Let’s look at two apparently unrelated events – the Battle of the Somme and the Florida Covid mRNA vaccinations. The first day of the Battle of the Somme, in northern France, was the bloodiest day in the history of the British Army and one of the most infamous days of World War One. On July 1st 1916, the British forces suffered 57,470 casualties, including 19,240 fatalities. They gained just three square miles of territory. In total the British suffered 419,654 casualties in the Battle of the Somme including 108,700 killed.
Now let’s look at the VAERS (Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System) results for Florida from 2006 to 2022. Here’s a chart:

As you’ll see, adverse events from all vaccines administered in Florida was always below 2,500 a year until the Covid vaccinations started, most of which in the U.S. were mRNA vaccines. In the first year of Covid vaccinations the number of adverse events shot up to over 40,000. The population of Florida is about 22 million. In Florida, 17,810,446 people or 83% of the state has received at least one dose. Overall, 14,971,549 people or 70% of Florida’s population are considered fully vaccinated. This suggests that about one in every 500 people vaccinated in 2021 reported an adverse event. In 2022 this fell to one in every 1,500 vaccinated. According to official estimates at least 1,000 people had to be vaccinated to avoid just one serious case of COVID-19 in the under-70s, rising to at least 10,000 in the under-50s. So the VAERS reports suggested the vaccines were doing more harm than the disease against which they were supposedly protecting people.
Of course, I realise that greater publicity of vaccine harms during the COVID-19 pandemic will have inflated the numbers of reports to the VAERS in 2021 and 2022. But nevertheless, the huge difference in VAERS reports between the years 2006-2020 and the years 2021 and 2022 is somewhat perturbing. In fact, it was so worrying that Florida’s State Surgeon General, Dr. Joseph Ladapo, called for doctors to stop recommending mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.
A basic managerial principle of any activity in most private-sector organisations is ‘Plan-Do-Review’. You plan an activity – a marketing campaign, a new product launch, a reorganisation or whatever – you implement the plan and then you constantly review progress to measure how well your project is performing and whether you need to make adjustments or even change course completely. That is what didn’t happen in the Battle of the Somme. The British top brass learnt nothing at all from the catastrophic losses on the first day and just kept on repeating the same failed tactics day after day, week after week. (As any Blackadder fan might remember, this was humorously exposed by Captain Blackadder when General Melchett planned to catch the Germans “off guard” by repeating an attacking tactic which had already failed 18 times with catastrophic losses every time.)
However, with the Florida vaccinations, a vaccinations plan was made and implemented and when the results were reviewed, the state Surgeon General realised that a change of course was necessary because the high level of VAERS reports indicated that there might be something fundamentally dangerous with the mRNA technology.
That brings us to what I suggest is the fundamental difference between most private sector organisations and the public sector (our politicians and bureaucrats). In the private sector, standard procedure is ‘Plan-Do-Review’. But with bureaucrats and politicians, they will never admit to having made a mistake and so, when things go wrong as they often do in life, the politicians and bureaucrats will never review the results and change course. Instead they double down on their approach and try to cover up any problems.
With the Covid mRNA vaccines, the Florida authorities acted more like a private sector organisation by using a ‘Plan-Do-Review’ strategy which led to them identifying a problem and changing course. However, in virtually every other part of the USA and in virtually every other country, when the vaccines were being shown to be possibly ineffective and in some cases even more dangerous than the disease against which they were being used, the politicians and bureaucrats chose to double down – recommending ever more mRNA vaccines and boosters – while trying to not investigate and even cover up the extent of mRNA vaccine damage.
The difference between much of the private sector’s ‘Plan-Do-Review’ approach and the public sector’s tendency to go for ‘Double-down and Cover-up’ might give some limited insight into why almost everything done by bureaucrats and politicians turns into a disaster.
This might also shed some light on why the obviously-failing machinations of the Net Zero fanatics like Ed Miliband will bankrupt many Western countries. The ‘global boiling’ zealots won’t ‘Plan-Do-Review’ and change course when their genius plans are clearly seen to hugely increase energy prices while leading to energy blackouts and thus causing de-industrialisation and economic collapse. Instead, the more the Net Zero plans fail, the more our rulers will double down and try to cover up their failure.
Happy times ahead?
David Craig is the author of There is No Climate Crisis, available as an e-book or paperback from Amazon.
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Re President Biden’s ban on LNG exports, it’s worse than “cynical”. Per House Speaker Johnson, President Biden when questioned by the Speaker denied that he did it! If not President Biden doing that, then who did it and why?
The ‘blob’ we are to assume?
Still, at least we can take some satisfaction in knowing that Kneel is going to make this country the world leader in unreliables. We will be cold, poor, hungry and immobile but just think of the accolades…
Yes if we try really hard and all make sacrifices (except for members of the cabinet, obviously), we might be able to reduce Britain’s greenhouse gas emissions from 0.8% to 0.4% of the world total!
….on second thoughts, with the rate that China and India are developing, we can probably achieve that relative reduction without even trying
Wealthy Chinese tourists coming to visit us a we shiver in our caves because we’re neither allowed to wear fur nor light a fire as this would upset the climate? I mean, a whole country, especially one in the northern hemisphere, going back to the Paleolithic so that “green billionaires” can brag about this accomplishment in their Caribbean resorts ought to be quite of a tourist attraction. A large open air zoo of cavemen without any desire to improve their lots through technological progress to avoid upsetting mother nature and her high-priests Dale Vince and Chris Packham.
Except this absurd Labour Government cannot possibly last till 2029. There are already signs that they will be forced to reverse some of the absurdity like forcing heat pumps on people at considerable expense, forcing us all into EV’s etc etc, because reality is a very hard enemy to defeat. And the reality is that you cannot run Industrial Society on wind and sun as the Germans are now finding out.
I think it would have been better to show GDP per capita on the graph as that would eliminate differences in population growth as a factor but a quick internet search suggests that US growth per capita has been shockingly higher than Europe.
GREEN = Control of the world’s wealth, resources and YOU.—- The United Nations Politics of Sustainable Development has decided that the lifestyles in the prosperous west are too high and must be reduced. Ofcourse that standard of living comes from the use of Fossil Fuels, and that is why they want rid of them. The tragedy for citizens all across the western world who do not have a Trump fighting for their prosperity means that the EU and UK and to some extent Canada, Australia etc all have these eco socialist governments determined to follow the Sustainable Development instructions from the UN. ——The good news is that in many countries now there is a fight back against this tyranny. In Germany where this stupid phony planet saving nonsense has created a collapse of the Industrial base people are fighting back and here in the UK our absurd Labour Government with its draconian climate agenda that is determined to impoverish its own citizens we now see the surge in support for REFORM, who are totally against this and have stated they will halt Net Zero. —–Perhaps with Trump leading the way all of this can be achieved, and the western world can return to the prosperity that the UN/WEF seek to destroy.
The AfD is currently polling at 20% which means a coalition excluding it can always be formed. It would need at least 51% to actually have a chance to govern and I’m not convinced that the establishment parties would let that happen, should it become possible. After all, it’s well-known that the most dangerous enemy of the DINO¹ is people with unfiltered opinions who might not vote as they’re supposed to.
¹ Democracy In Name Only.
Germany’s renunciation of nuclear power plants followed the tsunami overwhelming the Japanese nuclear plant. Here is a map of Germany’s nuclear industry (as was) Template:Germany nuke plant map – Wikipedia
Clearly, Merkel was terrified that tidal waves would overwhelm all these plants, four of the 26 being situated on the coast!
And of those as you say, 4 are off the coast in one of the most stable tectonic regions of the world as I understand it. This basically confirms the German decision was 100% ideological, and nothing to do with science at all as we know
But will someone who makes much of his income from EVs, Elon Musk, allow this to happen.
I think he’ll play the long game here – he isn’t that daft. Tesla cars will continue to sell and have a reasonably large user base, they suit certain limited use types, as do other EV’s