Does anyone still recall the excitement in late 2020 when the vaccines against COVID-19 were finally in sight? The trial results were excellent, promising an end to the pandemic in 2021. The main worry was the availability of the vaccines and of course equitable distribution between countries.
I believed in the narrative myself, even if scientists I know and trust had voiced doubts about the vaccines’ effectiveness against infection I saw no reason not to believe the trial results. In early 2021, when worries arose regarding vaccine sourcing for the Icelandic population, I even took part in an attempt to have one of the manufacturers arrange a population-wide trial in Iceland, similar to what Pfizer did in Israel. Today I’m very glad we didn’t succeed.
Soon it will be two years since the trial results were out. The virus still ravages the world, though it may have become less deadly. Data on infection, hospitalisation and mortality already show vaccination not only failing to prevent those, but in some cases being counterproductive. In short, the vaccines have failed to deliver what we were promised. And even worse, the skyrocketing rate of side effects may mean that for most people vaccination makes no or little sense.
Still, it is for the most part forbidden to discuss this fact. For example, LinkedIn, the world’s largest online professional community, explicitly forbids content that draws attention to potential harms from the vaccines or how they may be counterproductive. The policies of Facebook and Twitter seem to be largely consistent with this.
As an example, it is forbidden to say COVID-19 vaccines may cause death, even if a quick search on the internet shows confirmed cases where there is no doubt about the causality. It is forbidden also to share evidence showing higher infection rates among the vaccinated than the unvaccinated.
It will therefore be interesting to see how those platforms will react to those who share the results of a new research letter published on August 3rd in Jama Network Open. The letter describes the result of a study which monitored for reinfection all Icelanders previously infected, during the Omicron wave, between December 1st 2021 and February 22nd 2022. The study shows a probability of reinfection of up to 15.1% among 18-29 year-olds, declining with age. Reinfection is not surprising considering the reinfection rates seen around the world after the appearance of Omicron, though the authors expected a lower rate.
But the most interesting part is the comparison by vaccination status. It shows that for most age groups, those who have received two doses or more are more likely to become reinfected than those who have received no vaccination or one dose. The difference is small, but it is statistically significant. In the authors’ own words: “Surprisingly, two or more doses of vaccine were associated with a slightly higher probability of reinfection compared with one dose or less.”
This article was first published on Thorsteinn Siglaugsson’s Substack newsletter, From Symptoms to Causes. You can subscribe here.
Postscript: It has been pointed out that the authors of the study referred to in the above article have included the following health warning about their results which Thorsteinn Siglaugsson omitted: “This finding should be interpreted with caution because of limitations of our study, which include the inability to adjust for the complex relationships among prior infection, vaccine eligibility, and underlying conditions. Importantly, by December 1st, 2021, all persons aged 12 years and older were eligible for two or more vaccine doses free of charge, and 71.1% of the Icelandic population had been vaccinated, compared with only 25.5% of our cohort of previously infected persons.”
In Thorsteinn Siglaugsson’s defence, the significance of the facts referred to in the health warning is unclear. Why should the fact that the previously infected have a different vaccination rate to the general population make any difference to the finding that the reinfection rate is higher in the 2+ dose vaccinated compared to the one or less dose group? After all, all those in the study have been previously infected, so there is no need to control for previous infection rates.
The sentences are also somewhat misleading in that they draw attention to the overall Icelandic vaccination rate of 71.1% and compare it to the vaccination rate in the previously infected of 25.5%, without pointing out that those two groups are likely to differ considerably in age profile and other factors. There’s also the question of why the authors don’t provide the single-dosed rates separately to the unvaccinated rates, when they clearly had access to the data.
Note also that the study’s description of two or more doses of vaccine being associated with a “slightly” higher probability of reinfection compared with one dose or less is misleading as the study actually found it was 42% higher (CI 13-78%), which is hardly slight. The authors appear to be playing down their findings in relation to vaccination status (perhaps under pressure from the journal editors), so we would not necessarily want to repeat the misleading or confusing claims they make.
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A long an extremely detailed article around Bovaer in which by the way Billy owns 1,000,000 shares, purchased this Summer. As might be expected it is such a complicated chemical mixture that the only certainty is that it is definitely not safe for human consumption.
https://www.ukcolumn.org/article/is-bovaer-safe-and-effective
In conclusion
We may argue that some of the negative effects may not happen because they are dose dependent but we simply don’t know what that effect will be in the long term on humans.
Even at doses approaching normal usage of Bovaer, animal studies demonstrated risk, including a potential to cause cancer with tumour formation. And let’s not forget the FDA’s warning of harm to fertility.
And if serious harm is caused down the line from this product, how will we know without long term studies? How would someone know if the cancer they got came from some milk they drank?
I’ll end with a reply from one of the main UK food retailers:
M&S reply – this is embedded at the bottom of the article.
“And let’s not forget the FDA’s warning of harm to fertility.” Billy never misses a chance to harm fertility.
Absolutely.
Yep it’s Gates and Fink’s Blackrock. But we seemingly don’t have a shortage of these globalist, power-mad, megalomaniac men attempting to screw us over and cause us harm everywhere we turn, do we?
”So as we revealed King Charles pays for Arla Milk to go to Breakfast Clubs in England.
Yet the Royal Family and all their chidlren have always drank RAW MILK, not pasteurised or UHT garbage.
Yet they gladly have the plebs drinking Bovaer fed SLOP!”
https://x.com/UnityNewsNet/status/1864644775866929423
https://x.com/UnityNewsNet/status/1864677777988899231
What a firkin surprise
And on the topic of being off-topic, this seems quite a whopping sum of money;
”Following social media reports, I have had this astonishing figure confirmed to be true by the DWP.
In 2023 “the total amount of Universal Credit paid to households where one or both claimants were refugees was £726M.”
Speechless.
We are being taken for fools.”
Top comment. People should be beyond livid when they read info such as this. What a smack in the face this is;
”I’m a pensioner who’s had their winter fuel payments stopped. I worked full time for over 45 years. I get a small private pension and still pay tax.
I’m incandescent with rage my tax is going to ‘refugees’ instead of homeless British people.”
https://x.com/RupertLowe10/status/1864703363725549909
Avoid Bovaer, make sure your mp’s know what this gov’t is up to approving unsafe drugs in your food supply.
As an “economist” Rachel Thieves would have known prior to presenting this budget that the above out comes would be unavoidable and if she didn’t her advisers would have. It must take an awful lot of lucre to buy someone’s soul so comprehesively. Thick-skinned isn’t the half of it. This woman will be remembered as the most incompetent Chancellor in this nation’s history. Of course she is not being incompetent simply acting under orders but for whatever time she has left on this planet she has one hell of a cross to bear.
Some bravery!
Do you really think she has advisers who would know that. I am doubtful. The last lot didn’t have economists to advise them who knew anything other than Keynes.
Socialists don’t do economics.
I love how the photos of her become ever more horrific as if her essence is slowly being distilled. The one above is on the Myra Hindley spectrum. Malevolent imbeciles feeling all cushy and sushi and safe, there overwhelming victory based upon nothing but despair with ther ghoulish predessors.. In terms of money I would say now is a time to buy anything that you might need for at least a year. It becomes expensive if you think beyond that. I am not someone who is into prepping and stocking up on things but I have had a strong impulse to do so over the last few months because there are now so many potential causes of serious shortages. Any one of these is bad enough. And don’t think that there is any hope of replacing these chancers wih philosoper kings.
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Sadiq Khan to receive a knighthood in the new years honours list!
Talk about rubbing it in
A pox on all their houses.
What’s one more globalist man rewarding yet another globalist man? It’s a big club, Dings, and we ain’t in it. Meanwhile, this here is the Met police apparently. I actually thought this might be parody, but then I remembered it’s a criminal offence to impersonate a police officer so it’s presumably legit. They just looked like they were going to do the whole ”You can leave your hat on”, Full Monty routine at some point;
https://x.com/TheNorfolkLion/status/1863823396267557259
Words fail.
There is a school of thought that says that you get the government you deserve and there is some truth to this but this is another level. It is marked out quite clearly by their complete lack of self-awareness. They get interviewed about dubious donors and they give the impression that they are affronted by any suggestion or notion that they are doing anything wrong. I suppose given our acquiescence up until the present they are simply assuming that it will always be thus.
Something in passing.
As the economy tanks I wonder when National Trust properties announce their fire
sales.
I expect the NT will soon be putting the illegals into their historic houses and letting them turn the land into the shitholes they have just left.
This isnt the only NI raid thats going to happen though is it.. More of the same next Autumn has been reported.
I speak to alot of small business owners, and its not good, im fortunate that my small business turns a net profit margin of 85% so i took it on the chin, but just how much more is going to be erroded by these Marxists before their term is up…
And more importantly where is the right of centre party in the UK… Having Farage is nothing to rely on… Where is the long term political future apposed to Starmer…. Im seriously concerned because i just dont see it…
Posted previously but worth re posting..
This is interesting, Dominic Cummings – “The UK is run by The Deep State”….”The cabinet is just staged theatre”….
The truth is slowing coming out, never be fully out as to who exactly The Deep State is however..
https://youtu.be/zEnLI0eD-9k?si=0UiGZhj6kVqN0JRs
Reform seem to be morphing into a centrist party at the moment.
No thought goes into it. The very discipline of economics, its etymology can be seen as the efficient running of a household. That means you think about everything and its consequences. The fact that they haven’t even been aksed to do this as if it doesn’t matter – my guess is that they know that the Bretton Woods deal is going to go up in smoke soon and so there is no point in their minds about thinking about intelligent economics because the whole shebang will be lucky to make it until the end of the year. And bear in mind that they, the cabal, live by a simple slogan – inflate or die. The next step involves bringing about inflationary pressures so dangerous that the Anglo-Americans simply wouldn’t survive it. Not all empires are like the slow lugubrious decline of the Ottomans. In our time they go down in seconds.
Drink the vinegar from my bitter dug because vinegar assuages thirst and you will need plenty of that. As a man you need to learn when titties mean vinegar, if you haven’t already done so.
Two weeks time it will be missiles against British interests. Two weeks after that it will be missiles on the British Isles albeit with a half an hour warning. They aren’t telling you anything about the ladder of escalation that they have planned and are anticipating. In some countries they have underground shelters and supplies for the whole population. That is not the case in England. Might be worth thinking about – how defence from a major attack exists only for government and council officials. Gives you a bit of perspective.
It is so stupid pretending that we aren’t in a world war as if pretending means that everything will be alright over here, What kind of attitude is that? You position yourself as an utterly useless and unintelligent person who lacks even the wherwithal to vouchsafe his own survival. Carry on in this Anglo-American delusional pleasure vane for as long as you want but it has already been defeated. The first sign will be rapid collapse of currency where if you were upper middle class before you won’t even be able to buy working class food. And no amount of patter will help you out. Maybe you have just given up on life.
Tell me why Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng were forced out after 49 days, allegedly the worst Budget, worst PM & blinkered Chancellor ever…yet Starmer & Reeves are weathering the storm?
The current shower are sticking to the script they’ve been given – Truss and co didn’t
The 22 billion black hole—The 22 billion black hole—The 22 billion black hole—The 22 billion black hole
Caused by the 450 billion they threw around like confetti during the scandemic, ironically with the “opposition” being Labour wanting harder, longer lockdowns..
You couldn’t make it up..
It’s scary how much of the population don’t understand inflation, and how our system is based on it always being there. Saw an article earlier, average house prices at record high – makes many people think that’s a good thing, however the value of a piece of land and some bricks, windows and doors has not changed in value at all – your currency is worth less than it was instead… and it’s only going one way
Contrast the fallout from this budget with the fallout from the autumn mini-budget under Liz Truss. Could it be that the MSM like Labour and hate the Conservatives, perhaps?
And our Labour Government keeps saying they’re going to make the economy grow. Perhaps it’s time for them to look outside Westminster and see what’s going on in the real world.
Money has to come from somewhere.
Employers’ NI is incident on employees who pay it via lower gross pay. In effect there is no employers’ NI, there is only employees’ NI since the whole tax burden falls on employee.
The nominal employers’ NI is not capped, therefore this means the lower the gross pay, the lower the NI amount.
The increase will drive down gross pay, thereby reducing the cash amount to be paid at the new rate to pre-increase levels.
Wages are known as “sticky” in that it is difficult to get employees to accept lower pay, but if the option is lower pay or no job, some might accept that. Alternatively pay can be reduced by fewer hours overtime, reducing or eliminating commissions and bonuses, removal of other benefits in kind.
If something costs more, less of it is bought. If businesses increase prices to cover the raised NI expense, fewer goods will be bought, fewer goods will be produced, fewer workers will be required.
(The above is basic economics. Socialist don’t understand economics, if they did they wouldn’t be Socialists.)
This certainly looks like a great plan to boost economic growth.