Still, the old original Speccy has, in its own good time, reached the right conclusion about the preposterous vax mandates issued by the lockdown Nazis from Ottawa to Austria, and from Washington, DC to New South Wales. So, for any who may have missed our own decisive assessment, here is the Spectator`s worthy reprise.
The absurd theatre of vaccine passports
By Lionel Shriver:The Spectator, November 20, 2031: When a column highlighting under-appreciated breaking news has had absolutely no impact on the course of events (per usual), the urge to make the same point again is irresistible.
In August, Public Health England released data which shows that vaccination does not appreciably guard against Covid infection and transmission and protection worked out at around 17 per cent for the over-fifties. As I observed then, this would mean the vaxxed and unvaxxed pose a comparable danger to each other. All Covid apartheid schemes are therefore insensible.
Fresher information has fortified this conclusion of the summer. In every age group over 30 in the UK, the rates of Covid infection per 100,000 are now higher among the vaxxed than the unvaxxed. Indeed, in the cohorts aged between 40 and 79, infection rates among the vaccinated are more than twice as high as among the unvaccinated. PHE’s fruitlessly rechristened body, the UK Health Security Agency, frantically clarifies that the data ‘should not be used to estimate vaccine effectiveness’, a caveat which I include for the sake of accuracy. But the differences in the infection rates are drastic enough for you to draw your own conclusions.
As for the comparative contagiousness of each group, the data is mixed. A study published in Nature early last month confirmed PHE’s finding that the Covid-positive vaxxed and unvaxxed carry nearly identical viral loads; hence they should be similarly infectious. But viral load turns out to drop more quickly in the vaccinated, making them infectious for a shorter period. The study shows that ‘people who become infected with the Delta variant are less likely to pass the virus to their close contacts if they have already had a Covid-19 vaccine than if they haven’t’.
The myth of ultra-contagious anti-vaxxers dispersing plague like rats has fostered gratuitous rancour
That’s the good news. Now for Nature’s bad news: ‘But that protective effect is relatively small, and dwindles alarmingly at three months after the receipt of the second shot… Unfortunately, the vaccine’s beneficial effect on Delta transmission waned to almost negligible levels over time.’ Three months after vaccination, your chances of passing on the Delta variant are ‘on par with the likelihood that an unvaccinated person will spread the virus’.
Mercifully, the vaccines’ protection from hospitalisation and death is slumping slowly and remains considerable. Stress on healthcare systems and excess deaths are the only reasons Covid is a concern of government.
All this information is in the public domain. Yet due to doublethink, idiocy, mulishness, duplicity, derangement or all of the above, policy-makers are refusing to act on its implications. The absurd theatre of vaccine passports in continental Europe is worse than pointless. Gatekeeping of pleasure palaces promotes the wrong impression — statistically, the lie — that the unvaccinated riff-raff exiled to the pavement pose a far graver threat of communicable disease than the diners in the nearby banquette who, like you, have righteously got the shot. In truth, the double-jabbed airline passenger in 24A can be just as risky a seat-mate as the great unwashed banished from the flight.
Officialdom’s stubborn refusal to register that vaccination does not rule out Covid infection or transmission has catastrophic consequences. As England’s adult social care sector has more than 100,000 vacancies already, the compulsory sacking of unvaxxed care-home staff could close up to 500 facilities that the nation can’t afford to lose. A vaccine mandate for NHS employees will likewise lead to significant staff attrition, when the service also suffers from about 100,000 unfilled jobs.
Stopped for now by the courts, Joe Biden has bullied on with his edict that all American businesses with 100 or more employees require their whole workforce to be vaccinated, or submit to onerous weekly testing, with a whopping $14,000 fine per unvaxxed hire. Austria has just implemented a lockdown for its entire unvaccinated population of two million. Already barred from restaurants, hair salons and cinemas, now these poor pariahs can barely leave the house.
The myth of ultra-contagious anti-vaxxers dispersing plague like rats in the Middle Ages has fostered gratuitous rancour and division. A friend in New York declared recently that she hoped all the unvaccinated would simply die.
By spearheading the vaccine drives, governments have attached themselves to a product. They’re implicitly in league with the pharmaceutical industry, not by means of a conspiracy, but because of perceived common interest. Successful vaccine? Successful government. The mainstream media and swaths of the medical establishment have also attached themselves to the product. All these parties are in cahoots to maintain a Manichean social partition: you must be all in, or you’re all against. Any appreciation for the risks or limits of vaccines casts you as a dreaded anti-vaxxer. So any feel for nuance makes you stupid. Any short-of-fanatical devotion to the perfect benevolence of vaccines makes you crazy.
Yet the product is a bit of a disappointment. It reduces death and hospitalisation, but can’t stop Covid from spreading. The virus continues merrily to sweep through heavily vaccinated populations. What we have here, then, is an advertising problem. The purveyors of products are inclined to overpromise. Adverts for a hair-loss treatment tend to boast not ‘Stimulates some minor follicular growth’, but rather ‘Cures balding!’ Having oversold their adopted elixir, governments won’t retreat from the cures-balding pitch. ‘Won’t keep you from getting sick or even from making other people sick, but prevents dying a lot of the time!’ makes for a lukewarm slogan.
I’m double-vaccinated — gladly so, on balance. But I’ve no fear of vaccine virgins. As the medical case for shunning the unvaccinated is unconvincing, vax passports and employment mandates function purely as blackmail. As a judge decreed when staying Biden’s edict: ‘The mandate’s true purpose is not to enhance workplace safety, but instead to ramp up vaccine uptake by any means necessary.’
Much western public health policy is now irrational. Governments need to detach from the product. Instead, they’ve detached from the facts.
Related:
mRNA inventor stands with Archbiship Viganò’s call for alliance against ‘fundamentally evil’ COVID tyranny: Global Totalitarianism Is a Bigger Threat Than the Virus
“Universities are blatantly violating the Nuremberg Code, as well as the Universal Declaration of Bioethics and Human Rights by pressuring students to get injected,” John Carpay said in a JCCF video posted Monday titled “Universities violate Nuremberg Code with vaccine coercion.”
“When you tell a student, get injected or get expelled, there is no free and informed consent to this vaccine.”
Carpay said in his video that the Universal Declaration of Bioethics and Human Rights provides that any “preventive diagnostic and therapeutic medical intervention” should only be carried out with the “prior free and informed consent of the person concerned based on adequate information.”
Read more
Hidden Camera Footage from Inside Forced Internment Camps in Australia
Discrimination against unvaccinated Canadians not based on science
Wadderyer expect from a government headed by an airhead with fantasies about being a dictator?
The case for compulsory vaccinations is dead…Omicron killed it
Facts have never bothered the vax Nazis yet. Why would they now? Still, a good review of the "self-contradictory supposed “facts” of the schizophrenic covid story"
British Government's Incompetent and Sadistic Covid Advisory Committee, SAGE, calls for five more years of work from home plus vax passports in face of Omicron wave which has killed exactly no one
Spanish Investigation Finds Vaccine Passports Have No Impact On Infection Rates
EU Leader Calls For Throwing Out Nuremberg Code In Favor of Forced Vaccinating All Dissenters Why is it that Germans, for all their native genius, have an affinity for low IQ Nazi leaders
Most of England's Omicron cases are double-jabbed
“The COVID-19 Vaccines DO NOT Prevent Transmission of the Disease” – Judge Doughty’s Ruling Destroys Biden’s Vax Mandates
First case of US covid Omicron is fully vaxxed
How surprising is that? Evidently surprising enough that some Spanish "experts" were dumb enough to investigate the question.
Most of England's Omicron cases are double-jabbed
If this doesn't persuade the anti-vaxers to get vaxxed, what will?
Scapegoating the Unvaccinated
If COVID Omicron Variant Is as Mild as Indicated Why Not Let It Run Its Course and and Protect the Vulnerable with Therapeutics?
Amer. Assoc. Physicians and Surgeons: Biden's Incentive for Hospital Covid Treatment Failure
Otherwise known as an incentive to, um, commit euthanasia, except that Covid is not incurable and the lethal treatment hospitals provide is neither painless nor received voluntarily.
The vaxxed know in their hearts that the vax doesn't work. So naturally they blame anyone but themselves, which is to say the unvaxxed, for their having fallen for the vax scam.
So everyone must be made to get the vax. But wait a minute ...
Warning: Dangerous common sense outbreak. If we all get natural immunity, there'd by no basis for the mandatory jab.
Unvaccinated Austrians Face Prison Time, Huge Fines For Non-Compliance
Coronavirus will be with us forever, Sage scientist warns
Most people already have a cure: it's called an immune system
Adolph would have been proud to see his native land lead the world in forced mass medical experimentation.
Coronavirus will be with us forever, Sage scientist warns
Yeah, that's what the top scientific experts on the incidence, distribution, and possible control of diseases, plus over sixty thousand medical researchers and practitioners said at the outset. But better coming to grips with reality late than never.
Australia Captures and Arrests Three Quarantine Camp Escapees (They had all tested negative the day before they broke out)
Not to worry: Although the Australian leadership has a severe Covid psychosis, they only deploy full Nazi tactics against the aborigines
Children as young as five with bad asthma should be given a Covid vaccine because they face six times higher risk of being hospitalised, study finds
Note to Daily Mail Headline Writer: Studies find facts (sometimes, anyhow), they don't specify moral imperatives. That said, sure, if my kid had severe asthma, I'd be OK with giving them the vax
Prince Harry compares Covid pandemic to HIV
Time to think about mandatory vaccination' across the ENTIRE EU, Ursula von der Leyen warns after Austria and Germany announced plans to force jabs on all adults
Further evidence that Queen Victoria passed a low-IQ gene to every one of her thousands of descendants
Good idea except that, according to Bill Gates, the vax stops neither infection not transmission
Most Omicron cases are 'mild' or show no symptoms
If they "show no symptoms," how does anyone know they've got it?
Germany's New Chancellor Says Mandatory Covid Jabs "Necessary" To Contain Fourth Wave
"Vee vill not be out-Covid-Nazied by de Gotdamned Greeks."
A Different Perspective: How Threat-Free Are Americans From COVID-19?
*** Paul Kingsnorth: why I changed sides in the vaccine wars ***
Image source: Think Carefully About Accepting The Concept Of Vaccine Passports
This Pivotal Moment, vaccine passports
