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Thanks @Booger this deserves its own post:

https://patrick.net/post/1343656/2022-02-13-replaying-the-past

Looks like about 42% of home test results are false positive:

In total, 462 rapid test results, or 0.05 per cent of the 900,000 results, resulted in false positives. This represents 42 per cent of the positive test results in the study.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/health/coronavirus/canadian-study-reveals-rate-of-false-positives-from-rapid-antigen-tests-1.5742050?source=patrick.net

https://voiceforscienceandsolidarity.substack.com/p/message-for-the-youngsters-the-end?r=6gdz&source=patrick.net

Message for the youngsters: The end of the Muppet show is near, and that is good news

Geert Vanden Bossche

(replying to a student who smells a rat in the whole vaxx fraud)

... Intuitively you sense that the whole fuss about mass vaccinations has nothing to do with health. If you decide to take a corona vaccine, it will not improve your health, nor will it protect the health of others. The information campaigns claim this, but the truth is exactly the opposite.

In the vast majority of healthy people, the immune system - if I put it more precisely: natural immunity - provides better protection against the virus than corona vaccines. ...

Certainly young people have very little to fear from the coronavirus. The overwhelming majority of them are so well protected against it by their natural immune system that they will only be sick for a few days at most. For young people, vaccination provides no health benefits.

However, young people who get vaccinated are at risk of health damage as a result. Doctors are seeing the same health problems crop up again and again in a remarkable number of people who have recently been vaccinated against corona. At the same time, concerns are growing about the long-term health consequences. Absolutely nothing is yet known with certainty about this. ...

When the coronavirus spread around the world from China in 2020, there was so much panic that the companies producing the vaccines and the regulatory authorities that had to approve them did their work in great haste - and incompletely.

That explains the large question marks over clinical studies on the basis of which the government decided to approve the vaccines. The effect on children, young or pregnant women, and old and frail people has not been studied, or has been barely studied. Normally, vaccines for that group are not approved until five to ten years after they come on the market for healthy adults. That this has not happened is in itself a sign that we are living in a very, very strange time.

The information in the clinical trials is so poor that the authorities still have not officially approved the corona vaccines. Their approval is "provisional," and for good reason.

That's not yet the full story. As I briefly touched on, if you decide to take that shot, you are not contributing to ending the corona epidemic.

As a vaccinologist with a quarter of a century of experience, I can assure you that the mass use of the current covid vaccines has allowed increasingly contagious virus variants to prevail - and that, if we continue with this jabbing, even more contagious virus variants are likely to emerge.

Look, the corona vaccines are something completely different from the vaccines you probably received as a child. They protect you from the germs that those vaccines are designed to protect against. Thanks to those vaccines, when those germs enter your body, they are killed almost immediately by your immune system. The corona vaccines don't work that well.

That's mainly because we are administering these vaccines while we are in the middle of a pandemic, and the virus is circulating all around us. After a vaccine is administered, it takes several weeks for the vaccine to reach its optimal effect. Because the virus is present everywhere, there is a good chance that it will infect people whose immunity, induced by the vaccine, is still in the process of being strengthened. The virus can therefore still multiply and immediately uses this opportunity to adapt to the immune pressure that vaccinated people exert on its infectious power.

Vaccinated people thus act as a kind of battlefield for the virus where only the strongest (i.e., the more infectious) variants survive. If many people in the population have been vaccinated, mutual contamination will cause the number of survivors to increase rapidly and the further spread of the virus in the population will not be hindered much by the vaccine.

Moreover, this will be all the more the case as the variant is less well recognized by the antibodies that the vaccine induces in the population. ...

If you want to understand how deploying "leaky" vaccines can lead to increasingly infectious viruses, you need to understand something about the way evolution exactly works, and something about coronaviruses. Those viruses can easily mutate. A mutated virus is also called a "variant”. If, during an epidemic of such an easily mutating virus, you use a vaccine that is unable to prevent the virus from infecting people and then spreading, you give the virus the opportunity to select a variant that is increasingly unaffected by the vaccine.

This explains why covid vaccines protect even worse now than when vaccinations began. It also explains why the government's message that unvaccinated people are contributing to the continuation of this epidemic is wrong. The immense number of people who have been treated with these vaccines has allowed the emergence of the increasingly contagious virus variants.

Let me recap. Young and healthy people gain nothing by being vaccinated, but they do expose themselves to still largely unknown health risks. Those who get vaccinated also contribute to the emergence of increasingly infectious virus variants. It will be clear that vaccinated people do not cooperate in building up group immunity. After all, group immunity presupposes that people will no longer transmit the virus - and that is precisely what the covid vaccines cannot prevent.

The virus variant that now dominates in our region is Omicron. Omicron is by far the most contagious virus variant that has emerged so far in this epidemic. Fortunately, Omicron causes only mild symptoms of illness in most people, but the successor to this virus may be less gentle. So we should take this opportunity to stop mass vaccinations. However, that does not seem to be going to happen. ...

The seriousness of the consequences of this sequence of events can best be explained by a comparison. A vaccination can be compared to the installation of a virus scanner on your PC, but then one that you can never remove. As long as that virus scanner works well, that's fine. Many of the vaccines that children receive are such well-working permanent virus scanners. The current corona vaccines, however, are defective virus scanners. They don't stop viruses properly, and they also cause all kinds of other programs on your PC that are also aimed at keeping viruses and other malware out to stop working properly.

A human being is not a PC. A PC that no longer works properly can be discarded, but not a human, of course. A human, who has been vaccinated with a product that does not work properly, may have a major problem for life. This may well mean that as a result of the covid vaccinations you become more vulnerable to other coronaviruses that are circulating, or even to the flu virus, and probably to virus variants that will still emerge. Several scientists are increasingly concerned that the immune system will become less effective in other ways as well.

Now you may understand why I find the government's pressure on young people to get vaccinated totally irresponsible. That goes for the campaigns that instill a false sense of responsibility in young people, instilling fear, locking young people up, creating a climate where unvaccinated people are looked at strangely - and then telling young people that they can go back to living normal lives if they get treated with experimental vaccines. No government has the right to put young people in this situation.

That this happened anyway has everything to do with a series of important events that took place in the near past. Six years before the coronavirus started spreading around the world, in 2014, there was another virus outbreak: that of the Ebola virus in West Africa. At the time, the world health organization WHO took action too late, and the consequences were disastrous.

As a result of the Ebola catastrophe, the WHO was reorganized. The idea was that the next time there was a major outbreak, WHO would not repeat that mistake it made. Hence, when the coronavirus broke out, the WHO declared an emergency fairly quickly. That, we now know, was a hasty and erroneous assessment. It soon became clear that the new virus was only dangerous to people with weakened immune systems, for example, as a result of illness, an unhealthy lifestyle or very old age. The WHO had fallen from one extreme to another, and without examining whether it was necessary, began planning a massive vaccination campaign.

One problem with those vaccinations was that WHO could neither pay for them nor produce the vaccines itself. The WHO had to turn to a few large pharmaceutical companies for that. The sole purpose of these companies is to increase their profit margins to the highest possible level. The pandemic offered the companies the best possible opportunity to do so.

Governments around the world bought huge quantities of vaccines that were supposed to protect their populations against covid, and because of the great (and, in retrospect, wrong) sense of urgency, the authorities that assess the safety of new drugs relaxed the criteria that the vaccines had to meet. This, and only this, allowed vaccines based on genetic engineering to come to market so quickly. Without a corona outbreak, it might have taken another ten years for this to happen. Moreover, if there had been no corona outbreak, current corona vaccines would probably not have been approved. There are simply insufficient data to assess their efficacy and certainly their safety.

The companies need have no fear of a false outcome. I'll spare you a long legal explanation, but the companies can shift all liability for side effects to the governments that bought their vaccines and administer them to their citizens. So while the drug companies make unprecedented profits, their risks are virtually zero. The companies, plus the legion of experts who get paid by the same companies while advising the government, have a vested interest in greatly exaggerating both the severity of the pandemic and the efficacy of the vaccines.

The Silicon Valley tech companies and the major media do not play a nice role in this whole thing. In fact, one would expect precisely those companies to provide the public with the information needed to understand this curious and dangerous crisis. Instead, the tech companies and the media have acted as a mouthpiece for the pharmaceutical industry and the government over the past two years. They have simultaneously dismissed anyone who voices a critical opinion as a half-wit or a fraud.

The supreme alliance of rapidly getting richer pharmaceutical companies, their army of experts and partisan media has the national and international health organizations in an iron grip. The alliance claims that it adheres to WHO guidelines and advice, but that's a sham. The Alliance is behind the wheel of the corona automobile, not the WHO.

The politicians in parliament and the cabinet are the ones who bear the brunt of this development. That may sound odd, because you would say that this very group is in control. But because politicians, with a few exceptions, have no understanding of biology, the human immune system, viruses, vaccines and the pharmaceutical industry, they are currently at the mercy of the alliance. They whisper what the politicians should do and think.

I know my way around this field where companies, governments, politics, health authorities, media and scientists meet. I spent many years of my career in it. I look back on it with mixed feelings. On the one hand, I am grateful for what the vaccine world has taught me. On the other hand, it also taught me what happens in that world when you go against the grain, and how ruthlessly the system then treats you. Even when everyone knows you're right.

Early in 2021, when mass vaccination campaigns were gaining steam, I warned WHO of what was to come. One of the best-known vaccinologists on the planet let it be known that he shared my concerns. He immediately added that I could shout all I wanted, but I would not be heard. After all, I was rowing against the current.

In the meantime, a year has passed. The economy is damaged and discontent is growing. Arguments over vaccinations are tearing apart families and groups of friends. Those who are not vaccinated can no longer move freely and feel discriminated against. The vaccinated have more freedom than the unvaccinated, but they do not feel safe. They begin to worry more with each round of punctures.

Independent scientists have shown several times that mass vaccinations and other measures have not worked. This is doubly true for a virus as infectious as Omicron, which cannot be stopped by any means man has deployed in this crisis. What is also becoming increasingly apparent in science is that natural immunity protects healthy people superbly against the virus. Granted, the price for that immunity may be a mild illness. But that price is paltry compared to the negative health effects of vaccines denied by the government and pharmaceutical companies.

It is clear that this situation cannot continue. All signs point to the fact that chasing the coronavirus with vaccines as late as 2022, i.e., this year, will lead to a boomerang effect that will force the government to lift all discriminatory measures. The probability of that is 99 percent. The chance of it happening as early as the next six months I estimate at 60 to 70 percent. So the days of this Muppet show are indeed numbered.

Lucas, the miserable situation you are in now will soon no longer exist. Do not succumb to the temptation to take these corona vaccines for freedom, especially now that the end of this misery is so near. Nothing gives greater freedom, now and in the future, than a healthy body.

Don't believe the promises of the government and pharmaceutical companies. Don't take what the media proclaims at face value, nor automatically go along with the opinions of people around you who parrot the media. Learn how to use the Internet to find good information about health. Find sources from people who are scientifically credible, who have not affiliated themselves with suspicious companies, and who have no conflicts of interest. ...

Another important component is a positive mental attitude. Loneliness, fear, despair and gloomy expectations for the future have a negative impact on the immune system. An important medicine for a positive attitude is social contact. Seek out other people, not only through social media, but especially in person and have fun together. If you can improvise and are a little creative, you still can, even in this day and age.

In friend groups and families, the pandemic can be a social divisive issue. If you run into that, don't try to convince people with different opinions. That won't work, and will only cause frustration. You're better off investing your energy in making new friends. If you are willing to take the first step, you will find that this is often easier than you think. Many young people have this same need. Find people with whom you feel comfortable. Help each other out. Support each other. Realize that you still have a sea of time to make up for what was taken from you in these black years.

https://patriotpost.us/articles/86272?source=patrick.net

FEBRUARY 16, 2022
No COVID-19 Found in China’s Bats
Over 80,000 animals in China have been tested for SARS-CoV-2, and to date, none have come up positive.

Just heard about this guy @DefiantLs who posts pairs of tweets to expose hypocrisy because he was suspended for doing it:

https://nitter.net/DefiantLs?source=patrick.net

https://conservativeplaylist.com/2022/02/19/big-pharma-mainstream-media-looking-to-create-the-next-big-health-scare-as-covid-fears-subside/?source=patrick.net

https://www.thesun.co.uk/health/17680729/how-attractive-you-are-covid-risk-beauty/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10542309/Fresh-lab-leak-fears-study-finds-genetic-code-Covids-spike-protein-linked-Moderna-patent.html?source=patrick.net

More evidence Covid was tinkered with in a lab? Now scientists find virus contains tiny chunk of DNA that matches sequence patented by Moderna THREE YEARS before pandemic began

zzyzzx says

lol! duh! err immune system?!

https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/when-covid-cases-climb?s=r&source=patrick.net

When COVID cases climb
No one is prepared - It will be pandemonium

Right now COVID cases are down, everyone is thinking about Ukraine, and restrictions are falling, but it won’t stay that way. Testing capacity is now abundant, and vaccines and boosters are incapable of preventing covid’s eventual breakthrough. As time goes on, boosters effectiveness will further wane. Even some people who were initially infected with COVID early on will be susceptible to reinfection. Cases will again rise, and it will be ugly. Here are my suggestions:

Don’t test an asymptomatic person. Stop testing people who have no symptoms and advise people without symptoms not to test. People who feel ill should test if they wish, and people who seek medical care should, of course, be tested, but asymptomatic testing will be massively disruptive. The idea that asymptomatic testing can shield others from infection was never proven— it is still only bio-plausible. It can be directly interrogated with a study, but its downsides should be carefully examined, including disruption to health systems and other enterprises. ...

COVID19 cases will eventual rise. I don’t know when, but we are extremely vulnerable to an ill-formed and schizophrenic response. As we near midterm elections, politicians will be more volatile, and seek to control news that is seen as a threat to political fortunes. That’s the territory for bad decision making.

He thinks there will definitely be further waves and that we should NOT do all the stupid, dangerous, and ineffective things that Fauci pushed last time.

https://article.wn.com/view/2022/03/15/watch_nearly_30_million_under_lockdown_in_china_as_covid19_v/?source=patrick.net

A Chinese friend tells me this will cause further supply chain disruptions.

https://notthebee.com/article/is-trevor-noah-being-red-pilled-late-night-host-points-out-the-hypocrisy-of-new-york-citys-vax-policy-and-kyrie-irving-this-makes-no-sense?source=patrick.net

I don't care how Covid compliant you are. Sh*t like this makes zero sense.

So, Kyrie can go inside, not wear a mask, even hug a teammate, but HE CANNOT PLAY!

I don't get it, why? Does the ball have a weak immune system, what's going on?

I mean it's crazy, it's crazy, just think about it. Kyrie can't play but he can sit in the stands, like a fan.

When you've lost Trevor Noah, you know you have gone too far with your stupid Covid policies.

Better late than never, I guess.

https://www.unz.com/runz/two-years-after-covid-american-eyes-remain-firmly-shut/?source=patrick.net

Or consider another point I have emphasized in my series of articles and my video interviews. By February 2020, the headlines of the New York Times declared that Iran had become the world’s second epicenter of the Covid outbreak, with its political elites suffering very heavily. However, neither the Times nor almost any other Western media outlet ever reported that Iran’s government and media publicly accused America of having unleashed Covid as a biowarfare attack against their country and China, with Iran’s former president even filing an official complaint with the United Nations. Only our government-funded international propaganda outlet Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty took notice of those extremely serious Iranian allegations and dismissed them as absurd on the grounds that the Covid virus was known to be natural. But if Eban believes that the virus came from a lab, surely those original Iranian accusations would warrant a mention somewhere in her two articles, which total over 22,000 words and run some 65 pages.

NIH admits to suppressing COVID Gene Data
https://www.theepochtimes.com/nih-admits-it-suppressed-wuhan-lab-genetic-data-but-disputes-watchdogs-deleted-label_4376867.html?source=patrick.net&utm_source=share-btn-copylink

A National Institutes for Health (NIH) spokesperson is disputing a nonprofit watchdog group’s claim that the agency “deleted” genetic sequencing data on the CCP virus from a Chinese lab, but the same official acknowledged the data was “suppressed.”

“The headline says the sequences were deleted which is inaccurate. They were not deleted. This is a really important point, and I’ve highlighted what did happen from what we provided to you earlier this week,” NIH Media Branch Chief Amanda Fine told The Epoch Times in a March 31 email.

Fine was referring to a March 29 Epoch Times story headlined “NIH Deleted Info Received From Wuhan Lab on CCP Virus Genetic Sequencing, Watchdog’s FOIA Finds.” The information Fine referenced as having been provided to The Epoch Times by NIH earlier in the week was included in the published story:

“’In June 2020, in response to a request by the same [Wuhan] researcher, National Center for Biotechnology [NCBI] gave the sequence data the status of “withdrawn,” which removes sequencing data from all public means of access but does not delete them.

“‘NCBI subsequently reassigned the status of the sequence data to “suppressed,” which means that sequence data are removed from the search process but can be directly found by accession number. This action to reassign the data was identified as part of NLM’s ongoing review into the matter. We are working to make more information available,’ the spokesperson said.”

The biotechnology center, which is part of the institute’s National Library of Medicine (NLM), is the U.S. component of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration.

The Epoch Times story was prompted by a report published on March 29 by Empower Oversight Whistleblowers and Research (EO) that was based on Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) responses the group received from the institute.

“On June 5, 2020, a Wuhan University researcher requested that NIH retract the researcher’s submission of BioProject ID PRJNA637497 because of error. The Wuhan researcher explained ‘I’m sorry for my wrong submitting,'” Empower Oversight said in a statement (pdf) on March 29.

“BioProject ID PRJNA637497 is also referred to as Submission-ID SUB7554642. Three days later, on June 8th, the NIH declined the researcher’s request, advising that it prefers to edit or replace, as opposed to delete, sequences submitted to the SRA,” EO reported. SRA refers to the Sequence Read Archive (SRA) data resource made available by NCBI, and it “stores raw sequencing data.”

“But then, on June 16, 2020, NIH officials reversed themselves and deleted the genetic sequencing data, as requested by the Wuhan researcher. That researcher was quoted by EO as explaining to NIH: ‘Recently, I found that it’s hard to visit my submitted SRA data, and it would also be very difficult for me to update the data. I have submitted an updated version of this SRA data to another website, so I want to withdraw the old one at NCBI in order to avoid the data version issue.’

“After some discussion about what would be deleted, the NIH concluded the discussion by reassuring the Wuhan researcher that it ‘had withdrawn everything.’”

Asked for a response to Fine’s claim the information was not deleted, EO Founder and President Jason Foster told The Epoch Times that NIH’s actions ensure the CCP virus genetic sequencing info is only available to the few individuals possessing its “accession number,” which effectively deletes the data from open access and research.

“NIH documents released with Empower Oversight’s report demonstrate that the sequencing data was deleted from public view by the NIH at the request of the Wuhan researcher,” Foster said.

Booger says

Masturbation cures pretty much anything.

Ah yes, Mr. Vandervelde, but that’s not the point is it. They needed a quick and easy way to fake an election, create inflation, destroy small businesses and spoil the education of a generation of innocent children. Oh and let’s not forget mandate biological terrorism. Yeah, they created perhaps the biggest hoax in human history (so far). Now I do believe that the virus is real, and some people did die from their infections, but it was not a level of virility that required extraordinary measures. In fact the places that locked down the strictest are now seeing surges in cases proving that lockdowns only delay the inevitable. The virus was endemic by spring/summer of 2020 and should have been managed like any endemic infectious disease, with reasonable precautions and targeted quarantines of the infected and vulnerable.

https://off-guardian.org/2022/04/12/was-covid19-a-re-branded-flu/?source=patrick.net

PeopleUnited says

Ah yes, Mr. Vandervelde, but that’s not the point is it.

I'd check his numbers on the number of people that died on pneumonia and influenza in 2018. Not saying they are wrong, but to me they seem to be wrong.

https://doctors4covidethics.org/the-covid-lies/?source=patrick.net

By Dr. Michael Yeadon via Doctors for Covid Ethics

The Covid Lies – Doctors for COVID Ethics (doctors4covidethics.org)

In this comprehensive review, Dr. Yeadon argues that all the main narratives about SARS-CoV-2 and imposed “measures” are lies.

In the first part of the article (The Covid Lies), Dr. Yeadon counters the 12 widespread Covid narratives with the following arguments:

The infection fatality rate of SARS-CoV-2 is 0.1 – 0.3%, which is not significantly different from some seasonal influenza epidemics.
Based on the peer-reviewed articles, at least 30 to 50% of the population has prior cross-immunity.
SARS-CoV-2 does discriminate. “The lethality of this virus, as is common with respiratory viruses, is 1000X less in young, healthy people than in elderly people with multiple comorbidities.”
Asymptomatic transmission is the “central conceptual deceit” used to “underscore almost every intrusion: masking, mass testing, lockdowns, border restrictions, school closures, even vaccine passports.”
PCR test is “the central operational deceit.”
Neither cloth nor surgical masks prevent respiratory virus transmission.
Lockdown is “epidemiologically irrelevant” and never works. “Only “stay home if you’re sick” works.“
“Covid-19 is the most treatable respiratory viral illness ever”. Safe and effective early treatments are available.
Based on the peer-reviewed articles, very few clinically significant reinfections of SARS-Cov-2 have ever been confirmed.
SARS-CoV-2 mutates slowly, and no variant is even close to escaping naturally-acquired immunity. However, there is the possibility that the so-called vaccines prevent the establishment of immune memory, leading to the repeated infections, which would be a form of acquired immune deficiency.
Safety is the top priority in a public health mass intervention, even more than effectiveness. “It was NEVER appropriate to attempt to “end the pandemic” with a novel technology vaccine.”
The four gene-based “vaccines” are toxic. The basic rules of selecting vaccine candidates are: 1) the agent has no inherent biological action (non-toxic); 2) the agent should be the genetically most stable part of the virus; 3) the agent should be most different from human proteins. Spike protein as the vaccine does not fit any of the above criteria.

Yes, the standard of excellence is "not getting caught."

https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/just-a-reminder?s=r&source=patrick.net

these are the people whose covid responses the whole world threw away 100 years of evidence based pandemic guidelines to copy and cheer-lead for in 2020.

still feeling good about that decision?

He's right, the Chinese response was STUPID in the extreme, but his sentence construction is awful. Should be more like this:

"The whole world threw away 100 years of evidence-based pandemic guidelines to copy and cheer-lead for the covid responses of these people."