UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak (Tayfun Salci/Anadolu/Getty)
The UK’s Johnson Government is embroiled in scandals from its attempted cover-up of sleaze among Conservative MPs to Christmas parties which broke Coronavirus restrictions.
What to do? Feed The Times with a front-page diversion on a tax cut proposal from Chancellor Rishi Sunak.
The leak also served another purpose: promote Sunak in a contest with Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has cloaked himself in tax-fueled spending on social care, for control of 10 Downing Street.
I spoke with talkRADIO’s Claudia-Liza Vanderpuije on Saturday about the tactic — and why it quickly failed.
Listen from 22:29 in 1700-1730 Segment
See also The Conservative Party’s “Dead Cat” Strategy of Diversion and Deception
We also discuss the ongoing cutoff of electricity in Scotland from Storm Arwen, and the state of UK electoral politics following the Conservative victory with a reduced majority in the Bexley by-election.
Poland hits record for Covid fatalities: https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/polands-daily-covid-death-toll-hits-fourth-wave-record-govt-spokesman-2021-12-15/
ONS claims data shows unvaccinated 32 times more likely to die from Covid-19 than the vaccinated: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/birthsdeathsandmarriages/deaths/bulletins/deathsinvolvingcovid19byvaccinationstatusengland/deathsoccurringbetween2januaryand24september2021
“Between 2 January and 24 September 2021, the age-adjusted risk of deaths involving coronavirus (COVID-19) was 32 times greater in unvaccinated people than in fully vaccinated individuals.”
The problem is that it uses data from a period when most people weren’t even single vaccinated and when the dominant variant was alpha, not delta.
The vast majority of unvaccinated people below the age of 50 are not at any risk of death from Covid-19.
Varharan,
Thank you for the confirmation that the unvaccinated are at much higher risk of death from COVID-19, compared to the unvaccinated.
Given that the measurement is a comparison of percentages and not absolute numbers, the overall rate of vaccination is irrelevant to the conclusion.
S.
In heavily boosted Israel, cases and fatalities are on the rise again: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/covid-in-israel-infections-on-the-rise-after-hanukkah-festivities-1.10448925
We’ll soon see just how good the Pfizer jab is (or not as the case may be). Another lockdown looks increasingly likely.
Varharan,,
SciTech Daily is a suspect site and the headline over vaccines and Omicron is misleading. So that link has been removed.
S.
https://phmpt.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/5.3.6-postmarketing-experience.pdf
The confidential Pfizer Report was released as part of a Freedom of Information (FOI) procedure and provides data on deaths and adverse events recorded by Pfizer from the outset of the vaccine project in December 2020 to the end of February 2021.
Varharan,
You have either misunderstood or deliberately misrepresented the report, which found only a few dozen deaths and serious illnesses in the response to the mass use of the Pfizer vaccine. As a result, your comment has been edited to include only the link.
S.
From Table 7 of the confidential report:
Number of relevant events: 1441, of which 946 serious, 495 non-serious. In the cases reporting relevant serious events:
“Reported relevant PTs: Tachycardia (1098), Arrhythmia (102), Myocardial infarction (89), Cardiac failure (80), Acute myocardial infarction (41), Cardiac failure acute (11), Cardiogenic shock and Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (7 each) and Coronary artery disease (6)”.
Varharan,
You lift that paragraph on claimed effects out of the context — namely, millions of doses — and so ignore the significant conclusion:
“Review of the available data for this cumulative PM experience, confirms a favorable benefit:risk balance for BNT162b2 [the vaccine]”
S.
How protein-based COVID vaccines could change the pandemic: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-03025-0
“Unlike the relatively new technologies that the mRNA and viral-vector COVID-19 shots are based on, protein vaccines have been used for decades to protect people from hepatitis, shingles and other viral infections. To elicit a protective immune response, these shots deliver proteins, along with immunity stimulating adjuvants, directly to a person’s cells, rather than a fragment of genetic code that the cells must read to synthesize the proteins themselves.Although protein vaccines are not yet in widespread use for COVID-19, late-stage clinical-trial data so far look promising, demonstrating strong protection with fewer side effects than other COVID-19 shots typically cause.”
Iran has already been using a recombinant protein vaccine, Spikogen, developed in Australia and tested and produced in Iran: https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/465773/Spikogen-vaccine-licensed-for-emergency-use
“Vaccines such as Pfizer have been shown to be less effective against new strains of the coronavirus, in some cases below 50 percent.However, the effectiveness of the Spikogen vaccine has been higher than the permitted values in the World Health Organization guidelines,” Mohammad Reza Shanehsaz, head of the Food and Drug Administration, said.”