Last week, the CDC announced a surprising finding: “Delta infection resulted in similarly high SARS-CoV-2 viral loads in vaccinated and unvaccinated people.” Public officials had known from the early days of vaccine development that vaccinated people could catch COVID-19, but the assumption had been made that they were not going to be spreaders of COVID-19.
It turns out that the delta variant is sufficiently different from the original Wuhan version of the virus that the vaccines work much less well. The CDC performed an analysis of COVID-19 cases arising from one public gathering in Massachusetts. They found that the gathering led to 469 COVID-19 Delta cases among Massachusetts residents, with 74% of these cases in fully vaccinated attendees. Massachusetts is a highly vaccinated state, with approximately 64% of the population fully vaccinated.
There are other issues coming up as well. How long does the vaccine really last? Is the vaccine itself part of the reason that the virus is mutating as rapidly as it is? Are we making problems for ourselves by creating an army of people with very light cases of COVID-19 who can spread the virus to both the vaccinated and the unvaccinated without realizing that they have more than a cold? Aren’t we inadvertently killing off the least able of the virus mutations and allowing the most virulent to multiply?
My training is as an actuary, so I am familiar with modeling. I am also a “systems thinker.” I know that it is important to look at longer term impacts as well as short-term impacts. If a person works in the healthcare field, it is easy to consider only the obvious short-term benefits. It takes some analysis to figure out that today’s vaccines may lead to stronger variants (such as Delta) and more overall spread of COVID-19.
In this post, I will explain some of the issues involved.
[1] Today’s vaccines provide only a fraction of the true level of protection required. Their actions are in many ways similar to applying weed killer at half the strength needed to kill the weeds or providing antibiotics at half the dose required to stop the spread of bacteria.
All of our lives, we have been told, “Be sure to complete the full course of the antibiotics. It is necessary to kill all of the bacteria. Otherwise, it will be easier for a few of the stronger bacteria not to be affected. If you stop too early, the bacteria that are least affected by the antibiotic will survive and reproduce, while the others will die. Stopping the drug too soon is a great way to achieve antibiotic resistance, quickly.”
Unfortunately, COVID-19 vaccine makers seem to have overlooked this issue. The respected BMJ published an editorial entitled, Will covid-19 vaccines save lives? Current trials aren’t designed to tell us. It makes the point:
Peter Hotez, dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, said, “Ideally, you want an antiviral vaccine to do two things . . . first, reduce the likelihood you will get severely ill and go to the hospital, and two, prevent infection and therefore interrupt disease transmission.”
Yet the current phase III trials are not actually set up to prove either.
We were told that the new COVID-19 vaccines are “95% effective in preventing symptomatic disease,” but it turns out that this is far less adequate than what most people would assume. The vaccine is “leaky.” A big issue is that the virus mutates, and the vaccine works much less well against the mutations. The world can never reach herd immunity if immunized people keep catching new variants of COVID-19 and keep passing them on, as the evidence now suggests.
[2] In a way, getting sick from a virus is helpful. It tells us to stay at home, away from others. It is the fact that humans experience symptoms from viruses that tends to limit their spread.
If a virus has severe symptoms, those infected with the virus will not feel well enough to continue their usual activities. They will tend to stay at home.
If the symptoms are mild, as is the case with the common cold, people will likely go about their activities as usual. This is especially the case if people need to work to feed their families. Thus, viruses with mild symptoms often spread easily.
But, if citizens feel that they are protected by a vaccine, they will likely continue to go about their activities as usual. Most of them will not realize that they might be spreaders of Delta, and perhaps other new COVID-19 variants. Symptoms are likely to be mild or non-existent.
[3] It is becoming clear that people immunized with today’s vaccines can both catch the delta variant and spread it to others.
As I mentioned above, the CDC concluded from looking at its analysis of 469 delta cases that the infection resulted in similarly high SARS-CoV-2 viral loads in vaccinated and unvaccinated individuals.
We have independent corroboration of the ability of vaccinated individuals to spread delta COVID-19 in a new analysis from Singapore. This article reports, “PCR cycle threshold (Ct) values were similar between both vaccinated and unvaccinated groups at diagnosis.” This is precisely the information that the CDC was relying on in Massachusetts when they reported that there were similarly high SARS-CoV-2 viral loads in vaccinated and unvaccinated people. While this analysis has not yet been peer reviewed, it reaches precisely the same conclusion with respect to early viral load as the Massachusetts analysis.
The data from this same Singapore study indicates that there are about 3 times as many asymptomatic cases in the vaccinated (28.2%) as the unvaccinated (9.2%). The median number of symptoms reported by the vaccinated was 1, compared to 2 in the unvaccinated. Among the vaccinated, the most frequent symptoms were fever (40.9%), runny nose (38%) and cough (38%). One of these symptoms, especially if it occurred only briefly, could easily be overlooked as a sign of COVID-19.
[4] With nearly all of the current vaccines, the immune system is trained to look for the spike protein from the original Wuhan virus. This narrow focus makes it relatively easy for the virus to mutate in ways that outsmart the vaccine.
A “History of Vaccines” website indicates that there are several ways vaccines are being made, including weakened (“attenuated”) viruses, killed viruses, and segments of the pathogen. In the new COVID-19 vaccines, a particularly limited part of the virus is used, the spike protein. In fact, in the newer vaccines, only an mRNA code is injected, and the body is instructed to make the spike protein itself.
Using a very narrow target has made it easier for viruses to evade the effects of the vaccine. Delta is one variant of the original virus from Wuhan that is evading vaccines through its mutations. Another such variant is Lambda, which caused serious problems in Chile in the spring of 2021, despite vaccine usage as high as 60%. The virus underlying all of these variants is called SARS-CoV-2, reflecting the fact that this virus is closely related to the virus which caused the 2003 SARS epidemic.
Since vaccination began about December 15, 2020, we have so far encountered two variants that are poorly controlled by vaccines. This is not a promising sign for the long-term success of COVID-19 vaccines. As more time goes on, we can expect more such variants. These variants do not necessarily stay around for more than a few months, making it difficult to create and distribute new specially targeted vaccines.
[5] Given the likelihood of mutations away from the narrow target, it seems strange that the governments have set very high expectations for the new vaccines.
It seems to me that Pfizer and Moderna should have said, “We are producing new vaccines that will somewhat lessen symptoms. In a way, they will be like the annual influenza vaccines that various companies make each year. We will need to update the vaccines regularly, but we will likely miss. Hopefully, our guess regarding what will work will be ‘close enough,’ so the vaccine will provide some partial benefit for the upcoming variations.”
Such a statement would have provided a more realistic set of expectations, compared to what many people have been assuming. No one would expect that herd immunity would ever be reached. The vaccines would be perceived as fairly weak tools that need to be used alongside medications, if they are to be used at all.
[6] Leaky vaccines, if widely used, can encourage the virus to mutate toward more virulent (severe) forms. Ultimately, the problem becomes viruses that mutate to more virulent forms faster than the vaccine system can keep up.
If, as we are seeing today, vaccinated people can catch the variant and pass it on to both vaccinated and unvaccinated people, this extra boost can help the variant tremendously in its ability to spread. This extra boost is especially helpful for the variants that are very virulent, since in the normal situation, people who catch a virulent variant would recognize that they are sick and stay at home.
There would normally be a limit on how much the variant could spread based on its impact on the unvaccinated. This limit goes away if both the vaccinated and unvaccinated can catch and spread the illness. Without a vaccine, the variants might be either more or less virulent, with the more virulent tending to die out because the people who get them either die or stay at home because they are very ill. I would expect that this is the reason why quite a few viruses tend to become less severe (virulent) over time, when leaky vaccines are not available to artificially boost their virulence.
The article, Vaccines are Pushing Pathogens to Evolve, gives the example of how the vaccines for Marek’s disease in chickens have been failing, as the disease gradually evolves to become more virulent under pressure from the vaccines being used to keep this illness away. The first vaccine was introduced in 1970. A decade later, outbreaks of Marek’s disease began to be found in vaccinated flocks. A second vaccine was licensed in 1983, but it too began to fail. When the article was written in 2018 the industry was on its third vaccine, but it too was beginning to fail, as the disease became more deadly. But there was no new vaccine yet available.
A 2015 article in PLOS Biology is entitled, Imperfect Vaccination Can Enhance the Transmission of Highly Virulent Pathogens. A person would think everyone involved in vaccine technology would be very much aware of this issue.
The chase after new vaccines is precisely the problem we can expect to have with the vaccines for COVID-19. Only, our problem with the vaccine not really working correctly is coming after a few months, not 10 years. Trying to keep up with new vaccines for a virus that evolves away from us, this quickly, is likely to be an impossible task. It is not just the unvaccinated who have a problem; it is everyone, as the vaccines quickly lose their effectiveness.
[7] Another potential problem with COVID-19 vaccines is Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE). When this occurs, it worsens later infections by different variants.
ADE is a rather strange condition in which the antibodies against one variant gained from a first infection (or immunization) act to make some later infections by a different variant worse, rather than better. Dengue Fever is an example of an illness for which this is an issue.
Dr. Robert Malone thinks that ADE may be happening now for COVID-19. He sees the high virus levels in immunized individuals as evidence of possible ADE.
The large number of immunized patients in the hospital with COVID-19 in Israel (which has mostly Delta cases) is also given as possible evidence:
The illness SARS is closely related to COVID-19. There is evidence that vaccinations against SARS tend to produce ADE. In fact, the National Institute of Health provided funding for a 2020 academic paper that reaches the following conclusion:
The specific and significant COVID-19 risk of ADE should have been and should be prominently and independently disclosed to research subjects currently in vaccine trials, as well as those being recruited for trials and future patients after vaccine approval, in order to meet the medical ethics standards for informed consent.
[8] Another problem with the current vaccines against COVID-19 is that immunity may not last very long.
The virus that causes COVID-19 is a coronavirus. The common cold is another illness caused by a coronavirus. We know the immunity of the common cold doesn’t last very long, perhaps a year. While we don’t have long-term experience with COVID-19 vaccine immunity, we shouldn’t be surprised if its immunity begins to wane within a few months, or in a year or two.
Israel, after analyzing its recent COVID-19 experience (almost all with the Delta variant), is now offering anyone over 60 who was vaccinated more than 5 months ago a booster shot. Third doses are also being given to those with weakened immune systems.
It should be noted that if immunity doesn’t last very long, any strategy of “flattening the curve” by stretching out COVID-19 cases becomes counterproductive because it runs the risk of moving the timeframe of the next cycle beyond the time when natural (and vaccine-induced) immunity is still operative.
[9] The public has been led to believe that vaccines are the only solution to COVID-19 when, in fact, they are at best a very poor and temporary band-aid.
Vaccines are a tempting solution because the benefits have been oversold and no one has explained how poorly today’s leaky vaccines really work.
We are already past the period when these vaccines were well matched with the viruses they were aimed at. Now we are in a situation in which the viruses are constantly mutating, and the vaccines need to be updated. The catch is that the variants stick around for such a short time period that by the time the vaccine is updated, there is likely to be yet another new variant that the new vaccine does not really match up with well.
Requirements that employees be vaccinated against COVID-19 cannot be expected to provide much benefit to employers because workers will still be out sick with COVID-19. This happens because they are likely to catch a variant such as Delta, which does not line up with the original vaccine. Perhaps they will be out for a shorter period, and their hospital bills will be lower. These types of benefits are what people have expected of influenza vaccines. There is no reason for them to expect more of the new COVID-19 vaccines.
Even with 100% vaccination herd immunity can never be reached because the vaccine encourages the virus to mutate into more virulent forms. Each new variant stays around for only a few months, making it hard for vaccine makers to keep up with the changing nature of the problem. Vaccine makers can expect to face a constant battle in having to run to stay even. Someone will have to convince citizens that each new vaccine makes sense, even though injuries reported to the US Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System seem to be much more frequent than those reported for vaccines for other diseases.
An erroneous, one-sided story is being told to the general public, in part because the pharmaceutical lobby is incredibly powerful. It has the support of influential people, such as Anthony Fauci and Bill Gates. The pharmaceutical industry can make billions of dollars in income from the sale of vaccines, with little in the way of sales expenses. The industry has managed to convince people that it is OK to sell these vaccines, even though injury rates are very high compared to those for vaccines in general.
Vaccines are being pushed in large part because the pharmaceutical industry needs a money maker. It also wants to be seen as having cutting-edge technology, so young people will be attracted to the field. It cannot admit to anyone that technologies from decades ago would perhaps work better to solve the COVID-19 problem.
[10] The pharmaceutical industry has been telling the world that inexpensive drugs can’t fix our problem. However, there are several low-cost drugs that appear helpful.
One drug that is being overlooked is ivermectin, which was discovered in the late 1970s. It was originally introduced as a veterinary drug to cure parasitic infections in animals. In the U. S., ivermectin has been used since 1987 for eliminating parasites such as ringworm in humans. Ivermectin seems to cure COVID-19 in humans, but it needs a higher dosage than has been previously approved. Also, it would not be a money maker for the pharmaceutical industry.
The possible use of ivermectin to cure COVID-19 seems to have been intentionally hidden. At approximately 32:45 in this linked video, Dr. David Martin explains how Moderna announced ivermectin’s utility in treating SARS (which is closely related to SARS-CoV-2) in its 2016-2018 patent modification related to the SARS virus. It sounds as though Moderna (and others) have participated both in developing harmful viruses and in developing vaccines to cure very closely related viruses. They then work to prevent the sale of cheap drugs that might reduce their sales of vaccines. This seems unconscionable.
Vitamin D, in high enough doses, taken well before exposure to the virus that causes COVID-19, seems to lead to reduced severity of the disease, and may eliminate some cases completely.
Various steroid drugs are often used in the later stages of COVID-19, when conditions warrant it. The medical community seems to have no difficulty with these.
Monoclonal antibodies are also used in the treatment of COVID-19, but they are much more expensive.
[11] Conclusion. Governments, businesses, and citizens need to understand that today’s vaccines are not really solutions to our COVID-19 problem. At the same time, they need better solutions.
Current vaccines have been badly oversold. They can be expected to make the mutation problem worse, and they don’t stop the spread of variants. Instead, we need to start quickly to make ivermectin and other inexpensive drugs available through healthcare systems. People do need some sort of solution to the problem of COVID-19 illnesses; it just turns out that the current vaccines work so poorly that they probably should not be part of the solution.
The whole idea of vaccine passports is absurd. Even with the vaccine, people will catch the new COVID-19 variants, and they will pass them on to others. Perhaps they may get lighter symptoms, so that they will be off work for a shorter length of time, but there still will be disruption. If those who catch COVID-19 can instead take ivermectin at a high enough dose at the first sign of illness, many (or most) of them can get well in a few days and avoid hospitalization completely. Other medications may be helpful as well.
I am skeptical that masks can do any good with the high level of transmission of Delta. But at least masks aren’t very harmful. We probably need to go along with what is requested by officials.
It is becoming clear that today’s pharmaceutical industry is far too powerful. Investigations need to be made into the large number of allegations against it and its leaders. Why did members of the pharmaceutical industry find it necessary to patent viruses, and then later sell vaccines for a virus closely related to the viruses it had patented?
Just in case anyone was questioning if this was about reducing the oil burn:
Otago University epidemiologists say New Zealand should consider suspending all international flights to free up MIQ spaces as officials deal with the Delta outbreak.
The experts said the action would free up spaces in MIQ facilities in case they were needed if the community outbreak grew larger.
“This was the rationale for when Victoria in Australia suspended all incoming international travellers for four months in 2020,” they said.
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/covid-19-coronavirus-delta-outbreak-five-changes-new-zealand-can-make-to-fight-outbreak/STQLHEWO2EYR5KW6E5V32XGHCA/
nthony Khallouf, 29, one of the organisers of last month’s anti-lockdown protests and a key figurehead in the broader movement surrounding it, was arrested by police in Sydney on Thursday after travelling from Queensland in breach of public health orders.
Khallouf appeared in Hornsby local court on Friday, charged with breaches of public health orders, including travelling from Queensland to Sydney and his involvement in planning an unauthorised protest for this weekend.
He pleaded guilty to four counts of not complying with a direction relating to Covid, encouraging the commission of crimes, and false representation resulting in a police investigation.
New South Wales police said in a statement on Friday afternoon that he was sentenced to a maximum of eight months in prison, with a non-parole period of three months.
Khallouf is the founder of Australians vs The Agenda, one of the larger anti-lockdown groups with more than 12,000 followers on Telegram. Originally from Victoria, last year he was charged with incitement for allegedly helping to organise a protest in Melbourne.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/aug/20/sydney-anti-lockdown-protest-organiser-sentenced-to-eight-months-jail
Note the last third… both parties are supporting the lockdowns etc….
Resistance is Futile — CEP.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1429063418515017733
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2021/08/21/08/46929325-9913533-Brisbane_s_rally_included_plenty_of_extremist_conspiracy_theory_-a-44_1629529521576.jpg
Israel logged 645 COVID patients in serious condition, with 155 in critical condition according to health ministry data released on Saturday night.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-covid-in-israel-645-patients-in-serious-condition-7-761-new-cases-1.10138486
The thing is … the variants are going to sicken both the vaxxed and unvaxxed… as Bossche stated… so 100% of these hospitalizations are caused by the Injected CovIDIOTS.
Hahahhahaha… It’s time for … the BOOSTERS!!!
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Israel 7606 cases yesterday …. why aren’t they in a ultra hard lockdown like NZ?
Australia has 2.5x more people and under 1000 cases per day — yet the troops are enforcing the lockdown….
Wazzz up?
Oh .. and I guess the vaccines are a failure — otherwise there would not be The Booster — and all these infections
https://www.google.com/search?q=israel+covid&rlz=1C1CHBF_enNZ946NZ946&sxsrf=ALeKk032i_aLZchsla35klS5y3yJAqqJPA%3A1629597011942&ei=U60hYbj5OMmd4-EPhoKd0AU&oq=israel+covid&gs_lcp=Cgdnd3Mtd2l6EAxKBAhBGABQAFgAYIbOBWgAcAJ4AIAB0gGIAdIBkgEDMi0xmAEAwAEB&sclient=gws-wiz&ved=0ahUKEwj47pf4wcPyAhXJzjgGHQZBB1oQ4dUDCA4
Hahaha … the CCP is coming to grips with the real reason why the CIA and their dog pack just waltzed out of the Ghan
Beijing fears instability in Afghanistan could pose a threat via other neighbouring countries such as Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3145830/china-weighs-how-best-bolt-back-door-terrorists-afghanistan?module=lead_hero_story&pgtype=homepage
We now live in a world without enough energy to go around.
It seems to me that a whole lot of energy is needed to fix Afghanistan. No one really has that much energy to spare. The US especially doesn’t have the energy to fix Afghanistan, coming from around the world.
It is a lot like rescuing Lebanon, or rescuing Syria, or rescuing Argentina. In theory it could be done, but there isn’t enough payback available, besides not enough energy.
I think Russia, Iran and Syria itself will take care of Syria and Lebanon if only the civilized nations of the world would stop trying to destroy Syria and Lebanon.
The Taliban was a creation of Pakistan: https://www.sarahchayes.org/post/the-ides-of-august, and Pakistan is a good buddy of China.
Westerners are just terrible at 4D chess. Better stop trying, Gwailo!!!
Yes and that’s why the US has a global empire… thanks for enlightening me
Public Health England
The Delta Variant in Those Over Age 50
(~80% of this population is vaccinated)
Link to Data https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/investigation-of-novel-sars-cov-2-variant-variant-of-concern-20201201
Technical Briefing 18 – July 9, 2021
Fully vaccinated Deaths / Fully vaccinated hospitalizations
116/265 = 43.77% of the “fully vaccinated” died
Unvaccinated Deaths / Unvaccinated hospitalizations
71/195 = 36.41% “unvaccinated” died
Technical Briefing 19 – July 23, 2021
220/703 = 31.29% of the “fully vaccinated” died
131/440 = 29.77% “unvaccinated” died
Technical Briefing 20 – August 6, 2021
389/1131 = 34.39% of the “fully vaccinated” died
205/670 = 30.59% “unvaccinated” died
Technical Briefing 21 – August 20, 2021
652/1838 = 35.47% “fully vaccinated” died
318/989 = 32.15% “unvaccinated” died
I suppose that the reason was that the fully vaccinated were older (on average) than the unvaccinated, so were more likely to die in the first place.
This may be correct reasoning, BUT eyeballing this BBC graph from two days ago, it looks like 70% of the under 50% and 75% of the under 65s have now had at least one dose. So it could be argued that vaccination status doesn’t make much statistical difference either way.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-55274833
Incidentally, there seems to be plenty more of the jab juice to go round, according to the article:
Is there enough vaccine?
The UK has ordered more than 500 million doses of seven of the most promising vaccines, including the four so far approved for use.
That’s enough to jab every last Brit on both arms, then both buttocks, and then finally with kill shorts on both sides of the head. They certainly aren’t taking any chances on running out of ammo.
FE if you understood the statistics at all, you wouldn’t have posted those numbers that clearly show vaccination has been helpful..
With 80% vaccinated the ratio is 4 vacced to 1 unvacced, so hospitalizations and deaths should be 4 times as high for the vacced, yet they are only double, so a net positive effect for the vacced.
Maybe you should leave numbers alone that you don’t understand…
Remember now… the UK is behind Israel… and we KNOW where IsraHELL is headed…
Hahaha…. deaths lag infections…. let me repeat — Deaths LAG Infections
Infections have blasted off… and deaths are following (please click the Deaths tab on your way out)
https://www.google.com/search?q=israel+covid&rlz=1C1CHBF_enNZ946NZ946&oq=israe&aqs=chrome.0.69i59l2j46i433i512l2j69i59j69i60l3.1365j0j3&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
You can see the UK’s future on that chart…. hahahaha…. statistics are not of much use without LOGIC
FE …”Hahaha…. deaths lag infections…. let me repeat — Deaths LAG Infections ”
That they do, for both vacced and unvacced, but at any stage you would expect there to be 4 times the number of deaths from the vacced if the vaccinations were doing nothing, yet at every stage, week after week they are only double the unvacced, despite the ratio of 4:1 at 80% vacced..
The numbers don’t lie, but your interpretation does. The odds of dying from Covid is halved for the vacced compared to the unvacced..
I thought you stated last year that Covid was a hoax?? Have you now changed your mind as you are talking disease infections that the vaccines are helping to control ??
I’d prefer better numbers, as in more effective vaccines, but you get what you get.
I have never said it is a hoax — It is not a hoax – it is a flu like virus that is being used to extinct humans. See the CEP
Stay tuned for more and more and more from Israel
UK UK UK!!!
Hahahaha…. 🙂
https://scitechdaily.com/images/SLS-Rocket-Booster-Test.gif
Prediction for Israel and the Booster!
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/gif/2017/04/5/SpaceX%20Explodes.gif
hahahahahaha…. hahahaha again and again
Statistics bah hahahahaha…. check the slope of the graph hahahahahaha…. it’s called a Reverse Seneca Cliff (and no that ain’t no high dive routine)
Hahahaha… (for now)
How can Fast Eddy be so confident in his mockery?
Because:
Mass infection prevention and mass vaccination with leaky Covid-19 vaccines in the midst of the pandemic can only breed highly infectious variants. https://www.geertvandenbossche.org/
This is EXACTLY what is happening. EXACTLY.
(haha?)
French virologist and Nobel Prize winner Luc Montagnier called mass vaccination against the coronavirus during the pandemic “unthinkable” and a historical blunder that is “creating the variants” and leading to deaths from the disease.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/nobel-prize-winner-mass-covid-vaccination-an-unacceptable-mistake-that-is-creating-the-variants/
See Israel … coming soon to UK etc…
But it’s not a mistake… it’s the CEP… slaughter 8B humans.
Stats.. bah humbug… Luc does the stats… Geert does the stats….
Fast Eddy .. connects dots… because Fast Eddy has 1500 HP under the hood… in your world 1HP would be roughly 100 on the IQ scale… you might say Fast Eddy is…. off the charts…
He sees… what nobody else can. Nobody
Hideaway, the fully vaccinated percentage in the UK is currently 62.3%.
So if you crunch those numbers again, you will probably find that the fully vaccinated are being hospitalized at a rate in excess of their percentage of the population as compared with the non-fully vaccinated.
Moreover, the death rate for the fully vaccinated is even more disproportionate—IF the above figures are accurate.
For the latest August 20 report in particular, the number of deaths among the “fully vaccinated” was running at more than double that of the “unvaccinated” (which I take to mean the non-fully vaccinated—I didn’t bother to download the data files to check).
TORONTO — Ontario is putting the brakes on any further reopening ahead of a “difficult fall and winter” as the province reveals new vaccine policies for high-risk settings.
Employees, staff, contractors, students, and volunteers at hospitals and home and community care settings will, at a minimum, have to provide proof of full vaccination against COVID-19, have a medical reason for not being vaccinated, or complete a vaccination educational session.
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-halts-reopening-as-province-warns-of-difficult-fall-and-winter-ahead-1.5549975
Hopefully we get vaccination education sessions in NZ – that could be a LOT of fun to attend!
Hey wondering when Pfizer will do a recall on the Injections
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GM has vastly expanded its Chevy Bolt recall that it had previously issued due to risk of fires.
The company said on Friday it was going to take a $1 billion charge as a result of the recall and that it was “indefinitely” halting sales of the EV due to the risk of fire from the car’s battery pack.
The expanded recall “covers 73,000 vehicles from model years 2019 through 2022,” Reuters reported Friday. It now encompasses all remaining Bolt vehicles that hadn’t been previously recalled. The company is targeting replacing defective battery modules with new ones as a solution.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/gm-expands-bolt-recall-all-remaining-vehicles-will-take-1-billion-charge
I got the impression from glancing at an article that GM was going to stop producing them as well.
During the HK riots if the protesters went to far and got the upper hand… the police shot them.
Would the Aussie police shoot if hundreds of protesters just said f789 it…and overran a group of cops?
If the numbers are overwhelming … then the bullet is the only option …
Cop-Smacking Scenes:
https://www.9news.com.au/videos/national/six-police-hospitalised-in-violent-melbourne-anti-lockdown-protests/ckslihmm6000q0gmbp1lg2lmv
https://www.news.com.au/world/coronavirus/australia/aussies-slam-selfish-lockdown-protesters-amid-violent-scenes/news-story/d1176899ddd29e00c8ccf0232ec9b49e
https://www.9news.com.au/national/coronavirus-victoria-updates-melbourne-lockdown-protests-clashes-with-police/fbb04740-669a-4e5a-a564-8fcd6a004df8
With goings on of this kind, no tourist would want to visit Australia.
Gail, Australia is a police state. Australians cannot come out. Australians who are out of Australia have difficulties going back in. This was correct some time ago. Now? Not sure.
It’s a prison island — you have to apply to leave — and you need a good reason (vacation is no good).
Foreigners are not allowed to enter Australia — same with NZ…
Also I have recently read that if you are an Aussie expat and you return for a visit — you may not be allowed to leave….
Citizens and residents can enter NZ.
I do hope these protests intensify in Australia … and elsewhere… it’s very exciting watching people fight for their lives… Mr DNA unleashes!!!
My work in the US hired Australian efficiency experts I did not care for. I’m glad they had to go back and it appears they’ll never be returning my office. I’ve also been deemed a hybrid employee and essential. A lot of silver linings to all this. Wonder how long these happy days will last before the next leg down the cliff.
The Deepstate and MSM have thrown Old Joe under the bus. Is Jacinda next?
How they gang banged on him IN SYNC was certainly a majestic scene to be watched unfolding live. Essentially the whole msm spectrum from specialized globo/fin press to prowly-lowly TV channels of both “leanings” to alt and foreign media, just everybody, hah. Now, the question remains what’s next, because that “call-girl” pedigree VP would be even bigger disaster (perhaps more mid-long term).
Hahahaha
NSW also saw three more deaths, which include a man in his 90s and a man in his 80s who were residents at Greenwood Aged Care at Normanhurst, where a staffer worked two days while believed to be infectious. The third death is a woman in her 90s from southwest Sydney; she died at Liverpool Hospital.
The lockdown in Sydney has also been extended until Sept. 30.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/aussie-cops-pledge-unleash-full-force-large-anti-lockdown-protests-turn-violent
Can’t find protest videos for Sweden —- oh right — there are no lockdowns in Sweden even though they had over 1000 positive tests yesterday … my bad.
Well it really didn’t take long for the propaganda narrative that vaccines will fix covid to fall apart. To think that people said you must get vaccinated to protect the vulnerable, to protect society and yourself. To not do so is selfish and immoral. You are scum and you should be ostracised from society. You will take up valuable hospitals beds that are needed for the sick. Oh how the tables are turning. Now it turns out that the vaccines are pretty much useless at stopping infection, transmission, hospitalisation and death. The reality of that is just pouring in. Thank you to Israel and others for being the world’s Guinea Pigs. And I thought that Jews were much more intelligent than rest of us. Guess not, especially when their answer is roll up your sleeve and get a third shot and well since your here to save time roll up the other and get a fourth. It really is bad optics when everyone who is about to get vaxxed for the first or second time believing that they would soon be protected are seeing that a third is required and that talk of getting jabbed every 8 months is necessary.
Hiding the damage that these vaccines are doing to people is getting harder to hide as well yet they are still going to approve it tomorrow apparently by again cutting numerous safety protocols that were held for all prior vaccines. It is pretty clear now that the vaccines are safe and you have more chance dying from sarscov2 if you are old and have a stack of co-morbidities. However, if you have none or only one co-morbidity then the vaccines are far more of a threat to your health than the virus. The data is exceedingly clear on that now. Add to that you have to wait out the next 5 to 10 years to see if you have shortened your life through cardiovascular damage, neuron damage, prion like disease, increased cancer, OAS, ADE and autoimmune disorders.
So with every new Jab your risk of an adverse reaction goes up. You may not get parkinson like symptoms or myocarditis on your first two jabs but are you confident that it won’t ruin your life on your 4 or 5th?
Finally the momentum of the effectiveness of early intervention with Ivermectin, HCQ, fluvoxamine, monoclonal antibody treatments, healthy lifestyle choices and supplements is breaking through at the same speed that delta variant is smashing the fully vaccinated. The good thing there is that if your are vaxxed you can take them too.
Everyone should be taking daily
½ hr to 1hr walk or equivalent exercise
Vitamin D 1000 IU (5000 a day for a month to get your levels up)
Zinc 20 – 40mg
Vitamin C 2000mg
Quercetin (a flavinoid that is a powerful antioxidant that is also a zinc ionophore that transports the zinc across the cell membranes).
Selenium 200mcg.
Now is the time to be pressuring our medical system and government to demand access to Ivermectin, HCQ, fluvoxamine, monoclonal antibody treatments so that at the first sign of infection we all can treat it safely.
If you have co-morbidities get rid of them. Lose weight, eat healthy foods especially no vegetable oils and carbs that have a high GI. Intermittent fast 5 days a week as that will regulate your blood sugars and insulin levels back to normal levels. And finally don’t live in fear.
Nik
norm is not getting the Booster. Otherwise he’d tell us he was.
dunc too.
Mike the PLUG – he’ll say he is but he won’t.
Thanks NikoB!
See the Ruptly video …. It would be more entertaining if the had ___s.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/aussie-cops-pledge-unleash-full-force-large-anti-lockdown-protests-turn-violent
More fantastic news about Ivermectin
This is a google translation of
https://www.costadelsolfm.org/2021/07/14/alessandro-santin-director-del-centro-de-investigacion-de-la-universidad-de-yale-en-eeuu-habla-sobre-la-ivermectina/
Ivermectin has more than one potentially effective mechanism of action against Covid 19. A major one is its ability to adhere to the Coronavirus Spike1 protein at various strategic points used by the virus to bind and enter our cells. For this reason, unlike monoclonal antibodies, it can act against all variants. By doing so, you prevent the virus from attaching itself to ACE2, which is the main gateway for the virus to enter our cells, and this allows it to reduce the virus’s ability to enter our body. If Covid stays outside of our cells, it becomes easy prey for our immune system, which can get rid of it much more easily. It is important to note that the protein docking region of the virus, the spike spikes, binds not only to our ACE2 receptors, but also to other docking receptors that are very important to the virus, those that depend on sialic acid, Receptor CD147 and on a cholinergic receptor called a7nAChr. I don’t want to get into technicalities, but this premise helps us understand how Covid attacks our body.
Once it has entered our lungs and damaged them, the virus enters the blood and travels through our body carried by red blood cells and platelets that are found in large quantities in our blood. Today we know that the virus attaches itself to red blood cells and platelets because both are coated with sialic acid receptors and CD147 and thanks to this it invades all blood vessels until it is “released” into the endothelium (the inner part of our blood vessels ). ) and then causes systemic vasculitis, which is why most of us are ultimately unable to overcome the infection. When the virus replicates within the endothelial cells of the vessels, it inflames them and creates sticky aggregates of red blood cells and platelets – dense masses,Small clots that initially hamper cause circulation in small vessels (capillaries), but then progressively swell and block larger and larger vessels. When this happens in the lungs, it causes a lack of oxygen that therefore damages all our organs such as the brain, liver, kidneys and heart, especially in the elderly, diabetics and people with previous diseases.
The mechanism by which the virus moves in the blood also explains why Covid is more lethal in people with high glucose levels, such as diabetics and prediabetics. The reason is because the receptors made of sialic acid and CD147 are basically zuccheri. In a diabetic, these sialic acids are richer in sugar (glucose) and the virus sticks better and its systemic spread is even easier. This selectivity of the virus for the characteristics of some subjects is also given by blood groups, for example those with blood group A or B have red blood cells with a greater presence of sialic acid / sugars on the surface, while those with a Type 0 blood group, on the other hand, is less susceptible to the virus as it has less sialic acid / receptor that lines red blood cells and,therefore, the virus sticks less. Patients with diabetes or those with these blood groups (A and B) have a statistically more severe course of the disease.
One of the fundamental mechanisms by which ivermectin acts in patients is because it “puts a wall” (a shield) between our body (red blood cells, platelets and vessels) and the virus, and therefore no longer allows it to latch on in our cells. thus facilitating the flow of red blood cells that carry oxygen in the blood vessels. Ivermectin appears to be able to quickly break the link between the virus (Spike’s key) and its receptors (the ACE2 gate, sialic acids, the CD147 receptor, and a7nAChr), so patients miraculously begin to breathe and oxygenate properly again normally within 24- 48 hours. This is also what happens in the rest of the microcirculation of the whole body and leads to the rapid improvement of the functionality of the various organs.
This is a great article. Thanks for posting it. The title is
Alessandro Santin, director of the Yale University Research Center in the USA talks about Ivermectin
A person wonders why it isn’t being published in English in the United States.
Doctors are not permitted to prescribe this drug in New Zealand.
At least that’s what the local clinic told me when I asked if they would in the event I contracted Covid.
So even if they wanted to — it’s impossible.
Strange?
BTW – oil peaked in 2018 … and this is the response… just want to get the discussion back on track
You can’t get it at the feed store?
Haven’t tried… won’t bother …. when Devil Covid arrives I’ll just lock down at the ranch and play it by ear. Death doesn’t trouble me … but I at least want to be in play while the internet is still viable …
Less than three months ago, the Centers for Disease Control published a mostly-ignored, large-scale study of Covid-19 transmission in US schools which concluded that while masking then-unvaccinated teachers and improving ventilation was associated with lower levels of virus transmission in schools – social distancing, classroom barriers, HEPA filters, and forcing students to wear masks did not result in a statistically significant benefit.
According to the report, scientists believe that the CDC’s decision to intentionally omit the findings on student masking from a summary of the study amounts to “file drawering” the findings – the practice of burying studies that don’t have statistically significant results.
“That a masking requirement of students failed to show independent benefit is a finding of consequence and great interest,” according to Vinay Prasad, an associate professor in University of California, San Francisco’s Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics. “It should have been included in the summary.”
https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/cdc-buries-study-showing-student-masking-has-no-statistically-significant-benefit
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Meanwhile masked CovIDIOT pregnant women are damaging the brains of their vermin 🙂
I suspect the US South is doing an experiment the opposite direction now. What happens when we do pretty much nothing about COVID? Actually, there are some things being done, especially in areas where the citizens are predominantly Black. But, all and all, most of the things from 2020 have disappeared.
OIL
After viewing the oil data at this site…
https://www.worldometers.info/oil/
I came to the following conclusion which basically states that we have very limited time left regardless of oil prices.
Does the following scenario seem about right ?
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Think about what the world would be like without oil, while holding the current population.
A complete disaster.
– Mass famine
– Mass product shortages
– 99% breakdown in world trade
That’s 47 years out right … 2068 ???
NO. !
Long before the system runs out, countries that import oil will have their social systems demolished as Oil producing countries begin to restrict exports.
When we are 1/2 way towards running out, there will only be ~40M barrels per day for a world that currently uses 93M barrels.
That alone is enough to cause mass starvation and wars.
The first thing to go will be the “fluff” in the system.
Air travel (which will become super expensive or simply not available)
Leisure travel
Leisure boating
Sports events (highly energy intensive due to air travel)
Second cars and hobby vehicles
Gas guzzlers
Motor-homes and trailers
Etc … Etc …
All the things that run on the current “excess” energy in the system.
All this starts 2028 to 2030.
Imagine the crash in the price of assets such as cars, motor-homes, boats, and all
the other “toys” which are in this category.
There will be so much for sale that they become almost worthless. This will wipe out tens of thousands of businesses that rely on the “fluff” for survival.
That’s just the beginning.
The smart countries will divert petroleum to food production, food transport, and home energy needs (heating and cooling).
This may buy another few decades. At the same time, it wipes out thousands of remaining businesses that rely on consumers who buy, buy, buy goods that they really don’t need. The amount of unemployment will make the Co-vid period look minuscule by comparison.
I also think that the leaders of the western world see Co-vid as an opportunity to slow down the system. Not necessarily as a solution to this problem, but as a “test run” to see which industries are resilient and which are weak and expendable.
It exposes the holes in the system and highlights where the initial problems will appear as businesses and jobs dwindle.
Imagine the sheer panic in the population if this were explained to everyone now.
Long term investments (especially those that are energy intensive) totalling in the hundreds of $ billions worldwide would collapse.
Would you invest in Carnival Cruise Lines or Air Canada, or Sea Wing Tours if you knew this was on the horizon?
Pension funds and long term investors would be racing to dump any investment related to petroleum consumption. Hence crashing the markets worldwide.
At some point this all gets out and these scenarios will happen.
And that’s long before we run out.
The amount of oil we can actually extract is far below the amount this site seems to think is available. We cannot get the price up high enough.
Gail states: “The amount of oil we can actually extract is far below the amount this site seems to think is available. We cannot get the price up high enough.”
If that is the case, then we have less time than I though. 🙁
If that is the case, then we have less time than I THOUGHT.
Its not about oil. Brain quantity is no guarantee for success.
Exactly. There is also much, much less coal available than reserve estimates seem to suggest.
Reserve estimates are often matched to specific context (legacy paradigm be it technology or enviro concerns), e.g. today’s rapid build up of surface mines + power stations in eastern ~desert China were not calculated / considered in previously. Yes they have to cool it in passive mode (liquid metal heat sink) and build up new long distance lines to consumers, so the costs are higher, but the bottom line remains, that e-juice flows into the heartland/coastal areas. Gained breathing time before they scale up breeder thorium type NPPs beyond 2030s.. Perhaps plus some new gas connector lines from northern neighbor.
That’s apparently the grand plan given the activity on the ground. But this was likely sabotaged / delayed some by that virusi thingy intermezzo..
The scenario of fractured / diverging global development from now on (aka US down, EU limping, selected RoW churning) is still not zero probability.
oops meant western deserts..
It’s ok. Party hard everyday so you won’t have regrets.
Yes, for heaven’s sake let’s get back to energy, resources and the economy’s future on this board.
Ok… we’ve been in lockdown for half a week now…
Everything is closed… can’t order takeaway food… online shopping is not possible.
Madame Fast is now limited to spending at the grocery store — no jaunts into town for lunch with such and such … no nail or hair appointments… I look forward to the next credit card bill!
Think of all the petrol the new stay at home M Fast is saving ….
I have also reduced my petrol consumption as well — no runs up the mountain to get to the ski fields… no driving into town to skate…. I’m pretty much hunkered down at the ranch just saving diesel and petrol.
When you are on your proverbial last tank… lockdowns are what wise men do
It certainly IS important to grasp just how the engineered ‘pandemic’ and associated lock-downs, etc, relate to the looming energy and resource crisis.
They ought to be discussed together.
Connections, connections…….
Spot on
“All this starts 2028 to 2030.”
sounds about right to me.
Collapses happen suddenly and without warning that there will be a collapse “next week.” We are watching the setup for rapid collapse. What trigger will set it off is anybodies guess.
we are watching the collapse of many smaller weaker peripheral countries.
the Core is holding, for now, and the decline phase is SLOW, for now, and don’t blink it’s almost 2022.
but of course it is possible that a black swan “trigger” could collapse IC at any hour of any day.
but it is also possible that IC could outlive us all.
we can’t bargain with reality, IC will get the future it gets, and no need to be in denial that IC will never end, it will sooner or later.
I’m a gambler, though I lose often enough.
I would bet on “later”.
+++
with the proviso of betting on “mid-later”
Yes, it seems triage out periphery and throttle down in the core is the preferred and selected way forward, well they (WEFers) somewhat acknowledged it in the plain open anyway.
Nevertheless something like US going through partially strong internal collapse pulse ~2025-30 would in some fashion (ricocheting secondary effects) bumped everybody from the wider IC realm as well..
It is all pretty much in the open although few pay attention.
The WEF, Mark Carney, The BIS, etc, just dress it up, unconvincingly, as a response to the ‘Age of the Virus’ and the the ‘Fight against Climate Change’ leading to the sunny uplands of Sustainable Green Growth.
What might in fact be rational policies of adaptation are unfortunately distorted by their bid for absolute power over us, and even greater personal and corporate enrichment.
Not to mention the lunacies of belief in Transhumanism and a transformed human species, which are integral to their ideological motivation, the new religion. Tricked up eugenics, basically.
Well, this IS a fascinating time to be alive and aware!
Yes, that’s important, rarely mentioned point that rational policies of adaptation to be administered don’t necessarily commingle nicely with parallel (or primary) urge for self survival at / near the top for such agent of change.
In this corner we have nice policies of adaptation.
Over there we have too many people, insufficient resources.
Next to them we have an aging population (populations of Five Eyes at a minimum) that can’t turn a screwdriver but knows the latest socio-correctoid buzzwords.
Finally, rounding out the Pentagram there is the ruling caste, whose only question is how many useless eaters to remove this year.
Pentgram? Right! Sitting quietly in its own 72d corner is the EViL ONE. I’ll call him Joe, for short.
Seriously, does anybody think that letting the civilized world run off a cliff is the better alternative to a well managed genocide?
Put another way, which do you prefer? Zombie Apocalypse or a never ending, yet continually increasing, series of quiet deaths in nursing homes? At least with the latter we get funerals and the, er, efficient placement of the corpses.
James, words don’t come easy, yes you are correct, as witnessing some candidates for premature departure in the wider family circles.. yet pre-warned, but remaining staunch normies and BAUers above all..
Covid-19: FDA set to grant full approval to Pfizer vaccine without public discussion of data
“Transparency advocates have criticised the US Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) decision not to hold a formal advisory committee meeting to discuss Pfizer’s application for full approval of its covid-19 vaccine.
“Last year the FDA said it was ‘committed to use an advisory committee composed of independent experts to ensure deliberations about authorisation or licensure are transparent for the public.’ But in a statement, the FDA told The BMJ that it did not believe a meeting was necessary ahead of the expected granting of full approval.
“’The FDA has held numerous meetings of its Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee (VRBPAC) related to covid-19 vaccines, including a 22 October 2020 meeting to discuss, in general, the development, authorisation, and licensure of covid-19 vaccines,’ an FDA spokesperson said.
“The FDA also has held meetings of the VRBPAC on all three covid-19 vaccines authorised for emergency use and does not believe a meeting is needed related to this biologics license application.
“The spokesperson added, ‘The Pfizer BioNTech covid-19 vaccine was discussed at the VRBPAC meeting on 10 December 2020. If the agency had any questions or concerns that required input from the advisory committee members we would have scheduled a meeting to discuss.’
“The vaccine has already been rolled out to millions of Americans through an emergency use authorisation. Companies typically apply for full approval after a longer period has elapsed so that more data are available for review.
“But with the US government indicating this week that it plans to start making booster shots widely available next month, experts said the decision not to meet to discuss the data was politically driven.”
Data scrutiny
“Kim Witczak, a drug safety advocate who serves as a consumer representative on the FDA’s Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee, said the decision removed an important mechanism for scrutinising the data.
“’These public meetings are imperative in building trust and confidence especially when the vaccines came to market at lightning speed under emergency use authorisation,’ she said. ‘The public deserves a transparent process, especially as the call for boosters and mandates are rapidly increasing. These meetings offer a platform where questions can be raised, problems tackled, and data scrutinised in advance of an approval.’
“Witczak is one of the more than 30 signatories of a citizen petition calling on the FDA to refrain from fully approving any covid-19 vaccine this year to gather more data. She warned that without a meeting ‘we have no idea what the data looks like.’
“’It is already concerning that full approval is being based on 6 months’ worth of data despite the clinical trials designed for two years,’ she said. ‘There is no control group after Pfizer offered the product to placebo participants before the trials were completed.’
“’Full approval of covid-19 vaccines must be done in an open public forum for all to see. It could set a precedent of lowered standards for future vaccine approvals.’
Public discussion
“Diana Zuckerman, president of the National Center for Health Research, who has also spoken at recent VRBPAC meetings, told The BMJ, ‘It’s obvious that the FDA has no intention of hearing anyone else’s opinion. But if you make decisions behind closed doors it can feed into hesitancy. It’s important to have a public discussion about what kind of data are there and what the limitations are. As we think about risk versus benefit, we need to know.’
“Joshua Sharfstein, vice dean for public health practice and community engagement at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and former FDA deputy commissioner during the Obama administration, said that advisory committee meetings were more than just a way of receiving scientific input from outside experts. ‘It’s also an opportunity to educate the public about the important work that the FDA has done reviewing an enormous amount of data about a product,’ he told The BMJ. ‘It’s a chance for questions to be asked and answered, building public confidence.
“”If there are no advisory committee meetings prior to licensure, the FDA should consider taking extra steps to explain the basis of its decisions to the public.’
“On 18 August, before the news that the FDA would not be holding a formal committee meeting, the president of the Infectious Diseases Society of America Barbara Alexander praised the impact of the VRBPAC meetings as ‘a critical and necessary part’ of the process for assessing whether to give booster doses.”
https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2086
I wonder if this is related to another story, Janet Woodcock Ruled Out for Top FDA Job, Sources Say
She faced opposition from some senators and White House disappointment over controversial approval of an Alzheimer’s drug
Now, it looks to me as if Janet Woodcock is trying to push the vaccines through as well, before she loses her job.
I hope someone will put a stop to this nonsense.
This nonsense is promoted in every country by all the most powerful stakeholders, abetted by the courts and media and almost every professional body one can think of – only they could ever stop it, absent a unified mass civil revolt which could still be effective.
I see no signs yet of a counter-coup at the top level, leading the conspiracy to break apart.
The US is the most interesting region, due to the real political autonomy of the various states which compose it , with their own constitutions, and the quite low take-up of the vaccines in many sectors of the population.
Fashion is destroying the planet but we keep buying clothes. This is how we fix it
While once it was a well-kept secret, shouted about by only the most dedicated environmentalist campaigners and writers, fashion’s enormous impact on the planet is now common knowledge, writes Sophie Benson
In order to produce what’s estimated to be between 100 million and 150 million garments per year, the fashion industry – along with the footwear industry – is producing over eight per cent of total greenhouse gas emissions. More than 200 million trees are cut down each year to make cellulose fabric and plastic microfibres shed from synthetic clothing account for 85 per cent of human-made material found along ocean shores. The industry’s CO2 emissions are projected to rise by more than 60 per cent by 2030, and if it doesn’t take action, fashion could be using more than a quarter of the global carbon budget by 2050.
As a result of the proliferation of damning research in recent years, the industry has responded with eco-friendly collections, The Fashion Pact, self-set sustainability targets, social media self-flagellation, carbon offsetting schemes, and tree-planting initiatives. But is it enough? Will the fashion industry ever meet the ultimate goal of being fully sustainable?
Planetary boundaries
Firstly, it would be helpful to establish what sustainable even means. It’s used so broadly – plastered across the hoarding of brand-new building developments and printed onto the labels of T-shirts – that it’s beginning to lose meaning. Luckily the planetary boundaries framework, a concept led by Johan Rockström, exists to illustrate and quantify the conditions which will maintain a “safe operating space” for humanity. There are nine boundaries which include climate change, freshwater use, ocean acidification, and biodiversity loss. In some categories, we’re still in the “safe” zone, while in others, we’re already in either “uncertain” or “high risk” territory.
It’s not necessary for every single person who wants to buy a pair of jeans to know how planetary boundaries work but what’s important is that it provides a guide of sorts for what the fashion industry – and other industries – need to do to maintain a safe, habitable planet. Kering, the fashion giant behind brands such as Gucci, Saint Laurent and Alexander McQueen, released a paper in 2019 which discussed how business sustainability goals can be linked to planetary boundaries. It conceded that it won’t be an easy task but that it’s necessary for a focused approach towards a sustainable future rather than blindly tackling whatever issue happens to be trendiest at the time.
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In March 2021, a report was released by the Stockholm Resilience Centre (of which Rockström was former director) which outlined how fashion can work towards a “circular economy which respects and responds to planetary priorities”.
“The situation is growing urgent,” reads the report. “In 2015, the world’s nations agreed on 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)… Yet by 2020, progress remains uneven, and the world is not on track to meet the SDGs by 2030.”
In response, the report lays out six priorities for business “in order to maintain the stability and resilience of the Earth system.” They are: cut carbon emissions, halt the loss of biodiversity, minimise the change of land use, use water wisely, improve nutrient use efficiency, and avoid releasing harmful substances.
One key way to achieve them, the paper states, is by adopting a circular economy: recapturing and reusing existing materials to reduce – or even eliminate – waste. This can mean anything from repairing and reselling a holey jumper to reusing the effluent water created during the dyeing process.
Slowing down
Aja Barber, author of Consumed: The need for collective change; colonialism, climate change & consumerism, says that a fully sustainable, circular industry would look very different to the one we know now. “The entire industry would absolutely need a massive overhaul,” she says. “A sustainable future would be working with what we already have. We would ban the idea that you can burn unsold merchandise. Use of virgin polyesters would disappear and brands would have to pay taxes on their waste.”
The ‘haul’ tag on TikTok now has over 10 billion views, suggesting consumers’ behaviour doesn’t necessarily reflect their idealistic beliefs.
“There would be fewer seasons,” she continues. “And there would be fewer ads, especially through social media, which I think is a big part of what keeps this machine really churning at the speed at which it moves.”
While research from Bazaarvoice’s Influenster community reveals that 78 per cent of consumers “feel it’s important to use brands or products that are described as ‘green’, ‘eco-friendly’ or ‘sustainable’”, the ‘haul’ tag on TikTok now has over 10 billion views, suggesting consumers’ behaviour doesn’t necessarily reflect their idealistic beliefs.
Consumers’ behaviour doesn’t necessarily reflect their idealistic beliefs.
(Getty Images/iStockphoto)
“It is not just the need for the latest colour or style that is driving the younger generation to continue investing in fast fashion purchases, but the dopamine hit of endless parcels arriving concurrently in the post,” says Andy Woods, director at Rouge Media. “Some of the shift needs to come from the platform-driving influencers. Impressionable viewers often copy their style and ‘hauled’ items, so if they are continually driving fast fashion, their viewers’ purchasing patterns will follow.”
Barber agrees. “We need more people not selling things online. We need them giving information and encouraging people to rewear their clothing. We need more people shouting against the message. We have to overpower that message, and [over-consumption] has to stop being cool,” she says.
Sustainability campaigns and shopping features may lead people to believe that buying differently is the answer. An organic cotton T-shirt rather than a new one, a pair of recycled polyester cycling shorts rather than ones made out of virgin polyester. But, as Barber notes, “if you’re over-consuming, even if it’s sustainable garments, it’s still over-consumption”.
If you’re overconsuming, even if it’s sustainable garments, it’s still overconsumption
The issue is that modern brands flourish on over-production and over-consumption. Weekly, even daily, stock drops keep customers buying at a lightning-fast pace. The average consumer bought 60 percent more clothing in 2014 than they did in 2000, but kept each garment for half as long. Given that, in the seven years since 2014, the likes of Boohoo, Shein, and Pretty Little Thing have boomed, that figure may well have trended upwards.
H&M reportedly sells around 3 billion items of clothing per year, although like many other brands it doesn’t officially disclose its total figures. However, a number did for Fashion Revolution’s 2021 Transparency Index. Adidas/Reebok’s annual product volume was 528 million units for apparel, Mango made 158 million units, while Inditex produced 545,036 tons of product (in the previous report it revealed that it had made 1.6 billion items during the annual reporting period).
Production levels will need to significantly reduce, and alternative revenue streams that don’t rely on making new products, such as rental, recommerce, repair, and digital, will need to be explored. But the issue, Barber explains, is that “very few well established brands are willing to do that”.
Getting brands on board
Many shoppers have been impressed by brands making commitments such as using certain percentage of recycled materials within their ranges by 2030, or going organic by 2040, for example, but the issue is that brands are picking and choosing what to tackle and, importantly, what to leave out. And there are few, if any, consequences if they miss their self-set goals.
“From my perspective, policy and legislation that’s binding is how we get to a sustainable industry,” says Libby Annat, director and co-founder of Due Diligence Design. For Annat, accountability is key. Policy and legislation that doesn’t hold companies accountable for their actions isn’t worth having, she says.
“Accountability looks like legislation which includes specific provisions which could relate to either fines on companies for not abiding by the legislation or stronger action such as criminal penalties for directors and/or board members,” Annat explains. “And accountability also needs to include remedy.”
Remedy is about safeguarding against future harm to ensure the same errors are not repeated. Remedy should be a “full package”, says Annat. It needs to make companies think about what they could to do to prevent the issue happening again using similar measures across their entire supply chain. “That then becomes a sea change,” she says.
Annat points to a number of upcoming pieces of legislation that will have a significant impact on the fashion industry. They include the European Due Diligence Act which will ensure that companies are liable when they harm human rights and the environment and guarantees that victims can access legal remedies; and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive, which means companies must report on their impact on people and the environment.
“I see so much legislation, recognising the changes that we need to make,” says Frank Zambrelli, Executive Director of the Responsible Business Coalition (RBC). “As usual Europe is streets ahead of the rest of the world” but Zambrelli continues, in the US, lobbyists which are “typically always pushing Congress to advantage their business” now realise that supporting what consumers want and making sustainable change is becoming a business advantage in itself.
Where the money goes
Again, the average shopper doesn’t need to be a legal expert and know the ins and outs of every piece of legislation but what may be reassuring is how it’s affecting brands. While the threat of a legal battle was once a reputational worry, Annat explains that legislation is having a financial impact too, as investors are reconsidering financing brands who aren’t on track to comply with the new rules on the horizon.
A person shops at a fashion store
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Even when legislation isn’t involved, financial incentive is proving vital for progress. Zambrelli provides an example of members of the RBC (of which 47 CEOs representing about 15 per cent of the industry are members) looking at the impact of pre-packaged shirts. 12-14 pieces of packaging came from five different countries, not including the country of origin of the shirt. “When you spend a little bit of time reorganising the issue, you save 8 cents a shirt,” he says. “So, they radically reduced the greenhouse gas footprint of the shirt but, at 8 cents for 55 million shirts, they saved $4.5 million. Suddenly, stability got very sexy, right?”
In order to get the CEOs of the future considering sustainability alongside or even above profit the RBC, which is part of Fordham University, has embedded sustainability into its curriculum. “We’re pulling that line of sustainability education across every discipline in the school,” says Zambrelli. “It’s a fundamental shift at the student level, which is probably the most encouraging thing about the work that I do.”
While future CEOs may have different worldviews, Zambrelli is open that some member CEOs are more environmentally-motivated than others, so it’s important that the RBC, which collaborates with NGOs such as the International Labour Organisation and Fashion for Good, blends environmental benefits with financial ones. “I can say in nine years, especially in the last three, there has been a sea change in attitudes. The same way [CEOs] look at their whole supply chain and say, how do we increase efficiencies, they now understand that in some cases, efficiency is a synonym for sustainability. So, when they try to reduce carbon, to reduce water, and try to find some more sustainable or even regenerative raw materials, they’re actually improving their business prospects.”
Of course, as seen by the enormous successes enjoyed by the likes of Shein and Boohoo, consumer or even financial incentive isn’t always enough when you have a customer base happy to part with cash and overlook your environmental indiscretions. That’s why there’s no single answer to the question of whether fashion can ever be sustainable. Theoretically, yes it can. But it will take a circular economy, reduced production, targets set according to planetary boundaries, binding legislation, a cultural shift, an overhauled education system, significant and difficult strategic efforts from brands, and a collaborative, global effort. As Barber puts it, “it has to be all parts moving together”.
Is there anything modern living that doesn’t destroy the planet?
The fashion industry creates a huge number of jobs in poor countries. Any cutback in the fashion industry seems to have almost as adverse an effect on these countries as a cutback in tourism.
Indeed. Instead of sniffing glue, they would be better off using it to keep up western pension promises.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-12/fast-fashion-turning-parts-ghana-into-toxic-landfill/100358702
Dead White Man’s cloths creating an environment diaster in poor countries
ABC News .com
I saw Western clothes being burned in India to create a fire for some kind of industry. I think it was drying little clay pots.
I burn plastic to create heat…
India exports garments, fabrics and raw materials for clothing, footwear and headwear, and every stage of production, for each of these items, is heavily dependent on the consumption of water.
Take the example of Indian cotton, which is in great demand because it is, on average, the cheapest in the world market. This year alone, cotton exports are predicted to go up 40 percent in comparison with the previous year. But cotton, unfortunately, is also a very thirsty crop, requiring up to 22,500 litres of water for the production of merely one kilogramme – roughly the quantity required to make one T-shirt and one pair of jeans.
If this statistic does not look worrying enough to you, consider this – back in 2013, 85 percent of Indians could have been provided with enough water to satisfy their daily needs for a year with the amount of water used to produce India’s cotton exports. Think about what that means in a country where children in 100 million homes do not have access to water.
In addition to consuming inordinate amounts of water, the garment and textile industry further exacerbates water scarcity by contributing substantially to water pollution. Tiruppur in the southern state of Tamil Nadu is known for its garment production for global fashion brands, recording some $3.5bn worth of exports every year.
Stories from villages around this hub echo the stories from Panipat and other textile and garment hubs in the country. Untreated wastewater from dyeing and bleaching units have transformed the Noyyal river into a toxic sewer and rendered the agricultural
Aljazerha website
What are you expecting out of muppets? They will consume, and consume and consume, and at the end of their life they will walk through the valley of the shadow of death and arrive in Heaven. The End.
Muppets…….no the author was no a muppet.
Actually, it’s refreshing to read such viewpoints outside of the sphere of the controlled press…that are the actual muppets
Millions of electric cars are coming. What happens to all the dead batteries?
By Ian Morse
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/05/millions-electric-cars-are-coming-what-happens-all-dead-batteries
That’s just one of the many problems confronting researchers, including Thompson, who are trying to tackle an emerging problem: how to recycle the millions of electric vehicle (EV) batteries that manufacturers expect to produce over the next few decades. Current EV batteries “are really not designed to be recycled,” says Thompson, a research fellow at the Faraday Institution, a research center focused on battery issues in the United Kingdom.
That wasn’t much of a problem when EVs were rare. But now the technology is taking off. Several carmakers have said they plan to phase out combustion engines within a few decades, and industry analysts predict at least 145 million EVs will be on the road by 2030, up from just 11 million last year. “People are starting to realize this is an issue,” Thompson says.
……EV BATTERIES are constructed a bit like nested dolls. Typically, a main pack holds several modules, each of which is constructed from numerous smaller cells (see graphic, below). Inside each cell, lithium atoms move through an electrolyte between a graphite anode and a cathode sheet composed of a metal oxide. Batteries are usually defined by the metals in the cathode. There are three main types: nickel-cobalt-aluminum, iron-phosphate, and nickel-manganese-cobalt.
Now, recyclers primarily target metals in the cathode, such as cobalt and nickel, that fetch high prices. (Lithium and graphite are too cheap for recycling to be economical.) But because of the small quantities, the metals are like needles in a haystack: hard to find and recover.
EV BATTERIES are constructed a bit like nested dolls. Typically, a main pack holds several modules, each of which is constructed from numerous smaller cells (see graphic, below). Inside each cell, lithium atoms move through an electrolyte between a graphite anode and a cathode sheet composed of a metal oxide. Batteries are usually defined by the metals in the cathode. There are three main types: nickel-cobalt-aluminum, iron-phosphate, and nickel-manganese-cobalt.
Now, recyclers primarily target metals in the cathode, such as cobalt and nickel, that fetch high prices. (Lithium and graphite are too cheap for recycling to be economical.) But because of the small quantities, the metals are like needles in a haystack: hard to find and recover.
….Recycling researchers, meanwhile, say effective battery recycling will require more than just technological advances. The high cost of transporting combustible items long distances or across borders can discourage recycling. As a result, placing recycling centers in the right places could have a “massive impact,” Harper says. “But there’s going to be a real challenge in systems integration and bringing all these different bits of research together.”
There’s little time to waste, Abbott says. “What you don’t want is 10 years’ worth of production of a cell that is absolutely impossible to pull apart,” he says. “It’s not happening yet—but people are shouting and worried it will happen.”
Time
China Is Planning to Build 43 New Coal-Fired Power Plants. Can It Still Keep Its Promises to Cut Emissions?
Amy Gunia
Fri, August 20, 2021, 2:43 AM
The Chinese flag flies in front of exhaust rising from a coal fired power plant in Jiayuguan, Gansu province, China, on April 1, 2021. Credit – Qilai Shen/—Bloomberg/Getty Images
China is planning to build 43 new coal-fired power plants and 18 new blast furnaces — equivalent to adding about 1.5% to its current annual emissions — according to a new report. The new projects were announced in the first half of this year despite the world’s largest polluter pledging to bring its emissions to a peak before 2030, and to make the country carbon neutral by 2060.
The news shows that at least some in China are prioritizing economic growth over emissions reductions — although some analysts say they are still optimistic that China will reach its climate targets. “There is this desire in the Chinese political and economic system to keep on building, to continue the infrastructure fever,” says Li Shuo, a senior global policy adviser for Greenpeace in Beijing.
The report on China’s new coal plants was written by the Helsinki-based research organization the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA) and the U.S. group Global Energy Monitor (GEM) and released on Aug. 13. It came just days after the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) published an alarming report that concluded human-caused climate change is an “unequivocal” reality. U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres called the IPCC report a “code red for humanity.”
BAU needs to feed a constant heaping of the mother lode…coal
The catch is that China can’t get make the system work well enough to actually use those coal fired plants. They need higher coal prices for the transported coal to be profitable for miners to extract and ship. At the same time, the price of finished goods and services needs to be low enough for customers to afford.
Building these coal fired plants is likely mostly a jobs program for the present, more than it is something that will actually be useful.
I guess, we had this debate several times over the past few yrs, it’s not purely market price driven consideration as you correctly suspect. It’s more like state energy security-priority issue, and in direct employment a bit of jobs program as well, but surface mining and long distance transmission lines construction employs relative few these days (tech leverage)..
Buy Aussie coal! Keep us in comfort.
“One in four care home staff [UK] disagree with mandatory COVID-19 vaccination, which is to come into force in England on 11 November, according to a new survey.
“Just under a third also disagree with compulsory vaccinations for those visiting care homes…”
https://www.carehome.co.uk/news/article.cfm/id/1655167/care-home-workers-mandatory-vaccination
“Across the [US], nursing homes are faced with a choice: mandate that staff members get vaccinated or lose funding.
“President Joe Biden announced Wednesday that all nursing homes should require their staff members to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to continue receiving Medicare and Medicaid funding. The new mandate could take effect as soon as next month.
“Some nursing home administrators are worried the decision will cause workers to head for the exits at facilities already struggling to keep employees…”
https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2021/08/21/nursing-home-staff-shortage-amid-covid-vaccine-mandate/8210607002/
“… worried the decision will cause workers to head for the exits”
I wonder if this is part of the grand plan?
If they quit the stale urine and faeces will become even worse…
Could they call in the military to clean it up?
“The economy was already a mess even before Covid struck… In reality, in 2019, before we were all so rudely interrupted by the virus from Wuhan, growth was flagging, and the world was heading into a recession.
“After recovering Covid losses, the signs are the economy is resetting to its old normal – and that was characterised by sluggish growth, rising debt, and stagnant wages. The pandemic hasn’t changed that, and it may well have made it worse.”
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/08/21/economy-already-mess-even-covid-struck/
“The cost of saving global economy: $834 million an hour for 18 months.
“Imagine spending $834 million an hour for 18 months. That’s how much central banks have spent buying bonds since the pandemic hit, according to Bank of America strategists.”
https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/the-cost-of-saving-global-economy-834-million-an-hour-for-18-months-121082100048_1.html
“Pandemic’s $16 Trillion Bill Will Come Due as Debt Surges: Fitch…
“Governments around the world have rolled out about $16 trillion worth of fiscal measures to prevent economic collapse during the pandemic, according to the International Monetary Fund, helping to drive the recovery but also leaving war-time era levels of debt.”
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-08-19/pandemic-s-16-trillion-bill-will-come-due-as-debt-surges-fitch
“Did the Fed’s “monetary policy experiment” fail? The recent dislocation between consumer confidence and the financial markets may indicate just that…
“If “monetary policy” has lost effectiveness in supporting consumer confidence and “animal spirits,” the significant risk to investors could be a market decline the Fed cannot halt.”
https://seekingalpha.com/article/4450979-did-the-feds-monetary-policy-experiment-just-fail
Here’s a jolly piece for that renegade Brit known as Mirror, to inspire some patriotism in him. Sing, Mirror – sing!
I do not agree with that idea of what it means to be British. I have no intention of worshipping the state.
Heretic! I sentence you to be hanged! Hanged by the ankles until all the money falls out of your pockets. That’ll teach ya!
Yes, that has long been the British way. A taxpayer and his money are easily parted.
Not that anyone is obliged to be British on this forum. I do not identify as British but simply as myself. My thoughts and feelings are based on who I am personally rather than on any intuition or interpretation of what it supposedly means to be ‘British’. If that is understood as an allegiance to the state then I definitely am not British.
“Not that anyone is obliged to be British on this forum.”
You will be when I tell your mum to stop your pocket money. 🙁
All in all that is some ugly fantasy that you have got going on.
Forcing people to sing? Threatening hanging?
At what point does it stop being ‘funny’?
I guess Scots don’t do irony. 🙁
If you watch the video, you’ll see that it’s a satire. Harry Hill is no monarchist. Nor am I.
I suspect that I should stop engaging with discourse that makes ‘sense’ only from a drunken perspective. No offence.
I am not Scottish btw. or Irish.
“I am not Scottish btw. or Irish.”
IC. And I don’t drink (alcohol), BTW.
Ah, the fiction called a country…apparently, for most, a fiction worth fighting and dying for…We should let go of this delusion, and really question why we believe in, and go along with, this fairy tale..
What is the fiction called a ‘country’ that is so important to some? When I go to Washington D.C. or any State capitol will I see some all powerful creature called the USA or Britian or China? A creature that was born, breathes and defecates; or will I see a bunch of adults indulging in their fantasies playing make believe?
A bunch of adults playing make believe in Washington D.C., that was our ‘country’ is. We take this fiction further by telling people not to feel guilty about stealing and murder if they play dress-up while they are playing make believe, we call them police and military…
Oh course the suicide rates for soldiers shows that deep down they don’t or can’t believe the fictions they are sold…deep down they know that they are just one human playing dress-up, killing another human who is also playing dress-up…all for some other human’s benefit…
Oh, yeah if you do not ‘pledge your allegiance’ to our fictional entity called a ‘country’ (i.e., support our delusional fiction) we are going to be really mad at you…kind of like if you tell a mental ill person that their paranoid delusion isnt real, they also get really angry at you…
I feel us humans deserve our unfortunate fate…
Dear Mike Roberts,
I am still waiting for my answer. Is it that difficult for you to reply to my questions on scientific publications? If you don’t answer me here, you actually lost all credibility here. We are here having discussions. Personally, I only accept publications that pass my “common sense” test first before I do in-depth research on that subject.
If your arguments pass my common sense test and if you are right, I will embrace what you say. I am a person who accepts that I can be wrong but you need to convince me, not with junk but with serious materials. All my comments here goes through my brain and all of them pass the most basic common sense tests.
thank you
Mike the PLUG lost all credibility within a few days of appearing on OFW…
Mike the PLUG is not interested in credibility — he only wants his 3 cents per post from the PR Team
Ed Romin
2 days ago
how long before the triple-shot recipients start calling the double-shot ones “anti-vaxxers” ??
maybe a month?
Paul Rodriguez
2 days ago
Reply to @Blair Morrison: – Looking forward to when the triple vax’d blame the double vax’d for the 5 th wave.
Bryan James
2 days ago
3 shots for the same virus in less than a year. Sure they work, you just need one every 4 months until forever…
All too true!
Rather like saying that the wrath of the gods has fallen on a city or people because not enough sacrifices were offered up in the Temple, or due to some atheists or heretics knocking about unpunished.
Gosh, aren’t we advanced?!
The whole fraud has succeeded because it taps into some very primitive thought patterns and instincts.
Browsing those comments I was surprised at the number of anti-vax ones + the up arrows on the anti-vax comments….
Being Canada they don’t allow down arrows because that might harm the self-esteem of a snowflake… so it’s difficult to judge the overall sentiment
End of the day… there are plenty in opposition to this … but they are nowhere near displeased enough to put their freedom and lives on the line …
Swathes of people around the world have endured far more oppression — and not lifted a finger.
So long as they are fed hopium and the wage subsidies/UBI equivalents flow… there will be no uprising.
There are no subsidies in the 3rd world… and heavy-handed lockdowns in some places e.g. Philippines… and not even the slightest push back.
We will be loaded onto the trucks and trot into the abattoir like befuddled cattle… oblivious to our grim fate.
Actually, until it is obvious that the shots are completely not working.
What are the BBC up to? Currently on the main News page:
Is catching Cov id now better than more vac cine?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-58270098
Towards the end of the article:
“There is clear evidence that adults who have not had any vac cine dose will have stronger immune defences if they do get vac cinated, even if they have caught Co vid before.”
This is just plain lies.
The gist of the article seems to be, get vac cinated but maybe boosters not necessary.
I can’t help but wonder if this is the BBC getting their propaganda in, prior to what is going on in Is rael, the vaccines no longer working very well, becoming general knowledge.
If they get most people vaxxed this year, on whatever pretext, they are ‘in the pipe 5 by 5’ for the smooth and unsuspected transition to Digital Identities, which is the name of the game as we know.
Boosters are not about health at all, just raising the bar for full participation in the new social and economic order.
The PR Team should have a referral plan … if you bring in an adult you get $500 … if you bring in someone 12-18 you get $1000 …. if you can convince a child you get $1500…. and the jack pot of $2000 is paid if you can haul a pregnant woman into the Injection Facility.
It should also be acceptable to drug someone if they resist the encouraging words.
Whatever it takes.
This could be an excellent Reality Tee Vee show…. Injection Bounty
The C of E at its core functioned as an S & M cult of canings of young men. The present Archbishop of Canterbury and various other bishops attended the flagellation camps.
> ‘Bleeding for Jesus’: book tells story of QC who pitilessly abused young men
A moral crusader was accused of targeting public schoolboys at Christian camps and administering ‘horrific’ beatings
After five years of sadistic beatings in a garden shed by one of the UK’s most prominent barristers, and with a “special beating” to mark his 21st birthday imminent, Andy Morse tried to take his own life.
The student had endured thousands of lashes on his naked buttocks administered in the name of Jesus by John Smyth QC. He could no longer endure the pain, terror and humiliation.
Fortunately, his housemates broke down the bathroom door and called an ambulance. But Morse was not Smyth’s only victim. There are more than 100 known survivors, and perhaps many others: public schoolboys who took part in a network of military-style Christian holiday camps in the 1970s and 80s.
A new book, Bleeding for Jesus, tells the story of Smyth, the moral crusader who fought legal battles for “Christian values” in Britain’s courts while allegedly mercilessly abusing young men at his Hampshire home, and the Iwerne Trust, which organised the “Bash camps” that were his hunting ground and which turned a blind eye to his activities.
“Smyth was, in effect, the Church of England’s Jimmy Savile,” said the book’s author, Andrew Graystone, who has worked with survivors of clerical abuse for several years. “We learned from Savile that abusers can only abuse in a culture that enables it.”
The Iwerne project, which Graystone describes as a cult, recruited “young men who were the brightest and best from the most elite schools in the country to win them for the Christian faith, to create a church of purity within the wider Church of England”, he said.
It produced many of the most prominent conservative evangelical leaders within the C of E over the past 40 years. Many see themselves as “the guardians of the true gospel against the forces of liberalism”.
According to the book, their number include Nicky Gumbel, the driving force behind the highly influential Alpha course run by churches all over the country; David Sheppard, who played cricket for England before becoming bishop of Liverpool, and several others who became bishops. Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, was briefly embroiled in Iwerne’s holiday camps in the late 1970s.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/21/bleeding-for-jesus-book-tells-story-of-qc-who-pitilessly-abused-young-men
Ancient history, and irrelevant – if entertaining.
Although we might have a De-growth theme in the return of older methods of control and punishment….
It would be suicidal for the C of E to take that attitude.
It is rightly shocked by recent revelations into a complete review of its culture of facilitation and cover up and prompted to establish safe guards.
The last thing that this society needs is a culture that protects institutions and grandees from public exposure.
> The C of E has ordered an independent review of its handling of allegations of abuse by Smyth, although publication has been delayed until next year.
There seem to be all kinds of things done in the name of religion.
Religious documents include so many sayings of past times that a person can pick out one or another to “prove” whatever a person wants to prove. For example, the book of Proverbs in the Old Testament includes the verse, “Spare the rod and spoil the child,” along with hundreds of other old sayings. Most Christian groups don’t pay much attention to these old sayings.
The situation reminds me of “scientific” models. They can be created with whatever assumptions a person wants, to prove anything a person wants. They have become the religion of today.
I totally agree with you. I suspect that the bloke was simply a pervert though. They tend to be drawn to scenarios in which they can act out their fantasies. It is not really about religion or even about perverts but about how powerful institutions handle abuse.
C of E is the state religion and, as with RCC, there is always the impulse to protect the image of the institution and to minimise the relevance of abuse. The supposed ‘social good’ is often invoked by institutions to trump the actual social good. It is above all a problem of social power relationships.
It is sad that we were perhaps just beginning (if nowhere near there) to approach institutional transparency in all of the state institutions, due to material and social development, and all of that is likely to go once energetic constrains manifest. That is nothing to celebrate. Corruption and abuse is only likely to deepen.
Interesting range of comments at the bottom – one of the few MSM sites that allow this
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid-19-booster-recommendation-1.6144867
So a twelve year old that has a 0.000 something rate of dying of Covid is supposed to get booster after booster after booster. Is this really in the best interest of the child? Is this sound healthy science?
Reply to @Edmond Dantes:
Just know – each time you REFUSE a vaccine, there are risks.
I’d rather have my child protected from disease.
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William Goodrick
2 days ago
Reply to @Peter Jackson: it’s one thing to give a 70 year old an experimental vaccine when risk reward is obvious. It’s another to give it to a twelve year old again and again when they don’t need it.
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Peter Jackson
2 days ago
Reply to @William Goodrick:
They’re not experimental. They’re approved for use by Health Canada.
If you have any questions or fears about the vaccines, TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR.
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“Much of the Israel data can be explained by the fact that with delta waltzing onto the scene, those who have been vaccinated longest are also those more likely to experience severe illness than others — in other words, the elderly,” said Bill Hanage, an epidemiologist at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid-19-vaccine-booster-shots-canada-1.6148232?cmp=FEED_PROG_popularnow
U.S. health officials recommending all Americans get COVID-19 booster shots
U.S. health officials Wednesday announced plans to dispense COVID-19 booster shots to all Americans to shore up their protection amid the surging delta variant and signs that the vaccines’ effectiveness is slipping.
The plan, as outlined by the director of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other top authorities, calls for an extra dose eight months after people get their second shot of the Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna vaccines.
“We have a responsibility to give the maximum amount of protection,” U.S. President Joe Biden said at the White House. He added that extra doses are also “the best way to protect ourselves from new variants that could arise.”
https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/covid-19-booster-recommendation-1.6144867
Looks like we’ll be seeing more vaxxed being hospitalized and dying as time passes… hence the Boosters….
But of course — the vaccines were purposed to breed mutations… and Boosters will promote the development of increasingly deadly variants…
The boosters also produce lots of profits for the pharmaceutical industry.
Yes exactly that, and almost like a recipe too
Corporate greed sold as a magic package that appeals to the tick box, quick fix promises of incumbent politicians and marketed as the THE ONLY way back to BAU ASAP (despite more sensible, cheep prophylactics being available)
It’s like a sugar pill coated in compulsion kindness, covering rouge greed and spikes of unforeseen sinister harms.
The result is people injected feel virtuous, superior and blame those who don’t for future outbreaks.. and vice versa, people abstaining feel superior for using their noodle and blame recipients for new variants, creating a polarised mutually opposed strata.
we’re about a this point now.
And it seems like a game.
It looks like a rinse and repeat process sustained by media fear and coercion of the masses until it causes upheaval or some crisis or a trigger point. People re-evaluate their beliefs in these circumstances and kind of lose their way.
Every position seems justified. Even mass socially compliant self harm.
Soon a remanent may wake up to a wreaked, contracted economy suited to the depleted fossil fuel world that already probably exists.
Most of us could be harmless, weakened, perhaps sterile or dead.
The pond will look much bigger, because the pool of humanity will be smaller.
The politicians and pharma corporate will congratulate each other to avoid blame, keep their gains and stay in power.
“We did all we could didn’t we? It was the virus wasn’t it!
I am wondering if the story will start getting around, “COVID-19 can really be prevented/treated at home by people in good health with inexpensive over the counter drugs, including vitamin D and ivermectin intended for animals. Most people don’t need vaccines, or to be out of work for a long time, or to be hospitalized. Leave vaccines for those in terrible health to begin with.”
King Charles is carving his role as an eco-warrior. He has been working behind the scenes to get business to sign up to the ‘green transition’. I am not seeing any engagement with the electorate about what sort of economy we want to have. It seems to be another occasion for our ‘betters’ to shove aside democracy – not that UK democracy will offer the electorate any options on the matter.
> Prince Charles: The devastation in the land of my father is the stuff of nightmares. We must ALL act before it’s too late
…. This is why I have long believed that the private sector, with its trillions of dollars, has an absolutely critical role to play in an effective and practical partnership with governments, NGOs, charities and individuals. Unlocking the enormous investment potential in the private sector could accelerate the world towards a game-changing green transition – which is why, over the past 18 months, I have spent a great deal of time trying to bring the world’s leading businesses together, sector by sector, to that end.
The aim has been to create a ‘coalition of the willing’ and I have challenged them to see what we could do to overcome endemic obstacles in order to accelerate the practical transition to a greener future ahead of COP26 and beyond.
With their help, in January this year we launched what is called the ‘Terra Carta’, a voluntary charter for the private sector which sets out the basis of a decade-long recovery plan founded upon adopting sustainable solutions.
In signing the Terra Carta, business leaders declare that genuine sustainability is not a fad; it must inform and lie at the heart of all their business activities. In just seven months, I am pleased to say we have won the support of more than 400 leading companies.
In view of the fact that we have been busily testing our world to destruction and have left everything to the last minute, so that time is rapidly running out, they can only hope to win this epic battle if their counterparts in governments work with them to create the right conditions for an accelerated green transition.
This is why COP26 is so crucially important for our very survival on this increasingly over-heating planet – something our children and grandchildren are rightly and deeply concerned about.
The ‘coalition of the willing’ joins me in hoping that the conference will deliver the transformational decisions and the roadmap for change for which our planet is crying out.
We now have no alternative – we have to do all we possibly can in the short time left to us to avoid the enormous climate catastrophe that has already begun to show its face in the most terrifying ways, most recently in the Mediterranean.
World leaders, working closely with the private sector, have the power to make the difference. COP26 affords them an opportunity to do so before it is finally too late.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9913337/PRINCE-CHARLES-devastation-land-father-stuff-nightmares.html
An industrial civilisation cannot by definition be sustainable or eco-friendly.
It can only ever be the cancer in the natural body.
British co2 emissions are about 1% those of China, and basically irrelevant to the global situation. UK has hardly any industry, and most of the co2 comes from people driving, goods transport or us keeping warm in the winter. None of that means that we want our economy shut down now, without any democratic say so, just so that King Charles can carve his statue.
We would have to go very far back to find an economy that was ‘sustainable and eco-friendly’ – even hunter-gathering strips the land and is limited only by constraints on the size of the human population. Most of the large mammals were extinct within decades of humans leaving Africa.
Neolithic agriculture took 7000 years to spread from the Near East to Ireland as populations grew and needed ever more land cleared for farming and grazing. We cleared most of the forests of Northern Europe during the Middle Ages, which is why we have so much farm land. Most of Britain used to be forest and it fell to just 5% by 1920. It has now been restored to 13% but a reversion to agrarianism would be a catastrophe for the island ‘eco’.
The ‘eco’ is not static anyway, no land ecosystem away from the equator predates the last ice age. It is always in flux. An equilibrium implies only that species have increased in strength and come to dominate other species for niches. Disruption of the power-dominance status quo allows new species to emerge and to compete for niches. Equilibrium is an evolutionary dead end.
King Charles was raised by Philip, who was ideologically grounded in neo-feudalism and environmentalism due to his German background. The idea is that the ‘masses’ of humans should make way for the ‘quality’ of species, human and non-human alike. It has its roots in the eugenics movement. We may well end up back in a feudal situation as industrial civilisation hits energetic constraints but it seems unlikely that will do the island ‘eco’ any good if all of history is anything to go by.
Agriculture trashes the forests. The same thing happened everywhere as the Neolithic spread. Europe was once 2/3 woodland. The loss of woodland was especially acute on Britain and Ireland, with nearly all of it lost. Industrial civilisation actually allowed some woodland on Britain to be artificially expanded in the 20 c.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deforestation#Prehistory
With the advent of agriculture, larger areas began to be deforested, and fire became the prime tool to clear land for crops. In Europe there is little solid evidence before 7000 BC. Mesolithic foragers used fire to create openings for red deer and wild boar. In Great Britain, shade-tolerant species such as oak and ash are replaced in the pollen record by hazels, brambles, grasses and nettles. Removal of the forests led to decreased transpiration, resulting in the formation of upland peat bogs. Widespread decrease in elm pollen across Europe between 8400–8300 BC and 7200–7000 BC, starting in southern Europe and gradually moving north to Great Britain, may represent land clearing by fire at the onset of Neolithic agriculture.
The Neolithic period saw extensive deforestation for farming land.[151][152] Stone axes were being made from about 3000 BC not just from flint, but from a wide variety of hard rocks from across Britain and North America as well. They include the noted Langdale axe industry in the English Lake District, quarries developed at Penmaenmawr in North Wales and numerous other locations.
Horses for war / control and cows, pigs for food. That always takes a lot of acreage per human, feudals or permies – doesn’t matter how it is distributed, e.g. lord of the manor with entourage vs 15x adults + kids in tiny shed tending that farm..
The WTI continues to tank and Halliburton continues to fall as a sign of deflation and a slowing economy.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9OAK2oXEAAjOzs?format=jpg&name=large
The chart is Haliburton’s price. Of course, Halliburton is a big service provider to the oil industry. WTI now seems to be $62.25.
Volatility is breaking out from its one year channel. A stock market crash is coming despite QE? They just can’t hold things together anymore?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E9OS78TXoAUWzfm?format=jpg&name=large
A person doesn’t know exactly what is happening.
Articles from the Atlanta newspaper tell about the predicament we are in locally. Hospital beds are almost full, as are intensive care beds. COVID-19 rates are very high.
At the same time, there is concern that the CDC’s latest moratorium on evictions will be overturned. If people lose their rented apartments, they will likely want to move to extended stay hotels. These are, unfortunately, already pretty much 100% full.
Georgia has very limited unemployment insurance. People need to get back to work. There is no way that businesses can temporarily shut down, without a lot of people being out of work.
Schools and colleges are open at 100% of capacity, in spite of lots of cases in the schools. Churches are open at 100% of capacity. Gyms are open. Restaurants are open. Last Saturday evening, we found a 1.5 hour wait at the restaurant we first tried, so, at least last week, people were going out to eat. (We went elsewhere.)
A person hardly ever sees a “Mask required” sign, but employees of major chains wear masks. Quite a few other people wear masks as well.
Even with a high level of COVID cases, the situation is pretty much business as usual. I expect that hospitals will need to cut back on elective surgery to have more beds. As far as I know, this hasn’t been started yet.
“I expect that hospitals will need to cut back on elective surgery to have more beds. As far as I know, this hasn’t been started yet.”
From yesterday’s Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s article on the dire shortage of nurses in Georgia:
“As cases soar, hospitals and staff once again describe treating patients in meeting rooms, hallways and any available space. Yet they are having to scale back services for lack of staff. Hospitals from Piedmont Henry County to Phoebe Putney in Albany to Augusta University Health have halted elective surgeries. Wellstar Kennestone regularly closes sections of its emergency department simply for lack of nurses, according to staff. Wellstar says it is doing what it can to manage capacity, as its emergency department, like those at every other hospital, is swamped.”
I was thinking of the hospitals listed (except Wellstar Kennestone) as being farther south in Georgia.
Wellstar Kennestone is indeed in the Atlanta area. This article says that it closes sections of its emergency room for lack of nurses, not because of excessive COVID patients. In fact, closing part of the emergency room for lack of nurses would tend to hold down the number of people admitted to the hospital, whether for COVID or for accidental injuries. The hospitals in the Atlanta area do indeed have problems; the problems aren’t all directly COVID-related, however.
Nowhere does the article say that elective surgeries have been halted in the Atlanta area. Maybe they have, but I haven’t seen any indication of it yet.
FYI … Anna
The 2017-2018 influenza epidemic is sending people to hospitals and urgent-care centers in every state, and medical centers are responding with extraordinary measures: asking staff to work overtime, setting up triage tents, restricting friends and family visits and canceling elective surgeries, to name a few.
“We are pretty much at capacity, and the volume is certainly different from previous flu seasons,” says Dr. Alfred Tallia, professor and chair of family medicine at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical Center in New Brunswick, New Jersey. “I’ve been in practice for 30 years, and it’s been a good 15 or 20 years since I’ve seen a flu-related illness scenario like we’ve had this year.”
https://time.com/5107984/hospitals-handling-burden-flu-patients/
199,000 positives in the US yesterday….
NZ kicked off an extreme lockdown with one positive
Bridle – suckling infants of Injected CovIDIOT mothers are getting bleeding in the gastro tract….
Hahaha…. brain damage from the masks… and bleeding innards from the injections … mama mama… why did you f789 me up like this!!! mama…..
https://youtu.be/pGot8_gkLxk
Neutralizing Dr. Bhakdi’s attempt at rebuttal
I have inserted my comments underneath those of these medical doctors. As I am not sure about the role of Dr. Palmer here, I’ve addressed my comments to Dr. Bhakdi only. I have no interest in criticizing people who, like me and others, argue against mass vaccination.
It is important, however, that we use the correct scientific justification as anything else will soon or later backfire and be used against us to invalidate our opposition against mass vaccination campaigns. That’s the only reason why I am spending time on countering the alleged rebuttal of these doctors. I’ll start with my summary:
https://www.geertvandenbossche.org/post/neutralizing-dr-bhakdi-s-attempt-at-rebuttal?postId=0654a6ac-98fb-48af-91f6-05358634d322
55:00 mark — hilarious! https://www.aulis.com/moon_pt2.htm
Do masks work?
https://theness.com/neurologicablog/index.php/masks-work/
https://www.cubebik.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/1472437755-07082020-095355-CubeBik-Image-scaled-scaled.jpg
They definitely reduce air flow though …. which is damaging the brains of fetuses
Hahahahhahahaha…. hahahahahahaha…. when you see a pregnant woman with a mask please let her know that she’s the reason she’s going to plop out a half wit that will never get beyond an 80 IQ
hahahahahaha x 100000000000000000000000000000000.0098
your zero key seems to have stuck
LOL!
Le’s be positive, enough negative vibes Moriarty!
Half-wits will probably be happier in the New Normal, until they are terminated.
Which they ill probably ask for, just as they have rushed to get vaxxed……
They say ignorance is bliss… I suppose mental Re tar dation would be extreme bliss… because it’s extreme ignorance…
As long as someone feeds you… takes you for a walk… and does not beat you … it’s a pretty good life…
One might argue that the CovIDIOT mothers have done their Fetuses a Favour….
http://i2.wp.com/itsadogslifemilwaukee.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Its-a-dogs-life-logo.jpg
this what mass hysteria and disinformation does:
(In case anyone is wondering who/where eddy’s covidiots are)
https://www.fox8live.com/2021/08/21/uptick-mississippi-poison-control-calls-people-who-take-livestock-dewormer-treat-covid-19/
>>>>Uptick in Mississippi poison control calls from people who take livestock dewormer to treat COVID-19
At least 70-percent of the recent calls have been in regards to ingestion of Ivermectin bought at feed stores
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – Mississippi’s Poison Control is reporting an alarming uptick in calls from people who took a drug bought at a feed store meant to deworm livestock.
Some believe it will help with COVID-19, but veterinary experts warn if you buy it at a feed store, it could possibly leave you paralyzed.
“Everyday, everyday, people, phone calls, phone calls, people coming in,” Raina Boudreaux at Double M Feed, Garden & Pet Supply describes.
Boudreaux says it started a month ago.
“When you use a product that is highly concentrated that is designed in an oral form for a horse or cattle, it is easy to overdose,” Dr. Mike Strain, the Commissioner of the Louisiana Department of Agriculture & Forestry said.
It gained popularity over social media as a COVID-19 cure and preventative treatment, even though the FDA has not approved it for that purpose and explicitly tells people not to take it for COVID.
Merck, the drug’s manufacturer, says the current data does not show it is safe or effective to use for anything other that what it has been approved for.
“The New England Journal of Medicine and Lancet, which is one of the primary British journals of medicine, have since removed the article that was placed in there, the study talking about the effectiveness of this drug treatment,” Strain said.
Ivermectin is approved to use for parasites, lice, and some skin conditions in humans as well as deworming animals.
…..He says it’s very carefully controlled because Ivermectin is a powerful neural paralytic agent.
“In high enough doses that will cross the blood-brain barrier and what it does, it basically can result in paralysis,” Strain said. “There it is very difficult to treat.”
It’s known that ivermectin can be dangerous ingested in large quantities, like any drug, but it has proved itself used carefully – ample data. Just like vitamins, etc.
You would perhaps be better off, Norman, listening to Dr Byram Bridle above, on the menace to your family, and all the children in the UK, than trying to score cheap points.
If not, who’s the real idiot?
If you have headache and you take 10 Aspirn in one time instead of 1, you will probably have a pulmunary edema or a renal impairment, but Aspirin still is a good treatment.
The problem would be to ban Aspirin and leave people alone to make their own Galenic products.
That is what is happening with Ivermectin.
it was just relayed information, on how people get misinformed, and their reaction to it.
no points desired to be scored—maybe you thought there was.
as far as I know–nobody has ‘come for my gr/grandkids.’
They are coming norm…
Have you seen the back to school policy in Canada? No – they will not pin little norm down and Inject him … but there is plenty of coercion ….
Moore said that unvaccinated students would face different isolation requirements if they come in contact with a positive case.
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-will-have-different-rules-for-unvaccinated-students-this-september-1.5525110
https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-unveils-back-to-school-plan-for-september-here-s-what-you-need-to-know-1.5532926
It’s not difficult to imagine how this will play out … there will be an outbreak (up the cycles on the PCR to make it so)…. if your kid is not Injected … it’s a stretch of studying from home …. Then they are tested… if they get a positive then it’s another 10 days at home ….
They will beat the students and parents into submission….
Recall the Johns Hopkins doctor stating that 350 or so children in the US have died from Covid in the USA — every single one of them already had serious illness … so effectively not a single child has died from Covid in the US.
So assume similar in Canada…. yet they are effectively going to force this Poison on every child.
How sick is that norm?
Norman, the reason why people in the US are using veterinary formulations of ivermectin is that it is very difficult to get prescriptions for ivermectin filled if for a COVID-related purpose. I’ve tried to get such prescriptions filled and no brick and mortar pharmacy will fill them in my area (however, they will if the purpose is not for COVID). Only a few online pharmacies will do so. It doesn’t take much for the corporations to embrace totalitarianism.
Why am I seeking ivermectin? I want it on hand for family members who got jabbed and suffer from vaccine enhanced disease. I also want it for family members who have so far avoided the jab, but are coerced to get it (to maintain their jobs). Ivermectin might help prevent adverse effects, as the jab essentially produces spike protein disease.
Dr. John Day’s Covid Prevention Protocol:
An Ounce of Prevention:
Vitamin D deficiency is a major risk factor for catching COVID-19, being sick enough to need hospitalization, and dying from it. Don’t take that risk, please. Vitamin-D comes from sunshine entering superficially into the skin, and causing a photochemical reaction that creates vitamin-D. The great majority of people who do not work outdoors are deficient in vitamin-D, mildly, moderately or severely. Black people in New York and in Northern Europe, rich and poor alike, were some of the most deficient in vitamin-D last spring. Do you recall how that went?
Above and below the sub-tropics, the winter sun is too weak to produce vitamin-D, even if you can bare your skin at midday. Vitamin-D supplementation is cheap, safe and effective. Somebody may have already screamed, “Don’t take too much” at you. I agree. What’s a good dose and what’s “too much”. The dose I have taken for over a decade is 1/8 of 1 milligram per day. That is 125 micrograms, or 5000 units. 1 mg of vitamin-D3 is 40,000 units. Weird, right? 1 mg sounds like nothing, and 40,000units sounds like WAY TOO MUCH.
I have been checking pre-treatment and treatment vitamin-D levels on people since 2006 and I’ll say that if you weigh 100# or more, you can safely take 5000 units per day of vitamin-D for as long as you may live. I have seen a couple of people get slightly high levels after years of 10,000 units per day, not any sign of toxicity, and they backed off to 5000 units after a month off. Levels normalized. You can take 10.000 units (1/4 mg) per day for the first 2 months, to get your level up into the normal range. I recommend it, especially if you have extra fat. Vitamin-D distributes into fat, slowing the rise in blood level. Upper mid normal blood level appears to be ideal.
Zinc has been known since the 1990s to shorten the severity and duration of “some common colds”, namely those caused by coronaviruses. The studies used treatment dosages of roughly 150 to 250 mg per day of zinc, usually as lozenges, spread out through the day in divided doses. What zinc does inside a cell, infected by a coronavirus, is to reduce its ability to make more coronaviruses. That is ideal in the period of exposure and early infection, to reduce viral replication enough to let the innate immune system keep the virus from getting the better of you. Take 50 mg per day of oral zinc, as a tablet or lozenge, together with 250 mg of Quercetin, also readily available, a natural product of onions and other vegetables. Quercetin helps zinc get into cells, which is where zinc is effective. (It’s really hard to eat enough onions to get that much.)
Prescription antiviral prophylaxis may also be appropriate for some people with weaker immune systems and higher risk of severe COVID-19, such as those with diabetes, obesity, sleep apnea, heart disease, kidney disease and cancer. Almost no western doctors will prescribe hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin for this purpose, after the politicization of hydroxychloroquine last spring when then President Trump advocated for it. The science of its efficacy in prophylaxis has been borne out. In medical workers, both hydroxychloroquine and ivermectin weekly prophylaxis are about 75% effective, reducing infections by 75% in the group taking either, compared to the similar groups not taking weekly prophylaxis.
You likely just heard the unfair bad press, not things like The Lancet admitting later that its anti-HCQ data from “Surgisphere”, compiled from all of those hospitals, was actually not compiled from hospitals, but fabricated. Big headline; small retraction much later. Hydroxychloroquine prophylaxis would need to be prescribed, and is dangerous enough in overdose to have killed the poor guy who took the fish tank product last year. I’m not advising you to try to get any, nor to take it. (It is preferable as prophylaxis in pregnancy, an uncommon need.)
Ivermectin has a remarkably broad safety profile, and has been served up about as many times as McDonald’s hamburgers, to man and beast alike, for various forms of worms and parasites. It does cause birth defects in rats, when given at high doses, so don’t use it in pregnancy, please. Like most medicines to treat coronavirus illness, ivermectin does different things against the virus, than it does on regular days. Ivermectin inhibits the transport of the viral RNA into the cell nucleus, where it would be transcribed, manufacturing new viruses. It does other things, like reduce inflammation during cytokine-storm, in the second and third weeks of illness, helping the people who get really badly sick. Ivermectin is effective in prophylaxis, in early illness and also in later, severe illness, and through multiple mechanisms. Ivermectin is what I prescribe since last August.
Ivermectin is now available mail-order from India, and from a reliable source. https://www.medicinesdropshipper.com/antiparasitic-drugs.html#iverlast-12mg-tablet
The preventive, “prophylactic” dose of ivermectin is based upon body weight, and it can be taken weekly, once an initial level inside of the cells is established. Ivermectin leaves the cells very slowly, so it can just be topped-off once per week. There are some slight variations on this, but I’ll describe the one I prescribe. It uses the same body-weight dosing that you will find wherever you look up ivermectin dosing for humans or animals. For every 5 kg, or 11 pounds of body weight, a person takes 1 mg of ivermectin at that dose. For most people I treat, that is 12 to 18 mg of ivermectin per dose. For COVID-19 prophylaxis, this dose is taken Day #1, Day #2 and then every seventh day after that. If you forget, take it when you remember, and get back to the original schedule after that.
Thanks for posting this.
Hi Tim,
Thanks for the info.
Could you point me to the sources of these protocols?
This is the link:
John Day is a proper doctor working on the front lines in Texas.
https://www.theautomaticearth.com/2021/02/treat-your-own-covid/
The fish-tank-cleaner guy may have been intentionally poisoned by his deranged and violent wife. (Plus, he ingested chloroquine phosphate, not hydroxychloroquine.)
https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/man-who-died-ingesting-fish-tank-cleaner-remembered-as-intelligent-levelheaded/
https://freebeacon.com/coronavirus/police-investigating-death-of-arizona-man-from-chloroquine-phosphate/
No mention of if there was any pain involved… was it a quick death….
And Vitamin C may be FAR more important a protection than most seem to be aware. It was more than 40 years ago that I first heard of Linus Pauling’s promotion and use of it. And I’ve had no reason since to refute what he said.
And here’s the cure.
The Pound of Cure:
I’m sorry if you have to do this, but it is mostly the same, with higher doses, and some more additions, to help avoid systemic damage. If you have not been taking vitamin-D3 for long, increase your dose to 5000 units 3 times per day for 10 days. The best thing is if you can get calcifediol, an immediately bioavailable form of vitamin-D, which does not need slow activation in the liver, and which saved lives and reduced ICU admissions in a Spanish hospital study. We can’t get it in the US. Increase your dosing of 50 mg zinc and 250 mg quercetin to 3 times per day, also. Add 1000 mg of vitamin-C 3 times per day to the vitamin-D, zinc and quercetin.
Aspirin is sometimes added in treatment of active disease, because SARS-CoV-2 inflames the lining of arteries and arterioles, causing clotting in small and large blood vessels. Aspirin is used as an anti-clotting agent. If you have mild illness, related to nasal symptoms, some fatigue, headaches and body aches, but no fever, no diarrhea, and no breathing problems, you probably don’t need aspirin. However, if you have systemic illness, including fever, breathing problems and/or gut problems like diarrhea and vomiting, you stand to benefit from 1 to 2 tablets of 325 mg aspirin per day. The sicker you are the more likely that 325 mg twice per day is for you.
Clotting issues persist, so this should continue 30 days. If you have been taking 2 per day, and feel pretty well after 10 days, then it is good to back down to 1 per day. A lot of lung problems come from the blood-vessel side, not the air side. This is a weird infection.
Ivermectin dose for treatment is the same for the first 2 days, the cellular loading dose of 1 mg per 5 kg or 11# on days #1 and 2 of treatment. This is followed with that same dose on days #4 and 6 of treatment, and that is the full course. Many physicians dose for fewer than 4 days, and so have I, but this seems to reduce the number of days of feeling bad in my experience.
I typically also treat with 10 days of 100 mg doxycycline twice per day, which is Dr Borody’s protocol, as widely used in India, to very good effect. Doxycycline is a broad spectrum antibiotic, which will treat any secondary bacterial infection on top of COVID Pneumonia, and which also has some antiviral benefits. It is also anti-inflammatory, which is of benefit.
You would be well served to have an accurate thermometer and pulse oximetry devices at home. You need to know if you have a fever. You can presume that you have systemic illness at that point. You need a decision point and a fever over 100.5 degrees F is a good one. Temps between 99.5 and 100.5 might mean early/mild illness. Early experience in China was that people fared worse with things like ibuprofen and naproxen. I have not seen good follow up on that in the west. Still, I’d choose acetaminophen for symptoms. The pulse oximeter shows pulse and calculates blood oxygenation. It’s good for measuring heart rate. Sicker people’s hearts beat faster. I see it all the time. A heart rate over 110 means you are getting much sicker. Don’t ignore it!
It is good to buy an inexpensive pulse oximeter and get to know what your usual baseline is. For most people it is 97% to 99% saturation. It will be lower if you live at high altitude. Dropping 2 points from normal means your lungs are not working right. It likely means COVID Pneumonia, if you have a positive test, already. Some people will read a little higher than they really are, so if you read a little low (95%), and feel short of breath, you may actually need oxygen. You may need to go to a hospital. If your pulse oximeter reads 93% or below, you really should be promptly evaluated at a hospital. You might need to check in.
One dramatically important feature of COVID-19 is just how fast people can go from not-too-bad to choosing between ICU and the morgue. Really fast. An hour or two. Rising heart rate and falling oxygen mean that it is time to go to the nearest real hospital ER. Don’t drive yourself, please. You may become confused or pass out at the wheel.
Thanks for this, too.
norm… you should be paying very close attention to this information . and thanking Tim.
Being double jabbed and geriatric … you are in the extreme risk category … there are all sorts of vile things breeding in your body right now … you need to be ready to fight!
I’ve posted the above to counter disinformation with good information. People are worried. People are panicking. People are getting sick and dying from lack of good information and advice, and from lack of access to medicines that are safe, cheap and effective.
Please spread Dr. Day’s good information far and wide. You could save somebody’s life or at least ease their symptoms and their anxiety.
Norman is correct that a lot of people are stupid and do stupid things, not realizing that getting double-jabbed with the clot shot is hardly a stroke of genius.
Pretty much a revamp of a story running four months ago except it was Missouri. Reads mostly as scare tactics. That said dosage is everything so check what you are doing. Best to get actual pills for humans if you can.
How about making ivermectin prescriptions at the right dosages easily available, so people don’t have to make their own (bad) estimates of what dosage would be suitable?
At the end of the poison control piece it states that they had eighty some calls but none were serious enough to require hospitalization. So it seems to be designed to scare people away from Ivermectin. If they took too much, they are not smart enough to follow directions, or never learned how to convert kgs to lbs.
Most of the animal medicines are the same as the people ones and are often made on the same factory lines…like “fish antibiotics”. If you look them up in a pill identification book, they are exactly the same as human antibiotics and exactly the same dose. If you read the apple dewormer instructions it tells you, by weight, how much the dose should be. Then you look for the corresponding mark on the plunger and squeeze that amount out.
norm … I can help you with the registration … please post your info here and I will handle the input…
Big money here (compared to the ZERO you got for the Covid experiment)
https://www.trials4us.co.uk/registration/
Wow – I found another site … thousands of pounds on offer!
You could live large if you signed up for all of them….
Remind us how much you got paid for the Covid Vaccine Trial…. was it … like ZERO?
Check this one out — boy oh boy did you get suckered!
Healthy men and women needed for the study of a potential new medicine for treating COVID-19. You must be 18 to 65 years old, with a BMI between 18 and 35, and not have used any nicotine products in the last 3 months. If you are a woman who’s able to have a baby, you must have an IUD, IUS or a contraceptive implant. The study involves 4 nights’ residence on our wards and 9 outpatient visits. Next group starts 22 August, and more groups starting throughout September 2021
THREE THOUSAND POUNDS!!!!
One of them pays 5 thousand pounds. dunc would you like me to find similar opportunities for you in the US? Mike the PLUG …. surely NZ has a programme or two — nice way to Boost your trolling income…. (and a way to keep you off those rent boy sites!)
https://www.londontrials.com/jobs
Who’s afraid of Vaccinia Wolfe?
see Romania below
Covid: The woeful case for asymptomatic transmission
Dr Clare Craig, a pathologist, and her colleague Dr Jonathan Engler have examined the research evidence behind the claim that Covid-19 can be transmitted by asymptomatic individuals. They have written an important paper on the subject which was first published in Lockdown Sceptics yesterday. The first part of this article is the writers’ summary of their findings. It is followed by the full paper.
HARMFUL lockdown policies and mass testing have been justified on the assumption that asymptomatic transmission is a genuine risk. Given the harmful collateral effects of such policies, the precautionary principle should result in a very high evidential bar for asymptomatic transmission being set. However, the only word which can be used to describe the quality of evidence for this is woeful. A handful of questionable instances of spread have been massively amplified in the medical literature by repeatedly including them in meta-analyses that continue to be published, recycling the same evidence base.
There are three types of evidence for asymptomatic spread: studies showing people test positive while asymptomatic (the bulk of the work); studies measuring viral load and concluding from it that people with no symptoms can transmit virus; and studies showing actual transmission.
The first two are not proper evidence that spread can occur.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/covid-the-woeful-case-for-asymptomatic-transmission-2/
Unfortunately, if vaccinated people are not aware that they can get COVID, they may ignore whatever mild symptoms they have and go about their business as usual. This is the case, with or without the pre-symptomatic spread of the illness.
The situation for the delta variant can be expected to be different from earlier variants, because delta is much more transmissible than the earlier types.
Days after the U.S. Government announced its plans to begin a Covid booster vaccine roll-out, the Washington Post has revealed that American health officials are reviewing reports that the Moderna vaccine may be linked to a higher risk of a heart condition in younger adults than was previously thought – especially in young men.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-probing-moderna-vaccine-increased-heart-inflammation-risk-washington-post-2021-08-20/
Really? No way… really?
I am in the lobby scribbling a few lines while my family observes rabbits in a park attached to the hotel. It’s called ‘Magic Land’ (i.e., a few trees carved with human faces or in imitation of characters from fairy tales).
Sounds idyllic, doesn’t it? And yet I can’t quite manage a connection with those peaceful higher frequencies. Maybe for a few fleeting moments, as we do enjoy relative freedom here, but memories of that other world, just two and a half hours’ flight away, haunt me. What’s more – as our leaders have grown fond of reminding us – winter is coming.
For now it’s summer and we are in Romania. After a spring of constant protest in the streets of our cities, the Government rid us of one health minister, only to replace him with another that, by and large, kept his policies. There is however a certain freshness in the air and, one way or the other, most measures have been relaxed.
On the face of it, Romania’s much the same as elsewhere in Europe. Masks are compulsory inside, but not out. Vaccination clinics have popped up like mushrooms in a dark Transylvanian forest. Just yesterday we passed the famous clinic at Dracula’s Castle, promoted across the region with banners (which must’ve cost a pretty penny) bearing the provocative message: “Who’s afraid of a vaccine? Come get it; one sting and you’re immune!”
https://dailysceptic.org/postcard-from-romania/
I am wondering why the sceptic websites are not pounding the Sweden drum…
No lockdowns – no masks – minimal injections — almost no deaths from covid….
Sweden has relegated covid to the status of the flu … or common cold… it is irrelevant.
Yet… silence…across the media spectrum.
Sweden: 63% of the population 18+ years of age have been double jabbed. 81% got the first jabb. Masks are rare. No lockdowns but still restrictions from what would be considerad to be BAU.
I hadn’t realized they were up there with the Injections … particularly in the younger demographic….
This just goes to show you that all humans are Stooopid…
Sweden had already fallen from 5th to 30th in deaths per capita because they had adopted Focused Protection – and rejected lockdowns and masks….
Very few were dying … and those that were had serious health issues.
Yet STILL these f789ing i id iots get Injected.
Fortunately there is a cure for stu ppidity now… it’s called.. The Booster Injection 🙂
Because pregnancy can alter your lung function, women who are pregnant may have a harder time breathing to begin with. For that reason, it’s important to check in with your healthcare provider before using a particulate respirator.
https://mothertobaby.org/baby-blog/keeping-your-cool-during-pregnancy-when-fire-season-heats-up/
PR Team Calling Mike the Plug. Mike the Plug report for duty…. urgent – Mike the Plug….
Mike comes off p—or n hub… and multi tasks opening the messenger app that is flashing red alert ….
Hey Mike thanks for responding promptly … this Fast Eddy character has overcome the heap of sh it that we have planted stating that masks do no harm and google is playing ball by giving us the first 10 pages of results….
He has worked out how to filter pre covid research as well as has gone lateral on us and is searching for other situations where pregnant women would consider wearing masks (wild fires… jobs where masks are the norm).
We need you to counter his facts by spamming OFW with our paid for studies that show masks do no harm to the fetus.
This is urgent Mike … we need you to get on this badly … the boss says he’ll pay you 5 cents instead of the usual 3 for each post.
Mike puts his box of tissue to the side… and begins…. (rent to pay … pigs asking for new lipstick)
Hey Mike … what’s it like to crash a gathering of great minds only to be told you are clueless and surely you should be at the Justin Bieber concert up the road? Yes I know you are getting paid … but surely this is damaging your self esteem…. One has to wonder what the long term impact of mockery will be on your state of mind… You might want to seek counselling … we’d hate to see this get to the point where you are permanently damaged.
Australia COVID LIVE updates: NSW records 825 new local COVID-19 cases, three deaths; Sydney anti-lockdown protest planned to go ahead; Victoria to enter statewide lockdown after 61 new cases
https://www.smh.com.au/national/australia-covid-live-updates-heavy-police-presence-as-anti-lockdown-protest-planned-to-go-ahead-in-sydney-nsw-cases-continue-to-rise-amid-harsher-restrictions-20210820-p58km4.html
Sweden – 1018 Covid infections yesterday… 4 deaths — no lockdowns … no masks… no police… no arrests…
UK – 36, 987 Covid infections yesterday — 114 deaths – no lockdowns – masks not required… no police .. no arrests
Do you have a point to make?
Ya I didn’t spell it out because it was aimed at anyone above 7 with average intelligence. And I’d expect the point would be obvious to this group of people.
The point which you miss, Mike, time and time again?
Forty seven people arrested, 260 infringement notices issued during Sydney protest
https://www.theage.com.au/national/australia-covid-live-updates-heavy-police-presence-as-anti-lockdown-protest-planned-to-go-ahead-in-sydney-nsw-cases-continue-to-rise-amid-harsher-restrictions-20210820-p58km4.html
Fizzle….