Covid Vaccines and Cancer

Posted on January 12, 2022 by mekorganic

Covid Vaccines and Cancer

Causality? Post-vaccination metastatic breast cancer in a 31-year-old US nurse (Source)

Published: September 25, 2021 (upd.)
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A brief update on covid vaccine adverse events.

Please note: No medical advice; patients are asked to consult a doctor.

Can covid vaccines cause cancer? In some cases, the answer appears to be yes. To be sure, there is no evidence that covid vaccines themselves are carcinogenic (i.e. cancer-causing). However, it has been shown that in up to 50% of vaccinees, covid vaccines can induce a temporary immune suppression or immune dysregulation (lymphocytopenia) that may last about a week or possibly longer.

In addition, covid mRNA vaccines have been shown to “reprogram” (i.e. influence) adaptive and innate immune responses and, in particular, to downregulate the so-called TLR4 pathway, which is known to play an important role in the immune response to infections and cancer cells.

Thus, if there already is a tumor somewhere – known or unknown –, or if there is a predisposition to some type of cancer, such a state of vaccine-induced immune suppression or immune dysregulation might potentially trigger sudden tumor growth and cancer in the weeks following vaccination. Of note, lymphocytopenia has also been frequently observed in cases of severe covid.

Rapid progression of T-cell lymphoma following Pfizer booster shot:

Rapid progression of T-cell lymphoma following Pfizer booster shot (Goldman et al)

At the immunological level, a similar mechanism appears to be triggering the post-vaccination reactivation of latent virus infections, most notably VZV (i.e. shingles), but also EBV (Epstein-Barr) and HPV. The vaccine-induced temporary immune suppression is also a likely factor contributing to the post-vaccination spike in coronavirus infections, observed in many countries.

The extent of the vaccine-induced tumor growth and cancer issue remains uncertain – it might be very rare – but there are already a few thousand such case reports in the notoriously incomplete official adverse event reporting systems and in vaccine-related online patient groups, although some of these cases may certainly be coincidental or even due to lockdown-related delayed diagnosis.

In August, US clinical pathologist Dr. Ryan Cole described a significant increase in certain types of cancer (e.g. endometrial cancer) since the beginning of the covid mass vaccination campaign (see video excerpt below; full video here). More recently, German pathologists also noted the issue of post-vaccination immune dysregulation and sudden tumor growth in some patients.https://videopress.com/embed/HJY0tMWs?hd=1&cover=1&loop=0&autoPlay=0&permalink=1

Dr Ryan Cole on post-vaccination cancer (full video; read a fact check)

In addition to the already well-established cardiovascular adverse events – such as blood clots, strokes, heart muscle inflammation and menstrual disorders – several auto-immune diseases have also been linked to covid vaccines, including neuro-inflammatory conditions such as Guillain-Barré syndrome and multiple sclerosis (MS), which may be caused by antigenic cross-reactivity.

Post-vaccination hearing loss and tinnitus have recently been covered by ABC News. As for pregnant women, while many ‘health authorities’ recommend that they get vaccinated, the actual Pfizer vaccine trial in pregnant women continues to be delayed for lack of participants. Meanwhile, the US VAERS reporting system counts already more than 2,000 post-vaccination miscarriages.

In children, it was thought that vaccination would prevent covid-related pediatric inflammatory multi-system syndrome (PIMS). Instead, it turned out that covid vaccines may themselves trigger PIMS, which is most likely caused by an immune reaction to the spike protein. Vaccine-induced PIMS was first noticed in Israel and has recently been confirmed by EMA, the EU Medicines Agency.

The benefit of covid vaccination in children is so uncertain that vaccine trials had to switch from relevant endpoints (i.e. reduction in disease or death) to dubious proxy indicators like “antibody response”. Meanwhile, a recent US study found that in healthy male adolescents, the risk of post-vaccination myocarditis is about five times higher than the risk of covid hospitalization.

A recently published study in mice found that if mRNA vaccine gets into a vein, the heart muscle absorbs the mRNA, starts producing coronavirus spike protein, gets attacked by the immune system, and develops inflammation and cell damage (i.e. myocarditis). This is likely what happens in humans, too, if the vaccine accidentally gets injected into a blood vessel instead of muscle cells.

Haven’t official vaccine trials shown that covid vaccines are safe, though? The answer is no. In fact, several serious adverse events were already observed during covid vaccine trials, but were discarded as “unrelated”. In addition, the Pfizer vaccine trial excluded five times more people from the vaccine group than from the control group. In the Pfizer vaccine trial for adolescents, as 12-year-old girl suffered permanent paralysis, but Pfizer reported her case merely as “abdominal pain”.

As for the potential risk of vaccine-induced antibody-dependent disease enhancement (ADE), there continues to be no real-world evidence for this effect, but several molecular simulation studies found that future variants of the Delta strain might potentially trigger ADE (i.e. non-neutralizing antibodies enhancing viral infection, as was the case with vaccines against SARS-1 and dengue).

The best channel to study case reports of covid vaccine adverse events is “Covid Vaccine Injuries” (18+). However, the well-informed reader should also study a website called “Sorry Antivaxxer”, which documents vaccine skeptics (or even virus skeptics) who died from covid.

Data from Israel shows that covid vaccines provide no durable protection against infection, while protection against severe disease decreases from about 95% to about 50% within half a year. Thus, people at high risk of severe covid should in any case consider early treatment options, including monoclonal antibodies. Once in severe condition, covid treatment becomes much more difficult.

Israel and some other countries have already started “booster vaccinations”, but important safety questions remain: according to an Israeli report, one percent of people sought medical help due to side effects of the third vaccine dose; in a German retirement home, 10% of people suffered serious adverse events after the third vaccine dose and two people (of 90) had to be resuscitated.

Speaking of Israel, an Israeli civil rights group has recently produced an important one-hour documentary called “The Testimonies Project”, detailing serious covid vaccine injuries based on interviews with Israeli citizens and their relatives (see video below). Globally, covid vaccines may already have killed or severely injured more than 100,000 people.

Given the lack of vaccine protection against infection and transmission, as well as the rather concerning safety profile, it is clear that there is no medical, ethical or epidemiological justification for covid vaccine mandates or “vaccine passports”. Indeed, the WHO regional director for Europe recently acknowledged that covid vaccines won’t be able to suppress the virus.

Thus, the pandemic will end as usual: through widespread and durable natural immunity. In the best case, covid vaccines may help mitigate initial infections in high-risk groups.

You have been reading: Covid Vaccines and Cancer.
An analysis by Swiss Policy Research.

Covid Vaccines: The Testimonies Project

“I’m honestly just waiting for the third dose to end it.”https://rumble.com/embed/vk35c3/?pub=rqlj3

Source: The Testimonies Project

Israel: Increase in all-cause mortality

Israeli all-cause mortality in people below 45 has significantly increased since spring. Read more.

Israel: Increase in all-cause mortality (DS/OECD)

Global pandemic-related excess mortality stands at about 15 million or about 15% since January 2020. This includes covid deaths and deaths due to economic disruption. (The Economist)

Global pandemic-related excess mortality stands at about 15 million or about 15% (The Economist)

Covid vaccine protection by age

Maximum covid vaccine protection against death (log scale), lasting about half a year.

Maximum covid vaccine protection against death (log scale), lasting about half a year (Financial Times / PK)

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The mysterious summer wave driven by the ‘Indian’ coronavirus variant

Posted on January 11, 2022 by mekorganic

The mysterious summer wave driven by the ‘Indian’ coronavirus variant

Summer wave driven by the ‘Indian variant’ (delta) in the UK, Russia and Portugal (OWD)

Published: June 22, 2021
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On the ‘Indian variant’ summer wave and the mysteries of respiratory virus seasonality.

Since April/May 2020, when coronavirus infections temporarily vanished even in countries with almost no “interventions” (such as Sweden), it has been quite clear that transmission of the novel coronavirus is primarily determined by seasonal influences, similar to influenza viruses and other human coronaviruses (see charts below).

This assessment has later been confirmed by the stunning synchronicity of coronavirus infection rates in neighboring US and European states with entirely different “covid policies” (e.g. concerning face masks, school closures and business closures). Thus, most health authorities have dramatically overestimated the impact of their coronavirus policies (see charts below).

Interestingly, however, the new ‘Indian variant’ of the coronavirus (delta) appears to be the first major exception to this seasonal pattern (1). In the three northern hemisphere countries in which it has already established itself (and only in these!) – the UK, Portugal and Russia – infections in June have markedly increased (see chart above).

In the highly-vaccinated UK, the impact on hospitalizations appears to be limited so far, but Portugal and Russia – especially Moscow – report a significant strain on their health care systems and have already re-imposed new (partial) lockdowns (Russia has already lost 500,000 people to covid). Moreover, China and even Israel are also reporting new outbreaks driven by the Indian variant.

Respiratory virus transmission and seasonality

Is is important to note that while the seasonality of many respiratory viruses is well established (see charts below), virologists and epidemiologists still do not understand the factors driving this phenomenon, which is why their models fared so poorly during the covid pandemic.

Animal studies have shown that both temperature and relative humidity influence aerosol transmission, essentially bringing infections to a stop at high temperatures or high relative humidity (2). But this doesn’t explain respiratory virus transmission dynamics in the tropical and sub-tropical regions, which have never followed a typical seasonal pattern anyway (see charts below).

Thus, transmission dynamics in countries like Brazil have not been a valid counter-argument to well-established seasonality in moderate climate zones in the northern and southern hemispheres. The deeper issue here is that not only do we not understand the seasonality of respiratory viruses, but we do not even really understand virus transmission itself. (3)

The WHO initially emphasized the role of droplet transmission, triggering the face mask frenzy, but droplet transmission seems to be the least likely route, only relevant if people kiss each other or cough each other into the face, as droplets by definition cannot be inhaled.

The WHO also emphasized the role of fomite transmission (transmission via surfaces of objects, such as doorknobs), triggering the mass disinfection and “wash your hands” frenzy. Studies have confirmed that on some surfaces (including FFP2/N95 masks, by the way), the coronavirus may survive for several hours or even days. Nevertheless, so far no study has found fomite transmission to be a major route of real-world coronavirus infections (but it still might be).

In contrast, respiratory aerosols are likely a major route of coronavirus transmission, and they could explain the importance of indoor vs. outdoor transmission, the failure of facemasks, seasonality, and the higher transmission by adults vs. children and obese vs. lean people. (4)

In addition, infectious coronavirus has been shown to be present in feces, and fecal viral shedding may occur even after respiratory shedding already stopped. This enables transmission via the direct fecal-oral route (e.g. traces of fecal matter on food, in water, or transmitted by flies) and also via the fecal-aerosol route (when flushing the toilet).

While the direct fecal-oral route probably doesn’t play a major role in Western countries (although it was a major transmission route of the polio virus), the fecal-aerosol route has been confirmed in both SARS-1 and SARS-2 outbreaks and has been responsible for mysterious “no contact” transmission between multiple apartments connected via ventilation or sewage water systems.

Thus, public and private toilets are likely places of very high transmission risk and might in part explain off-season outbreaks. Interestingly, the only country that seriously tackles fecal-aerosol transmission has been China, which introduced the notorious “anal swab” testing technique and asks quarantined visitors to use disinfectant when flushing the toilet.

At any rate, the ‘Indian variant’ summer wave is real and highlights the importance, especially in high-risk people, of considering either experimental vaccines or early outpatient treatment.

Most recently, a series of randomized, double-blinded and placebo-controlled trials in Brazil found that proxalutamide – an anti-androgen drug, blocking male sexual hormones and thus inhibiting androgen-driven SARS-2 cell receptors – reduced hospitalization rates in male patients by 91%, while mortality in hospitalized patients (male and female) was reduced by 78%. (5)

Notes

  1. Previous influenza pandemics have shown that novel viruses often have off-season transmission advantages. Most recently, the 2009 swine flu achieved major outbreaks during the summer months of 2009, and largely faded away by November 2009. Thus, summer waves aren’t unprecedented, and do not refute general seasonality.
  2. Interestingly, the original outbreak of the ‘Indian variant’ in India, in April and May 2021, occurred precisely during the time of lowest relative humidity, and prior to the monsoon season.
  3. Because of this, we also don’t understand how respiratory viruses can displace each other on entire continents within just a few weeks, e.g. the novel coronavirus displacing influenza viruses and new coronavirus variants displacing previous coronavirus variants.
  4. SPR previously argued that the ‘Indian’ coronavirus variant may have gotten better at transmitting from younger and leaner people.
  5. The SPR early treatment protocol currently includes prescription-free cough medication bromhexine, which targets the same TMPRSS2 cell receptor used by SARS-2.

Figures

1) Seasonality of respiratory viruses

Seasonality of respiratory viruses

2) Covid-19: Seasonality in US Midwest states

Covid-19: Seasonality in US Midwest states

3) Influenza: Sasonality and dependency on latitude

Seasonality of influenza. Source: Hope-Simpson, 1992

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2020-10-14 YouTube deletes videos against the WHO Covid “consensus”

Posted on January 11, 2022 by mekorganic

YouTube to delete videos that go against the WHO “consensus” on a future coronavirus vaccines

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Just to be clear: as of this time, there is no such thing as a “coronavirus (COVID) vaccine.” That means that, technically, any “information” about such a vaccine, whether positive or negative, claiming it to be either safe or unsafe, can be viewed as factual falsehood and ultimately, a conspiracy theory – since conspiracy theories are typically based on insufficient evidence, yet are promoted as self-evident truths.

But YouTube has announced that it will only clamp down on content that is negative or suspicious about some future vaccine. That means that if you were to make a video praising this non-existent thing and upload it to the platform, that would be fine – however unproven and unprovable at this moment.

It’s not like this hasn’t happened before: at various times, patently harmful substances like DDT were promoted as life-saving epidemic drugs. Even though this DDT clip is positive in tone, in the fullness of time, it clearly reads like a dark conspiracy.

Back to the present, and Reuters is reporting that Google’s video behemoth has decided to add “coronavirus vaccine misinformation” to its lengthy list of topics regarding the catastrophic health scare that have become the subject of meticulous, and at times, unprecedented censorship on the platform.

The way YouTube phrased it in a company blog post on Wednesday is that content about vaccine(s) will be banned if it goes against “consensus” that exists between “local” – i.e., national – healthcare authorities, and the global one, the World Health Organization (WHO).

Specifically, content that expresses suspicion the vaccine might have grave consequences on human health, all the way up to killing people. (Once again, while there is value in not helping spread any kind of unsubstantiated panic, Google/YouTube/WHO at present really have no way of knowing that a future vaccine might not in fact cause harm – this is all yet to be determined.)

But YouTube is already hard at work, with more than 200,000 videos about “Covid misinformation” removed from the platform.

For now at least – “general discussions about broad concerns over the vaccine” are still allowed.

But then again, YouTube in the same breath announced that more censorship around the coronavirus pandemic would be coming soon, “to emphasize authoritative information” – so we’ll just have to wait and see what gets banned next.

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2021-04-23 Facebook deletes group posting alleged adverse vaccine reactions

Posted on January 11, 2022 by mekorganic

Facebook deletes 120,000-member group where people posted stories of alleged adverse vaccine reactions

The tech giant continues to police discussions about the coronavirus.

By Tom Parker

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Facebook has removed a popular, rapidly growing group where members would post stories about alleged negative COVID-19 vaccine side effects.

The group, “COVID19 VACCINE VICTIMS AND FAMILIES,” had over 120,000 followers when it was shut down and had been gaining more than 10,000 followers per week.

The shutdown of the page follows Facebook introducing a ban on a wide range of claims about the coronavirus vaccine in February. The list of prohibited claims includes claims that the vaccines cause blood clots and claims that the coronavirus vaccine change people’s DNA (something that even Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Facebook staff during a July 2020 internal meeting).

Not only is Facebook restricting a wide range of vaccine-related claims but it’s also adding labels to all posts about coronavirus vaccines. These labels state that vaccines are safe and direct users to sources that Facebook has deemed “authoritative” such as the World Health Organization (WHO).

Facebook’s actions are similar to those of other Big Tech platforms which have also cracked down on vaccine-related conversations over the last few months. YouTube prohibits videos that go against the WHO “consensus” on coronavirus vaccines and adds information panels to some videos that direct viewers to the WHO and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Twitter also bans “harmful misleading” posts about vaccines.

Politicians have actively encouraged this Big Tech crackdown on vaccine skepticism. Days ago, Democrats pushed Facebook and Twitter to “address” 12 prominent vaccine skeptics. State Attorneys General also told Facebook and Twitter to kill vaccine skepticism earlier this month.

These crackdowns on vaccine skeptic conversations come amid mass pushes from global governments to introduce digital vaccine passports that force people to prove their vaccination or test status to enter business premises.

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Swiss Policy Research on Covid

Posted on January 11, 2022 by mekorganic

Why all the Censorship concerning Covid?

The Censorship Pandemic

What is Covid?

Coronavirus Variants: What’s Next?

Covid versus the flu, revisited

Facts about Covid-19

The mysterious summer wave driven by the ‘Indian’ coronavirus variant

Severe covid: A postviral autoimmune attack

Why Covid-19 Is a “Strange Pandemic”

What are Covid Risk Factors?

Covid-19 Mortality: A Global Overview

Obesity and The Pandemic: New Insights

Natural Immunity vs Vaccinations?

Omicron Neutralization Update

The Return of the Flu

Preemptive Treatments of Covid?

Covid and Anti-Androgens

Is Budesonide Really Effective Against Covid?

Molnupiravir: Independent studies needed

On the Treatment of Covid-19

Remdesivir: An Epidemic Failure

The Ivermectin Debate

Did Lockdowns and Mandates really work?

Israel: Highest infection rate in the world

Israel: Why Is All-Cause Mortality Increasing?

Judgment day: Sweden vindicated

Lockdowns: Fewer Suicides in 2020?

Pre-symptomatic transmission is very real

Do Masks really work against Covid?

Are Face Masks Effective? The Evidence.

Danish Mask Study: No Benefit

The Face Mask Folly in Retrospect

WHO Mask Study Seriously Flawed

Does Covid Testing Work?

The failure of PCR mass testing

Are Covid Vaccines harmful?

Covid Vaccine Adverse Events

Covid Vaccines: A Reality Check

Is Covid excuse for Authoritarianism?

Did China Stage the Videos of People Collapsing in Wuhan?

Meanwhile in Australia

The Covid Vaccine War

The WEF and the Pandemic

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Lockdowns: Fewer Suicides in 2020?

Posted on January 11, 2022 by mekorganic

Lockdowns: Fewer Suicides in 2020?

USA: Leading causes of death, 2015 to 2020 (JAMA, March 2021)

Published: April 17, 2021
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Did US suicides really decrease in 2020?

Overall, ‘lockdowns’ have had no discernible impact on covid mortality. This is true in the US (compare Florida to other states) and in Europe (compare Sweden to the EU), but also in Latin America (compare Peru and Argentina to Brazil), Africa (low impact of covid anyway), and even in Asia (see India, Bangladesh, Indonesia and the Philippines, all of which had lockdowns).

The only two exceptions to this rule are extreme lockdowns in China and preemptive lockdowns in support of early border controls, which succeeded primarily on some islands and possibly in Indochina (Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia), Norway and Finland. Note that New Zealand and some other islands had already avoided the 1957 and 1968 flu pandemics. Some of the most successful islands never even had a Western-style lockdown (e.g. Taiwan and Japan).

In contrast, lockdowns have caused unprecedented social and economic devastation, destroying hundreds of millions of livelihoods worldwide, according to official estimates. In sub-Saharan Africa, the increase in deaths from malaria and tuberculosis each exceeds the total number of covid deaths. Interestingly, if one takes into account both GDP loss and new public debt, New Zealand is one of the worst affected countries in the world.

Nevertheless, some proponents of lockdowns argue that lockdowns have at least not led to an increase in suicides. They point to a recent US study, published in JAMA, apparently showing a decrease in US suicides in 2020 by 2,700, from 47,500 to 44,800 (see the table above).

But the reality is far different. First, US CDC data shows that 6,900 cases of “intentional or unintentional injuries”, which include suicides, were classified as “covid deaths” (deaths with covid). But more importantly, suicides in the US cover only a fraction of ‘deaths of despair’: the very same JAMA study shows that “unintentional injuries”, “largely driven by drug overdose deaths”, increased by an unprecedented 19,000 to a sad record of 192,000 (see the table above). And if the economic and labor market situation doesn’t recover quickly, this may have been only the beginning.

Finally, this calculation doesn’t even include the dramatic increases in severe depression and attempted suicides, especially in children and young adults, the groups least affected by covid.

Update July 2021: U.S. Had Most Drug Overdose Deaths on Record in 2020, CDC Says (Reuters) U.S. drug overdose deaths soared almost 30% to a record 93,331 in the pandemic year of 2020, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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Did China Stage the Videos of People Collapsing in Wuhan?

Posted on January 11, 2022 by mekorganic

Did China Stage the Videos of People Collapsing in Wuhan?

“Wuhan: a man lies dead in the street” (AFP/Getty, January 30, 2020)

Published: April 2021 (upd.)
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Did China stage the early videos of people collapsing in Wuhan?

Already in March 2020, SPR argued that the coronavirus situation appeared to show aspects of a possibly serious pandemic, a mass psychosis, and a psychological (i.e. propaganda) operation.

Since the early days of the pandemic, many people have been wondering if the notorious videos of “people collapsing in Wuhan”, which emerged in late January 2020 (see below), had in fact been staged by the Chinese government to frighten the West into lockdowns and self-destruction. After all, it is argued, such events haven’t been seen anywhere else later on during the pandemic.

For instance, on January 31, 2020, British newspaper The Guardian titled: “A man lies dead in the street: the image that captures the Wuhan coronavirus crisis”. A week before, the British Express titled: “Coronavirus horror: Social media footage shows infected Wuhan residents ‘act like zombies’”.

But an analysis of these videos and their context shows the following:

  1. Contrary to claims that there were “dozens” or even “hundreds” of such videos, there were only about ten such videos, which were shown in various places and in various combinations.
  2. Most of these videos really had nothing to do with covid. Rather, these videos showed drunk people, homeless people, road accidents, unspecified medical emergencies, and even training exercises. Some of these videos were quickly debunked by Western “fact checkers”.
  3. Because of the simultaneous virus outbreak, first responders in Wuhan often already wore protective equipment (the white bio-hazard suits). Thus, to bystanders and to people uploading and sharing the videos, it may have looked like actual “sudden coronavirus deaths.”
  4. In many cases, video titles or descriptions suggested or claimed the videos showed “sudden coronavirus deaths”, but in no case was this suggested or claimed by Chinese authorities; instead, it was social media and Western media promoting this frightening narrative.
  5. It looks like most of these videos were shared internationally not by people close to the Chinese regime, but by people and groups opposed to the Chinese regime (e.g. by ‘Voice of Hong Kong’ and ‘Badiucao’), who wanted to show that the Chinese regime had lost control. The video compilation below, for instance, was published by Taiwan-based news platform TomoNews US.

If any of these videos really showed someone collapsing due to the coronavirus, it may have been due to a sudden cardiac arrest caused by viral myocarditis (heart muscle inflammation), or a major heart attack, stroke, or embolism. Such cases have been observed even in the US and in Germany.

Furthermore, it is noteworthy that the first English-language mention of the alleged “Chinese whistleblower doctor” Li Wenliang (who later died or disappeared) came from “China Change”, an “NGO” funded by the US National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a US government controlled entity that sponsors opposition groups in adversarial countries.

This again might indicate that Western state actors either tried to leverage the situation in China, or tried to “frame” China (the real origin of the virus remaining unknown to this day). In contrast, the Chinese government itself primarily tried to downplay the situation, and continues to do so.

While antibody data indicates that by April 2020, coronavirus prevalence outside of Wuhan city and Hubei province was near zero (despite domestic travel in January 2020), China has experienced repeated local outbreaks and continues to impose extreme lockdown and quarantine measures.

In conclusion, there is currently no evidence that the “collapsing people” videos of January 2020 were a “Sun Tzu style” Chinese psyop. Instead, they may have been part of the “mass psychosis” at the time, leveraged by clickbaiters and hoaxers and Western media, or they may have been part of a Western psyop against China, against the Western population, or both.

Postscript

Chinese coronavirus measures, such as disinfection of public places, construction of dedicated field hospitals and quarantine facilities, and early use of ventilators, were based on epidemic response plans developed after the 2003 SARS epidemic and aimed at preventing aerosol transmission. Although extreme and partially ineffective, these measures weren’t part of a deception, either.

It has been argued that Western lockdowns had been promoted by “Chinese Twitter botnets”. However, while it is true that social media botnets were promoting lockdowns, it remains unclear who was operating these botnets. For instance, during the “Russiagate” campaign, US cybersecurity contractors were running “Russian botnets” to influence US state elections.

Video compilation: “Coronavirus has people keeling over in streets” (January 2020)
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“Coronavirus has people keeling over in streets” (TomoNews US, February 3, 2020)

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The Censorship Pandemic

Posted on January 11, 2022 by mekorganic

The Censorship Pandemic

Former NKVD chief Nikolay Yezhov got removed from a photograph with Stalin, though not for asking questions about vaccine adverse events (Read more; source of meme)

Published: May 6, 2021
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Online censorship during the pandemic: situation and solutions.

During the coronavirus pandemic, the well-known manipulation and censorship on major US internet platforms Google/YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Wikipedia has reached unprecedented levels. The platforms generally claim to enforce WHO and local health authority guidelines, not because they are correct – they were mostly wrong – but because they are deemed “authoritative”.

Some notable examples:

  1. In the United States, YouTube deleted a video of the official Senate testimony of US doctors on the importance of evidence-based early treatment, opposed by the US FDA, NIH and CDC.
  2. In Germany, Google and YouTube silently removed ironic anti-lockdown videos by German TV actors from their search results (a classic Google/YouTube manipulation technique). Prior to that, YouTube had already deleted some of the largest independent German media channels.
  3. In Switzerland, in what may have been a world first, Swiss authorities apparently told YouTube to delete five minutes of a live stream – without notifying the streamer – that showed how Swiss police trapped and detained an independent journalist during an anti-repression protest.
  4. Facebook deleted a group with 120,000 members reporting and discussing covid vaccine adverse events and notoriously adds “vaccines are safe” notes to posts of people mourning the post-vaccination death of a family member.
  5. Wikipedia, whose mostly anonymous editors and administrators have repeatedly been exposed as employees or PR agents of pharmaceutical corporations (or British intelligence operatives), has pushed official misinformation and deleted dissent throughout the pandemic.

The solution to this situation is quite simple, however. Advanced internet users should never use Google search, on any device, unless they want to monitor the current extent of censorship; they should never use the internet without an ad and tracking blocker; and they should always try to use alternatives to YouTube, Facebook and Twitter, both as content producers and as consumers.

To read more about this topic, see: Professional Media Use: Seven Recommendations.

Addendum

During the coronavirus pandemic, censorship has affected science itself. For instance, three major journals refused to publish the Danish randomized controlled trial that found no significant effect of face masks against coronavirus infection; another journal refused to publish a meta-analysis on ivermectin-based early treatment that had already been peer-reviewed; and ResearchGate removed a critical review on face masks and deleted the account of its author, a Canadian professor.

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Meanwhile in Australia

Posted on January 11, 2022 by mekorganic

Meanwhile in Australia

The Howard Springs quarantine facility in the Northern Territory of Australia (ABC)

Published: June 9, 2021 (upd.)
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The high costs of zero covid.

For more than a year already, both Australia and New Zealand have been largely isolated from the rest of the world. Nevertheless, the Australian state of Victoria and its capital city of Melbourne have recently had to impose yet another preemptive lockdown in order to suppress renewed community transmission of the coronavirus.

If they get really unlucky, the citizens of Victoria will have to spend another local winter season in full lockdown. Moreover, many Australians haven’t been allowed to leave the country since early 2020.

Due to repeated failures of the hotel quarantine system for incoming travelers, both New Zealand and Victoria are currently considering, or already planning, a “purpose-built covid quarantine facility” (see example above), already known from places like Vietnam and China.

New Zealand and Australia are also facing a high pressure to quickly vaccinate a very large part of their population, but the vaccines currently in use are already somewhat ‘outdated’ and sub-optimal in terms of their effectiveness against some of the new coronavirus variants, and local reports of blood clots, Guillain-Barré syndrome and other serious vaccine adverse events are mounting.

While it is true that in terms of coronavirus disease, Australia and New Zealand are high-risk populations – due to very high rates of obesity and metabolic disease – the economic and societal costs of lockdowns and isolation have also been substantial. In fact, if one considers both GDP loss and new public debt, New Zealand is one of the worst affected countries in the world. Moreover, in Australia, the number of suicide attempts among children and young adults has doubled.

Meanwhile, China itself is also facing renewed coronavirus outbreaks in several parts of the country, and authorities have again imposed some very strict lockdowns on major cities, despite having already vaccinated hundreds of millions of people – see our updated video gallery (18+) showing recent lockdowns, quarantine facilities and mass vaccinations in Chinese cities.

“Zero covid” essentially means “zero mistakes”, and such a goal was simply unrealistic for most non-island countries in the world (and even for many islands). Furthermore, in early 2020 it was far from certain that an effective vaccine would already become available by the end of the year.

At any rate, the examples of New Zealand and Australia show that “zero covid” is entirely unfeasible without early and strict border controls. Indeed, “zero covid” was unattainable even for most Asian countries, including India, Nepal, Malaysia, the Philippines and Indonesia. For instance, Indonesia had a seroprevalence of about 15% by January 2021, comparable to many Western countries.

There are only a few Asian outlier countries remaining, such as Japan, Korea, Taiwan and the Mekong countries of Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. In these countries, the coronavirus has been circulating at a low level, but there have so far been no major, nation-wide outbreaks.

Whether this is because of some elusive “pre-existing immunity”, or because of a lower basic reproduction number (similar to Western children) – maybe due to genetic or metabolic factors (e.g. very low obesity rates) or cultural factors (e.g. naso­pha­ryn­geal lavage) – continues to remain one of the major unsolved mysteries of this ‘strange pandemic’.

Update: Australia in lockdown (July 2021)

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Melbourne: Australian police protecting the health of their citizens (September 2020)
A woman arrested at a Melbourne beach (September 2020)

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Omicron Neutralization Update

Posted on January 11, 2022 by mekorganic

Omicron Neutralization Update

Omicron neutralization: vaccination vs. vaccination + infection (Sigal)

Published: December 8, 2021 (upd.)
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Important new data on Omicron neutralization in vaccinated vs. recovered people.

Professor Alex Sigal of the African Health Research Institute in Durban, South Africa, has presented the first data on Omicron neutralization in Pfizer vaccine study participants, both with and without previous infection (see preprint study).

As the figure above shows, Omicron neutralization in vaccinated people without prior infection (red) decreased to very low levels (a 41-fold decline compared to the initial Wuhan D614G variant). In contrast, neutralization in previously infected plus vaccinated people (green) remained relatively high and is “likely to confer protection from severe disease”, according to the authors.

Recovered people without vaccination have not been considered in this study, but previous studies found no significant benefit of vaccination in recovered people. Moreover, a recent Dutch study found that “in contrast to vaccine-induced immunity, no increased risk for reinfection with Beta, Gamma or Delta variants relative to Alpha variant was found in individuals with infection-induced immunity.”

Regarding the new Omicron study, three additional aspects are noteworthy:

1) The plasma of vaccinated people was taken on average just 12 days post-vaccination, i.e. at the point of highest antibody levels and neutralization effectiveness (see table below). In people vaccinated months ago, neutralization may no longer be detectable (see updates below).

2) In previously infected people, the plasma was taken a full 417 days post-infection and 27 days post-vaccination, on average (see table below). Despite this, previously infected people still had much higher neutralization levels.

3) In this Pfizer vaccine study, previously infected people had been infected during the first South African wave, which was dominated by the initial Wuhan D614G variant without any antibody escape mutations. However, the second South African wave was dominated by the Beta variant, which features both a class 1 (K417N) and a class 2 (E484K) antibody escape mutation (see table below). Thus, people previously infected with the Beta variant are likely to have even stronger protection against Omicron, which features escape mutations against antibody classes 1, 2, and 3.

This extra-protection may also apply to people in Latin America who were previously infected with the Gamma (Brazilian) variant, but not to people in the US and in Europe who were infected with the Wuhan/D614G (2020), Alpha (spring 2021) or Delta (summer 2021) variant.

In addition, previously infected people may benefit from mucosal and T-cell immunity, which could not be taken into account in the current South African study, either. While it has been reported that PCR-positive hospitalizations in South Africa are currently increasing again, it should be noted that a full 76% of these patients were in fact hospitalized not due to covid.

There have been reports that Omicron might be milder than previous variants. While this would be fantastic news, one should take into account that these reports are based primarily on 1) people in South Africa, most of whom already have natural immunity from previous infection (60% to 80% of the population; only 25% vaccination rate), and 2) non-elderly people (e.g. travelers), in whom covid has always been rather mild anyway (despite relentless propaganda to convince you otherwise).

The question of disease severity can only really be answered once Omicron reaches high-risk groups. In general, the fact that Omicron is able to displace Delta (even in Europe) indicates that Omicron is currently at least as transmissible as Delta, which in turn requires rather high peak viral loads and infectiousness. Unless other mutations reduce host impact, this would not indicate lower virulence. Instead, it is reasonable to assume that virulence may be similar to previous variants.

In conclusion, unless Omicron turns out to be much milder than previous variants, it is evident that current covid vaccines will have to be updated. The fact that current vaccines are no longer effective against Omicron (based on EUA standards) also means that any existing “vaccine passport” schemes and vaccine mandates have become obsolete and have to be suspended immediately.

Ultimately, only widespread natural immunity will be able end the covid pandemic. The fact that millions of “unvaccinated” people are currently being threatened with losing their jobs, regardless of their actual immunity status, can only be described as a crime against humanity. Moreover, the fact that young people have been pressured to take an experimental – and now ineffective – vaccine, against a virus that poses very little risk to them, can only be described as a major medical crime.

Finally, the arrival of immune-escape variants once again highlights the importance of early outpatient treatment of high-risk covid patients, regardless of their vaccination status.

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Update I: A new German analysis confirms 0% neutralization six months after vaccination with Astra-Zeneca, Biontech or Moderna, and only 25% three months after a Biontech booster (vs. 95% against Delta). Furthermore, available monoclonal antibodies show no effectiveness against Omicron.

Update II: A new Swedish Omicron neutralization study in 17 previously-infected hospital workers and 17 recent blood donors in Stockholm found that neutralization was only about 7-fold lower compared to the original Wuhan variant. Given that Stockholm has an infection rate of about 75%, this study again confirms the robust protective effect of naturally-acquired immunity.

Update III: Many news reports argue that the South African, Swedish and German Omicron neutralization studies appear to contradict each other. But as the analysis above shows, this is not the case: rather, the studies differ in terms of previous infections (yes/no) and date of plasma sample (shortly after vaccination vs. six months after vaccination).

Update IV: Independent genetic researchers note that the Omicron variant, with its many spike protein mutations, might in fact have escaped from the Durban lab in South Africa, which has been involved in immune escape and serial passaging cell culture experiments for quite some time.

Update V: A 40-fold reduction in neutralization is not equivalent to a 40-fold reduction in vaccine effectiveness. However, previous studies have shown that “neutralizing antibody levels are highly predictive of immune protection from symptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection”. Based on the available data, one can estimate that the current Pfizer vaccine will achieve an effectiveness against symptomatic infection of at most 30%. Effectiveness against severe disease may or may not be higher. In the worst case, non-neutralizing antibodies might even enhance infection (ADE).

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A) South African study – participant data

Participant data of the South African Omicron study (Sigal)

B) SARS-CoV-2 Antibody Escape Mutations

Coronavirus variants: Escape from antibody classes 1 to 3 (SPR, based on Greaney et al.) Example: K417N describes an amino acid change at codon position 417 from lysine (K) to asparagine (N).

C) Calculated antibody binding to coronavirus variants

Calculated antibody binding to coronavirus variants (Bloom lab)

D) Neutralization vs. vaccine effectiveness

Neutralization vs. protection against Delta and non-Delta (Gardner et al)

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