Something is always going around - many, many pathogens including seasonal coronaviruses, are associated with upper respiratory illnesses which can turn nasty in a small proportion of people (especially the elderly).
The questions to ask are: was there a new, risk-additive virus going around - ie one which added to the already existing soup of the many pathogens which are regularly associated with respiratory illnesses?
Or: if we'd had no testing available, what would we be writing about spring 2020 now? My contention is: nothing
The starting point in answering that is to recognise that whatever "it" was, the same signal to detect its presence in 2020 has been found by retrospective analysis of a variety of biological samples dating from months before the start of "the emergency" in several continents, leading to the inevitable conclusion that "it" was already widespread before we started obsessively testing for it.
Then, the question to ask is: why are there literally zero reports written at the time of any clusters of unusual illnesses or excess deaths in 2019? The fact tht those only started to be "discovered" in 2020 raises the hypothesis that it was the process of looking for it, finding it, and reacting to it which was the significant historical event.
In other words, the only novel thing spreading was the testing.
It's worth emphasising the historical event described below - the 2006 false PCR-driver pseudo epidemic of whooping cough.
Bear in mind that it WOULD have been easy to verify the PCR testing for pertussis bacterial presence - much, much easier than for SARS-CoV-2 - but a combination of factors (no doubt including hubris) somehow prevented them from doing that one, vital step.
You never treated a single COVID patient or visited a single COVID ward in COVID surges during the pandemic.
Finding COVID cases doesn't cause mortality. COVID does.
They tested like crazy in countries like NZ, Australia and Hong Kong in 2020 also. Still no increased mortality until COVID arrived and wastewater cases rose.
Zero to do w/ testing. It's all about a novel pathogen causing increased SYMPTOMS.
Symptoms that lead to death, especially in the older or unhealthy.
If it wasn't really COVID it wouldn't kill in such an age/health stratified manner, as COVID is age/health stratified for risk.
We wouldn't see the unvaccinated dying at higher rates. If COVID isn't real why did the vaccine work so well?
Seattle has had active respiratory virus surveillance for YEARS. They tested 3600 samples collected in Jan 2020 for COVID-19 status and found zero positives. They tested 3308 samples collected in Feb 2020 and found a first positive on Feb 21 with a total of 10 samples testing positive in Feb.
Some great conversation pieces here, and good to see that people can have alternative views.
So much happened in 2020, not least here in Australia (Queensland). They actually wrote and passed a law that fined or jailed a doctor for prescribing a global and reliable anti-parasitic. One that doctors have been using for well over 50 years and have prescribed almost 5 billion times with no concerns (using the measures big pharma use). A drug that has been around for the ages and that people all over the world widely use.
The French Ministry of Health did something similar on January 13th 2020. I was researching off patent, off label drugs for my wife who had breast cancer and I did a double-take when I came across that article, as it made no sense. Then they told us that SARS-COV2 was 79-81% similar to SARS-COV1, so why not offer anti-parasitic drugs? Why not let people decide for themselves? If the vaccine stopped transmission as Wolinsky, Fauci, Biden and others told the world, then those that took it were fine. So, why the "Winter of Darkness" threats that did not materialise, in fact, most of my vaccinated friends are continually falling ill since they had the vaccine. Perhaps it was efficacious for 3-5 months, but the waning fell off a cliff. They would need a shot every 3 months just to stay ahead of the curve. They have said no to any more shots.
Here in Australia, Neil Ferguson from the Imperial College of London projected 155,000 Australians would die from COVID. I think it was a few million in the US and maybe 550,000 in the UK. We never got close to that, and in fact, the only way they could get the numbers up was to classify what felt like all deaths as COVID. My wife's uncle was a professor at the Uni of Edinburgh and also the Director of Amsterdam Business School. He had glioblastoma and had months to live. He died in palliative care. Cause of death? COVID. My Dad is Italian and a car struck and killed a gentleman in his village. Cause of death? COVID. Why? When did we ever do that? And when did the definition of a vaccine and pandemic have to change to suit a novel coronavirus?
As I understand it, and I am happy to stand corrected, mRNA has consistently been rejected because the safety trials did not fare well. However, the situation changed when they granted Emergency Use Authorization. Perhaps that was fair enough if it was a threat. But as a former Prime Minister of Australia said recently, “They (the government) knew by late April 2020 that this was not a significant threat.” Not only didn’t they pivot they strategy, they tripled down on the “15 days to flatten the curve.” We had a state of emergency in Australia for three years. WTF? People died. Kids killed themselves. Small businesses were decimated. The government deemed a brothel as an essential service but closed kids playgrounds and shut other non-essential businesses like organic grocers. Meanwhile, the big end of town blew profits out of the park. The same big end of town that donates to big government.
So why not allow other therapies to exist? Why not allow them and the vaccine to run side-by-side and allow people to choose? Why? I am not sure what it was like in other countries, but here in Australia, for the EUA to exist no other therapy could exist. Call me suspicious, but they are about to allow mRNA that has not been used on the general public while banning known therapies that have worked for years. That just didn't sound right. Then the head of the CDC at the time (Wolinsky I think) came out and said "the virus stopped with you if you were vaccinated." Here in Australia, our Health Minister said on national TV that it was safe and effective. Then I started to read the Pfizer documents released under US 5th District Court Order and they don't read well. These are the documents the FDA wanted suppressed for 75 years. Why? I couldn't line up how they could approve something that had been denied, yet ban existing, proven therapies. None of that made sense to me. Sure, why not isolate the vulnerable? But to treat everybody as the same regardless of their health status was absurd. Also, for governments to grant indemnity to big pharma was something I had never witnessed before. No other industry that I am aware of has ever been afforded that protection. Here in Australia, the political parties receive big donations from big pharma through a multitude of avenues. By any other name, it is a cartel, but not this time.
I was never anti-vax and took shots as a kid. I took the yellow shot before I went to Thailand in 2008. I never spoke about vaccines or the flu before 2020. But now I am anti-vax. I am anti the government lies. I am anti big pharma profiting over the health of people. I didn’t need to dig too deep to learn about the fines big pharma has been slapped over the years. It didn't take 'Dopesick' or the many documentaries, whistleblowers and movies to convince me. Basic research proved to me that convicted felon's tend to be repeat offenders, and big pharma is one of the biggest repeat offenders on the planet.
Perhaps there was some upside to the mRNA. But there was and continue to be so many red flags that are repeatedly ignored. That is the real threat.
All reasonable points. In the States, many many agree. I'm wondering if you've noticed an increase in stuff like young people suddenly having kidney failure, cancers, birth defects, reoccurring illnesses, odd lung issues, etc. only in vaccinated people?
There are a few avenues that report this information. There are some doctors and specialists speaking out now that cases are before the courts. Only a small percentage of the injuries recorded are included in the over 140,000 reports received by our TGA (your CDC). The sad part is that the average age is about 50 with kids as young as 3. The average age of life in Australia is (male/female) is 82.5 years. The average age of a COVID death is about 84. So, we have people injured or have died that likely didn't need to. Doctors and specialists have been reporting rising cases of cancer in young people as a major concern and it has them baffled. It may not be the vaccine, but it started happening in 2021. It's not COVID because they are not reported as COVID deaths. So, what else could it be? If nothing else, it needs to be investigated, which is what is happening now our Senate has the numbers to get an investigation underway.
Yes, that alone proves you wrong. The vaccine indisputably reduced severe disease and death from COVID (and thus all-cause mortality.) If COVID wasn't real/novel how does that happen?
Why do you keep dodging all the substantive rebuttals to your opinion blog claims?
Ah - the one in which they sweep all the early infections and serious AEs under the carpet by classing them as unvaccinated until 7 days after dose 2?
"Adults were considered fully vaccinated 7 days after the completion of vaccination (administration of the first dose of the Janssen vaccine or the second dose of other vaccines)"
Something is always going around - many, many pathogens including seasonal coronaviruses, are associated with upper respiratory illnesses which can turn nasty in a small proportion of people (especially the elderly).
The questions to ask are: was there a new, risk-additive virus going around - ie one which added to the already existing soup of the many pathogens which are regularly associated with respiratory illnesses?
Or: if we'd had no testing available, what would we be writing about spring 2020 now? My contention is: nothing
The starting point in answering that is to recognise that whatever "it" was, the same signal to detect its presence in 2020 has been found by retrospective analysis of a variety of biological samples dating from months before the start of "the emergency" in several continents, leading to the inevitable conclusion that "it" was already widespread before we started obsessively testing for it.
Then, the question to ask is: why are there literally zero reports written at the time of any clusters of unusual illnesses or excess deaths in 2019? The fact tht those only started to be "discovered" in 2020 raises the hypothesis that it was the process of looking for it, finding it, and reacting to it which was the significant historical event.
In other words, the only novel thing spreading was the testing.
It's worth emphasising the historical event described below - the 2006 false PCR-driver pseudo epidemic of whooping cough.
Bear in mind that it WOULD have been easy to verify the PCR testing for pertussis bacterial presence - much, much easier than for SARS-CoV-2 - but a combination of factors (no doubt including hubris) somehow prevented them from doing that one, vital step.
https://www.bleadon.org.uk/media/other/24400/FaithinQuickTestLeadstoEpidemicThatWasnt-TheNewYorkTimes.pdf
https://blog.plan99.net/pseudo-epidemics-7603b2da839
Thank you. 🙏🏻 I am processing all this and all the comments, I will check out the links.
Except all the data and science proves you wrong.
You never treated a single COVID patient or visited a single COVID ward in COVID surges during the pandemic.
Finding COVID cases doesn't cause mortality. COVID does.
They tested like crazy in countries like NZ, Australia and Hong Kong in 2020 also. Still no increased mortality until COVID arrived and wastewater cases rose.
Zero to do w/ testing. It's all about a novel pathogen causing increased SYMPTOMS.
Symptoms that lead to death, especially in the older or unhealthy.
If it wasn't really COVID it wouldn't kill in such an age/health stratified manner, as COVID is age/health stratified for risk.
We wouldn't see the unvaccinated dying at higher rates. If COVID isn't real why did the vaccine work so well?
Seattle has had active respiratory virus surveillance for YEARS. They tested 3600 samples collected in Jan 2020 for COVID-19 status and found zero positives. They tested 3308 samples collected in Feb 2020 and found a first positive on Feb 21 with a total of 10 samples testing positive in Feb.
All other claims refuted here:
https://sars2.net/nopandemic.html#Contents
I have 3 family members all vaxed and dead including our son and a friend in USA
I'm so very sorry. I can't imagine your pain. My heart to you.
Some great conversation pieces here, and good to see that people can have alternative views.
So much happened in 2020, not least here in Australia (Queensland). They actually wrote and passed a law that fined or jailed a doctor for prescribing a global and reliable anti-parasitic. One that doctors have been using for well over 50 years and have prescribed almost 5 billion times with no concerns (using the measures big pharma use). A drug that has been around for the ages and that people all over the world widely use.
The French Ministry of Health did something similar on January 13th 2020. I was researching off patent, off label drugs for my wife who had breast cancer and I did a double-take when I came across that article, as it made no sense. Then they told us that SARS-COV2 was 79-81% similar to SARS-COV1, so why not offer anti-parasitic drugs? Why not let people decide for themselves? If the vaccine stopped transmission as Wolinsky, Fauci, Biden and others told the world, then those that took it were fine. So, why the "Winter of Darkness" threats that did not materialise, in fact, most of my vaccinated friends are continually falling ill since they had the vaccine. Perhaps it was efficacious for 3-5 months, but the waning fell off a cliff. They would need a shot every 3 months just to stay ahead of the curve. They have said no to any more shots.
Here in Australia, Neil Ferguson from the Imperial College of London projected 155,000 Australians would die from COVID. I think it was a few million in the US and maybe 550,000 in the UK. We never got close to that, and in fact, the only way they could get the numbers up was to classify what felt like all deaths as COVID. My wife's uncle was a professor at the Uni of Edinburgh and also the Director of Amsterdam Business School. He had glioblastoma and had months to live. He died in palliative care. Cause of death? COVID. My Dad is Italian and a car struck and killed a gentleman in his village. Cause of death? COVID. Why? When did we ever do that? And when did the definition of a vaccine and pandemic have to change to suit a novel coronavirus?
As I understand it, and I am happy to stand corrected, mRNA has consistently been rejected because the safety trials did not fare well. However, the situation changed when they granted Emergency Use Authorization. Perhaps that was fair enough if it was a threat. But as a former Prime Minister of Australia said recently, “They (the government) knew by late April 2020 that this was not a significant threat.” Not only didn’t they pivot they strategy, they tripled down on the “15 days to flatten the curve.” We had a state of emergency in Australia for three years. WTF? People died. Kids killed themselves. Small businesses were decimated. The government deemed a brothel as an essential service but closed kids playgrounds and shut other non-essential businesses like organic grocers. Meanwhile, the big end of town blew profits out of the park. The same big end of town that donates to big government.
So why not allow other therapies to exist? Why not allow them and the vaccine to run side-by-side and allow people to choose? Why? I am not sure what it was like in other countries, but here in Australia, for the EUA to exist no other therapy could exist. Call me suspicious, but they are about to allow mRNA that has not been used on the general public while banning known therapies that have worked for years. That just didn't sound right. Then the head of the CDC at the time (Wolinsky I think) came out and said "the virus stopped with you if you were vaccinated." Here in Australia, our Health Minister said on national TV that it was safe and effective. Then I started to read the Pfizer documents released under US 5th District Court Order and they don't read well. These are the documents the FDA wanted suppressed for 75 years. Why? I couldn't line up how they could approve something that had been denied, yet ban existing, proven therapies. None of that made sense to me. Sure, why not isolate the vulnerable? But to treat everybody as the same regardless of their health status was absurd. Also, for governments to grant indemnity to big pharma was something I had never witnessed before. No other industry that I am aware of has ever been afforded that protection. Here in Australia, the political parties receive big donations from big pharma through a multitude of avenues. By any other name, it is a cartel, but not this time.
I was never anti-vax and took shots as a kid. I took the yellow shot before I went to Thailand in 2008. I never spoke about vaccines or the flu before 2020. But now I am anti-vax. I am anti the government lies. I am anti big pharma profiting over the health of people. I didn’t need to dig too deep to learn about the fines big pharma has been slapped over the years. It didn't take 'Dopesick' or the many documentaries, whistleblowers and movies to convince me. Basic research proved to me that convicted felon's tend to be repeat offenders, and big pharma is one of the biggest repeat offenders on the planet.
Perhaps there was some upside to the mRNA. But there was and continue to be so many red flags that are repeatedly ignored. That is the real threat.
All reasonable points. In the States, many many agree. I'm wondering if you've noticed an increase in stuff like young people suddenly having kidney failure, cancers, birth defects, reoccurring illnesses, odd lung issues, etc. only in vaccinated people?
There are a few avenues that report this information. There are some doctors and specialists speaking out now that cases are before the courts. Only a small percentage of the injuries recorded are included in the over 140,000 reports received by our TGA (your CDC). The sad part is that the average age is about 50 with kids as young as 3. The average age of life in Australia is (male/female) is 82.5 years. The average age of a COVID death is about 84. So, we have people injured or have died that likely didn't need to. Doctors and specialists have been reporting rising cases of cancer in young people as a major concern and it has them baffled. It may not be the vaccine, but it started happening in 2021. It's not COVID because they are not reported as COVID deaths. So, what else could it be? If nothing else, it needs to be investigated, which is what is happening now our Senate has the numbers to get an investigation underway.
Thank you, Jason. I'm 75 and seeing things I never saw before. I've always had a large circle of family and friends. Again, thank you.
"We wouldn't see the unvaccinated dying at higher rates. If COVID isn't real why did the vaccine work so well?"
You really don't have a grasp on things.
I have to think that you must be trolling, as no sane person can actually believe that nonsense.
Can they?
Please. The death jab did not work well ever. Has worked well only to kill and maim. Undisputable.
"If COVID isn't real why did the vaccine work so well?"
LOL
Yes, that alone proves you wrong. The vaccine indisputably reduced severe disease and death from COVID (and thus all-cause mortality.) If COVID wasn't real/novel how does that happen?
Why do you keep dodging all the substantive rebuttals to your opinion blog claims?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9319484/
Bollocks.
Ah - the one in which they sweep all the early infections and serious AEs under the carpet by classing them as unvaccinated until 7 days after dose 2?
"Adults were considered fully vaccinated 7 days after the completion of vaccination (administration of the first dose of the Janssen vaccine or the second dose of other vaccines)"