Safe And Effective ®

As I have explained before, I’m not a vaccine opponent — I’m a vaccine mandate opponent.

But we live in a democracy, and for nearly two years the rights and freedoms that were our birthright in purportedly free nations have been surrendered to the whims and models of public health officials who have been granted power without accountability.

Without direct accountability for their (many) failures, there cannot be trust. When repeated failure doesn’t result in termination and replacement, and we are instead held hostage to these incompetency repeat offenders by our elected governments – there should not be trust.

The Daily Sceptic has for some time been reporting on the apparent negative vaccine effectiveness visible in raw U.K. health data. Despite some age ranges now showing that the vaccinated are more than twice as likely to get Covid as the unvaccinated, this is routinely adjusted out, leading UKHSA to un-intuitively claim that the vaccines are still highly effective even against symptomatic disease.

A recent post by new contributor Amaneunsis explains the Test Negative Case Control approach (TNCC) used by authorities and researchers to adjust the data, and demonstrates that while a theoretically powerful way to remove some possible confounders, it rests on an initially reasonable-sounding assumption that vaccines don’t make your susceptibility to infection worse:

Amanuensis then compares results between the two different statistical approaches in a Qatari study to explore whether violation of this assumption is a realistic possibility and concludes that the multi-variate logistic regression found in their appendix supports the idea that viral interference can start happening a few months after initial vaccination.

What other angles can we explore this idea through? One way is to read the literature on prior epidemics.

H1N1

Between 2009-2010 there was a pandemic of H1N1 influenza, better known as Swine Flu. In April 2009 a small outbreak was detected in northern British Columbia. Researchers from Canada’s public health agencies researched the outbreak by doing interviews, testing and sero-surveys of the affected population. They were especially interested in the question of how effectively the routine trivalent influenza vaccine (TIV) was protecting people against H1N1.

The effect they saw was unexpected and previously unknown: people who had taken the flu vaccine had a more than doubled chance of getting sick with flu during the H1N1 outbreak […]

This result was shocking to the researchers. They were well aware of the impact these results could have on public support for the influenza vaccine programme and thus they didn’t merely double check their results, or request another team replicate their findings. They waited a year and a half, until six different investigations were all saying the same thing.

Emphasis mine.

So long as the voiced concerns of front line doctors are sanctioned and silenced, and legitimate inquiry about this vaccine’s efficacy and safety profile is countered with defamation and threats, instead of transparency and debate — those discussions will be hosted here.

The fact that papers published as recently as 2018 are talking about negative vaccine effectiveness as a new, not really understood effect should give governments serious pause for thought. Most people in public health are clearly unfamiliar with this phenomenon – as indeed we all are – and are thus tempted to either ignore it, delete it from their data, or try to convince the public that it must be a statistical artefact and anyone talking about it is guilty of spreading “misinformation”. The reports in these papers provide recent evidence that vaccines making epidemics worse is in fact a real phenomenon and that it has been previously detected by serious researchers who took every effort to avoid that conclusion.

Read it all, (and the reference links, too) as we always should.

Related: FDA is asking for 55 years to release the data they used to approve the Pfizer vaccine.

59 Replies to “Safe And Effective ®”

  1. The current medicines said to be “vaccines’ are not. A vaccine is taking the virus or germ, killing it, and injecting it, thus your body sees it, recognizes it, and learns to fight it, because it cannot tell the difference between a dead virus and a live one. What we are giving is not that, it is experimental gene therapy. As such, if they tell you you must take the vaccine, tell them you will, as soon as they actually get around to creating one.

      1. Out of all the covid vaccines I researched I liked both the Novavax sub unit type vaccines and the whole, attenuated virus vaccines. You still are introducing the toxic spike protein but only a finite amount using vaccine delivery systems that are tried, tested and true.

        That being said, the authorities obsession with vaccines that force your body to become spike protein factories…using very authoritarian, civil rights violationing policies to coerce you to take them…has made me question all the vaccines.

        To put it in frank terms : I have no more confidence that pharmaceutical companies aren’t going to insert mRNA/viral vector product into tradition vaccines than l am confident that Benny in the black and tan Chevy isn’t cutting garbage into his street drugs.

        Because what government and experts have done, I’m leaning towards just trusting my immune system.

        1. If you’ve had covid or are taking preventative measures Vit C, D+ K2, Quercitin and other antiinflamatories you don’t need a vaccine.
          I would assume the storage conditions for Novavax are different than the mRNA vax. I know enough people in the health authorities who can tell me if they’re different. At this point Novavax isn’t even on their radar….
          Novavax should be looked at as an alternative to mRNA boosters and protect those who are already compromised due to failing mRNA .

    1. So what’s the problem? Canada has no abortion laws and abortion is considered an essential service at least here in Saskatachewan. So here in Canada the baby can be aborted at any time before delivery. Some are even recommending legallizing the killing a baby after delivery. So our government just found another way to legally kill. The same government that many voted for.

  2. When the unexpected effect of serial flu vaccinations first came out it was called the flu vaccine paradox. From 2015:

    “People who receive flu vaccines year after year can sometimes show reduced protection, an effect that Canadian infectious disease specialists say muddies public health messages for annual flu vaccine campaigns.”

    https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/flu-vaccine-paradox-adds-to-public-health-debate-1.2912790

    This and original antigenic sin (OAS) have been known for some time. Vaccines for most diseases are beneficial but vaccines for colds and other seasonal respiratory diseases seem to be the exception. Fortunately, our immune system does and extraordinary job defeating these types of viruses.

    1. I took a flu shot this year and within 48h I got sick with a cold/flu. Stuck with me for over a week. I think this is the last year I ever take one of those things; I only started doing so at the behest of my wife.

      If our betters would put the wretched Covid “vaccine” on that level – purely optional, take it or don’t, up to you, may or may not work very well – fine. No issue. So long as they also fully disclose the true risks, which nobody in western medicine is wont to do. But no, they have to ram it into everyone’s arms at gunpoint. Free choice, they say; you just lose your job, your ability to participate in public life, be shunned and ostracized at every turn, if you refuse. But your choice. Bastards. Right bastards, the lot of them.

        1. Put the vaccines right up there with the Kennedy assassination. But of course, governments have nothing to hide.

          1. Cue GYM to convince us all the CIA killed the Kennedy’s. Sorry, I need more data.

            Speaking of more data … it was Dr. Birx! Dr. Birx! … who PROMISED the American people … she looked right into the cameras and said she would give us … GRANULAR Data! GRANULAR Data! Dr. Birx is a LIAR. A wealthy, massively-taxpayer-funded LIAR. A well-heeled living-the-life-of-Riley in her luxury retirement … LIAR. I would like to add a couple of choice (base) words here about Dr. Birx … but suffice to say she was LYING to every American’s face.

            We have NEVER received “GRANULAR” data from Birx. or anyone else in the US Govt. re: C-19. And why is it that our GOVERNMENT scientists seem to have a little obsession with tweaking and “smoothing” data? Every datapoint ever published by our government … re: Global Warming … has been mangled beyond reality to fit a narrative. Our government are LIARS. They didn’t use to be quite so bold in their lies, or quite so prolific in their LIES. Now … the LIES just flow like lead-tainted water out of our government.

            The termites who have burrowed into our government … at all levels … need to be REMOVED. If the voters can’t do it (or are prevented from doing it) … our countries won’t survive much longer

      1. My kids and I have taken every standard vaccine. I’ve had some additional ones because my lab work required me to test and monitor water and sewage treatment plants in power stations. I’m pro-vaccine in general.

        Specifically, we do not get annual flu shots. When the H1N1 swine flu was present in 2009, I declined the shot for our young school aged kids. I didn’t get the shot either. Then, like now, something just didn’t seem right about the mass hysteria compared to the actual data.

        1. LC Bennett – If you want more mass hysteria subscribe to Reddit. This is were the lefties, facsists, marxists, Nazis, socialists and communists hang out. I use it because on some topics recommendations are solicited.

  3. Just stuff it. If you require posts that meet your exacting standards of personal vocabulary, start your own blog.

    1. Go ahead and erase everything I’ve ever written here. Ban me. Censorship is what you want. Nodding agreement, zero dissent.
      Calling the jab a vaccine when it isn’t justifies those who want to mandate it as a vaccine. That’s my opinion. Go on, Ban me.

      [The last 99 comments you’ve posted are now gone. I’ll get to the rest later. For someone who has enjoyed over 3500 comments on this blog at my expense, you have a lot of nerve. Of course, your IP is now banned as well, so there’s that. – ED]

  4. So why do experts persist in promoting the annual flu shot and now covid shots? I think this, from Kate’s link, is important:

    “The problem seems to go like this: everyone knows vaccines work, thus data showing they don’t must be in error and in need of fixing. Different adjustments are tried for confounders (sometimes real, sometimes hypothetical) until the data comes good, at which point the results are published and the idea that vaccines work is reinforced, leading to a greater propensity to view opposing data as flawed and in need of correction… ad infinitum.

    The raw data now departs so seriously from the conclusions drawn from it that it would require a staggeringly huge behavioural change between the two camps to explain, one which stretches credulity past breaking point. ”

    This type of reinforcing loop despite mountains of contrary data and evidence happens in science more than people think.

  5. “It’s learning process”. Trial and error is “how science works”. Bromides like this are intended for one purpose: to define failure out of existence.

    If this is a trial and error experiment, then people need to be able to choose, without any sanctions, whether or not they want to be involved in it.

  6. Down through history governments have often become the worst enemies of the people.
    Those in office always paranoid, and so invested in their decisions that even when it becomes obvious to all that they are wrong, they lash out at those who resist.
    They forget that they are to serve.

    1. “They forget that they are to serve.” Most of the bureaucrats probably never understood that they are there to serve. They seem to thrive in their own world of unreality where
      “the public ” is a mere abstraction. I have worked for government, and it really is all about them.

      1. Absolutely. Serve? Not likely. Only in government is a collection of absolute mediocrities able to convince themselves they are smart. Whenever one ventures near the private sector they are crushed like the lazy, stupid, and useless idiots they are.

  7. “FDA is asking for 55 years to release the data they used to approve the Pfizer vaccine.”

    Fantastic!!! I’ll wait.

    1. This Twitter person pretty much sums up the absurdity and hypocrisy of the FDA’s 55 year release request.

      “Kim Iversen
      @KimIversenShow
      FDA assures us they did a robust analysis of the Pfizer vaccine data in only 108 days to expedite EAU but needs 55 years to redact the same documents before we the people can see them.”

      A Sesame Street character would say
      The letter C is for cover-up

  8. My government department updated us. 76 percent have filled out the “affirmation”. Not vaxxed, you are out the door December 13. Merry Christmas! I am sending my resume out to all the jobs I find on Indeed, Glassdoor, etc.

  9. Geert Vanden Bossche warned any who asked, that you can’t vaccinate your way out of a pandemic.
    A seasoned, experienced epidemiologist has been ignored throughout, yet he continues to be correct each step of the way.
    Malone, Bhakti, Yeadon have also made similar comments, all experienced epidemiologists and virologists. Instead, decisions are being made by credentialed bureaucrats, but inexperienced with little to no actual medical work on the ground or in person. These are the new leaders, I work with these types already. Book smart, street stupid.
    This will not end well, if the above named doctors continue to be correct, the trajectory of their predictions will have an end result that will make the Spanish Flu look like a fender bender.

  10. I’d add another tier to the “Quality Analysis Guidelines.” How about not including terminally ill in your pool of data. If you are looking for “vaccine effectiveness” you want the absolute most clean slate in which to observe your data. If you’re interested in the effects of your “vaccine” on the infirm or elderly. You do a SEPARATE study to determine that data.

    1. If you’re interested in the effects of your “vaccine” on the infirm or elderly.

      That’s precisely the issue. They’re not. This has been about control from second one. Everything they’ve said or done since that moment, not limited to but including their latest, “vaxxing” children, has had nothing to do with actually treating and eradicating the disease.

      Nothing.

  11. Sounds to me like the vax can be dangerous, at least to a degree.
    So is heroin. I guess that should be voluntary, as well, or should we mandate it? it does alleviate pain, after all.

  12. So, the vax can be dangerous, at least to a degree.
    So is heroin. I guess that should be voluntary, as well, or should we mandate it? it does alleviate pain, after all.

  13. It seems to appear that if the science doesn’t fit the pro-vaccine narrative the science is ignored or buried? I no long trust the science, politicians or doctors-all have failed the people they serve. We might not be able to sue big pharma but the above group can should be legally libel for doing what government health experts edicted from on political high.

  14. At the top of the BBC News page for now… (I know, it’s BBC, well sometimes it’s good to see how they’re reporting this covid thing).

    https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-59329996

    Germany has an almost 70% vax rate.
    They seem alarmed…

    *All my family are #pureblood

    As Kate has clearly stated above, the mandate is the problem here, I don’t care what you’ve put in yourself nor if you refer to it as a vax or experimental gene therapy, nor if you actually believe that wearing a face diaper “helps” nor if you insist I walk in a different direction in a grocery store, or stand 6 feet from you …

  15. Myocarditis events were once scoffed at by the experts and buried by the media…now they’re discussing acceptable ranges.

    1. A billboard was on the side of an Oshawa bus recently stating exactly that.
      Saying children have heart attacks and myocarditis too.
      That it’s a perfectly normal thing.
      Ya right.
      Priming the pump, so to speak.

  16. The one time I got a flu shot was 09 because of the swine flu, and I’ve never been sicker in my life! This one time my doc gave me a prescription for pill form birth control after I had my first born, I wasn’t concerned about becoming pregnant, in fact he brought it up, anyways I take the prescription home, read the side effects and promptly toss it in the trash, no thanks, the risk to me was greater than the “benefit”. And now this covid vaxx nonsense, from being over 95% effective after 6 months to maybe 40%, so basically a flu shot in terms of effectiveness, again, no f-in’ thanks! And don’t even get me started on the side effects! I personally know 3 ppl (women) who suffered side effects (heart attacks, stroke and clots, excessive menstrual bleeding). I’ll wait till never!

  17. The reason they ask for 55 years, is because all people responsible for this will be dead by that time.

  18. Its a bit of a rabbit hole but there’s a lot of good reading in there and like Kate says more in the links.

    In a recent Darkhorse podcast they made a comment that “science just stopped”. Which is exactly what this all looks like. We keep seeing all the studies and the data and wondering why nobody else is looking at it.

    Couple that with massive amounts of censorship and the stifling of free speech and boom all our fail safe mechanisms go offline creating a big effing mess.

  19. Nightfall…

    THAT my friend is an excellent answer.
    One I will be sure to utilize…whenever one of these clowns at AHS asks…

    As per Kate, I too am in no way, shape or form Anti Vaccine – Lord knows that being ex military (where you get some ~50 diff vaccines right in the first few days of Basic Training), and in later years for Pneumonia, Shingles & Hepatitis..+ the 10 yr Tetanus.

    But this, Coerced force fed Nazi like BS….?? not freaking likely.

    I remain Fully Convinced this is a BIO-WEAPON.
    A 2 yr campaign to initially TERRIFY the planets population using Chinese State Media (beyond laughable scenes to be sure), over a virus that is no more deadly than Influenza A/B. ADD the purposeful trashing of proven prophylactics by Fauci ….all to steer the masses towards their own seeming SALVATION (DEMISE) via a a “Miraculously built 7 month wonder” injectable gentically based – computer generated POTION they literally screamed for…without so much as a smidgeon of skepticism or curiosity.

    Fucking INCREDIBLE.
    And then to find out this has been an ongoing operation since 1990….100% Funded by various Fauci led US govt Agencies/Companies funnelling a min of 100 Million USD to utilize crisper tech to create the chimera aka sarscov2….At the University of North Carolina Chapple Hill – RALPH BARIC.

    And so the 3.7M to WIV…?? PEANUTS in the grand scheme of things… designed to have you look the other way…
    WATCH THIS..!!

    https://rumble.com/vov60h-dr.-david-martin-follow-the-patents-then-you-will-understand-covid.html

      1. This is getting weird.
        Let’s get some balance and proper perspective.
        Not to gainsay some troubling stuff that comes to light, but say it in a way that won’t delete us all…hokay?
        And, hey, I am as guilty as the next guy to rant….
        In short, respect Kate”s stalwart effort to be a credible voice of reasoned dissent that, God willing, some influential people may be heeding.

  20. Kate, with respect and admiration:

    As I have explained before, I’m not a vaccine opponent — I’m a vaccine mandate opponent.

    This is a superfluous statement. I’m not aware of anyone here who is a “vaccine opponent”. You are unwittingly feeding the trollish view that SDA commenters are. I’d like to remind you as well that early on you were quite rough on early dissenters including the estimable LindaL, effectively administering bawling outs.

    1. You got that wrong, friend.
      That statement is not superfluous but rather a statement of principle.
      Mandate being the key word.

  21. I don’t understand a lot of the scientific pro or negative covid vaccine arguments but I now distrust the annual flu vaccine too. Thank you science and medicine.

  22. To all who believe we live in a free (non communist) country. I am not a vaccine opponent. I am opposed to being an unpaid guinea-pig for an experimental drug. Drug companies are making a fortune and are being supplied with free labour compliments of communists governments (mandates). China has been working on bio-weapons for years. This is so-far their best, read not their last.

  23. FURTHER to my my 12:28 comment.

    A rant against anti-mandate could leave the impression that this is the main complaint of the dissenters. NO. Like most here I’m anti-everything related to the bought and paid-for governmental response to Covid; no need to bore you with the long LONG list of unprecendented anti-democratic interventions. And the whole of the official health establishment: gubmint public “health”; medical associations and their enslaved members; global “health” bodies; crooked Pharma; the billionaires, et al..

    Nobody here is “anti vaccine”. More like anti-THIS-vxxxxxe which is not a vxxxxxe. That is all.

  24. I have taken my first dose via illegal coercion and under duress.
    My wife recently passed and I cannot see myself sitting in the house all winter by myself. I am social, been in sales for decades and got paid to go to lunch.
    I need to see people. I don’t know of anyone in my circle and it is substantial, that has suffered side affects.
    That being said, after I take the second dose, get my “passport” I will have considered the governments’ demand I get vaxxed complete. Any moving of the goal posts i.e. a booster shot, will not be complied with.
    The politicians and bureaucrats have no clue to the extent of the damage they have done to themselves and their credibility. They think they can dole out “health” policy via opinion polls. They do not deserve to walk down a public street without being harassed.
    More or less the opinion of Jordan Peterson.
    https://youtu.be/0fhlSw72Z5M

    1. First and foremost my condolences on the loss of your wife.
      Thanks for the comment I agree with it 110%.
      I am double dosed.

      I got the shots, lets just say to keep people off my back.

      I do not agree with any of the health measures put in place since about 3 or 4 months after this whole shit show started (June / July 2020).

      How many people here know someone that got covid?

      How many people here no someone the got covid and ended up in the hospital?

      How many people here know someone that got covid and end up in the ICU?

      How many people here know someone that died from covid, and if they did what were the comorbidities, if any?

      How many people here know someone who had an adverse event / reaction after there vaccination(s)?

      The answers to the questions should be narrowed done to someone you physically know, not the I heard about this person who caught it.

      Thanks again Bob, I know every day you wake up and think about your wife, just remember to laugh and cry at all the crazy times you two had together!

      1. Dougie,
        Thank for for your kind words.

        The points you make regarding COVID are correct.
        I have been to the hospital many times over the past 2 years and they are from my observation not “overrun”.

  25. Thank you Kate. Thanks for taking risk and being a voice.

    In the best circumstances it would be hard to make a good decision about putting novel technology into one’s body based on limited data. Current situation is as far from the best situation as you can get – I have nothing more to say that you haven’t said better.

    On a different note, there’s a rumor in the States that the Underground Rail Road has been re-activated to get the unvaxed out of Canada. Sadly, I don’t know if that’s humorous satire or reality. So hard to tell these days.

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