The new Godzilla of absolute dictatorship by Pharma jackoffs and their bureaucracy of jackoffs
The New Normal
We’ve come to the sad realization these last 2 years that most people will support rule by pharma jackoffs and their bureaucracy of jackoffs. Most people will accept not just rule, but absolute dictatorship, by pharma jackoffs and their bureaucracy of jackoffs. And they’ll accept it without hesitation, without even a single fucking coherent question, not even a speck of reservation.
And these people vote, which certainly counters against any theoretical argument in favor of democracy.
Democracy: rule by idiot mobs, lunatic witch hunters, rule by mass formations of zombies easily spurred into hysterical homicide because somebody in a lab coat goes “Boo!”. Nobody learned anything from Scooby Doo:
These days, the democratic invasion of the body snatchers mob points its bent finger at Scooby, Shaggy, Daphne Velma, and Fred: CONSPIRACY THEORIST!
Again, these are voters.
I have a doubt these last 10 or 20 years, and certainly now, that voting and “Democracy” can be taken seriously again.
And “Republic”?
Try an internet search on the words “US democracy republic” and see a bunch of crotchety old fucks debating whether the United States of America is a Democracy or a Republic:
Presumably, people of some demonstrable competence are given the responsibility to make reasonable decisions that tilt toward some kind of concept of “good government”.
This now is entirely dubious too (far fetched actually) and seems equally ludicrous, due to the current rendition of such people. The reason for their decline apparently much the same: abject stupidity and simple corruption.
While formerly there was something vibrant in some kind of interplay between mob and reason, this is dead now on both sides and the interplay between them is no corpus, only incinerated dust piling up:
…the desiccated corpse of the “debate” that used to pit “democracy” against “republic”, long since blown to bits, dustified, by corporate capture.
Godzilla kicked this argument (Democracy/Republic) down the back stair into the shitcan of history with “Covid-19”. Since 2020 there’s no such thing as democracy or republic. The US is not a democracy and not a republic. And neither is any other country.
The absolute dictatorship (world rule) of a bunch of pharma jackoffs and their bureaucracy of jackoffs, though, didn’t happen overnight. Decades of corporate regulatory capture preceded. Corrupt capture annihilated regulatory function, of agencies (like CDC, FDA, NIH, etc), long ago. But the power stranglehold extends beyond regulating bodies into everything. After decades of subversion, the capture of everything is complete: media, education, science, medicine, police, military, institutions of every shape purpose and size (your local chess club is overtaken), mythos, everything…
Photo credit: Toho Co. / The Criterion Collection
So, what then?
What will re-animate this corpse? What new blood can be brought into some newly resurrected Frankenstein, to confront this Godzilla of absolute dictatorship by Pharma jackoffs and their bureaucracy of jackoffs?
Or will it collapse of its own mega-idiocy? Doubtful. I think it needs to be nuked (metaphorically). But I don’t know what tools there are, and I don’t know what kind of corpus is going to stand up and wield them.
In any case, Pharma jackoffs are not the only ones talking. Regardless who’s listening, there are other voices»»
Excerpt:
“Everything went strictly ‘by the book,’ using means that were permitted by the constitution. At first there were ‘emergency decrees’ by the president of the Reich, and later a bill was passed by a two-thirds majority of the Reichstag giving the government unlimited legislative powers, perfectly in accordance with the rules for changing the constitution.”
—Sebastian Haffner, Defying Hitler (paperback, Kindle, audiobook)
I am writing because you are considering legislation or policies related to COVID-19.
Although this letter is addressed to a governing body, I am actually writing to you—you, the living, thinking, feeling individuals who comprise this body.
I am asking that you listen not in your capacity as a member but as a fellow human being, as a neighbor, as a friend.
For nearly a year, you have been gradually conditioned to view the unvaccinated as enemies. You have been subjected to a relentless propaganda campaign designed to divide you from us; to dehumanize us; to paint us as science-deniers, conspiracy nuts, spreaders of disease, and threats to society.
“Men under pressure are first dehumanized and only then demoralized, not the other way around. Organization and specialization, system, subsystem, and supersystem are the consequence, not the cause, of the totalitarian spirit.”
—Milton Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933–45 (paperback, Kindle, audiobook)
The United States Holocaust Museum describes this process as “Defining the Enemy: The Excluded”:
“One crucial factor in creating a cohesive group is to define who is excluded from membership. Nazi propagandists contributed to the regime’s policies by publicly identifying groups for exclusion, justifying their outsider status, and inciting hatred or cultivating indifference.… But a second, more sinister aspect of the Nazi myth was that not all Germans were welcome in the new community. Propaganda helped to define who would be excluded from the new society and justified measures against the ‘outsiders.’”
Regardless of what the propagandists have told you, we are not your enemies. We are your neighbors; we are your colleagues; we are your friends; we are your family members—your grandparents, your parents, your siblings, your children.
We are human beings just like you. We love, we live, we think, we feel.
We have merely made a different choice from you. And contrary to what the propagandists tell you, that choice poses no threat to you or our shared community.
This CDC paper (“Outbreak of SARS-CoV-2 Infections, Including COVID-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Infections, Associated with Large Public Gatherings — Barnstable County, Massachusetts, July 2021”), explains that the study found “three-quarters of cases occurred in fully vaccinated people”:
“It also found no significant difference in the viral load present in the breakthrough infections occurring in fully vaccinated people and the other cases, suggesting the viral load of vaccinated and unvaccinated persons infected with the coronavirus is similar.”
New stories documenting COVID outbreaks in fully vaccinated groups keep emerging, including cruise ships such as the MS Europa, MS Europa 2, Mein Schiff 6, and Aidanova.
While reporting on a third Royal Caribbean cruise ship outbreak, this Miami Heraldarticle notes:
“The CDC reported there were 5,013 confirmed COVID-19 cases on cruise ships between Dec. 15 and 29, compared to just 162 cases in the two weeks prior, Nov. 30 to Dec. 14.
“According to the CDC’s database for COVID-19 on cruise ships as of Wednesday, all 92 cruise ships currently sailing in U.S. waters had people on board infected by COVID-19.”
After Puerto Rico health insurer Mmm Multi Health lost a court case that struck down their mandate and restored employees’ rights to decide about what would be injected into their bodies, the company instituted segregation: one building housed fully vaccinated employees, while the second building housed unvaccinated employees.
Guess which building experienced a COVID outbreak—and which one didn’t? It’s the opposite of what the media tells you. In this perfect real-world case control study, the building with the fully vaccinated employees suffered an outbreak, while the unvaccinated remained protected by their natural immunity, which has been proven superior to vaccination by 145 research studies to date.
And then consider this scenario at an Antarctica station: “100% vaxxed. 100% remote and quarantined. Still, covid outbreak in 2/3rds.”
I know what you’re thinking, “Okay, but what about the hospitals being overwhelmed by the unvaccinated?”
Well, big surprise, you’ve been deceived about that, too.
At a regional New York hospital serving a community with an under–50-percent vaccination rate, “90% of the individuals admitted to [the] hospital were documented to have received this vaccine.”
The latest UK data reveals that vaccinated individuals comprise the majority of all hospitalizations and deaths in the over-50 group, a pattern that is becoming increasingly common.
If the vaccine does not prevent people from spreading or contracting COVID; being hospitalized; or dying from COVID, what possible justification can you provide for instituting policies such as mandating the COVID-19 vaccine, requiring vaxxports, or detaining individuals and families in quarantine facilities?
And that’s only part of the story. The other part of the story—the one the propagandists don’t show you—is the CDC’s vaccine surveillance system has just surpassed a historic 1 million adverse event reports (1,016,999 as of 12/31/21) for the COVID vaccines, including 21,382 deaths—5,252 of which occurred within the first forty-eight hours following injection.
Contemplate that for a moment—nearly a quarter of reported deaths occurred within the first two days after vaccination.
The article copied:
a new set of estimates have emerged on past covid prevalence in the US. they purport to show that ~76% of americans have, by now, had covid.
this seems like a plausible number to me and having taken a quick look through their methods and sourcing, it seems like they took a reasonable approach, subject of course to all the limitations and estimations inherent in extrapolating a number like this (which are not insubstantial). this is a model, not a collected dataset, but it seems a fairly reasonable one.
graphic created by gatopal™ @kbirb who has done so much great work on data here.
what this shows is is a disease that’s over and going to wind down and go endemic.
how it fares in future years in terms of evading acquired immunity (it has certainly evaded vaccines already) is an open issue, but i think the odds on bet is that yes, it will be somewhat evasive, and no, that is not a threat to anyone.
it’ll be like other coronaviruses, widespread, mutating somewhat, and mild to the point of being more annoying that anything else. it’s going to become a cold.
children will get it at a time when it poses them almost no threat.
they will acquire immunity as they do to 50 other common childhood infections. they may get it again later, but it will be mild because the immunity, while not perfect, will be cross reactive.
the same will be true of the adults. i have heard of VERY few cases of SARSCOV-2 reinfection that were in any way severe. the odds on bet is that this will persist, just as it does in the other big 4 of circulating covid colds.
that means this is over and it’s time to stop paying attention, testing, freaking out, or even noticing.
it’s time to return to the classics of
take care of yourself and your health
if you feel ill, stay home
wash your hands
live your life
further hypochondria driven OCD is not public health.
it’s just damage.
(well, unless you work for moderna or pfizer…)
i know that many of you were skeptical that this is all about to fall apart and wind down, but it is. even the formerly shameless shills like CDC head rochelle walensky suddenly sound like they are trying to take the credit for the great barrington declaration…
We must protect people with comorbidities from severe #COVID19. I went into medicine – HIV specifically – and public health to protect our most at-risk. CDC is taking steps to protect those at highest risk, incl. those w/ chronic health conditions, disabilities & older adults.i mean, they are still accepting signatories…
adherents to a crumbling narrative change jerseys following what looks to be a gompertz curve.
the early stirrings are easy to miss if you are not paying attention.
welcome to the steep part.
suddenly, cases are a bad metric, hospitalizations are mostly incidental, deaths are focused in the highly comorbid, and we need targeted protection. huh.
even notions of natural immunity, that much maligned and obfuscated concept lo these last 22 months are suddenly in the air and being tracked and modeled by the very same people who were recently denying it and telling you that only vaccines could generate herd immunity.
look who built that model:
the covidian circus truly is packing up its tents and preparing to hightail it out of town.
the people who made this mess can read a poll as well as anyone.
even lori lightfoot is picking fights with teachers unions and demanding they get back into the classroom.
the massive, unprecedented public failure of these policies got too big to hide. everybody got vaxxed then got covid anyway. and everybody knows 20 people this happened to. you cannot hide that. it’s not a punch you can duck. if you wanna keep from being knocked out, you better roll with it…
the “these are not the droids you’re looking for” pivot to “the vaccines were just supposed to limit severity” fell on its face. far too many had the receipts. the internet became a wonderland of ubiquitous refutation. instead of fooling people, it gutted credibility. you only need to see a compilation like this once and your eyes snap open. there is no refuting it.
those pushing the “this surge is because not enough people got vaxxed” look ridiculous as the states with 95%+ vaxx rates in over 12’s see their hospitals reach new highs of covid count, driven mostly by over 65’s who are 99% vaxxed.
this is WHY authorities are having to finally pivot to “hospital counts are mostly “with” not “for” covid.” it’s their only non-laugh inducing play left and while they may be poor epidemiologists, they are excellent grifters, and they can see the way the wind is blowing.
most americans do not want to hear about “you need a 3rd booster, maybe a 4th, possibly an annual, and maybe this new magic omnicron booster we promise we’ll have (but that likely will never have a clinical outcomes trial) long after it stops being relevant” from the pharma kingpins who originally sold them “get two and become a dead end for the virus” and the politicians who told them that doing so meant “no masks and get your life back.”
and the narrative of vaxx as public duty is in tatters. if it does not stop spread, then it’s personal health.
even if you did have the right to force such things, there would be no point and ideas that it’s your duty to limit hospital use by getting jabbed rings hollow in a nation where 1/3 to 1/2 of ALL health spending is driven by obesity and obesity related diseases and yet we allow magazine to push pictures of fat people saying “this is healthy.”
the double standard becomes too absurd to sustain.
if liar’s pants really did catch on fire, this whole gang would be a sooty smudge of cinders by now.
and this is why they all need to “be like rochelle” and jump teams. the smart ones already have and even the dim are now catching on.
these are the same people who would happily promise “a missionary in every pot” if they thought their constituents were cannibals.
did you really expect any different?
From the comments:
CAM
Perhaps I'm not being as good of a Christian as I should, but I honestly am not ready or willing to just "let bygones be bygones" over this whole mess. I don't care if Walensky and all these other public health officials and bureaucrats are pivoting on the narrative to cover their collective asses, or the people surrounding me inside and outside my family and "friends".
There will be plenty of "It was new and deadly; we HAD to DO something!" or "We worked with what scientist knew and it continually evolved, as Science is supposed to. This went exactly as to be expected." It will be the self-congratulatory cheers and back-slapping of a "job well done", (and despite the insurgency of the "non-vaxxed"), so there will be plenty of support within the media and Covidian echo chambers to allow them to feel good about themselves and the leaders they followed, as well as the lives they destroyed.
No, I will not forgive and forget at any level, though I will continue to live my life and make the best of it for me and my family.
BHerr
I'm a Christian and there's no struggle here. From Vanguard, State Street, WEF, Gates Foundation, all the way down to my local school board, there must be swift and uncompromising justice, accountability, and the unmistakeable messages that this won't happen again. Not on our watch.
One of the most amazing things out of this madness is how the Black Mirror was held up to every single institution, and at every turn, these institutions were revealed for the infested, corrupt, wicked hives they've been allowed to become. There's a lot of good and positives to that.
I went to work on the homes in New Orleans a year after Katrina happened, 2006. It was summer in Louisiana, meaning ridiculously hot and humid. These houses had been sitting rotting, dark, closed for a year. Our team would go in and "gut" them down to the studs. I would take a hammer or crowbar to the rotting drywall, and these giant cockroaches, like the size of Post It notes that had been happily multiplying for a year, were suddenly exposed. It was disgusting yet also fascinating.
What we've peeled back over these past two years is much the same, and just like I got great satisfaction with smashing those roaches with that hammer, I'm about to take great satisfaction knowing the world - the regular, thinking, just world - is about to do the same with this breed of roaches.
PamelaDrew
"The massive, unprecedented public failure of these policies got too big to hide. everybody got vaxxed then got covid anyway. and everybody knows 20 people this happened to. you cannot hide that."
One of my favorite quotes that has served as a mantra from the outset proves itself again. :~)
The truth is incontrovertible.
Malice may attack it,
ignorance may deride it,
but in the end, there it is.
~ Winston Churchill. ~
VanishingTribe
Great article. One of the problems many of us are still dealing with out here in idiotland is that, while the clowns at the top of this BS are reluctantly pivoting to the science, the school boards who have (as everyone knows by now) tyrannical control over the school systems, are populated by hypochondriac Karens who just can't let go of their covidiot compulsions and are always the last to get the message from "the experts."
Rob D
Research how much money these schools are getting to "comply" with the narrative and that will explain it all. There's been literally multi-millions of dollars shelled out. We need to confront them with this and demand they send the money back.
ejsmith
The problem is even more fundamental than that. The true problem lies with a very large segment of society - I'd argue nearly fifty percent - who continue to believe the narrative and who still choose to live in fear.
I live in a very red county in a red state and although the vast majority of the population seem to be living as normal lives as possible, there are still those isolated hold-outs who insist on wearing masks. Things become more dystopian the closer you get to urban areas. Nothing truly will change until inroads are made to the collective consciousness of these people.
Sadly, there is no talking with them and MSM has been captured. Personal experience is probably all that we can rely on.
Sophia
Funny how those who teach often learn the slowest.
ejsmith
I miss the days when teaching was a talent and teachers actually were encouraged to drive students to think for themselves. My favorite teacher remains my high school philosophy teacher who shocked us by challenging our teenage conformist tendencies and forcing us to think outside the box. Looking back, I learned more from him than anything in the sh*tty university and law school I later attended.
A. Roz
From the post, “suddenly, cases are a bad metric, hospitalizations are mostly incidental, deaths are focused in the highly comorbid, and we need targeted protection. huh.”
This has all cropped up in the last couple of weeks which is stunning! I saw yesterday that the State of the Union address has been moved to 3/1. I think we will see a “virus victory lap” take place. Most politicians, (or Supreme Court justices), have demonstrated they can not understand Covid data, but as Gato just wrote, “the people who made this mess can read a poll as well as anyone.”
When I first saw Walensky’s tweet yesterday, I was shocked, but also incensed since the GBD authors, like Dr. Martin Kulldorff and Jay Bhattacharya were smeared as ‘fringe’ for saying something this. Walensky basically agreed with the major tenet of the GBD, focused protection.
I do hope things get better “on the ground” soon. Even in my ‘red state’ of Ohio, I am seeing zero signs of a pull back on Covid crazy. More double masking than I have ever seen at stores and just this week, my child now has to mask while actively playing indoor sports. Some urban districts are virtual “due to Covid”. We’ve got it better than other states, but hysteria is still very strong and reason has yet to return; our kids are still being harmed.
Christian A. Brown
I love how the talking heads are all pivoting to information we—the sane—knew for the last two years as if this “science” is novel, groundbreaking stuff. In reality, had Omicron not come along we’d be hearing the same regurgitated nonsense about masks, passes and the one-size-fits-all cure herding us along until the inevitable attempt at climate lockdowns.
It’s important we never let these clowns forget the false narratives they spun or the damage they wrought. What they will surely now try to do is credit themselves for an act of nature/chance that did what these vaccines could not: spread an inoculating vaccine through the entire population.
John Bowman
In the UK where Team Expert - guardians of The Science™️ - who before Christmas predicted that there would be 3 000 hospital admissions a day from Omicron unless everyone in the land were chained to their beds until further notice, have had to consume large helpings of humble-pie since (of course) there were hardly any admissions from CoVid of any variety. And no way to hide or spin this.
More bizarrely, because of devolved powers in healthcare to Scotland & Wales, the loonies in charge there went full-on Pol Pot, introducing restrictions just short of lockdown. By contrast in England apart from masks and the usual dire warnings, Christmas & New Year celebrations went ahead as normal. And guess what? England is no worse off whatever crummy data set you want to believe than Scotland or Wales.
But no remission for the Scots & Welsh. Some people just won’t give in no matter the evidence from observation.
That is what makes me reserve my judgement regarding ‘beginning of the end’ - because it is unwise to assume that because I - and our blogmeister - are rational operators, that others are too, particularly the parasites in ‘government’.
And that’s the problem here. None of the CoVid measures were based in logic or reason, or modified by learning from observation, so no logic and reason or learning from observation can reverse them.
Swift (I think): You cannot reason a man out of something he did not reason himself into.
Sean O'Dalaigh
Yeah I watch that idiot of a 1st Minister of Wales spout off how Wales, Scotland and Norn Irn were the gold standards, not realizing, or being too stupid to realize (I'll go with the latter for now!) that as you say England is performing much better, open and all. As for the Republic of Ireland they just quashed 'mandatory jabs for all' and being +/-94% double jabbed have record 'cases' but as far as I can see hospitalizations and deaths have not gone up proportionally - I also read that 50% of tests are returning positive. What gets me is that the Irish PM is a doctor and should really know better, but then again he is just like most of the doctors anyway so I'm not really surprised. Take care.
Eric M
Well said.
Note: to generate the trademark character for Th'Pandemic™, Th'Science™, etc:
Windows: Alt+0153, Mac: Option+2
John Bowman
IPad?
Eric M
I think it's here:
https://osxdaily.com/2017/02/09/type-trademark-copyright-symbols-ios/
shar310
Same boat here in canada. I see this happening in the US. Not here. My kids are doomed for the foreseeable future.
Linotype
Don't let them forget what they've said -- and done.
curlyblueeagle
We should not let the covidian circus pack their tents and quietly hightail it out of town. These guys need to be held accountable and punished.
The article:
In the period from 6 December to 2 January (Table 5 on p. 25), double (but not triple) vaccinated teenagers and adults were substantially over-represented in Omicron infections across Germany.
About 45% of teenagers aged 12–17 are vaccinated but unboosted, but they accounted for almost 55% of symptomatic Omicron cases. Only 37% of adults aged 18–59 are vaccinated but unboosted, but they accounted for 66% of symptomatic Omicron cases. Finally, a mere 21.8% of adults aged 60 or over are vaccinated but unboosted, but they accounted for 46% of Omicron cases.
Yes, these data might be called “unadjusted.” You might hope that population density, or differences in treatment-seeking behaviour, or relative risk perception – anything but properties inherent to the vaccines – can explain them away. But Germany is not alone in these numbers; preliminary evidence for negative vaccine efficacy against Omicron every day grows more abundant. There was also evidence of negative efficacy against Delta; the effect was merely less pronounced and took longer to emerge. Omicron, which has immune escape properties, simply gets further into negative efficacy, faster.
It seems clear the problem is related to vaccine fade. The older double-vaccinated, whose vaccinations happened earliest of all, are experiencing worse negative efficacy than the younger double-vaccinated, whose vaccinations are much more recent. Of 797 Omicron cases in children aged 5 to 11, only two are in the (disgracefully) double vaccinated. These are very recent vaccinations indeed. For the moment, the boosted are doing very well against Omicron, but I doubt anybody believes that will last. In all likelihood, the third dose will fade just like the first two, and then negative efficacy will come back.
On balance, this strikes me as a bad thing, and urgently requiring investigation. It throws the entire doctrine of maximum vaccination into confusion. Against the advantage of substantial protection against severe outcome, must be weighed the substantial disadvantage of indefinitely heightened transmission, which can only be mitigated temporarily by vaccinating the whole population all over again. In a rational world, this phenomenon would be met (at the very least) with a halt in most or all vaccinations, but that is very far from the world we inhabit.
Omicron is a much milder variant, it is true. Official sources now widely acknowledge this property, although it is not terrifying, and so not discussed as eagerly as the alleged greater virulence of Alpha or Beta or Delta. Nevertheless, even mild viruses can cause serious disruptions if everyone gets them at once, and the possibility that we may have condemned large segments of our population to suffer repeated reinfection or accept quarterly vaccination is disturbing.
For this and other reasons, I think the vaccines are doomed and will probably be discredited even in the medium term. My learned friend @Astuages, however, disagrees, and it’s worth considering his perspective (here reformatted and lightly edited):
… I am not, by nature, an optimist about the right side being rewarded in the end. … To begin with, the media discussion landscape for vaccination was already poisoned by the autism debate, and the vast majority of people are simply never going to grasp the idea that there is any difference between an mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccine and the smallpox vaccine.
There are (at least) two counterfactual assumptions that justify vaccine approval for low-risk groups, and even mandates. They are important counterfactuals because the FDA/CDC has used them to justify their decisions to date:
1) The vaccine is sterilizing.
2) The vaccine provides long-term protection from disease (either total protection from infection or amelioration of symptoms).
If either of these are true, then the vaccine can be justified on either public health grounds (get rid of the virus) or personal risk grounds.
Counterfactual 1, sterilization: Of course the vaccine is non-sterilizing. In fact, the negative efficacy for omicron should be causing people to freak out. Vaccine amplified infection is pandemic scifi level bad. Vax negative efficacy for omicron means that over the next few years there is the very high probability of even more vaccine-amplified variants. There is the possibility (how high I can’t guess) that some of these will be severe instead of mild. Maybe they’ll kill the vaccinated and be a win for anti-vax. But maybe they’ll kill the unvaccinated and be a win for pro-vax, even though it’s actually the fault of the pro-vax side. It’s even possible that omicron itself could be like this. Very early days.
Counterfactual 2: Long-term protection: If the vaccine really protected you forever from covid, it makes a lot of sense for many groups, even lowish risk groups. It still wouldn’t make sense for healthy kids, but it might be the sort of thing that your doctor recommends when you turn 30. But in the real world scenario where the vaccine does not protect you for very long, it begins to make negative sense from a personal risk standpoint. That is, should someone who is 45 and obese—at small, but non-trivial risk of death from covid—get vaccinated now for x number of years of protection? Maybe infinite boosters work out over the next decade and he’s okay. Maybe there are no more vaccine-amplified variants.
More likely, things aren’t quite that perfect, and he gets covid when he’s 55 and dies because he didn’t get the wild-type infection that would have granted him more protection when he was younger and safer from it. Basically, even apart from side effects, these vaccines, under what we now know to be true, only make sense for a much smaller, higher-risk, group of people than initially thought. Unfortunately, there is no process for the FDA/CDC—or the media—to revisit those basic counterfactuals. They can stay wrong forever, and Pfizer will be happy to rake in the cash.
But what about side effects? The myocarditis side effect is enough to demonstrate that we shouldn’t be vaxxing under-40s under the realistic scenario (the one where we already know we shouldn’t be vaxxing them) but not enough under the counterfactual scenario FDA/CDC operates under.
The problem for “anti-vax” is that the rate of hospitalization and death remains minuscule. I personally think these myocarditis side effects are legitimately scary in an infinite booster scenario given how risk jumps on the 3rd shot. But that’s just not the scenario that FDA (or Pfizer, lol) is evaluating it by. They are still operating under their two counterfactuals. And they will continue to do so, and they will get plenty of media cover.
If anybody thinks the side effects are enough to cause a serious re-evaluation of vaccine policy all on their own: there is not nearly enough hospitalization and death yet. I’ve watched all-cause mortality graphs like a hawk looking for it. There are some minuscule signals. But nothing that can’t be easily ignored. For real public attention, we’ll need orders of magnitude (at least 2, but possibly 3) more vaccine injuries than we’ve currently got or likely to get. Maybe in 10 years, if there’s enough booster uptake and injuries because too much to ignore (but don’t bet against the power of wilful ignorance), we may see a serious re-evaluation of vaccine injury.
Anti-mandate political positioning sidesteps the entire medical muck, and I suspect that it is where the savvy politicians will gravitate. People may not be able to tell the difference between an mRNA SARS-CoV-2 vaccine and a smallpox vaccine, but they don’t like being mandated. They don’t like their children being mandated. And really don’t like being fired. The FDA and drug companies don’t evaluate personal freedom. But most normal people do. Personal autonomy in medical decisions is a vital freedom. Pfizer can release whatever poison they want, as long as people have the personal freedom not to take it (for themselves and their families), and as long as they have the speech freedom to criticize Pfizer about it. Take away those freedoms, and even if it’s some sort of magical healing elixir (lol, right), a lot of people get upset. Or at least I do.
These are very good reasons to doubt that vaccine side effects, whether at the individual or the population level, can bring the vaccination regime down by themselves. Establishment propaganda has successfully defended these oversold and misused products in the eyes of millions of people.
It is, however, hard for me to see how this can last. To begin with, there is the old point of mine, that propaganda is expensive. Setting up and promoting dishonest worldwide messaging campaigns costs a lot of money, energy and attention. These are resources that can’t be spent on other things. The more obvious the lies become, the more expensive it will get to maintain them. I am not sure how long our governments, our public health establishments, and our pharmaceuticals can remain committed to this project, or how long they’ll even stay interested in it. Corona is constantly threatening to become unimportant, and when that happens, who will even care about maintaining this entire rotten morass? If Pfizer’s profits are all that matter, the government can just give them money, or buy vaccine doses and fire them off into space, in case the aliens want them.
The vaccines have also benefited, over the past year, from enormous bureaucratic and public enthusiasm, not all of it seeded from on high. It feels bizarre to type this, but lockdowns enjoyed much the same dynamic at first. They very quickly burnt through most of their public support, as everyone but a few crazy people realised that house arrest wasn’t very much fun. In the northern hemisphere they are now consigned to the dustbin and studiously ignored almost everywhere. The vaccines must follow the same trajectory. For most people, who suffer only mild side effects, they cost far less than lockdowns, but there is the constant, exhausting rhetoric; the near-daily rule changes; the disquieting prospect of infinite boosters; and, in places like Germany, the constant postponement of a return to normal life, regardless of how many people are vaccinated, or boostered, or infected.
Every day that Corona does not go away in heavily vaccinated populations, is a day that the vaccines are further discredited. As the absurdities continue, the risk emerges that our mRNA vaccines will begin to pollute in the minds of many the broader notion of vaccination, and there are powerful people who don’t want that to happen – people with political power, who are not just internet crazies like me.
It is hard to predict the future, and what follows will probably turn out to be substantially wrong. Nevertheless, this is my best guess about what will come: Omicron is a bad cold, and it appears to infect the vaccinated preferentially. This will make it harder for the vaccinators to maintain their fear campaign, without which eternal boosting will prove impossible. With each further dose, enthusiasm for the entire project of mass vaccination will wane, as will tolerance for maintaining the rest of the pandemic circus. A lot of incentives will align for people in charge to wind down the containment regime over the course of the coming months. It won’t happen evenly everywhere, but by 2023, I think this will be over in most places. Some kind of green pass system will linger in the Eurozone, at least for travel; vestigial masking rules might continue in some countries for a very long time, but they will gradually be made less onerous and everyone will lose interest in enforcing them. The vaccinators will come out with updated vaccines, and these will be urged on the population, but no longer overtly mandated. Nobody will want to talk about this period of vaccination hysteria for years and years, perhaps not until I am an old man. Nobody will allow us to be right anytime soon, but everyone will know that we were.
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I think the vaccine fanatics are going to go into full damage control mode very soon…
Jan 10
Much much more to say about this in the next few days but the mRNA data are getting more troubling from EVERY angle on an almost daily basis… and very soon the people who care about and believe in routine childhood vaccinations for measles etc are going to have to decide if they want their effort tainted by Covid vaccine failure. I have a feeling they won’t. We will see…
💕🙏💕 "My son is hostage in Australia tonight but he has never been more free."
From now on, Novak has become the symbol and leader of the free world, the world of countries and poor and oppressed people.
My son Novak Djokovic showed that even a small heroic country like Serbia can have the greatest athlete and tennis player of all time and that the truth can no longer be hidden.
Tonight you can lock it up, tomorrow you can chain it up but the truth is like water and it always finds a way.
Novak is the Spartacus of the new world who does not tolerate injustice, colonialism and hypocrisy but fights for the equality of all on this planet.
- Srdjan Djokovic
It’s the foundation of medicine. Treat the sick, with treatments that work, is far better policy for public health than constant vaccine jabs for everyone. Or even 1 jab for everyone for this disease.
Treating the sick, the foundation of medicine, has been hijacked by a pharma industrial complex that is not satisfied with selling medicines for the sick. Their agenda for decades has been to pump their products into all people including healthy people, a much larger market.
Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies are Turning Us All into Patients
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Thirty years ago, the head of the drug company Merck made some remarkably candid comments about his distress that his company's market was limited to sick people. Suggesting he would like Merck to be more like the maker of Wrigley's chewing gum, the CEO said it had long been his dream to make drugs for healthy people, to "sell to everyone." That dream now drives the marketing machinery of the most profitable industry on earth. From award-winning Ray Moynihan,—one of the world's top medical journalists—Selling Sickness reveals how widening the boundaries of illness and lowering the threshold for treatments is creating millions of new patients and billions in new profits. This in turn is driving up personal drug bills and threatening to bankrupt national health systems all over the world. As more and more ordinary life is "medicalized," the industry moves ever closer to being able to "sell to everyone."
I was just telling a friend, a Swede, about things that have changed in my lifetime, 55 years, in the United States. When I was a kid in the 60s and 70s, we took, I don’t know, maybe 6 or 8 vaccine injections. For kids born today, if they follow the CDC recommended vaccine schedule, they’ll have 78 injections from birth to age 18.
HA! 78 injections! Where’d you hear that? Some blog?
- (yelled out with some volume)
Well, I said, it’s from the horse’s mouth, from the CDC.gov website.
So?
Well, that’s the official source. CDC is the authority.
I went the next day to the CDC site and checked again:
I counted 84 injections from birth to age 18. That does not include covid vaccine doses. So add those to the total:
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/schedules/hcp/imz/child-adolescent.html «count for yourself
I live in Sweden now, last 3 years, so I don’t get much exposure now to American media. And I don’t speak Swedish, so I don’t read or watch their news channels either. But there are plenty of serious Swedish data nerds and whatnot, writing in english. Tommy Lennhamn is a constant source of good analysis. His site here:
https://softwaredevelopmentperestroika.wordpress.com
Notice Swedish ICU occupancy via covid for 2020 and 2021 (the middle graph). The sum of the figures for weekly Swedish ICU occupancy from covid are approximately 5000 patients total, the same in each year, 2020 (blue) and 2021 (orange):
https://softwaredevelopmentperestroika.wordpress.com/2022/01/01/sweden-covid-variants-of-concern/
So is that accurate? I eyeballed the Swedish Covid ICU graph and see about 5000 covid ICU patients in each year, 2020 and 2021. But, I’m eyeballing weekly ICU occupancy figures, and some patients are in hospital less than a week and some more than a week. So what are the actual number of covid patients in ICU in 2020 and 2021?
The author of this website cites official data:
(Covid) Cases ICUs Dead
Statistikdatum
2020 454758 4178.0 9817.0
2021 882235 4075.0 5494.0
According to this my rough estimate was pretty close. Actual Swedish ICU covid patient totals are 4178 in 2020 and 4075 in 2021.
This is in a country of 11,000,000 people.
Covid deaths are different but all-cause deaths in Sweden are normal and near all time low:
Now I’m wondering about hospitalization and ICU for “all respiratory diseases”. Recently I saw a graph of annual hospitalization and death from diseases of the respiratory system, absolute numbers in Germany since 1980.
Back to Sweden:
(Covid) Cases ICUs Dead
Statistikdatum
2020 454758 4178.0 9817.0
2021 882235 4075.0 5494.0
4000 patients in ICU per year are the cause of understaffed hospitals in a country of 11 million?
11 million people should be injected with exotic pharma products because 4000 people are in ICU with respiratory illness?
How many of those 4000 would be in ICU anyway, if SARS-Cov-2 had never existed? Other viral respiratory contagions would not have been present? ICU admissions for severe respiratory disease would not have occurred at a similar rate?
Back to Germany:
7 arguments against compulsory vaccination
Dear members of the German Bundestag,
On the occasion of the debate about the possible introduction of the general compulsory vaccination, we formulated seven scientific arguments which, in our opinion, prove that there is no reliable scientific basis for compulsory vaccination; From our point of view, this speaks clearly against the introduction of mandatory vaccinations.
We are very concerned about the possible decision to compulsory vaccination and therefore kindly ask for an independent scientific examination of the complex problem areas set out in the text before you make a decision on this matter.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us ( autorengruppe@7argumente.de ) or contact us .
With respect for your responsible work and best regards,
the group of authors of the 7 arguments against compulsory vaccination
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The 7 arguments
Overcoming the split : seven scientific arguments against compulsory vaccination and in favor of an open discourse
The undersigned therefore take the position that a general or group-specific mandatory vaccination against SARS-CoV2 is not justifiable in the current situation due to medical, legal, philosophical and also ethical and religious arguments. Therefore, a decision for or against the COVID19 vaccination must be made individually.
1st argument: The pandemic with SARS-CoV2 will not be ended by vaccination
1.) The immunization by the current vaccines is much weaker and shorter lasting than expected and promised. At most, there is self-protection against severe courses and that only for a few months.
2.) These vaccines do not produce 'sterile' immunity. Despite vaccination, infections and the transmission of viruses are possible at any time. The extent and duration of the external protection are unknown.
2nd argument: The risk potential of the vaccines is too high
3rd argument: The risk potential of multiple administration of SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations has not been adequately researched
1.) So far, no data has been collected in the manufacturer's approval studies.
4th argument: The general compulsory vaccination with the currently conditionally approved COVID19 vaccines violates constitutional law
1.) With regard to the encroachment on Article 2, Paragraph 2 of the Basic Law, the constitutionality of an obligation to vaccinate is questionable because of the questionable purpose and lack of suitability , necessity and appropriateness .
a) In this respect, the choice of a legitimate purpose is unclear . The main considerations are: herd immunity, interruption of chains of infection, avoidance of deaths and severe courses (and the associated relief for the health system), end of the pandemic.
b) The suitability of a general compulsory vaccination is clearly denied with regard to the first two purposes mentioned under a). With a view to avoiding severe courses, it should be pointed out that the conditionally approved vaccines lose their effect after a very short period of time (3 to 6 months) and, in any case, are not suitable for the long term. Furthermore, their effectiveness for new virus mutations cannot be assumed (cf. 1st argument under 3.). For the same reasons, a general compulsory vaccination is also unsuitable for ending the pandemic.
c) The necessity would only be answered in the affirmative if there were no more lenient means of achieving the goals that would be equally suitable. Since the suitability is questionable, considerations are at best hypothetical: Such considerations would, for example, concern the protection of vulnerable groups, the improvement of the health system or the (if possible) prompt adaptation of the vaccines. In the design of the general vaccination obligation, less drastic variants should also be considered: for example, a wide exemption for medical indications even in the case of existing medical uncertainties (autoimmune diseases, dispositions for vaccine damage - previous allergies or damage to vaccinations, known heart diseases, etc.), which an individual Enable doctor-patient weighing.
d) Appropriatenessin the narrower sense presupposes that when weighing up the impaired and the protected interests, there is a clear predominance of the protection of the general public intended by the mandatory vaccination. That is not the case here. Because the risk ratio between the risk of a severe course or death from COVID and the risk of severe or fatal side effects from the vaccination is to the disadvantage of the vaccination for large groups of people. According to serious scientists, the risk of younger adults is higher in the case of vaccination. In addition, there is a demonstrably considerable risk potential of the new and only conditionally approved vaccines, which is not yet sufficiently well known (cf. 2nd argument). That means,
2.) A mandatory vaccination subject to a fine collides with Art. 1 GG. This protectspeople from being reified - treated as a mere object. Due to the obligation to vaccinate, he would be forced to tolerate an irreversible intervention in his body through a medical treatment that was previously only conditionally approved, i.e. a medical treatment complex that has not yet been adequately researched. This would also be done solely for the sake of the other members of society or for the purpose of fighting pandemics for society as a whole or - depending on the target - to maintain medical treatment resources. To what extent these purposes can actually be achieved through compulsory vaccination is unclear. What is constitutionally clear, however, is that the use of the individual is inadmissible even if if it can protect the well-being and even the lives of many others with a probability bordering on certainty. Unvaccinated people in their sheer existence would be made illegal by a general obligation to vaccinate and criminalized by the threat of sanctions.
3.) With regard to Article 4 of the Basic Law, it should be borne in mind that individuals are free to refuse medical interventions for ideological or religious reasons in the area of their freedom of belief and conscience.
5th argument: The overload of the hospitals by COVID19 sufferers is not clearly proven by the statistical data
The general compulsory vaccination is justified, among other things, by relieving the burden on hospitals and in particular on intensive care units. There are also many unanswered questions in this context.
1.) Even after almost two years of pandemic, there are no reliable findings as to what proportion of the reported COVID19 patients are being treated in hospitals for a COVID19 disease and what proportion is in the hospital for another cause.
2.) Insufficient statistical information is available on the vaccination status, age distribution and the presence of previous illnesses of the actual COVID19 patients.
3.) Hospitals are subject to economic constraints and political incentives when providing treatment capacities for COVID-19. Ongoing debates about the decreasing number of beds registered as "operable" under changing framework conditions lead to the question: Can the burden on this system not be relieved through appropriate and transparent administrative and financial support?
6th argument: Measures other than vaccination have not been exhausted
The one-sided propagation of the compulsory vaccination continues the neglect of other effective measures against the pandemic that has already been practiced in the past two years, such as the failure to improve the working conditions of nurses and doctors, the maintenance or replenishment of intensive care bed capacity, and the development and use of therapies and Medication.
7th argument: The COVID19 vaccination requirement accelerates social conflicts
The compulsory vaccination is based on the assumption that society can return to normal with it. The opposite is the case: society is being divided more deeply. Citizens who consciously decide against vaccination for medical, ideological, religious or other reasons are marginalized and possibly even prosecuted. Public discourse creates artificial worlds in which critical voices can hardly be heard. Language itself is also pushed into the role of a vicarious agent for controversial political goals. Simplifying definitions (“vaccinated” - “unvaccinated”) promote polarization in our society; Euphemistic abbreviations such as “2-G” disguise the fact that a (large) minority is systematically, publicly and rigidly excluded from social life.
As a result of the growing politicization, there is also an interdisciplinary ideological standardization in academic research as “science”. This represents a disregard for the plural, free discourse on the urgently needed gain in knowledge about the benefits and risks of vaccination.
The confidence of many citizens in the state could be fundamentally shaken by strengthening this course. The resulting conflicts affect the rule of law and democracy.
The seven arguments put forward are intended to raise questions, the clarification of which should be a prerequisite for a decision regarding compulsory vaccination against Covid-19.
The arguments are not directed against a specific content position. Rather, they are arguments in favor of the fact that in the current situation it is important to develop a common approach to questions in science that allows a currently non-existent solid basis to be found for health and mental distress with a view to all dimensions of the crisis to alleviate with each other.
Out of this spirit of freedom of science and human dignity, we ask that joint efforts be made to overcome the current situation with its multiple suffering and the division of our society and to heal its scars permanently.
Investments
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a) Germany: Course of excess mortality (Euromomo) and course of the three vaccinations per week: