You don’t have to be an anti-vaxxer (and I’m not) to have concerns about the continued ‘rollout’ of the Covid-19 vaccine programme. Experimental, hailed as miracles, bypassing the usual rigorous regulatory procedures and the subject of a never ending stream of lies from our government about the extent to which they will extend the rollout, the vaccines have proven to be much less effective than reported, on the one hand, and debilitating and fatal, on the other, for others as reported very recently in The Times. Nevertheless, the numbers must be put in context; while the numbers of adverse reactions are huge, and the number of deaths is large, the percentage of deaths—assuming that the Yellow Card scheme in the UK and VAERS in the US are accurate (some doubts have been expressed)—the percentage of deaths is about what would be expected for any vaccine. The numbers are big due to the number of vaccinations administered within a relatively short time; something that has not been attempted before.
Ludicrous claims that millions have already died of the vaccine do not aid rational discussion about what the appropriate course of action should be. Vaccine deaths had rarely been discussed prior to the pandemic. If anything, they were considered acceptable as vaccines were originally used to prevent the spread of killer and debilitating diseases, mainly in childhood, and they have played a role—alongside other improvements in health care, nutrition and sanitation—in reducing and even eradicating some diseases. For example, polio victims disabled in childhood were very common when I was young; when did you last see one of those? And whooping cough was the dread disease of childhood for my parents; I don’t think I have ever heard of anyone having it since I was born. Therefore, the risk to individuals was, presumably, weighed up against the purported public health benefits.
The mission drift regarding vaccines began with the influenza vaccines. Influenza is a genuinely nasty infection, often necessitating long periods off work and with notable mortality in older and medically compromised people. Originally targeted at older people, influenza vaccines are now administered to children at school. Who knew? And why? But the mission drift involved in the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines has been astonishing both in its ambition to vaccinate the whole population and the repeated duplicity in initially assuring the public that the vaccine rollout would target the vulnerable, only to be followed up by increasingly younger waves, has been staggering. There has been much talk about ‘nudge’ in the course of the pandemic, but the vaccine rollout has gone from nudge to bulldozing. Covid-19 in the vast majority of cases is mild, with more serious cases and deaths in people who are not old or medically compromised being extremely rare. In fact, the government was recently criticised by the UK Statistics Authority over ‘misrepresentation’ of Covid-19 data so it is unlikely that we even know accurately what the figures are for Covid-19 infections and deaths. As reported most recently in The Daily Sceptic, based on the UK government’s own figures:
“According to an updated report published on October 21st, the MHRA Yellow Card reporting system has recorded a total of 1,236,485 events based on 375,493 reports. The total number of fatalities reported is 1,715.
- Pfizer (22.9 million first doses, 19.9 million second doses) now has one Yellow Card in 187 people vaccinated. Deaths: 1 in 40,603 people vaccinated (564).
- AstraZeneca (24.9 million first doses, 24.1 million second doses) has one Yellow Card in 106 people vaccinated. Deaths: 1 in 22,616 people vaccinated (1,101).
- Moderna (1.5 million first doses, 1.2 million second doses) has one Yellow Card in 89 people vaccinated. Deaths: 1 in 78,947 people vaccinated (19).
Overall, one in every 131 people vaccinated (0.76%) have experienced a Yellow Card adverse event. The MHRA has previously estimated that the Yellow Card reporting rate may be approximately 10% of actual figures.”
Note the final sentence.
But the vaccine rollout continues with quasi-religious zeal, and it becomes ever more obvious that any gain from the vaccine, such as reducing deaths from Covid-19 and cutting the link between infection and hospitalisation has been short lived. The Prime Minister himself has pointed to their lack of ability to prevent contracting the infection and subsequently passing it on. And having conned millions of people (yours truly included) into having a Covid-19 vaccine we are now being exhorted, before the year is out, to have a ‘booster’ and the time between initial vaccination and the booster is being shortened.
The story regarding the vaccine gets worse the more it is studied. There were early and reliable reports that more people with the vaccine were becoming infected and dying with Covid-19 than the unvaccinated. This was obviously going to happen. The vaccines are not 100% effective (in fact they are about 1% effective) and if the number of vaccinated vulnerable people vastly outweigh the number of unvaccinated then logically more vaccinated than unvaccinated will become infected. But it is now apparent that the rate of Covid-19 infections in the vaccinated outweighs the rate of infection in the unvaccinated. This raises the possibility that the vaccines have a disbenefit, a negative effect on our ability to prevent ourselves being infected with Covid-19. And this is easy to confirm from official figures where it is clear, using the standard formula for vaccine benefit/disbenefit (referred to as immunological gain or loss, respectively) that over time the vaccines lose their protective effect and ultimately lead to increased vulnerability to Covid-19. This effect is more marked in older people. Claims that this is an indication of an acquired immunodeficiency syndrome are premature, however, as this effect may be specific to the coronavirus.
We know the risk of an adverse reaction to a vaccine increases as the recipients get younger, yet younger people are at very low risk from the coronavirus. There is bound to be a crossover point at which the risk of a Covid-19 vaccine outweighs the risk of succumbing to the virus. In that light the continued rollout with the aim of vaccinating the whole population is irresponsible. Surely someone ‘up there’ in government or the higher echelons of the NHS can see that it is time to stop.
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