{"id":101958,"date":"2021-12-27T19:21:55","date_gmt":"2021-12-27T23:21:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=101958"},"modified":"2021-12-27T19:22:08","modified_gmt":"2021-12-27T23:22:08","slug":"covid-a-constant-fight-against-misinformation-and-propaganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=101958","title":{"rendered":"<b>COVID: A constant fight against misinformation and propaganda<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Mostly bad news if you are ready for truth-telling<\/h2>\n<p><!--more-->Joel S Hirschhorn<br \/>\nSubstack<\/p>\n<div class=\"available-content \">\n<div class=\"body markup\">\n<p>By regular reading of medical science publications and data it is possible to see greater truths about COVID, vaccines and health impacts.\u00a0 Here are several summaries of important new insights about this never-ending pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>A)\u00a0 <strong>Omicron<\/strong>: A while back I wrote an article about the work of a brilliant French scientist whose research showed that the omicron variant was not intrinsically highly transmissible, certainly much less than the delta variant that had become dominant worldwide.\u00a0 Now omicron has become dominant.\u00a0 And all you read about in the mainstream media is how highly transmissible omicron is.\u00a0 But a good way of understanding what is happening is that omicron is unique because of many mutations.\u00a0 And the nature of these is that all vaccines and immunities are ineffective against omicron.\u00a0 So, omicron seems to spread aggressively.\u00a0 But this happens because people have no defenses against omicron.\u00a0 The bigger, more important truth is that omicron does not cause serious health impacts.\u00a0 Thus, all the government hysteria about omicron is largely uncalled for.\u00a0 Omicron is being used by governments to exert authoritarian controls over people and to keep pushing vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>B)\u00a0 <strong>Vaccine deaths<\/strong>: A very good <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/355581860_COVID_vaccination_and_age-stratified_all-cause_mortality_risk\" rel=\"\">new analysis<\/a> confirms what previous analyses concluded, namely that a figure of 150,000 deaths in the US from vaccine shots used by me and others is accurate.\u00a0 It was based on data between February and August 2021.\u00a0 It found that CDC\u2019s VAERS data underreport vaccine deaths by a factor of about 20.\u00a0 It came to this conclusion: \u201cthe risks of COVID vaccination outweighs the benefits in children, young and middle age adults, and in older age groups with low occupational risk, previous coronavirus exposure, and access to alternative prophylaxis and early treatment options.\u201d\u00a0 That is a big statement worthy of serious thinking by everyone considering getting a regular or booster shot.<\/p>\n<p>C) \u00a0<strong>Vaccine effectiveness<\/strong>:\u00a0 A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medrxiv.org\/content\/10.1101\/2021.12.20.21267966v3\" rel=\"\">new study<\/a> using data from Denmark examine vaccine effectiveness for omicron.\u00a0 It concluded: \u201cThe vaccines are making it more likely you&#8217;ll be infected with Omicron 90 days after you are fully vaccinated. To keep vaccine effectiveness high against omicron, vaccination every 30 days is needed.\u201d\u00a0 This study supports the view that current vaccines reduce immunity and make you MORE likely to get infected, not less. \u00a0Thus, providing a warning to people getting on a vaccine treadmill that you can never get off in the future. \u00a0If this study gets it correct, then the public globally have been lied to about the vaccine effectiveness for omicron.<\/p>\n<p>This is what the published study means: Based on what the vaccines do to our immune system, it\u2019s likely that the needed interval will shorten with each booster. \u00a0If people get boosted regularly, they will be MORE vulnerable to Delta and Omicron than if they weren\u2019t vaccinated. \u00a0That\u2019s what NEGATIVE vaccine efficacy that was found in the study means. \u00a0It doesn\u2019t just mean the protection wears off. \u00a0It means the OPPOSITE of what the public has been told: it means the vaccine helps the virus to infect you by suppressing your immune system. \u00a0It means the public has been grossly lied to.\u00a0 The more vaccines are used globally, the more the COVID virus and infection are likely to persist and cause enormous harm. This would explain the never ending pandemic, especially as new variants emerge as mutations continue.<\/p>\n<p>D)\u00a0 <strong>Dismal forecast<\/strong>:\u00a0 The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington makes regular forecasts about pandemic impacts.\u00a0 In its <a href=\"https:\/\/go.pardot.com\/webmail\/866892\/756049159\/6880d0b5dbaab8edcfaf2cf7e8398ba0013adc3459ba340885e1ccee7a98a763\" rel=\"\">latest report<\/a>, this is its main view: \u201cWe have substantially revised our model to reflect the emergence of the Omicron variant, waning infection- and vaccine-derived immunity, and immunity across variants.\u00a0 Our reference scenario suggests that over the next two months, 60% of the US population will likely be infected with Omicron. \u00a0Because of a much greater fraction of asymptomatic infections, we expect diagnosed cases will peak at just over 400,000 in the first week of February.\u00a0 Based on data from South Africa, UK, Denmark, and Norway, we expect that the infection-hospitalization rate (IHR) for Omicron compared to Delta will be significantly lower.\u00a0 However, the pressure on hospitals will likely be similar to last winter, with considerable variation across states.\u00a0 Based on the available data we also expect the infection-fatality rate (IFR) will be 97%\u201399% lower than for Delta.\u00a0 Despite this, the huge number of infections and moderate numbers of hospitalizations may still translate into a peak of daily deaths over 2,000 in early February.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That last figure compares to daily US deaths now of over 1,200.\u00a0 Why are so many people still dying, most in hospitals?\u00a0 Because vaccines are ineffective and hospital protocols do not work for late stage COVID infection.\u00a0 And, of course, so many Americans have weak immune systems, likely have vitamin D deficiency, and are pretty unhealthy (compared to other nations) with underlying medical conditions, especially obesity.\u00a0 And we know from recent research that the COVID virus preferentially gets into fat cells. Also, the absence of cheap and easily available home testing means that many people ignore early symptoms, have trouble seeing a physician and end up in a hospital emergency room.<\/p>\n<div class=\"captioned-image-container\">\n<figure><a class=\"image-link image2 image2-434-369\" href=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9e88a71-222e-4315-817b-76efc1c8a62d_369x434.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"sizing-default\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.substack.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1100,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fc9e88a71-222e-4315-817b-76efc1c8a62d_369x434.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"369\" height=\"434\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/bucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/c9e88a71-222e-4315-817b-76efc1c8a62d_369x434.png&quot;,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:434,&quot;width&quot;:369,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:344496,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/png&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null}\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-end-cta-full\">\n<h3><span style=\"font-size: 16px;\">___<br \/>\n<\/span><a style=\"font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/joelshirschhorn.substack.com\/p\/covid-a-constant-fight-against-misinformation?justPublished=true\">https:\/\/joelshirschhorn.substack.com\/p\/covid-a-constant-fight-against-misinformation?justPublished=true<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mostly bad news if you are ready for truth-telling<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}