There follows a guest post by a Daily Sceptic reader based in Italy, who wishes to remain anonymous, on the devastating impact of vaccine passports and the lengths the unvaccinated will go to to get the infection that gains them an exemption.
Sometimes they meet with the positivo in a flat. Sometimes they go further and share water bottles, embraces and masks. The aim is simple. To infect yourself with omicron. In December and January I increasingly ran into unvaccinated Italian friends actively looking to get Covid. This has barely been covered in Italy’s newspapers, but it involves hundreds of thousands of Italians and it is part of the explanation for rising numbers here.
Why would you get ill on purpose? If you ask the self-infectors you will be offered various evasions: deliberately spreading Covid is a crime. However, the simple answer is a perverse mechanism introduced by vaccine passports. Passports are given to those: i) who have been vaccinated; and to ii) those who have had Covid. If you can register a hit with a certified test, you avoid government passport restrictions for six months.
In September 2021 this did not matter so much. Only restaurants and some meetings were off-limits to those without vaccinations. Even in these cases it was possible to get a temporary ‘passport’ with a test. Then the Government extended its writ across different areas of the economy, not least the teaching professions and healthcare. Next the simple loophole of a test was threaded tighter. Then rules on planes were extended to busses and trains… The screw has slowly been turned.
The Government presented in early January 2022, a new raft of laws to hem the unvaccinated in still further. The unvaccinated will no longer, from February, be able to go in a shop save for certain ‘essentials’ without a passport. Hairdressers and beauty saloons, banks and post offices have also been decreed off-limits. The above rules applied to all residents older than twelve. The unvaccinated over fifty were liable, meanwhile, to ill-defined spot fines.
But this simple legal sketch does not do justice to Italy, a place that I’ve been happy to call home for twenty years. In Italy there are laws that are taken seriously and there are laws, even new laws, that are just there to be navigated and winked at. The art of living in Italy, so bewildering to outsiders, is to understand which law is important at a given moment.
In late January 2022 Covid laws are very much in the ascendancy. The Government and most Italians have lost all patience with the unvaccinated. These laws then are being applied with a certain fetishist pleasure by the authorities and their citizen police: any ‘passport’ laws depend on the goodwill of the population generally to be enforced.
I have heard in the last month, for the first time, Italians threaten the unvaccinated: ‘vi ammazzo tutti’ (I’ll kill the lot of you). I have witnessed pressure being put on the parents of unvaccinated children in the popular tribunals of the digital age, WhatsApp class groups. I have seen the offensive messages that an unvaccinated 13-year-old girl received from a classmate on her phone.
The unvaccinated glimpsed this Christmas a window of opportunity. There were new laws coming, rising citizen anger and the mildest version of Covid yet seen. The despised began, then, to arrange meetings with the sick. One infected woman told me that her convalescent chamber had been like ‘Mecca’ with pilgrims coming from afar. The water bottle was shared there between those of a common faith. The religious connotations being picked up on both sides of the Covid divide are fascinating.
In the eyes of the law what these self-infectors are doing in their ‘upper room’, is wrong. But they could, I think, reasonably argue that it was the law that put them in this situation in the first place. Losing your job, seeing your kids picked on, being shunned by your neighbours is not good for social solidarity. As one unvaccinated man said to me “it is their law now”. Cavour groans in his grave.
The hope for self-infectors is to get through the next season where Covid legislation will start to fall away. Then, if that does not happen, Novavax, a Covid vaccine that is not based on mRNA technology, should be an alternative, at least, for the more moderate no-vaxxers. I wouldn’t be confident about any such happy ends, though.
The unvaccinated underclass will be one of the scars of the Covid biennio, in Italy: thank two-score head-banging Tory Spartans that the U.K. didn’t, too, go down this self-defeating route. Public ire against the unvaccinated will not last beyond the summer, because Covid is, please God, all but over. But why should the unvaccinated forgive and forget?
Many already distrusted authority and to make a case for civic duty would be insulting after their experiences. The absurd conspiracy theories that some of the unvaccinated peddled have been, to their minds, validated: one no-vaxxer I know now refuses to let me enter her house with my phone as ‘they’ may be listening. Some will turn away from society. Some will turn to violence. A brave and an energetic part of Italian culture has come loose.
And for what? It is true that the unvaccinated are over-represented in Covid wards. But then so are the obese. Yet daily jogs or weigh ins before getting on trains were never suggested there. Mandatory vaccines might have been a sensible policy in the case of, say, the Black Death (with one in two or one in three of the infected dying). But with Covid, with its death rate of perhaps one in 400, it is simply absurd.
All the anger and the laws, in the case of Italy meant that perhaps 5% to 10% more adults were vaccinated, most of whom were not seriously at risk, in any case. The price? The alienation of around five million Italians. This would be serious in Denmark or the Netherlands. In a nation like Italy where a sense of national belonging is fragile, it is catastrophic.
The writer who wished to remain anonymous wrote this while recovering from COVID. Not that it is any of your business, but he is vaccinated.
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And should never have been promoted in the way that they were, all over the world. Certainly, in the UK, there has been an awful lot of blatant lying about the safety and efficacy of the product on offer.
I agree that it has exposed the nature of the political and industrial organisations behind it. It will be a long haul to rearrange that so as to benefit mankind.
And this brief statement by Malhotra is still live on 13/1/21: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2M6Q5nStRQ&list=WL&index=3
There was a lengthy document issued by the WHO on how to combat vax hesitancy. https://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/handle/10665/352029/WHO-EURO-2022-3471-43230-60590-eng.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
Must have cost a fortune.
Haven’t read it and I don’t particularly care to (though appreciate the link), but I’d wager there’s nothing in there that encourages transparency in the whole pharmaceutical medical / media complex (obvious conflicts of interest by those disseminating the advice, let alone the regulators’ own income stream) – if they weren’t so flippant and disingenuous over people’s genuine concerns by simultaneously running a gaslighting campaign of misinfo (yes, misinformation) to misdirect and obfuscate the clear and provable signal of vaccine harm, even death.
Is it no wonder there’s “vaccine hesitancy”? Besides, what’s wrong with being hesitant over an admitted novel medicine of which has never been widely distributed until now – essentially a final phase of an experimental trial. Given what we now know, the risk vs reward was neither calculated correctly nor explained in any detail, only because of our irrational fear over a virus with a 99.9% survival rate made this ‘intervention’ appear justified.
And this rearrangement will never happen. As an example the UK public inquiry will find that there was nothing else we could have done, no individual was culpable in any way but lessons will be learnt.
I wish Johan and his peers well in this endeavour. But I do wonder if any of them used any common sense from the beginning of all this horror…
Better late than never. At the end of the day if more doctors, scientists and other professionals with clout don’t find it in themselves to speak out then we can never expect change. Everybody’s individual red-pill experience is different, but I think when people see that others are speaking out then it will encourage them to do so and they’ll find the courage. Especially if they know that there’s people who will have their backs. A year ago being a dissenter was a lonely place to be, which made you more vulnerable and easier to ignore, but I take heart that there seems to be more and more joining the ranks now.
Absolutely, Mogs. Couldn’t agree more. And you’re right to point out that it stings the lonely amateurs with no “relevant credentials” who have been pointing this out for years already… years.
Mogwai, being a dissenter nearly three years ago was a very, very lonely place to be…
Back in March 2020, The BMJ published my rapid response challenging ‘future fast-tracked vaccine products’…but I didn’t notice many members of the medical and scientific establishment questioning the ‘vaccine solution’ – why not? Why weren’t these people equipped to call out this proposed mass population medical intervention against a disease it was known wasn’t a serious threat to most people? Why is the Church of Vaccination a no go area for questioning?
FYI, here’s my rapid response published in March 2020:
Amen. Even the GBD and PANDA at first partially took the blue pill for the first two doses in regards to the most vulnerable folks (but no one else).
I recently watched a documentary on the rise to power of the Bolsheviks in Russia.
They were a very small group of people but they managed to take control of Russia through a combination of opportunism, taking control of key places, ruthless elimination of opposition and the very quick build up of a network of soviets throughout Russia.
One thing that stood out was the incredible speed with which they acted, changing laws and taking over key elements of society.
What struck me is how much it reminded of me of the blitz that we were subjected to at the beginning of 2020 and for the next 3 years – like a deliberate, well planned revolution.
The first few years of the Bolshevik take over involved a civil war as a result of a reactionary push back from “white” Russians. The push back failed as we all know. The Bolsheviks had advanced too far too quickly.
I really hope we have better luck pushing back the global bio-security revolution of 2020.
It doesn’t look good. Who is rallying behind Andrew Bridgen? Which official institutions are backing up these groups of doctors sounding the alarm?
My sense tells me that whilst ordinary people are broadly sceptical now of much of this bio-security, the major state institutions and its leaders are so all completely up to their necks, participating in this revolution and the crimes associated with it, that there are simply not enough levers of power left to fight back with.
It’s why many people refer to it as a Plandemic. It was clearly carefully planned and coordinated at a Global Level.
Definitely. 20 years in planning. G20 coordination was so obvious that only the truly oblivious missed it. Endless money into propaganda and paying the various institutions to support the new totalitarianism. A ‘virus’ – unseen, ghostly, small, fast, deadly supposedly – is the perfect ‘enemy’ and excuse isn’t it, to establish a bio security Fascist state. 2025 ‘contagion plandemic’ is already in planning by Kill Gates et al. No doubt smirking and snarking at the febrililty and cowardice of the sheeple.
When you dig out the foundations of the tower in time it will collapse.
We must keep digging.
I think this is great and am very encouraged that people are banding together, searching their consciences, following the actual science and finding the courage to speak out in opposition to this blatant madness that cannot be allowed to go on for yet another year.
As an aside, this is very interesting. And I note the part where they state that both Ivermectin and HDQ were identified as curative against SARS-CoV-2 back in April 2020. No wonder they went mental suppressing the evidence that they were effective and censoring doctors who were trying to share this information. No raking in of mega-bucks by the billion if the masses had gotten wind of the truth, plus there would have been a massive outcry if it were found out these treatments were being deliberately withheld whilst people were forced to wait months for the ineffective and unsafe gene therapies instead.
https://docbrown77.substack.com/p/project-veritas-blew-the-first-whistle
+ no emergency measures would have been passed to allow the Jabs to be dished out if there was an alternative treatment !!
Yes. That’s why they denied the existence of alternative methods. By normal standards, Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of a novel product would only be valid if there was no alternative.
Wow – that is dynamite. Thanks for posting.
On a similar vein, I have only just seen the attached 20 min video (10 months old) of Tess Lawrie’s zoom call with Dr Andrew Hill in January 2021 regarding a research paper on ivermectin, which effectively killed off ivermectin’s use in western countries as a treatment for Covid.
A Letter to Dr Andrew Hill | Dr Tess Lawrie | Oracle Films (rumble.com)
Yes I saw that too. She gives him short shrift doesn’t she? And he quite rightly looks pretty uncomfortable. What a double-crossing, unscrupulous swine! How so many people can sleep at night after being complicit in this entire debacle is anyone’s guess.
Can you feel it in your water?.. there’s a change coming (“winters commin”), it will start verrrry slowly, odd politicians will start climbing quietly off the covid bandwagon followed by a few tentative scientists, oh so quietly, they’ll get as much distance from it as they can before the full force of the truth is released.
When this happens there’ll be a mass scramble for the “I said this all along” door and the “I warned them,but no one listened”door, by this time the mass media will be baying for blood having been on the anti-vaxers side all along! The axles on the wagon will snap under the full weight of all the evacuees clamoring for the innocence bandwagon that they all wanted to be on in the first place but, where ordered by… someone else not to! “wasn’t me gov, he made me say it gov”.
Just a matter of time now!
Yes but unfortunately for the nasty little reverse-ferreting scumbags the internet keeps receipts and no way will these individuals be able to scurry away into the shadows until everything dies down and they slink out, imagining themselves reinvented and that we’ve all forgotten their heinous behaviour and spiteful words and lies. No wriggling off the hook for these spineless maggots. Just let them try and do a 180.
Just look at Laurence Fox going to town on that sleaze bag Hancock, who’s also trying to reinvent himself as somebody relevant and with morals. He should have been left in the jungle eating worms. We don’t have amnesia Mr Hancock! Shame Laurence doesn’t mention the word ”midazolam”;
https://twitter.com/LozzaFox/status/1613222990736461849?s=20&t=yAX9XMT-5PJVWrsFoMGQEQ
Fox needs to keep an eye on Ofcom when working for GBN, on some of their programmes. Anyway, wasn’t Hancock an estate agent? Not the best man for the job leading a health campaign.
Wancock is the best example of how corrupt humans can get when their pockets are being filled with Gold ! ( in his case by Klaus )
Don’t count on it. I hope you are right but I used to think similarly about the so called global warming consensus. In the last 15 years it has just become worse. Stewart’s comments are wise.
I think the truth will come out, but also that TPTB will have a plan for what to do when it does. I have heard Robert Malone talking about “The Big Reveal”, whereby TPTB come clean on what has happened both because it is inevitable that the truth will emerge and in order to cause further despair and discord amongst the masses. I am not entirely clear on the theory, but I think the idea is to break the system and people’s spirit in order that they will more readily embrace “the solution” offered.
The dyke the Globalists so carefully constructed is starting to crumble.
Brilliant piece that’s left me with a question, Who is the Swedish Minister for health ? Official data puts Sweden at top of list for country least affected by covid mania ,it’s doctors are now speaking out to end the Jab insanity but this minister just doubled down with the tired old vaccine that’s not a vaccine rhetoric !!…
The harms which the mRNA tec jabs cause has been known for a long time :-
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027869152200206X
Paras. !0 and 14 particularly relevant to CVS problems. It isn’t just a case of zero harm or death though. There are the huge harms caused by micro clots to be considered. We are aware of deaths amongst athletes, but has anyone noticed the huge increase in muscle injuries eg pulled/torn hamstrings, sustained by pro. footballers in particular. Endothelial cells in capillaries being attacked?
That said, the future delights in the form of a huge increase in all autoimmune disease are yet to come – solely as a result of the immune system being trashed.
All this was known by some and should have been known by all proponents of the jab.
It is by some distance the biggest crime against humanity, ever.
After a quick scan through it, I thought it was worth emphasising the last sentence in the Conclusions: “Furthermore, we encourage all individuals to make their own health care decisions with this information as a contributing factor in those decisions.” Some of us already have taken a precautionary approach to it, right from the start – but many haven’t, unfortunately.
More sound words and fantastic support for our Andrew B from the Jewish community;
“Note that his statement does not make light of the Holocaust in any way. It does not even say whether this crime is equal to or greater than the Holocaust. It simply states that the covid vaccine administration is the greatest crime to have occurred after the Holocaust.
I will go on the record to declare that anyone who is calling MP Andrew Bridgen or his claims racist or anti-Semitic is not speaking for the benefit of the Jewish people.
So, what self-serving nonsense for the anti-science covid shot proponents to cry “anti Semitism.” They are the anti-Semites.
My Rabbi, who lost four siblings to the Holocaust, wrote this to me:
https://truth613.substack.com/p/as-a-jewish-woman-i-support-mp-andrew
I have been absolutely stunned by the way these vaccines have been promoted.
No vaccine has ever been 100% safe and effective.
Having established that statement, the next step is looking who would benefit from vaccination with a ‘vaccine’ under emergency use authorisation with an unknown safety record.
Initially one could argue that the very elderly and vulnerable might have a case
for vaccination should they want to. That was the initial stance of the U.K. government.
But why extend the vaccines to the younger age groups (below 65 years old) with minimal absolute risk reduction and the risk of side-effects?
We now know more. Vaccines are not effective and there are over 500,000 Yellow card reports, which is the tip of the iceberg.
in a previous life these vaccinations would have been stopped a long time ago.
Why does the U.K. government not use this sacrosanct precautionary principle which they have followed to the extreme in all other areas of the pandemic control?
Some other countries have halted the vaccines, so why not the U.K.?
I can only think it must be wilful ignorance.
Admitting there is a problem now would be a huge problem.
However in my book, wilful ignorance to try and save face whilst these vaccines continue to risk harming people is negligent.
I think the most plausible explanation for pushing the jab on younger age groups is a) to try to eliminate the control group and b) $$$$. However, others think it is part of a depopulation agenda. I don’t dismiss this but it’s not a theory I get behind.
I see that Lisa Marie Presley has just died of a cardiac arrest aged 54. I wonder if this will assist with the removal of the log jam.
More outpourings of support for Bridgen in Substack Land, this time from the excellent ( and Jewish ) Igor Chudov;
“We need compassion for all people who die due to hate, reckless experimentation, ethnic cleansing, eugenics, plunder, attempts to depopulate any groups or even the entire humanity, and more. The Holocaust instructs us to be vigilant about ALL future attempts at such malfeasance and protect all people unfairly targeted by evil interests.
Andrew Bridgen, in making his statement, was not expressing any ethnic antipathy. Quite to the contrary, he was trying to save lives affected by “Covid vaccines.” Thus, his invocation of the Holocaust reflected his good intention to prevent a current tragedy from continuing.”
https://igorchudov.substack.com/p/anti-vaccine-mp-andrew-bridgen-is
It was known from the beginning that most people weren’t at risk of ‘Covid-19’…so why was a ‘vaccine solution’ initiated and pressed upon the entire global population?
It seems Neil Ferguson et al’s Imperial College Report 9 bedded in the idea that the virus had to be suppressed “until a vaccine becomes available” – who knew at the time Ferguson was funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, arguably the world’s biggest promoter of vaccine products?
Why wasn’t this massive conflict of interest disclosed in Ferguson et al’s Report 9?
Why did Ferguson et al compare the Covid situation to the 1918 influenza pandemic, which reportedly resulted in 50 million, or 100 million deaths…give or take 50 million?
Why didn’t they compare the Covid situation to the Swine Flu pandemic in 2009…which fizzled out…
While Ferguson and co were beating up the threat in Report 9, published on 16 March 2020, on 19 March 2020 Public Health England reported “As of 19 March 2020, COVID-19 is no longer considered to be a high consequence infectious disease (HCID) in the UK.”
I wrote to Neil Ferguson on this matter in August 2021, noting that:
I didn’t receive a response from Neil Ferguson.
See my August 2021 email to Neil Ferguson, titled: Neil Ferguson and Andrew Pollard sharing a taxi…?
I subsequently discovered it was John Edmunds in the taxi with Andrew Pollard…the plot thickens…
The jabs (both mRNA and adenovirus vector) need to be halted yesterday. Scratch that, they literally need to be halted two years ago!
Jakob Forssman is the Swedish health minister, only had the job since last October , suprise !! NOT
Problem? This article is dated Jan 13th 2023, but in Toby’s Update (and the Update itself) is dated Sept 7th 2020. Typo?
So people already immunocompromised were advised to get vaxed and boosted. Given the evidence that immunity is compromised further by the multiple boosters, are these people even more vulnerable now to disease? Would seem they would have to be.