"The new oligarchy must increasingly rely on the advice of scientists until in the end the politicians become merely the scientists’ puppets."

C. S. Lewis

"Willing Slaves of the Welfare State" (1958)

https://youtu.be/FPeyJvXU68k

I just love this whole story & the calm spirit of the chief epidemiologist of Sweden, their quiet Prime Minister providing ‘air cover’ still and the wise elder, Prof Johan Giesecke (giving the international community the finger).
Mike

Rene Schluter <rene.schluter@outlook.com>: Aug 02 09:15PM

Sweden: Despite Variants, No Lockdowns, No Daily Covid Deaths | AIER
 
https://www-aier-org.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.aier.org/article/sweden-despite-variants-no-lockdowns-no-daily-covid-deaths/amp/
 
 
Since the Covid pandemic broke out, Sweden has been fought over more than any other part of Europe since Germany in the 30 Years War. In refusing to use an iron fist to control a virus, lockdown advocates claimed it was either committing murder or suicide; choose your favorite metaphor. Relatively few such as me, in three separate articles, claimed the Nordic country was sparing both the economy and something called “liberty” with its light-handed approach. My favorite title (editor chose it): “Media Enraged That More Swedes Aren’t Dying<https://www.fumento.com/articles/media-enraged-that-more-swedes-aren-t-dying/>.”
 
Thus last year we saw such headlines as CNN<https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2020/04/29/sweden-no-lockdown-update-phil-black-ebof-dnt-vpx.cnn>’s “Deaths Soar In Country That Didn’t Lock Down. Officials Identify Big Reason Why.” Around the same time “Sweden Steadfast In Strategy As Virus Toll Continues Rising<https://www.mysuncoast.com/2020/05/28/sweden-steadfast-strategy-virus-toll-continues-rising/>,” claimed another source. “Sweden’s Coronavirus Strategy Drives Up Infection Rate<https://www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2020/05/28/sweden-coronavirus-strategy>,” screamed the BBC. Everyone was playing pile-on. “Sweden Has The Highest Daily Coronavirus Death Rate In The World – And It’s Getting Worse<https://sports.yahoo.com/coronavirus-sweden-lockdown-death-rate-144650769.html>.” That’s from Yahoo Sports. Sports?
 
Modelers desperately tried to scare Sweden into locking down. One predicted an incredible median<https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.11.20062133v1> of 96,000 deaths, with a maximum of 183,000. At Sweden’s Lund University an academic used the parameters in the now-infamous Neil Ferguson/Imperial College model<https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/sph/ide/gida-fellowships/Imperial-College-COVID19-NPI-modelling-16-03-2020.pdf> to warn that it meant 85,000 deaths for Sweden<https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/sweden-tames-its-r-number-without-lockdown>. An Uppsala University team<https://www.aier.org/article/imperial-college-model-applied-to-sweden-yields-preposterous-results/> also found the nation paying a terrible price with 40,000 Covid-19 deaths by May 1, 2020 and almost 100,000 by June.
 
Total Swedish Covid deaths at this writing: 14,651<https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=swedish+covid+deaths>.
 
It’s not that Sweden did nothing – but very little. “From the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Public Health Agency . . . embarked on a de-facto herd immunity approach, allowing community transmission to occur relatively unchecked,” declared a scathing editorial in the leftwing medical journal The Lancet<https://www.thelancet.com/article/S0140-6736(20)32750-1/fulltext> last December. “No mandatory measures were taken to limit crowds on public transport, in shopping malls, or in other crowded places,” it said. “Coronavirus testing, contact tracing, source identification, and reporting, as recommended by WHO, were limited and remain inadequate.” High schools closed temporarily, but grade schools never.
 
“In our view,” snarled The Lancet, “there is still not sufficient recognition in the national strategy of the importance of pre-symptomatic and asymptomatic transmission, aerosol transmission, and use of face masks.”
 
Time to revisit Sweden as much of the world starts locking down and masking again regardless of vaccination levels, blaming the Delta variant. And those impudent Swedes are pretty much refusing to die of Covid at all<https://www.google.

com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=sweden+current+covid+numbers>.
 
Not to say that vaccines haven’t contributed to the current low numbers, but … cases peaked during the first week of January while vaccinations didn’t even begin until the end of that month. Currently Sweden ranks 18th<https://www.statista.com/statistics/1196071/covid-19-vaccination-rate-in-europe-by-country/> in Europe<https://www.statista.com/statistics/1196071/covid-19-vaccination-rate-in-europe-by-country/> in vaccines per capita, right in the middle. Likewise, there are those who say Sweden finally buckled down and imposed serious restrictions. It didn’t. It imposed more restrictions<https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-sweden-legislation-idUSKBN29D1BR> in the second week of January, perhaps more in response to international opprobrium than anything else. But yes, it was after cases not only had started dropping but actually plummeted by more than half.
 
What’s happening? According to an as-yet unpublished but online study<https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.07.21260167v1.full-text> by two Svenske researchers, it appears the country has reached that Holy Grail of Covid called “herd immunity.” That means a level where those already protected are significantly guarding those without exposure. Mind, they say, it’s not all from Covid-19 per se but possibly in great part to “pre-immunity” from other infections. Four coronaviruses are known to cause colds<https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/general-information.html>, but the researchers actually don’t even mention that. It’s just that previous exposure to something seems to be providing natural inoculation. And it shouldn’t be as unique to Sweden as Ingrid Bergman.
 
Mind, the current figures are just a snapshot. Did the country pay an awful price en route to the apparent herd immunity? Well, certainly the Swedish death rate is higher than its Nordic neighbors Norway, Denmark, and Finland. Those are the comparisons you’ll hear. But it’s well below the rates for larger-population European countries including Belgium, Italy, the U.K., Romania, Spain, France, and Portugal. The U.S., too.
 
Sweden’s chief epidemiologist Anders Tegnell, who caught absolute hell, feels vindicated. “Locking down is saving time,” he said last year<https://www.fumento.com/articles/the-swedish-alternative-coping-with-a-virus-while-preserving-livelihoods-and-liberties/>. “It’s not solving anything.” In essence the country “front-loaded” its deaths and decreased those deaths later on.
 
Meanwhile, the Swede haters have also insisted that in exchange for its “butcher’s bill” the country was deriving little or no economic benefit from not shutting down.
 
“Sweden unlikely to feel economic benefit of no-lockdown approach,” warned the Financial Times<https://www.ft.com/content/93105160-dcb4-4721-9e58-a7b262cd4b6e> in a May 10, 2020 headline. It admitted that so far Sweden has fared better, but select “analysts” cautioned it wouldn’t last.
 
Wrong. Despite Sweden inevitably feeling undertow from economies that did lock down, “Covid-19 has had a rather limited impact on its economy compared with most other European countries,” according to the Nordetrade.com<https://www.nordeatrade.com/dk/explore-new-market/sweden/economical-context> consulting firm. “Softer preventative restrictions against Covid-19 earlier in the year and a strong recovery in the third quarter contained the GDP contraction,” it said.
 
Thus the country the media loved to hate is reaping the best of all worlds: Few current cases and deaths, stronger economic growth than the lockdown countries, and its people never experienced the yoke of tyranny.
 
Not surprisingly, it’s not just Sweden’s pro-freedom position on Covid that sticks in the MSM’s craw. Though routinely labeled “socialist,” it ranks 10th out of 190 economies for ease of doing business, according to the World Bank’s Doing Business<https://www.doingbusiness.org/content/dam/doingBusiness/country/s/sweden/SWE.pdf> report for 2020.
 

Sydney police force a guy to go to a hospital to be vaccinated for a speeding fine.WTF 😠😠😠

UK employers warned forcing vaccine passports in the workplace could be a criminal offense

Digital vaccine passports are one of the latest affronts to civil liberties and, at least in the UK, employers have been told to think twice.

Employers in the UK have been cautioned that forcing vaccine passports in the workplace may be a criminal offense, amid worries that “no jab, no job” practices are gaining ground.

According to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, forcing vaccine passports in the workplace could be an “intrusion” on their body and may be considered discrimination.

Firms “cannot forcibly vaccinate employees or potential employees, ”according to the organization, which represents human resources professionals. Read more

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FRANCIS HOAR, UK barrister.

https://youtu.be/I34j6zqslcg

Julia Hartley Brewer thinks her injections make her much more protected from severe disease than those who didn't have them, basing it on Public Health England data, but forgets to mention that on the other hand the rates of death of the injected are also a lot higher than for the non injected. Also, the recent data of hospitalizations in Massachusetts shows a different picture entirely than PHE, is it possible that AZ works differently than Pfizer, Moderna & J&J, or is there something wrong in the PHE data?

"Barnstable County, Massachusetts: Among five COVID-19 patients who were hospitalized, four were fully vaccinated; no deaths were reported."

According to the above, the injected have four times the chances of being hospitalized from Covid19 than the non injected. Good to see nobody died, which is the normal outcome.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7031e2.htm?s_cid=mm7031e2_w

SANSEVERO CHAPEL MUSEUM

The Sansevero Chapel Museum in the historic heart of Naples is a jewel of the world’s artistic heritage. Here, baroque creativity, dynastic pride, beauty and mystery blend to create a unique and almost timeless atmosphere.
With its masterpieces such as the famous Veiled Christ, renowned world over for the remarkable tissue-like quality of the marble, feats of virtuosity such as Disillusion, and enigmatic creations such as the Anatomical Machines, the Sansevero Chapel is one of the most impressive monuments that the human mind has ever conceived.
A noble mausoleum, a temple of initiation, which admirably reflects the multi-faceted personality of its ingenious architect, Raimondo di Sangro, seventh Prince of Sansevero.
https://www.museosansevero.it/en/the-sansevero-chapel/

Well done to Fabrizio Masucci, the director of the Sansevero Chapel Musem in Naples Italy for resigning from his job in protest at the requirement of a Covid Pass for entry to all museums in Italy, which goes against both all human rights and all Christian principles.

Well done to Fabrizio Masucci, the director of the Sansevero Chapel Musem in Naples Italy for resigning from his job in protest at the requirement of a Covid Pass for entry to all museums in Italy, which goes against both all human rights and all Christian principles. @robinmg
https://corrieredelmezzogiorno.corriere.it/napoli/cronaca/21_agosto_02/napoli-masucci-lascia-cappella-sansevero-no-green-pass-musei-4a1ea47a-f392-11eb-8df6-f0baf7439e6a.shtml

My name is Nickita Starck. I am a birth practitioner and singer song/writer from the UK.

I run a company called ‘When Push Comes To Shove’. We help women who want to give birth outside the system or help them navigate it.
I am so sick of coercion of unnecessary medical intervention which causes countless cases of trauma both physical and mental. Our rising intervention and c-section rate is devastating for our health as a nation due to the human microbiome being compromised. Now we have this vaccine to deal with! I despair.

I am more and more horrified every time I see reports of vaccine adverse effects on pregnant women and their babies as well as videos of women being forced to have their newborn babies tested for covid. The system was bad enough as it was!

Obstetrics is only 9% evidence based. Thousands of women have no idea they can decline intervention or have any autonomy over their bodies. This is only getting worse with the covid propaganda.

I want to help as many women as possible take control of their birth. Women should be empowered, not down trodden. Birth is a physiological process, not medical and will rarely need intervention. Sadly intervention is profitable and so it will carry on. I have given up trying to change the system, we just a need a new one!

I even wrote a song called ‘Breathe Again’ to spread the word of autonomy and informed consent in childbirth. Sadly the mainstream media did not care at all.

Here is the song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FlEUr7lK5Q

Enclosed is my linktree with information such as our podcast, youtube channel, go fund me page (For access fund) and our website. We even train people in birth so those wishing to become birth workers in the alternative maternity sector.

https://linktr.ee/WhenPushComesToShove

www.whenpushcomestoshove.co.uk

Finally someone else! WOOOOHOOO! I knew things were bad in OB. I didnt know it was 9%. I used to do that work before I became ill. I was on the frontlines. Glad she is trying to help. I recently had a grandfather reach out to me for his son asking how they could circumnavigate this tyranny right now. In the States, I am sorry to report there is very little you can do. 99% of birth workers are wokies promoting crt and vaccines. There is nowhere to turn. Even if I were well, I wouldnt take the injection so my career would be over & I could not enter a hosp to help a couple any longer. I saw them infiltrate the birth field in 2016/17. Erik Rush wrote Doula Wars about the industry. He was warned it would get worse. Never could we have imagined this nightmare however.
If the British public is still open to sanity and listens to this woman you posted about there is hope for you. I am sorry to report that in America the majority has bought the fearporn propaganda. They wont question a doctor and cannot understand why a doctor would not tell the patient what is safest and respect their rights. There were days I wanted to bang my head against the wall in such frustration, of literally showing them the data broken down, explaining relative risk and why its not a good measure, and they would be angry AT ME. Most Americans want to pay ppl to tell them what they want to hear.
I dont have a good answer why.

Robin, in America most births are induced. By cytotec. A quick look up and you will find it is off label and has a black box warning. It is also cheap. Pennies. It speeds up labor, making it easier on the doctors time. It is the most commonly used drug for births in every hosp in the country.

Off label. I already knew that the info out of Italy of the deaths did not add up when they went into initial lockdowns. But when Cuomo yanked hydroxy for it being off label, I knew 100% that sinister acts were taking place. Because of the use of cytotec in every hosp for more than 90% of all births in every State.

I only know what I have observed for a long time. So I beg of you in Britain, in Europe, dont fall into this brain numbing like most Americans. Save yourselves. Fight back tooth and nail! Use EVERYTHING in your arsenal. EVERYTHING. Nothing off the table.
This time you save us. Do what the woman in the article Mike posted on the Emperor has no Clothes said. NOW.

UK: A template you can use for writing a letter to your MP. Feel free to use the template in its entirety or take whatever you like from it for your own letter to your MP:

https://www.protestsupport.co.uk/letter-templates

Anyone not finding this terrifying is surely in a dream state.

https://au.news.yahoo.com/facebook-post-lockdown-protest-11000-fine-080358345.html

Huge fines for not wearing masks which are PROVEN not to work, even N95s. Mike.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26952529/

A really useful list of courageous doctors willing to prescribe entirely appropriate, off-label treatments for Covid19.
Mike

https://www.exstnc.com/

Sundance to Demand Vaccination Proof for 2022 Festival
The Utah festival is asking all attendees "to be fully vaccinated" for the January event.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/sundance-demand-vaccination-proof-2022-festival-1234991962/

As others have said, it marks the death of Satire. Mike

https://www.chrisd.ca/2021/07/15/human-rights-museum-reopening-to-vaccinated-visitors/

Take N Acetyl Cysteine, It can neutralize the inflammatory effects of the spike protein.

https://chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv/article-details/60c753ec4c89190f3bad43ca

https://www.salk.edu/news-release/the-novel-coronavirus-spike-protein-plays-additional-key-role-in-illness/