According to new excess mortality data compiled by Eurostat and Reuters, Sweden emerged from 2020 with a smaller increase in its overall mortality rate than most European countries in spite of eschewing the lockdown policy. Reuters has more.
Preliminary data from EU statistics agency Eurostat compiled by Reuters showed Sweden had 7.7% more deaths in 2020 than its average for the preceding four years. Countries that opted for several periods of strict lockdowns, such as Spain and Belgium, had so-called excess mortality of 18.1% and 16.2% respectively.
Twenty-one of the 30 countries with available statistics had higher excess mortality than Sweden. However, Sweden did much worse than its Nordic neighbours, with Denmark registering just 1.5% excess mortality and Finland 1.0%. Norway had no excess mortality at all in 2020.
Sweden’s excess mortality also came out at the low end of the spectrum in a separate tally of Eurostat and other data released by the UK’s Office for National Statistics last week.
That analysis, which included an adjustment to account for differences in both the age structures and seasonal mortality patterns of countries analysed, placed Sweden 18th in a ranking of 26. Poland, Spain and Belgium were at the top.
Lockdown enthusiasts often point to the lower excess mortality in the other Nordic countries, implying that had Sweden locked down it would have had even lower excess mortality. Against this, two things can be said. The first is the point made by Dr Paul Yowell which is that if you include the Baltic states among Sweden’s neighbours – and there is no non-arbitrary reason for not doing so – Sweden’s excess mortality begins to look less atypical for the region. The second is the argument made by Dr Oliver Robinson which is that Finland itself didn’t lock down, so pointing to Finland’s lower excess mortality than Sweden’s is not an argument in favour of lockdown.
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I’ve added Powis to he crimes against humanity list
Quite right too.
There’s an anti-vaxport protest planned outside both finals so should be fun.
About time too. Good to see some protests finally heading for where the news cameras are, be on best behavious and keep the mesage simple “vaccine passports are a step too far and a dangerous form of tyranny”, “do you want your life run by an app which will also record parking fiens, debts and criminal records?”. Don’t question the vaccine itself, media will use that against you, but go hard on defiance against passports plots. This is not a negotiation. Make it clear that if this country tries to implement vaccine passports it will start a descent in to anarchy, because the day that happens no state made law can be considered uncontaminated by the vaxport programme.
“…if this country tries to implement vaccine passports it will start a descent in to anarchy”
You wish! I reckon the ‘Baa’s’ will be deafening.
Those individuals who are prepared to opportunistically use the vaxxport to gain inequitable advantage over others (for admission to venues, travel or securing promotion and job security at work) should also be challenged. Until these people are made aware that they will be regarded as fully complicit (and therefore ultimately answerable) in this state led breach of inalienable human rights then protests will go nowhere.
The same psy-op psychology has to be harnessed and used, except in reverse.
This is war.
We are indeed at war.
With our own government and those controlling them.
Agree- I had the vaccine because I didn’t want to cause my wife, (who’s business involves care), any grief, but I’ve never carried the card around and I will never present it to gain access to a pub or entertainment venue. This is causing me grief as my wife doesn’t think it’s a big problem and always has her card with her, (for work). She would rather put up with this than miss out on family gatherings and the like but for me it’s the principle- I simply won’t accept that someone else can ‘allow’ me to enter a building simply by showing proof of being .jabbed’.
Whilst I understand your reasons, I’m afraid you have already ‘accepted’ being ‘allowed’ to do these things by having the jab.
I have a similar issue about visiting my elderly mother in her care home. I declined the vaccine, for all the obvious reasons and despite my wife’s consternations that like her I should, so am prevented from seeing my mother, *DESPITE* having Power of Attorney for her health and wellbeing, *and* having (reluctantly) allowed her to have the vaccine *despite* her having had and recovered from covid, and *despite* neither asymptomatic transmission nor mask wearing having any scientific support!
It’s an interesting legal question; does the PoA trump the govt regulations?
I believe there was a test case a while back – a man with POA refused to give consent for his demented mother to be given the vaccine in her care home, but a judge over-ruled it, I think because his POA did not specifically rule out vaccinations.
FUCK OFF
My name is Londo Mollari and I approve this message.
Seconded
Where’s Mr. Morden when you need him?
Hanging out with Justin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnH4tOuqKkw
That show had an ominous prescience to it.
Working for our enemies. ‘Where is Kosh?’ is what you should be asking
We don’t need Kosh, we need a John ‘nuke-em’ Sheridan.
The only rational response, really. Off you fuck!
“How shall we fuck off oh Lord?” Monty Python. “Life of Brian.”
Take the knee, take the poison. Bow down and worship the Beast.
Wear your mask, show respect and obedience to the cult.
Question not the High Priests of Imperial College .Their infallibility is a dogma. Obtain your facts and opinions from BBC, Sky, ITV and Channel 4. You won’t know anything but you’ll be happy.
The horoscope of COVID is unassailable truth and heretics face exclusion.
“You won’t know anything but you’ll be happy.”
Classic!
It as at least circling the approximate vicinity of honesty to phrase getting experimented on as being “for the team”, i.e. Pfizer and AstraZenica.
And what’s a little myocarditis, pericarditis or brain clotting if it gifts you the opportunity to present your Social Credit Score app and beg the State for permission every time you travel, work, recreate, transact or interact for the rest of your life?
PS: good luck paying off the bill for the 18 month extended holiday that your country has been enjoying.
Re. “paying the bill”: a programme of mass civilian tax refusal may be a good idea here. “We didn’t ask for lockdown, let its supporters pay for it”. See how many people still support lockdown when they alone are asked to pay up for it.
The books you will read will be only available through internet censors. Keep print copies of those books you treasure. And once cash goes, the state watches every interaction. Fancy donating to an anti tyranny cause? Not possible.
Soylent Green. I’ll become a reference library!
Team Pharma can buy the best players – PMs and Presidents, MPs and Ministers, scientists and slience.
and referees…
I’ve been inundated with texts and calls since May and I’ve also booked and cancelled my vaccination appointments several times.
Anything to clog up the system
Oh, that’s a splendid idea, I’ve simply being ignoring mine. Last I checked though, NHS Scotchland had recorded my first dose as being “Completed” anyway.
My suspicion is that actually taking the experimental medical procedures is largely irrelevant. As long as the cronies get paid for them, and as long as we’re inculcated to use the Social Credit Score apps to beg for permission, mission accomplished.
Indeed. I’m not really fussed what’s in these jabs, my gripe is exactly how you mention; we are being conditioned to view that our lives should be guided by our complicity to government whims through our phones.
The modern phone is one of the most powerful devices that Man has invented – and most people don’t know how to use them or how they are being used.
You should be. The fact we sleepwalking into techno-complicity should not overshadow the details of what we are being complicit to, or the Corporate-State still wins by default.
Indeed. I’m not really fussed what’s in these jabs
If you take the jab they have won and nothing else will matter.
You should be.
Try watching this (the last 5 minutes in particular):
https://odysee.com/@TruthPills:5/sucharit-stop-now:0
I’d be more approving of things meant to directly harm the companeis working on vaccine passport development, rather than disrupting a perfectly morally fine programme of vaccinations themselves. Those who don’t want vacciens should act so as to make it harder for those willing to be jabbed to be so, we should act in such a way as to ensure everyone, especially the jabbed, is willing to rise up against passports. Disrupt the politicians, disrupt the app, disrupt the propaganda sources, but don’t target the frontline of medical interventions.
Fair enough. Do you not think that the frontline has some complicity?
Of course it does.
Sadly, this is not a “morally fine programme of vaccinations themselves”. We mostly hoped that here, but it’s clear now that is not true.
Keep it up.
Fooking excellent tactic! I was thinking the same thing but there’s zero pressure like that here in Canada (other than the revolting TV adverts)
Has anyone considered reporting coercion to the police ? While ultimately an empty gesture, there is an obligation to record & investigate ?
Wasn’t that part of Mark Sexton’s case?
Harassment as well – i.e. the endless fucking texts and letters from NHS England. First time I contacted them they said only my GP could opt me out. GP says they can’t. I’ve send a number of emails to NHS England since – they just ignore them.
oooo a jab will go down a treat with a couple of pints, some adrenaline and a racing pulse. Great plan, NHS. Bumper day for adverse events.
Does that include the outcome of the game itself?
That’s classified as a serious adverse event..
Go on, punks, make my day!
Anyone with a brain can work out that this drive to vaccinate ‘everybody’ with an experimental concoction has no basis in science or medicine. There is absolutely no precedent – and certainly not for an infection of such moderate effects in the vast majority of cases. It is simply allowing commercial interests and sociopathic significance seekers liberty to run riot in society.
Been that way for at least 40 years.
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Covid was brought in for the Vaccines, and the Vaccines were brought in for the Vaccine Passports.
Cunts
Massive cunts
Always we have to “play our part” and “act like we’ve got it” in this massive theatre production of lies. Please, when is someone going to pull down that backdrop curtain?!!!
Once the bill for lockdown comes in there’s gonna be a lot less panem to go with tonight’s circenses
It’s extremely disconcerting that “the NHS’s top doctor” is using language like ‘grab a jab‘ and ‘a game of two jabs‘.
It’s not at all professional; and it’s almost as though he wants to distance himself from what he appears to be saying.
– It’s extremely disconcerting that “the NHS’s top doctor” is using language like ‘grab a jab‘ and ‘a game of two jabs‘. –
Yes, completely unprofessional and completely infantile. Really, really, vomit-inducing. This clever-dick sort of language drives me fookin wild!
p.s: just cancelled my TV licence btw.
Well done. It’s the only real sanction we have against the BBC. I cancelled mine six years ago and don’t regret it in the slightest. There are so many good things to watch on Youtube alone – I’m enjoying a documentary series called ‘Deadliest Roads’ at the moment.
It’s absolutely professional, just not from his profession: It’s professional PR trying to not-so-subtly patronize those considered to be weak-minded enough for this to work. “COVID phrases” are international and probably come from some central PR agency. I got some fun out of the typically clumsy attempts to translate them into German.
Eg, Johnson’s “data not dates” didn’t come from him. The German health minister tried to use it as well: “Wir sollten uns jetzt nicht an Daten orientieren.” Problem with this: The German Datum (date) has no plural form. Translated back into English, the German sentence really means “We shouldn’t care about data now.”
That’s obviously as COVID as it can possibly get, albeit unintentionally.
Well the language certainly undermines the message. The tone suggests that “the jab” is unimportant and of little consequence.
So why should anyone bother?
Anyone still think this is about a virus?
I constantly forget that they still claim there’s a pandemic on.
Yes, about 95% of the U.K. population. Inconclusive proof of what I have long suspected, that the vast majority of people are brain dead morons.
There’s a scene at the end of the film ‘The Whistleblower’ starring Michael Caine where he finds out his son has been bumped off by GCHQ and it’s all been covered up. It ends with him shooting the minister responsible and then standing on Whitehall looking at the cenotaph and saying ‘I wish I could believe in England again.’ That’s sort of how I feel, only without the satisfaction of having shot anybody responsible!
“A game of two jabs”
Tut, tut. More lies. He’s forgetting the two halves of extra time (third jab, fourth jab) and of course penalties – fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth ad infinitum jabs until people wake up or drop dead, whichever comes first.
Anyone getting jabbed loses on penalties.
If they were team players and believed all this excrement they wouldn’t go and watch it live and spread any infections, they would stay at home in bed.
Great idea. Get jabbed after downing six pints during the pre match festivities
NHS advert? They’ve failed people miserably for 18 months, wasted endless millions and will no doubt be crying again about being overwhelmed and in need of “protection” this winter.
Yet still spending more of our hard-earned money promoting something that is completely unnecessary for its target audience.
Where do I opt out of paying into this incompetent, corrupt sack of shit of an organisation?
It’s high time this useless organisation was knocked on the head. There savings made by the state could then be distributed to everyone in the form of tax cuts. People could use this money to buy very good private health care and still have some left over.
I’ve always operated on the basis that the harder someone has to sell a product, the less beneficial for me it’s likely to be.
Nothing I’ve seen in the last year has made me want to change my approach when it came to vaccines.
If you start with the assumption that Bill Gates is in charge of government policy, it all suddenly makes sense.
and if there’s one thing Bill Gates is an expert in it’s enabling Viruses to wreak havoc.
VAERS data is being (lazily) manipulated to obscure elderly death numbers, the victim’s ages are being excluded from the search criteria (tagged as ‘unknown’) but the ages are clearly visible in the event description. They are being falsely grouped as foreign deaths.
https://www.bitchute.com/video/3y3ULLQRMlgv/
Good observation, Mishmash.
A game in which both sides lose.
The only logical conclusion, is not to play.
I’m watching the mens final at Wimbledon, by far the vast majority of the crowd are unmasked, but some of the officials are masked. I assume because the officials are standing and the crowd are sitting. This virus is very intelligent, not only can it tell if somebodies sitting or standing it can also read a calendar.
I’d like to think that in 10 years or less people will look at the stupidity thats going on today, laugh and say how daft and gullible people are (I can live in hope).
“by far the vast majority of the crowd are unmasked”
… but have had to show proof of vaccination to get in. They are fellow travellers of the fraudsters.
I saw somewhere yesterday (might have been on here) that you had to take a negative LFT before attending and go online to record your result but they wouldn’t accept PCR done in a lab.
“I’d like to think that in 10 years or less people will look at the stupidity that’s going on today, laugh and say how daft and gullible people are”
I’m not sure those who escaped from the death camps of Germany had a laugh about it later.
That’s a bit melodramatic.
There are many who have lost a great deal during these past 16 months, I don’t think ‘melodramatic’ quite describes their pain and mental anguish.
It might be from your perspective. Not ours.
I’m far less than ten years, it is my belief that most of those you saw on TV & most of us here will be dead.
Nothing else makes sense.
Unless you think destroying several G20 economies, a handful of reserve currencies & herding tens of millions onto a Vaxpass system is pure entertainment.
I just saw a panic killer Rona ad from Australia on Ivor Cummins’ Twitter. I know we talk about fear porn a lot but this was genuinely obscene. A young, slim woman literally squealing in a hospital bed. It looked and sounded like a rape/snuff porn fantasy. Utterly, utterly sick.
Here it is, although I see this is a ‘corrected’ version!
https://twitter.com/i/status/1414200770430324737
Let’s hope this message gets through to the youngsters. It was played throughout the march in Brighton yesterday and won favour with the teenage onlookers. Not exactly the New Seekers but I’m hooked.
Remeece – Dont Tek Di Vaccine (Official Music Video) – YouTube Music
Message to the Prof Powis.
It requires two opposing teams to have a game. I’m on the other team; the unvaccinated one. Still a team player.
I’m sure Scott Mercier was not classed as a team player by the moral equivalents of Stephen Powis when Scott turned his back on the US Postal cycling team and refused to dope up.
Nothing good about being a team player when the team is rotten to the core. And team vaccinated haven’t got much going for them.
Effing ridiculous! Don’t they tell you to take it easy after having the potentially death-inducing injection…not spend 90 mins or more jumping up and down and shouting at the top of your voice.
interesting
From the DT live fee:
“Vaccinations postponed due to anti-lockdown protestVaccinations at a site in Brighton have been postponed following anti-lockdown demonstrations in the city.
Protestors surrounded a vaccination bus on the seafront on Saturday, pictures on social media suggest.
NHS Brighton and Hove CCG announced that vaccinations on Hove Lawns were postponed on Sunday “to ensure that everyone is able to receive their vaccine safely and without any pressure put upon them”.
The healthcare provider said its staff “experienced disruption during the anti-lockdown measures protest in the city”.”
Said without a hint of irony…………
Hitler also liked to mix sport and totalitarianism
If the result does not go England’s way this evening the Pig Dictator can simple reverse the result by means of a Statutory Instrument
Slightly different tack: Neighbours asked if I was going to watch the football, after telling them no, I added that I do not do COMPULSARY ENTHUSIASM AND ORGANISED “FUN” whether it’s Children in need, Red nose day, Sport and most of all; Lockdown loyalty.
Needless to say, I’m not Mr Popular, but then, us sceptics never were, were we?
Yes, I will be cutting my head off with a rusty saw at about 7.45pm
The big decision is will I have dinner before or after
Before, if I were you.
Please explain your decision making process
Always enjoy your food.
You might lose your sense of taste.
Bread and circus. What more do we expect from a ‘classical’ PM?
Good to know that I am not alone.
Thanks.
It is the opinion that dare not speak its name.
What football?
Well said!
Susie would love to hear from you!
Room 347 Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology University College London 1-19 Torrington Place London, WC1E 7HB
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Anne Frank was not a team player
Are there are blue pilled people still ready to call me a conspiracy theorist?
I wish there wasn’t but there’s a conspiracy. It’s huge & global and not the slightest bit theoretical.
Everything we’re told is a lie. To my frustration most believe it. It’s odd, as you’ve not believed politicians for the past several decades.
Popped into a local corner shop. Sun blazing down. Everyone but me in masks. We are so f*****
It’s just a pity that there doesn’t seem to be any country to flee to!
Anyone have any ideas re sanctuary states/locations?
Sure, Tanzania. No jabs, subsistence economy which continues when the power goes off, which is mostly.
I doubt there’s anywhere we’d think of as civilised which will stay that way for long once the internet coughs. I expect the WEF will spring that of us. The more dependent we are, the harder & more brutal the fall.
Saying that, who wants to survive what’s coming? Why?
‘who wants to survive what’s coming? Why?’
I know what you mean, but as the saying goes, the best revenge is living well.
I believe there will be unintended consequences to what is underway and those who are able to come together and survive will be in a better position that you suspect. It’s just a question of where to ride out the storm!
Agreed. I like the idea. Maybe we should look at places like that.
I’ve spent a lot of time in Dar. There’s room there for a Best Marigold Hotel (Africa Branch)
I really don’t want to believe there’s a conspiracy either. I don’t want to believe the WEF set want us to own nothing, live in hovels and eat nothing but dung beetles. I would like dearly to tell all the people promoting this to take their anti-psychotics and seek treatment.
But how else can you explain it? How else can you explain the constant, almost daily, lies? How else can you explain the arbitrary, draconian measures that make absolutely no logical or scientific sense?
What’s clear is that we’re ruled by some very evil, very spiteful ‘people’
Mr Gates is getting his own back. For what, one wonders…
Maybe because they bullied him at school. He seems the type. Narcissistic sociopaths like Gates tend to fixate on slights to their ego, like that. It doesn’t matter to people like Gates that they’re immensely intelligent, successful and have more money than they’d know what to do with. No, they must get their own back for that time in primary school when one of the other kids kicked them into the dirt or something
These people have nothing but disdain for the rest of us. Money didn’t bring this out of them, it was always there. Having money just accentuated it.
Someone flushed his head down the toilet and everyone else has to suffer
Remember to be extra safe and wear a seatbelt in the stadium , can’t be too safe!
Be a team player: ‘Papiere, bitte!’
This country is receiving a major wake up call.
If you have a massive state sector, they have to find things for themselves to do.
Who are these people, all paid for by the state (the taxpayer: us) who keep popping up on state broadcasting? What do they all do do (their job titles suggest not much at all, really!)?
We are living the big state dream, Blair’s Britain.
This has been a long time coming and, without geopolitical shock, is not going away.
South Dakota, Wyoming, Florida or Texas……..Galt’s Gulch beckons……..
“Blair’s Britain”
Actually – the apotheosis of Nanny Thatcher’s corporate Britain, run by big money. Blair was just the pupil.
You were downvoted for speaking truth.
Blair’s Britain.
Nowhere to hide.
The precautionary principle was introduced into Health policy by the Blair government via the eu in 2000:
‘While in the first instance, it was only the EU’s environmental policy that was to be based on the precautionary principle, this principle has since then flowed into other areas of EU law, including notably the protection of public health. This has, to a significant degree, been a result of the influence of the ‘environmental integration obligation’ in Article 11 TFEU which provides that ‘environmental protection requirements must be integrated into the definition and implementation of the Union’s policies and activities, in particular with a view to promoting sustainable development. The European Commission adopted a Communication on the Precautionary Principle in 2000.’
https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/309/Legal-Aspects-of-the-Precautionary-Principle.pdf
It’s the usual Shakedown Socialism.
No – Tory money-grabbing. They’re the ones in charge for the last 11 years, feeding their mates. Stop making wild excuses for the Brexit right who are in charge of the fuck-up – it makes you in denial as any Covidiot or barmy Tooting Trot.
Fact.
I wasn’t aware the disastrous NHS was advocated by anyone except perhaps tautologically delusional marxists and employers who can coerce taxpayers into subsidising their imported employees.
Normally the police arrest those threatening to stab people outside football grounds.
Be a team player, get the jab and be a loser.
Be a team player.
Chuck 18 year olds under the bus to save the skin of those who’ve already enjoyed their lives.
Are you talking about the vaccines or the penalty shoot out!!?
LOL, our thoughts exactly!
So, what happens now that England lost?
Personally, I reckon that the c*nts in power over us take this as an opportunity to smack on more restrictions, to demoralise people further.
How to control people: First, make them afraid. Second, demoralise them. Third, …?
“Yes, we’d love to go easy on you, make you feel a little less shit, but THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOUR LITTLE MOODS – CASES ARE RISING, AND YOU NEED TO KNOW IT’S BECAUSE YOU DIDN’T WEAR YOUR MASKS IN THE PUB! OK, PLEBS?”
Yeah… Couldn’t help but think before each penalty kick at the pub: “People actually give a fuck about this?”
Maybe a few more will snap out of the fog now that this distraction is out of the way… But not gonna hold my breath.
Coercion, manipulation, bullying, guilt tripping…call it what you will. Give us the real facts on this Gene therapy treatment and we will give you our INFORMED Consent…or NOT
In Wales we have the worst waiting lists , poor health outcomes compared with England. Drakeford is a pleasant man who is in search of a good tailor and a scientific background!
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/join-the-unvaccinated-control-group/
Here’s a possible way we can be part of the solution…..
No page found surprise, surprise!
So, will Professor Stephen Powis take personally responsibility for any injury and death that is a consequence of taking the vaccine in response to his ‘urge’? Will he personally pay due compensation for any consequential medical event?