Thread by @A1an_M

🧵A thread.
A couple of weeks ago I pointed out that contrary to what the BBC seems to think, there is no "UK Conspiracy Movement"...

https://twitter.com/A1an_M/status/1662208863418867714

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...just many individuals desperate to seek & share truth rather than lies fed to them by the mainstream media, especially about COVID.
I promised to justify my claims with data and evidence, so this is part 3:
"The vaccines don't prevent infection or transmission of the virus" 2/

Let's start with the big picture. Four novel vaccines were introduced in late 2020 / early 2021 to tackle the pandemic. mRNA vaccines from Moderna and Pfizer and viral vector vaccines from Astra Zeneca and J&J. 3/

These were all given Emergency Use Authorisation in countries where they were used, none of them having at that point completed their Stage 3 clinical trials.
The vaccine programme in the UK started on 8th December 2020 4/

with the first injection of the Pfizer vaccine into a patient in Coventry. 5/

england.nhs.uk/2020/12/landma…
https://t.co/YU7KND1Yr6

The vaccination programme proceeded at pace from this point, with vaccines being first given to the most elderly and at risk age groups, but then rolled out rapidly through younger age groups. By December 2021, 51.79 million people had received a first dose of a vaccine... 6/

(76.7% of the official total population)
We saw similar fast progress elsewhere in the developed world, for example in Israel (69.6%) and the US (73.5%)
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While this wasn't mentioned much at the beginning (other than by "conspiracy theorists 🙄), once the programme was underway it was announced that a 2nd dose of the vaccine would be needed. But uptake of this was also high. 8/

By end of 2021, 70% of the UK population were "fully vaccinated" as it was described then (🙄🤨), 63% in Israel and the US. 9/

So it's reasonable to believe that if the vaccines made some quantitative difference to the risk of people becoming infected with SARS-COV-2 or transmitting it to others, and given that the virus was already widespread in all three of these countries & much of the world... 10/

...we would see an obvious decline in the numbers of infections in these populations, certainly after December 2021 when more than two thirds of these populations were vaccinated.
But if we look at the charts... no we don't, quite the opposite. 11/

In fact around November/December 2021 there was an explosion of new cases with higher peaks, especially in Israel. And the total numbers of cases after most people were vaccinated is far higher than the total before most people were vaccinated. 12/

And this wasn't just a function of increased levels of testing. If we look at the share of tests which were positive, the same pattern. More peaks after the vaccine rollout. 13/

Same story with hospital patients and ICU patients. More peaks after the vaccine rollout. 14/

So looking at the big picture, there seems little evidence that the vaccines slowed down rates of infection or transmission. If anything they seem to have exacerbated the situation, if the empirical data is anything to go by. 15/

So let's focus a bit more on the scientific evidence about the individual vaccines and their performance.

Firstly lets look at this meta analysis (study of existing analyses) in the Lancet. 16/

thelancet.com/journals/lanre…

And let's look at this one in the International Journal of Epidemiology 17/

academic.oup.com/ije/article/52…

So on the basis of these two studies, one of which summarises many others, it's clear that whatever protection the vaccines might provide to begin with quickly dissipates.
Of course vaccine zealots insist that this is because the virus mutates and so boosters are needed 18/

But you don't have to be a so-called conspiracy theorist to know that it was well-known prior to 2020 that coronaviruses mutate very readily, which is why no successful vaccine had ever been developed, and therefore made success this time highly unlikely. 19/

Nor does it take a so-called conspiracy theorist to notice that "one more booster" is unlikely to overcome this problem or that boosters every 80 days stretching beyond the horizon would be a very profitable revenue stream for the notoriously amoral pharmaceutical industry. 20/

So we have big picture empirical evidence that the vaccines didn't prevent infection by or transmission of the virus, and we have detailed evidence from research that any protection against infection (or hospitalisation or death for that matter) wanes within a few weeks 21/

But for the final word on the matter, let's hear from the vaccine manufacturers themselves. A Pfizer executive being question in the European Parliament. 22/

https://twitter.com/_aussie17/status/1600842315165155328

Evidence that the vaccines prevented transmission would have been a massive marketing boost for the manufacturers. But they didn't even test for this. They knew there was little possibility of the products being effective in this way - they weren't designed to be. 23/

So, in summary:
💉Empirical evidence shows that the vaccines didn't prevent infection or transmission at scale
💉Specific study of the vaccines shows any protection they provided was limited to a few weeks (making them useless as public health/pandemic control intervention 24/

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💉One of the manufacturers themselves admitted they never tested if their product would prevent transmission 25/

Now, think back to the beginning of 2021. Was the vaccine sold to you by the media as The Solution to stopping the pandemic? Was it used as a justification for introducing vaccine mandates into social care and the NHS because it would "stop the spread"? 26/

Was it used as a justification for requiring vaccination for travel, or for entry into night clubs and venues, or for jobs even not involving healthcare?
Was it used to scapegoat the unvaccinated because they alone were to blame for spreading the virus and "killing granny" ? 27/

Do you remember the media embracing the government advertising with its full array of psychological weaponry? Do you remember them giving a platform to those opposed the use of the vaccines as a psychological weapon in this way? 28/

Do you remember the media featuring any of the prominent scientists and public health officials who were sceptical about the vaccines' efficacy or safety?

No. Me neither. 29/

If the evidence that the media has just been used by a very powerful lobby to push for a mass vaccination programme which was neither justified not likely to be effective is not clear to you by now I'm not sure what it would take to persuade you. 30/

I was wrong at the beginning of this thread. There _is_ a UK Conspiracy Movement. A movement determined to push its version of the truth; to silence opposition; to advance the interests of powerful lobbyists.
Take a look in the mirror, mainstream media.
It's you. 💣 31/31

Appendix A. A couple of other graphs which illustrate the vaccine failure. One from Israel which shows the possibility that new waves of vaccinations actually made the situation worse, not better... note the bigger peaks of cases and hospitalisations over time...

And this one. COVID "cases", worldwide
Look at the graph growing at a steady rate throughout the initial vaccination period in 2021, until at the end of the year with more than 2/3rd of most developed countries vaccinated - the rate of infections increases dramatically!