Propaganda narratives shift slowly over time to absorb aspects of undeniable reality, whilst minimising damage to the interests of those benefiting from the big lie.
First, the Covid vaccines were safe and effective, and we were set to experience a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Get vaccinated to protect your community!
Next, the shots were safe and effective, but with rare side-effects, mostly mild. Still, the benefits outweighed the risks. Get vaccinated to protect your healthcare system!
In the latest narrative update, experts say all the shots except AstraZeneca’s are safe and effective, and they admit that vaccine injuries can be life-ruining, though still very rare. But Covid is worse. Get vaccinated to protect against Long Covid!
In an ‘After Covid’ Spotlight special on commercial media channel 7NEWS over the weekend, a panel of experts reflected on Australia’s Covid response. Tellingly, vaccine safety (or rather, lack thereof) occupied 17 out of a total 53 minutes, more than a quarter of the airtime.
Highlights:
- The parents of 34-year-old Katie Lees, who died from the AstraZeneca shot, told Katie’s story and said they’ve still received no acknowledgement or apology from anyone in charge.
- Dr. Kerryn Phelps, former head of the Australian Medical Association (AMA), discussed her Pfizer injury and said “There is an incredible lack of medical curiosity about investigating [Covid vaccine injuries]” and that the roughly 140,000 injury reports on the national safety surveillance database (the DAEN) are a “drop in the ocean compared to the number of actual adverse reactions that there are… because a lot of them aren’t being reported, because certainly in the early days they weren’t being recognised”.
- Jackie Stricker-Phelps (Kerryn’s wife) said the Pfizer shot “has ruined my life” and that even if she could take another vaccine, which she now can’t, “I wouldn’t go near them with a 10-foot barge pole”. She added that “the compensation scheme is hopeless”, only covering a narrow selection of injuries.
- An audience member said she “fundamentally got long haul Covid from the vaccine” which caused her to be “pretty much bed bound for two and a half years”, and asked “when will there… be a proper acknowledgment by the Government as to actual vaccine injury?”
- Another audience member asked why there is no large scale study of the Australian population comparing immune responses of unvaccinated people against people who have had one, two, three and more doses. “We have a society that is chronically ill.. and it is not the unvaccinated,” she said.
- Friend of the blog Alison Bevege criticised a panelist’s assertion that data collection from the the mass worldwide rollout hasn’t turned up any usual side-effects. “You’re not collecting the data in a controlled manner, that’s not a test, that’s just giving it to everybody.”
- After panelists told concerned audience members they were wrong, emphasising Covid vaccine safety and effectiveness, an audience member yelled out, “they’re not safe and they’re not effective”.
- Host Michael Usher said “with vaccinations rushed through there was no time to properly test.. and that led to ongoing health problems for some people who got the jab”, before revealing that of the roughly 140,000 adverse events reported to the national safety surveillance database in relation to Covid vaccines, 22,000 were classified as serious. He also said “we were all forced to get the jab”.
As an Australian, I cannot overstate the significance of this much airtime being dedicated to criticism of Covid vaccines on mainstream TV.
In the first year of the Covid vaccine rollout, only a single media story was published on the vaccine injury experience of Australians, despite 117,147 adverse events and 777 deaths being reported to the national safety surveillance database during that time.
News.com.au ran the first personal vaccine injury story in November 2021, but it wasn’t until Dr. Phelps went public with her own Covid vaccine injury in December 2022 that the issue gained wider coverage.
Dr. Phelps claimed that the medical regulator AHPRA had “censored public discussion about adverse events following immunisation, with threats to doctors not to make any public statements about anything that ‘might undermine the Government’s vaccine rollout’ or risk suspension or loss of their regulation”.
Indeed, doctors and healthcare workers were investigated and even suspended for expressing concerns over Covid vaccine safety and for issuing medical exemptions, creating a culture of fear and silence in the medical profession.
In the toxic silence around Covid vaccine injuries, many injured Australians found there was no help and no support available. I personally interviewed scores of Australians seriously injured by the Covid shots for archive project Jab Injuries Australia. Many of the injured reported being gaslit by doctors, socially shunned as ‘anti-vaxxers’ despite having rolled up their sleeves in the first place, and unable to access compensation to cover medical expenses and loss of income.
Total media silence on the issue at first, and then the odd “sad but exceedingly rare” story two years too late exacerbated the sense of abandonment and betrayal felt by scores of Covid vaccine-injured Australians. (Not to mention that anyone who publicly expressed hesitation about the safety of the Covid vaccines was smeared in the media as an “anti-vaxxer“.)
Fast forward to mid-2024, and AstraZeneca’s Covid vaccine has been withdrawn worldwide following the company’s admission that the vaccine can cause fatal blood clots. There are now thousands of peer-reviewed studies documenting Covid vaccine harm. An article recently published in Australia’s major journal for GPs suggested that Covid vaccinations may also be a secondary cause of Long Covid (known as “Long Vax”).
Though the average citizen may not read peer-reviewed journals, a good many no longer buy the safe and effective narrative. In Australia, fewer than 10% are ‘up-to-date’ with Covid vaccinations. In the US, a recent survey found that a quarter of those who had had the Covid shots regretted it. A fifth say they know someone who experienced a severe health problem after Covid vaccination, and over half of Americans believe the jabs may be causing unexplained deaths.
And so the narrative shifts. Just as all the people who got the jabs “to protect the community” catching Covid multiple times necessitated a pivot to focus on protecting the healthcare system instead, the sheer number of people still suffering health problems after Covid vaccination necessitates that the ‘safe and effective’ narrative be updated.
Now, a little bit of vaccine regret is allowed on the news. You’re allowed to say the shots ruined your life and that you’d like an apology.
But not without a side of gaslighting.
On the 7NEWS special, the gaslighting was served by panelists: Professor Robert Booy, a vaccinology, epidemiology and infectious diseases specialist; Associate Professor Sanjaya Senanayake, a doctor and infectious diseases specialist; and former Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.
Also on the panel was UNSW Economics Professor Gigi Foster, who publicly and consistently called for the panic to be dialled down and for governments to make rational decisions during the height of the Covid response.
When she wasn’t speaking, Foster’s face said it all, such as this clip in which former Queensland (QLD) Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk justified trampling civil liberties over a virus with an IFR of 0.04%. Foster’s cost-benefit analysis of Australia’s Covid lockdowns found they cost at least 68 times more than the benefits delivered.
Both Booy and Senanayake repeatedly downplayed the harms of the Covid vaccines.
Booy is the former Head of the Clinical Research team at the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS) and currently serves on the Therapeutic Goods Administration’s (TGA) Australian Influenza Vaccine Committee. He insisted that the TGA hasn’t ignored Covid vaccine side-effects and has done the necessary research to follow up on potential harms.
“I totally encourage anyone who’s had a vaccine and they’ve had a side-effect, to report it. We will look at it closely, and we’ll collate the information, and we’ll examine it.”
It’s hard to know how to respond when someone that high up the chain is so detached from the reality experienced by people on the ground and in the studio audience.
Every Covid vaccine injured person I’ve ever spoken to says that the TGA has done zero follow up after confirming the initial report. The TGA has no idea how many of the more than 140,000 adverse events reported in relation to Covid vaccines are causally linked, and is not trying to find out.
The regulator has ignored safety signals, won’t release batch testing results and hid post-vaccine deaths of children from the FOI public disclosure log because disclosure “could undermine public confidence”. Sure, the TGA has conducted follow-up and research on a handful of safety signals, but nothing close to addressing the full scope of harms suffered by Australians as a result of the mass rollout.
Worse, the TGA never withdrew approval for the the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine, despite admitting that it killed 13 Australians. This is an outrageous even by the TGA’s own standard. In 2010, the TGA withdrew a flu vaccine after after 25 febrile convulsions were reported and no deaths.
When an audience member asked why longitudinal testing comparing the immune systems and response of the unvaccinated to the vaccinated by dose rate isn’t being done, Booy said “you’re wrong”. That’s half true. Small studies with limited findings exist. But the only large project of this nature, called QoVax, was defunded by the Queensland Government last year with no explanation, and Queensland Health has refused my numerous requests for further information.
Palaszczuk, who mostly repeated variations of “it was so hard but we did what we had to do” got off scot-free for her Government’s coercive vaccine mandates, lies about vaccine efficacy and bullying of the unvaccinated – none of this was probed in the special.
Of all the experts, Foster seemed most in tune with the audience. As the tension between the audience and panellists became palpable (even to those viewing at home), Foster told the panel:
I think that what we’re seeing here is a symptom of a modern problem that we have, with people who are often making decisions, in positions of authority, trying to do the right thing – I think, usually – very separated from the people on the street.
And the people on the street are getting their information from sources other than the mainstream news, other than the health head of the department… other than mainstream peer-reviewed journals. They’re getting information from a lot of independent media, from a lot of independent scholars, some of whom are extremely good.
And I would very strongly recommend that you guys have a look at non-mainstream sources of information. You may discover something.
In one of the most gaslighty moments of the segment, Senanayake immediately followed with, “One of the major things that the WHO has said to continue doing with Covid is to look at disinformation and address it”.
Later, the restless audience heckled when Senanayake said that he thought vaccines were the reason we have freedom to travel and do fun things. He doubled down, “We will have another pandemic and we need the public on board. They need to have faith in the Government’s surveillance systems.”
These experts seem to think that beating people over the head with “safe and effective” and blocking access to independent sources of information will achieve that.
Foster’s closing remark was the only one that got a round of applause from the audience.
“What we have learned is that people in a lot of power in an emergency will abuse that power. We need to find ways in our democratic societies to return power to the people,” she said.
The platforming of Covid vaccine (and mandate) criticism on 7NEWS over the weekend is not in isolation. Last month, a conservative mainstream journalist called for a “major apology” for Covid vaccine mandates, and the Australian reported that millions of Americans regret taking the shots. In May, the New York Times finally acknowledged that the Covid vaccine injured are are “just completely ignored and dismissed and gaslighted”.
The good news is that these narrative adjustments may make it easier for the Covid vaccine-injured to access medical, social and financial support. People will increasingly find opportunities to share about their injuries and express vaccine regret openly.
The bad news is that just like Joe Biden’s Presidential candidacy, the big lie stumbles on, propped up by experts and stakeholders who either stand to gain from it, or are so out of touch that they can’t see the wood for the trees.
Stop Press: Leaked audio of cut material reveals the Spotlight studio audience’s anger over Covid vaccine harms.
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Despite all of this, it’s still possible to talk to some person well below thirty on one evening and on the next, he’s wearing a really military-grade-looking (paper) face mask to protect him from something (bar staff at Spoons pub in Reading). 🙁
Must be something nasty in the kitchen to justify that!
I suspect that the kitchen serves as hangout for vanished bar staff and that he’s very likely not wearing it there.
Also from Reading. Is that the Hope Tap?
Yes.
It’s ‘Our Wonderful NHS’, if you please.
‘The envy of the world’ don’t you know?
I wish it were true, but I’m not seeing this grand public awakening. The only real acknowledgement I encounter is people openly stating they’re not taking any more jabs and a clear reluctance to go any further than that in the thought process.
The awakening is here though. Don’t underestimate the fact that this seemingly subtle acknowledgment up on the surface of the conscious mind is accompanied by a turbulent rearrangement down below, in the unconscious, where the real ‘belief making’ takes place.
As for the seeming reluctance to go any further, it is only natural. As a species we are hard-wired to avoid pain. And we sceptics are asking people to willingly inflict pain upon themselves, by facing up to the psychopathy that has engulfed us.
As Desmet has said, keep banging on about it. Persevere. Again, and again, and then some more. Fight the good fight. Truth is a manifestation of Light and has a wider spiritual redeeming purpose that makes life worth living.
And a lot of people cannot handle cognitive dissonance
I know an awful lot of people who have JRS (Jab Remorse Syndrome) and have woken up to the tyranny that’s being thrust upon us. Others say they wont have anymore but as soon as the global digital ID /Vax Passport is rolled out and you will need updated lethal injections in order to travel then these second cohorts will
crumble and revert to type aka pin cushions for Big Pharma.
I’m taking the word ‘hidden’ as a verb in that sentence. People in positions of authority must be held to account for what they did and an example made to ensure it can never happen again.
I revel in being right. Right about the LDs, Right about the dead, wounded, injured and psychologically, physically scarred from the LDs. Right about the Poisons. Right about the millions of stabbed dead and injured. Right about the Diapers. Right about the scamdemic. Right about Digital IDs. Right about losing our freedoms, free speech, our jobs, our families, our sanity, our travel, our civilisation. I remind everyone all the time I was right. What Rona taught all of us is that 80% of the pop are stupid, or compliant, or cowardly, or fascistic, or all the aforementioned.
Yes, just like my attitude to it all. What it does demonstrate is how vulnerable society is to the methods used to encourage people to fall in line. A bit like 1930’s Germany in spades, perhaps.
I certainly agree with 99% of your post. I disagree with:
“I revel in being right.”
There is nothing to revel about. What I feel is a terrible sadness at the evil that has been unleashed on the world. Instead of seeking to murder, constrain and control millions why could not decency and a genuine desire to improve the futures of our fellows be followed?
What corrupted mayhem must infect the minds of the psychos who will if they succeed destroy not just humanity but our planet? And all “For a Few Dollars More.”
The dystopian miseries that a reset will bring forward will affect the “victors” too, a bit like a child whose every wish is met at Christmas and by day’s end is so bored that he seeks solace in the discarded wrappings his presents arrived in. They too will become frustrated and bored as the realisation that every whim can be met by nothing more than touching a screen. Where is the joy in that?
Attempting to remodel humanity can only fail. The desire for love, for friendship, for company will always win out. These are hard-wired. And family; the evil attempts to undermine and destroy families will never succeed, this need is part of our birthright. It is doomed to failure.
There is going to be a reset alright but it is our duty to ensure that the evil doers amongst us are wiped from the earth and we must strive to replace their evil with the decency, goodness, compassion and fairness which really is inherent in the majority.
There is one hell of a fight before us.
There is a fight for the soul of humanity. These obsessed geneticists splicing and dicing our DNA have one goal in mind and that is to disconnect our consciousness from our physical bodies. They have no idea what they’re doing and only think of humans as hackable biological entities they can play around with in order to edit out our genetic imperfections.
https.globe.globe/category/consciousness-and-evolution/
Exactly. Seeking to literally digitise the human brain is hubris combined with grotesque ignorance on steroids.
I agree HP. My wife keeps saying to anyone who will listen that I was right from the 2nd day of lockdown when I wrote a 2ft long email to my Tory MP and set out what would happen if we locked down. I then emailed him every 5 days for a year putting him right – mostly from the now Daily Sceptic.
He may not have read it all but he certainly was left in doubt that his support for the Government’s actions was wrong and counter productive and would create a financial burden for the UK.
My next goal for the rest of my life – I am 75 – is to fight Net Zero and the cognitive dissonance that is rampant in the general public and the Green supporters.
Thank you.
Yes. Next up:
These jabs are killing millions of people some quickly, some slowly….
Yep, I’m sure you’ve heard of Dr Ryan Cole? I started following him early on in this scamdemic.
Ever wondered why not everyone is injured or dies from the Covid shots? This 2 min video embedded in this article explains why.
https://expose-news.com/2022/12/14/ryan-cole-gives-his-insights-into-covid-vaccines/
Well at least discovery is speeding up. Over in the climate nonsense world someone posted this, from 2010
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/03/08/the-logarithmic-effect-of-carbon-dioxide/
noting Willis Eschenbach pointing out that co2 warming effect, being logarithmic, fades (or becomes saturated, as Will Happer now details).
Comments include a chap mentioning Richard Lindzen noting that the co2/water vapour feedback loop was nothing more than a theory in IPCC-1…back in 1990.
The money force is strong in this one.
I am a big fan of Willis Eschenbach. His article about the Diamond Princess cruise ship convinced me in March 2020 that the chances of me dying from Covid (as a healthy 58 yeard old at the time) were slim.
This has all the signs of being a snowball rolling down an Alpine hill.
Let’s hope so. And line up all our recently ennobled Heroes Of The Corona in the valley below.
You need to review the data in Table 3. You’re using the wrong denominator. To get the correct figures for the “Likelihood of dying with/from Covid” the appropriate denominators would be the number of people in each cohort with and without a pre-existing condition, not the total number of people in the cohort. (I have no idea where you would get those denomiator figures though)
What you are currently showing is “the chance of (having and pre-condition) AND (dying with/from Covid)” which is not a very helpful number. What you imply, wrongly, to have shown is “the chance of dying with/from Covid given that you have (or do not have) a pre-existing condition”. Using the correct denominator would make the changes of dying given a pre-existing condition substantially higher, and the chances of dying without a pre-existing condition only slightly higher. I would expect the ratio in the final column then to be much higher (particularly in the younger age groups).
I’m finding people are trying to ignore what went on. They are not willing to admit they’ve been hoodwinked. It will be interesting at Christmas as I will be meeting my step-son-in-law for the first time since we had a bust up back in Autumn 2021 when he refused to let me into his father’s house because I wasn’t jabbed. We haven’t spoken since that day. The rest of that family are total Covidians apart from my Partner. I suspect the gargantuan elephant in the room will be ignored unless….
‘ “I told you so!” Don’t tell me there isn’t a slight pleasure in that? ‘
I disagree. It’s not slight… it’s huge and glorious! 😄
It would be interesting to see the same analysis for deaths from influenza and other respiratory infections. I would suggest likely the same, deaths skewed to the elderly with comorbidity.
So CoV 2 was in fact Just Another Respiratory Virus.
197 000 deaths from ‘flu and pneumonia to date since January 2020, just about the same as alleged CoVid deaths, yet not a number you see published.
Source: https://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/selected-deaths-vs-covid-19-united-kingdom