Posts Tagged ‘Covid-19 (Wuflu)’
Medsafe: Benefit Risk Balance of Covid-19 “Vaccine” is Unclear
I recommend everyone read Cranmer’s Substack article summarising a number of OIA requests on the vaccine approval process of the Covid19 shot in New Zealand. “Safe and Effective” – the mantra we were sold – was a lie. It was not known to be safe or effective.
The Pfizer vaccine was approved for use by New Zealand’s regulator, Medsafe on 3 February 2021. The development was immediately welcomed by then Prime Minister Ardern who stated, “Medsafe’s decision is the culmination of a rigorous assessment process over many months to ensure the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is safe and effective to use here. It is informed by the most up-to-date medical and scientific data. We can have confidence in their decision.”
However, in reality, the government’s representation of Medsafe’s assessment was overstated. Specifically, Medsafe’s clinical assessment found:
- “The duration of the vaccine protection has not been established beyond two months.”
- “At this stage, there is limited evidence of protection against severe disease.”
- “There is no long term safety follow-up information.”
- “Vaccine prevention of asymptomatic infection and disease transmission has not been established.”
Therefore when it made its benefit risk assessment, Medsafe concluded:
Pfizer Vaccine Approval in NZ Under Scrutiny: A Retrospective Analysis | Cranmer’s SubstackThe benefit risk balance of Comirnaty (COVID-19 mRNA Vaccine) for active immunisation to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by SARS-CoV-2 in individuals 16 years of age and older, is not clear. At this stage, there is evidence only for short-term protection, and longer-term safety data are lacking. However, experience with the vaccine is accumulating rapidly.
Meanwhile, in the UK, a brave MP continues to speak out on the tragedy of the shots. The video below shows an almost empty chamber, where as the speech started, the various politicians scarpered out, presumably so they would not have to hear anything that might hurt their pitiful minds. YouTube initially censored the speech soon after it was posted, but due to the outcry (and probably competition from other streaming services) has allowed it back. If it vanishes once more, here is the Rumble version.
To prevent just one healthy adult aged between 50 and 59 from being hospitalised due to covid the Government’s own data states that 43,600 people have to be given an autumn booster jab. With a serious adverse event rate of 1 in 800 that means that in the healthy 50 to 59 year old group, as a result of using the mRNA boosters, 55 people would die or be put into hospital with side-effects to prevent one single case of covid presenting in hospital.
The same data shows that for the healthy younger people the number needed to be boosted to prevent a single hospital admission with Covid-19 is far higher. 92,500 boosted jabs were required to be administered to prevent one hospitalisation in the healthy 40 to 49 year old group, which would simultaneously put 116 people at probability of death or serious adverse reaction into hospital from the jab.
The healthy 30 to 39 year old group required age group required 210,400 booster jabs to prevent a single, covid hopitalisation; so 263 of this group will have been into hospital or sadly, died as a result of the booster side effects, just to keep one covid case out of hospital.
But the data gets worse because hospitalisation does not necessarily mean a serious medical intervention such as intubation or oxygen. To prevent severe hospitalisation from covid-19, the numbers needed to be boosted become astronomical … [10:17]
Andrew Bridgen MP
Back to Medsafe in New Zealand. How on earth was the Pfizer shot approved for use here? The answer is that despite Medsafe’s concerns about lack of safety and efficacy data, a number of individuals making up the Medicines Assessment Advisory Committee (MAAC), a group whose members remain a state secret to this day, recommend going full steam ahead, regardless.
Somewhat strangely, although MAAC is a statutory committee under the Medicines Act, it has, since the outbreak of Covid, kept the identity of its members confidential. Requests for details of MAAC’s membership has been refused by the Ministry of Health when requested via the Official Information Act on the basis that they might be harassed. It seems an odd position to take given that the membership of various other advisory groups are known, and that MAAC has played a pivotal role in the approval of the vaccine.
Pfizer Vaccine Approval in NZ Under Scrutiny: A Retrospective Analysis | Cranmer’s Substack
MACC told Medsafe to approve the shots, and Chris James on behalf of Medsafe complied. The MACC members presumably thought that the missing safety and efficacy data would be gathered as people were injected and managed to convince others of this view. In other words, they saw nothing wrong with using the population of New Zealand as their guinea pigs, either believing or hoping the shots would be safe and effective. They took a gamble that did not pay off and now they are too afraid to reveal themselves.
Now that billions of doses have been injected into people worldwide, data from various nations around the world is showing neither safety or nor efficacy. The response of political leadership is denial and silence. As various individuals try and show the data to those that have the power to stop the shots, the powerful ignore and deny. The mainstream media and online platforms run interference. The whole situation is deadly serious and outrageous, yet those tasked with the safety of NZ’ers from medical malfeasance are missing in action.
Two quotes of the day – which may be connected
We are forever changed. The British people, along with the populations of many American states such as New York and California, have henceforth to live with the fact that civil liberties we Yanks call ‘inalienable’ can be cancelled at a moment’s notice for years on end. Our ‘rights’ are alienable as can be. We’re often warned that democracy is fragile. Lo, that turns out to be horribly true.
From Despotic social controls cost lives, by Lionel Shriver in the Spectator
I predict in 5-10 years corporations will scrub any reference to Net Zero from their corporate website and LinkedIn archives following widespread recognition of the damage this aim has wrought on the poorest in society. Everyone of them promoting it now will deny they ever did.
From a Tweet by Tim Newman
I say connected because the stunts pulled during Covid-19 are already being discussed in Green circles online as possible solutions to the seeming inability of the world to reduce GHG emissions, or at least reduce them at the extreme rates needed to avoid the Climate Catastrophe or Crisis, or whatever hysterical label is now being attached.
That last tactic has been around long before Chinese Bat Soup Flu arrived, since fear is the starting point of controlling a population.
I can only hope that second quote turns out to be an accurate prediction. The first is most terrible because it is a reinforcement of a long-held belief of the Far Left, which is that rights do not spring from you (whether by Nature or God) but from their beloved State, which gives all your rights to you – and which can therefore take them away.
This makes them privileges not rights, but then I think the Far Left is entirely comfortable with that conclusion.
The real kicker is that so many “Right-wing” parties merrily agreed with all this; several State GOP administrations in the US, the entire bloody Tory Party in Britain, Scott Morrison’s “Liberal” mob in Australia and of course, in “Opposition” here in NZ, National and ACT.
It’s getting bad when I have to put so many terms in quotes because in this context they meant the opposite of what they are.
Three Years Ago Today
We heard the infamous phrase, “15 days to slow the spread” as an explanation for the new, untested, unprecedented policy of lockdown.
Since then we’ve had Birx boasting in her autobiography about how she and a few others deliberately subverted the decision-making process in the Trump Administration to get what they wanted.
I’m now told regularly that I need to forget about all this and move on,
I don’t think so.
And let’s also not forget who kept them in their jobs and supported them.
An evil Sir Humphrey – with money
I don’t recall the ultimate bureaucrat, Sir Humphrey Appleby, whose image graces this blogs icon image, ever using money in the way that former NIAID director Anthony Fauci has done.
Sir Humphrey certainly had a lot of persuasive power at his disposal but it was usually more around the traditional bureaucratic aspects of bending rules and regulations and CYA tactics when things went bad.
But the following? This is bribery, plain and simple.
UK Ministers Discuss Deploying the New Variant for Proper Behaviour Change
If you haven’t heard of the UK’s Lockdown Files, a release of thousands of What’s App messages between Matt Hancock and various Ministers, I recommend a read of this UK Telegraph article:
The Telegraph has published revelations based on more than 100,000 leaked WhatsApp messages from Matt Hancock, the former health secretary, and other ministers and officials.
The Lockdown Files show the nature of government during the Covid pandemic and how, despite public claims to always “follow the science”, key decisions were made on the fly for political reasons.
They call into question much of the reasoning for months of national lockdowns and other restrictions on daily life in Britain, including social distancing, face masks and the closure of schools.
The Lockdown Files: 10 things we have learned so far by The Lockdown Files Team
However, what inspired this post, was the following tweet by Jordan Peterson, where he retweets Rita Panahi of Sky News about some of the UK Government Ministers wondering if it was time “to deploy the new variant” that would “frighten the pants of people”, thus triggering “proper behaviour change”.
Also, if you didn’t know that the UK Government used a military psy-op teams to manage and direct behaviour by using fear, then this tweet will be extremely confusing for you. Feel free to ask questions in the comments.
A shadowy Army unit secretly spied on British citizens who criticised the Government’s Covid lockdown policies, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Military operatives in the UK’s ‘information warfare’ brigade were part of a sinister operation that targeted politicians and high-profile journalists who raised doubts about the official pandemic response.
They compiled dossiers on public figures such as ex-Minister David Davis, who questioned the modelling behind alarming death toll predictions, as well as journalists such as Peter Hitchens and Toby Young. Their dissenting views were then reported back to No 10.
Army spied on lockdown critics: Sceptics, including our own Peter Hitchens, long suspected they were under surveillance. Now we’ve obtained official records that prove they were right all along | Daily Mail
The most interesting part of this leaked “admission” is the weaponisation of the “new variants”. Are there actually “new variants”? Or are they just a way of expedient explanations on how “the virus” acts differently once everyone is jabbed? Just to calm down any plebs who might notice the more injected everyone was, the sicker and the more deaths? Oh, that’s the “new variant” doing that!
Behold my screenshot of the impact of “Omicron” last year in NZ after the shots were rolled out to children and shot 3 was given to the general 12+ population, and just before shot 4.
Was Donald Trump Right? Again?
Over the last few days, two related articles crossed Adolf’s screen. Both were related to the Covid pandemic and the disastrous reaction to it by most western countries.
The first, written by an American medical practitioner,The second looked at the extraordinary rise in the number of sudden deaths among ultra-fit and active young people.
……….the monthly average number of deaths between January 2021 and April 2022 is 1,700% higher than the monthly average between 1966 and 2004.”
It’s hard to find mention of this in the media or any evidence of serious enquiry by authorities. Just imagine the hullabaloo if a similar death rate occurred among young black registered Democrats.
The second looks at the death rates per million caused by Covid in three central African countries which were to poor to buy vaccine. their strategy was to allow the virus to move through the population, thereby developing natural immunity. People who became ill were hospitalised early and treated with (wait for it) ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine.
The results?
“The morbidity and mortality in the onchocerciasis endemic countries are lesser than those in the non-endemic ones. The community-directed onchocerciasis treatment with ivermectin is the most reasonable explanation for the decrease in morbidity and fatality rate in Africa. In areas where ivermectin is distributed to and used by the entire population, it leads to a significant reduction in mortality.”
To conclude, I predict historians eventually will conclude Fauci, Pfizer, politicians and media committed mass murder on a scale greater than Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot and Mao combined.
Experts Hoping You Don’t Notice
On yesterday’s Kiwi Blog General Debate, regular commenter cmm posted a link to a NZ Herald article published last week about a recent NZ study showing higher rates of heart disease after Covid vaccination. He noted that the authors stated the results ought to be treated with caution, which he agreed with, but not for the reasons given in the article. His comments below:
Covid-19 coronavirus: NZ study showing higher rates of heart disease after Covid vaccination should be treated with caution – expert | NZ Herald | 8 February 2023
ALL studies, reports, experiments should be treated with caution. It is not “science” to accept something based on one report or one methodoly.
And it certainly is not science to accept the safety of the vaxx based on “coz it’s banned to say otherwise” or “coz Pfizer said”. Pfizer, who were so certain about the safety that they got every country to sign a waiver from prosecution before they would provide product.
I find it interesting that they try to counter this with:
“The risk of vaccine-related adverse events was still dwarfed by the risk of heart problems from catching Covid-19, the paper said.”So, in effect, don’t worry about the adverse events because they are tiny compared to the risks if you do get Covid. That makes it sound like the vaxx is good on balance.
However anyone with more than half a brain will realise that the vaxx did not stop you getting Covid, so the purported benefit is non existent.
cmm, Kiwiblog General Debate | 15 February 2023
To back up cmm’s excellent point of the vaxx not stopping people from getting Covid, I give you a screenshot showing the number of cases to the 13 Feb in NZ as 2,199,579. For those that might have trouble making sense of those numbers (maybe the font is too small, etc), NZ has reported nearly two million, two-hundred thousand Covid cases. That is a real number and not a joke. Most of those cases were reported after mass vaccination of the population started.
Reference: NZ Ministry of Health page for Covid-19: Current Cases. If you do click on the link, just be aware that the page is updated weekly now (used to be daily), and the only way to get prior pages is to use the Wayback Machine.
Gosh, they are not making much effort to display the numbers in a user friendly manner, are they? If I was in charge of reviewing this page before it was published, I’d get the programmer to right align the numbers, and put in some damn commas. How is a person supposed to look at numbers that are left aligned like text? And without commas? It’s not like it hard to do. Incredible.
Now that I’ve recognised cmm’s well-made and incredibly relevant point, I will move on to what screamed at me after I read the NZ Herald article; and after I typed out a furious post under cmm’s about the experts back pedaling after they ensured that many young people received at least two shots and more: and after I had to go outside and do something physical just to work off the anger. Weed eating/whacking/snipping (whatever the terminology is) satisfied that urge. I destroyed many weeds, going until the battery ran out and then had a shower to get all the crap out of my face and hair. The weeds were long and it had been wet; it had been a jungle out there.
My final paragraph that I wrote on Kiwiblog is what I’d like to highlight especially.
[T]he NZ study is only using data from Feb 2021 to Feb 2022; likely because it all went pear-shaped from March 2022, as the younger cohorts were getting their 3rd shots
Behold below, NZ’s Covid jab chart. Look at the green “first booster”, ie shot three. Remember that first booster was rolled out for the elderly around Christmas, 2021. I remember my elderly in-laws trying to get it and being annoyed they were not eligible, and then no jabbing station was open until early January. My father in law was dead less than six months later (apparent sudden heart attack).
However, most of shot 3 was given during January and February, with the younger age groups far more likely to receive it in February/March.
Now, let’s look at what period the NZ study used to check for myocarditis:
The authors of the research paper looked at associations between 12 adverse conditions and the Pfizer vaccine between February 2021 and February 2022. They compared the historic rate of these conditions in New Zealand with rates after vaccination.
It found no link between vaccination and the majority of the selected adverse events, including nerve and blood-related conditions.
However, the Covid-19 vaccination was associated with a “rare but significant increased risk of myo/pericarditis”, the paper said.
The study estimated an excess of two cases of myo/pericarditis per 100,000 people vaccinated after the first dose of the vaccine and an excess of three cases of per 100,000 people vaccinated following the second dose of the vaccine.
Did you notice that they seem to have only studied the effects of the first two shots? I thought at first that they had included the first booster, and potentially cut off their study when the data became too hot; but no, they didn’t even go there. That’s probably why this comment about being “limited by the data” was made in the article:
They also urged caution in reading too far into its findings, saying they may have been limited by the data used in the analysis.
Back in early 2022, I was waiting for the updated myocarditis graph from Medsafe that included the booster data. This was the last one ever published, just as shot 3 (the booster) was made available to younger people. Notice that the younger cohorts had a larger number with a problem after 2 (the purple) shots vs 1 (dark green). While as the problem after 3 (turquoise) was just barely registering, but would have shown up in the next couple of months, had Medsafe had the balls to publish the graph.
Which brings me back to the NZ Herald article, where the various experts seem to be trying to tell the truth, while mixing it with the expected propaganda. For instance, first two paragraphs below are bullshit, and the last seems an explicit warning for young people not to get anymore than two shots – which is too little, too late:
Professor Peter McIntyre, an epidemiologist at the University of Otago, said the vaccine’s link with myocarditis was picked up and communicated very early in New Zealand. While some had complained at the apparent speed at which the vaccine was introduced, he said this had likely saved many lives.
“One thing to emphasise is that the checking and double-checking of the vaccine was really well done in New Zealand. And the [risk] information was added – maybe not as quickly as we might have ideally liked – but it was still quickly and it was still something that was acknowledged and carefully followed.”
He said that while the study provided further reassurance about the vaccine programme at the height of the pandemic, it was now time to reassess the blanket approach of targeting all age groups for Covid vaccination.
“The older population is going to have to keep having yearly boosters, possibly even more, because they’re continuing to be at risk.
“But for young people, having had their two doses, and in most cases having had an infection, the picture is different … and the risk of myocarditis is still there, even though it’s rare. So we may need to start moving away from everything for everyone to … specific targeted messaging for groups.”
Oh, and all you older people who might be considering “yearly boosters” for Covid. Don’t. Surely you can see, at the very least, that the damn things do not work as Covid prevention? I mean, 2.2 million cases of Covid, mostly after the shots were rolled out points to something that could not even be considered a “vaccine”. So, why take the risk of an adverse reaction for something that does not even work?
“Viruses that replicate in the human respiratory mucosa without infecting systemically, including influenza A, SARS-CoV-2,…
…. endemic coronaviruses, RSV, and many other ‘common cold’ viruses, cause significant mortality and morbidity and are important public health concerns. Because these viruses generally do not elicit complete and durable protective immunity by themselves, they have not to date been effectively controlled by licensed or experimental vaccines. In this review, we examine challenges that have impeded development of effective mucosal respiratory vaccines, emphasizing that all of these viruses replicate extremely rapidly in the surface epithelium and are quickly transmitted to other hosts, within a narrow window of time before adaptive immune responses are fully marshaled.”
That’s from a recent article published in a medical magazine called Cell:
Let me give you a quick synopsis of the article which is basically what I learned about viruses and vaccines at high school and university:
- Vaccines are not suitable for coronaviruses because these respiratory viruses spread and mutate too quickly. They replicate in the mucosal system (nose, lungs) to be spread to other humans before they hit your immune system where they usually get wiped out. Evolution is clever like that. As the article notes:
“This observation raises a question of fundamental importance: if natural mucosal respiratory virus infections do not elicit complete and long-term protective immunity against reinfection, how can we expect vaccines, especially systemically administered non-replicating vaccines, to do so?” - This is the answer to the fifty year old question, If they can land a man on the Moon why can’t they cure the Common Cold?. It’s also the reason that flu vaccines, despite being an impressive development thirty years ago, are still not very good, with a best case record of 60% protection in one North American flu season and the worst being 19%, with the rest in between and usually below 50%
- Vaccines can only be “sterilizing” when the virus is a stable one like Smallpox and Measles. It should be noted that even with these far worse diseases mandates have never been imposed for vaccination, not out of some Libertarian goal of My Body, My Choice, and allowing free riders, but because it is not necessary for public health or, in the case of the former disease, elimination.
- It takes a long time to test a vaccine, or as the article puts it:
“Considering that vaccine development and licensure is a long and complex process requiring years of preclinical and clinical safety and efficacy data, the limitations of influenza and SARS-CoV-2 vaccines remind us that candidate vaccines for most other respiratory viruses have to date been insufficiently protective for consideration of licensure - For coronaviruses, there is really only one way forward: better anti-viral treatments, therapeutic treatments, and, of course, acquired immunity.
I knew this decades ago, which was why I have never taken a flu vaccine, knowing how hit and miss it is. As I get older and my immune system weakens then I may do so because the cost/benefit calculation will have changed.
Epidemiologists and virologists also knew this, which is why such people wrote our MOH’s Influenza Pandemic Plan in 2010 and kept updating it, while never mentioning, let alone proposing, population lockdowns, mask mandates outside of healthcare staff, or vaccine mandates.
Dr Fauci also knew all this, and he is the author of that article. Writing any of this stuff in the last three years would have seen you banned from Social Media sites, the MSM and the subject of snarking and derision, plus outright abuse. Remember:
If you don’t do what we tell you, Grandma will die.
He lied through his teeth about everything and the real kicker is that he’s still so utterly confident in his untouchability that he can write this after retirement – and he’s probably correct in that assessment.
But in all honesty no punishment possible could possibly match what I would like anyway, which at a minimum would be stripping him of his pensions and any investments he made in the pharmaceutical industry, plus jail time – all the way to that good old American custom of tarring and feathering. A public execution is probably a little too harsh and in any case would not be necessary since the objective here is less punishment of Fauci for his sins than for the mirror objective to that of the British Navy executing Captain Byng by firing squad on the quarterdeck of his own flagship which, in the words of a French historian Voltaire, “was done to encourage the others”.
It’s like the old Sex Pistols song: “Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?”
Peter Thiel: The Slogan of the Anti-Christ is Peace & Safety
I haven’t paid too much attention to Peter Thiel, but then I haven’t known that much about him beyond he is some rich guy that was involved with PayPal with Elon Musk, and that he has now invested in Rumble. Oh, and he is a New Zealand citizen. However, for some reason, he is breaking through to a level of visibility where I have noticed. Not that that is saying much, as I notice all sorts of weird things. Anyway, I was intrigued enough by a Bannon War Room Rumble clip to listen to the much longer YouTube address to the Oxford Union on 16 January, 2023.
As the above address is very long, the intriguing summary can be listened to here (along with commentary):
Read the rest of this entry »Oh yes, I see it all she cried, as she waved her wooden leg
One of my Dad’s favourite sayings.
And the memory is generated by this news from – of all places – the once famous, uselessly shallow (in my opinion), once sold-for-one-dollar, POS MSM source that is likely still trusted by those Who Believe.
Newsweek.
Specifically this article by one Kevin Ball, Ms MD/PhD student, Medical School:
As a medical student and researcher, I staunchly supported the efforts of the public health authorities when it came to COVID-19. I believed that the authorities responded to the largest public health crisis of our lives with compassion, diligence, and scientific expertise. I was with them when they called for lockdowns, vaccines, and boosters.
I was wrong. We in the scientific community were wrong. And it cost lives.
I can see now that the scientific community from the CDC to the WHO to the FDA and their representatives, repeatedly overstated the evidence and misled the public about its own views and policies, including on natural vs. artificial immunity, school closures and disease transmission, aerosol spread, mask mandates, and vaccine effectiveness and safety, especially among the young. All of these were scientific mistakes at the time, not in hindsight. Amazingly, some of these obfuscations continue to the present day.
But perhaps more important than any individual error was how inherently flawed the overall approach of the scientific community was, and continues to be. It was flawed in a way that undermined its efficacy and resulted in thousands if not millions of preventable deaths.
Read the whole thing. He’s more generous than I when it comes to motives, but that’s probably the result of observing how many of my fellow Kiwis were such utter pricks during the great Chinese Lung Rot Freakout.
Most of us did not speak up in support of alternative views, and many of us tried to suppress them. When strong scientific voices like world-renowned Stanford professors John Ioannidis, Jay Bhattacharya, and Scott Atlas, or University of California San Francisco professors Vinay Prasad and Monica Gandhi, sounded the alarm on behalf of vulnerable communities, they faced severe censure by relentless mobs of critics and detractors in the scientific community—often not on the basis of fact but solely on the basis of differences in scientific opinion.
Still, it’s nice to see at least some regrets beginning to creep into the True Believers. He even seems to get the fundamental philosophical aspects beyond the technocratic debates:
Our emotional response and ingrained partisanship prevented us from seeing the full impact of our actions on the people we are supposed to serve. We systematically minimized the downsides of the interventions we imposed—imposed without the input, consent, and recognition of those forced to live with them. In so doing, we violated the autonomy of those who would be most negatively impacted by our policies: the poor, the working class, small business owners, Blacks and Latinos, and children. These populations were overlooked because they were made invisible to us by their systematic exclusion from the dominant, corporatized media machine that presumed omniscience.
That phrase, presumed omniscience. Tell Ms Day-Weaver.
Reminds me of this woman, a teacher with science degrees, who got red-pilled.
But at least her 14 year old son survived his myocarditis.
No Minister 