- “Lockdown easing ‘may need to be reversed if variant spreads rapidly’” – Professor Peter Openshaw, one of the scientists advising the Government, is warning that a rapid spread of the South African variant, or any other, may necessitate an about turn on the “cautious but irreversible roadmap” out of lockdown, the Evening Standard reports
- “Science has proved Boris Johnson wrong – vaccines are reducing deaths and cases” – The Telegraph reports on newly published research by the University of Manchester that shows a stark difference in cases, hospital admissions and deaths for vaccinated and unvaccinated elderly people, suggesting that vaccines not lockdown are bringing the numbers down, contrary to Boris’s claim
- “Government will try to make Covid vaccines compulsory for care home staff, Matt Hancock confirms” – The Health Secretary is going ahead with this draconian measure, MailOnline reports
- “Early treatment of COVID-19” – A real-time database and meta analysis of 565 studies into early treatments for Covid, including Ivermectin and hydroxycholroquine
- “Care home residents ‘barred’ from voting in local elections because of Covid rules” – Residents of Britain’s care homes will be “effectively barred” from voting in May’s elections by guidance that would require them to isolate for 14 days upon their return, the Telegraph reports
- “Covid-status certificate scheme could be unlawful discrimination, says EHRC” – The Government’s equalities watchdog has warned that plans for vaccine passports risk discriminating against groups with low vaccine take-up, the Guardian reports
- “Pontypool mum ‘robbed of life’ by ‘late’ cancer diagnosis” – Justine Jianikos has cancer, which if it had been spotted earlier might have been treatable, but is now terminal, the BBC reports
- “We are being enslaved by the smartphones that once liberated us” – “Big tech is ruthlessly exploiting the Covid crisis to make us even more dependent on their products,” writes Ross Clark in the Telegraph
- “Making illness a crime: Beware the Health Fascism Agency” – “We need to stop framing illness as a security threat,” writes Dominey Jenner, of the UK’s new Health Security Agency for the Conservative Woman, “and return to a more measured approach – one that befits a liberal democracy”
- “Speak out! Doctors can no longer stay silent on vaccine peril” – Dr. Sinead Murphy lays out four reasons for the Conservative Woman why we should be sceptical of the Government’s vaccine narrative
- “End the lockdown now” – There is no justification for the glacial pace of the reopening, says Professor David Paton in Spiked
- “Will Welby’s outburst of honesty be infectious?” – Roger Watson wonders if a trend is being set by Archbishop Welby, who recently admitted being too risk-adverse during the first lockdown, and whether it might spread to Ferguson, Whitty or even the Prime Minister
- “SAGE’s Roadmap model: Where is it leading us?” – Dan Astin Gregory scrutinises the ‘evidence’ behind SAGE’s fears of a third wave in late summer or early Autumn for the the Pandemic Podcast
- “Most of Europe should be open for summer holidays from May 17th, says EasyJet boss” – Johan Lundgren, the CEO of EasyJet, reckons that most countries in Europe will be on the Government’s travel green list by May 17th, the Telegraph reports
- “Denmark becomes world’s first country to stop using AstraZeneca vaccine” – Denmark has stopped using the AstraZeneca jab altogether, the Telegraph reports, and has also suspended the Johnson & Johnson vaccine
- “Lithuania to introduce ‘COVID-19 passports’ for certain groups” – Reuters reports that Lithuania is rolling out a vaccine passport scheme to allow some people to bypass restrictions on certain activities including dining indoors, attending sporting events and holding large parties.
- “The high cost of the slow Covid vaccine rollout” – Writing in the Harvard Business Review, Michael Blanding heralds new research indicating that investment in the vaccine earlier on could have saved lives and prevented the global economy losing $700 billion
- “Vaccine Passports vs. Freedom Itself” – The very idea of vaccine passports is an “anathema to our democratic principles and rights that are enshrined in the US Constitution as well as the Canadian Charter of Rights”, write Paul E. Alexander, Howard C. Tenenbaum and Dr. Parvez Dara at AIER
- “Ludwig von Mises on intellectual obligation in times of crisis” – The Austrian economist had a message for our times, says Jeffrey A. Tucker at AIER: “None of us are really safe from state-imposed violence in the name of disease control until all of us are”
- “U.S. intelligence chief: spy agencies do not know exactly when COVID-19 first transmitted” – The Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines told a senate hearing yesterday that U.S. intelligence agencies do not know exactly when or how COVID-19 was initially transmitted.
- “Two pastors detained in Finland during worship Apr 11th, 2021” – A video showing Finnish police interrupting an outdoors service of Espoo Home Church and detaining two pastors for not making the members of the congregation, including children, sit two metres apart
- “Two Covid vaccine questions that no one will answer” – Tucker Carlson of Fox News wants to know if the vaccines are safe and effective, but straight answers are hard to come by
- “Vaccine Facts: Watch this while you can” – Steven Crowder’s latest show includes a piece on vaccines (at 44m 30s) but he suspects you might not have too long to watch it because it’s on YouTube
- “Boris Johnson has ‘muddled the whole thing up’” – Professor Hugh Pennington thinks Boris Johnson got things “a bit muddled” over lockdowns and vaccines
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“Lockdown easing may need to be reversed”!
For pity’s sake, you will always be able to find siren voices backing restrictions. Our political leaders need to act the part and make a decision that this has to stop, and before the money’s run out. If they listen to these sorts of people, it could go on indefinitely. Not good enough.
Last time it was the Kent mutant ripping through the population in January that was supposed to scare us into submission because it was ‘thought to be’ more infectious and more harmful.
Neither of these were true and while the incidence of Kent mutant did increase hospitalisations and deaths did not.
The money can’t run out any more than a hot tub can empty because the pump is on. Believing it can is in the same category of myth making as mask fanatics and anti-vaxxers.
Actual science doesn’t care about beliefs.
This can go on forever and there are a lot of people out there pulling strings to try and make this permanent.
Technically it didn’t in Weimar Germany, but you know what I mean. Hundreds of millions thrown into extreme poverty can’t end well.
Doe an airplane crash caused by a bad pilot means heavier than air flight is completely impossible?
If you want to know what actually happened in Wiemar Germany in the 1920s – rather than the scare story myth – then here’s the paper for you.
https://gimms.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Weimar-Republic-Hyperinflation-through-a-Modern-Monetary-Theory-Lens.pdf
Nobody is in extreme poverty. If you give people money, they can spend it at Tesco and that will increase Tesco’s turnover just as surely as any other kind of money, which then leads to increased profit, and increased tax on those profits, which offsets the money initially given. A process that continues all the way down the spending chain.
Money is made round to go around.
It will only stop when those doing the actual work get sufficiently fed up with those doing nothing to change the government.
The same numbers are sloshing around the system, but they’re going to buy fewer goods and services as the people still producing and providing them start to question what they’re getting in return from the furloughed classes.
No sign of any significant questioning going on. And that’s because capitalists operate for turnover and profit, not things, and the workers have no choice other than to work if they want to eat, since furlough is not available to them.
It’s been quite astonishing how little grumbling there has been from those doing all the work.
The current UKs political leaders and its approved opposition are all fully paid up believers of the GREAT RESET.
You know that smart city solution, for the greening of the greater good, FFS did you ignore the 3hr consecutive nights commercial on the BBC prime time with Saint Greta leading the charge of the time is now teen change scream?
The leaders too of most of the EU, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Scandinavia, and some US states will also fully back this Fourth Industrial Revolution agenda especially now that dementia Joe’s sitting as the CoC of the free world.
If you’re waiting for the MSM to fire up the counter-revolution… aint gonna happen.
Any form of measured pushback starts with you. When was the last time you left home without an active live smartphone? Now figure out what free-thinking libertarian humanists are up against?
This all seeing digio-techno-panopticon has been decades in the making…
Unravelling it?
Sad to say it may already be too late.
I reluctantly got a dumb phone a few years ago. I dread the day I have to get a smart arse phone. As for free thinking libertarian humanism, I am rather more interested in truth (which people are still debating all these years on ( ie truth – what is that?)) Smart cities? is smart the new tyranny?
I think they all cooked this up at the last G7/20 meetings – they are all on board with it to a similarly hideous degree. Mike Yeadon was alluding to it in part 4 of his interview with J Dellingpole posted on CW.
I seem to recall a report of a Sage meeting last July that contained an estimate of 75000 deaths caused by lockdowns in the UK. Now was that counting the lockdown thus far? Or did it allow for future restrictions as well? Or did it mean over a year? And how accurate was this figure anyway?
I took a worst case scenario of the UK deaths against the worst performing place that didn’t lock down that I knew of, and estimated that at the South Dakota rate, and assuming all the extra deaths per million were caused by not locking down, it would take about four years of lockdowns saving lives at that rate for them to save a significant number of lives. Of course four years of lockdowns might result in rather more than Sage’s 75000 deaths (assuming their calculation was accurate). Either way, I struggle to see a case for lockdowns. Even on thev government’s own figures and official figures from other countries. And of course the major country with the highest official death rate is Czech Republic, which did lock down, and gave its citizens rather a lot of vaccines.
‘Care home residents barred from voting in elections because Covid (actually Lockdown) rules’.
Bit of a none story this one by somebody claiming to stand up for ‘victims’.
While I’m not generally in favour of postal or proxy voting because of its potential for fraud in the case of permanent residents of care homes this risk would be minimal unless the wards are run by Nurse Ratchet with some evil agenda of her own.
‘Early treatment of Covid19’
Great to see an analysis of 565 studies of cheap pre-existing drugs like invermectin and hydroxycholroquine being shown to be effective as we already know.
Just as ‘average Germans’ were forced to watch newsreel footage of nazi atrocities they claimed to know nothing about the Cabinet followed by SAGE, all other MPs and Lords plus CEOs of NHS Trusts and MSM outlets should be obliged to study this report in depth.
Westminster Hall might be a suitable venue being close at hand and a useful reminder of the traditional way our country is supposed to be governed*.
Classroom assistants to be on hand because there’s %s, graphs and stuff to get their heads around.
*And it’s where X-King Charles I was condemned for his overmighty rule.
‘Pontypool mum robbed of life by ‘late’* cancer diagnosis’.
Desperately sad story and obviously our sympathies lie with Justine, the victim.
In that very lengthy BBC report, mostly about symptoms and the family tragedy only once is she allowed to say
‘I I didn’t get that (treatment), in my head I thinks it’s because I’m young and because of the pandemic’.
Only in the final small paragraph does the journalist reference the other cancer backlogs in Wales which are casually blamed on ‘the pandemic’ when the real cause is, if course, the Lockdown and turning the NHS into the National Covid Service.
*Note the arse covering by the use of ‘late’.
Vax to be made compulsory for care home staff.:
1. All care home residents have been offered a vaccine and the overwhelming majority have taken it so they will be safe from the Covid.
“Er . . . No” say hancock, fauci and the rest, vaccines will not make you safe from getting the Covid.
2. To make care home residents remain safe all staff must be vaccinated to stop them getting the Covid . . .
Some contradiction there methinks.
‘Two Finnish Pastors detained during (al fresco) worship.’
One of them reads out to the Police Officers the Penal Code which forbids the breaking up of religious services and the penalties for so doing.
A Police Officer responds ‘We are the ones who interpret the law, if we say you have to do something you must do it. . .’
Pretty well defines a Police State.
Prohibits the “unlawful” breaking up of religious services.
But ve haf passed a law…
lol
Steven Crowders video heading for 1m+ views as usual, relish the revenue YouTube are losing by demonitising his channel.
First 10 mins are covid/lockdown related then again at 44 mins as Jonathan says.
Last item on roundup
Prof Hugh Pennington rightly condemns bozo for announcing ‘it’s the lockdown what done it’ but the soils himself by saying it’s all down to the vaccines; ignoring seasonality completely.
As an aside. Local Live (mirror group news) reports Zero Cases in one local authority within the County with 9k+ tests being carried out. Would we not expect a number of false positives from those 9k tests ? Just asking.
Indeed we would. I’ve been unable to determine whether “case” numbers (which almost universally just means positive test results) are being adjusted to take into account expected false positives.
I did see that the estimated false positive rate of lateral flow was slashed from the BMJ’s 0.32-0.38% to closer to 0.1%, which was pretty much a no brainer since the national positive test rate was 0.25% last time I checked, and still falling.
Out of interest, does anybody amongst my fellow sceptics actually know how many people HAVE NOT HAD A TEST FOR COVID?
Just wondering how many NORMAL, LOGICAL, FREE THINKING AND FREEDOM LOVING PEOPLE ARE LEFT?
I haven’t. Had the vaccine though.
SNAP.
Which suggests your risk assessment is somewhat lacking.
I didn’t know I was supposed to…
Just curious.
it’s the idea that vaccinated people have to test that makes feel uncomfortable
No test and no vaccine!
Not muzzled. Not tested. Not vaxed.
Same here Annie.
Yes. I wonder how hard life is going to get for us. I suppose they didn’t put all this in their manifesto did they?
I only know of children who’ve been tested and a bloke with a cold who went for a test. I do however know if 2 people who died shortly after getting their jab.
My brother-in-law had the AZ jab and he’s become even more insufferable and sanctimonius since. I think he must have had a blood clot in the empathy part of his brain and it died
Me
Ditto.
Not had a test for covid, nor will I permit my child to have one. It’s a bad cold, so why would anyone in their right mind ever consider having a test. Secondly, risk of causing serious damage by shoving a cotton bud up the nose into sinuses, thirdly goodness only knows what preservatives etc are on the end. Oh, and fourthly, I spend enough time in front of a computer at work. I do not interact with medical services, or the state, over a computer and I never ever use real details for anything else. Would be too much hassle to book anything. Not getting any injected software mods for my cells, either.
Well said, T E.
No tests, no social distancing, no masks, no vaccine, but lots of hugs, fresh air and smiles – normality is alive and well in this little corner of Greater Manchester!
Not tested, not jabbed, not stupid.
Your equation is too simplistic : many of us who have at sometime had a test (I’ve both assented and refused at different times) have done so simply to obviate delay in critical care.
Agreed, it’s quite difficult to refuse what is after all a very minor procedure ( test) when Angel Nurses are busy saving your life with far more invasive stuff while saving your life in ITU.
Otherwise no test and no vax.
Neither a test nor a vaccine
Lockdown easing ‘may need to be reversed if variant spreads rapidly’…… ‘Go ahead, make my day!’
“Great here isn’t it?”
Honestly, I almost think I’d rather have been with Andy McNabb in that scene in Bravo Two Zero (they were trying to fight their way out of a compromise under heavy enemy fire in the first Gulf war. No social distancing in those days…)).
if they do that the lockdown resistance will move up a notch. By that I mean, during Jan-Mar it was clear most people were meeting up in parks.
Yes, that’s my point… if they want resistance they’re gonna get it!
ÀND THEN SOME!!!
I think that is some kind of code for “lockdown 4 is on its way”
Europe suffering under 3rd wave
https://euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/
all lies
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/family-heartbroken-healthy-young-mum-23915665
“Rachel’s family have reported her death as a ‘yellow card’ as she developed her symptoms after receiving a coronavirus vaccine the month before.
There is currently no evidence provided by the hospital to suggest any direct link between Rachel’s death and her having received the jab, but her family believe there could be a correlation.“
For anyone who watched the U.K. column YouTube video with the whistle-blower nurse, who says that they were seeing young people with vaccine injuries coming in and their families being stopped from seeing them when they raised the possibility of it being a vaccine injury.
This one is especially interesting as I think I remember one of the trials being paused because of inflammation of the myelin sheath in one of the participants.
If we’re going to include missed cancer diagnoses in the news round-up, could we also include pointless deaths in the young due to vaccine reactions.
Deaths of people working as carers is especially worrying in the light of the public consultation that is currently taking place about making it mandatory for employees of care homes to be vaccinated against COVID-19.
Mmm. Every lie that we’re being told about Our Totally Safe Vaccines was also lied about the H1N1 vaccine Pandemrix. That was forced on medical workers first as well.
Look below for my post covering the very same thing – but in this case it concerns my own family friend.
It takes a little effort to find the latest Yellow Card figures on the gov.uk website, but the figures are extremely damning on this so-called ‘vaccine’. In their own words:
It goes on to say:
So it’s not okay to point out that the overwhelming majority of people said to have died of cov-19 were elderly, almost always with underlying illness, but it is perfectly fine for the government to say the same in defence of the dangerous ‘vaccine’.
J4mes I am sorry about you friend. I didn’t want to leave tonight without saying that. Terribly, terribly sorry.
You really have to smile, don’t you?
We all know that TR is a commercial station so obviously needs to carry advertising to survive and of course like all tv and radio stations have to run the government propaganda diktats warning us all that if we go outside and mix with more than 5 people that 90% of the population are going to die, and then it’s followed by constant advertising by a well known fast food company urging us to partake of their gut rotting, diabetes causing, obesity inducing junk food which in the long run will eventually be the cause of far,far more deaths than Covid ever did.
I had to stop listening to Prof Pennington championing the dangerous ‘vaccine’. Instead I’ve been looking through the latest figures on the Yellow Card reports showing the terrible side effects of the ‘vaccine’ often resulting in death.
Potentially, there’s another stat to add to the latest report due to the terrible loss of a close family friend yesterday.
I don’t know the specific details of his death yet, but his illness was a from-birth genetic disorder and he was discharged from hospital a week ago after he got really ill. They told him he had approx. 2 years to live. Before leaving, he insisted on getting the ‘vaccine’ against the advice from the doctors (which surprised me). A week later, he’s dead. Is it a result of the ‘vaccine’ or did the doctors massively overestimate his life-expectancy?
If it turns out he died due to the ‘vaccine’, that’s another casualty of this tyrannical government. After more than a year of this nightmare, a grim chart of my own is starting to develop:
Death by:
Suicide – 2
Vaccine – 1*
Covid-19 – 0
*yet to be determined
I will never forgive or forget all who are directly or indirectly driving this programme.
EDIT: Just want to add that as far as I’m aware, his wife was not allowed to be be with him when he died. This needs to be confirmed, but that’s my understanding.
Pfizer had 4 people dying of diarrhea. What a way to go!
The one that induces gallows humour is 312 people reported covid-19 symptoms as a side-effect of the ‘vaccine’ and 12 people died of it. WTF.
I’ve always thought the safest vaccine for covid-19 is covid-19. Minor symptoms and protected for life.
Want to be careful as all vaccines have side effects so maybe not straight into the care homes as per the NHS bio-attack
For the majority of folk that is very true. There is a cohort of individuals who go on to contract Long Covid which causes multisystem dysfunction & results in disability, which has a severe impact on function. I’m one of those. However I do not agree with the forcing of an experimental drug on the populace nor in lockdowns or muzzle wearing or mass testing using a technique which is so blatantly wrong as a diagnostic tool. Basic common sense & the implementation of pandemic management planning should have been the way to go.
I copped Covid last March before lockdown & have been out of work since. This is my reality BUT imposing draconian measures on everyone else? So so wrong. Research into better early treatment, prophylaxis (turmeric & bromelain stop the receptors in the lungs from accepting the spike protein) & research into treatment/rehabilitation of those left with a long term disability is the way to go.
I wish you all the best. To be one of the unlucky ones and not expect everyone to be locked down or vaccinated shows a strength of character.
Thank you. I’m NHS frontline with a science degree. My training even way back when, instilled in me a questioning the evidence approach & my father’s attitude was ‘assume nothing!’
I enjoy your posts & have found then most insightful. Keep them going please.
BB
Good luck! And as Churchill would say – “keep on buggering on!”
I had long covid before it was a “thing”. What flattened it in the end was a low carb anti-inflammatory diet (basically meat, veg, no seeds, nuts, grains, dairy, caffeine), and something akin to the Zelenko protocol (C,D3+K2, Zinc, and later Quercetin and methylated B vitamins) . I also started cycling on a stationary bicycle for as long as I could stomach to reduce my insulin resistance.
It does ease, but dear God it kicked the crap out of me.
I also bought a new mattress which had no effect on the rib pain, but helped me sleep a bit better, and used CBT for the racing heart and breathlessness at night. Trying to stay in the moment helped to calm because I have chronic PTSD so couldn’t stop thinking I was having a panic attack and falling apart mentally, although I felt surprisingly mentally well all things considered.
The NHS is a stinking pile of manure in my experience, so initially locking down made sense because it would allow it to cope by slowing transmission. But as someone who has watched the world get on with their lives as I suffered physical and mental disability, I absolutely would have no further truck with it once the numbers were in abd it was confirmed what an incredibly untrustworthy government of psychopaths we were being run by.
What is ‘long ‘ covid…?
BB – a lot of doctors might not know this about long covid (I am sorry you have it – it must be miserable) but if it is anything similar to ME/CFS (and logic would suggest that it is) there is now a school of thought that ME/CFS is a result of an initial infection harming the function of the thyroid gland in a way which standard NHS thyroid function testing does not demonstrate and that this in turn impacts all the systems in the body. If you can manage it, try to read this article
Pure T3 Thyroid and Stories of Recovery from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) and Fibromyalgia: An Overview. – Health Rising
The explanation for the syndrome is provided by Dr Gordon Skinner. It can be treated using thyroid hormones. If the same applies to Long Covid then they might work for that also – as the majority of NHS doctors would never make this link between ME and hypothyroidism, and that it can be treated, then I would imagine they also won’t make the same link between long covid and hypothyroidism and patients will be told “we can’t help you” or will get a graded exercise programme or antidepressants.
“Want to be careful as all vaccines have side effects so maybe not straight into the care homes as per the NHS bio-attack”
sorry to be bleak – but do you think that is their underlying plan??? get the care workers vaccinated – send them back into the care homes – and boom a whole other lot of oldies who survived the covid outbreak first time round (where it was let rip in care homes) succumb this time???
AS to the Manchester study with its allegedly massive ‘vaccine’ effect – it is a marvellous example of why you can never find figures for absolute risk reduction – the key datum for any real difference made by a treatment.
From the figures quoted, the difference in chances of even having a positive PCR test between the vaccinated and unvaccinated population :
ABSOLUTE RISK REDUCTION = 0.01% (!!!!!!!!) (FFS!)
(From 15.3 per 100,000 to 4.6 per 100,000) = ((15.3/100,000)-(4.6/100,000))*100
This is the significant datum, not the increased risk of blood clotting.
So – Mr Toad is not all wrong re. the comparative effectiveness of lockdown : both measures make, in technical terms bugger all difference!
Be very wary when you see relative risk reduction figures ((15.3-4.6)/15.3*100). They are fraudulent – and, sadly, even a lot of medical professionals don’t get it)
P.S. Very disappointing to see that Spiegelhalter, who has written about the perils of accepting relative risk reduction at face value, is complicit in letting this particular fiction pass.
He was ok right at the beginning. He said lockdown only spreads the death out but the death is coming anyway. Then he turned nutty.
I listened to him on Any Questions – he was given the floor for 20 minutes and no interruptions to answer ‘how dangerous is covid?’. He waffled for the entire time – no information just bullshit. For a professor of the public understanding of risk it was absolutely dire. Like a student having a panic attack in a viva.
That’s interesting. I never watch Question Time, so didn’t see it.
It’s pretty obvious to me that he’s been scared into submission. I have his book The Art of Statistics to hand, and he gives a brilliant exposition of this key issue of relative and absolute risk (using the danger of eating bacon as an example). Yet now he seems as ignorant as the ordinary Joe of the matter!
It’s disappointing to see so much focus here on lockdowns rather than the issues around vaccines.
Basically – making a case against lockdowns is easy peasy, even if the great washed are too dim to grasp it. Here, however, you’re preaching to the converted.
Vaccines, however, are a much more clear and present danger, given that so many sceptics have not become rationalists about them (see this site) – it’s easy to find lockdown opponents giving vaccines as a reason for easing lockdown.
Doh!
We should not forget the travesty of lockdowns, but vaccines (at the moment) are the key myth. This is not just about the dangers of relatively rare if lethal side effects, that seem to induce much of the existing comment – there is much more at stake.
Round Up has several articles today relevant to the vaccine issue, but, whilst there is some, I see relatively little discussion of the issues beyond the single aspect of side effects, and hardly any grasp of how effective they actually are (not very), or discussion of the wider ethical issues beyond lockdown
“Vaccines, however, are a much more clear and present danger”
Only to those who have no capacity to assess risk properly. Probably time for you to find somewhere else to hang out.
We’ve had millions of injections and the hard evidence is entirely against you.
If you don’t want to sound like a mask fanatic, then it is time to accept that the facts have changed and it is time to change your mind.
Long term risk != short term risk
You are a bit of a tosser, Lucan to make that remark, worthy of 77th Brigade – again.
Most people can’t assess risk. Otherwise we wouldn’t be where we are with this shit-show. In terms of risk analysis – a fair number of people are flouting lockdown, although it is clear that it is a continuing danger. A large majority (including erstwhile ‘sceptics’) are, however, convinced that the snake-oil is a preservative nectar, and may well welcome the idea of vaccine passports. If you don’t realise that, you really need to get out more.
As to your last sentence – I doubt that the intelligent posters here will want to be part of a circle just for cross-eyed self-abusers rather than a discussion forum.
To be more precise and less simply retorting – you really do need to examine your boasted grasp of ‘risk assessment’ if you’ve had the jab.
Start from the essential premise that ‘risk assessment’ has two components : benefits and harms. You have only looked (and that partially) at the harms.
In order to decide whether to get jabbed, I would need to know the benefit vs. the risk, for me personally. How do I go about finding reliable, meaningful data that I could use to assess this? I would struggle. I think you said somewhere you’d been jabbed – none of my business and your choice but as I think you posted about it, what was your assessment of the covid risk to you and the vaccine risk?
And that’s leaving aside the question of long term trials, which are not finished yet.
Well, Julian, the ‘Don’t Mention the War’ figure that is relevant to that risk assessment is, as mentioned, according to the Manchester research, an overall absolute risk reduction of getting even a PCR+ result of 0.01%.
Thanks. I looked into the chances of me dying prior to covid and me dying now and it was very hard to tell them apart.
Exactly.
Vaccines are a clear and present danger to myself and my children. My mother is 80 and frail, the vaccine makes sense for her.
Population wide vaccination with an unlicensed vaccine is a recipe for disaster, just as giving Statins to the whole population would mean disaster for some and benefit to only a few.
The point being, it should be individual choice with all facts on the table, no coercion. Vaccines do have side-effects.
“My mother is 80 and frail, the vaccine makes sense for her.”
I’m afraid that it doesn’t when you examine the risk reduction. It’s all part of the myth.
The most frightening thing about the gene based “vaccines which aren’t vaccines” is what they are actually designed to do. They inject different vehicles (depending on the brand of gene therapy) which are loaded up with synthetic genetic code to invade healthy cells to get the the healthy cells to start producing viral spike proteins. So imagine your healthy cells, buzzing away, then all of a sudden in comes Astrapfeizer with it’s genetic instructions to start protruding spikes, which they do. Why anyone would want to subject their body to this bizarre, experimental process is beyond me.
This article gives a very good overview of the various methods and implications of these techniques, written by Dr Marcus De Brun, who states “Speaking as a qualified Microbiologist, l would NOT administer an mRNA vaccine to a healthy animal, never mind a healthy human being.”, in a way the layman can understand
‘Healthy People Do Not Require Genetic Vaccination’
https://cassandravoices.com/science-environment/science/healthy-people-do-not-require-genetic-vaccination/
The MHRA have confirmed that “the DNA template used does not come directly from an isolated virus from an infected person”, for the Pfeizer BionTech vaccine, so how they are doing all this with any degree of certainty is beyond me. It’s all a load of witchcraft if you ask me!
EMAIL EXCHANGE WITH UK MHRA – Exposing the genomic sequence of SARSCov2
https://www.fluoridefreepeel.ca/email-exchange-with-uk-mhra-exposing-the-genomic-sequence-of-sarscov2/
They are trials..end of…
He says
“There are at least two off-patent (cheap and safe) drugs, Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin, that may be effective in treating Covid-19. These drugs are not, however, licensed for use in treating Covid in many Western countries, (particularly the wealthier ones who can afford the novel vaccines). If either, or both, drugs had been licensed, this might have proved an obstacle to the granting of emergency use licences for Covid-19 vaccines. The reason for this is that grounds for emergency licensing of genetic-vaccines are substantially reinforced, as long as there are no other pharmacological treatments available at the time.”
This can only lead one to the logical conclusion: that it was never about public health and always about a vaccine and if it was always about a vaccine – why was that??? again, not for public health purposes but as a vehicle for something else – some other agenda.
brilliant article FCF – possibly the best I have read yet at explaining why we should be very concerned about the vaccinations on offer and the potential harm they might do
My parents thought that too and got the vaccine – I was devastated and I can see that far from having benefited from it, it has harmed both of them
Are the lower preportion of vaccinated people in hospitals compared to non-vaccinated people due to the success of the vaccines in preventing people becoming ill (The Telegraph’s cherished narrative) or because they have already killed the most vulnerable amongst the group who took them?
Here’s a South African variant worth hearing by the adorable Thandi Ntuli
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pquueFbolyc
It’s called New Way but actually it’s about love not politics.
Note how a black South African jazz pianist has no problem integrating white-type orchestral music into her song
or for something funkier here’s Dudu Pukwana who always reminds me of that line about making a joyful noise unto the Lord
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-T1SsaIFUU
Steven Crowder’s crew are arseholes but they do have a point.
What nonsense. Neither lockdowns nor vaccines, natural virus decline. Where did you dig that old codger up???
Nasal swabs causing uptick in meningitis according to a French study.
https://www.academie-medecine.fr/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/21.4.8-Nasopharyngeal-swabs-are-not-without-risk-ENG.pdf