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  • #87389 Reply
    Squonk
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    Also John,

    If you think that most educated people are trying to kill you in some mass conspiracy (where only a tiny few speak out) – there’s not much I can say or do.

    As far as I’m concerned the current vaccines aren’t perfect but they are much better than nothing. Meanwhile this virus is pretty good at staying one step ahead of us and Omicron variants may be especially immune evasive. You stick with your choice and I’ll stick with mine.

    #87390 Reply
    john
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    —not to mention the almost unthinkable manipulations and fraud that were involved in the approval of the Covid genic drugs, the ‘Ventavia’ scandal, the declarations by a Pfizer whistle-blower – and what is being discovered in the FDA documentation on the approval of the Pfizer vaccine, that Pfizer wanted to secret for 75 years, but is now being forced to reveal, albeit with crucial information deleted from public view

    #87391 Reply
    john
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    Sqonk,

    Here is Class 1 scientific evidence that Pfizer’s 6 month trial results shows their experimental gene therapy does more harm than good.

    https://www.canadiancovidcarealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/The-COVID-19-Inoculations-More-Harm-Than-Good-REV-Dec-16-2021.pdf

    As for VAERS, there is another viewpoint that it UNDERSTATES by between 40 and 100 times the harm done by these experimental therapies.

    #87392 Reply
    Squonk
    Guest

    Just give up trying to convince me by posting nonsense. I know you don’t understand it is nonsense but that’s not my problem. But I admit that’s a glossy PDF you linked to and that will suck you in. How about this link?

    https://www.canadiancovidcarealliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/Website-Disclaimer-January-14-2022.pdf

    As it says at your linked website:…

    The information contained or presented on this website is presented solely for educational purposes only on matters of interest for the personal use of the reader, who accepts full responsibility for its use. The information is provided with the understanding that the authors and publishers are not herein engaged in rendering medical, pharmaceutical, nutritional, mental health, legal, or any other professional advice or services. As such, it should not be used as a substitute for consultation and advice from a licensed professional in the specific field of interest who will provide recommendations based on your particular situation and factual background.

    Do not make any decisions based on the information contained or presented on this website without consulting an appropriate professional.

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    #87395 Reply
    Squonk
    Guest

    Nice to know you ignore the website’s advice and actually do base your decisions on it.

    #87396 Reply
    Clark
    Guest

    John:

    “Here is Class 1 scientific evidence that Pfizer’s 6 month trial results shows their experimental gene therapy does more harm than good.”

    My problem with this is that I don’t see it in the hospitalisation and death from all causes numbers.

    In fact, I see very much the opposite in those numbers. When covid arrived, before vaccination, hospitalisation and death from all causes shot up like a rocket. Not just in the UK but in country after country. After vaccination, when new variants arrived, those numbers increased, but a fraction as much as they did before. And there wasn’t any general increase which followed the number of people vaccinated.

    So, John, I have another question for you. Which should I trust? The numbers, with which the vast majority of expert and medical opinion is clearly consistent? Or a handful of contrarian “experts” with some cherry-picked paragraphs, all rounded up and published together by partisan organisations?

    Yes I know there’s massive corruption in the pharmaceutical industries; I’ve read an entire, extensively referenced 400 page book about precisely how they get away with it. But the numbers are what they are, and they’re consistent with my personal experience.

    #87397 Reply
    Clark
    Guest

    And:

    “As for VAERS, there is another viewpoint that it UNDERSTATES by between 40 and 100 times the harm done by…”

    Actually, that claim far pre-dates the pandemic; general anti-vaxxers had been using it for many years, decades I think, before covid raised its ugly head.

    “Viewpoints” – I’m sick to death of viewpoints; nature doesn’t care what anyone thinks. We’ve had over thirty years of inaction on global warming and fossil fuel depletion due to the promotion of “viewpoints”, as the polar ice melted away and reserve after reserve of fuel went into terminal decline. Now we’re seriously in the shit, our entire civilisation is likely to collapse causing unimaginable suffering, and all because of “viewpoints”.

    #87400 Reply
    glenn_nl
    Guest

    How tiresomely predictable. Instead of taking on _any_ of the arguments about John’s own hand-picked points (his “smoking guns”), it’s down to some feeble, “Ah yes, but what about…”

    Why bother with the “what about…?” if you don’t follow up on the answers to them, John?

    Since you wouldn’t be drawn on your motivations for bringing all this junk science here, let me put forward a couple of my own speculations. You think you’re much more clever than the “sheeple” that meekly accept whatever they’re told. You think you’ve uncovered some almighty plot by “them”, but – gosh, darn it – “they” just couldn’t stop a few brave truth-tellers from blowing away the official story. And, ehem, yes – perhaps these “truth-tellers” do happen to be racists, lunatics, industry stooges and extreme right-wing operators, but hey, nobody’s perfect.

    You possibly also want to justify your own recklessness in nearly killing your own wife – according to the testimony you’ve provided. But if you have other motivations, don’t be coy – let us know!

    You’re in predictable company though, John. Every last one of you denialists (Covid, climate change, flat-Earthers etc.) has behaved in exactly the same way. Not a single one has ever stuck to a point of argument to its conclusion. None, ever, and nor will you.

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    #87406 Reply
    Clark
    Guest

    John, June 22, 02:47, #87390:

    “…the ‘Ventavia’ scandal, the declarations by a Pfizer whistle-blower…”

    If anyone is interested in this, an account, including the Ventavia (not Pfizer) whistle-blower’s testimony, can be found here:

    https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2635

    It’s about Ventavia, a company contracted by Pfizer rather than Pfizer itself, and reveals poor practice rather than fraud, but it’s an important issue nonetheless. But at first glance it far from supports the claims that the Canadian Covid Care Alliance have made based upon it. Some commentary about its significance at the following link:

    https://www.bmj.com/content/375/bmj.n2953.full

    #87407 Reply
    Clark
    Guest

    John, I’m still waiting to hear from you how allegedly incorrect attribution of cause of death can cause the death from all causes graph to leap off the scale. Unless you can answer this you have precisely zilch. It’s been six days now…

    The following article has a graph you should look at. Now which curve does the death rate follow, eh? Vaccination? I think not…

    https://theconversation.com/vaccine-trial-misconduct-allegation-could-it-damage-trust-in-science-171164

    #87411 Reply
    Clark
    Guest

    John, here’s a chance for you to do some due diligence, as you put it, on the sources and claims you’ve been citing.

    These are links that I have encountered but haven’t had time to review yet.

    Do the Pfizer documents really show that their vaccine hardly works? Seems highly unlikely, considering the huge reduction in hospitalisations and deaths since its deployment, so probably the claim is bunk:

    https://respectfulinsolence.com/2022/05/16/the-only-12-efficacy-covid-vaccine-gambit-from-the-bmj-to-viral-slasher-myth/

    What about the data integrity issue?

    https://respectfulinsolence.com/2021/11/15/wtf-happened-to-the-bmj/

    So what do we know about the “Covid Care Alliance” who have been promoting these claims?

    https://globalnews.ca/news/8517353/canada-doctors-covid-vaccine-disinformation/

    #87412 Reply
    Clark
    Guest

    OK, I’ve had time to review the articles I linked above. The respectfulinsolence blog is too verbose for me; I keep wishing it would get to the point. The “An antivaccine slasher myth originated in The BMJ” article does eventually get around to its critique of the whistle-blower’s criticisms of Ventavia; the claims based on it by the Covid Care Alliance are unsupported and greatly exaggerated. But I already knew that from the mortality and vaccination curves.

    The “Revealed: How a web of Canadian doctors are undermining the fight against COVID-19” article lists a lot of highly dubious behaviour. It doesn’t contain any proper “smoking gun”, but smoking guns are anyway more the stuff of conspiracy theorists.

    But in reviewing the articles I did encounter a link I found particularly helpful. In my opening post I wrote of “influence campaigns”. Here’s a nice concise article detailing the funding and roots of the covid trivialisation campaign, and its links to climate change denial, and the historical tobacco-related illness doubt campaign:

    https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/09/13/covid-19-and-the-new-merchants-of-doubt/

    #87413 Reply
    Clark
    Guest

    John, you’ve wasted masses of my time. Please e-mail your postal address to clark at killick1 dot plus dot com so as I can invoice you 🙂

    #87419 Reply
    Clark
    Guest

    John gone?

    #87424 Reply
    john
    Guest

    Hey Clark, the stuff you and your sidekick Butthead-Dumber post might get you a paid gig as a system pig with the likes of FactCheck, Integrity Initiative, the 77th Brigade, Bellingcat or the Atlantic Council. You would have to dox your e-mail though…
    Oh, wait…

    #87425 Reply
    Clark
    Guest

    John, I make no secret of my e-mail address because the whole purpose of my e-mail account is so that people can contact me. I’m Clark Killick, my landline number is not ex-directory, I live in Highwood near Chelmsford and you could find me on the electoral register.

    *** MODS *** I request that John’s above comment not be deleted despite it contravening the moderation policy.

    #87426 Reply
    Clark
    Guest

    John, the Integrity Initiative, the 77th Brigade, Bellingcat and the Atlantic Council all propagandise for US/NATO foreign policy, a subject routinely shrouded in secrecy as Julian Assange’s cruel and protracted imprisonment confirms. So far as I know, these propaganda organisations have said little about medical science, which is an internationally collaborative endeavour conducted to a large extent in public view. If your insinuation had validity, you would merely have to turn to Russian or Chinese medical science to find the supposed contradictions you wish to popularise. Russia has its own problems with conspiracy theories about vaccines and they’re very similar to those in the so-called West, stemming from very justified distrust in government and mass media.

    I do not support “the system”; my position is considerably more complicated than that. My opinion is that most “Western” governments demonstrated, and continue to demonstrate, gross stupidity in their cack-handed response to the pandemic, but that the type of stupidity displayed was and is rather predictable given their unquestioning commitment to neoliberalism.

    I find it very disappointing that so far you have avoided engaging with the points I have raised, because covid has cast light upon many important and interesting matters that we could be discussing.

    #87427 Reply
    Clark
    Guest

    Glenn_nl, please try to be more compassionate and less outspoken towards John, and others sucked in by conspiracy theory.

    John, by “Butthead-Dumber” I assume you were referring to glenn_nl, as this was the only commenter who got personal. I apologise for my own frustration, but as an engineer you should be able to understand what’s provoking it – for over a year now I have had to address the same few fallacies over and over again; it’s a massive waste of time and effort, and it obstructs progress towards far more interesting and potentially productive discussion.

    #87428 Reply
    Clark
    Guest

    And John, I see the human predicament and rapidly gathering crisis far more as a tragedy than as a conflict. I think that the common tendency to see it in terms of conflict is very much part of the problem, and a defining characteristic of the propaganda within which we’re all immersed and to which we all contribute. You, me, everyone; we’re all stuck with these problems together, no way out save death, nowhere to escape to. We need each other’s minds to address the problem, or our civilisation won’t earn the capacity to survive and nature will annihilate it.

    #87429 Reply
    glenn_nl
    Guest

    So instead of tackling the replies to his “smoking gun” evidence, instead of having the courage to either concede or counter the points made, John just lets fly with a load of personal abuse and runs away.

    I’m shocked, shocked I tell ya!

    It’s particularly hurtful coming from someone who was obviously so sensitive to ad hominems, that he whined about even the slightest hint of it. “Butthead dumber” indeed, will I ever recover? ???

    With all due respect, Clark, fuck him. People on this thread took the time to review the “evidence” John presented, provided comprehensive and thoughtful replies, and researched topics on request. And their thanks? To be completely ignored and/or insulted.

    ‘John’ will be back, don’t you worry. He’ll get all excited at some new BS he thinks is the _real_ smoking gun, and present it under another guise. And then run away again once it’s debunked.

    #87431 Reply
    Clark
    Guest

    Glenn_nl, John indeed responded with personal abuse but whether he has run away remains to be seen – though I suspect you may be right, as such a response has proven to be the most common in this now familiar situation.

    But John suffered severe personal loss and trauma – his mother’s painful death and his wife’s long struggle against illness – he must have felt terrible. He very probably felt severe guilt about infecting his wife, though she would probably have caught it eventually from some other source had John not visited the boat club. Your early comment may have reawakened such turmoil in John’s mind.

    Our rationality is a vulnerable thing, dependent as it is upon the evolutionarily far older motivational parts of our minds. This is an evolutionary inevitability, a predicament we’re all stuck within, and the pandemic has brought enormous pressure upon our convoluted cognitive systems. I think that one of the reasons that, after two thousand years, the story of Jesus is still so widely shared (albeit lumbered with prodigious superstitious baggage) is that it says he taught by use of parables. Instead of criticising directly and thereby provoking defensive resistance, he told moral stories about absent, abstract or fictional third parties. I wish I had such patience and creativity; I try to appeal directly to my opposite number’s rationality, but that may be the very reason I so often fail to reach it.

    #87434 Reply
    ET
    Guest

    If anyone is interested in accessing the VAERS system covid data you can see it here. Near the middle top if you hover over “COVID vaccine data” there is a drop down menu for different metrics.

    John. you place great reliance and authority on the VAERS reported adverse incidents. You ought to read the disclaimer carefully.

    “VAERS accepts reports of adverse events and reactions that occur following vaccination. Healthcare providers, vaccine manufacturers, and the public can submit reports to the system. While very important in monitoring vaccine safety, VAERS reports alone cannot be used to determine if a vaccine caused or contributed to an adverse event or illness. The reports may contain information that is incomplete, inaccurate, coincidental, or unverifiable. In large part, reports to VAERS are voluntary, which means they are subject to biases. This creates specific limitations on how the data can be used scientifically. Data from VAERS reports should always be interpreted with these limitations in mind.”

    You might want to take a look at this.

    “During December 2020–July 2021, COVID-19 vaccine recipients had lower rates of non–COVID-19 mortality than did unvaccinated persons after adjusting for age, sex, race and ethnicity, and study site.”

    #87435 Reply
    Clark
    Guest

    Israel.

    John raised the example of Israel:

    – ‘all cause mortality data in Israel, one of the most “protected” populations, show steep increases following the 1st/2nd jab, the 1st booster, AND the 2nd booster. The last peak is just as high as the first…’

    I took a look at Worldometers, and indeed the covid deaths peak post vaccination was even higher (though not as wide) as three of the preceding ones (archived copy to keep it static).
    John seemed to be merely parroting denialist websites based in the UK and Canada, and I strongly suspect they’d have cited Canadian, US or European data had it confirmed their contention. But they cherry-picked Israel, so I wondered, what happened there?

    An idea suggested to me was that Israel has considerable orthodox Jewish population that refused vaccination for religious reasons. One that occurred to me was that I’d read that, disgustingly but typically, Israel wasn’t offering vaccination to the Palestinian population. To really get an answer we’d need to discover what proportion of hospital admissions and deaths consisted of the unvaccinated; I read that it was high in the UK.

    John, you could do that, if you’re really into doing “due diligence” on your sources rather than merely repeating from sites you want to believe. Our World in Data or Stasia might be useful sites.

    #87438 Reply
    Clark
    Guest

    Here’s an article about vaccination and deaths in Israel:

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/israels-rise-covid-deaths-important-lesson-uk-vaccines/

    The main points seem to be:

    • Over a third of those who died were unvaccinated,
    • Early vaccination led to waning immunity by the time Omicron hit,
    • Uptake of the 2nd booster was only 50%, and
    • All other protections (social, testing) had been dropped.

    It goes without saying that if the Pfizer vaccine had caused ADE in Israel, it would have caused it everywhere else too.

    The article also links to a study that found that

    “The rate of confirmed infection was lower in people 12 or more days after their fourth dose than among those who received only three doses and those 3 to 7 days after vaccination by factors of 2.0 and 1.9, respectively. The rate of severe illness was lower by factors of 4.3”

    https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.02.01.22270232v1

    #87439 Reply
    Clark
    Guest

    John, there are some aspects of your thinking that really puzzle me. Would you discuss them with me please?

    #87443 Reply
    Clark
    Guest

    Apologies; I truncated my quote at 15:35. I also left out the confidence intervals for clarity, but they’re quite wide for the reduction in severe illness. The whole quote is:

    – “RESULTS The rate of confirmed infection was lower in people 12 or more days after their fourth dose than among those who received only three doses and those 3 to 7 days after vaccination by factors of 2.0 (95% confidence interval [CI], 2.0 to 2.1) and 1.9 (95% CI, 1.8 to 2.0), respectively. The rate of severe illness was lower by factors of 4.3 (95% CI, 2.4 to 7.6) and 4.0 (95% CI, 2.2 to 7.5).”

    #87445 Reply
    john
    Guest

    er…I rest my case

    #87446 Reply
    Clark
    Guest

    Huh. I can’t imagine why you picked the client you did. You fancied a spell of being devil’s advocate? Just something to do? I’m mystified :/

    #87447 Reply
    Clark
    Guest

    I can think of some more unpleasant motivations but I’ll refrain from posting those.

    #87448 Reply
    Dawg
    Guest

    So have we made any progress in this debate? In the blue corner are “system pigs” or mindless sheeple shilling for the establishment, and in the red corner is an ignorant denialist acting as Satan’s legal representative. There’s only one way to sort this out: FIGHT! Combat will be by snide remark.

    On the other hand, getting back to the real issues: how would systematically reclassifying causes-of-death account for the sharp increases in the death rate in countries around the world, observed during the pandemic?

    I think the red corner risks looking silly by swinging punches from an absurdly weak position.

    #87451 Reply
    Clark
    Guest

    The debate we’ve been having isn’t the one I attempted to start; John effectively provoked two pages of off-topic diversion, dredging up the same half dozen empty non-arguments that have been displacing intelligent discussion of our predicament for over two years. My initial points were:

    • Covid can do long-term damage to survivors, eg. it causes delayed hepatitis in children,
    • New variants could evade immunity leading to further large peaks in hospitalisation and death,
    • Because governments failed to stamp it out we’re all going to get covid over and over again. We’ve little idea so far whether damage to our health will be cumulative – not that our health matters much compared with “damage to the economy” and the “threat of totalitarianism”, of course.
    #87453 Reply
    Clark
    Guest

    It’s ironic. John raised the issue of Antibody Dependent Enhancement (ADE) as if it was something only vaccines could do. But infection by different variants of a virus can cause ADE too, I think dengue fever is a well known one, so that’s another potential danger from covid becoming endemic.

    #87454 Reply
    Clark
    Guest

    No, no, no! Only a system pig would say there’s any danger from a virus that John tells us was deliberately engineered from HIV to be a bioweapon. HIV is harmless! Bioweapons are harmless! It’s all just a trick to make us take the depopulation injection!

    #87455 Reply
    glenn_nl
    Guest

    J: “I rest my case.”

    Threw the case, more like it. You could be disbarred for representing your client as shabbily as that. Might have a charge of contempt of court too, for trying to run BS like that past the judge – knowingly presenting false testimony is an offence, you know.

    #87457 Reply
    Clark
    Guest

    I know I’m diverting my own thread here, but how can anyone actually think like this? It’s a bioweapon, AND it’s almost harmless, AND the WHO’s IFR is accurate, AND the authorities are inflating the figures. How can anyone fail to notice such blatant contradiction in their own thinking? It’s just intellectual mush.

    And “Facebook and Google, who have jointly and in lockstep with .gov vigorously suppressed any debate on covid and its treatment, up to and including career destruction” (here). Sorry, which “.gov”? The Trump .gov that said it would be gone by April 2020, or the New Zealand .gov that successfully kept it out, or the UK .gov who in early March 2020 said we were “going to take it on the chin” and that “we’d like a nice big pandemic” but then three weeks later imposed lockdown? And how are Google and Facebook supposed to destroy a scientist’s career?

    I think John must be a system pig trying to discredit the conspiracy theorists. That or covid scrambled his brain.

    #87458 Reply
    glenn_nl
    Guest

    Clark:

    … how can anyone actually think like this?

    The explanation might well be that “The cognitive dissonance is strong in this one”.

    #87461 Reply
    Dawg
    Guest

    No, glenn_nl, you’re completely correct. It certainly is cognitive dissonance, yet it also definitely isn’t – not that that’s a bad thing, of course. In this post-modernist, post-truth world, truth can change and adapt over time and according to circumstance, depending on requirements. Yet truth also doesn’t ever change, although confusingly it can even do so mid-sentence. Truth is a convenient fiction, an authoritarian construct, a mere tool with which to mould minds, manipulate public perceptions and herd the murmuration of swarming sheeple into a dark and foreboding cave of disenlightenment – except when used for the purpose of revealing that truth is a fiction, which is self-evidently true otherwise the claim that it is a fiction would be false. However, depending on the speaker’s intentions (as well as what the hearer wants to believe), it is an entirely made-up, but nonetheless immutable, falsifiable abstract quasi-binary ideal. Or not. It may be all those things and more.

    If you can hold that infinite swirl of semi-cooked thoughts in your head all at once without the grating discomfort of conflicting contradictions, you must have a very liberated intellect untrammelled by primitive logic. Anyone who calls it “cognitive dissonance” is assuredly trying to impose their fascist worldview upon others by thrusting their phallocentric axiomatic ideology upon a passive liberal pluralistic phenomenology, thereby promoting a single unified narrative with which to attain the illusory hegemony of a dominant consensus.

    With the completely planned accidental eruption of an unprecedented pandemic in 2019, a cabal of democratic and despotic totalitarians colluded with unregulated corporations to unleash a fictional virus which is transmitted biologically, thereby facilitating the worldwide deployment of an experimental, carefully contrived, alleged gene-therapy vaccine to which everybody was forced to submit (although a great many enlightened dissenters – who were the main targets – opted out). This infernal iniquitous injection became retrospectively responsible for the huge swell of deaths which preceded its development and deployment, as well as the preposterous but widely predicted second and third waves which predominantly killed the wisely unvaccinated. Is your brain hurting yet? (If so, that’s probably a side-effect either of the mind-control vaccine you decided not to get or of the virus which doesn’t exist.)

    These are troubling thoughts indeed, so it’s no wonder people have difficulty sustaining them in a single mind without getting confused or going crazy. The fear that all these conspiracy theories might actually be true is so intimidating that it makes people cling to a discredited postivistic framework, in which some things are more true than others and any dissenting views which haunt the infinite space beyond the prison of reality are branded insane heresies by a global cabal of intellectual bullies – including, and especially, reputable scientists and esteemed experts. The singular grand narrative fed to the population by the establishment via the mainstream media was an exercise in mass hypnosis, with the implication that the endless array of competing conspiracy theories are somehow lacking in verifiable content and cannot all be true at the same time. Nihilistic nonsense!

    Maybe the arguably senseless pattern of words above reveals the absolute unshakeable truth about the nature of truth; alternatively, it could clearly be a comical composition compiled from facetious falsehoods and ridiculous riddles. The choice is yours (if you have one).

    #87460 Reply
    Clark
    Guest

    John?

    #87468 Reply
    Clark
    Guest

    Dawg, I hadn’t seen your, er, explanation when I posted at 13:49, and I still haven’t seen it now. I see it only when I’m not looking at it; it must be an SEP.

    #87469 Reply
    Dawg
    Guest

    Yes, it’s so obvious that sane people can’t see it, unfortunately.

    That degree of cognitive diffusion and inversion may seem utterly absurd to old school thinkers, but the population is increasingly being taught to be so hostile to binary divisions – wrt gender, sexuality, nationality, race, politics, etc. – that normal logic and argumentation is in danger of losing its grip.

    If you baulk at believing too many impossible things before breakfast, you might be able to recruit other people to do it for you. Just put out an advert on oaf-guardian: that raucous rabble will believe just about anything, as long as it doesn’t make good sense.

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