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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