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26 July 2024
Government Has Just Declared War on Free Speech
26 July 2024
by Toby Young
Scientists tried to reinfect people with Covid but found it impossible, even when they ramped up the dose 10,000-fold, according to the latest results from the Covid challenge trials.
As the new Covid JN.1 variant spread over the winter, an Imperial College 'expert' predicted a "major surge in infections" and called for masks to return. This prediction, like all the others, did not age well.
Here we go again. "Experts" (from Independent SAGE, naturally) have called for another Covid booster drive amid fears the new "concerning" Pirola Covid variant could overwhelm the NHS. Give it a rest, will you.
Hot on the heels of Eris, a new multiply-mutated form of Covid has shown up, nicknamed 'Pirola'. But Dr Chris Smith, writing in the Telegraph, is reaching for the paracetamol – not the panic button.
Pfizer has denied doing gain-of-function research but also said it was engineering the virus to express variant spike proteins. Now Dr. Paul Offit has implied that such work is indeed gain-of-function research.
Some sceptics have expressed doubts over the veracity of the blabbermouth Pfizer exec story, arguing it's staged. But that makes no sense and doesn't fit the evidence, says Thorsteinn Siglaugsson.
Pfizer is “doing gain-of-function research to mutate Covid in order to create more vaccines”, a ‘Pfizer executive’ has revealed in explosive new undercover footage.
A simplistic use of 'herd immunity' led to fanciful claims that COVID-19 would disappear once 60% of the population was vaccinated. But is there a dark side to aiming at 'herd immunity' through vaccines?
With a non-sterilising vaccine like the Covid ones, high viral load in the vaccinated helps drive vaccine-escape variants – a fact that should have been factored into the vaccination programmes but wasn't.
There is now lots of evidence that COVID-19 was spreading globally by autumn 2019 at the latest. But why then were there no excess deaths until March 2020? New York City may point us to the answer.
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