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This week, Nick and Toby discuss Gary Lineker’s ‘heroic’ stand against the BBC as well as how scared the Government is of footballers. They discuss Fiona Bruce being criticised for adding a legal disclaimer (at the behest of a producer) to a reference to Stanley Johnson’s alleged domestic abuse.
Toby discusses the recent victory against the Orwellian ‘non crime hate incidents’ and Nick suggests a clever way to get the police to take burglary a little more seriously.
Nick and Toby discuss the January 6th ‘insurrection’ footage, the Q-Anon Shaman’s treatment, the potential provocateur infiltrators and the inevitable media reaction. They also chat about Hugh Grant being interviewed on the red carpet and how his intolerant petulance – why is this ex-model bothering me? – went viral.
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Mmmmmm, up to a point Lord Copper. It all depends on who you vaccinate. Fatality rate in the under 40s was effectively 0. But lets suppose it was 0.1%. So, 1 case in 1,000 died. In this instance if the vaccine was 20% effective you’d have to vaccinate 5,000 people who all went on to catch covid to save a life.
Of course, as many people already had natural immunity, far better than vaccine, then you’d need to treat say 10,000 to save a life. However, the vaccines were very leaky. If only 50% leaky you’re quickly up to 20,000 vaccinated to save a life.
Vaccinate the elderly & the vaccines were even more leaky & probably negatively efficacious in terms of contagion.
Finally, no one has ever been able to point out the unvaccinated dead. There should have been piles of them. I never saw nor can discern them in the data.
Finally, no one has ever been able to point out the unvaccinated dead. There should have been piles of them
2021 and 2022 were the winters of death for the unstabbinated….even with their data fraud, only 5% of the dead were unquacked.
There was no pandemic. There is no such thing as a bat virus and the quackcines only kill and injure.
I have zero confidence that statistics referring to “covid deaths” are worth anything, for reasons that most of us here will already be aware of – the fast track death certificates, the hysteria, the testing with incredibly sensitive thresholds, the failure to distinguish between “of” and “with”.
Show me all cause mortality by age band, “vaccinated” vs purebloods, and compare that to some reasonable baseline taken over a longish period, say 10 years, maybe adjust if possible for general state of health. If you can detect anything more than noise, I will start paying attention.
I can understand the idea that “protection” is not immediately inferred on a person at the moment of the injection (if you accept that any protection is inferred at all – I don’t).
However, if someone dies within the “cheap trick” period then you cannot discount the injection as a course of death (or serious injury), you have to at least investigate the possibility, so it was always a double cheap trick – a despicable and onerous trick.
Once upon a time this would require an autopsy/post mortem to confirm cause of death.
Of course these could be modified, but should be performed to the satisfaction of a Coroner, who you sort of need to be beyond reproach and impeccably honest and ethical.
This is further compounded by the very serious issue of died with, or died from, yet another cheap and nasty trick, along with the equally despicable died within 28 days of a PCR positive result, assumed to be as died from.
If we ever expect them to admit they were neither safe, nor effective, we’ll never hear that admission!
And didn’t they make it bureaucratically less onerous to write out death certificates with Covid-19 on them? Back then, I suggested that the late Harold Shipman, the serial murderer, would have loved it. He might have avoided suspicion, after all.
Adolf Eichmann would have liked it as well.
Nobody has ever defined what COVID-19 actually is! What are the specific symptoms of this disease/illness?
The WHO defines COVID-19 symptoms as follows:
The most common symptoms are: fever, chills, sore throat.
Less common symptoms are: muscle aches and heavy arms or legs, severe fatigue or tiredness, runny or blocked nose, or sneezing, headache, sore eyes, dizziness, new and persistent cough, tight chest or chest pain, shortness of breath, hoarse voice, numbness or tingling, appetite loss, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain or diarrhoea, loss or change of sense of taste or smell, difficulty sleeping.
In other words, the WHO simply took all possible cold symptoms and added stomach problems, so as to cover the complete spectrum of common, day-to-day illnesses.
And no specific symptom whatsoever.
The only way anyone could determine they supposedly had COVID-19 was via the PCR test (actually, process), which its inventor said should never be used to diagnose illness.
And then pharmaceutical companies suddenly threw all those ‘vaccines’ out on to the market, all in record time, all clearly having been insufficiently tested, because any medication, let alone a vaccine, requires a minimum of 10 years development and test to pass normal certification requirements.
If you cannot define one symptom of COVID-19, specific only to that disease, then clearly there was no such illness, in which case there can be no effective countermeasure, let alone a vaccine.
But it saved over 8 million (pick a figure and I’ll add the noughts) and never harmed nor will ever harm a soul –
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35436552/
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/the-immunological-mechanism-of-action
https://jessicar.substack.com/p/autoimmunity-and-tolerance?utm_source=substack&utm_campaign=post_embed&utm_medium=web
Isn’t it worse than that, in as much as the way in which so-called vaccines are easier to get to market than other drugs? Looks like an incentive to reclassify things as vaccines, by dint of redefinition, to wheedle out of the uneconomic system (from the pharma perspective)
When I was just looking through the internet in 2020, it was claimed that a vaccine generally took 15 years of development and test, since you are going a step further, beyond the stage of finding a medicine to treat a disease. But past are the days when regulatory authorities responsible to check the work of pharmaceutical companies actually used to investigate and question their products. In our modern, capitalistic world, it appears that pharmaceutical companies finance the authorities to a large extent. And, clearly, if you can sell a vaccine millionfold, you are presumably making a lot more profit than from some simple tablet medication.
Exactly this. As far as I have been able to establish, the “covid” thing that killed people was cytokine storm – immune system overreaction. Everything else just looks like cold/flu/pneumonia rehashed and anyone who died was probably “with” rather than “of”. From what I have read, the initial “variant” triggered this much more often than subsequent variants, though perhaps it was also the case that the few unfortunate people for whom this was a problem had already died. Whether the “vaccines” actually helped prevent this particular cause of death I rather doubt – in fact they seem to cause problems for the immune system and invoke an inflammatory response. Died “of” numbers if they are real at all, are much smaller.
I only ever heard of cytokine storms happening after COVID ‘vaccinations’. I had never heard of the term before.
I did read about it before the “vaccines” – as I am in long term remission from an autoimmune disorder this was of particular interest to me.
It was very suspicious, and proof it was all a lie when they gave the “vax” to the control group in the trials – totally invalidates the trials and renders them null and void! You just can’t do that!
The only control group are us brave souls who suffered the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, bullying, threats and coercion to resist the pressure and remain unvaxxed.
The only genuine control group are those who acquired fake certificates. The rest of us were cut off from public life and this may have affected many other things in our lives. They can only actually look into this if they issue a general amnesty for all those who used fake certificates. So far there is no preparedness to do this. Isn’t it strange that nobody wants to discuss this. Even the official statistics speak of vaccinated persons rather than persons holding certificates. It’s almost as if there is an issue they don’t want on the table because they are afraid of something.
I would like a study comparing morbidity and mortality between vaccinated and unvaccinated people.
Dr. Clare Craig is trying to get the data through the courts and I hope she is successful.
This ‘head in the sand’ attitude regarding potential vaccine harms is utterly unhelpful.
Can we not get a team together to do this study? What is holding us back? Is it purely lack of access to data? Funding?
I am not sure if valid data are available for such a comparison. Denis Rancourt’s work analysing mortality data from 125 countries clearly shows increased mortality linked to vaccination roll-out. (https://denisrancourt.ca/)
I agree. You would have to really make sure you design a good study first. Maybe using hospital data? Is there a difference between vaccinated and unvaccinated people ending up in hospita, whilst taking into account that most people were vaccinated? Comparing a vaccinated vs non-vaccinated cohort? This may be more difficult.
The data will be slightly murky, but I think it is possible with high enough numbers.
Even so this would not be double blind data. Doctors may see a patient is not vaccinated and has a nasty cough and then put that person on a ventilator that ends up killing them, while the same person had they been vaccinated would have been sent home and survived. So one would need to clarify who in the hospital had access to vaccination data and whether any decisions were influenced by it.
It would end up as a retrospective study looking at levels of vaccine side-effects, not necessarily vaccine effectiveness. For instance looking at all hospital patients with their diagnosis (cancer, heart disease, neurological disease, reproductive problems to name a few) and vaccination status. If the numbers looked at are high enough we may end up with something meaningful. That will probably be easiest? Else looking at population data, but this might be more prone to errors and bias.
For a start, deaths cannot be averted but only postponed. Anybody claiming that anything big pharma did averted even one death is obviously not fit to call themself a scientist.