A new peer reviewed article in the journal Vaccine has been published comparing surveys data on attitudes to vaccination from before the pandemic with attitudes now.
The authors report that “paradoxically, despite the success of COVID-19 vaccination campaigns, vaccine confidence has significantly declined since the onset of the pandemic”.
I am not quite sure why the authors appear so surprised at their result but a clue can be found in their use of the word “despite”. In many countries the “success” of the COVID-19 vaccination campaign relied in large part in pressuring, bullying and sometimes coercing people to get vaccinated.
Now if governments tell you that getting vaccinated is in your best interests, but that nonetheless those who choose not to get vaccinated will be pilloried in the press and on social media, barred from participated in normal everyday activities and, in some cases, sacked from their employment, perhaps we should not be surprised that people start to doubt whether those governments really do have their best interests at heart.
And those doubts have substance behind them. From a very early stage, it was clear that for many people, the known risks from vaccination probably outweighed any likely benefit. This was most obvious for those who had already had Covid (and for whom the marginal impact of vaccination in preventing a further infection was small), for groups who faced very low risks of serious illness if they contracted Covid and especially for young males for whom vaccination seems to be bring additional risks of heart problems.
But instead of acknowledging that Covid-19 vaccines may make sense for some people not everyone, too many public health officials, scientists and politicians have systematically downplayed immunity from previous infection, brushed aside concerns over side effects and dismissed concerns that the roll out to the whole population was rushed given uncertainty over long term effects.
The latter was a particularly serious error. Right from the start of the roll out the public was assured that the vaccines had been thoroughly tested. Yet in May 2021, the Government decided to stop providing the AstraZeneca vaccine to under 40s due to the relatively high rate of blood clots. That decision would have been little consolation to the families of the 73 people whose deaths the MHRA report as being linked to that vaccine.
Rather than taking that as a lesson, authorities around the world doubled down and rolled out vaccine mandates, passports and travel restrictions as a way of twisting more arms into receiving the jab. Ironically, these measures were aimed primarily at young people for whom the benefits of vaccination were lowest and (particularly for males) the risks seem highest.
The official rationale for these policies was that vaccination would help protect others from being infected. We now know that there was never any evidence to back this up. And when official data started to suggest that the vaccinated may be getting infected at similar if not greater rates than the unvaccinated, the response of some journalists was not to probe further and investigate but to encourage the authorities to suppress the data. Truly, you could not make it up.
Researchers such as Alex de Figueiredo from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine warned at the time that coercion was likely to lead to a loss of trust in vaccination more generally. With the latest research paper, we have firm evidence that this is indeed the case.
It is not unreasonable to conclude that the most dangerous ‘anti-vaxxers’ over the past two years have not been fringe conspiracy theorists but governments and the public health establishment itself.
It’s a sorry state of affairs, but where do we go from here? Well public health leaders could start by switching tack. Rather than setting out to persuade everyone to get vaccinated, they could concentrate on providing good information about benefits and risks to help people decide whether vaccination is right for them. If, at the same time, they start to engage honestly with those who have suffered side effects and acknowledge the high level of uncertainty that still exists in the evidence, perhaps they can begin to regain some of the trust they have so negligently lost.
David Paton is Professor of Industrial Economics at Nottingham University Business School. He tweets as @CricketWyvern.
Stop Press: Eugyppius has written about this survey as well: “Long after it had become clear to everyone that the vaccines would do nothing to stop transmission, the vaccinators persisted with their intemperate, coercive campaign, polarising all of society and calling into being a new kind of tribalism based on vaccination status which had never existed before.”
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I hope and wish our membership grows over the next few months and that DS becomes rightfully stronger, a light in the darkness.
To all DS members, especially the vets
, thanks for being here, thanks for hanging on and I hope you have a great couple of days.
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Have a great Christmas.
Seconded. Lots of progress in bringing the truth to the world, but a long way to go. Rest and enjoy before the mission continues. Cheers to all.!
Thanks Neil.
Lovely post hux, and a merry Xmas to you and all of the respectful people who keep the comments sections alive.
I do actually celebrate Xmas but got up obscenely early and now the cat is having her fun with all the torn wrapping paper. Coffee!! lol
Thank you Mogs.
Well said, HP – I second that emotion.
Thanks Michael.
Cheers Hux. Stay the way you are, there aren’t enough like you.
Thank you very much Marcus.
You are much appreciated on here Aethelred
Thanks.
The story about the UK and Moderna partnership is worrying confirmation that this mRNA crud is never going away and they will for sure be manufacturing further plandemics in order to create demand. And isn’t the WHO meant to have planned for 10 years of pandemics? But I’m sure that’s another coincidence..
”Developing vaccines on UK shores means it will be able to scale up production rapidly in the event of a health emergency, significantly boosting our ability to respond to future pandemics.”
What I’m wondering though is how many suckers will eagerly roll up at the next whiff of a scamdemic next time around. You can fool people once, but time and again? Doubtful.
It is indeed shocking that mRNA vaccines are the technology they have latched on to in order to move to a digital computerised health system and they are determined that nothing is going to derail this sinister ideological plan.
If they can make this digital mRNA health approach work it will mean continual injections for all and shed loads of money for them. The prize is so huge they are not going to give up easily.
Here’s John Campbell’s thoughts on the whole thing. It’s what you say and obviously profit but I maintain the depopulation theory cannot be dismissed. If studies are now showing the genetic code can be reverse transcribed into human cells, and we’ve seen from biodistribution data that the LNPs concentrate in ovaries, just what assurance is there that this won’t have an affect on the reproductive potential of the next generation? And that’s before we mention all of the worrying data on women’s reproductive issues post-vax, low sperm counts/mobility, low birth rates, increased stillbirths and miscarriages. It’s the experts in these related fields, such as Dr Thorpe, who are sounding the alarm as they’re seeing it first-hand, but are being studiously ignored, much like the adverse event reporting systems’ data. Criminal and malicious. So any further mRNA ”vaccines” will hardly be expected to perform any differently will they? More of the same.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDLx1IAITTg&ab_channel=Dr.JohnCampbell
Billy ran his table-top for his next “pandemic,” in October 2022 with predominantly African nations. The next one is called SEERS-25. Due to be released in…2025, which will probably be just after the Plandemic Preparedness Treaty gets the nod.
SEERS-25 is based on the polio virus and this time it will target our youth.
Nice.
Yes potentially we are in great peril !!
Maybe they are just going to go for it now , based on The WHO getting their global treaty in place when it comes back on the table ! Things will get very messy indeed !
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-cements-10-year-partnership-with-moderna-in-major-boost-for-vaccines-and-research
More public money wasted to create a homegrown cesspool of disease-inducing pharmaceutical slurry. The gift that never stops giving to those who partake…
As it is the season of goodwill, best wishes – to those who have and those who did not.
The Baby Alex story is beyond awful. Totally heartbreaking.
Yes I’ve read it also. Nothing short of murder. A dreadful story.
“Harry and Meghan say the Sun’s apology for Jeremy Clarkson column ‘nothing more than a PR stunt’
A good example of why in general it’s pointless apologising to the offended woke. Worse than pointless, what happens is that having been given an inch they will want a mile.
It’s the one area where one should double down.
There are very few public figures who speak their minds, and fewer still who refuse to back down when a furore ensues. I can’t think of many who have done this.
Crumbs! Eat your heart out Tomorrow’s World.
If this is a glimpse into the future of medicine delivery methods then that’s even more incentive to stay healthy and the hell away from pharma products. Gelbots and transformer bots anyone?? Creepy;
https://bailiwicknews.substack.com/p/gel-bots-and-rubbery-clots
Full Guardian Xmas joy….
It’s every version of Scrooge in 2022.
Why is Clarkson being crucified for telling Sun readers how he feels about certain hangers-on to the Royal family. Most of us share his antipathy.
From what I have seen reported Clarkson’s language might be considered a bit robust but the left are able to do that without any comment save admiration from their fellows.
the Sun is being wet in its withdrawal of support from Clarkson and I suspect it’s readers side with the columnist, not the Editor.
The removal of the old-fashioned Page 3 seemed to be a sad moment in the history of The Sun. Marked a turning point. But then perhaps I am nostalgic, remembering back to the hour or two three times a week hauling a bag of papers around the neighborhood, before traipsing unwillingly – and usually late – to school.
I am sure this excellent piece will appear on here shortly but have a read…
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/the-damascene-conversion-of-andrew-bridgen/
Goodnight kids , well done whoever posted the Film , “They Live” we all watched it tonight , so prophetic !!