Authored by James Rickards via DailyReckoning.com,
Many everyday Americans probably believe that the COVID vaccines will keep them from getting COVID. That’s not true and never has been true.
The vaccines do not prevent you from being infected with the COVID virus. They do not keep you from spreading the COVID virus.
There have been many cases of so-called “breakthrough” infections where double-vaxxed citizens get COVID anyway. That’s not uncommon.
There’s even new evidence that double-vaxxed individuals who get COVID will build up huge viral loads in their noses and sinuses, causing them to become super-spreaders and infect others.
Do the vaccines do anything?
Yes, they are effective at reducing severe symptoms of COVID.
They also reduce the death rate among those who get infected.
That’s advantageous for the most vulnerable, including those over 70 years old and those suffering from obesity, emphysema, diabetes and other conditions closely associated with fatalities due to COVID.
That said, there’s almost no reason for children, teenagers and otherwise healthy individuals in their 20s or even 30s to take the vaccine.
Among all individuals, vaccinated and unvaccinated, the global survival rate is 99.2%. Among those under 70, the survival rate is 99.97%. The survival rate for children is 99.995%.
The Israel Conundrum
The data indicate that the most vaccinated countries have the most cases and deaths per million people, while the least vaccinated countries have the fewest cases and deaths per million people.
Israel is providing a useful case study in the effectiveness, or lack thereof, of vaccines.
Israel is one of the most heavily vaxxed countries in the world, with over 60% of the population fully vaccinated and almost 100% of the elderly. But now Israel is experiencing a massive increase in infections, including cases among the fully vaxxed.
The government has also determined that the vaccines wear off after six months or less and is recommending a third shot for everyone. The problem, of course, is that the third dose will wear off too, so a fourth, fifth or sixth dose will be needed.
And with every new dose comes a new risk of dangerous side effects, including the small but real possibility of death. The vaccinated will be getting boosters for the rest of their lives, and the virus still won’t go away.
How Many Lives Could Have Been Saved?
Meanwhile, effective treatments, including ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine, vitamin D, zinc and other inexpensive measures, are being suppressed by the medical establishment.
How many people died because they were denied access to these therapies, especially early on in the disease cycle when treatment is more effective?
It’s impossible to say, but they could potentially run into the hundreds of thousands.
A new study by the U.K.’s National Health Service and a Canadian biotech company revealed that a nitric oxide nasal spray slashed SARS-CoV-2 viral load by 95% within 24 hours and 99% within 72 hours.
If further trials pan out, early treatment with a similar cheap therapeutic could cut serious cases down to almost nothing.
But it doesn’t matter. The medical establishment will continue pushing the narrative that only universal vaccination will stop the virus.
Media Spreading Panic
The media continue to hyperventilate about “cases” but ignore the fact that death rates have declined since January. When one accounts for the 38 million Americans who have survived COVID and already have antibodies, then herd immunity is already here.
Data indicate that people who had COVID between January and February of 2021 and recovered have 13 times more immunity to the Delta variant than vaccines provide.
We’re at the stage where we can learn to live with COVID as we do with many other endemic diseases such as the seasonal flu. There’s no reason for fear.
But the public health authorities insist that these people with natural immunity must also be vaccinated.
It’s not “science.”
The zero-COVID policies many governments have pursued are completely unrealistic. The virus goes where it wants. The only real solutions are patience, herd immunity and effective therapies.
The time has come to stop living in fear and start treating COVID as an endemic disease that will be with us for a long time, like the seasonal flu or diabetes. Unfortunately, government authorities continue to insist they can control the situation with orders and mandates.
Lockdowns Didn’t Work Before. Why Would They Work Now?
But the evidence is clear that masks don’t work and lockdowns don’t work (but they do destroy economies — most lost sales were permanent losses, not temporary losses). Lockdowns don’t work to stop the spread of the virus because they keep people indoors where the virus can spread more easily.
Outdoor activity is essential for fresh air, mental and physical health and exercise.
People will find a way to gather and interact even with lockdown rules. This means that lockdowns impose all of the economic costs with few of the supposed public health benefits.
This was recognized in a paper in 2006 by D.A. Henderson, the greatest virologist and epidemiologist of the 20th century who led the successful effort to eradicate smallpox and won the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom.
He said lockdowns don’t work and provided detailed reasons why. Unfortunately, his award-winning work was ignored by politicians eager to appear to be doing something.
Biden Repeats Trump’s Mistake
Health officials should never have been put in charge of the economy. That was a huge mistake by Trump, and it’s been made worse by Biden.
Immunologists saw some benefits from lockdowns, but these would have happened anyway because each viral outbreak runs a predictable eight–10-week course. What the experts ignored were the costs in terms of deaths from suicide, excessive alcohol consumption, drug abuse, domestic violence, depression, anxiety and other dysfunctional behaviors.
The benefits of public health policy were minimal, but the economic, social and psychological costs were great and are still being paid. Meanwhile, the push for universal vaccination continues, despite the evidence that it’s not nearly as effective and necessary as the government claimed.
Society is rapidly turning into a two-tier culture of the vaccinated and the unvaccinated.
On Wall Street, where vaccination rates are as high as 90% in some firms, the unvaccinated are being treated like lepers. One investment banker said, “If you’re someone who is not vaccinated on Wall Street, you’re considered a loser.”
Even firms that do not require full vaccination to return to work are forcing the unvaccinated to undergo weekly testing, sit apart from colleagues and wear masks while others are maskless.
Vaccine Voodoo
These rules are stupid, what might be called Vaccine Voodoo.
Again, vaccination doesn’t stop infection. It doesn’t stop the spread. A fully vaccinated person can catch COVID and spread it to others. The unvaccinated have as much to fear in terms of catching the disease from the vaccinated as the other way around.
There are ample reasons not to receive the vaccination, including being among the 38 million Americans who have recovered from COVID and have stronger antibody protection than the vaccinated.
But they’re being treated like lepers too. This vaccination discrimination will do nothing to slow the spread of the disease, but it will do a lot to tear society apart. Investors can properly understand vaccination discrimination as one more drag on productivity and economic growth.
But governments will keep imposing worthless mandates, and economies will continue on a trajectory of slow growth.
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The statement “Vaccines are effective at reducing severe symptoms” has not been proven in the least, and vaccines may well have the opposite effect. I stopped reading after that.
You didn’t miss much
That’s what I immediately picked up on too.
“Yes, they are effective at reducing severe symptoms of COVID.
They also reduce the death rate among those who get infected.”
People just keep on saying this as though it were as self-evident as the sun rising in the east. But how is it possible to verify either statement? How could any meaningful study even be carried out?
The only way to establish these talking points is to split the patient into two separate time streams–one in which he takes the vax, and one in which he doesn’t. Then you could compare the outcomes for each patient and draw the sweeping conclusions the media just keeps asserting with Category 5 Lockstep insistence.
The truth is, you cannot know that symptoms are reduced and deaths (not that high to begin with compared to traffic fatalities) are lowered because it is so obvious that the same things could have played out without the vax. They might have died either way; their symptoms may have been even milder without the vax.
How can any honest person claim to know? “He would have died much easier if green weren’t his favorite color. Prove me wrong!” It’s all so asinine.
How can one present himself as an opponent of the System while diligently carrying the System’s water for it? It almost seems articles like this are intended to sow cog dis in the kind of Refuseniks that refuse the more overt brainwash on CNN.
Great comment.
It reminds me of 0bama’s favorite statement early in his 1st term when he continually touted the number of “jobs saved”. It was something totally unmeasurable as nobody can prove something that did not happen.
It is really something impossible to prove (most things are). So, all that can be relied on are statistical analysis to try to guess what might have happened otherwise. This is the poorest kind of study, and they aren’t even making an honest effort at controlling that. You can’t do that kind of study at all, without good controls.
“Reducing symptoms” is a prima facie spurious claim for something that hasn’t even cleared human trials.
There have not been enough reliable testing to rely on any numbers but mortality, outside of the small “controlled” trials. And even those they released their control groups, inexplicably. Vaccine ethics have always been very questionable, as RFK Jr. articulates very well.
And even if they are conducting some kind of tests, one is forced to assume that they will be just as dishonest as everything else they’ve told us.
They did tests for Thalidomide too. I’m not sure why Thalidomide has still not become the rallying point for all us filthy ‘vaccine hesitant’ cranks yet.
I brought up Thalidomide to my neighbor and she had never heard of it before.
I get the same reaction when I mention it to people, TN. Heck, even Billy Joel talked about it.
How is it possible to be unaware of Thalidomide with even a modicum of education or access to Top 40 Radio?
Exactly. We are told that Covid can cause organ failure (liver and/or kidney); but do they know this from observation of people who have NOT been put on the drug cocktail of the NIH protocol for Covid patients (which, btw, are known to cause organ failure)?
Is there even a population among which they can confirm Covid in enough people to do a study … without resort to the flawed PCR test?
Nothing about this plannedemic is independently verifiable. An entire world-stopping plague the only evidence for which is “trust the experts”.
My doctor at the VA told me the vaccine was a “depopulation weapon” and to not take it.
The end.
You should keep that doctor, those are hard to come by. Of course, if he does not lose his license to practice soon.
She’s right Nickel, The guys I know around here tell me the VA is pushing hard to take the shot. By the end of the year it might become mandatory to receive service.
I’ve gotten numerous letters and emails about vaxxing up. Yeah, the VA is ultimately a dot Guv outfit; I could see refusal of service too as they tighten the screws across the board.
Appeal to authority is getting out of hand,
For every doctor at the VA like that ( I think I met exactly 1 who admits it), there are dozens of group-thinking-yes-persons. Still, until covid, I have been impressed with my care in the VA compared to both the DOD and civilian sectors (anything less than gold plated plans).
It is expensive to support all the wounded soldiers they created. Another good reason to not go running off on imperial adventures.
These are not vaccines. Period and The End.
Dr. Fauci or: how I learned to quit worrying and love the jab
Nice
If “Vaccines are effective at reducing severe symptoms”, why would Israel be in the middle of a health care crisis?
Anti-semitism. The fact you needed to ask has alerted the ADL to possible Wrong-Think.
The article says (twice) that 38 million have recovered from Covid. That’s a gross underestimation. Antibody sero testing revealed ~ 40% of the US population had been exposed months ago. That’s the CDC’s estimate, and a Mayo Clinic study of MN’s population corroborates it. Not everybody who got a headache for a day or two rushed off to have some sadist stick a wire through their nose into their brain. I got tested three times. Two of them hurt like a sonofabitch. Did I tell others how it’d gone? You goddamn right I did.
Here in the devastated area of suburban New Orleans Metro, the sheep have been slapped hard enough in the head by a REAL emergency. Hurricane Ida destroyed this area just a week ago and people here are hot, thirsty, in many cases homeless and starting to question our government and the B.S. about Covid 19 that they have been force-fed for the past year and a half.
Masks? Here? Where few people have AC to keep cool during our 93 degree and high humidity days? I wouldn’t take the chance of asking someone to put on a cloth face diaper while they have sweat running down their face and soaking their shirt that they have been wearing for 3 days. The real chance of injury or death is not by some make believe disease but by heat exhaustion while we try to make repairs to our homes, the homes of our friends, neighbors and family. If you really want to get injured, cut in line to get you gas can filled so you can run your generator so your loved ones back home can have at least one room in the house to stay cool.
The scamdemic was getting a bit old before this horrific event but now, I think the lousy politicians who have pushed the false pandemic narrative will be hard pressed to revive the panic they whipped up prior to our present situation.
It’s the only good to come from hurricane Ida.
They’ll probably just give Louisiana temporary respite from their Covid authoritarianism and restart it whenever most folks there are starting to get back on their feet. They’ve got a Great Reset to implement, and they’re not going to let one state – or entire countries – get in their way.
Odd how the media aren’t crawling all over the hurricane aftermath story, isn’t it? If Trump were in office they’d be running the horrors of hurricane aftermath and blame Trump 24/7. Because the Biden meat puppet is in office, they don’t want to make him look bad so very little coverage.
My trucker friend got back from delivering a huge generator to Baton Rouge. The hotel he stayed in had no electricity but it did have running water. Baton Rouge is way far away from New Orleans. Wonder how Mississippi fared? No word there either. One could almost think there’s a bias and an agenda at work.
Government imposed mandates delay “herd immunity” and that’s very useful for tptb.
This morning National Propaganda Radio told me that 1,500 people a day have been dying from covid lately. That’s funny because I looked up MN’s data and we’ve been running about 7 a day. And 2-3 of those probably had stage four cancer. We’re about 1/60 of the country’s population (a little whiter, a little less densely populated than average). I don’t believe the national numbers. Also, the total cumulative number of children (under 20, technically) to have died from covid in MN since it started is THREE. Most children who’ve died from covid have had leukemia and could have died from just about any infection.
All of the COVID numbers, from the CDC and state health departments, are fake.
https://news.mit.edu/2019/storing-vaccine-history-skin-1218
https://vidmax.com/video/207091-aussie-who-is-vaccinated-and-tested-negative-9-times-uploads-video-from-covid-concentration-camp-people-locked-into-rooms-for-over-300-hours-guards-threaten-to-gas-them
https://www.naturalnews.com/2021-09-02-former-pfizer-vp-warns-booster-shot-extermination-weapon.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-9959779/Woman-imprisoned-30-years-cult-leader-father-brands-cancel-culture-Orwellian.html
Would anyone like to talk about Graphene?
http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/TPV3/Videos.php/2021/09/04/american-scientists-confirm-graphene-oxide
Pfizer vaccine ingredients. Forget the rest and focus on mRNA. That is the killer here. What is mRNA?
https://blackdoctor.org/these-are-all-the-ingredients-of-pfizers-covid-vaccine/
mRNA…despite the comments and articles and ‘fact checkers’ claim that mRNA isn’t gene therapy… to the contrary, mRNA is indeed gene therapy. It was developed to affect the DNA of cells. mRNA is experimental therapy and the covid vaccines are medical trials, despite what the media and ‘health authorities’ state otherwise. HIV researchers are using the covid trials to test mRNA in HIV.
Researchers will look to see whether the vaccine generates the desired immune response — the immune precursors cells — and whether there are any safety concerns. mRNA research for HIV. Pay attention here and think human guinea pigs by the millions….
This is only the first of several clinical trials, so it will take some time before scientists know whether this approach can prevent HIV infection.
However, many people will be watching closely to see whether the mRNA technology does for HIV what it did for COVID-19.
“If nothing else, I hope that we’re able to leverage the lessons learned from the COVID-19 trials for developing a safe and effective HIV vaccine,” said Anthony J. Santella, DrPH, a public health researcher at the University of New Haven.
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/to-stop-hiv-researchers-are-investigating-an-mrna-vaccine
They know the vaccines aren’t safe and yet they promote them.
“Results
Guidelines
We found no guidelines regarding patient groups for whom mRNA vaccines should be avoided or other guidelines specific to mRNAvaccines. This is likely due to the lack of FDA or European approval for any mRNA vaccines before this month. General guidance on COVID-19 vaccination has been issued by Public Health England (Table 11). It is of low quality (Table 12) and based on limited evidence. Because no clinical trials involving children have been reported yet, andchildren have less risk of serious illness or death from COVID-19, vaccination of children is not recommended. For a summary of guidance on COVID-19 vaccines for women who
are pregnant or breastfeeding, please see the CEP Rapid Guidance Summary on that topic”
http://www.uphs.upenn.edu/cep/COVID/mRNA%20vaccine%20review%20final.pdf
There have been zero completed trials of these non-vaccine vaccines. In fact they have infected the control group,refused to count the dead guinea pigs,outlawed the drugs that actually work and have ignored real doctors because the media told them too. They claim to have the vaccines approved but what they approved is not now ,nor ever been produced. NOTHING BUT LIES OVER A COMMON COLD.
That said, there’s almost no reason for children, teenagers and otherwise healthy individuals in their 20s or even 30s to take the vaccine.
Except if you’re the size of two people in one body like the 14 year old in Florida.