First class, thanks - I am surprised he ever wrote back but glad he did. The "doing wrong to do right ( in their opinion) crowd" are never inclined to reveal the " wrong".
Indeed. I am surprised he did even after that. Please remind us what this survey was designed and used to establish. I assume it was used to reinforce the narrative that the vaccine was "effective''?
You as statisticians, have you seen this shoddy, inept work prior to covid? Is this a purposeful deception or have they always been clueless? Seems to me all countries have twisted outcomes with skewed stats. Nobody but statisticians would catch it.
Only one of us (Martin) is a “statistician” by training.
But the misrepresentations and lies involved in the covid debacle aren’t really statistical in nature, though statistics can be used to reveal the shortcomings in the numerical analyses used by the powers that be to initiate, propagate and maintain the emergency.
Did the intentional deception in science - to advance vested interests which benefit financially or through the accrual of power - start with “covid”?
I am cognizant of corruption existing prior to covid, I just wondered if it was worse with covid? I got injured by one pfizer shot and was stunned to learn that governments had not implemented active, independent data collection looking for signals on a technology never before tried on humans. I was shocked at the silencing of credentialed scientists and the vaccine injured. This period of time has been bewildering and extremely stressful. So many questions with no answers.
Vax lovers love to point out that VAERS isn't a reliable system.
I always ask them if they think there should have been a more reliable system in place for an emergency use authorised products rolled out in record time, using a novel technology never before approved for human use.
If you tested positive for covid then you were either infected or had had covid. The science is settled.
That's all that counts as far as the captured MSM, Elites and inept politicians are concerned. So covid exists. Fact.
Your articles are simply heretic.
On a somewhat less sarcastic note has there ever been any immunological research to prove -
1. Antibodies actually exist - only their supposed/assumed existence can be inferred via the foolproof, lol, electron microscope/computer codes and modelling., and
2. Assuming they exist how precisely can their peculiar characteristics be seen or measured to indicate "infection" by any particular pathogen.
3. The sadly accepted narrative of disease transmission states that virus spreads via coughs etc. and close proximity. Please research into why the British Cold Unit closed, how and why isolated groups "suddenly caught covid", such as the documented Argentinian and Seattle trawlermen, researchers in Antarctica.
4. Explain exactly how and why "Flu" supposedly disappeared, outcompeted - how and why - or maybe it just took a rest.
For me these are serious questions and the covid debacle amply illustrates just how completely wrong much of Germ Theory is.
I've read many books and articles re the immune systems.. To their credit most are littered with comments such as " how this actually works is not yet completely understood". Even worse though is the blind acceptance of the virus/disease model. It is full of holes and unanswered questions - but worst of all are the mechanisms which are misunderstood yet accepted as correct.
Remember this, if Terrain theory is more correct than Germ Theory then the house of cards which is allopathic medicine/bigpharma would come crashing down.
Fwiw I increasingly believe covid was simply an epidemic of fear, or rather as your comment more elegantly and accurately states, "covid appeared when the tests were rolled out."
The problem with “fear” as a single or main explanation is that it lets so many culprits involved in fraud off the hook - essentially shifting blame to the victims.
To the extent fear played a part, in my view it was knowingly weaponised as a tool.
And anyone who dared to break the 'bubble' were ostracized in the media (Lake ozark parties?) We traveled domestically coast to coast in 2020 and to Mexico in 2021. None of us ever got sick. Heck I didn't even test positive (work in healthcare so nasal rapes regularly). And yes-we were on our boat at Lake Ozark a lot of the summer in 2020 as well. However the states that didn't really subscribe to covid panic were awesome! Best time to visit South Dakota was then as parks not crowded.
To be more precise, I should have said that covid spread as mass testing was rolled out.
I should also have said that since covid is an operation supported by a specific narrative, it most definitely emerged before 2020.
Arguably its roots date back decades or even centuries.
However, as I’ve written, the advent of high throughput sequencing technology (~25 years ago) can (IMO) be regarded as the completion of the toolset required to create new pandemics, which is why we’ve had so many “outbreaks” during this century so far.
What a shambles. I knew a number of covidians who jumped at the chance to be swabbed, pricked and generally participate in any study. They were paid as well. There were never any large study results, published, here in the UK, for the public to read. I believe some of these covidians were part of the REACT study.
It would be helpful to know the overall cost for this study, the lead author, and what in layman’s terms, the study concluded.
The key observation here is one of independent and critical thinking. The state needed a specific narrative to support the mandatory vaccine and lock down strategy. There is little doubt key data was deliberately withheld and indeed manipulated. The fact the state was responsible for the funding further undermines the independence of the research. Science should be about the data. Scientific research shouldn't be about propoganda. There is already dissonance because of the manipulation of data to drive the climate change narrative. Covid vaccines approval by regulators is also questionable as the data sets are incomplete. The scientific community needs to remain unbiased and independent and trust the data not their funding!
I have read most of your collective posts, but I just remain unconvinced of your assertions that there was no "novel, deadly virus was circulating in early ". This thesis just not chime with my own experiences. Deadly, maybe not, but novel yes. I never caught Covid to my knowledge. but everyone I know who did were absolutely clear that it was like nothing they had ever had before, regardless of severity. I am now retired from being an UK ICU consultant, but those i know who were still working say that the patients flooded in at times ill in unusual ways.
Confirmation bias, disruption of prior treatment protocol.
I’m old enough to remember the days when you’d get antibiotics and an inhaler if you got the flu, couldn’t shake it, and ended up with pneumonia.
During the early days of the mass panic, people were told (through virtual appointments) that they should stay home, rest and hydrate, and go the ER if they have trouble breathing.
Once they were too sick (and/or scared) to stay home they’d go to the ER. There, rather than doing less invasive but aerosolizing procedures, it was straight to the ICU where they’d slap them on a vent, blow out their lungs, and ban visitation (which banned the advocacy and witness of loved ones). If they did not survive-and most vented patients did not— US hospitals received extra payments under the CARES Act. Additionally, families received a funeral service benefit if the death was listed as being caused by Covid.
The key to your post is the use of the term ER, which means you most likely are in the US. The incentives there are completely different, where money talks. In the UK, where I was, we liked our ICUs empty, and tried to keep it that way. I did one year in the US while training, and the bosses liked to keep the ICU full. I suggest you cannot draw general conclusions about treatments from these specific financial incentives applicable to the US
Fair point—this was in the US. As usual, we led the way in grotesque incentives.
However, there is excellent documentation via the Scottish Covid Inquiry regarding morphine and midazolam use (among other abuses) that will make your blood run cold. Biologyphenom has documented the inquiry on Substack for those who don’t have hundreds of hours to spare.
Thats easy to explain - the only people who came forward were the ones with unusual and strong symptoms - I mean this entire household came down with a covid-like episode in late 2019 but none of us needed any medical help at all, so we were never counted. I would not have known it was Covid at the time but the smell and taste thing was fairly distinctive - though not definitive. Unlike the flu though, I never lost my appetite and remained fairly healthy.
What you're basically saying is that the entire corpus of work on nocebo effects either creating / worsening / altering symptomatology is wrong. Which is fine, but it would be interesting to hear why you think that.
All I am commenting on is the use of the term novel as applied to the virus. It just did not seem like anything similar to previous winter resp infections, in the experience of those I knew and comments from medical acquaintances. If we agree there was a virus, is was a coronavirus that sometime originated in bats and has a furin cleavage site, then I think this qualifies it as a novel virus (I am aware of the Ionnides paper on the Covid seroprevalence in Santa Clara in 2019 ). I am not making any statement about events otherwise.
Well everyone interprets the world using their own cumulative experiences and knowledge, and have to rely on some knowledge and facts as given. I have a reasonable knowledge of September 11th. Some are convinced that this was a controlled explosion, but I think hijacked planes are a more realistic explanation. That is based on my experience of how the world runs. There are some who deny the existence of viruses of any sort. I happen to think they do exist, and despite reading reasonably widely, including your postings (including those whom I assume you include in your use of the royal ‘we’) just do not buy the thesis it was all a gigantic nocebo effect, backed up by powerful vested interests of all types
Most people are extremely suggestible, and the population was brainwashed about covid and its effects to an extent completely unprecedented in our lifetimes - arguably in the history of humanity. It's not clear to me how psychosomatic explanations for any of this could be ruled out.
More generally, let me put the question of novelty another way. When they searched samples of Wuhan patients for previously unknown coronaviruses and *found one*, what is the evidence it was novel, rather than something that had been around for a while? Zero as far as I can see, and the idea it had sprung into existence just then seems ridiculous.
First class, thanks - I am surprised he ever wrote back but glad he did. The "doing wrong to do right ( in their opinion) crowd" are never inclined to reveal the " wrong".
Bear in mind, though, that he ignored me twice, and only responded after I raised it with the Dean, threatening to make a formal complaint.
Indeed. I am surprised he did even after that. Please remind us what this survey was designed and used to establish. I assume it was used to reinforce the narrative that the vaccine was "effective''?
Thanks for your detailed response.
Or to apologise. “Don’t apologise, don’t explain” was rumoured to have been an unofficial policy within the NHS …and perhaps elsewhere.
As always, the devil is in the details. It's so easy for them to deceive. Thank you for delving into the details for us!
You as statisticians, have you seen this shoddy, inept work prior to covid? Is this a purposeful deception or have they always been clueless? Seems to me all countries have twisted outcomes with skewed stats. Nobody but statisticians would catch it.
Only one of us (Martin) is a “statistician” by training.
But the misrepresentations and lies involved in the covid debacle aren’t really statistical in nature, though statistics can be used to reveal the shortcomings in the numerical analyses used by the powers that be to initiate, propagate and maintain the emergency.
Did the intentional deception in science - to advance vested interests which benefit financially or through the accrual of power - start with “covid”?
Not a chance.
I am cognizant of corruption existing prior to covid, I just wondered if it was worse with covid? I got injured by one pfizer shot and was stunned to learn that governments had not implemented active, independent data collection looking for signals on a technology never before tried on humans. I was shocked at the silencing of credentialed scientists and the vaccine injured. This period of time has been bewildering and extremely stressful. So many questions with no answers.
I agree, though it would be quite wrong to think that capture of academia, governments and regulatory systems by Pharma only emerged in 2020.
Vax lovers love to point out that VAERS isn't a reliable system.
I always ask them if they think there should have been a more reliable system in place for an emergency use authorised products rolled out in record time, using a novel technology never before approved for human use.
For a layperson, what is the alternative picture, that Covid emerged before or after early 2020?
Covid emerged when the tests were rolled out.
Lol.
If you tested positive for covid then you were either infected or had had covid. The science is settled.
That's all that counts as far as the captured MSM, Elites and inept politicians are concerned. So covid exists. Fact.
Your articles are simply heretic.
On a somewhat less sarcastic note has there ever been any immunological research to prove -
1. Antibodies actually exist - only their supposed/assumed existence can be inferred via the foolproof, lol, electron microscope/computer codes and modelling., and
2. Assuming they exist how precisely can their peculiar characteristics be seen or measured to indicate "infection" by any particular pathogen.
3. The sadly accepted narrative of disease transmission states that virus spreads via coughs etc. and close proximity. Please research into why the British Cold Unit closed, how and why isolated groups "suddenly caught covid", such as the documented Argentinian and Seattle trawlermen, researchers in Antarctica.
4. Explain exactly how and why "Flu" supposedly disappeared, outcompeted - how and why - or maybe it just took a rest.
For me these are serious questions and the covid debacle amply illustrates just how completely wrong much of Germ Theory is.
I've read many books and articles re the immune systems.. To their credit most are littered with comments such as " how this actually works is not yet completely understood". Even worse though is the blind acceptance of the virus/disease model. It is full of holes and unanswered questions - but worst of all are the mechanisms which are misunderstood yet accepted as correct.
Remember this, if Terrain theory is more correct than Germ Theory then the house of cards which is allopathic medicine/bigpharma would come crashing down.
Fwiw I increasingly believe covid was simply an epidemic of fear, or rather as your comment more elegantly and accurately states, "covid appeared when the tests were rolled out."
The problem with “fear” as a single or main explanation is that it lets so many culprits involved in fraud off the hook - essentially shifting blame to the victims.
To the extent fear played a part, in my view it was knowingly weaponised as a tool.
And anyone who dared to break the 'bubble' were ostracized in the media (Lake ozark parties?) We traveled domestically coast to coast in 2020 and to Mexico in 2021. None of us ever got sick. Heck I didn't even test positive (work in healthcare so nasal rapes regularly). And yes-we were on our boat at Lake Ozark a lot of the summer in 2020 as well. However the states that didn't really subscribe to covid panic were awesome! Best time to visit South Dakota was then as parks not crowded.
Thanks for the reply.
To be more precise, I should have said that covid spread as mass testing was rolled out.
I should also have said that since covid is an operation supported by a specific narrative, it most definitely emerged before 2020.
Arguably its roots date back decades or even centuries.
However, as I’ve written, the advent of high throughput sequencing technology (~25 years ago) can (IMO) be regarded as the completion of the toolset required to create new pandemics, which is why we’ve had so many “outbreaks” during this century so far.
What a shambles. I knew a number of covidians who jumped at the chance to be swabbed, pricked and generally participate in any study. They were paid as well. There were never any large study results, published, here in the UK, for the public to read. I believe some of these covidians were part of the REACT study.
It would be helpful to know the overall cost for this study, the lead author, and what in layman’s terms, the study concluded.
The key observation here is one of independent and critical thinking. The state needed a specific narrative to support the mandatory vaccine and lock down strategy. There is little doubt key data was deliberately withheld and indeed manipulated. The fact the state was responsible for the funding further undermines the independence of the research. Science should be about the data. Scientific research shouldn't be about propoganda. There is already dissonance because of the manipulation of data to drive the climate change narrative. Covid vaccines approval by regulators is also questionable as the data sets are incomplete. The scientific community needs to remain unbiased and independent and trust the data not their funding!
I have read most of your collective posts, but I just remain unconvinced of your assertions that there was no "novel, deadly virus was circulating in early ". This thesis just not chime with my own experiences. Deadly, maybe not, but novel yes. I never caught Covid to my knowledge. but everyone I know who did were absolutely clear that it was like nothing they had ever had before, regardless of severity. I am now retired from being an UK ICU consultant, but those i know who were still working say that the patients flooded in at times ill in unusual ways.
Confirmation bias, disruption of prior treatment protocol.
I’m old enough to remember the days when you’d get antibiotics and an inhaler if you got the flu, couldn’t shake it, and ended up with pneumonia.
During the early days of the mass panic, people were told (through virtual appointments) that they should stay home, rest and hydrate, and go the ER if they have trouble breathing.
Once they were too sick (and/or scared) to stay home they’d go to the ER. There, rather than doing less invasive but aerosolizing procedures, it was straight to the ICU where they’d slap them on a vent, blow out their lungs, and ban visitation (which banned the advocacy and witness of loved ones). If they did not survive-and most vented patients did not— US hospitals received extra payments under the CARES Act. Additionally, families received a funeral service benefit if the death was listed as being caused by Covid.
What could go wrong?
The key to your post is the use of the term ER, which means you most likely are in the US. The incentives there are completely different, where money talks. In the UK, where I was, we liked our ICUs empty, and tried to keep it that way. I did one year in the US while training, and the bosses liked to keep the ICU full. I suggest you cannot draw general conclusions about treatments from these specific financial incentives applicable to the US
Fair point—this was in the US. As usual, we led the way in grotesque incentives.
However, there is excellent documentation via the Scottish Covid Inquiry regarding morphine and midazolam use (among other abuses) that will make your blood run cold. Biologyphenom has documented the inquiry on Substack for those who don’t have hundreds of hours to spare.
Thats easy to explain - the only people who came forward were the ones with unusual and strong symptoms - I mean this entire household came down with a covid-like episode in late 2019 but none of us needed any medical help at all, so we were never counted. I would not have known it was Covid at the time but the smell and taste thing was fairly distinctive - though not definitive. Unlike the flu though, I never lost my appetite and remained fairly healthy.
What you're basically saying is that the entire corpus of work on nocebo effects either creating / worsening / altering symptomatology is wrong. Which is fine, but it would be interesting to hear why you think that.
https://sanityunleashed.substack.com/t/nocebo
All I am commenting on is the use of the term novel as applied to the virus. It just did not seem like anything similar to previous winter resp infections, in the experience of those I knew and comments from medical acquaintances. If we agree there was a virus, is was a coronavirus that sometime originated in bats and has a furin cleavage site, then I think this qualifies it as a novel virus (I am aware of the Ionnides paper on the Covid seroprevalence in Santa Clara in 2019 ). I am not making any statement about events otherwise.
Well everyone interprets the world using their own cumulative experiences and knowledge, and have to rely on some knowledge and facts as given. I have a reasonable knowledge of September 11th. Some are convinced that this was a controlled explosion, but I think hijacked planes are a more realistic explanation. That is based on my experience of how the world runs. There are some who deny the existence of viruses of any sort. I happen to think they do exist, and despite reading reasonably widely, including your postings (including those whom I assume you include in your use of the royal ‘we’) just do not buy the thesis it was all a gigantic nocebo effect, backed up by powerful vested interests of all types
I like "perceptual aggrandizement of experiences" !
Most people are extremely suggestible, and the population was brainwashed about covid and its effects to an extent completely unprecedented in our lifetimes - arguably in the history of humanity. It's not clear to me how psychosomatic explanations for any of this could be ruled out.
More generally, let me put the question of novelty another way. When they searched samples of Wuhan patients for previously unknown coronaviruses and *found one*, what is the evidence it was novel, rather than something that had been around for a while? Zero as far as I can see, and the idea it had sprung into existence just then seems ridiculous.
Do you believe that the flu disappeared for two years?
Ah ok. ✅