Covid-19 response

[Amity Island]

Yes, I read the paper. Unless I misread it, it showed that more severe infections lead to lower Bifidobacterium levels

During the global health emergency Dr Hazan put forward a hypothesis early in 2020 where she proposed three simple approaches for treating and preventing COVID, based on the improvement of bifidobacteri in the gut, which in turn, provides protection to the respiratory system. This hypothesis was retracted, and not by her. She tried to recruit participants to test her proposed treatments using hydroxylchloroquine, ivermectin and some vitamins, but was censored on all the social media channels. Making it impossible to carry out any studies which could have potentially saved millions of lives.

The novel vaccines were issued under an EUA (emergency use authorization). An EUA can only be issued when a national health emergency and/or no adequate, approved, and available alternatives. Had there been any alternatives, the vaccines could never have been used.

There is also a much wider issue here, which is why people are essentially being poisoned by ultra processed food which negatively effects gut microbiome and health. Had the western population not had such terrible food, the COVID outcome may have been far less a problem.

I also think that the billions that went into the pandemic response would have been better spent on diabetes research / cure which affects way more people of all ages for most of their lives 24hrs a day and at a huge cost..

 

[Bruce Stephens]

Making it impossible to carry out any studies which could have potentially saved millions of lives.

Remember that when Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin were tested in good quality trials, they turned out not to be helpful, like most things which were tried.

The novel vaccines were issued under an EUA (emergency use authorization). An EUA can only be issued when a national health emergency and/or no adequate, approved, and available alternatives. Had there been any alternatives, the vaccines could never have been used.

There weren't any good alternatives. Certainly none that were known to have the extraordinary effectiveness of the vaccines.

There is also a much wider issue here, which is why people are essentially being poisoned by ultra processed food which negatively effects gut microbiome and health. Had the western population not had such terrible food, the COVID outcome may have been far less a problem.

Sure. Not really relevant to this, though. If populations were less overweight and younger, C19 would have been much less of a problem (though I note that about half of people in Africa who've been infected (who know that they have been, I guess) report at least one lingering symptom of infection).

I also think that the billions that went into the pandemic response would have been better spent on diabetes research / cure which affects way more people of all ages for most of their lives 24hrs a day and at a huge cost.

You're still imagining that it's a choice. Politicians here were looking at the news from Italy and elsewhere, reasonably anticipating a catastrophe here, and panicking. And no, they couldn't wait until the hospitals here actually filled up because hospital admissions are such a delayed indicator.

Nearly half of COVID-19 survivors in Africa experiencing Long COVID symptoms, study suggests

Fatigue is the most commonly reported symptom among COVID-19 survivors in Africa.

www.gavi.org

 

[Amity Island]

Remember that when Hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin were tested in good quality trials, they turned out not to be helpful, like most things which were tried.

There weren't any good alternatives. Certainly none that were known to have the extraordinary effectiveness of the vaccines.

Sure. Not really relevant to this, though. If populations were less overweight and younger, C19 would have been much less of a problem (though I note that about half of people in Africa who've been infected (who know that they have been, I guess) report at least one lingering symptom of infection).

You're still imagining that it's a choice. Politicians here were looking at the news from Italy and elsewhere, reasonably anticipating a catastrophe here, and panicking. And no, they couldn't wait until the hospitals here actually filled up because hospital admissions are such a delayed indicator.

Nearly half of COVID-19 survivors in Africa experiencing Long COVID symptoms, study suggests

Fatigue is the most commonly reported symptom among COVID-19 survivors in Africa.

www.gavi.org

You are not understanding. Social media was censored. Studies couldn't be carried out as they couldn't recruit people for the studies in any potential treatments etc. This is not following the science is it?

Politicians did have a choice of how they spent the publics money. Test and trace, eat out to help, vaccines gone past use by date, ppe gear either wrong type or past use by date, nightingale hospitals, covid business and furlough payments are but a few good examples of billions wasted. Money that should have been spent on diabetes research or other health programmes or even schools and hospitals.

"Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg says he regrets bowing to what he calls pressure from the Biden administration to "censor" content on Facebook and Instagram during the coronavirus pandemic."

Zuckerberg regrets bowing to White House 'pressure' over Covid

The billionaire says White House officials pressured Meta to remove content 'for months' in 2021.

www.bbc.com

 

[Amity Island]

In Germany, in court this week....

The President of the Robert Koch Institut (the German CDC) destroyed much of the public mythology of the pandemic response in testimony before an Osnabrück administrative judge earlier this week.

While our elected leaders claimed to be Following the Science, they were eagerly adjusting the Science behind the scenes wherever necessary to make it into the kind of thing that they already wanted to Follow.

The RKJ protocols show that the allegedly independent Scientific advice provided by the RKI provided was in fact heavily influenced by politicians.

He said that pandemic risk assessments were political rather than scientific; specifically, he said that they were “normative” – that is that they were intended to produce certain behaviours in the public, and not to communicate any concrete, observable facts.

Finally, he said that the RKI not only never had any evidence that vaccine mandates do anything to stop transmission, but also that they never even attempted to monitor vaccines.

Top health official admits in court that 'independent' pandemic expert advice was steered by politicians, that virus risk assessments were political & that vaccine mandates had no scientific rationale

The President of the Robert Koch Institut (the German CDC) destroyed much of the public mythology of the pandemic response in testimony before an Osnabrück administrative judge earlier this week.

www.eugyppius.com

 

[Amity Island]

A bombshell new study suggests that this polio strain, which infected a four-year-old boy amid a wider viral outbreak in China’s Anhui province, is “99%” identical to a polio variant that was stored 200 miles away, during that same time period, at the infamous Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Researchers at France’s Pasteur Institute cannot say with certainty where this strain, dubbed ‘WIV14,’ originated. But they insisted two possibilities “must be explored” — including the chance that WIV14 polio originated within the Wuhan institute itself.

'Highly evolved' polio strain may have leaked from Chinese lab: study

'The findings underscore the shocking unsafe state of global virology research,' Harvard-trained molecular biologist Dr Richard Ebright told DailyMail.com

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Amity Island]

Latest on vaccine injury compensation scheme via freedom of information request.

 

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Dr. Nick Coatsworth, who served as Deputy Chief Medical Officer and Senior Medical Advisor on Covid during 2020 and 2021, warns that the Australian Government’s Bill to mitigate harms arising from misinformation and disinformation will lead to the suppression of legitimate debate, causing even greater harms.

He is calling for the Australian Government’s revamped misinformation bill to be “rejected in its entirety”.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">In the Combatting Misinformation and Disinformation Bill&#39;s definition of &quot;serious harm&quot;, the following phrase is used: &quot;harm to public health in Australia, including to the efficacy of preventative health measures in Australia&quot;<br>It&#39;s quite astonishing to me that after the…</p>&mdash; Dr. Nick Coatsworth (@nick_coatsworth) <a href="

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[Amity Island]

One of many good examples of official misinformation and censorship of valid opinion during the pandemic was the WHO claim over 2020 that covid was NOT airborne. See original post here. Then the fact checkers piled in to back up the "one source of truth".

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[Amity Island]

During lockdowns, telling the "public" to do one thing whilst "they" do the other and having the room dressed with his own personal pictures and xmas cards giving the impression he's working at home.

 

[Bruce Stephens]

If anyone wanted to watch one day of testimony to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry, today (26 September) would be a great day to choose. Prof Kevin Fong and Prof Chris Witty. Obviously quite a disturbing watch, so don't watch if it seems likely to be too upsetting.

 

[Amity Island]

Covid lockdowns prematurely aged girls’ brains more than boys’, study suggests. MRI scans found girls’ brains appeared 4.2 years older than expected, compared with 1.4 years for boys.

“We were shocked by these data, that the difference is so dramatic,” said Prof Patricia Kuhl, co-director of the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences at the University of Washington, in Seattle.

Covid lockdowns prematurely aged girls’ brains more than boys’, study suggests

MRI scans found girls’ brains appeared 4.2 years older than expected, compared with 1.4 years for boys

www.theguardian.com

 

[Amity Island]

In his new book, BJ says he's no longer sure lockdowns worked against COVID19.

"It was only later that I started to look at the curves of the pandemic around the world – the double hump that seemed to rise and fall irrespective of the approaches taken by governments. There were always two waves, whether you were in China, where lockdowns were ruthlessly enforced, or in Sweden, where they took a more voluntary approach.

Looking back, I wonder if King Cnut was right all along when he stationed his throne on the shore of the Thames and asked his courtiers to watch as he vainly ordered the tide to withdraw. Maybe there are limits to human agency; maybe it isn’t possible for government action to repel the waves of a highly contagious disease, any more than it is possible to repel the tide of the Thames.

I am not saying that lockdowns achieved nothing; I am sure they had some effect. But were they decisive in beating back the disease, turning that wave down? All I can say is that I am no longer sure."

BORIS JOHNSON: It saved lives, but now I'm not sure lockdown works

As therapies go, lockdown was devastating. In our preliminary discussions about these types of intervention...

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Amity Island]

What I am sure about lockdowns is there was no scientific basis for them, no public agreement, no cost benefit analysis done before or after, that they used a deeply flawed confected model to justify lockdown, that they destroyed the economy, people's jobs, businesses, health, schools and education, that the elderly were abandoned and left to die alone. That the first wave of deaths were significantly the result of neglect, dehydration, stopping of gp's attending care homes, a zealous use of morphine and madazolam.

And what were the lockdowns for? This wasn't a wave of deaths sweeping the planet effecting all of us (black death). It appeared not in vast waves affecting the entire population but in certain places, with some countries like Germany seeing little with some specific cities like New York taking the brunt of the first wave. The government changed the definition of covid19 from a HCID because in their own words this was a low mortality disease.

From the Scottish enquiry.

1. Severe lockdown isolation harms on residents in care homes.
2. Neglect of residents in care homes (dehydration and starvation).
3. Human rights abused in care homes. (articles 2, 3 and 8 of the European convention engaged).
4. No GPs or ambulances to care homes during lockdown.
5. Misuse of DNACPR notices in care homes.
6. Blanket end of life decisions in care homes with an overzealous use of sedative medications Morphine and Midazolam.
7. Preventable excess deaths in care homes.

‘People aged over 65 made up 87.9% of total deaths from COVID-19, almost 100% of deaths in care homes.’’ – Stuart Gayle KC (senior counsel to the inquiry)”

 

[Amity Island]

Boris Johnson is convinced that Covid WAS made in a Chinese lab:

"It now looks overwhelmingly likely that the mutation was the result of some botched experiment in a Chinese lab."

Wuhan gain of function research was funded by US NIH

Boris: I'm now convinced that Covid WAS made in a Chinese lab

In the latest revelation from his memoir, Boris Johnson abandons his initial assertion when he was PM that more than seven million people died worldwide because the virus 'jumped species'.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[Bruce Stephens]

And what were the lockdowns for?

Have you watched Prof Kevin Fong's testimony to the Inquiry?

 

[Bruce Stephens]

In his new book, BJ says he's no longer sure lockdowns worked against COVID19.

And we trust his judgement?

Boris Johnson is convinced that Covid WAS made in a Chinese lab:

And why is he a good person to listen to on this rather technical issue?

If you believe he'll have seen secret evidence that isn't published, that may well be true. I see no reason to imagine that he actually read any of it, let alone is reporting on it truthfully.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1840318750727282958

 

[Amity Island]

And we trust his judgement?

And why is he a good person to listen to on this rather technical issue?

If you believe he'll have seen secret evidence that isn't published, that may well be true. I see no reason to imagine that he actually read any of it, let alone is reporting on it truthfully.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1840318750727282958

I'm not saying you don't have a valid point. But BJ must have been one of the most well informed people in the country on the virus origins.

 

[Bruce Stephens]

But BJ must have been one of the most well informed people in the country on the virus origins.

I doubt that very much. I also doubt he'd tell us the truth even if he knew it unless it benefitted him personally. I suspect he's going with the lab leak story because he knows it'll do well in The Mail, Telegraph, and other publications likely to buy articles from him.

 

[Amity Island]

Have you watched Prof Kevin Fong's testimony to the Inquiry?

The lockdowns were not to stop the virus, that was never possible.

In actual fact, the pandemic response to a very large extent was the pandemic. It was the response that caused much harm and disruption.