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Postby Belligerent Savant » Mon Oct 18, 2021 6:21 pm

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Caveat Lector. Shared here as added consideration.


https://www.rintrah.nl/scotland-the-can ... ting-sick/


Scotland: The canary in the coalmine is getting sick

October 13, 2021

After a new virus began to spread around the globe, we responded with an unprecedented global experiment. Around most of the Western world, people were given one of two options: Get vaccinated, or become a second class citizen. The vaccines consisted of one of two options: Allow yourself to be injected with a genetically modified chimpanzee adenovirus designed to express the Spike protein, or allow yourself to be injected with mRNA encapsulated in lipid.

In the United Kingdom, they mainly settled on their own vaccine, the one where you use a genetically modified chimpanzee adenovirus. You inject the vaccine into someone’s muscle, the virus enters the cells, releases its DNA into the nucleus and the cells are fooled into producing the toxic spike protein, along with a number of adenovirus genes.

This can be considered a pretty novel experiment. Except for the COVID-19 vaccines, the only other viral vector vaccines in use worldwide are two Ebola vaccines used for ring vaccination primarily in small rural villages in Africa, in countries where the average life expectancy is in the early sixties. If these sort of vaccines carry harmful long-term side effects, we would have no way of knowing.

So how’s the experiment going? Well for that we can turn to Scotland. Scotland is in many ways a good place to study what’s going to happen in the rest of the Western world. Vaccination uptake is very high, mass vaccination began very early this year, the country’s Northern location means that cold weather sets in earlier and the nation is pretty transparent and reliable in releasing its data.

Unfortunately the data is pretty worrisome.

https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/news/2021 ... tober-2021

@scojw

Scotland: 2021 mortality through week 40 (NRS)

1/ Overall
Actually shocked to see the jump this week, far above the 5 year average
By some margin this was the highest mortality rate of Week 40, in all the history back to 1974.

2/ Excess mortality by cause of death
Deaths with covid remains a significant proportion, but coming down. By far the majority of excess mortality continued to be non-covid.

3/ Excess mortality by location of death
Deaths at home the main proportion, but as with recent weeks we continue to have excess mortality in hospital (despite lower than normal admissions to hospital), and last week saw for the first time some excess mortality at care home.

https://twitter.com/scojw/status/144825 ... 79116?s=20

It should be obvious from looking at this data that something is wrong. Mortality last week was 30% above normal. Even if you removed all COVID deaths, mortality this week looks worse than it did a year ago. But the most important thing to note is that the excess mortality consists effectively entirely of people dying at home (ie unexpectedly):

4/ Total mortality by age group
Primary excess continues to be in 85+, but sharp rise in 75-84. The 65-74 age group showing smaller excess, and also 45-64 ages.

4b/ Mortality by age - Summer 2021 v’s 2020
This shows cumulative excess mortality of 2021 versus 2020. We continue to see this offset rise by age group, with 85+ sharply inflecting first, then 75-84, then 65-74 a little later etc.
Those trends worsening rather than flattening.

5/ Breakdown of excess mortality
Separating where we see excess mortality, it is
- Primarily ‘Others’, then cancer, circulatory, covid
- Occurring at home
- Higher excess, the higher the age group

https://twitter.com/scojw/status/144825 ... 79116?s=20

Nothing here suggests it’s getting any better.

In Scandinavia we’re not seeing excess mortality, despite widespread vaccination. That gives us some clue in regards to the direction we should look in. We know that the vaccines lead to the development of autoimmune conditions, specifically thrombocytopenia. Immune Thrombocytopenia is linked to vitamin D deficiency.[1,2] Most studies suggest vitamin D deficiency is far more common in Scotland than in the Scandinavian countries. The relative lack of deaths from COVID-19 in Scandinavia is also likely linked to less vitamin D deficiency.

What seems to be happening is that the vaccines lead to widespread autoimmune problems, because of the production of autoantibodies. Vitamin D is known to play an important role in modulating the immune system. With higher levels of vitamin D, the adaptive immune response is suppressed and the innate immune response is strengthened. Vitamin D deficiency greatly increases the risk of developing autoantibodies in various conditions.

Unfortunately, we don’t really know how many cases of thrombocytopenia we’re causing with these vaccines. If someone ends up in the hospital with a stroke a few days after receiving the vaccine, then we’ll recognize them as victims of vaccine induced immune thrombocytopenia. However, nobody can tell us the size of the iceberg: How many cases of mild immune thrombocytopenia are we missing, for every case that we do recognize because of the severe complications? The anecdotal reports of heavy menstrual bleeding suggest to me that we’re missing a lot of cases of immune thrombocytopenia.

Mild immune thrombocytopenia is not something to ignore. Occult cerebral microbleeds can be seen on an MRI scan in 43% of people with diagnosed thrombocytopenia, compared to 0% of control subjects. In other words, if we’re missing people who suffer from mild thrombocytopenia after receiving the vaccines, then that means we’re causing people to suffer silent microstrokes that don’t immediately reveal an effect. If at age thirty you suffer immune thrombocytopenia, your remaining life expectancy is reduced by twenty years.

This is why the vaccination program needs to be halted as soon as possible and the cause of the excess mortality needs to be investigated. It’s now beyond obvious that there is no plausible benefit to be derived from vaccinating young people with these vaccines. The vaccines don’t eliminate transmission, vaccinating young people merely accelerates the development of antibody resistant variants of this virus.

I know that a lot of people will argue that the vaccines are simply doing what they are designed to do, that this is part of some nefarious plot, but I don’t believe this to be true. After all, it’s not the elite forcing this upon the general population. The managerial class was first to sign up for these vaccines. I’ll quote Unz:
According to the newspapers this morning, Goldman Sachs has now required all its employees to get vaxxed before they’re allowing to work in the office, a requirement that presumably will include all their upper-ranking executives. I’d expect this sort of policy will soon be followed by almost every other major Wall Street firm.

So apparently the diabolical plot by our ruling elites to exterminate themselves is now moving forward at a good pace. People won’t be able to keep complaining about Wall Street once almost all the Wall Streeters have vaxxed themselves to death.


It’s theoretically possible of course that high ranking executives are receiving fake vaccines filled with saline, but someone would have to administer those and the high ranking executives would probably want their own family members to avoid being injected with something that’s going to kill them too. Before long, you end up with the kind of numbers that guarantee someone will blow the whistle.

Rather, we seem to be seeing the opposite: The managerial class rushed to get these vaccines. Israel made sure it was first in line to get these vaccines, Africa isn’t receiving anything and nobody cared whether or not you choose to get vaccinated, until it became clear that the vaccines were less effective than people had hoped, at which point the vaccinated became eager to turn the “right-wing populist conspiracy theorists” into second class citizens.

Disregard the grand unified conspiracy theory for a moment. I would urge you instead to consider the far simpler scenario, that people who were panicked and terrified by a new virus rushed a product with serious side-effects, in an effort to protect themselves against this virus. Under what sort of conditions do you think we’re most likely to widely deploy a medical product that causes serious harm? When fear and panic cloud our judgement.

Unfortunately, as I’m sure you will have noticed in your own direct environment, when people have received this vaccine they develop a psychological shield, that prohibits them from recognizing any evidence that anything is wrong with these vaccines. Evidence that these vaccines are unsafe has to jump over much higher hurdles after people have taken these vaccines themselves.

So, when the entire managerial class has been vaccinated and the evidence starts coming in that people are dying in droves, nobody really wants to acknowledge what the evidence is showing. You can see this mechanism in action when a radio host in the Netherlands has someone calling in who claims to work in a hospital and reports seeing an epidemic of people suffering vaccine induced cardiovascular problems:

https://twitter.com/annstrikje/status/1 ... 46051?s=20

Disregard the question of whether we can trust this report or not for a moment. Normally, if you’re a competent journalist, this would trigger your journalistic instincts: This is interesting, I need to figure out if this guy is legitimate. You start asking more questions, hoping the guy will give you some evidence revealing his location, so you could verify his reports. Rather, we see the host tries to get the guy to shut up and keeps parroting that “none of what you are saying is proven”. That’s the general response you see from vaccinated people: They just really don’t want to know.

Multiply this conversation a million times and you start to get a clue in regards to what’s happening at health agencies and in hospitals around the Western world right now. “It looks like the vaccine is killing people.” Is responded to with: “This hasn’t been proven.” Rather than: “We need to get to the bottom of this.” When the data gets too worrisome, we stop reporting the data.

We’ve paused these vaccination campaigns multiple times, because we saw worrying trends: People with blood clotting problems, excess sudden deaths among nursing home residents, sudden strokes, etc. However, after every pause you’re faced with the realization that you have already given these vaccines to millions of people and so your mind falls for the sunk cost fallacy.

As long as people continue to believe that this is all some sort of giant plot to kill a bunch of people, then our ability to halt these vaccination campaigns remains negligible. It’s only when serious journalists start reporting on the excess mortality, that something is going to be done about this. Consider this post a request to get serious journalists, with the kind of credentials that get the managerial class to pay attention to what you have to say (nobody is going to care when I say it, people like me without college degrees are basically subhuman to them), to pay attention to this.

Too many people are dying. We need to start getting answers.



Comments:
You write “Most studies suggest vitamin D deficiency is far more common in Scotland than in the Scandinavian countries. The relative lack of deaths from COVID-19 in Scandinavia is also likely linked to less vitamin D deficiency”

The comparison of Scotland with Scandinavia has other aspects – my impression is that Scots are generally much more unhealthy than Scandinavians. Scots eat a typical British diet with a large proportion of sugars, fats, meat products and processed foods. Scots also seem more sedentary and indoor-living than Scandinavians (nothing like the cross-country skiing mania of Norway, Swedish nude sunbathing, or Finnish saunas). Lifestyle issues are important here.

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Covid has killed 9000 Scottish people. How many Scottish people do you think covid vaccines have killed?

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Every night at 7.30pm in Melbourne Damien and I host a talk show called Cafe Locked Out that streams live to social media, where we allow members of the public brave enough to talk about what is going on, regarding everything to do with Covid and more importantly the apparently authoritarian regime being constructed in our city.
The object is to defend free speech by refusing to be silent. And that’s why unscripted. Like a lively conversation in a bar or café.
We are in Melbourne and there is a huge pressure to be silent.
We started the show just over a month ago and our face book page has already reached well over 1.3 million people. With over a 1M minutes of video watched every seven days.
We are not anti vax, we are pro-choice, but we are anti bullshit, and strenuously against segregation, and vaccine passports.
Damien and I were also at the Shrine and were arrested on the steps.
if you would be interested in being a guest or just offering a comment we look forward to hearing from you.

https://www.facebook.com/Cafe.Locked.Out

Michael Gray Griffith

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>"This is why the vaccination program needs to be halted as soon as possible and the cause of the excess mortality needs to be investigated."

Well, it seems that Team Human is helping out Team Virus after all. That is not necessarily a bad thing, in the grander scheme of things.

>"when people have received this vaccine they develop a psychological shield, that prohibits them from recognizing any evidence that anything is wrong with these vaccines"

Not everyone. I am reluctantly vaccinated, but I was more than aware of all problems before, and I still am now. I also have three pre-teen sons: the oldest will turn 12 in a few weeks. I do not care if I die unexpectedly, but I am worried about them.

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Are financial executives members of the ruling class though? Aren’t they just following the directives of those who own the corporations (basically all major corporations)?
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Re: Coronavirus Crisis: Main Thread

Postby Joe Hillshoist » Mon Oct 18, 2021 8:45 pm

Belligerent Savant » 18 Oct 2021 01:37 wrote:.

For those that received a covid injection and are willing to share, was aspiration implemented during the process?
If i'm ultimately forced to submit to this -- and that remains a big IF, as I plan to exhaust a number of options beforehand -- aspiration will absolutely be requested and will not proceed otherwise.



I thought I responded to this but its not there.

Yes I asked and it was done. I get my second dose of the AZ vaccine later today and I'll be asking the same thing.

I know the person administering the doses tho (small towns and all that) so its no really an issue asking them. Just stand your ground on the issue and you'll be right (if you get vaccinated).

I asked a mate who is a retired nurse who worked with kids and in a burns unit about aspiration. They did it every time they did an IM injection and it happened once in their multi-decade career that blood came back into the chamber. So once in probably tens of thousands of injections.

FWIW that kind of fits with the rate of cardiovascular issues this vaccine causes (at least by my reading of the stats, you may disagree).

A few of my own thoughts on this are:

- Its surprising its no longer practised when IM injection is sposed to be used speciifically to avoid introducing whatever drug is being administered getting into the bloodstream, its just basic (un)common sense imo. Its not even an issue from the capture of medicine by big pharma. Its just poor practise but the world is full of that stuff these days.

- This is why we have longer periods of time for drug approval. So stuff like this can be noticed and sorted out. IM injection is the procedure but it needs to be stressed how important it is.

I get this is an emergency and so its an emergency response (we might disagree on that as well but no matter) and I think its working in terms of stopping severe disease and not trashing hospital systems. It also seems to be working in terms of reducing transmission among people despite all the stats that get posted here. (Frankly some of the stats that get posted here seem poorly generated or interpreted but its up to everyone else to make their own mind up on that as well.)

But even with that it is becoming clear that these heart issues are probably an avoidable harm that wouldn't be such a problem if these drugs had been tested for longer or if standard procedures that nurses and doctors used to use all the time were followed.
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Re: Coronavirus Crisis: Main Thread

Postby Joe Hillshoist » Mon Oct 18, 2021 8:56 pm

Belligerent Savant » 19 Oct 2021 08:21 wrote:.

Caveat Lector. Shared here as added consideration.


https://www.rintrah.nl/scotland-the-can ... ting-sick/


Scotland: The canary in the coalmine is getting sick

October 13, 2021

After a new virus began to spread around the globe, we responded with an unprecedented global experiment. Around most of the Western world, people were given one of two options: Get vaccinated, or become a second class citizen. The vaccines consisted of one of two options: Allow yourself to be injected with a genetically modified chimpanzee adenovirus designed to express the Spike protein, or allow yourself to be injected with mRNA encapsulated in lipid.

In the United Kingdom, they mainly settled on their own vaccine, the one where you use a genetically modified chimpanzee adenovirus. You inject the vaccine into someone’s muscle, the virus enters the cells, releases its DNA into the nucleus and the cells are fooled into producing the toxic spike protein, along with a number of adenovirus genes.

This can be considered a pretty novel experiment. Except for the COVID-19 vaccines, the only other viral vector vaccines in use worldwide are two Ebola vaccines used for ring vaccination primarily in small rural villages in Africa, in countries where the average life expectancy is in the early sixties. If these sort of vaccines carry harmful long-term side effects, we would have no way of knowing.

So how’s the experiment going? Well for that we can turn to Scotland. Scotland is in many ways a good place to study what’s going to happen in the rest of the Western world. Vaccination uptake is very high, mass vaccination began very early this year, the country’s Northern location means that cold weather sets in earlier and the nation is pretty transparent and reliable in releasing its data.

Unfortunately the data is pretty worrisome.

https://www.nrscotland.gov.uk/news/2021 ... tober-2021

@scojw

Scotland: 2021 mortality through week 40 (NRS)

1/ Overall
Actually shocked to see the jump this week, far above the 5 year average
By some margin this was the highest mortality rate of Week 40, in all the history back to 1974.

2/ Excess mortality by cause of death
Deaths with covid remains a significant proportion, but coming down. By far the majority of excess mortality continued to be non-covid.

3/ Excess mortality by location of death
Deaths at home the main proportion, but as with recent weeks we continue to have excess mortality in hospital (despite lower than normal admissions to hospital), and last week saw for the first time some excess mortality at care home.

https://twitter.com/scojw/status/144825 ... 79116?s=20

It should be obvious from looking at this data that something is wrong. Mortality last week was 30% above normal. Even if you removed all COVID deaths, mortality this week looks worse than it did a year ago. But the most important thing to note is that the excess mortality consists effectively entirely of people dying at home (ie unexpectedly):

4/ Total mortality by age group
Primary excess continues to be in 85+, but sharp rise in 75-84. The 65-74 age group showing smaller excess, and also 45-64 ages.

4b/ Mortality by age - Summer 2021 v’s 2020
This shows cumulative excess mortality of 2021 versus 2020. We continue to see this offset rise by age group, with 85+ sharply inflecting first, then 75-84, then 65-74 a little later etc.
Those trends worsening rather than flattening.

5/ Breakdown of excess mortality
Separating where we see excess mortality, it is
- Primarily ‘Others’, then cancer, circulatory, covid
- Occurring at home
- Higher excess, the higher the age group

https://twitter.com/scojw/status/144825 ... 79116?s=20

Nothing here suggests it’s getting any better.

In Scandinavia we’re not seeing excess mortality, despite widespread vaccination. That gives us some clue in regards to the direction we should look in. We know that the vaccines lead to the development of autoimmune conditions, specifically thrombocytopenia. Immune Thrombocytopenia is linked to vitamin D deficiency.[1,2] Most studies suggest vitamin D deficiency is far more common in Scotland than in the Scandinavian countries. The relative lack of deaths from COVID-19 in Scandinavia is also likely linked to less vitamin D deficiency.

What seems to be happening is that the vaccines lead to widespread autoimmune problems, because of the production of autoantibodies. Vitamin D is known to play an important role in modulating the immune system. With higher levels of vitamin D, the adaptive immune response is suppressed and the innate immune response is strengthened. Vitamin D deficiency greatly increases the risk of developing autoantibodies in various conditions.

Unfortunately, we don’t really know how many cases of thrombocytopenia we’re causing with these vaccines. If someone ends up in the hospital with a stroke a few days after receiving the vaccine, then we’ll recognize them as victims of vaccine induced immune thrombocytopenia. However, nobody can tell us the size of the iceberg: How many cases of mild immune thrombocytopenia are we missing, for every case that we do recognize because of the severe complications? The anecdotal reports of heavy menstrual bleeding suggest to me that we’re missing a lot of cases of immune thrombocytopenia.

Mild immune thrombocytopenia is not something to ignore. Occult cerebral microbleeds can be seen on an MRI scan in 43% of people with diagnosed thrombocytopenia, compared to 0% of control subjects. In other words, if we’re missing people who suffer from mild thrombocytopenia after receiving the vaccines, then that means we’re causing people to suffer silent microstrokes that don’t immediately reveal an effect. If at age thirty you suffer immune thrombocytopenia, your remaining life expectancy is reduced by twenty years.

This is why the vaccination program needs to be halted as soon as possible and the cause of the excess mortality needs to be investigated. It’s now beyond obvious that there is no plausible benefit to be derived from vaccinating young people with these vaccines. The vaccines don’t eliminate transmission, vaccinating young people merely accelerates the development of antibody resistant variants of this virus.

I know that a lot of people will argue that the vaccines are simply doing what they are designed to do, that this is part of some nefarious plot, but I don’t believe this to be true. After all, it’s not the elite forcing this upon the general population. The managerial class was first to sign up for these vaccines. I’ll quote Unz:
According to the newspapers this morning, Goldman Sachs has now required all its employees to get vaxxed before they’re allowing to work in the office, a requirement that presumably will include all their upper-ranking executives. I’d expect this sort of policy will soon be followed by almost every other major Wall Street firm.

So apparently the diabolical plot by our ruling elites to exterminate themselves is now moving forward at a good pace. People won’t be able to keep complaining about Wall Street once almost all the Wall Streeters have vaxxed themselves to death.


It’s theoretically possible of course that high ranking executives are receiving fake vaccines filled with saline, but someone would have to administer those and the high ranking executives would probably want their own family members to avoid being injected with something that’s going to kill them too. Before long, you end up with the kind of numbers that guarantee someone will blow the whistle.

Rather, we seem to be seeing the opposite: The managerial class rushed to get these vaccines. Israel made sure it was first in line to get these vaccines, Africa isn’t receiving anything and nobody cared whether or not you choose to get vaccinated, until it became clear that the vaccines were less effective than people had hoped, at which point the vaccinated became eager to turn the “right-wing populist conspiracy theorists” into second class citizens.

Disregard the grand unified conspiracy theory for a moment. I would urge you instead to consider the far simpler scenario, that people who were panicked and terrified by a new virus rushed a product with serious side-effects, in an effort to protect themselves against this virus. Under what sort of conditions do you think we’re most likely to widely deploy a medical product that causes serious harm? When fear and panic cloud our judgement.

Unfortunately, as I’m sure you will have noticed in your own direct environment, when people have received this vaccine they develop a psychological shield, that prohibits them from recognizing any evidence that anything is wrong with these vaccines. Evidence that these vaccines are unsafe has to jump over much higher hurdles after people have taken these vaccines themselves.

So, when the entire managerial class has been vaccinated and the evidence starts coming in that people are dying in droves, nobody really wants to acknowledge what the evidence is showing. You can see this mechanism in action when a radio host in the Netherlands has someone calling in who claims to work in a hospital and reports seeing an epidemic of people suffering vaccine induced cardiovascular problems:

https://twitter.com/annstrikje/status/1 ... 46051?s=20

Disregard the question of whether we can trust this report or not for a moment. Normally, if you’re a competent journalist, this would trigger your journalistic instincts: This is interesting, I need to figure out if this guy is legitimate. You start asking more questions, hoping the guy will give you some evidence revealing his location, so you could verify his reports. Rather, we see the host tries to get the guy to shut up and keeps parroting that “none of what you are saying is proven”. That’s the general response you see from vaccinated people: They just really don’t want to know.

Multiply this conversation a million times and you start to get a clue in regards to what’s happening at health agencies and in hospitals around the Western world right now. “It looks like the vaccine is killing people.” Is responded to with: “This hasn’t been proven.” Rather than: “We need to get to the bottom of this.” When the data gets too worrisome, we stop reporting the data.

We’ve paused these vaccination campaigns multiple times, because we saw worrying trends: People with blood clotting problems, excess sudden deaths among nursing home residents, sudden strokes, etc. However, after every pause you’re faced with the realization that you have already given these vaccines to millions of people and so your mind falls for the sunk cost fallacy.

As long as people continue to believe that this is all some sort of giant plot to kill a bunch of people, then our ability to halt these vaccination campaigns remains negligible. It’s only when serious journalists start reporting on the excess mortality, that something is going to be done about this. Consider this post a request to get serious journalists, with the kind of credentials that get the managerial class to pay attention to what you have to say (nobody is going to care when I say it, people like me without college degrees are basically subhuman to them), to pay attention to this.

Too many people are dying. We need to start getting answers.



Comments:
You write “Most studies suggest vitamin D deficiency is far more common in Scotland than in the Scandinavian countries. The relative lack of deaths from COVID-19 in Scandinavia is also likely linked to less vitamin D deficiency”

The comparison of Scotland with Scandinavia has other aspects – my impression is that Scots are generally much more unhealthy than Scandinavians. Scots eat a typical British diet with a large proportion of sugars, fats, meat products and processed foods. Scots also seem more sedentary and indoor-living than Scandinavians (nothing like the cross-country skiing mania of Norway, Swedish nude sunbathing, or Finnish saunas). Lifestyle issues are important here.

...

Covid has killed 9000 Scottish people. How many Scottish people do you think covid vaccines have killed?

...

Every night at 7.30pm in Melbourne Damien and I host a talk show called Cafe Locked Out that streams live to social media, where we allow members of the public brave enough to talk about what is going on, regarding everything to do with Covid and more importantly the apparently authoritarian regime being constructed in our city.
The object is to defend free speech by refusing to be silent. And that’s why unscripted. Like a lively conversation in a bar or café.
We are in Melbourne and there is a huge pressure to be silent.
We started the show just over a month ago and our face book page has already reached well over 1.3 million people. With over a 1M minutes of video watched every seven days.
We are not anti vax, we are pro-choice, but we are anti bullshit, and strenuously against segregation, and vaccine passports.
Damien and I were also at the Shrine and were arrested on the steps.
if you would be interested in being a guest or just offering a comment we look forward to hearing from you.

https://www.facebook.com/Cafe.Locked.Out

Michael Gray Griffith

...

>"This is why the vaccination program needs to be halted as soon as possible and the cause of the excess mortality needs to be investigated."

Well, it seems that Team Human is helping out Team Virus after all. That is not necessarily a bad thing, in the grander scheme of things.

>"when people have received this vaccine they develop a psychological shield, that prohibits them from recognizing any evidence that anything is wrong with these vaccines"

Not everyone. I am reluctantly vaccinated, but I was more than aware of all problems before, and I still am now. I also have three pre-teen sons: the oldest will turn 12 in a few weeks. I do not care if I die unexpectedly, but I am worried about them.

...

Are financial executives members of the ruling class though? Aren’t they just following the directives of those who own the corporations (basically all major corporations)?

A mate of mine died in Scotland from something very like COVID a few years ago, mid 2018. Before COVId was out even if it started months earlier as some suggest.

He was unhealthy and had COPD/emphysema really badly but it was still a sudden death we weren't expecting. Turns out people die in Scotland from respiratory conditions at a pretty high rate.

https://www.chss.org.uk/documents/2018/ ... v-2017.pdf
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Re: Coronavirus Crisis: Main Thread

Postby stickdog99 » Mon Oct 18, 2021 10:54 pm

Joe Hillshoist » 18 Oct 2021 21:42 wrote:
stickdog99 » 19 Oct 2021 06:31 wrote:
Joe Hillshoist » 16 Oct 2021 09:24 wrote:So there are about 3 billion people vaccinated on the planet. Way more than I thopught and as yet there hasn't been a super variant due to the vaccinated population.


Yeah, and that's because Delta is already doing great at evading current vaccines.


Is it?


You tell me. Were there more cases last October or this October in highly vaccinated countries such as Singapore, Iceland, and Israel?
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Re: Coronavirus Crisis: Main Thread

Postby Belligerent Savant » Mon Oct 18, 2021 11:04 pm

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Appreciate the reply Re: aspiration, Joe. Time will tell if indeed lack of aspiration alone is the primary cause for the more severe adverse reactions to these shots.

It remains possible that much of the madness over the past ~year was not driven by nefarious intent, but in large part as a result of a scramble to find solutions quickly, cutting some corners along the way. But both can also apply irrespective of each other (enterprising assholes will always look to capitalize on opportunity). Once more: time will tell (both in terms of overall damage these shots will cause over time, and the extent of deliberately harmful/greed-fueled/power-hungry intent in harms caused by policies since early 2020).

*also: the commentary by Fauci, the CDC and others over the last ~year, essentially doubling-down on harmful policy and guidance, tell me they're either arrogant pricks unwilling to acknowledge they fucked up royally, or are (at the top levels) complicit in nefarious agendas.
Either way, in a just world heads should eventually roll for this. The next ~6 months should be interesting as vaccine-related harms will be far more challenging to suppress by then.

Related:

Preprint posted today. This is potentially a bombshell paper.

SARS-CoV-2 spike protein induces abnormal inflammatory blood clots
neutralized by fibrin immunotherapy


https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101 ... 1.full.pdf

"Here we report that the Spike protein from severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) binds to the blood coagulation factor fibrinogen and induces structurally abnormal blood clots with heightened proinflammatory activity. SARS-CoV-2 Spike virions enhanced fibrin-mediated microglia activation and induced fibrinogen-dependent lung pathology. COVID-19 patients had fibrin autoantibodies that persisted long after acute infection."

"The central structural component of blood clots, and a key regulator of inflammation in disease, is insoluble fibrin, which is derived from the blood coagulation factor fibrinogen and is deposited in tissues at sites of vascular damage (10, 11). Hypercoagulability in COVID-19 is associated with inflammation and the formation of fibrin clots resistant to degradation despite adequate anticoagulation (3-5). Extensive fibrin deposits are detected locally in inflamed lung and brain tissues from COVID-19 patients, sometimes without evidence of direct viral infection at autopsy (1, 8, 12-14). The high prevalence of thrombotic events with these unique hypercoagulability features suggests an as yet unknown mechanism of abnormal blood clot formation in COVID-19. We set out to determine how blood clots form in COVID-19 and to identify therapies to combat the deleterious effects of abnormal coagulation occurring in acute and convalescent stages of disease."

"Since hypercoagulability in COVID-19 patients has features distinct from those of other inflammatory diseases, we hypothesized that SARS-CoV-2 directly affects the structural and functional properties of blood clots. Incubation of SARS-CoV-2 recombinant trimeric spike protein (Spike) with healthy donor plasma increased fibrin polymerization (Fig. 1A). Spike strikingly altered the fibrin clot structure resulting in thinner fibers with a rough appearance and increased clot density as shown by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) (Fig. 1B, fig. S1), identifying direct effects of SARS-CoV-2 Spike on fibrin clot architecture. Consistent with these structural changes, a solid-phase binding assay revealed binding of Spike to both fibrinogen and fibrin (Kd 5.3 μM and 0.4 μM, respectively) (Fig. 1C). Fibrinogen immunoprecipitated with full-length recombinant trimeric Spike, and studies with deletion mutants identified an interaction with the S2 domain of Spike (Fig. 1D, fig. S2)."

"Intravenous administration of Spike PVs in wild-type (WT) mice induced extensive fibrin deposition in the lung (Fig. 2A). (...) Fibrin deposition was associated with activated endothelium in the lung, and gene expression analysis revealed increased expression of endothelial and inflammatory markers in Spike PV-injected mice (...) consistent with findings of SARS-CoV-2 toxicity to endothelial cells (19). (...) Mice genetically-deficient in fibrinogen (Fgα–/– mice), which express all other blood proteins except fibrinogen and are protected from autoimmune and inflammatory conditions (11), did not exhibit lung pathology following Spike PV challenge (Fig. 2E, fig. S5)."

"Fibrinogen is causally linked to the activation of macrophages and microglia in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases in the brain and periphery (11, 21). Fibrin is a driver of microglia-induced cognitive dysfunction (22) and is associated with perivascular-activated microglia and macrophages in brains of COVID-19 patients even without signs of infection (12)."

"A surge of autoantibody production against diverse immune targets have been detected in COVID-19 patients (25). To determine whether COVID-19 patients develop autoantibodies
against abnormal blood clots, we tested autoantibody responses to fibrin. (...) We tested longitudinally collected serum samples ranging from acute to convalescent disease stages from 54 COVID-19 asymptomatic, mild, and severe disease patients requiring
admission to the intensive care units (table S3). Fibrin autoantibodies were abundant in all three groups of COVID-19 patients and persisted during the convalescent stage, but were scarce in healthy donor controls or in subjects with non-COVID respiratory illnesses (Fig. 4A, B)."

"In summary, we find that SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein enhances the formation of highly
inflammatory clots that are neutralized by a fibrin-targeting monoclonal antibody. Our data shed
new light on the enigmatic coagulopathy found in COVID-19 revealing a causal role for fibrinogen
in thromboinflammation – even independent of active viral replication. The high incidence of clotting complications in COVID-19 has been attributed to systemic inflammation (3), vascular damage including abnormal levels of circulating coagulation proteins (1, 26), genetic susceptibility to tissue factor and complement genes (27), and prothrombotic autoantibodies (28). Our findings now show that coagulopathy is not merely a consequence of inflammation. Rather, the interaction of SARS-CoV-2 Spike with fibrinogen and fibrin results in abnormal blood clot formation that in turn drives inflammation."

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Assuming the results are correct - and I can see little reason to doubt them though replication is always important - this really starts to put the puzzle pieces together. I'm frankly amazed that it took so long to figure this out.

In less-scientific language:

1. The spike protein binds directly to fibrinogen, the protein precursor of fibrin which forms blood clots.

2. This binding causes the fibrinogen to polymerize to form fibrin strands, thus forming clots.

3. Spike binding to fibrin in clots also changes the clot structure and renders it resistant to degradation.

4. Fibrin induces immune inflammation. This is usually adaptive because clotting occurs at sites of injury. It is dangerous when it occurs in response to diffuse and extensive spike-mediated micro-clotting. This helps to explain the runaway immune-mediated inflammatory response characteristic of severe Covid-19.

5. Spike *alone* (in the absence of an infectious virus) induces fibrin deposition and inflammation in the lungs of mice. However, mice lacking the gene for fibrinogen exhibited no pathology upon spike exposure, demonstrating that the fibrinogen-spike interaction is necessary and sufficient for spike-induced pathology.

6. Fibrin induces cognitive dysfunction via immune inflammation in the brain.

7. Many recovered Covid-19 patients have abundant autoantibodies against fibrin - independent of disease severity - while these autoantibodies are rare in unexposed people. This indicates both that spike-mediated fibrin formation is occurring in the course of actual human infection, and that autoreactive antibodies are formed which may play a role in chronic/long-haul symptoms or prolonged clotting problems.

8. A fibrin-targeting monoclonal antibody greatly reduced inflammation, suggesting a potential new route for disease treatment.

The paper never uses the word "vaccine" - a glaring and clearly intentional omission - but it should be obvious based on these findings that instructing the body to produce large amounts of spike protein on multiple occasions is a dangerous prospect, and it also explains those autopsy revelations of bodies full of clots.

One caveat: The coordinating author is working with a start-up company to develop treatments based on reducing fibrin-mediated inflammation, so there is clearly some commercial interest here that could be influencing objectivity. On the other hand, it is often the entrepreneurial think-outside-the-box types who end up making groundbreaking discoveries.

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Joe Hillshoist » Mon Oct 18, 2021 8:45 pm wrote:I asked a mate who is a retired nurse who worked with kids and in a burns unit about aspiration. They did it every time they did an IM injection and it happened once in their multi-decade career that blood came back into the chamber. So once in probably tens of thousands of injections.

There is possibly an issue with creating a leakage path for the mRNA to get into the blood system by merely damaging a vessel on the way into the muscle. So even if the drawback shows no blood because the needle tip is in the muscle, it may still leak, so to speak. Though I can't imagine this would be any were near as bad as having mRNA injected directly into your bloodstream.

I've seen a common side effect reported by people being a metallic taste in their mouth just after getting the vaccine. This means that it has gotten into their bloodstream. I know the Victorian vaccination hubs are staffed by a mixed bag of medical professions and student groups. It would be unlikely given the strain on the hospital that you would get an experienced nurse. So I'd assume the rate of poorly administered shots to be higher than usual.
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Do you need to aspirate before giving a vaccination?
No. ACIP does not recommend aspiration when administering vaccines because no data exist to justify the need for this practice. There are data that show that aspiration is more painful for the vaccine recipient. IM injections are not given in areas where large vessels are present. Given the size of the needle and the angle at which you inject the vaccine, it is difficult to cannulate a vessel without rupturing it and even more difficult to actually deliver the vaccine intravenously. We are aware of no reports of a vaccine being administered intravenously and causing harm in the absence of aspiration.

While giving an injection, a nurse had blood return in the syringe upon aspirating. What should she have done with the vaccine?
Although aspiration is not recommended, if you do aspirate and get a flash of blood, then the procedure is to withdraw the needle and start over. The syringe, needle, and contaminated dose of vaccine should be discarded in a sharps container, and a new syringe and needle should be used to draw up and administer another dose of vaccine. This is a waste of expensive vaccine that could be avoided by simply not aspirating.


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drstrangelove » 19 Oct 2021 03:46 wrote:
Do you need to aspirate before giving a vaccination?
No. ACIP does not recommend aspiration when administering vaccines because no data exist to justify the need for this practice. There are data that show that aspiration is more painful for the vaccine recipient. IM injections are not given in areas where large vessels are present. Given the size of the needle and the angle at which you inject the vaccine, it is difficult to cannulate a vessel without rupturing it and even more difficult to actually deliver the vaccine intravenously. We are aware of no reports of a vaccine being administered intravenously and causing harm in the absence of aspiration.

While giving an injection, a nurse had blood return in the syringe upon aspirating. What should she have done with the vaccine?
Although aspiration is not recommended, if you do aspirate and get a flash of blood, then the procedure is to withdraw the needle and start over. The syringe, needle, and contaminated dose of vaccine should be discarded in a sharps container, and a new syringe and needle should be used to draw up and administer another dose of vaccine. This is a waste of expensive vaccine that could be avoided by simply not aspirating.


- https://www.immunize.org/askexperts/adm ... ccines.asp

That is the most neoliberal thing I think I've ever read.


With apologies to Monty Python, "Every shot is sacred."

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Covid-19: Children born during the pandemic score lower on cognitive tests, study finds

Children born during the pandemic score markedly lower on standard measures of verbal, motor, and overall cognitive ability, US researchers have found.

In a longitudinal study of 672 children from Rhode Island that has run since 2011, those born after the pandemic began showed results on the Mullen scales of early learning that corresponded to an average IQ score of 78, a drop of 22 points from the average of previous cohorts.

The study, which was funded by the US National Institutes of Health is awaiting peer review before publication in JAMA Pediatrics. But a preprint copy is available online.1

The researchers have largely ruled out a direct effect of the virus, as mothers or children with a history of testing positive for covid-19 were excluded from the analysis. Instead, the authors say, reduced interaction with parents and less outdoor exercise are likely culprits, along with effects that occurred during pregnancy.

Other research has hinted at behavioural effects in children born during the pandemic, including a recent study from Italy.2

Children born in 2019 did not experience a decline in development scores during the pandemic. “Their trajectories of maturation were unaltered,” said lead author of the longitudinal study and paediatrician Sean Deoni of Brown University. “They seemed to be doing alright. It’s really affecting those born during the pandemic, whether through transference from their mother, what she’s experiencing during late term pregnancy, or during those crucial earliest months after birth.”

Scores among children born during the pandemic began to decline in 2020 in an early learning composite that measured fine and gross motor control, visual reception, and expressive and receptive language. But it was in 2021 that the developmental deficit became significant (P<0.001). The effect was larger in boys than in girls.

The strongest protective factor was higher maternal education, and mothers in the study population had more schooling than the US average, suggesting that results in less educated parts of the country could be “even more depressing,” said Deoni.

In terms of effect size, he said, “the closest thing we’ve seen in other research—and this is horrible, not a good comparison to be making—is the studies that were done of orphans in Romania. The effects of institutionalisation and lack of interaction on them were profound, but what we’re seeing here is on par with that.”

A push by Romanian dictator Nicolae Ceausescu to increase birth rates led to hundreds of thousands of children being abandoned to state orphanages, where many spent most of the day in cots, staring at the ceiling.3

While the Rhode Island study did not directly measure time spent interacting between family members, said Deoni, “we do have some preliminary data that we’re working on in a separate study using miniature recorders which the infants wear on their chest which measure the interaction between the caregiver and the child, and what we are seeing, anecdotally, is a significant depression in the number of words spoken to kids and, as you can imagine, a massive increase in TV exposure, and a decline in meaningful conversations. Time spent engaged with a caregiver is way down.”
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I cannot do it anymore

In an open letter, an employee of German public broadcaster ARD is critical of one and a half years of Corona coverage: Ole Skambraks has worked as an editorial assistant and editor at the public broadcaster for 12 years.

I can no longer remain silent. I can no longer silently watch what has been going on for a year and a half now within my organization, a public service broadcaster. Things like “balance”, “social cohesion” and “diversity” in reporting are principles embedded in the statutes and media state contracts. Today, the exact opposite is happening. There is no true discourse and exchange in which all parts of society can come together and find common ground.

From the beginning, I felt that public service broadcasting should fill precisely this space: promote dialogue between advocates of measures and critics, between people who are afraid of the virus and people who are afraid of losing their basic rights, between vaccination supporters and vaccination sceptics. For the past year and a half, however, the space for discussion has narrowed considerably.

Scientists and experts who were respected and esteemed before Covid, who were given space in public discourse, are suddenly labelled cranks, tinfoil hat wearers or Covidiots. As an oft-cited example, consider Wolfgang Wodarg, a medical specialist in several fields, an epidemiologist and a long-time health politician. Until the Covid crisis, he was also on the board of Transparency International. In 2010, as Chair of the Council of Europe Health Committee, he exposed the influence of the pharmaceutical industry in the swine flu pandemic. At that time, he was granted the opportunity to express his opinion on public service broadcasting, but in times of Covid this is no longer possible. His voice has been replaced by that of so-called fact-checkers, who seek to discredit him.

Paralysing consensus

Instead of an open exchange of opinions, a “scientific consensus” was proclaimed, that must be defended. Anyone who doubts this and demands a multidimensional perspective on the pandemic, will reap indignation and scorn.

The same pattern is at work in the newsrooms. For the last one and a half years, I have no longer been working in the daily news business, which I am pleased about. In my current position, I am not involved in decisions about which topics are treated and how. Here, I describe my impressions from editorial conferences and an analysis of the reporting. For a long time I did not dare to leave the role of observer, the supposed consensus seemed too absolute and unanimous.

For a few months, I have been venturing out onto the ice, making some critical remarks here and there in conferences. This is often followed by a shocked silence, sometimes a “thank you for pointing it out” and every so often a lecture on why it is not true. This has never resulted in any reporting.

The result of one and a half years of Covid-19 is an unparalleled division in society. Public service broadcasting has played a major role in this. It is increasingly failing in its responsibility to build bridges between the camps and to promote exchange.

It is often argued that the critics are a small, negligible minority, which, for reasons of proportionality, cannot be accommodated to any great extent. This argument should have been retired at least with the Swiss referendum on Covid-19 measures. Despite the lack of free exchange of opinions in mass media in that country too, the votes cast went only 60:40 in favour of the government. (1) With a proportion of 40%, can you talk about a small minority? It also turned out that the Swiss Government had tied Covid-related financial support to the vote, which might have influenced some to tick “Yes” on the ballot.

The developments of the Covid crisis are taking place on so many levels, affecting all parts of society, and thus we clearly need more space for a free debate – certainly not less.

In this context, it is less revealing which topics are being discussed in public service media, than what is not being discussed. The reasons for this are many and need to be subject to honest internal scrutiny. It could be helpful to look at some titles published by the media scientist and former MDR broadcasting adviser Uwe Krüger, for example his book “Mainstream – Warum wir den Medien nicht mehr trauen” (“Mainstream — why we no longer trust the media”).

In any case, it takes courage to swim against the current in conferences where such topics are discussed. Often those who can put forward their arguments in the most eloquent way will get their message across but, if in doubt, the editorial team will decide, of course. Very early on, those critical of the Government’s Covid-19 measures were labelled right-wingers. Which editor will still dare to voice similar ideas?

Open questions

Thus the list of inconsistencies and open questions, which have gone largely unreported, is very long:

Why do we know so little about “gain of function research” (which aims at making viruses more dangerous to humans)?

Why does the new Infection Protection Act state that the basic right to bodily integrity and the inviolability of one’s home may be restricted henceforth – even without an epidemic situation?

Why must people who have already had Covid-19 still get the jab, even though they are at least as well protected as those who are vaccinated?

Why are we not talking about ”Event 201” and the global pandemic exercises held shortly before the spread of SARS-CoV-2 — at all, or only in the context of conspiracy theories? (2)

Why was the internal document from the German Federal Ministry of the Interior — a document which was known to the media and in which the authorities were asked to create a “shock effect” to underscore the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on human society — not published in full and discussed publicly?

Why is the study by Professor Ioannidis on survival rates (99.41% for people under 70) not featured in the headlines, while the fatally flawed, inflated figures produced by Imperial College were (in the spring of 2020, Neil Ferguson foresaw half a million Covid-19 deaths in the United Kingdom and more than 2 million in the United States)?

Why does it say, in a document produced for the German Federal Ministry of Health, that Covid-19 patients stood for no more than 2% of the burden of hospitals during 2020?

Why does Bremen have the by far the highest incidence (113 as at 04/10/21) and at, the same time, by far the highest vaccination rate in Germany (79%)?

Why were payments of 4 million euro paid into a family account belonging to EU Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides, who was responsible for concluding the first EU vaccine contracts with pharmaceutical companies? (3)

Why are people suffering severe vaccine injury not featured to the same extent as people with severe Covid-19 disease were in 2020? (4)

Why is no one disturbed by the irregular way of counting “breakthrough infections” in vaccinated people? (5)

Why does the Netherlands report clearly higher volumes of side effects of the Covid-19 vaccines than other countries?

Why has the efficacy description of the Covid-19 vaccines published on the Paul-Ehrlich-Institut website been changed three times in the last few weeks? From “Covid-19 vaccines protect against infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus” (on 15 August 2021), via “Covid-19 vaccines protect against severe forms of infection with the SARS-CoV-2 virus” (on 7 September 2021), to, finally, “Covid-19 vaccines are indicated for active immunization to prevent the Covid-19 disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus” (on 27 September 2021). (6)

A couple of these points warrant a closer look.

“Gain of function” and “Lab leak”

As for “gain of function research” — research aiming at making viruses more dangerous, as was done at the Institute of Virology in Wuhan, China, and financed by the United States — so far, I have not heard or read anything substantial. This type of research is done in so-called Biosafety Level 4 Laboratories, where work has been carried out for decades to see how animal viruses can be altered to make them dangerous to humans as well. So far, ARD and ZDF have given this topic a wide berth — despite the obvious need for a debate. One question worth exploring could be: Do we, as a society, want such research to be carried out?

There are numerous reports on the “lab leak theory” – the assumption that SARS-CoV-2 originated in a lab. It is worth noting that last year, this idea was immediately labelled a conspiracy myth. Alternative media investigating this were banned from social media such as YouTube and Twitter and the information was deleted. Scientists who supported this theory found themselves under massive attack. Today, the “lab leak theory” is at least as plausible as the bat transmission theory. The American investigative journalist Paul Thacker published the results of his meticulous research in the British Medical Journal. Commenting on this, Dr. Ingrid Mühlhauser, professor of health sciences at Hamburg University writes:

“Step by step, he [Thacker] reveals how members of an American lab group deliberately concocted a conspiracy theory to disguise their lab accident at Wuhan as a conspiracy theory. This myth is supported by respected journals such as The Lancet. Science journalists and fact-checker services accept the information without any reflection. Participating scientists keep mum, either out of fear, or to avoid running the risk of losing their standing or research grants. For more than a year now, Facebook has blocked posts that question the natural origin of SARS-CoV-2. If the lab accident theory is confirmed, then ZDF and other media will have defended conspiracy theories.”

Ivermectin and alternatives to vaccination

For months now, it has been clear that effective and cheap treatments do exist for Covid-19, but their use is not allowed. The data on this is unequivocal. But the pseudoscientific disinformation campaigns against these medications are indicative of the state of medicine today. Hydroxychloroquine is a drug known for decades and used routinely against malaria and rheumatic disorders. Last year, the drug was suddenly deemed dangerous. The statement by then-President Donald Trump that hydroxychloroquine would be a “game changer” did the rest to discredit the medication. The political reasoning no longer allowed a scientific debate on HCQ.

In the spring, the catastrophic situation in India caused by the spread of the Delta variant was widely reported in the media (then still referred to as the Indian variant). But the fact that India rather quickly brought the situation under control, and that the use of Ivermectin in large states such as Uttar Pradesh had a decisive role in this, was not deemed newsworthy. (7)

Ivermectin was granted a temporary authorisation in the Czech Republic and Slovakia for treating Covid-19 patients. This was at least reported by the MDR, albeit with a negative slant.

In its report on possible medications, Bayerischer Rundfunk failed to even mention Ivermectin. As for hydroxychloroquine, only negative studies were cited, omitting all studies with positive results.

In the summer of 2020, lab tests showed that the molecule Clofoctol was also effective against SARS-CoV-2. Until 2005, the antibiotic drug was sold in France and Italy under the commercial names of Octofene and Gramplus. The French authorities repeatedly blocked the Pasteur Institute in Lille from launching a study with Covid-19 patients. At the beginning of September, after several attempts, the first patients were recruited.

Why are the health authorities taking such a strong stand against treatments, which have been available since the beginning of the pandemic? I would have liked to see some investigative research by the ARD here! It has been made clear that the new Covid vaccines could qualify for emergency use authorisation (EUA) only because there was no officially recognised treatment for SARS-CoV-2.

This is not about celebrating any one Covid miracle drug. My aim is to highlight facts which have not been given due consideration. From the outset, the message given in public discourse was that vaccination was the only way out. The WHO even went so far as to change the definition of “herd immunity”, implying that it can only be achieved by vaccination and no longer by previous infection, as was previously the case.

What about if the road chosen is a dead end?

Questions on vaccine efficacy

Data from countries with a particularly high vaccination rate show that infection with SARS-CoV-2 also in fully vaccinated people is more rule than exception. Dr. Kobi Haviv, Director of the Herzog Hospital in Jerusalem, reports that between 85% and 90% of severe cases in his intensive care unit are patients who have had two jabs. (8)

As regards Israel as a whole, the journal Science writes: “On 15 August, 514 Israelis were admitted to hospital with severe or critical Covid-19 disease … out of these 514 persons, 59% were fully vaccinated. Out of those vaccinated, 87% were 60 years or older.” Science quotes an Israeli government adviser, who explains: “One of the great stories coming out of Israel [is]: ‘The vaccines work, but not well enough’.”

It is also now evident that, with the Delta variant, vaccinated people carry (and spread) the same viral load as unvaccinated people.

What has this data situation brought about in Germany? — A lockdown specifically for unvaccinated people or, put somewhat euphemistically: the “2G rule”. In fact, society is being divided into two classes. Vaccinated people regain their freedom (as they do not risk endangering others), whereas unvaccinated people (who do risk endangering others) must undergo tests, and pay for them out of their pocket, and will no longer receive sick pay if quarantined. Moreover, employment bans and dismissals on the grounds of vaccination status are no longer out of the question, and health insurance funds may impose less favourable rates on the unvaccinated in the future. Why this pressure on unvaccinated people? This has no foundation in science and is damaging to our society.

Antibodies produced by vaccination wane after only a few months. A look at Israel shows that after the second jab, there will be a third for the whole population, and then a fourth as recently announced. Those who fail to get a booster shot after six months will lose their status as immune and thus their “Green Pass” (the digital Covid-19 pass introduced in Israel). In the United States, President Joe Biden is talking about Covid-19 booster shots every 5 months. Marion Pepper, immunologist at the University of Washington, questions this strategy, explaining to The New York Times that repeated stimulation of the innate immune response can lead to a phenomenon called “immune fatigue”.

It is a little discussed fact that natural infection allows a person to develop clearly stronger immunity. “Ultrapotent antibodies” or ”super immunity” have been found in people who were infected with SARS-CoV-2 during the last year. These antibodies react against more than 20 different mutations of the virus and remain for longer than antibodies acquired via vaccination.

After all, Health Minister Jens Spahn has now declared that proof of antibodies is also to be accepted. But to be officially recognized as immune you still have to be vaccinated. Who can understand this logic? A CNN interview with Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of NIAID (under the NIH, the National Health Institutes) clearly illustrates the absurdity of the situation. People with natural immunity are still not a consideration in the minds of the politicians!

I know a physician who is desperately trying to get an answer from the health authorities and the RKI to this problem: One of her patients presents an IgG antibody titer value of 400 AU/ml — clearly more than many vaccinated people. As her Covid-19 infection occurred more than six months ago, she has lost her immune status. The answer was: “Give her the jab!” — which the physician will not do, considering the titer value.

A lack of basic journalistic understanding

The way out of the pandemic touted by our politicians and the media turns out to be a permanent vaccine subscription. Scientists advocating a different Covid approach are not able to reach out via public service media, as demonstrated again by the sometimes defamatory reporting on the video action #allesaufdentisch. Instead of discussing the content of the videos with the parties concerned, experts were sought out to discredit the campaign. By doing this, public service commit the very same error which they hold against #allesaufdentisch.

Der Spiegel journalist Anton Rainer opined in the SWR interview about the video action, that these are not interviews in a classical sense: “In principle you see two people agreeing with each other.” Listening to the reporting by my broadcaster gave me stomach pains, and I was very annoyed by the lack of basic journalistic understanding of the need to let those with opposing views have their say. (9) I made my concerns known to those concerned and the editorial team by email.

A typical comment in conferences is that a topic has “already been covered”. For example, when I brought up the high likelihood of underreporting of vaccine side effects. Yes, sure, the topic was discussed with in-house experts, who – no surprises here – concluded that there was no underreporting. “Opposing views” will be discussed here and there, but are rarely given a human face in such a way that broadcasters actually speak with people who hold critical views.

Critics under pressure

The most vocal critics must count on house searches, prosecution, account suspensions, transfers or dismissal, or even referral to psychiatric care. Even if they hold opinions you do not share — this has no place in a state subject to the rule of law.

In the United States, it is already being discussed whether criticising science should be labelled a hate crime. The Rockefeller Foundation has announced a grant of 13.5 million dollars to censor misinformation in the health field.

WDR television broadcasting director Jörg Schönenborn declared that “facts are facts and they hold true”. If that was so, how is it then possible that scientists behind closed doors argue incessantly and even strongly disagree on some quite basic issues? As long as we are not making that clear, any assumption of supposed objectivity will lead to a dead end. We can only hope to edge closer to “reality” – and that is only possible with open exchange of ideas and scientific knowledge.

What is happening now is no honest fight against “fake news”. Rather, we are left with the impression that any information, evidence, or discussion deviating from the official narrative is suppressed.

A recent example is the factual and scientifically transparent video by IT specialist Marcel Barz. By analysing raw data, Barz was able to establish that the actual figures on excess deaths, hospital occupancy rates as well as infections did not correspond to those gleaned from the media and politicians in the last year and a half. He also demonstrates how you can present a perfect image of a pandemic using such data, and explains why he feels this is dishonest. After three days and 145,000 views, the video was deleted from YouTube (and reinstated only Barz after objected, and many others protested). The stated reason: “medical misinformation”. This begs the question: Who decided this, and on what grounds?

The fact-checker from Volksverpetzer dismissed Marcel Barz as “fake”. The verdict by Correctiv was a bit milder (Barz has given a public and detailed reply). He is proved right by the document produced for the German Federal Ministry of Health, which shows that Covid-19-Patienten stood for no more than 2% of the hospital burden during 2020. Barz went to the press with his analysis but was ignored. In a functioning discourse, our media would invite him for a debate.

Covid-related content has been deleted countless times, as shown by journalist Laurie Clarke in The British Medical Journal. Facebook and similar media are private companies and are thus free to decide what may be published on their platforms. But in doing so, are they also allowed to steer the discourse?

Public service broadcasting could have an important balancing role, by offering an open exchange of opinion. Not so, unfortunately!

Digital vaccine passes and surveillance

The Gates and Rockefeller Foundations drafted and financed the WHO guidelines for digital vaccine passes. These passes are now being rolled out everywhere. Only with these passes will public life be possible – whether you want to take the tram, have a coffee or get medical treatment. An example from France shows that this digital pass will stay even after the pandemic ends. MP Emanuelle Ménard demanded the following addition to the legal text: The digital vaccine pass shall end when the virus spread no longer presents a level of danger which justifies its use. Her proposed amendment was rejected. Thus we are but a small step away from global population control or even a surveillance state via projects such as ID2020.

Australia is currently testing a facial recognition app, to ensure that people stay at home when in quarantine. In Israel, electronic wristbands are used for this purpose. In one Italian city, drones are being tested to measure the temperature of beachgoers, and in France, the law is changed to allow large-scale drone surveillance.

All these topics must be subject to intensive and critical scrutiny within our society. This is not happening to a sufficient extent in the reporting by our broadcasting organisations and, indeed, was not an election campaign issue.

Blinkered vision

The way in which public discourse has been curtailed is indicative of the “gatekeeper of information”. A current example comes from Jan Böhmermann, who demanded that virologists Hendrik Streeck and Professor Alexander S. Kekulé be deprived of their opportunity to speak out, claiming that they were not competent to do so.

Even though the two physicians have very impressive CVs, Böhmermann has thus narrowed the field of vision even more. So, now we cannot even listen to people who present their criticism of government policy wearing kid gloves?

Public discourse has been curtailed so much that Bayerischer Rundfunk has more than once refrained from broadcasting speeches by members of state parliaments who take a critical view of the measures during parliamentary debates.

Is that what the new understanding of democracy looks like in public service broadcasting? Alternative media platforms thrive first and foremost because the established platforms fail to do their job as a democratic corrective.

Something has gone wrong

For a long time, I could say with pride and joy that I work in public service broadcasting. ARD, ZDF and Deutschlandradio have generated outstanding research, formats, and content. The quality standards are extremely high and thousands of staff members are doing great work despite increasing cost pressure and savings targets. But with Covid-19, something has gone wrong. Suddenly, I have become aware of tunnel vision, blinkers and a supposed consensus which is no longer questioned. (10)

The Austrian broadcaster Servus TV is proof that another way is possible. In the programme “Corona-Quartett” / “Talk im Hanger 7” proponents and critics are given equal space. Why is that not possible in German television? (11) “You cannot let every crank take the stage”, is the quick retort. The false balance, giving serious and dubious opinions an equal chance to be heard, must be avoided. — A killer argument, which also happens to be unscientific. The basic principle of science is doubt, questioning, checking. If this does not happen, then science has become a religion.

Yes, there is actually a false balance. It is the blind spot in our heads, which no longer allows true debate. We are throwing around apparent facts, but can no longer listen to each other. Contempt replaces understanding, fighting the opposing view replaces tolerance. The basic values of our society are thrown overboard, just like that. Here we go: People who do not want to get the jab are crazy, there we go: “Shame on the sleeping sheep”.

While we are busy fighting, we fail to notice that the world around us is changing at breakneck speed. Virtually all areas of our lives are being transformed. How this develops is essentially determined by our capacity for cooperation, compassion and awareness of ourselves and our words and deeds. For our spiritual wellbeing, we would do well to open the space for debate – while being mindful, respectful and with understanding of different perspectives. (12)

Writing this, I feel like a heretic — someone who commits high treason and must reckon with being punished. Maybe this is not the case. Maybe I am not actually risking my job, and maybe freedom of opinion and pluralism are not under threat. I really hope so and I look forward to constructive exchange with my colleagues.

Ole Skambraks
ole.skambraks@protonmail.com

About the author: Ole Skambraks, born in 1979, studied Political Science and French at Queen Mary University in London, as well as Media Management at the ESCP Business School in Paris. He was a Moderator, Reporter and Writer at Radio France Internationale, Online Editor and Community Manager at cafebabel.com, Programme Manager of the MDR Sputnik morning show and Editor at WDR Funkhaus Europa / Cosmo. He is currently working as an Editor in Programme Management/Sound Design at SWR2.
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