This relentless push by the medical mafia to deify vaccines has achieved the exact opposite as I now despise the evil little pricks - every last vaccine. And I don't think I am alone.
If I was to make a guess about their intentions, it was to create a graph that purports to show us damn unvaxxed, just how efficacious the flu jab was and so "how dare we question the current "experts".
I watched John Campbell's videos during the Covid Tyranny to see what the more sane, reasonable official narrative was. I admired John for his considered analysis, but screamed for him to be more critical. It has been a very welcome sight, his growing suspicions of the vaccine statistics and I can see him bringing over more "undecideds" in the next few months as jab hysteria rises again. Maybe the Mainstream will start calling him "Controlled opposition"?
I did exactly the same thing, watched him to make sure I was getting that perspective and so glad to see him, like a good doctor would be, more skeptical as data and patient reports came in.
You claim that covid and influenza were additive: that "there really were more deaths during this period". Yet inspection of Swedish all-cause mortality for the period shows that COVID simply replaced influenza as the cause of respiratory death - all cause mortality, acounting for the very mild 2018/19 flu season, was almost exactly on 10 year trend.
Several important conclusions follow: that COVID was not significantly more lethal, that lockdowns were neither necessary, nor effective, and that something else killed large numbers of vulnerable people in the UK (e.g. emptying our hospitals of infected people and seeding care homes with them to relieve the NHS of the burden of doing their job).
I agree -- but that's what the graph is showing. It might reflect the bad management of covid in the UK (sending covid positive cases into care homes, etc).
I just realized I wasn't recommending your stack. Fixed that 👌
But yeah. It's incredibly misleading when people combine data with different fundamental definitions into one graph. Seems to happen a lot (CPI is the worst example I can think of). And 100% agree that COVID deaths are overestimated due to the broad brush they use to define them. Another post, it might have even been one of yours, argued that if we defined all coronavirus deaths with the same "within 28 days" metric, then deaths "with" the common cold would be enormous year over year.
Thanks for pointing out the data manipulation. Covid schmovid no matter the issue we're entitled to a straight story and the right to question the data yet this kind of thing happens over and over again. Thank you.
I agree with you about John Campbell and how -- since his shift to a more critical stance has been super slow-- he has a chance of becoming a thought leader for mass awakening. Interesting to see how the UK have protected their children while the US has not. Makes me think about how a grand list of countries NOT COMPLYING on one point or another could be the DISSENT IN CLEAR SIGHT that people need to emerge from their gullibility/trust/stupor.
I think a lot of people have come to realisation over time. Two years ago I was a conspiricy theorist nutter with a full body suit of tinfoil. Nowadays, it seems that people like me are becoming, very slowly, the mainstream view as people are beginning to wake up. I also think that a lot more people are more awake than we know simply because they keep quiet. But if you get into conversation with them, quite often they are thinking the same as us.
Campbell has some interesting videos, but everything has to be watered down to stay on You Tube. It is about as good as it get for You Tube concerning COVID. I think he knows the real story, but pulls his punches to protect his huge following on You Tube. Just like many medical professionals know the COVID vaccines are crap, but stay quiet to keep their jobs and licenses.
I agree probably 90% with your view. It's all about not getting 'othered'by YouTube.
All the same, Dr Campbell has wavered on occasion and even now suggests that only the relatively-low virulence of Omicron is the reason to question the risk-benefit ratio for the covid vax. I can't remember whether he's ever addressed the unknowability of long-term effects from novel mRNA shots, but perhaps one day...
I usually switch from John Campbell to Russell Brand's YT channel. If you can take RB's style of delivery, he has some interesting things to say - and seems to get away with a rather more sceptical output than JC. Worth a watch, if only because Russell seems to have a team of researchers/writers who ensure a daily bulletin and have unearthed some interesting nuggets.
Fantastic article. One thing: is there a way I can see your academic credentials? Because you state in The Daily Sceptic that you are an "ex-academic and senior government scientist", any sort of way to prove that? Concrete data would be appreciated, thanks is advance.
It would sounded more realistic in the word "theory" were to be replaced with "propaganda".
"There’s a suggestion that there was slight drop in influenza and pneumonia deaths in 2020 and 2021 — it looks like these deaths were simply translated into covid deaths."
Well... The use of the PCR kit to relabel cold/flu/pneumonia into "covid-19" is nothing new. The main reason behind that increase in deaths are directly linked to the deadly measures put in place by governments - worldwide, so no coordination here to see folks - from de facto closing hospitals to isolating/abandoning elderly people to death (this happened in Portugal, Spain, Canada, UK and so on)! Of course that also these deaths received the PCR kit label hence "covid-19" deaths. No wonder the graphs dots show an increase.
This relentless push by the medical mafia to deify vaccines has achieved the exact opposite as I now despise the evil little pricks - every last vaccine. And I don't think I am alone.
If I was to make a guess about their intentions, it was to create a graph that purports to show us damn unvaxxed, just how efficacious the flu jab was and so "how dare we question the current "experts".
I watched John Campbell's videos during the Covid Tyranny to see what the more sane, reasonable official narrative was. I admired John for his considered analysis, but screamed for him to be more critical. It has been a very welcome sight, his growing suspicions of the vaccine statistics and I can see him bringing over more "undecideds" in the next few months as jab hysteria rises again. Maybe the Mainstream will start calling him "Controlled opposition"?
I did exactly the same thing, watched him to make sure I was getting that perspective and so glad to see him, like a good doctor would be, more skeptical as data and patient reports came in.
You claim that covid and influenza were additive: that "there really were more deaths during this period". Yet inspection of Swedish all-cause mortality for the period shows that COVID simply replaced influenza as the cause of respiratory death - all cause mortality, acounting for the very mild 2018/19 flu season, was almost exactly on 10 year trend.
Several important conclusions follow: that COVID was not significantly more lethal, that lockdowns were neither necessary, nor effective, and that something else killed large numbers of vulnerable people in the UK (e.g. emptying our hospitals of infected people and seeding care homes with them to relieve the NHS of the burden of doing their job).
All Swedish mortality and flu data here: https://richardlyon.substack.com/p/sweden-1-faith-0
I agree -- but that's what the graph is showing. It might reflect the bad management of covid in the UK (sending covid positive cases into care homes, etc).
John Dee has looked at this . https://jdee.substack.com/
I just realized I wasn't recommending your stack. Fixed that 👌
But yeah. It's incredibly misleading when people combine data with different fundamental definitions into one graph. Seems to happen a lot (CPI is the worst example I can think of). And 100% agree that COVID deaths are overestimated due to the broad brush they use to define them. Another post, it might have even been one of yours, argued that if we defined all coronavirus deaths with the same "within 28 days" metric, then deaths "with" the common cold would be enormous year over year.
Thanks for pointing out the data manipulation. Covid schmovid no matter the issue we're entitled to a straight story and the right to question the data yet this kind of thing happens over and over again. Thank you.
I agree with you about John Campbell and how -- since his shift to a more critical stance has been super slow-- he has a chance of becoming a thought leader for mass awakening. Interesting to see how the UK have protected their children while the US has not. Makes me think about how a grand list of countries NOT COMPLYING on one point or another could be the DISSENT IN CLEAR SIGHT that people need to emerge from their gullibility/trust/stupor.
I think a lot of people have come to realisation over time. Two years ago I was a conspiricy theorist nutter with a full body suit of tinfoil. Nowadays, it seems that people like me are becoming, very slowly, the mainstream view as people are beginning to wake up. I also think that a lot more people are more awake than we know simply because they keep quiet. But if you get into conversation with them, quite often they are thinking the same as us.
Campbell has some interesting videos, but everything has to be watered down to stay on You Tube. It is about as good as it get for You Tube concerning COVID. I think he knows the real story, but pulls his punches to protect his huge following on You Tube. Just like many medical professionals know the COVID vaccines are crap, but stay quiet to keep their jobs and licenses.
I agree probably 90% with your view. It's all about not getting 'othered'by YouTube.
All the same, Dr Campbell has wavered on occasion and even now suggests that only the relatively-low virulence of Omicron is the reason to question the risk-benefit ratio for the covid vax. I can't remember whether he's ever addressed the unknowability of long-term effects from novel mRNA shots, but perhaps one day...
I usually switch from John Campbell to Russell Brand's YT channel. If you can take RB's style of delivery, he has some interesting things to say - and seems to get away with a rather more sceptical output than JC. Worth a watch, if only because Russell seems to have a team of researchers/writers who ensure a daily bulletin and have unearthed some interesting nuggets.
Fantastic article. One thing: is there a way I can see your academic credentials? Because you state in The Daily Sceptic that you are an "ex-academic and senior government scientist", any sort of way to prove that? Concrete data would be appreciated, thanks is advance.
Will you pass this on to John Campbell?
"but such is the nature of reality vs theory"
It would sounded more realistic in the word "theory" were to be replaced with "propaganda".
"There’s a suggestion that there was slight drop in influenza and pneumonia deaths in 2020 and 2021 — it looks like these deaths were simply translated into covid deaths."
Well... The use of the PCR kit to relabel cold/flu/pneumonia into "covid-19" is nothing new. The main reason behind that increase in deaths are directly linked to the deadly measures put in place by governments - worldwide, so no coordination here to see folks - from de facto closing hospitals to isolating/abandoning elderly people to death (this happened in Portugal, Spain, Canada, UK and so on)! Of course that also these deaths received the PCR kit label hence "covid-19" deaths. No wonder the graphs dots show an increase.