Since nationwide house arrests were introduced, we've seen pervasive manipulation of scientific & media information, to create support for & encourage compliance with containment. This has in turn corrupted and hystericised the information available even to policymakers.
The people steering containment very obviously have only the most tenuous understanding of what is happening and what their policies can achieve, since they have repurposed most of their information sources to churn out constant streams of panic propaganda.
This is by the way one of the most important reasons, why technocratic fantasies of ScIENcE or FaCT BaSEd PoliCIeS are stupid. Scientific inquiry is, always will be, subordinate to political power. As soon as you set about trying to base something on ScIENcE ...
Comparing to the week 49 report, we see that the 30-49 year-olds are also falling deeper into negative efficacy, while things are improving for 60 year-olds, as they continue to boost.
While the booster campaign was still ongoing, we saw that vaccinated people in their 80s had about the same risk of death as that of unvaccinated people in their 70s. The boosters have improved things for them a little bit.
It has long been obvious, that the lack of interest in developing variant-specific vaxx reflects a pervasive acceptance of the phenomenon of Original Antigenic Sin among vaxx developers. wsj.com/articles/covid…
There’s always a minority of observers who treat my posts on Original Antigenic Sin like it’s some crackpot theory of human immunity, whereas in fact there’s an extensive literature behind it and it’s widely (if often silently) acknowledged among vaxx developers.
Filling in the blanks, I think there was an informal confidence that, because SARS-2 had been leaked, spike was already optimised. Mutations could only take it downhill. They gambled on vaxxing everyone against what they thought was the optimal form of the protein …
compiling this has been surprisingly useful for me. i want to experiment with this as a weekly (free) feature. i'd be enormously grateful if you send me your own report of local conditions at containment@tutanota.com.
moar downthread ...
especially impt: the mood on the street, the mood in the schools, who is supporting insane containment policies, who is opposed. brief summaries of major political debates as you see them. also any local knowledge that might effect our interpretation of your country's stats ...
i.e., 'people pay doctors for bogus vaxx certificates,' 'kids are subject to mandatory testing in school,' that kind of thing. i can translate the major euro languages (italian, french, german of course, spanish is a bit touch-and-go but I'll make it work) ...
Those UK Health Security Agency vaxx surveillance reports showing massively higher rates of infection in most vaxxed age groups are coming under heavy fire. May not be long for this world.
LMAO "the Office of Statistics Regulation ruled the UKHSA needs to more effectively highlight how behavioural differences could have skewed the figures"
They don't like the numbers but they're still flailing trying to find some minimally plausible reason to pretend they're wrong
Just unbelievable statements from "OSR director general Ed Humpherson" here.
He says recent changes to qualify the data as "unadjusted" are welcome, but "it remains the case that the ... report includes rates ... which can be used to argue that vaccines are not effective"