2020-12-28

I'm fast running our of original comment to make on the Covid restrictions, so I'll just say that it's good to see Brian back on Youtube (long may it last?) and I'll let this one speak for itself:

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2020-12-28

All you never wanted to know about Vaccines, and how the new Covid-19 vaccines (and the associated intrusive politics) differ from vaccines of the past:

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2020-12-24

Now you and I and the rest of the normal world (not to mention almost all epidemiologists to date) have no doubt grown up with and accepted the concept of herd immunity - if enough people get exposure to a disease (either through catching it and recovering or through vaccination) then we become largely immune to it, and as more and more people achieve this happy immunity the pathogen has more and more trouble finding susceptible hosts to infect, so that the disease soon enough peters out.

So the recent report from the AIER comes as something of a surprise . . .

Does the WHO now somehow conclude that herd immunity can only be achieved through vaccination after all? This seems an extraordinary proposition that requires some explanation if we are to accept it.

The AIER has the story.

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2020-12-24

The latest Tier4 tightenings of the Lockdown screws it now transpires may have been influenced by one Prof Neil Ferguson of Imperial College - but wait, wasn't his original contribution to the Government's Covid project discredited and didn't he resign from his advisory positions?

Maybe not - the Spectator has the story.

Call me old-fashioned, but doesn't this tell us all we need to know about this government's choice of "scientific" advisors?

2020-12-24

Lockdown Sceptics (yes - them again - those with implicit trust in our government should stop reading now) draw attention today to a previous occasion on which we were treated to unfounded scaremongering about a mutant virus, albeit on a smaller scale.

Is the New Variant tactic just a retread of the old HIV-2 assertions reheated and rebranded for our new Covid lockdown insanity?

"That was despite some experts, including top-ranking Nobel prize-winning scientists at the heart of the fight against AIDS, trying to let us know that HIV had never been established as the cause of the syndrome. They showed that both predictions of spread, and tests claiming to show infection with the virus, were invalid"

Recommended reading.

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2020-12-22

Tier 4 imposed - mutant strain identified (in October!) - Christmas Lockdown! - Ports sealed, continent cut off! - Boris and Matt save the UK again!

"some experts think the episode has been overegged"

"no evidence” the new variant impacts the severity of the disease, for better or worse"

"Whatever the increase in transmission, the R rate for the new variant is still far below what it was at the start of the epidemic"

This Telegraph article has more - much more - well worth

2020-12-20

The AIER produces a quite arresting analysis of the events of 2020, taking an encompassing view of the various subjects (I'm not sure that they all strictly qualify as "sciences").

Quite rightly they take the proponents of lock-downs and other regressive measures to task:

"Yes, of course we must follow science, but we must do so in every field, not only in epidemiology but also in politics, economics, and philosophy"

"To be scientific in every field means to incorporate both theory and practice, to assess all real and relevant factors, not just a select few of them; it means cultivating a perspective that is likewise impartial (not biased), comprehensive (not narrow) view, and proportional (not imbalanced)"

A worthy review of how the science has

2020-12-20

The WHO are referencing the PCR Tests that are in widespread use across the globe.

"WHO has received user feedback on an elevated risk for false SARS-CoV-2 results when testing specimens using RT-PCR reagents on open systems"

"As the positivity rate for SARS-CoV-2 decreases, the positive predictive value also decreases" - in other words if the positivity rate decreases (ie: we need more cycles to amplify a smaller original signal) then the incidence of false positive results increases.

"Therefore, healthcare providers are encouraged to take into consideration testing results along with clinical signs and symptoms, confirmed status of any contacts, etc" - ie: don't rely on the PCR Test as your sole means of determining whether a person is infected.

So there you have it - the PCR test at high amplification cycles is unreliable as a diagnostic tool.

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2020-12-15

Robin Tilbrook's BlogSpot for November 2020 asks some pertinent questions concerning what we can glean about our government's motivations from their activities since January 2020.

No doubt we all remember the original promise that it would just be for "3 weeks to flatten the curve and protect the NHS".

So how come Matt Hancock has just put London under Tier 3 (when London hospitals are not anywhere near being overwhelmed) and the mood music from the media is that lockdowns will continue until April and quite possibly beyond?

Worth reading, or you can watch the video below.

When we finally get the chance, there are Acts of Parliament to repeal, starting with the Coronavirus Act 2020.

2020-12-15

Many thanks to Lockdown Sceptics for this link:

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2020-12-14

Results of the Pfizer Covid Vaccine trials are out.

john Rappaport is no fan of Big Pharma, but i find it hard to fault his logic when applied to the Pfizer vaccine roll-out.

We will see how it goes, but I couldn't recommend anyone to be first to volunteer for what must really (in the opinion of Dr Yeadon) be still regarded as an experimental vaccine.

The Guardian article referenced in John Rappaport's blog

2020-12-11

When the pandemic subsided in June and deaths became "normal" again, many of us thought that it was all over.

Not so fast! Deprived of their death statistics, the newspapers and governments world-wide simply transferred their attention to "cases", a suspect figure depending solely on a positive result from the now famous PCR Test.

Medical tests are normally applied at the request of a physician in order to confirm or exclude a suspected diagnosis, but today we see a frantic effort to apply it to all and sundry as widely as possible and to regard every positive result as an infection.

I won't rehearse these arguments yet again here, but a result of this strategy is that:

if the PCR Test should not be worthy of the trust that is currently accorded it, then the pandemic narrative is rebutted in short order.

Now "we all

2020-12-11

It is remarkable in these so-called enlightened times that this message needs to be repeated, loud and clear, until our "lords and masters" listen to us.

Who are SAGE that they have the exclusive ear of our government?

Why are dissenting voices, even dissenting scientific papers, routinely ignored?

Why are the perverse effects of lock-down never seriously considered so that a balanced judgement may be attained?

Why are we rushing blindly into a vastly expensive mass vaccination program without thought for the unknown but possibly serious adverse consequences that may ensue over time? All for a disease that primarily carries off only the already unhealthy and the very elderly?

In March the excuse of ignorance and urgency may have been plausible, but nine months on these factors are simply untenable.

2020-12-09

If it looks too good to be true, it probably is.

It's an old adage, but an adage that has stood the test of time.

Will "the vaccine" stand the test of time?

Drs Wodarg and Yeadon don't like what they see and "filed an application with the EMA, the European Medicine Agency responsible for EU-wide drug approval, for the immediate suspension of all SARS CoV 2 vaccine studies, in particular the BioNtech/Pfizer study on BNT162b (EudraCT number 2020-002641-42)."

Good luck with that one - as time passes and we study the statistics we can see that the pandemic is primarily political rather than medical in nature, which to my tainted mind almost certainly means that no good will come of it.

Why did the West Copy China's Covid Lockdown?

2020-12-04

The Drive for the Covid Vaccines

Regardless of what we think about the cause of the peak in April, we are now in December and observing what has every appearance of a normal profile of winter deaths from respiratory infections (covid + flu + rhinovirus etc).

I’m by no means the only one who thinks so.

So a number of pharmaceutical companies have spent a lot of money, as little time as possible, and a huge investment in publicity, to develop and sell a vaccine for Covid.

Let us for the moment be trusting and assume that these vaccines will be both “safe” and

2020-12-04

PHE national Influenza and COVID-19 surveillance report Week 48

Public Health England’s week 48 (up to week 47) report on “flu-like” respiratory infections reveals:

“Cases”

Positive Covidt

A Sobering Review of Covid Death Statistics USA

2020-11-29

Anna Brees (ex-BBC) interviews Prof Robert Endres of Imperial College. The professor is a German national and brings an interesting German perspective to what is fundamentally an international problem, both at the medical level and at the political level.

"We are going somewhat back to the dark ages... it is not evidence-based anymore"

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Good to see Imperial tolerates a variety of viewpoints.

Anna has asked for this video to be shared, and we are happy to oblige.

2020-11-27

Lockdown Sceptics publishes an article by well qualified authors (including Dr Mike Yeadon) which forensically explains how reliance on the PCR test is producing a "pseudo-epidemic".

"A false positive pseudo-epidemic is a well described phenomenon in the medical literature which results in an exponential rise in diagnosed cases and deaths but no excess deaths. PCR testing is renowned for it and the “second wave” of Swine Flu in 2009 was entirely a false positive pseudo-epidemic only stopped by stopping the testing"

This is the simple key point at issue which fatally undermines the whole government-by-big-pharma covid narrative, and the cogent arguments presented in this article deserve everybody's full attention, especially as we learn today that "end of lockdown" most emphatically does not involve any significant relaxation of