Posted on 04/09/2021 1:08:54 AM PDT by Cronos
At the peak of Israel’s Covid vaccination drive, the halls of a huge basketball arena in Jerusalem were filled with people, each anxiously waiting up to two hours until their number was called. More than 3,000 people a day were being vaccinated here in January.
On Monday, no more than 15 people lingered around long rows of empty chairs. Some barely had time to sit down before they were called to receive a jab. “They wait about 10 seconds,” said Shani Luvaton, the head nurse at the vaccination centre. She only uses half her booths for just a few hundred people a day.
...On some days during the past two weeks, the vaccination centre had to close early because basketball games with limited crowd sizes have restarted. The country is slowly getting back to life, said Luvaton.
...infection rates have consistently dropped. That has continued even though daily life has returned almost completely to a pre-pandemic situation.
...After a lockdown during the second wave, infection rates soon increased and never dropped until another lockdown was imposed. But after the third wave, “the effect of the vaccines kicked in”, he said. The R number (the growth of infections) has since dropped to its lowest level in the pandemic, he said, even though the economy is more open than it has been for a year.
(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...
Note - above data for Israel
Fear Porn Fraud EXPOSED
Oh my, what happens when the fear porn folks bury the facts in an appendix?
It only works until they get caught when someone reads said appendix. Which of course the “Woke” and fear-porn peddling media will never do. Unfortunately for them I’m the sort of guy who stays up all night to read 1,000 page bills before they’re voted on like Obamacare, and I was tipped off to this one, so I went digging — and indeed, there it is.
On page 23 they got caught.
This is is a very large post-EUA vaccine study in Israel, which has been wildly stabbing people now for a few months. And it contains a very sobering set of statistics if you read the appendix.
It’s also notable what’s not included.
So let us begin.
First, this is roughly a half million people per arm — vaccinated and control — or about one million people in total. It therefore has a lot of statistical power, just on size. That’s very good news because you need large numbers to get meaningful results when the outcomes in each arm are relatively rare.
Further, Israel is somewhat unique, in that they mandate membership in a “health fund” but let you choose one. This is the data from the largest, covering ~50% of the nation’s population. As such it’s remarkably free of the sort of self-selection bias that is in a lot of studies, and because Israel has electronic records for all of them the data quality is pretty good.
They also “matched” the control and study arms, which is good too. What this means is that as someone dropped out from one cohort for any reason, such as getting vaccinated, they had to either be replaced or their matching pair dropped.
So let’s start here:
In the absence of systematic periodic testing for SARS-CoV-2 among asymptomatic people in Israel, documented asymptomatic infections do not account for all asymptomatic infections, and likely cannot accurately capture vaccine effectiveness for this outcome.
No ****?
But who gives a crap about asymptomatic infection? Nobody with a brain. It produces only social and personal good; both personal immunity and contribution to population immunity. There has never been an epidemic in history during which asymptomatic cases have been material in the spread of disease and this is no exception; even JAMA now admits asymptomatic transmission in the highest-contact environment outside of medical settings, households, almost never occurs (0.7% probability .vs. 18%). Do recall that literally every “public mitigation” step including masks, closing schools and businesses and more centers around the lie that people without symptoms transmit the virus efficiently yet this is now known, by published, direct study to be false just as it always has been false in the past.
In other words, just to repeat, JAMA itself now admits there is no reason whatsoever to issue any mandate against non-symptomatic people — and there never was any reason to do so. Such persons are less than 1/25th as likely to spread disease when in a confined space with other people for tens of hours at a time. Every person and official promoting and issuing such “mandates” including masks, closing schools, distancing and similar deserves to be in prison right here, right now and be asset-stripped to their underwear. They had no evidence behind their actions and the foremost medical journal in the United States has admitted this is and was the case in print.
Now let’s look at the magnified infection curve for symptomatic infections. There is a significant bend in the curve. But notice something; only 0.9% of the unvaccinated people got infected and the spread is not the entire 0.6 -> 0.9; there was divergence right from the start which is a problem because until the person who gets the vaccine builds antibodies nothing happens. But it did.
This strongly implies either behavioral or matching problems between the populations.
Let’s continue.
Looking out the 42 days (when the study terminated) we find another oddity; there is no material bend in the curve among unvaccinated persons. Yet we took half a million in one of the health systems alone, out of four, out of the pool! Or did we? The data is that we did not; we may have taken them out of “documented infections” but they’re spreading the virus, which means they’re mutating it too. How do we know this? Because that immune pressure on spread would otherwise be seen in the unvaccinated cohort to a very significant degree and it was not.
That’s a problem. In fact it’s an extremely serious problem because under any reasonable interpretation it means that sterility did not occur with vaccination.
Note that Salk made the same mistake with polio. Fortunately Sabin figured out the danger in what was being done and saved the day with OPV, which is sterilizing. Had he not evasion and promotion of more-virulent strains may well have resulted in a “super polio” outbreak over time. We are now deliberately ignoring that which Salk and Sabin taught us decades ago and if we get it up the chute as a result, and I remind you there is emerging anecdotal reports of it occurring already, we will deserve it.
An even more-interesting factor came in, however, with hospitalization. In short the evidence is that the unvaccinated stopped getting sick enough to go to the hospital! So why would you now get vaccinated? After 35 days both curves flatlined and the vaccinated one was about 4-5 days in front of the unvaccinated.
Did the vaccine do anything to actually stop hospitalization or did the virus simply run out of vulnerable people?
The evidence is that it did the latter; the vulnerable got vaccinated first and the rest are not vulnerable and thus didn’t wind up in the hospital. In other words widespread vaccination beyond the vulnerable conferred no benefit.
The same thing happened a few days later with “severe” Covid-19, which is expected; a case that deteriorates takes a few days to do so. Thus, among the unvaccinated the virus had burned itself out. This is point #2 in support of that explanation.
And then comes the kick in the nuts: The same thing happened with death, lagged 10 days which is approximately how long it takes to die from symptom appearance.
THAT’S ALL THREE ENDPOINTS, ALL OF WHICH CONCUR.
CASE CLOSED.
There will be people who will argue this is a “stunning success” based on the narrative in the study. They’re lying and the data in the appendix conclusively proves it.
Once the vulnerable people got vaccinated, and those people went first in Israel as happened here in the US as well all further benefit to society as a whole disappeared. The not-vulnerable who were left in the unvaccinated cohort were never at risk of dying in the first place, nor of hospitalization, so they got nothing useful from the vaccine. All they got was risk from the shot itself. Nobody gives a crap if you sneeze and preventing sneezing is not worth the risk from a shot.
Worse, the differential in deaths between the two over those 42 days was only 19 souls; which across a million is not a very large number, and all of those were in high risk people who, as time went on, got vaccinated. The rest of the cohort who remained unvaccinated through the end of the 42 days had no harms from being unvaccinated as they stopped being hospitalized, getting a severe case and dying before the end of the 42 days yet they had not been jabbed.
You literally could not come up with a better argument for not vaccinating anyone other than those at significantly elevated risk than this study; it shows conclusively that the “unvaccinated” did not suffer at all if they were they not in the high risk categories; those who were “unvaccinated” and got hit with hospitalization, severe disease or death were all high risk people and as they were removed from the pool all three of those outcome stopped even though cases did not.
No, everyone should not get poked; there is no discernable benefit shown here for those not at specifically high risk.
If you take the jab voluntarily and are not at said high risk on the data you’re stupid and deserve what you get.
Oh, and what else is missing?
All-cause mortality in both groups, and the study folks had that data just like they had the rest since everything is electronic. Those 19 lives that were saved — how many were lost in that vaccinated group .vs. the non-vaccinated over that same time and what offset against those 19 souls must be applied due to other causes of mortality that were associated with getting jabbed?
After all, dead is dead — right?
SO WHY WASN’T THAT REPORTED WHEN, IF IT SHOWED LOWER ALL-CAUSE MORTALITY AMONG THE VACCINATED IT WOULD GREATLY SUPPORT THE SAFETY ARGUMENT?
If you’re not pissed off enough by the above watch this: https://www.bitchute.com/video/RqyafQHKY9Iy/
Youslob has deemed it “against community rules” and removed it; facts just are, but if they damage someone’s fear porn control schtick they must, of course, be censored.
http://market-ticker.org/akcs-www?post=241961
The mRNA vaccines' risk of ADE (Antibody Dependent Enhancement) has been documented on mRNA technology since 2005.
The NIH accepted the research paper ( 2020) specifically stating that trial participants, AND future patients have to be made aware of this risk to meet the standards of medical ethics?
PUB MED: Informed consent disclosure to vaccine trial subjects of risk of COVID-19 vaccines worsening clinical disease
Timothy Cardozo 1, Ronald Veazey 2
"Results of the study: COVID-19 vaccines designed to elicit neutralising antibodies may sensitise vaccine recipients to more severe disease than if they were not vaccinated."
Conclusions drawn from the study and clinical implications: The specific and significant COVID-19 risk of ADE should have been and should be prominently and independently disclosed to research subjects currently in vaccine trials, as well as those being recruited for the trials and future patients after vaccine approval, in order to meet the medical ethics standard of patient comprehension for informed consent."
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33113270/
In the US, among those who have been vaccinated, some are having 'breakthrough' infections.
Of those experiencing 'break through" Covid-19, some are likely evidence of the beginning of the known ADE risk.
Typically, throughout prior mRNA research, the technology's sensitizing properties to ADE begin to emerge at the 3 to 6 month mark after vaccination.
The human trials for these vaccines lasted less 2-3 months. They say are still studying the trial participants, but they've already obtained authorization (Not FDA Approval) and there are no stated expectations that they will report how the trial participants are doing now.
Israel will likely be 100% vaccinated before the documented problems mRNA have with ADE (more severely ill with Covid-19) are exposed and acknowledged.
Prayers up for Israel, and for all who are denied Informed Consent or otherwise forced to have these experimental vaccinations.
By early March, Israel had vaccinated about 90% of its 65+ population and about 50% of its entire population. Covid deaths had been decreasing since the end of January, as expected, although not any faster than in some other countries with a very low vaccination rate, such as South Africa.
Concerningly, however, Israel has seen a renewed and continued increase in all-cause mortality since mid-February; in fact, by March 21, Israel reported the highest excess mortality of all countries participating in Euromomo (see figure above; archived version). In contrast, many other European countries currently report a post winter wave negative excess mortality.
Flat out embarrassing. How can you write something like that and think it actually makes sense?
The nutcases made it the thread quickly.
Their rhetoric is getting increasingly desperate - flailing of the arms is going on as their narrative continues to wither away in the face of reality.
“...the hospital director argues that “a connection to heart damage from the vaccine has not yet been proven to be significant.”
Proven to be significant...?
Damn the torpedoes...full speed ahead.
Yeah. He can tell that to the families of healthy young people that have died of this. I am so sick of the hysteria and pseudoscience from our free republic medical experts I could barf.
“I am so sick of the hysteria and pseudoscience from our free republic medical experts I could barf.”
Amen to that! What an embarrassment. They were arguing yesterday that no vaccine for any disease works and that only the COVID vaccine requires a booster shot.
I’m surprised Jim hasn’t banished the to a daily anti-vax post where they can be contained like the nutty “flubros” daily post.
I keep asking myself what is driving anti-vaxxers?
Is it boredom and they like to debate?
Is it they just want to be right no matter what the sources are?
I don’t understand the motivation.
More and more post are using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube as references. Madness.
This is longest most irrelevant screed I have seen in a long time full of assumptions and minutia which is entirely inaccurate. You have a lot of coulda woulda and ifs then say QED for your point. Sadly your interpretations are quite incorrect.
You are looking for vaccination to be unsuccessful for whatever reason. You make the error of picking a conclusion then bending the data to try to support said conclusion. To say this is pretzel logic is rather kind.
Yes, his screed tries to sound logical but the suppositions are so full of holes it is amazing. I note the usual coterie of those who are dead set on making sure to throw whatever they can for whatever reason to drive people away from vaccination are in full force here.
But it is sad as they are blended by their allegiance to a belief that makes little if any sense. One might say they are as eager to control people as Fauci
I don’t understand the motivation.
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There’s a difference between anti-Vaxers and people who would rather not take the WuHu Jab, which after all, is still something of an experiment.
The covid jab is not based on the traditional type of vaccine. Some people want to wait and see - and that’s their choice with an Emergency Use Authorization - That’s USA law as well as agreed International Principles.
And for any treatment, there should be full disclosure of the risks as well as the benefits, and the fact that declining the medical procedure is a choice should also be made clear.
And some people are really trying their best to read and determine what are the real facts. Trust of many sources is at an all time low. That’s because of so many lies and denials by LSM, Politicians, Government Agencies, CEOs etc. etc.
And if they think that they’ve found evidence of a danger, some feel they should warn their friends, neighbors, and freepers.
That’s my take on motivation for many.
Great analysis and writing. Thanks
“ Proven to be significant...? Damn the torpedoes...full speed ahead.”
Let the human trials go froward!
Ha! I notice the usual suspects show up with criticism and NOT any refutable facts, to your post, chief.
Good work....good post. Thanks for bringing here.
I note that those criticizing are themselves biased in favor of the Covid human trials.
They’ve committed to the shot - mostly from fear and an unquestioning belief in the goodness of big Pharma - and are themselves pushing others to get the shot.
Looks like we are about three months behind Israel, judging from their curve on those 65 or older in the article.
We have done about 77% of those folks with a first dose, and Israel was there in early January.
The rest of our curves may perform differently, but it seems that our Program has taken a hit, because of J&J not coming in early and strong with the one-shots. That would have seriously accelerated things here.
Just with Pfizer and Moderna however, we should be able to keep pace, three months behind Israel. There is still potential upside, for some of the others to come through soon enough to speed things up.
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