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Please God let this pan out positively. If this approach works and can prevent re-infection, it'll be just what the doctor ordered.
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There have been many scandals associated with covid in the last nearly 4 years.
I want to tell you about another one that has got zero media coverage.
The top-line is this: the UK government gave more than 2.3 million vulnerable and older people a covid vaccine that isn’t matched to the currently dominant covid strains. And they did it to save money.
The dominant covid strains right now are known as the XBBs. They have been dominant since late summer in most places, when they took over from the BA strains of omicron.
But rather than give people the new more effective XBB vaccine, the British government decided to use up their stockpile of the older BA vaccines first.
The worst thing is, those who got the outdated vaccine were those first in line for vaccines, such as older people and people with health conditions.
But they won’t know this.
So 2.3 million vulnerable people in the UK are walking around thinking they are well-protected this winter against covid when they’re not.
The British government didn’t hide why it did this. On the official government webpage it spells it out. In bold are the clues hiding in plain sight.
“The choice of vaccine products for autumn 2023 has been determined based on available data on vaccine safety, effectiveness and immunogenicity, logistical factors, programmatic deliverability and a bespoke cost effective assessment. Other vaccines which may offer similar protection, but which would incur additional costs, are expected to be less cost effective within the bespoke cost-effectiveness assessment compared to pre-procured Omicron-variant mRNA COVID-19 vaccines.”
What they are saying, under the cover of the gross language of ‘bespoke cost effectiveness assessment,’ is that they’d already bought the older vaccines and it was cheaper to use them than buy extra new ones.
They used people’s bodies as asset dumps for old medical stock.
In the UK the booster roll-out began on September 11th. We know that in Scotland they switched over to XBB on September 25th and in England and Wales they switched to the new ones on October 2nd, as confirmed that day by Meaghan Kall, an epidemiologist at the UK’s health security agency responsible for covid.
But by September 29th the British government reported 2.35 million people had been covid boosted. So we know this was largely with the old vaccine (save 4 days in Scotland). In response to my thread on Twitter, many reported receiving the old vaccine. Even now, people are saying they’re still only being offered the old vaccine.
Boosting people with a vaccine not matched to the dominant strains will certainly lead to worse outcomes as an average than if these people had received the updated vaccine. People will die for this penny pinching.
But then the British government has for some time now been relaxed about killing people for austerity.
The Brits are also tightly restricting access to covid vaccines, in contrast to almost every other country. And in a final twist, the Brits are now stockpiling the new XBB vaccines and are almost certainly going to take the same approach to deploying an outdated vaccine next time round.
When I tweeted about this, the Guardian journalist George Monbiot responded and we subsequently exchanged emails. Monbiot did then write a very good column about the ongoing burden of covid in the UK and the various public health failures.
But the article omitted any mention of the millions who were given the older vaccine.
I can’t criticise Monbiot. I wouldn’t be surprised if he included this and it was cut by his editors. And his article stands head and shoulders above almost any other reporting of covid in the mass media, a mass media that has played a key part in normalising the transmission of a virus that has become the leading cause of infectious disease death in the world today.
These lies and misinformation about covid in the mass media continue. Last week was no exception.
The BBC’s health editor Nick Triggle wrote a truly noxious covid story full of half-truths, lies by omission and propaganda. He said covid was less deadly than the flu, that it is becoming a seasonal ‘bug’, that people who were concerned about rising hospitalisations were just anxious. (Nick Triggle’s sister-in-law is a Tory member of parliament, which might explain some things).
In the US, the New York Times interviewed the epidemiologist and long-time covid downplayer Michael Mina who said rates of long covid are drastically falling - without citing a shred of evidence - and said repeated exposure to covid for most people will not be harmful and will build immunity. In the comments below the piece, one person said the “excellent story begs the question as to whether healthy people should take any precautions against covid.” Job done.
Then there was the ‘long cold’ research paper which was amplified across global media.
If you missed it, the thrust was that long colds might be as common as long covid. So far, so fine.
But the findings were stripped of critical context in relation to covid.
It failed to acknowledge that even if long colds do exist, and almost certainly they do, Sars-Cov-2 is a different beast, behaving in a completely different way to other common cold-causing coronaviruses.
And rather than the conclusion here being ‘ok, so if long colds are this common, long covid might be very common too and maybe we should do something about it,’ the stories led us towards the conclusion that long covid itself is nothing to worry about because post-viral illness is nothing new.
All of this would have been bad enough without mentioning the methodology.
The study was conducted in 2020-2021 and relied on people self reporting a respiratory illness that they said wasn’t covid. We know for a fact that far fewer people got a respiratory illness that wasn’t covid in these years, so I expect a good number of these ‘not covids’ leading to ‘long colds’ were, in fact, covids leading to long covid. But again, the media stories failed to provide any of this context. Nick Triggle was one of those who wrote a story.
Triggled twice in two weeks.
Over and over, it seems that those who are concerned about covid come armed with data, and those who aren’t come armed with gut feeling in order to keep business-as-usual ticking over.
It’s 2019 again! Stop worrying!
Normalisation is the most powerful sociological force in the world today. Through a captured media, the ruling class can make us absorb a pandemic, accept climate collapse and shrug at apartheid. Change is unnecessary because nothing is wrong. It is just the natural order, flowing.
We also found out this week that just 2% of Americans have stepped up for the new covid jab, a rate of uptake that can be traced back to the early over-hyping of vaccines and the manufacturing of a narrative that says covid is mild and we’ve all achieved immunity now anyway.
I didn’t know where we’d be nearly four years on from the start of the pandemic, but I didn’t think we’d be here. New waves, millions being infected, thousands dying every week. And a media and public knowledge blackout of Novavax, the most effective vaccine. A vaccine we’ve known is the most effective for over two years.
It is tiring to keep up, to keep bearing witness to these fuck-ups, to this cruelty.
But we have to.
Because to believe in change means documenting the incompetence, the failure, the lies and the indifference that eventually compels that change to come.
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"What about people who had mRNA doses previously but want to consider Novavax? There have been several studies now that found mixing the two, getting mRNA and then Novavax actually gave better results than just mRNA on its own.
One study found that getting Novavax as a booster after mRNA "may enhance the persistence and durability of vaccine-mediated immunity compared to mRNA options" with slower decay rate compared to an mRNA booster dose and less side effects than mRNA boosters.
A randomized controlled trial found that getting a Novavax dose after Pfizer mRNA elicited the highest humoral and peak cellular immune responses.
The mRNA + Novavax combination also had the lowest rate of breakthrough infections and the study also found fewer moderate and severe systemic adverse effects for Novavax than Pfizer mRNA.
Neutralising antibodies against Omicron BA.1 and BA.2 were higher with Novavax after mRNA compared to two mRNA doses."
- sources and graphs at the link:
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With people suddenly dropping dead all over the mRNA-vaccinated world, with oncologists reporting massive increases in cancers, turbo-cancers never previously encountered, with studies documenting menstrual and fertility problems with Covid-vaccinated women, with young children having heart attacks, with a new form of blood clots that look like linguine, with outbreaks of Guillain-Barre syndrome and neurological ailments, myocarditis, pericarditis, spinal cord and brain inflammations, and every other kind of health horror, a controlled narrative explanation is needed. Big Pharma is dealing with the problem by rounding up a collection of its grant-bribed medical researches to admit the problem but to trivialize it … Continue reading →
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Former NFL linebacker dies suddenly at 25, no cause of death given. NFL currently touts a 95% player vaccination rate. Jessie Lemonier was just one day from turning 26.
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So the "Florida Surgeon General" just called for a halt in Covid vaccines, citing one (1) paper.
Being skeptical of anything involving Ron DeSantis, I went to actually read the paper.
Just one problem, I don't understand any of this.
If anyone can decipher this paper and make it readable, be my guest:
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#covid boosters#Americans#public health#Evie magazine#mRNA#covid vaccines#Pfizer#University of Michigan#Columbia University#Moderna#antibodies
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You know, I think we're at the point now where Covid-19 vaccine mandates aren't necessary in most places, but places that care for the elderly are most definitely one of the exceptions to that.
Yes, to most people Covid-19's risk is fairly low (though higher than I think we'd be comfortable with if we did the math), but people over 65 are definitely not in that category.
Places like nursing homes and health care facilities that primarily cater to the elderly should still have Covid-19 vaccine mandates (and probably flu vaccine mandates as well). No one wants grandma to die because someone who was supposed to take care of her gave her a deadly virus instead.
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Demons are all over the place.
Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays · Jun 1 We learned two things this month: 1. Everything you suspected was true. 2. No one will be held responsible. - Clinton ran the Russia collusion hoax - Voting machine were hackable - Transitory inflation was a lie - Mask mandates don't work (NYTs article) - Biden family = crooks
Hey Anon,
All true. Keep on using our voices to get the truth out.
Love, JD 😜💋
#Anon#demons#clinton#russian hoax#2000 mules#dominion voting machines#mask mandates#lockdowns#covid vaccines
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What you should know about COVID vaccines for kids
Children between 6 months and 5 years old are now eligible for COVID vaccines in the US
Vaccines for young children have proven safe and effective at preventing severe illness
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I always ask them to do my left as a matter of course. I now feel lucky.
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Abstract
Whether SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19 vaccines confer exposure-dependent (“leaky”) protection against infection remains unknown. We examined the effect of prior infection, vaccination, and hybrid immunity on infection risk among residents of Connecticut correctional facilities during periods of predominant Omicron and Delta transmission. Residents with cell, cellblock, and no documented exposure to SARS-CoV-2 infected residents were matched by facility and date. During the Omicron period, prior infection, vaccination, and hybrid immunity reduced the infection risk of residents without a documented exposure (HR: 0.36 [0.25–0.54]; 0.57 [0.42–0.78]; 0.24 [0.15–0.39]; respectively) and with cellblock exposures (0.61 [0.49–0.75]; 0.69 [0.58–0.83]; 0.41 [0.31–0.55]; respectively) but not with cell exposures (0.89 [0.58–1.35]; 0.96 [0.64–1.46]; 0.80 [0.46–1.39]; respectively). Associations were similar during the Delta period and when analyses were restricted to tested residents. Although associations may not have been thoroughly adjusted due to dataset limitations, the findings suggest that prior infection and vaccination may be leaky, highlighting the potential benefits of pairing vaccination with non-pharmaceutical interventions in crowded settings.
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