This week, Judicial Watch received 552 pages from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). These documents include the initial grant application, biosketches, budgets and annual reports to the NIH from EcoHealth Alliance. They describe the specific aims of the project, which include creating mutant viruses SARS (and MERS viruses) “to better predict the capacity of our CoVs [coronaviruses] to infect people.”
So we have Phizer that is 12% effective and has PAGES of health risks.
J&J is being restricted for blood clots.
Now we just need to have some big blow up about Moderna.
But its just a conspiracy right? Not getting the shot means you’re a bad person and want to kill grandma, right? The unvaxed are killing all the vaxed right?
91 Research Studies Affirm Naturally Acquired Immunity to Covid-19: Documented, Linked, and Quoted ⋆ Brownstone InstituteThis follow-up chart is a list of 91 scientific studies and evidence on natural immunity to allow you to draw your own conclusions..BROWNSTONE INSTITUTE
Study links COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer-BioNTech and Oxford University-AstraZeneca to seven rare neurological side effects; frequency is on the order of 1 to 10 per 1 million people (More) | Federal advisory panel meets today to consider emergency use authorization of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for children aged 5 to 11 (More)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is refusing to release the results of autopsies conducted on people who died after getting COVID-19 vaccines.
The FDA says it is barred from releasing medical files, but a drug safety advocate says that it could release the autopsies with personal information redacted.
The refusal was issued to The Epoch Times, which submitted a Freedom of Information Act for all autopsy reported obtained by the FDA concerning any deaths reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) following COVID-19 vaccination.
Reports are lodged with the system when a person experiences an adverse event, or a health issue, after receiving a vaccine.
The FDA and other agencies are tasked with investigating the reports. Authorities request and review medical records to vet the reports, including autopsies.
The FDA declined to release any reports, even redacted copies.
The FDA cited federal law, which enables agencies to withhold information if the agency “reasonably foresees that disclosure would harm an interest protected by an exemption,” with the exemption being “personnel and medical files and similar files the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.”
Federal regulations also bar the release of “personnel, medical and similar files the disclosure of which constitutes a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.”
The Epoch Times has appealed the denial, in addition to the recent denial of results of data analysis of VAERS reports.
First, a quick overview of the various “factchecking” organization statements. How many people developed brain damages or lost their life or that of a loved one because of accepting a vaccine based on the falsehoods propagated by these grossly unqualified “factcheckers”? Do they have criminal liability for their falsehoods and propaganda?
As you look through this, please keep in mind that the FDA has approved three doses of these mRNA vaccines for administration to all of our 5-11 year old children. Under emergency use authorization, of course. Even though there is no medical emergency.
Factcheck.org
COVID-19 Vaccine-Generated Spike Protein is Safe, Contrary to Viral Claims
Catalina Jarmillo’s training is from the Columbia School of Journalism.
Why would anyone place any credence in what she has to say about toxicology and molecular virology? How many excess deaths can be attributed to this lie?
Politifact
No sign that the COVID-19 vaccines’ spike protein is toxic or ‘cytotoxic’
And why would anyone believe Tom Kertscher, who has no training in medicine or biology, let alone molecular virology? And why is a political fact checking site making assessments about biology and toxicology anyhow?
Not what these wannabe scientists who are actually journalists at best claim to be true.
First off, it is important to understand a little bit about the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein.
The only difference in the actual protein sequence between the original “Wuhan” strain Spike protein of the virus, and that coded for by the genetic vaccines, is two amino acids which have been changed in the S2 region of the protein. These were not introduced to make that vaccine version less toxic (as some “factcheckers” have asserted), but rather to make it better able to stimulate an antibody-based immune response. Whether vaccine encoded or virus encoded, the S1 subunit (which includes the receptor binding domain (to which the majority of “neutralizing” antibodies are directed) gets cut free (“proteolytically cleaved’) to yield an S1 subunit which is free to circulate in the blood, bind ACE2 receptors, interact with platelets, neurons, open up vascular endothelial tight junctions etc. THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE S1 SUBUNIT RELEASED FROM THE VACCINE SPIKE PROTEIN AND THE S1 SUBUNIT RELEASED FROM THE VIRUS SPIKE PROTEIN. THEY ARE THE SAME DAMN THING!
Now, how much and for how long does this free S1 subunit spike protein, including the receptor binding domain, become produced by the mRNA vaccines, versus how much and for how long by natural infection?
Surely this was well understood and characterized by Pfizer before these vaccines were widely deployed? Surely the FDA required that these studies be performed?
NOPE. WE HAD TO WAIT UNTIL AN ACADEMIC GROUP DID THE STUDIES AND PUBLISHED AT THE END OF JANUARY 2022. AND BURIED THE FINDINGS BY USING AN OBSCURE TITLE.
WELL, ISN’T THAT INTERESTING.
So, the vaccine produces far more spike S1 subunit for far longer than the natural infection does. Hmm. Curiouser and curiouser.
But is the S1 subunit (which is identical between the virus and the vaccine) actually a toxin? Good question. Let’s look into that. One moment…. searching. There.
First question - does spike S1 subunit get into the brain across the blood brain barrier?
Why yes, Virginia, thank you for asking. It does! You are such a good student.
Next question. Does Spike S1 do any damage to the brain when it hits nerve cells (neurons)? Oops. Looks like it does! Who would have guessed. Well, who among those scientists who are not misinformation spreaders?
•COVID-19 generates cerebrovascular, sensitive, motor, cognitive and diffuse brain disorders.
•The trigeminal and vagus nerve or the gut-brain axis are the entrance of SARS-CoV-2 in brain.
•SARS-CoV-2 affects brain by neuroinvasion and by the consequences of the systemic infection.
•COVID-19 favors BBB disruption, inflammation, hypoxia, and secondary infections.
•The study of the neurological affectation of COVID-19 raises a new challenge for neuroscience.
For this one, it is important to recognize that there is no significant difference between the symptoms of long COVID (PASC) and post vaccination syndrome.
And then there is this little issue of demyelination of nerve cells. That is sort of like stripping off the insulation on a wire. Causes short circuits and all sorts of problems.
“A toxin is a harmful substance produced within living cells or organisms;[1][2] synthetic toxicants created by artificial processes are thus excluded.[3] The term was first used by organic chemist Ludwig Brieger (1849–1919)[4] and is derived from the word toxic.”
Here we have a country they tried to bribe with almost a billion dollars and when he rejected it they started calling him a dictator over night within the media.
“Today, the San Francisco Department of Health closed our restaurant…” According to Wensinger's statement, In-N-Out Burger employees were allegedly “not preventing the entry of customers who were not carrying proper vaccination documentation.”
Beyond the famous California institution’s location “properly and clearly” posting signage to communicate local vaccination requirements, the SFDH has attempted to require In-N-Out Burger employees to act as health police and enforcement personnel for the city.
He explains, “After closing our restaurant, local regulators informed us that our restaurant Associates must actively intervene by demanding proof of vaccination and photo identification from every customer…barring entry for any Customers without proper documentation.”
Wensigner opened up further in the statement saying they are committed to the highest level of customer service & making all feel welcome.
“We refuse to become the vaccination police for any government. It is unreasonable, invasive, and unsafe to force our restaurant associates to segregate customers,” wrote Wensigner.
Ivermectin is a good example of the power of propaganda:
It’s on the World Health Organization’s List of Essential Medicines.
It’s prescribed to over 100k people every year in the US and millions worldwide.
The scientists that discovered it won a Nobel Prize.
And yet millions of people parrot the “horse paste” meme because some talking head told them to do so.
The worst part is that Ivermectin wasn't even used for horses until the 1980s when some vet thought to give it a try and said, "Hey, this human medication is also effective on horses!"
I'm doing some research for someone that is fighting the vaccine mandate at his job.
He and several coworkers are pushing back in the hopes they won't be forced to choose between getting the vaccine/getting fired. They have until -i believe- Friday.
Does anyone have any info i can pass along to him? I'm going through stuff I've saved over the last year+, but a lot of it is exclusively for before the vaccines were fda approved and just had emergency approval. :/
America's Frontline Doctors has been fighting covid mandates and may also have more resources for you to look into including information on religious exemptions. ⬇️
If anyone else has resources for fighting covid mandates in the workplace, please feel free to add on to this! I'd love to have a sort of masterlist for when people reach out to me about this.
As reported last week, the Biden administration revealed its plan to “quickly” vaccinate roughly 28 million children, ages 5-11, before the vaccine was even approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This push to vaccinate children is in spite of the fact that children face a near-zero threat from the virus.
What’s more, as Americans are quickly learning, the vaccine loses efficacy over time leading to a large number of breakthrough cases which the Centers for Disease Control can no longer sweep under the rug.
On top of breakthrough cases, there has been a record number of adverse reactions reported to the CDC, many of them include children. One of those children is Maddie de Garay, who received the Pfizer vaccine when she was 12. She is now is in a wheelchair.
The now 13-year-old was one of the 2,260 voluntary participants in the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine trial for adolescents that began in July last year and she was left with a slew of debilitating symptoms immediately following her second shot.
“Why is she not back to normal? She was totally fine before this. She did the right in trying to help everyone else and they’re not helping her,” said Stephanie de Garay, Maddie’s mother.
“All we want is for Maddie to be seen, heard, and believed because she has not been. And we want her to get the care that she desperately needs, so she can go back to normal,” she said.
For the last 8 months, Maddie’s family has been trying to get Pfizer to acknowledge the damage they claim the vaccine caused their daughter. After being ignored for months, the family decided to run an ad on television and the Comcast network accepted it last Thursday.
The FDA repeatedly promised “full transparency” on the licensing of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.
“With that promise in mind, in August and immediately following approval of the vaccine, more than 30 academics, professors, and scientists from this country’s most prestigious universities requested the data and information submitted to the FDA by Pfizer to license its COVID-19 vaccine.
The FDA’s response? It produced nothing. So, in September, my firm filed a lawsuit against the FDA on behalf of this group to demand this information. To date, almost three months after it licensed Pfizer’s vaccine, the FDA still has not released a single page. Not one.
Instead, two days ago, the FDA asked a federal judge to give it until 2076 to fully produce this information. The FDA asked the judge to let it produce the 329,000+ pages of documents Pfizer provided to the FDA to license its vaccine at the rate of 500 pages per month, which means its production would not be completed earlier than 2076. The FDA’s promise of transparency is, to put it mildly, a pile of illusions.”
Pfizer spends around $2 billion a year on advertising, including sponsoring biased news programs that promote COVID vaccines. In addition, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, and the company that founded Moderna, have fostered a series of former top ranking government officials into top positions in their organizations to navigate government agencies that greenlight their products.
Have an experimental drug that needs rapid authorization from the FDA in order to be sold to the masses? Looking to siphon billions of dollars from the U.S. taxpayer for your newfound pharmaceutical product?
In today’s America, you can buy yourself a former FDA commissioner, and use the public-sector private-sector revolving door system of corruption to impose your will on the American public, and make a windfall for your executives and shareholders in the process.
That appears to be the exact strategy utilized by Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, and the company that founded Moderna, which have rostered a series of former top ranking government officials into top positions in their respective organizations.
More than any other group, it is White Coat that has elevated the cause of stopping these horrific government experimentations on dogs and puppies into the mainstream political conversation. And numerous media outlets — led by The Washington Post — have spent years publishing flattering profiles on this group and its innovative bipartisan strategies.
Now everything has changed. The government official who oversees the agencies conducting most of these gruesome experiments has become a liberal icon and one of the most sacred and protected figures in modern American political history: Dr. Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and President Biden’s Chief Medical Advisor. Many of the most horrific experiments, including the ones on dogs and puppies now in the news as a result of White Coat’s activism, are conducted by agencies under Fauci’s command and are funded by budgets he controls.
In other words, White Coat’s activism, which had long generated bipartisan support and favorable media coverage, now reflects poorly on Dr. Fauci. And as a result, The Washington Post has decided to amass a team of reporters to attack the group — the same one the paper repeatedly praised prior to the COVID pandemic — in order to falsely smear it as a right-wing extremist group motivated not by a genuine concern for the welfare of animals or wasteful government spending, but rather due to a partisan desire, based in MAGA ideology, to attack Fauci.
In emails sent last week to the group, Post reporter Beth Reinhard advised them that she wanted “to talk about White Coat Waste and the #beaglegate campaign.” She specifically asked for a wide range of financial documents relating to the group’s funding — far beyond what non-profit advocacy groups typically disclose. “May I request your 2020 filing with the IRS,” Reinhard first inquired. White Coat quickly provided that. On October 30, White Coat Vice President Justin Goodman provided even more financial documents — “attached are the Schedule Bs. I’ve also attached a breakdown of our funding sources from 2017-Q3 2021,” he wrote in an email to Reinhard — yet nothing satisfied her, because nothing in these documents was remotely incriminating or helpful to the narrative they were trying to concoct about the group’s real, secret agenda.
After White Coat voluntarily provided more and more detailed documentation about its finances, it became obvious what fictitious storyline The Post was attempting to manufacture: that this is a far-right group that is funded by “dark money” from big MAGA donors, motivated by a hatred of science and Dr. Fauci. But in trying to manufacture this false tale, The Post encountered a rather significant obstacle: White Coat is funded almost entirely by small donors, grass-roots citizens who use the group’s website to make donations.
Once The Post was repeatedly thwarted in its efforts to concoct the lie that the group is MAGA-funded, Reinhard continued to insist that there must be hidden right-wing funding sources, and even began demanding that White Coat take some sort of bizarre vow never to accept right-wing or "pro-Trump” funding sources in the future.
Documents provided by White Coat both to me and The Post demonstrated that the group’s average donation in 2020 was $30.47, obtained by 81,805 individual donations (that includes all donations, including from groups). The group took no PPP bailout funds, and received, in its words, “$0 gifts from conservative aligned groups ever.”
Even more disturbing was the telephone call which Goodman had on Monday with Reinhard and another Post reporter, Yasmeen Abutaleb, assigned to the health and COVID beat. During that call, Abutaleb in particular repeatedly demanded to know whether White Coat was concerned that the activism they were doing on these dog experimentation programs could end up harming Dr. Fauci’s reputation and thus make him less able to manage the COVID crisis. They even suggested that by encouraging people to call the NIH telephone lines to protest this experimentation, they might be making it difficult for people with questions about COVID to get through. The obvious premise of the entire conversation was one completely antithetical to the journalistic ethos: it is immoral to do anything that reflects negatively on Dr. Fauci now, no matter how true or warranted it might be, because his importance is too great to risk undermining him.
After speaking with the two Post reporters, Goodman told me that “it’s clear based on my conversations with them that rather than investigating the horrific puppy experimentation being funded with our tax dollars by Anthony Fauci — about which they have asked virtually nothing — they are instead interested in attempting to discredit our organization and #BeagleGate campaign in order to run defense for Fauci.”
From the article: After my 2nd dose, I noticed that my heart rate was way higher than normal and my breath hold capacities went down significantly. During sleep, I’m at 65-70bpm instead of 37-45bpm. During the day I’m now always over 100bpm instead of 65bpm, even when I sit down and relax. Once I even reach 177bpm while having dinner with friends !!!! 10 days after my 2nd jab, I went to see a cardiologist and he told me it’s a common side effect of the Pfizer vaccine, nothing to worry about, just rest it will pass. 40days after 2nd jab, I had no progress so I went to see another cardiologist and got diagnosed with Myocarditis and Trivial Mitral regurgitation! Which is basically an inflammation of the heart muscles caused by the immune system and some tiny leaks of blood from the valves that no longer close properly. I’m now struggling to reach 8min breath hold, 150m dyn and I even have a strong urge to breathe doing 40m dives. 30% decrease on my diving performance roughly.
My first thought and recommendation to Freedivers around the world are to choose a vaccine that is done the old fashion way like Sputnik, Sinovac, Sinopharm, etc…instead of those new mRNA vaccines.
Me: If that’s the result from mRNA in an extremely fit/healthy individual, then who in their right mind would entertain this? I’m somewhat fit/healthy, due to my exercise and diet, I’m not taking anything other than my current regimen
The pandemic decimated workers so hard that there literally isn't enough longshoreman to unload boats which is leading to an internal collapse of the supply chain. It seems that ignoring covid because only 1% of people die was a completely idiotic and downright homocidal idea that has done nothing but kill laborers and ruin the economy.
Because of all the mass death, labor is seeing a surge in its power, but at what cost truly. I hope w/ the coming wave of strikes there is finally some grappling with the fact that millions of people senselessly died so that the ruling class could continue exploiting poor workers. There wasn't any sacrifice, this was mass murder.
Not just mass death, also mass disabling. Someone who works in an office at a desk is going to have a more manageable time returning even with reduced lung capacity and stamina than someone in intensely physical jobs like being a long shoreman. I keep seeing people saying that the 600,000+ dead aren’t coming back to the labor market, which is true. But it leaves out a vast number of people who aren’t dead and are also never coming back to work.
No, this is bull. The 600,000 people who died were mostly not a part of the labor market in the first place because they were already retired or already deathly ill of some other cause. Right now Biden is forbidding owner/operators (independent truck drivers I believe?) to go to the ports and pick up cargo - while the Secretary of commerce threatens us with a continuation of the supply chain crisis until everybody is vaccinated. It’s manufactured. I know people who’ve watched ships come in at the port of Seattle and they aren’t allowed to dock but are inexplicably put in a holding pattern. Things are being held up at the ports.
BOMBSHELL: Veritas Documents Reveal DC Bureaucrats Had Evidence Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine Were Effective in Treating COVID -- BUT HID THIS FROM PUBLIC There have now been 67 Ivermectin COVID-19 controlled studies that show a 67% improvement in COVID patients. There have been 298 Hydroxychloroquine studies that show a 64% improvement in patients for COVID-19 patients. Despite the science, Dr. Fauci and the medical elites have blocked the use of these effective treatments for coronavirus patients. Dr. Robert…Jim Hoft
They not only hid the information from the public, but denied access to these drugs and threatened the licenses of Pharmacists and Doctors if they prescribed them. People died as a result of the conspiracy to suppress these drug therapies.
Don’t let anyone gaslight you into thinking lockdowns didn’t happen. People were arrested for going on boats. Churches were raided. People were ticketed outside in parks. Lockdowns created the greatest and fastest wealth transfer we have ever seen from small businesses to corporations. My state alone lost over 30% of its small and family businesses. People lost their livelihoods and plunged into poverty. Children lost years of development and socialization. Government locked sick people up with the most vulnerable of the population, creating thousands of unnecessary and excessive deaths.
Y’all I don’t believe you understand how insane this policy is.
So they have the mandate for “big box stores” (over 1500 sq meters). But the pharmacies asked for an exemption to allow people to visit the pharmacies inside the big box stores.
Uh oh, that almost sounds like a loophole. What if someone said they were going to the pharmacy and - gasp! - bought other things while in the store!
Don’t worry, Quebec has a solution:
An exemption was added for pharmacies located inside big box stores after pharmacy leaders raised concerns in a letter to the government.
Unvaccinated people who wish to access those pharmacies must be accompanied by a store employee, who will ensure they make no other purchases.
So your next question might be something like “but that means unvaccinated people will be standing around at the entrance to the store waiting for an employee of a short staffed big box store to get around to escorting them. We can’t have unvaccinated people mingling with vaccinated people!”
Don’t worry, they thought of that too. The unvaccinated people can wait here:
Pfizer hired 1,800 additional full-time employees in the first half of 2021 to deal with “the large increase” of adverse reactions to its COVID vaccine, newly released secret documents reveal. The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine was made available under the Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) on Dec. 11, 2020. By February of 2021, the company was seeing so many safety signals, including in pregnant and breastfeeding mothers, it had to immediately hire 600 employees to process the data.
On Monday, during Sen. Ron Johnson’s five-hour hearing on a “COVID-19: Second Opinion,” Ohio attorney Thomas Renz, who has been representing clients suing the vaccine mandates, presented DOD medical billing data from the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED) that paints a shockingly disturbing picture of the health of our service members in 2021.
In a declaration under penalty of perjury that Renz plans to use in federal court, Drs. Samuel Sigoloff, Peter Chambers, and Theresa Long — three military doctors — revealed that there has been a 300% increase in DMED codes registered for miscarriages in the military in 2021 over the five-year average. The five-year average was 1,499 codes for miscarriages per year. During the first 10 months of 2021, it was 4,182.
There was an almost 300% increase in cancer diagnoses (from a five-year average of 38,700 per year to 114,645 in the first 11 months of 2021). There was also a 1,000% increase in diagnosis codes for neurological issues, which increased from a baseline average of 82,000 to 863,000.
Some other numbers he did not mention at the hearing but gave to me in the interview are the following:
- myocardial infarction –269% increase
- Bell’s palsy – 291% increase
-Congenital malformations – 156% increase
- female infertility – 471% increase
- pulmonary embolisms – 467% increase
I have seen one of the sworn declarations from one of the military doctors, and it states as follows, “It is my professional opinion that the major increased incidences of the above discussed instances of miscarriages, cancers, and disease were due to COVID-19 ‘vaccinations.‘”
He also told me that this is just “the tip of the iceberg,” as the codes have increased exponentially in numerous other diagnosis categories.
The military is a defined, finite, and closely controlled and monitored population. They are also overwhelmingly young and healthy. If allegations of neurological, cardio, and cancer concerns surrounding the vaccines are indeed true, the military would be the most revealing place to discover it, and their data is the most reliable and undisputable.
A new study set to be published later this week has found that thanks to social isolation caused by lockdown, many children entering elementary school are unable to say their own name.
“The report linked to the UK broadsheet The Times is set to reveal that developmental problems are widespread among young children in Britain, with the study set to blame pandemic conditions and a lack of parental education for the shortfalls,” reports Breitbart.
The study outlines how infants’ verbal communication skills have been severely hindered by lockdowns, problems undoubtedly exacerbated by adults wearing face masks.
“We’ve got children who are still drinking from bottles with teats when they start school,” said one UK headmaster cited by the study.
“They are four years old and their language will include the word ‘bot-bot’, because that’s their communication for ‘Can I have a drink please?‘” he added.
Another principal said his school had to hold assemblies on how to use a knife and fork because kids were eating meals with their hands, while another headmaster said half of kids haven’t even been toilet trained.
Children from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds are on average 5 months behind kids from wealthier families in terms of cognitive development.
As we previously highlighted, a study published in the Royal Society Open Science journal found that lockdowns in the UK caused around 60,000 children to suffer clinical depression.
Figures show that 400,000 British children were referred to mental health specialists last year for things like eating disorders and self-harm.
According to speech therapists, mask wearing has caused a 364% increase in patient referrals of babies and toddlers.
Another study revealed how mean IQ scores of young children born during the pandemic have tumbled by as much as 22 points while verbal, motor and cognitive performance have all suffered as a result of lockdown.
A major study by Johns Hopkins University concluded that global lockdowns have had a much more detrimental impact on society than they have produced any benefit, with researchers urging that they “are ill-founded and should be rejected as a pandemic policy instrument.”
Cardiology says otherwise, but the team with “science on their side” is making every effort to cover up their blatant and absolutely purposeful fuckup.
The Science™️ Has Changed
If your blood gets too thick is probably means your humors are out of alignment. You should get a good bleeding immediately!
Here’s the link for the woman who chose death over loneliness.
Here’s the link about Canadian organ donation and euthanasia
Here’s the link about Canada allowing euthanasia for mental health (also includes stories about people being euthanized for things like hearing loss)
“We conclude that the mRNA vacs dramatically increase inflammation on the endothelium and T cell infiltration of cardiac muscle and may account for the observations of increased thrombosis, cardiomyopathy, and other vascular events following vaccination.”
“the other SAE [serious adverse event] considered related was new-onset Type 1 diabetes mellitus and diabetic ketoacidosis in a 1-year-old female reported 37 days post dose 2.”
type 1 diabetes is an auto-immune disease. your body attacks the beta cells in your pancreas and kills them rendering you unable to make insulin. like pretty much all auto-immune diseases, it has no cure and will last lifelong. it typically manifests around 13-14 years of age, but there is also an “early peak” in the 4-7 range. seeing it in a 1 year old is very rare.
Don’t let anyone gaslight you into thinking lockdowns didn’t happen. People were arrested for going on boats. Churches were raided. People were ticketed outside in parks. Lockdowns created the greatest and fastest wealth transfer we have ever seen from small businesses to corporations. My state alone lost over 30% of its small and family businesses. People lost their livelihoods and plunged into poverty. Children lost years of development and socialization. Government locked sick people up with the most vulnerable of the population, creating thousands of unnecessary and excessive deaths.
Despite the failure of the jab and the destruction caused globally by Covid lockdowns, they’re pushing forward with vax passports for international travel. These are the same leaders who are incentivizing mass migrations of undocumented people into Europe and the Americas. The policy makes no sense in context and so the motivation for a universal digital/medical ID has to be something else.
The mob is in the grip of hysteria, condemning any questions regarding the cause of apparent cardiac arrest in a 24 year old athlete.
If you pose a question that suggests the incident may not be completely football related, and may have an unnatural underpinning that should be thoroughly investigated, you’re a heretic and the worst of humanity.
The problem with the anti-anti-vaxxers is that they’re so invested in the ever changing pro-mRNA narratives that they cannot even consider that a cardiac event could be made more likely by repolarizarion abnormalities which increase risk for mechanically induced cardiac arrhythmia.
This is an abnormality that is inordinately prevalent in vax-induced myocarditis.
For every diagnosed adverse reaction to the jab there are likely hundreds if not thousands left undiagnosed, especially in the young and otherwise healthy.
Weird how strokes weren’t mentioned as a side effect of Covid until after the vaccine was rolled out
Wierd how all those people dying of strokes have the vaccine and it didn’t seem to help shit.
Also wierd how Tim Pool literally said he doesn’t know what’s causing it and it could just as easily be covid and not the vaccine. And also specifically mentioned retarded leftists would try to claim exactly what OP did despite him never claiming it. And the real issue is leftists just want to silence anyone who points out the surge in young people dying of cardiac issues. Because they know the truth is inconvenient to their narrative, you don’t need to connect the dots, just showing people they exist is enough.
Tom Woods emails:
Two items for you today, and the Rand Paul one is number two. Number one is this: the southern spike in COVID numbers is over. Note just how dramatically hospitalizations in Florida have come down:
What's interesting about this is that no major behavioral changes in Florida have coincided with this dramatic decline.
Yet we're constantly told that bad behavior -- not following the rules laid down by our "public health experts" (a designation that makes me laugh now) -- is what makes the numbers go up, and good behavior makes them go down.
If that's true, then what made these go down?
No answer from the lizard people, and not even the slightest curiosity about an answer.
Meanwhile, we have Senator Rand Paul confronting HHS secretary Xavier Becerra about the Israeli study that showed people with natural immunity enjoying considerably better protection against infection than people who had been vaccinated but had never had a natural infection.
This study involved a health database of 2.5 million people. It attracted attention throughout the scientific community and in major media outlets throughout the world, including the United States. We've discussed it on the TomWoods Show, too.
Becerra had never even heard of it.
Becerra, meanwhile, calls people who decline the vaccine "flat-earthers." Paul smashed him, noting out that Becerra himself denies or is unaware of the relevant scientific findings. If anything, Becerra is the flat-earther.
"You've made these decisions — a lawyer with no scientific background, no medical degree," said Paul. "This is an arrogance coupled with an authoritarianism that is unseemly and un-American. You, sir, are ignoring the science."
Nice to see a handful of people in public life pushing back hard.
It's "too soon" to say whether we'll be able to gather at Christmas, Dr. Fauci is now telling us. Well, we didn't listen to him last year and I have no intention of listening to him now.
But:
Wouldn't it be nice to have a news media that challenged these clowns once in a while?
For example, Fauci should have to explain this chart:
This graph traces COVID hospitalizations in the Midwest over time. Here's why it matters to the "maybe you can't have Christmas" insanity: the hospitalization peak occurs right around Thanksgiving, before the alleged effects of Thanksgiving gatherings would have had time to take effect. And then, instead of spiking in the wake of those gatherings, the numbers plummet -- and continue to plummet consistently and without interruption all throughout Christmas, as if that holiday hadn't even occurred.
Would Dr. Fauci care to explain to us how, if his advice is sound, such a thing could have occurred?
Good thing for him no one is going to ask him, because what could he possibly say?
Speaking of bad Fauci predictions, he said "I don't think it's smart" for college football to be played before full stadiums. After saying that, COVID numbers in the South, where these games are being played regularly, began to plummet. As you can see below, they began to plummet almost immediately after Fauci warned them not to do it.
In a weird way you almost have to be impressed by someone who can be so precise in his wrongness:
Meanwhile, courtesy of worldometers -dot- info, let's check back in with Florida. The drop in COVID deaths there has been extremely sudden and sharp, even though the general public has not modified its behavior at all. (I live here, so I know.)
The chart says it all:
As a friend of mine puts it, thank goodness we can be sure the media will get right to the bottom of this!
Well, it took only 19 months, but the New York Times is admitting that the progress of the virus does not appear to have a whole lot to do with our behavior.
In an artlcle this week called "Covid, In Retreat," David Leonhart of the Times observes that U.S. cases have fallen 35 percent in a month -- a month that included Labor Day, whose celebrations were supposed to have made the numbers worse.
(Yes, I know the problems with "cases," but he later notes that this general trend extends to hospitalizations and deaths as well.)
The virus appears to move in two-month cycles, says Leonhart, and epidemiologists "do not understand why" it works like that. It has occurred "even when human behavior was not changing in obvious ways."
"We've ascribed far too much human authority over the virus," says Michael Osterholm, the former Biden COVID adviser who has occasionally said sensible things.
Leonhart is also cautiously optimistic that the worst may be behind us -- a rare thing coming from a New York Times writer. He cites Scott Gottlieb, formerly of the FDA, as saying, "I’m of the opinion that this is the last major wave of infection."
Gottlieb could be wrong, of course. That's almost not the point. It's that they're talking in ways that are clearly different from the Fauci wing of all this, and that's better than nothing.
Now back to Leonhart: his point about a two-month cycle, and Osterholm's point that we've been overemphasizing the role of human interventions in controlling the virus, obviously extends to masks as well: nobody is wearing masks in two-month cycles, and yet the virus observes that pattern anyway. Nobody in the article extends the analysis to masks, but there's no other way to interpret what they're saying.
Still, despite this, we have kids masked in school all day and crazy deep-cleaning protocols as if we haven't learned a thing in 19 months. Someone joked that we should just pretend schools are restaurants so kids can just take their masks off when they sit down.
It's never too late to say: sending the kids to this school was a mistake. There's always the self-taught Ron Paul Curriculum, for which I prepared 400 videos on history. And if you decide to take the plunge be sure to use my link (below), because there you also get some quite valuable bonuses available only through ol' Woods here: http://www.RonPaulHomeschool.com Tom Woods
Let's start by checking in with Nevada and Arizona. Nevada brought back its mask mandate on July 27. Neighboring Arizona didn't.
Over two months later, we see the same trajectory in both (what a shock, right?), but with Nevada's numbers worse:
Had these numbers been reversed, you know they would have been blamed on Arizona's relative lack of masks. But as usual, when the numbers come out like this, they're just ignored.
Now:
Occasionally I like to share things I receive in the ol' mailbag. Usually it's a story or a particularly valuable insight from a reader. I appreciate what people write to me, even if I cannot always respond (it's more than I can cope with, I'm afraid, and I am a father with children in the home).
Every once in a while a nut writes to me, and since I don't suffer fools gladly I sometimes make an example of them.
Here's today's winner, who appears to have sent me something she intended to send to someone else.
"Tom and Jeff Prather both have discussion rooms about Liberty that one must 'pay to play.' Did we win WWII by having each general’s troops separated from a central command and each soldier monetizing the generals? Tom and Jeff(and Ron, etc.) fighting war on a warlord model, similar to revolutionary Ukraine.
"This didn’t work out for Nestor Makhno and it won’t work for Tom and Jeff.
"Our Forces of Liberty need united leadership that doesn’t require an increasingly impoverished army to subsidize the generals.
"Tom didn’t mention all those incarcerated in Federal prison without bond for 'tresspassing' [sic]. None of the victims were sending him money, so he doesn’t care. Or Tom unaware of the facts because he still subscribes to Globalist media sources."
That kind of note leaves me flabbergasted.
With regard to her last paragraph: not only have I discussed it, but I also arranged pro bono legal representation for an especially desperate person (whose name some of you may know) whose life and career have been ruined by his unjust incarceration.
But there's a larger point here. I replied to her by suggesting what she might have written instead:
"Dear Tom,
"Thank you so much for your tireless work. I am amazed at how much content you share with the world for free: thousands of podcast episodes, hundreds of articles, a dozen free eBooks, a daily newsletter, and videos galore. I also appreciate the free community built around your blog, where much excellent discussion occurs.
"At the same time, it would of course be selfish of me to expect you not to make a living for your five daughters, and surely the five dollars a month you ask for your private group is not exactly a princely sum. I did the math, and it is the equivalent of twenty-five cents for each TomWoods Show episode you produce.
"I cannot imagine someone with so much ingratitude as to look at your body of work, the vast majority of it given free to the public, and actually think five dollars was too much to ask.
"Cordially, Your Name"
Incidentally, do you know what those five dollars accomplish?
They keep the crazies out of my group.
This strategy has worked for six years. It keeps people like this from joining, thereby making the group more cohesive, friendly, and productive.
Should you, dear reader, wish to be part of my nut-free group, the link to get there is below:
Something is screwy: the New York Times has been sensible twice in a single week.
Now writer David Leonhardt is pointing out what a lot of us have been saying pretty much the whole time: (1) predictions of doom based on people's so-called "bad behavior" often turn out to be embarrassingly off the mark, and (2) the "moralistic fable" behind COVID (whereby good and virtuous behavior makes the numbers go down and "reckless" behavior does the opposite) is unhelpful.
"The fable we tell ourselves," writes Leonhardt, "is that our day-to-day behavior dictates the course of the pandemic. When we are good — by staying socially distant and wearing our masks — cases are supposed to fall. When we are bad — by eating in restaurants, hanging out with friends and going to a theater or football game — cases are supposed to rise."
With school resuming and large crowds, often unmasked, assembling for all kinds of events, we heard plenty of stern warnings at the beginning of last month. Leonhardt cites Politico's headline "It May Only Get Worse." "The new school year is already a disaster," said Business Insider.
As I've said repeatedly over the past year and a half, I've just wanted to hear the so-called experts say, at least once in a while, "We don't know. We don't fully understand what's going on here."
But that's not as fun as lording it over the public with a false certainty.
Michael Osterholm, the former Biden COVID adviser who occasionally has something sensible to say, displayed the kind of humility I've been waiting for when he told Leonhardt: "We still are really in the cave ages in terms of understanding how viruses emerge, how they spread, how they start and stop, why they do what they do."
What a refreshing change from "Shut up and listen to the science."
A little late, though. Some of us have been treated not too kindly for saying these very things.
Now, as people begin to weary of it all, people like Leonhardt suddenly have the courage to say something.
But better late than never. I'm not a sore winner.
Lucy McBride is a physician who has her own COVID newsletter and who moves easily in MSNBC and Atlantic circles. Here she is in a social media thread explaining to people that living is about more than just not dying, and health is about more than not having COVID.
Sound familiar?
Sound a little like ol' Woods here, from early 2020?
I don't buy everything she says in what follows. The point is this: why couldn't "medical professionals" have been speaking rationally like this all along?
Again, note throughout her remarks that this is exactly what you and I have been saying all this time:
We’re starting to reach the acceptance phase of the pandemic: a time when we must recalibrate our individual risk gauges, which have been completely thrown out of whack
The two things that patients want—reassurance that they won’t get COVID-19 and permission to engage in life—I cannot deliver, and I never will be able to. SARS-CoV-2 is here to stay.
The virus will be woven into our everyday existence much like RSV, influenza, and other common coronaviruses are. The question isn’t *whether* we’ll be exposed to the novel coronavirus; it’s *when.*
The acceptance phase begins with a broader reckoning with risk. It ends, I hope, with clarity on what we actually can do as a society to protect life—and a commitment to do it.
Of course no one wants to get COVID. The Delta variant continues to take lives and cause lasting harm for many. But abstinence from living isn’t sustainable, nor is it healthy.
As we head toward endemicity, we can think about what we have to accept, what we can change, and how we tell the difference between the two.
Acceptance can also be the birthplace of change. COVID’s permanence does not mean simply reverting to life as it was pre-pandemic. After all, the pandemic has laid bare our countless personal and public-health vulnerabilities—and offered opportunities to do better.
We can make people healthier and safer without surrendering to a permanent pandemic lifestyle.
Acceptance is not about agreeing with or surrendering to suffering. It is not about reckless abandonment of caution or carelessness toward others.
Public-health experts will be responsible for deciding where the off-ramps are for restrictions such as mask mandates in public places...But we, as individuals, are responsible for dusting off our pre-pandemic instincts and imagining living again.
Doctoring isn’t about walling off patients from certain exposures. It is about acknowledging our messy world and arming patients with tools to safely inhabit it.
Right now, caring for patients is about helping them redefine health as more than simply not getting COVID. Health also means accepting that living is about more than simply not dying.
Well, now the shoe is on the other foot.
NBC reporter Shaquille Brewster just fact-checked Dr. Anthony Fauci's claim that full football stadiums would lead to terrible COVID outcomes.
Today's Joy Reid said to Fauci, "As soon as I saw it, I thought COVID is about to have a feast. What did you think?"
To which Fauci replied: "I thought the same thing. I think it’s really unfortunate."
Brewster points out that Reid and Fauci had nothing to worry about.
"It never happened. Cases are now in steep decline in every college football state across the south. Including Florida, where hospitalizations fell 64 percent last month, even as some 90,000 fans packed the [University of Florida] Gators' stadium."
(In fact, Florida now has the lowest COVID case rate in the entire continental U.S. -- I'm sure the media will jump right on that!)
Do you suppose Joy Reid will ask Dr. Fauci how they could have been so wrong, and whether they're being too cartoonish in their analysis?
(That was a rhetorical question.)
You've surely heard it said that the reason we haven't seen much flu activity is that the efforts of our "public health" establishment (can't type that term without the quotation marks) against COVID-19 had the happy side effect of suppressing inflenuza.
Well, Dr. Michael Osterholm, the influenza expert who also advised the Biden White House on COVID, says otherwise.
Now understand: I am not an Osterholm fan. I just happen to take a mischievous satisfaction when the COVID hysterics' bubble is burst by one of their own.
Osterholm recently said in a podcast episode:
Let me just very briefly remind you: in the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, the virus in emerge from Mexico spread around the world in March 2009, hit the peak here in North America in late April or early May and then dropped precipitously in terms of numbers -- no mitigation strategies, no canceling of classes or businesses, no masks, no distancing, and no vaccine.
It just went away.
And during that summer, we saw we saw virtually no respiratory virus transmission activity, including any of the four standard flu viruses.
Well, then we got to late August and saw another big peak of H1N1. And those cases actually did peak in late September and came down precipitously in numbers after that, with a vaccine only arriving in mid-to-late October and even then, a limited quantity so the vaccine had no impact. Again, no mitigation strategies....
Well, now, fast forward to this pandemic. We went through the 2020-21 winter and we saw virtually no other respiratory pathogen activity. Somehow it was suppressed, including flu....
Osterholm then noted that "a very prestigious colleague" recently said in the New York Times "that the flu was suppressed because of COVID-19 mitigation efforts, including masks and social distancing."
Osterholm is having none of it. "We have no evidence at all that the precautions played any role in seeing no flu -- just like in 2009."
Of course, little no masking in Sweden and no flu there, either.
"You're going to continue to see this twindemic concept," said Osterholm, and the idea that "somehow we mitigated it with masks.... It reminds me of [former CDC head] Bob Redfield, when he famously said at a hearing last year, took his surgical mask and slammed it on the table and said, this is more powerful than any vaccine. Which is absolutely inappropriate. And frankly, I think dangerous."
I want you to see what has happened in Lithuania.
Now you may say, "Woods, I don't live in Lithuania."
Maybe so. But other countries can be indicators of where a particular policy tends to lead.
Also significant: not a single word of rebuke toward Lithuania or Australia from the U.S. regime, which means they have no fundamental objection to it and would emulate these systems if they thought they could get away with it.
This thread comes from a citizen of Lithuania. This is where these Covid passes lead.
In just 6 weeks, the Covid Pass has transformed my country into a regime of control and segregation. This is the new society created in Lithuania, the nation furthest along the path to the authoritarianism inevitably facing all countries which impose a Covid Pass regime:
The Covid Pass in Lithuania is called the "Opportunity Pass." The Opportunity Pass allows you the opportunity to participate in society. Without the Opportunity Pass, you don't have opportunity: your rights are restricted.
My wife and I don't have the Covid Pass. We refuse to accept the authoritarianism and control of the new regime. So we've lost our jobs and been banished from most of society. It's been 6 weeks so far. There is currently no end date planned for the new regime.
With no Pass, we may only enter small shops with street entrances which mainly sell essential goods: food, pharma, optics, or farm/pet goods. This convenience store meets the requirements, so we may enter:
Every other store must, by law, ban people without the Pass. In Lithuanian, the Pass is called "Galimybių pasas," abbreviated as "GP." "GP" signs are now ubiquitous at stores and public buildings to signal compliance with the policy of banishment:
All shopping centers ban people without the Covid Pass. Machines have been installed to scan and verify the Pass of each person who enters. No Pass, no entrance.
This is a clothing store. By law, it must ban my wife and me because we don't have the Covid Pass. Clothing is not considered essential.
Why is an ID needed to shop, in addition to a Pass? To verify the Pass is yours. e.g.: A construction worker wanted food for his morning shift. Without his own Pass, he used his boss's QR code to enter a supermarket. Police fined the man 5,000 eur and issued a press release.
This is a sporting goods store. The guard is using a phone app to verify the customer's Pass. Without a Pass, my wife and I may not enter this store.
At all supermarkets larger than 1500 square meters, guards scan each customer's Pass. My wife and I may not shop in these supermarkets: no Pass, no entrance.
The law bans people without the Pass from all non-essential services and economic activities. This is a religious supply store. It's not considered essential. So by law, the owner must ban my wife and me.
We're banned from bookstores. Only people with a Covid Pass may enter. Because we don't have a Pass, my wife and I cannot take our two children here.
My family enjoys crafts. But without a Pass, we can no longer enter knitting stores to buy yarn and other supplies.
Without a Covid Pass, we can't take our children to art supply stores. We're also not allowed to pick up online orders.
We're not allowed to receive any beauty services, e.g., hair, nails, skincare. This is a barber. No Pass, no entrance.
Without a Pass, we may not receive repair services which last longer than 15 minutes. This is an online ad for a shop which repairs iPhone screens: "Don't have a Pass? We can register you by phone and then we'll collect your device outside the entrance!"
Second-hand stores are not exempt. No one may buy or sell without the Pass. This is Humana, an international group which collects and sells second-hand clothing. No Pass, no entrance.
Without a Pass, we may not visit patients in medical facilities or senior care/residential homes. The only exception is for terminally-ill patients, pregnant women, or children under 14 years of age, if the doctor gives advance permission.
Without a Pass, we cannot enter most government buildings. So we can't talk to government officials in person. This is the website of the city of Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania: "As of 13-Sept, we only provide in-person service to people who have the Opportunity Pass."
Without a Covid Pass, we may not enter banks or insurance companies, except for essential financial purposes where the service lasts no longer than 15 minutes.
Bubble tea cafe.
Sushi restaurant.
After-work bar.
Latin eatery and salsa club.
All restaurants, cafes, and bars require the Opportunity Pass.
At libraries, my family may only pick up and drop off books. Without a Covid Pass, we may not browse, read, or research.
The library has separate entrances to enforce the segregation. The sign on the main door says: "↑ Only with the Opportunity Pass → Without the Pass"
Until 6 weeks ago, the library was one of my family's favorite activities. Now, my wife and I are banned from entering with our two young children. People with the Pass enter through the main door on the street, scan their Pass, and freely use the library's facilities.
With no Pass, we may not enter the main door. Instead, a series of signs direct us to a service entry behind the driveway: a) "Place for those with no Pass" b) "Pick-up/drop-off point for pre-ordered books (no Pass). Enter one at a time. Wear mask. Max 15 mins per person."
The final destination for those of us with no Pass is a corridor where we may pick up and drop off books which we order in advance. We must enter one at a time. We sit on the chair while staff get our pre-ordered book. Maximum 15 mins. The sign says: "Book pick-up point."
All this should be global headlines: "Lithuania bans citizens from society! Other EU countries following soon!" But there's scant reporting about this fundamental transformation in society. Or about the segregation and authoritarianism which has been the inevitable result.
Lithuania's Covid Pass started in May as a temporary measure. The goal: "facilitate economic activity". In August, the temporary measure to help the economy became a permanent law to banish people from society....
Lithuania's Covid Pass law does not ban specific activities. Instead, it prohibits people without a Pass from all services and economic activities involving human contact. Then, starting from zero rights, it grants us limited permissions such as buying food in small shops.
This is an inversion of universal rights. In a free society, you can do whatever you want, unless the law prohibits you. Under Lithuania's new Covid Pass regime, it's inverted: you can't do anything, unless a bureaucrat allows you....
The rules are petty, abstruse. They've been changed dozens of times in the two months of the Pass. Bureaucrats themselves don't agree with each other about how to apply the law. But the punishment if you don't comply properly? Severe.
Virtually every business complies with the Pass. Enforcement is strict. There are no alternatives. Even those who might oppose the Pass acquiesce with a sheepish submissiveness. What else can you do? With no Pass, you can't work, shop, or exist in society. Coercion works....
The law created in August allowed us non-Pass holders to buy food and medicine in small shops. Four days ago, bureaucrats imposed a new restriction on these shops: either limit capacity to only one customer per 30 square meters, or ban people without a Pass.
Complying with the 30 square meter rule would cause a massive reduction in a store's customer traffic. For a typical convenience store, the new restriction would mean only 2 or 3 shoppers at a time. For most pharmacies, it would mean only one customer allowed inside at a time.
The bureaucrats' new restriction forces small stores to decide: save their own business, or block us non-Pass holders from the only shopping still permitted to us.
The increase in coercion takes from my family the few shopping options we still had. But it does not confer morality. What was wrong before is still wrong now. So we'll be buying all our supplies from outdoor markets this winter. No Pass required. For now, at least.
Re-vaccination began in Sept. for seniors and healthcare workers, expanding in Oct. to all adults. Officials plan 4th and 5th boosters afterwards and strongly hint that boosters will be mandatory for the Pass in Lithuania and the EU. The Pass must be renewed every 60 days.
Revoking some freedoms has opened the door to revoke more. As the Covid Pass regime has become entrenched, the banishment and segregation it mandates has unleashed an authoritarian fervor to also ban free speech and stifle dissent.
Principled opposition is stigmatized. Honest debate is dismissed as conspiracy theories. The entire media universe in our country now openly works with politicians to ban dissent. We're losing the freedom to say what our rulers do not want to hear....
To see liberty's loss is heart-wrenching for my wife and me. We cry for our land, twisted into a regime of control and segregation. We cry for our neighbors, as we watch fear close their eyes to the path they walk back to an authoritarianism we overcame only 30 years ago.
We cry for our children, as the freedoms they have known in their short lives are ripped from them. And we cry for our unborn child, who we worry will never know a world where strangers interact freely without suspicion, fear, and government control....
QR code to shop. Covid Pass to work. Bureaucrats' approval to buy food, toys, clothes. Segregated libraries and banks. Ever increasing coercion. And if you don't comply: banishment. This is the world which the Covid Pass inevitably creates. Is this the world you want?
Well, the lizard people want that world. But a normal person does not.
Last month I introduced you to Joseph Ladapo, the new surgeon general of Florida.
An immigrant from Nigeria, Ladapo holds his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and his Ph.D. from the Harvard School of Public Health.
So when he says lockdowns are a public health disaster, and vaccines should not be mandated, he sends the guardians of allowable opinion into a special kind of frenzy.
Here's what he said yesterday, stitched together from remarks to the media:
"As we now know, these vaccines are not preventing transmission. Sure, they reduce the likelihood of transmission -- and even that is sort of questionable depending on how far out you go -- but they're not preventing it. I've heard some leaders say things like, 'We'll create safe workplaces by mandating these vaccines.' Well, they're really decoupled. Because the infection can still happen whether people are vaccinated or not. I mean, that's very obvious.
"You remember, these people were also telling you that all these breakthrough infections were rare. Well, they're obviously not rare. In fact, they're common.
"So this idea that the vaccine mandates are needed to create safe workplaces is a complete lie. It's continued to be repeated. And you should know that it's not at all backed up by science. In fact, the science says something that's completely the opposite.
"Part of the reason that some people are not comfortable with these vaccines is because of the climate of scientific dishonesty about the science -- whether it's natural immunity, denial of that in the face of data, or in the case of the vaccines, open, honest discussions about both effectiveness and safety. There's been dishonesty around that.
"The reality of how safe these vaccines are is absolutely not public. Healthy people who have had adverse reactions after the vaccine, there's been a concerted effort to prevent these types of stories, these experiences, from receiving the attention that they obviously should receive. It's completely ridiculous."
The next wave of vaccination mandates will involve children.
Since anyone raising concerns about this is considered an enemy of society, it's been impossible to have a rational discussion about it.
But:
Here's what Harvey Risch, professor of epidemiology at the Yale School of Public Health and the Yale School of Medicine had to say about it this week.
"As far as I can tell, it's a top-down structure, and most doctors do not get their information by going back and reading the original studies and making up their own minds. They get fed the information from pharma reps or from what they're told from societies. The conflicts are legion. So it's no surprise that most doctors don't pay attention and think what they're told....
"If the child has chronic conditions that make their risk appreciable, then there is a reason that they should be considered for vaccination. Other than that, if it were my child, I would homeschool them. Honestly, I would organize with other parents to take them out of the school and create a homeschooling environment. There is no choice. Your child's life is on the line.
"It's not a high risk. Vaccination is not a high risk that's going to kill every child by doing so. However, it's enough of a risk that on the average the benefit is higher for homeschooling than it is for vaccination and being in school."
Martin Kulldorff of Harvard is saying something similar:
"I don't think children should be vaccinated for COVID. I'm a huge fan of vaccinating children for measles, for mumps, for polio, for rotavirus, and many other diseases. That's critical. But COVID is not a huge threat to children....
"They can be infected, just like they can get the common cold, but they're not a big threat. They don't die from this, except in very rare circumstances. So if you want to talk about protecting children or keeping children safe, I think we can talk about traffic accidents, for example, which they are really at some risk.... And there are other things that we should make sure [of] to keep children safe. But COVID is not a big risk factor for children."
Kulldorff points to the experience of his native Sweden. Beginning with the first wave in the spring of 2020, Sweden "decided to keep daycare and schools open for all children ages 1 to 15. And there are 1.8 million such children who got through the first wave without vaccines, of course, without masks, without any sort of distancing in schools. If a child was sick, they were told to stay home. But that was basically it. And you know how many of those 1.8 million children died from COVID? Zero. Only a few hospitalizations. So this is not a risky disease for children."
He concludes: "If you’re a child, even if you haven’t had COVID, the risk of serious disease or death is minuscule … So it’s not at all clear that the benefits outweigh the risks for children."
Try discussing this with friends and relatives on social media, and you run the risk of being silenced.
We are not even allowed to discuss these things. And when in our lifetimes has free discussion been more urgently needed?
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They were warned of catastrophe if they didn't lock down and destroy their social order. We normal people, on the other hand, cheered them on, because we recognized the urgency of a control group. We need to know what happens when we ignore what we laughingly call our "public health authorities."
As I've said many times, if the extreme measures taken in 2020 were justified, then a country like Sweden that by and large ignored them ought to be a thousand times worse than anywhere else on Earth.
Sweden's chief epidemiologist explained that they were playing the long game.
Well, here's how it turned out: Sweden is now 53rd in the world for COVID deaths by population.
So 52 lockdown places did worse.
How is that possible, if lockdown was urgently necessary? Why doesn't Sweden have far and away the worst numbers in the world?
In fact, here's what their record looks like graphically, juxtaposed against the United States so the relative severity of the third wave in both countries can be seen (numbers come from worldometers -dot- info):
Let's not forget to mention that the Swedes hardly wear or wore masks at all. The crazies will attribute this to vaccination, but Sweden ranks only 13th in Europe in vaccination rate, and in any case why do the very same people think vaccinated people in the U.S. still need to be masked?
So there's a happy item for you.
Just when you think you've seen it all, the "follow the science" people keep surprising you.
Recently there was a Twitter thread on dystopian school lunch policies, and people were talking about schools where their children were prohibited from speaking during lunch.
This is a policy not enforced on adults in any setting. Not to mention: no one is the slightest bit curious how Sweden's 1.8 million children all survived COVID without any of this stupidity, and its teachers fared no worse than people in any other profession.
In the thread, someone chimed in with the following:
My son is nine years old and in Grade 4 here in Toronto. Yes, he is told not to speak during lunch. But it’s more frightening than that for him and his classmates. The kids’ silent lunches are just the tip of the iceberg for their experience with the lunch monitor.
Last month, our son broke down in tears at dinner asking what a “fourth wave” was. When I asked why, he said the lunch monitor was yelling at kids at recess that we were in a “fourth wave” and that kids were going to create another lockdown if they got close to each other.
I complained to the principal and said this was entirely not age-appropriate. The principal said she would make sure he didn’t use threats like these. But recently my son and his friends have been telling me what this guy is still doing.
Talking during lunch means detention. Getting out of your chair during lunch, for example to throw something in the garbage, also means detention.
When a kid physically contacts another kid at recess, even to brush sleeves, that’s detention.
This is outdoors, mind you.
Detention these days means you sit with your back to the outside wall of the school, hugging your knees. Six feet apart in either direction from other kids in detention. Outdoors.
If you approach a kid in detention to commiserate, that’s grounds for your own detention.
I would love for someone to defend this absurdity on the basis of health when kids are terrified.
Also, Toronto has had fewer than 50 cases a day the last two days in a city of 2.73 million.
Now it's true: this exact thing this isn't happening in every school in the United States or Canada.
The point of sharing the story is more general: in a world like this, many of us will have to make difficult choices, choices that affect how we live our lives in major ways.
The inhuman school policies have had the effect of pushing still more families into homeschooling, with the percentage of homeschooling households having doubled since all of this began.
But while the virus lunacy is an excellent reason to homeschool, an even more fundamental one is this: it's a bad idea for your children to be educated by people who despise you.
And let's face it: that's exactly what is happening right now, day in and day out.
Even with the school year in progress, it's never too late to say: no more.
You will not be alone: there are countless support groups now to guide you through, and of course the curriculum I helped create for Ron Paul (I teach government and Western civilization courses in the high school grades) is video based and self-taught, so you don't have to run yourself ragged.
An NBC poll finds Americans souring on vaccine mandates, perhaps as they begin to observe their consequences.
The question: "Do you strongly favor, somewhat favor, somewhat oppose, or strongly oppose requiring that everyone who is now eligible must get a COVID-19 vaccine?"
Now expect those numbers to change if the northeast has a bad winter, even though nothing about the vaccines themselves or the issues involved will have changed.
But still, that's a surprising result. We'd been told consistently that 70%+ of Americans favored the mandates.
And incidentally, that's something the bad guys love: making you feel marginalized and alone.
As writer John Hayward puts it, "One reason Dems are so comically furious over 'Let's Go Brandon' is they understand it's the kind of thing that triggers preference cascades -- a moment when people look around and realize that huge numbers of their neighbors share what the ruling party claims is a fringe opinion.
"The Left expends a huge amount of effort on making its adversaries feel marginalized. They mastered the dark art of making the majority feel like a fringe minority. The demoralization-destabilization-subversion strategy of the Left is designed to make normal people feel abnormal."
I think that's why people say the ol' TomWoods Show and these emails help them feel normal -- since every major outlet around them is trying to make them think the whole world opposes them.
Within the past week someone who's more or less on our side of all this stuff took a bizarre swipe at your host here.
He thinks I'm saying that our political elites are innocently making mistakes and that showing them some mask charts will change their minds.
I have never said or even thought such a thing, obviously.
What, then, is the point of my charts?
Number one, to reassure you -- yes, you, dear reader -- that you're not crazy, and that you are correct to think the "public health" establishment has no idea what it's doing. And also to help raise doubts in the minds of your friends.
By the way, is this "preaching to the choir"? I suppose so. But I've never understood why that's supposed to be bad. The choir needs to be preached to! Have you ever been to a church where the pastor tells the choir they may as well just go outside and smoke while he delivers his sermon?
Number two, to show people who aren't strongly committed one way or the other that the morality play being pushed on us -- "good behavior" makes the virus go away, while "bad behavior" makes it spread -- does not in any way reflect the experience we've had with the virus.
But no, there's no changing the minds of the power elite, because for them this is all a golden opportunity to expand their power, portray themselves as indispensable saviors, and set the stage for future large-scale interventions.
So for example, the chart below won't make Joe Biden change course, but it can make a normal person wonder.
Today on Twitter a New York Times reporter shared a map of the United States that depicted rates of active COVID in the various states. He was asking why the South would be doing so well despite its governors having ignored the CDC.
Since some people cannot give up the CDC religion no matter what the data tells them, one woman chimed in that the South probably isn't testing as much, because they don't really believe in COVID. So she's convinced that COVID must be bad in the South. It just has to be. Her religion requires her to believe this.
She doesn't know, apparently, that Florida's daily hospitalization numbers are lower than they've been in about a year and a half. How would she know that, even if she were a reasonable person with an open mind? Who's going to tell her?
And one of my Twitter acquaintances pointed this out: if it's a question of a lack of testing, that lack of testing must be incredibly well coordinated across the southern states to produce such strikingly similar outcomes everywhere:
Let me close with this:
If my inbox is any indication, I've succeeded at changing quite a few minds. I haven't convinced Joe Biden, but I wasn't really trying.
And again I emphasize:
There is nothing wrong with "preaching to the choir."
You guys are the choir. I think you benefit from my podcast episodes and newsletter issues, or you wouldn't consume them.
All of this is your fault, they say.
If you had just listened to the experts (I am trying to use that word with a straight face) and followed their mitigation measures, we could have conquered this thing long ago.
So the whole thing has been a morality play: your "bad behavior" is keeping this going, while my "good behavior" is keeping it in check.
What you're seeing below are two maps of the United States, side by side, separated by roughly three months, depicting the COVID cases that our opinion molders profess to be so concerned about. These maps are generated on a regular basis by the New York Times.
Well, how about that.
Remember when the map on the left was the fault of Ron DeSantis? Not to mention the vaccination rates of those states, which were likewise blamed (although Florida's vaccination numbers for seniors have been quite high).
And yet with zero changes in behavior, the map on the left became the map on the right.
Are we supposed to believe that everyone in the southeast suddenly started wearing masks at the same time, and everyone in the rest of the country stopped wearing them, also at the same time?
A New York Times reporter posted the chart on the right and asked how this was possible, given that the governors of those states had generally ignored "CDC guidelines."
I jokingly retweeted him with the comment, "He's so close to getting it."
Today someone shared this chart, generated by the Financial Times. Try to pick out which one of these countries hasn't implemented a vaccine passport system:
I'll bet you know which one it is.
Meanwhile, parts of Europe are going back into lockdown. Austria is locking down the one-third of the population that is unvaccinated. The Netherlands is 72% fully vaccinated and is going into lockdown for everyone, vaccinated and unvaccinated.
Wouldn't it be nice if, instead of inanely blaming "the unvaccinated" for this, the robots on social media would at least admit that this isn't how they expected it to go, and that there shouldn't be this level of cases and deaths after the introduction of vaccines?
It's like Sweden: we were supposed to believe that Sweden would have one of the worst death rates in the world because it ignored the so-called experts demanding lockdown. Well, Sweden is currently #53 in the world for COVID death rate. Number fifty-three. Not one. Not two. Not ten. Not twenty. Fifty-three.
The crazies are still criticizing Sweden, naturally. But my question is: when you were screaming hysterically at Sweden to lock down, did you think they'd end up all the way down at number 53 in the world in death rate? Aren't you the least bit curious about that? Is there a chance that if we hadn't wrecked societies it wouldn't have made any difference anyway?
Same with Florida: did the hysterics expect them to have one of the better rates of age-adjusted COVID mortality in the United States? Of course not. They were warning that Florida would be one of the worst.
And yet in none of these cases can they bring themselves to say: thank goodness things turned out better than we predicted! Instead, they just double down.
You've probably seen a handful of people on social media say that vaccine passport systems make them "feel safe."
You know and I know that these systems have nothing to do with health or safety.
Well, some authorities in Canada just admitted what you and I knew: the aim is to punish the unvaccinated.
The British Columbia Parks and Recreation department says: "Remember, the purpose of the PoV card is to incentivize residents to be vaccinated, not to control the spread of the virus."
Then further: "This is an important shift to keep aware of for your decision-making; the province has shifted from actions that provide a COVID-safe environment to actions that provide discretionary services to the vaccinated."
Patricia Daly, Chief Medical Health Officer for Vancouver Coastal Health, added:
"The vaccine passport requires people to be vaccinated to do certain discretionary activities such as go to restaurants, movies, gyms, not because these places are high risk. We are not actually seeing covid transmission in these settings.
"It really is to create an incentive to improve our vaccination coverage…. The vaccine passport is for non-essential opportunities, and it's really to create an incentive to get higher vaccination rates.”
So even though cities and countries with these systems in place are doing no better than countries that don't, that isn't the point. The point, as I've said all along, is to punish.
A state senator from Tennessee is very unhappy with your host here.
Heidi Campbell of the state's 20th senatorial district responded to the email I sent out some time ago letting you know that the video of my 2000th episode event was up. I must have made some side remark about Dr. Fauci.
As you will see in what follows, she evidently thinks that public health bureaucrats take some class in college that teaches them how to balance lockdowns against collateral damage and therefore gives them the exclusive right to make judgments in this area.
There is no such class, obviously. Not to mention: lockdown was universally rejected by the public health literature before 2020.
(So "trust the experts" both when they tell you definitely not to do X, and then also trust them when suddenly and without evidence they demand you do X.)
Here is what she wrote to me:
The puerility of a grown man who has been given so much opportunity in life actively attacking a doctor who has tried to disseminate good public health messaging is really just embarrassing. I realize that you are the kind of person who does not listen and just speaks, but I encourage you to take some time to think about your value system and what you’re doing to make the world a better or worse place. If you’re honest with yourself I suspect you’ll find some areas where you might want to change some things.
When I received this message I was out with my kids, so I wasn't in a position to draft the most eloquent of replies. But I did quickly dictate something into my phone:
If you're [sic; error caused by the dictation function on my phone] concern is science, health, or the norms of civilization, I cannot imagine how you could be criticizing me, of all people.
What's embarrassing is somebody who continues to make excuses for this man despite being embarrassingly wrong on schools (or are you telling me Europe was wrong?), predicts superspreader events that never occur, and has literally, and I mean literally, no explanation for why states without lockdown have better age-adjusted covid mortality.
Tell me, what is your explanation for that? I'd love to hear it. Andy Slavitt doesn't know, either.
Oh, and put masks on 2-year-olds, even though there are literally no randomized control studies on this. And Europe doesn't do it.
The results of this fiasco include literally millions of deaths in the developing world (according to the New York Times, there will be 2 million excess deaths from HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis because of the irrational panic), tens of thousands of premature cancer deaths, the decimation of people's life savings and dreams, a huge loss in educational attainment, elderly people left completely isolated and begging for human contact, childhood poverty massively increased around the world, and on and on.
And as we can see by using scatterplots, there is absolutely no connection between the alleged mitigation efforts and health outcomes.
Infectious disease epidemiologists, as opposed to immunologists like Fauci, said from the beginning that the correct approach was to protect the vulnerable without shutting down society. That approach has been vindicated a million times over.
Believe it or not, the following was her reply. Not a word about childhood poverty or the devastation of the developing world or anything. Just this:
Amazing that you have this long-running podcast and (I’m sure) a significant number of listeners and your response to an email encouraging you to take some time for introspection begins with a contraction that was obviously intended to be a possessive adjective. Lord help us!
Now folks, I don't pull out the "I have a Ph.D." card pretty much ever, but I could not believe she was pretending that I must not know the difference between your and you're, so it was a quick proxy. I said:
It's dictation software. I hold a Ph.D. from Columbia University; I assure you I can write.
Anytime you care to share any answers to my questions, I'd love to hear them.
Her reply:
Informing people that you have a Ph.D. is never a good look- it just makes you seem insecure. I don’t need to answer those questions. 99.9% of the global public health community has already weighed in. I understand that you make money from spreading disinformation and it’s apparent that you lack the depth of character to have any misgivings about doing so. Inevitably it’s Veronica, Regina, and Amy who will suffer because of your actions. Your choice. Have a great weekend!
I guess she looked up my children's names. She's not even good at that: she left out Elizabeth and Sarah. My reply:
I was not boasting about the degree, as is clear from the context, but pointing out that your frivolous comment about the misuse of a word was obviously misguided.
What exactly have world authorities said about why there's no difference between lockdown and no-lockdown places? Can you at least repeat their explanation for me? Does their explanation satisfy you?
Why is Sweden a distant #53 in death rate, without locking down? Sweden would be #43 out of 50 in terms of Covid deaths per capita were it a U.S. state. Were you expecting it to be #53? Seriously and honestly? If not, do you concede that perhaps the situation is a bit less comic-bookish than Salon has made it appear?
Why aren't you the least bit curious about this?
I have five daughters, all of whom are critical thinkers, and none of whom would look at the present situation and make an appeal to authority. If you think 99.9% of health experts believe in lockdowns, you are shockingly misinformed. You cannot possibly be serious.
As soon as you can point out a single false statement I have made, I will retract it. But you'll need to explain to me why I'm wrong, and not just tell me that some public health bureaucrat disagrees.
No response yet.
At every level we are governed by mediocrities like this.
She doesn't have to answer my questions because "the authorities" have answered them. Oh, have they? Andy Slavitt had no idea what the answer was when the subject came up on MSNBC. He just said that "there's so much of this virus that we think we understand, that we think we can predict, that's just a little bit beyond our explanation."
In other words, he has no answer.
Same with Dr. Fauci: when asked about the success of Texas, the best he could come up with was that maybe everyone was doing things outdoors now. In other words, an embarrassing non-answer.
We've ruined people's lives and dreams with nothing to show for it and what we laughingly call our expert class has no answers for us -- and our state senator here has no answer, either. She points me in the direction of Fauci and Slavitt, both of who admit they have no answer.
The complete lack of an answer does not make her curious at all.
Needless to say, she never entertains the forbidden thought that maybe none of it did any good.
Something tells me she has never had a thought that wasn't safely within the range of opinion permitted to us by the New York Times.
What I'm trying to do, and what enrages our state senator, is broaden the range of allowable conversation, to say the things we're all thinking. If at this point, after everything that's happened -- and particularly after all the huge events even before the vaccine rollout (so they can't use that explanation) that resulted in no "superspreader" effect -- people still think it all worked, they're probably unreachable.
But some people are reachable, as we can see from the packed football stadiums and other events.
So not only am I not modifying my ways at the request of Senator Campbell, but to the contrary I'm actually going to use this opportunity to draw more people into my wicked inner circle, where thinking people who ask forbidden questions congregate and learn.
The fact that we are governed by people like Heidi Campbell, who think the American establishment is doing just a super job and would never dream of questioning it, is why I have a TomWoods Show Elite in the first place.
I still come across people who think it's some kind of conspiracy theory to say the vaccines don't "stop the spread."
But the head of the CDC has conceded this, and now (with the evidence too overwhelming to ignore) Dr. Fauci is conceding this, as well as waning effectiveness.
I am shocked at how many people don't realize this, or who blindly accept the propaganda behind the vaccine passport system -- that allowing the vaccinated to interact only with other vaccinated people will "stop the spread."
What other explanation can there be for the chart below other than that the vaccines do not stop the spread? This is Iceland, one of the world's most vaccinated countries, and where restrictions are now being reintroduced. (The orange line tracks vaccination rate.)
I'd also like to share this chart, courtesy of a friend:
He writes:
What can we learn from this graph? - open schools don't drive covid - full football stadiums don't drive covid - lack of masking doesn't drive covid - no vax mandates don't drive covid
What drives these curves? 1) we don’t fully know, 2) to the extent we do, regional seasonality appears to play the biggest role, and 3) possibly constrained by natural immunity.
Nothing new. Just another example of the experts being wrong about everything again.
Our friend Ian Miller, who generates so many devastating charts, had rather an amusing comment about the one below.
Below is Gibraltar, the most vaccinated place on Earth. The vaccination rate is given as 100 percent.
Gibraltar has had only a handful of deaths from the very beginning, long before any vaccines existed.
But if you were still doubtful about whether the vaccines stopped transmission (and I had several people email me yesterday to tell me that their friends genuinely believe that the vaccines do this, or at least slow it significantly), here is Gibraltar. (The orange line tracks the vaccination rate.)
Commenting on this graph, Ian said: "I wonder if the like, one unvaccinated guy in the whole country is sitting there going, 'how can this possibly be a pandemic of just me?!'"
A few other items:
* New York City is now banning the unvaccinated from public streets, at least on New Year's Eve. You will need to show proof of vaccination to watch the ball drop.
Since the ACLU, after a long period of silence, wound up favoring vaccine passports as beneficial to liberty, it seems doubtful that we'll hear from them on this.
* In the UK, the Daily Mail got a hold of leaked documents describing an Operation Rampdown, whereby the UK government will walk back its COVID response early in the new year.
Among the provisions, it would:
Axe the legal requirement for those who catch the virus to self-isolate for ten days;
Shut down the national 'Test and Trace' system, which identifies those who may have been exposed to the virus;
Focus the fight against Covid on tackling local outbreaks and protecting "highest risk settings," such as care homes
'We will no longer be prioritizing the previous objectives of breaking chains of transmission at all costs," one document says.
Writes Robert Dingwall of Nottingham Trent University, former Government adviser: "I very much welcome the fact that people are planning for the end of the emergency and the restoration of everyday life. Treating Covid like any other respiratory infection should encourage people to dial down the fear and anxiety that have bedeviled the country for the past couple of years."
wasn't planning to write today, and then I saw the maps below.
They pretty much say it all.
We've been lectured and scolded since March 2020. The spread of the virus is our fault, they say. If we'd just follow their "guidelines," we'd be a lot better off.
And yet:
You see what this is, surely. It's the COVID numbers in the United States, separated by a year.
Isn't it an amazing coincidence that all the places where people happened to be "behaving badly" on November 19, 2020 just happen to be the same places where they were "behaving badly" on November 19, 2021?
The coincidence is so uncanny that it's almost as if, I don't know, it's not a coincidence at all, and factors like seasonality might instead account for where the virus becomes especially pronounced.
"The unvaccinated" have become public enemy number one in record time.
They can be stigmatized, marginalized, and penalized at will.
People have been led to believe that they are in danger from the wicked unvaccinated.
Günter Kampf of the Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine at the Greifswald University Hospital in Germany just fired back against this in the 200-year-old Lancet, one of the world's most prominent medical journals.
He writes:
In the USA and Germany, high-level officials have used the term pandemic of the unvaccinated, suggesting that people who have been vaccinated are not relevant in the epidemiology of COVID-19. Officials’ use of this phrase might have encouraged one scientist to claim that "the unvaccinated threaten the vaccinated for COVID-19."
But this view is far too simple.
There is increasing evidence that vaccinated individuals continue to have a relevant role in transmission. In Massachusetts, USA, a total of 469 new COVID-19 cases were detected during various events in July, 2021, and 346 (74%) of these cases were in people who were fully or partly vaccinated, 274 (79%) of whom were symptomatic. Cycle threshold values were similarly low between people who were fully vaccinated (median 22·8) and people who were unvaccinated, not fully vaccinated, or whose vaccination status was unknown (median 21·5), indicating a high viral load even among people who were fully vaccinated.
In the USA, a total of 10,262 COVID-19 cases were reported in vaccinated people by April 30, 2021, of whom 2725 (26·6%) were asymptomatic, 995 (9·7%) were hospitalized, and 160 (1·6%) died.
In Germany, 55·4% of symptomatic COVID-19 cases in patients aged 60 years or older were in fully vaccinated individuals, and this proportion is increasing each week. In Münster, Germany, new cases of COVID-19 occurred in at least 85 (22%) of 380 people who were fully vaccinated or who had recovered from COVID-19 and who attended a nightclub.
People who are vaccinated have a lower risk of severe disease but are still a relevant part of the pandemic. It is therefore wrong and dangerous to speak of a pandemic of the unvaccinated. Historically, both the USA and Germany have engendered negative experiences by stigmatizing parts of the population for their skin color or religion. I call on high-level officials and scientists to stop the inappropriate stigmatization of unvaccinated people, who include our patients, colleagues, and other fellow citizens, and to put extra effort into bringing society together.
In a separate submission, he wrote this:
"High COVID-19 vaccination rates were expected to reduce transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in populations by reducing the number of possible sources for transmission and thereby to reduce the burden of COVID-19 disease. Recent data, however, indicate that the epidemiological relevance of COVID-19 vaccinated individuals is increasing. In the UK it was described that secondary attack rates among household contacts exposed to fully vaccinated index cases was similar to household contacts exposed to unvaccinated index cases (25% for vaccinated vs 23% for unvaccinated). 12 of 31 infections in fully vaccinated household contacts (39%) arose from fully vaccinated epidemiologically linked index cases. Peak viral load did not differ by vaccination status or variant type. In Germany, the rate of symptomatic COVID-19 cases among the fully vaccinated (“breakthrough infections”) is reported weekly since 21. July 2021 and was 16.9% at that time among patients of 60 years and older.
"This proportion is increasing week by week and was 58.9% on 27 October 2021, providing clear evidence of the increasing relevance of the fully vaccinated as a possible source of transmission. A similar situation was described for the UK. Between week 39 and 42, a total of 100.160 COVID-19 cases were reported among citizens of 60 years or older. 89.821 occurred among the fully vaccinated (89.7%), 3.395 among the unvaccinated. One week before, the COVID-19 case rate per 100.000 was higher among the subgroup of the vaccinated compared to the subgroup of the unvaccinated in all age groups of 30 years or more. In Israel a nosocomial outbreak was reported involving 16 healthcare workers, 23 exposed patients and two family members. The source was a fully vaccinated COVID-19 patient. The vaccination rate was 96.2% among all exposed individuals (151 healthcare workers and 97 patients). Fourteen fully vaccinated patients became severely ill or died, the two unvaccinated patients developed mild disease. The US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) identifies four of the top five counties with the highest percentage of fully vaccinated population (99.9–84.3%) as “high” transmission counties.
"Many decisionmakers assume that the vaccinated can be excluded as a source of transmission. It appears to be grossly negligent to ignore the vaccinated population as a possible and relevant source of transmission when deciding about public health control measures."
The truth is out there, folks. The tyrants don't care, of course, but the public might.
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