STIKO (the Ständige Impfkomission), the German vaccine regulatory authority, have released a draft of their updated Covid vaccination recommendations. The document excludes healthy children under 18 years of age from vaccination, because they’re not at serious risk from infection. Of course, we’ve known this for three years, but we’ve vaccinated almost 10 million kids anyway, all to no purpose. Maybe somebody can apologise, or something.
What HAS changed since 2019 is the public's attitude towards vaccines in general. The COVID-19 mRNA shots have made a sizable percentage of us wary of all vaccinations.
From the beginning, they repeatedly called any infection a "rare breakthrough" infection. But "no one ever said it will stop you from getting covid". 🙄
Alas all too many read this as a weakening of the virus and strengthening of immune resistance to it as a direct result of the vax and not despite it, ably endorsed by the MSM, Big Tech, Big Pharma and Big government...
The volte-face is almost as astounding as the failure of the masses to recognize that they’ve been intensively gaslighted for three years and counting.
You know, it's quite exhausting and frustrating. This whole thing has just turned the world upside down. There are questions which should be simple to ask and answer but are impossible. How dangerous is/was SARS-Cov-2 and/or Covid19? How many people died only and definitely from the virus? How many people are dead from the "vaccines"? How many people are injured from the "vaccines"? Who can you trust to tell you the truth? (Only people on Substack but even then who really knows). What are/were the "vaccines" really for? Why were we locked up? Why were we masked? Why is nobody accountable? Was it always like this and I just didn't notice?
The newest twist in the Covid farce is that supposedly there's a new variant going around whose main effect is to give one red, itchy eyes. Apparently, the fact that this "variant" emerges at the same time as the spring allergy season is pure coincidence...
@ eugyppius: you wrote, “Neither available vaccines nor the science have changed all that much at all since the whole circus started.”
I beg to disagree. Over a few week period, late Summer 2021, if I recall correctly, the CDC & FDA (and I believe the WHO) decided to change the definition of “herd immunity” as well as what constituted a “vaccine”.
Prior to the COVID-19 “vaccines”, “herd immunity” referred to a phenomenon recognized as a natural consequence of widespread infection (and of subsequent immunization thereafter) of a circulating pathogen), which could also be achieved through widespread vaccination.
Post COVID-19 “vaccines”, the term “herd immunity” became exclusively a consequence of widespread vaccination, with all reference to natural immunity having been dropped.
Then the very definition of a vaccine took on an Orwellian twist: heretofore, a vaccine was understood to confer a degree of immunity to infection as well as preventing transmission. Post Summer 2021, a vaccine no longer was expected to do that; it just had to “stimulate an immune system response”.
Remember also that prior to 2021, a product under review for approval as a vaccine needed to demonstrate > 50% efficacy in preventing infection. Products which ostensibly prevented only severe injury or death were not referred to as “vaccines”; these were considered therapeutics (medications).
Never mind that these two definition changes are mutually incoherent when taken together. This is the quintessence of gaslighting.
And we’re supposed to believe the Pfizer executive who claimed before the EU Parliamentary Committee that her company never even tested for immunity? Mon œil!
I wonder what all those twitterati parents who sobbed with happiness because they had found someone who'd jab their kids off-label are going to do now that there is even less vaccine recommendation than there used to be.
Anyway, anybody remember how Thomas Mertens, head of the Stiko, was reviled when he said he wouldn't have his grandchildren jabbed? Looking back, I'd say that took some courage on his part, even though the Stiko in itself aligned itself far too much with the political agenda of the day (i.e. get everybody jabbed pronto).
I imagine in Germany post WW2 there were a lot of ancillary workers who participated in the various atrocities (The guy that ran the bulldozer over the graves, The guy who fixed that equipment, the civilians who ratted out opposition forces, etc).
That's where we are. And it's not ok... The regulators who simply imposed these "measures" need to be hung with the rest.
In the UK currently there's a drive by the NHS in care and nursing homes to "offer the next round of Spring boosters", despite this booster supposedly not addressing the current variant XBB.1.5 but strains that are no longer in circulation. Needless to say, due to the clampdown on misinformation in the UK, most are blithely ignorant of this state of affairs.
"It's because the virus has changed" is the line I'm seeing now.
It was never that dangerous to begin with - that's what us with clear heads have been able to see the entire time.
Here’s the governor of my “red” state in a 54-second interview clip that still deserves a larger audience.
Gov. Ivey: “It’s time to start blaming the unvaccinated folks … Folks are supposed to have common sense.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IN3HUPeSXI
How about this? Governors are “supposed to have common sense.”
What HAS changed since 2019 is the public's attitude towards vaccines in general. The COVID-19 mRNA shots have made a sizable percentage of us wary of all vaccinations.
Dr. Panda also had a great Substack today about gaslighting, with Trudeau now saying he never forced anyone to get vaccinated.
From the beginning, they repeatedly called any infection a "rare breakthrough" infection. But "no one ever said it will stop you from getting covid". 🙄
Why are people still calling this murder weapon a vaccine 💉 We don’t need them, never have and never will🙄🥴👊🏼😘
Alas all too many read this as a weakening of the virus and strengthening of immune resistance to it as a direct result of the vax and not despite it, ably endorsed by the MSM, Big Tech, Big Pharma and Big government...
The volte-face is almost as astounding as the failure of the masses to recognize that they’ve been intensively gaslighted for three years and counting.
You know, it's quite exhausting and frustrating. This whole thing has just turned the world upside down. There are questions which should be simple to ask and answer but are impossible. How dangerous is/was SARS-Cov-2 and/or Covid19? How many people died only and definitely from the virus? How many people are dead from the "vaccines"? How many people are injured from the "vaccines"? Who can you trust to tell you the truth? (Only people on Substack but even then who really knows). What are/were the "vaccines" really for? Why were we locked up? Why were we masked? Why is nobody accountable? Was it always like this and I just didn't notice?
I also have the same why question as that person from 2019. So, why?
The newest twist in the Covid farce is that supposedly there's a new variant going around whose main effect is to give one red, itchy eyes. Apparently, the fact that this "variant" emerges at the same time as the spring allergy season is pure coincidence...
@ eugyppius: you wrote, “Neither available vaccines nor the science have changed all that much at all since the whole circus started.”
I beg to disagree. Over a few week period, late Summer 2021, if I recall correctly, the CDC & FDA (and I believe the WHO) decided to change the definition of “herd immunity” as well as what constituted a “vaccine”.
Prior to the COVID-19 “vaccines”, “herd immunity” referred to a phenomenon recognized as a natural consequence of widespread infection (and of subsequent immunization thereafter) of a circulating pathogen), which could also be achieved through widespread vaccination.
Post COVID-19 “vaccines”, the term “herd immunity” became exclusively a consequence of widespread vaccination, with all reference to natural immunity having been dropped.
Then the very definition of a vaccine took on an Orwellian twist: heretofore, a vaccine was understood to confer a degree of immunity to infection as well as preventing transmission. Post Summer 2021, a vaccine no longer was expected to do that; it just had to “stimulate an immune system response”.
Remember also that prior to 2021, a product under review for approval as a vaccine needed to demonstrate > 50% efficacy in preventing infection. Products which ostensibly prevented only severe injury or death were not referred to as “vaccines”; these were considered therapeutics (medications).
Never mind that these two definition changes are mutually incoherent when taken together. This is the quintessence of gaslighting.
And we’re supposed to believe the Pfizer executive who claimed before the EU Parliamentary Committee that her company never even tested for immunity? Mon œil!
Even Germany halts jabbing children before the USA? Wow... my country sucks.
I wonder what all those twitterati parents who sobbed with happiness because they had found someone who'd jab their kids off-label are going to do now that there is even less vaccine recommendation than there used to be.
Anyway, anybody remember how Thomas Mertens, head of the Stiko, was reviled when he said he wouldn't have his grandchildren jabbed? Looking back, I'd say that took some courage on his part, even though the Stiko in itself aligned itself far too much with the political agenda of the day (i.e. get everybody jabbed pronto).
I imagine in Germany post WW2 there were a lot of ancillary workers who participated in the various atrocities (The guy that ran the bulldozer over the graves, The guy who fixed that equipment, the civilians who ratted out opposition forces, etc).
That's where we are. And it's not ok... The regulators who simply imposed these "measures" need to be hung with the rest.
In the UK currently there's a drive by the NHS in care and nursing homes to "offer the next round of Spring boosters", despite this booster supposedly not addressing the current variant XBB.1.5 but strains that are no longer in circulation. Needless to say, due to the clampdown on misinformation in the UK, most are blithely ignorant of this state of affairs.