everyone sees the wreckage – of educations, mental health, livelihoods, the work ethic and healthcare. The NHS stumbles on, less productively than pre-pandemic, whilst facing a backlog of sicker folks with delayed diagnoses. Inflation has impoverished us and driven interest rates higher. These, in turn, cause vast losses on Government bonds that the Bank of England bought during lockdown’s Quantitative Easing. We, as taxpayers, are on the hook for the tab. Raised taxes will cover debt interest, not better public services.
Pro-lockdown views are becoming confined to fanatics, unable to grasp any wider horizon. One such lodged a ‘formal complaint’ against me after I asked a lockdown-critical question following her lecture at ESCMID Global in Barcelona, alleging ‘harassment and distress’. How can I ‘harass’ anyone with a single question, articulated in a minute? Only if I prick a mental bubble, maybe?
What’s more interesting, and Mr. Monteith fails to mention, is the equal omertà on Covid vaccines. Unlike lockdowns, sold as a painful necessity, vaccines were touted as great achievements by Boris Johnson, Matt Hancock, Rishi Sunak, the BMJ, and the press at large. The FT – no friend of Boris – wrote in February 2021 that vaccines gave the then PM a second chance. Ahead of the May 2021 council elections Keir Starmer opined that the vaccine rollout gave Boris a “very significant boost”. Developers and deployers received public honours.
As late as February 2023 the PM began his response to a Parliamentary Question (apropos a vaccine-injured constituent) by saying:
It is important to start by recognising the importance of vaccines in protecting us all, not least the fantastic roll-out of the Covid vaccines across the U.K.
Now, come the election, no candidate hails the vaccines or the rollout. Nary a word. This is odd, to say the least. This Government hasn’t much to crow about. So, you’d think it’d highlight what, three years ago, was hailed as a world-beating success? Is it an admission it has all gone sour?
The vaccines’ mediocre efficacy was evident by the summer of 2021, as people found themselves infected despite recent vaccination. Nevertheless, most people dutifully queued for a third shot, bamboozled by propaganda that this would do the trick. It didn’t. Omicron struck and vast numbers, vaccinated or not, were infected.
Fewer punters have presented for each subsequent shot, and mistrust has multiplied. The comments below any newspaper article on Covid vaccines are now predominantly negative. Among frontline healthcare workers only 30.2% received a Covid vaccine in the six months between September 2023 and February 2024, compared with 42.8% who accepted the flu vaccine; corresponding figures for workers in GP practices were 44.9% versus 61.8%. These figures tell much about professional scepticism especially as the comparator flu vaccine is only modestly effective and widely declined.
Had the Government stuck to its original plan of vaccinating only the over-50s and the vulnerable it’d be able to claim success. The ratio of deaths to infections fell after the early stages of the rollout. I, doubtless now annoying some readers, continue to believe that some benefit was achieved, though the age bar should have been higher.
But, instead of proclaiming limited victory, our leaders flipped to vaccinating everyone, regardless of age and risk and the Opposition asked no questions. Some readers will see a global conspiracy. Other countries did the same and mandated more aggressively. I think it more likely that our ruling cabal – Johnson, Gove, Hancock and Sunak, plus SAGE – dreamt they could surreptitiously achieve zero-Covid and be lauded as saviours. The vaccines had around 90% efficacy, they believed. So, if they vaccinated enough of us, the R number would slip decisively below one. SARS-CoV-2 would then die out.
As with Lawson shadowing the ERM, it didn’t quite work out. More-transmissible variants – Alpha, Delta and finally Omicron – kept nudging the winning post further away. Or, perhaps more correctly, mass vaccination kept favouring more transmissible variants, pushing the winning post further away. In response, the Government doubled down, vaccinating adolescents, then children, re-vaccinating those already vaccinated. And the virus kept a jump ahead. Finally, late in 2021, SARS-CoV-2 became Omicron and hit full gallop. The race ended.
In retrospect the response looks ever more foolish. Pushing ahead after it was plain – in mid-2021– that the vaccines were failing to stop transmission was like raising your bet after you’ve noticed your nag only has three legs. Worse, those who drove the strategy – and the Opposition who asked no questions – missed a key point. With vaccines, unlike drugs to treat the sick, the people you save cannot be identified whilst those harmed become very visible. This indicates a need for greater caution when developing a vaccine. Surely the JCVI reminded them?
Yet, the most-used vaccines were hurriedly-developed mRNA and DNA-vector products with novel modes of action. Their tissue distribution and side-effects were incompletely examined. They are clearer now. As Robert Redfield, a virologist who headed the CDC from 2018 to 2021 puts it:
When I give you an mRNA vaccine… I don’t know how much spike protein you make because I give you mRNA and then your body goes and makes it… You may make it for a week… You may make it for a month.
He adds that the spike protein is inherently toxic (it binds to heart cells, among other targets). And it comes to be made, sometimes for long periods, in parts of your body that a natural SARS-CoV-2 infection would never reach, not just at the respiratory mucosa.
It is beyond dispute that mRNA and DNA-vector COVID vaccines injured sizeable numbers of individuals, causing death, blot clots, myocarditis and Bell’s Palsy among other harms. Many of those harmed were too young to be at any real risk from Covid infection. They were vaccinated ‘for the greater good’, under policies supported by every U.K. political party. John Watt, a Scot with a cardiac injury, confronted Rishi Sunak about this on GB News last February. The PM responded by talking of the Vaccine Damage Payments Scheme and how it might need tweaking. But he avoided the core issue of why a 35-year-old (as Mr. Watt was in 2021) was vaccinated at all.
Perhaps it is the fear of individual confrontations like this that keeps our candidates off their ‘Great Achievement’? They’d have to admit that many younger folk risked harms for no personal benefit in an ill-judged failure to stop viral circulation. And continued to do so once the inevitability of failure was clear.
Or perhaps a bigger, niggling, fear haunts the political class, despite walkouts when Andrew Bridgen MP rises to speak? The vaccines may (or may not) be a factor in the persistent excess deaths that have followed the pandemic. Many of these are cardiac or circulatory – common settings for Covid-vaccine side effects. Any honest scientist, or interested citizen, must ask if there is a connection. There is also the issue of turbo cancers, highlighted here by Professor Angus Dalgleish. In Japan – the world’s most-vaccinated country – long-falling cancer rates turned upwards after booster deployment. Perhaps this is coincidental. Perhaps not. Again, questions must be asked. If one accepts that cancers arise repeatedly during our lifetimes, but mostly are aborted by the immune system, it is eminently plausible that a hazard arises when products perturb this system. And, genetic vaccines, particularly the mRNA products, cause numerous complex perturbations far beyond the simple induction of antibodies and T-cell responses seen with conventional protein and killed-pathogen vaccines.
I do not wish to scare-monger. Much of the evidence for wider (as against individual) harms is circumstantial. I am not yet convinced that these vaccines triggered excess deaths or will bring a spate of cancers. These may largely be contingent on incipient illnesses that were missed or untreated during lockdown. But I am convinced that the novel-vaccines-for-all policy of 2021-2022 was reckless and unwarranted. Its consequences need rigorous examination, as does the lack of Parliamentary scrutiny in which it took place. That is why I deplore the U.K. Covid Inquiry kicking its vaccines module into the long grass of 2025 and wholeheartedly welcome the People’s Vaccine Inquiry along with the BMJ’s brave decision to publish a paper asking awkward questions.
And it’s why I’d like to hear our candidates say something about their great vaccine rollout. Do they still think it was a good idea. Or a madness? All the major parties of the time backed it. If Reform becomes the next Government it says that it’ll have an inquiry into excess deaths and vaccine harms. Good for them. Do the Tories, Labour, Liberal Democrats, SNP et al. agree that this is needed? And urgently, given that boosting continues for the elderly and healthcare workers. Or do they still believe in the Great Achievement?
Dr. David Livermore is a retired Professor of Medical Microbiology at the University of East Anglia.
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So I know that anybody can post anything on Twitter and we’re usually none the wiser if it’s legit or not. But let’s just give this person ( writing to John O’Looney ) the benefit of the doubt and assume they’re genuine. This sounds truly horrendous, but just how common are such tragic events?
”Hello John,
I hope you don’t mind me making contact out of the blue but I would like to draw your attention to one more story of utter devastation.
I worked for the NHS for many years in a clinical role and, like so many of us, saw right through the covid scam from the first moment.i resigned and lost several roles for non compliance. But this is not a story about me.
I had just sent a FOI to our local hospital, asking for numbers of miscarriages and stillbirths that have occurred before and since ‘the jab’ and I am awaiting a response. I put this request in after hearing from my daughter, who is an FSO, after she heard the FD’s talking about collecting a stillborn baby from the maternity unit, and taking them, under police escort to another hospitals mortuary. After this, they were almost immediately called out again to the same maternity unit to collect stillborn twins.
My dsughters good friend was 36 weeks pregnant, and last Sunday, she fitted, arrested and was taken to hospital. The baby was born by C section and subsequently died a few days later, this was after the hospital asked the step-dad if he wanted them to try to save her life or do ‘comfort meadures’ , he opted for comfort and she died soon after treatment and support was withdrawn.
The mother, my daughters friend , was in a coma and ventilated, and yesterday was declared brain dead.
This is too awful to contemplate, the mother was 28, she was jabbed, we are not sure how many she had.
She is to be an organ donor, the coroner clearly does not feel that a perfectly healthy young woman with a normal pregnancy, who has died in this way, should have her death properly investigated. The baby did not have a post mortem either.
I cannot grasp the horror of the world we live in, that this can happen and not be investigated.
They turn off her life support tomorrow.
I’m sorry to burden you with this but I wonder if you have experience of any similar events.
This is an appalingly sad end to two beautiful lives just starting on their journey.
With all the very best regards and heartfelt thanks for all you have done and said in the last few years to highlight this carnage.
Cherry.”
https://x.com/OlooneyJohn/status/1803217909717578190
Also from our John…
Doctors and nurses have lost all credibility, as far as I’m concerned. Yes, I’ll have to take a gamble next time I might need to see one of them, and assume they know what they’re doing, but should another ‘scamdemic’ hit let’s see how quickly they all fall in line again and resume their roles as Nazi masktard enforcers and euthanasia protocol gestapo agents of death. Seriously. Well we all know how bloody militant they were over the face nappies, for starters!
”i have spoken to many doctors – online and face to face
They all openly admitted to me they know the vaccines are killing people – they have said this to my face and then they look at the floor, then change the subject (saying how lovely it is to see me) and leave.
You ought to see the look on their faces, it is mostly shame and horror that i know.
It’s the worst kept secret probably in history now as people die suddenly around us.
so why don’t they all speak out ?
Two reasons
The first if of course money.
They will be sacked and struck off by the GMC (ask sam white or mohammed adil) and it’s universally felt this GMC mafia is not fit for purpose (which is very telling).
A doctor is a well
paid job.
Imagine going home
to your million pound house and telling your wife you’ve lost it all because your unhappy with seeing your patients die due to vaccine injury
That’s what they face if they speak out – it’s happening right now to those that do.
Secondly
how long do you keep a secret before you are complicit in that crime ?
Is it a week, is it a month ?
Is it six months ? a year, three years ?
how long can you keep that secret and not be guilty of a crime ? what would society see as acceptable ?
as a direct result of the two above reasons these doctors now have the conviction of a japanese soldier now in ww2.
i believe we will need an amnesty for them to open up and whilst that isn’t what id call justice at all it will enable the truth to be told
whatever we believe about these vaccines – dont we all want the truth ?”
https://x.com/OlooneyJohn/status/1803351494768435453
An interview James Delingpole had with Dr Ahmad Malik was on the same lines regarding what Drs know and are hesitant to discuss.
https://rumble.com/v4r3t5t-dr-ahmad-malik.html
‘So I know that anybody can post anything on Twitter and we’re usually none the wiser if it’s legit or not. But let’s just give this person ( writing to John O’Looney ) the benefit of the doubt and assume they’re genuine.’
If you’re a sceptic, would it not be more sensible not to give the person the benefit of the doubt and not assume they’re genuine?
I would like to know which hospital this happened at, but I know that John has named Milton Keynes hospital as one that now organises still-born funerals without using any of the local funeral services. I have no reason to disbelieve him, he has the data and has shared it without identifying the bereaved.
Mogs, FSO? FD’s?
FD – Family Doctor?
FSO – Fire Safety Officer?
I’ve never heard those before either. It is a bit of a pet peeve of mine when people use acronyms and just assume everybody else knows what they mean.
I can only take a stab, going by the context, and say FSO=Family Support Officer and FD= Funeral Director. Just a guess though…
Just to add: I have no idea why you would need to transfer a stillborn baby under police escort. Very strange.
There are several possible answers to the FSO question, Family Support Officer is one I didn’t find when I searched but I did find Facility Security Officer and Financial Sustainability Office. Fire Safety Officer is another, but pretty unlikely to be involved with a neonatal death or stillbirth.
Thanks Mogs. I have explained my annoyance about unexplained acronyms more than once on DS.
I would trust John O’Looney’s reports every time. Let’s not forget, when they got him in hospital with alleged “covid” they tried to kill him with Remdesivir which was after he had exposed the calamari shots.
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The author asserts ‘I do not wish to scare-monger.Much of the evidence for wider (as against individual) harms is circumstantial.’ How many proven ‘individual harms’ merits a reclassification as ‘wider harms?’ This is simply disingenuous sophistry. Either 5h1t or get off the pot!
I agree.
Dr Livermore is either incredibly naiive or thinks it’s all down to cock-up. His case has more holes than a colander.
Having imposed the first lockdown in a fit of panic and climate of international groupthink, the Government discovered that it was very difficult to abandon as a policy because politicians would get the blame for every death that followed. Hence the messianic pursuit of vaccines, as these it was believed would give a way out from the nightmare of permanent lockdown. It became a case of ‘the answer is the vaccine, now what is the question?’. The Education and Health secretaries even issued veiled threats to parents to have their children vaccinated even though by then the inefficacy of them for children was well understood.
Only once omicron became endemic regardless of vaccine status did politicians abandon their faith in vaccines. Now the whole 2020-2021 debacle is too painful and embarrassing for them to even think about, never mind talk about.
Cock-up theory. Complete nonsense.
The state – it’d government and bureaucracy – are responsible for too many mishaps and bad mistakes. And the problem is that their actions impact thousands when not millions.
Regardless of whether one believes its cock up or nefariousness, how much of it must we endure before the population says “enough”, cuts back on funding am ever more.bloated state and return to themselves responsibility for their own lives?
How much closer do we need to get to life being like in a high security prison?
Abandon their faith in vaccines, when is this going to happen?
It might already be happening; whether the outcome is negative, who knows? No doubt there will be the usual annual sales job to encourage us to have jabs against the ‘flu, in the Autumn.
In civvy street, it’s becoming hard to find anyone who still thinks that lockdowns were wise.”…..BBC Five Live survey this morning had over 80% think ‘rule breakers’ should not be let off. Yes I know we’re talking about BBC kool Aid drinkers, but seems they have not left that Kool Aid waggon.
Apart from the sport, you have to be pretty dim top listen to Radio 5, staffed as it is by fools and very pleased with themselves nobodies.
It’s a case of “know your enemy” isn’t it? My wife says she only listens to Jeremy Vine to give me something to shout at.
I challenged Boris Johnson about the vaccine response in November 2020, see my email: Coronavirus vaccination – heading towards disaster with this ‘warp speed’ response?
I also asked Boris Johnson Were ‘leaky vaccines’ deliberately spread round the world? Considering the monkey trial… 22 March 2022.
‘I am not yet convinced that these vaccines triggered excess deaths or will bring a spate of cancers.’
I am convinced.
I don’t know anyone who died of, from or with Covid, or who suffered long-term damage after Covid, yet I know several people who have suffered serious adverse effects or have died directly linked to the Covid vaccines. Even a relative of mine who is an entirely conventional doctor, married to an entirely conventional doctor, who both got vaccinated and encouraged their patients to get vaccinated, is now (in private) blaming the Covid vaccines for deaths. She says these deaths are not coincidences.
If these reports were confined just to my personal experience, and therefore apparently very untypical, then perhaps my experience might be the exception, but many people all over the world are reporting the same thing:
In addition to the huge numbers of VAARS and UK Yellow Card reports, there are Rasmussen surveys:
According to polling in the USA in December by Rasmussen, a reputable polling company:
“68% of adults say they’ve gotten a COVID-19 vaccination…
…7% reported major side effects from the vaccine”
= 12 million Americans (not counting those who died)
And even the New York Times is now reporting that more than 13,000 serious vaccine injury claims have gone largely unaddressed:
“Thousands Believe Covid Vaccines Harmed Them. Is Anyone Listening?”
and:
“The Side Effects of Covid Vaccines
Thousands of Americans have filed vaccine-injury claims with the federal government.”
And that’s the New York Times!
Furthermore, if the vaccines are safe, why aren’t the health authorities open and transparent with the data which would prove that the vaccines are safe? But as The Daily Sceptic and Toby Young on Twitter reported in January:
“Reports on vaccine safety from Pfizer, obtained under FOI request, reveal concerning safety signals in a major U.K. primary care database, but the MHRA is refusing to release the data to the public.”
And now Kansas and other states in the USA are suing Pfizer. From The Daily Mail:
“In a lawsuit filed Monday, AG Kris Kobach accused the New York-based pharmaceuticals giant of downplaying the risks associated with the jab and making unsubstantiated claims about its effectiveness.“
And are we all imagining fit and healthy young sports players collapsing and dying suddenly like never before?
All of these reports didn’t somehow arise from vaccines that are safe.
Though maybe the excess deaths – which the BBC denies exist – and the massive increase in the number of working-age people too unwell to work are all due to climate change? Yes that’s a much more plausible explanation than due to rushed experimental vaccines, I don’t think!
Links:
Rasmussen Reports:
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/lifestyle/covid_19/concerns_about_covid_19_vaccines_remain_high
New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/health/covid-vaccines-side-effects.html
Daily Sceptic:
https://dailysceptic.org/2024/01/20/concerning-safety-signals-revealed-by-hidden-pfizer-vaccine-report/
Daily Mail:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13542687/Kansas-AG-sues-Pfizer-claiming-misled-Americans-COVID-19-vaccine-marketing.html
“I am not yet convinced that these vaccines triggered excess deaths…”
You will never be convinced, Dr Livermore. Nor will I. But there will come a time, as it did for me some years ago, when you will need to prefix a sentence with the phrase, “beyond all reasonable doubt…”
” In civvy street, it’s becoming hard to find anyone who still thinks that lockdowns were wise.”
Not one single person with whom I spoke during “covid”, making clear my views, has since said “ToF, you were right”. Not a single one. Wasters, the lot of them.
” Much of the evidence for wider (as against individual) harms is circumstantial. I am not yet convinced that these vaccines triggered excess deaths or will bring a spate of cancers.”
Well, sorry, I simply reject this. My experience is that 2 people of my acquaintance may have died of Covid ( one was a 96 year old neighbour who died of infection caught in hospital, the other an old friend with Alzheimers who perished in a nursing home ) On the other side of the scales are now 15, including 2 family members who died of cardiac illness or turbo cancer. These cardiac deaths were within hours and days of receiving a vaccine/booster. The turbo cancers were 10 days to 2 months from diagnosis to death.
Such a shame that articles such as this have only just come to light. Lol only 3 years old.
I’m not a medic or a vaccinologist nor a genetic engineer but I knew the bloody things were dangerous. Just a bit of thought helps.
Not safe, not effective (unless one means their toxicity) and our rulers effectively manadated them,
May they all rot in hell.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027869152200206X
Yet, the most-used vaccines were hurriedly-developed mRNA and DNA-vector products with novel modes of action. Their tissue distribution and side-effects were incompletely examined … He adds that the spike protein is inherently toxic … It is beyond dispute that mRNA and DNA-vector COVID vaccines injured sizeable numbers of individuals, causing death, blot clots, myocarditis and Bell’s Palsy among other harms. Many of those harmed were too young to be at any real risk from Covid infection.
An amazing collection of statements which prompts the question, why were so many doctors all over the world happy to inject these inadequately tested materials into millions of arms?
In 2020, it was easy to confirm on the internet that a vaccine normally requires 10 to 15 years to develop and test. The Covid ‘vaccines’ were supposedly generated within a few months and still almost every GP around the world was happy to inject them without hesitation in all those patients’ arms. There were, of course, doctors who questioned health authorities and many had their licences revoked while the vast majority of their colleagues in the medical world looked on and said nothing.
And what is Covid supposed to be? Mortality statistics clearly show there was a significant rise in deaths around March/April 2020 after WHO’s announcement of a pandemic in some European countries, whereas in others there was no such increase at all! That is surely clear proof there was no fatal infectious disease, since otherwise all neighbouring countries would be equally affected.
There were only differing reactions accorded to WHO’s announcement by the various governments, whereby eventually everyone started emptying or restricting access to hospitals. What a disgraceful thing to do.
A shared silence isn’t difficult to understand given the large number of people that took it. If you took it would you really want to consider the damage that it might be doing to you. Would you even acknowledge a deterioration in health which clearly came about through the spike. Of course not because for one thing you would be anxious about your health in the future. You would rather put your hands over your ears and say you don’t want to hear it. And they all took it right to the top. There is no point trying to engage in a rational persuasion game because they know already and it is their worst nightmare to acknowledge it.There is no mental stratagem that thay can employ given their behaviour and that is exactly where we want them, essentially checkmated imbeciles and full of fear.
Dr Livermore suggests he is not certain that vaccines caused either unexplained deaths or turbo cancers. This is because the evidence, though strong, is mainly circumstantial. The case needs to be proved beyond reasonable doubt. So a proper investigation is not only warranted, but essential, as he suggests.
This is a clear expression of scientific method. It is a rational, unemotional proposal. What I fail to understand is why no one in politics’ main parties will commit to this.
I suspect because they already know the answer and they don’t want the sheeple to know it. They still think they can keep the lid on the abuse they carried out.
the Biggest weapon of Propaganda that these creatures ( disguised as politicians ) have at their disposal against the People, is the BBC & ITV
Excellent article David. I’m never sure whether it was all a cock up or conspiracy. I am persuaded by the latter. Only a powerful propaganda machine could have persuaded the bulk of the medical profession to deny their training and accept a ” new science” which went against the basic tenets of clinical medicine. Virology, immunology, epidemiology were all trashed. Those offering a different opinion were villifed no matter how eminent!