11 Comments
User's avatar
Bilbo Baggins's avatar

Like Vivian,

I like you would like to thank C& T for the final horrific paragraph. The brutality of it, the truth of it and the disgraceful shame of it is a stain on our country. If we are fortunate enough we’re all on the road to old age and this death by neglect (being generous here), inflicted on our elderly population is something we should all be outraged about. It’s no good being outraged at home quietly we need to be calmly reiterating it loudly from the rooftops like you are. Thank you. There was me labouring (no pun intended) under the ridiculous concept that the government were meant to serve us - the population - not hasten our demise. Perhaps some of us (despite many women being deprived of their rightful pension for many years) are still living too long…refusing to be frozen or starved out of existence!

Vivian Evans's avatar

Thank you for this whole series, for this summary and particularly for your dedication at the end.

I'd like to add one other point: the annual fear porn in the media in the seasonal vanguard of this crisis which has become a proper feature ESC (Ever Since Covid).

(Btw - aren't we supposed to've already perished by now because of avian flu?)

Vivien C Buckley's avatar

Vivian, ever since covid, well yes indeed. The cabal organizing these continuing vaccines learned how fear works to ensure more money for the wealthy investors. They saw how compliant we were when we were afraid. What else will suddenly be a death sentence if we don’t take the shot. Remember when we were told that herd immunity couldn’t be attained through this virus? Followed by the message that everybody needed to get the shot to attain herd immunity and get back to normal life. But when immunity wasn’t attained and the virus was still circulating they blamed it on the anti vaxxers. This was a well crafted plan they were in control of.

Keith Dudleston's avatar

I couldn't agree more with your comments.

I am convinced that any impartial review of this issue would (in part) conclude that the UK does not have enough hospital beds to properly accommodate the extra admissions that occur every winter.

I also believe our government has concluded that providing this accommodation would be wasteful of resources that are better invested in making the service more efficient while facilitating our biomedical pharmaceutical industry.

This is a fundamental attitude that is ingrained in our cultural elites and is unlikely to change. It explains the 'blind eye' turned toward the service that lacked resilience during the pandemic and the evidence of financial waste (test and trace, lockdown, and emergency vaccination). It will continue as long as the service is centrally managed from Whitehall.

John Watkinson's avatar

Could I add a few observations from nearly 50 years as a livestock Vet (and student.)

We have a Winter respiratory disease crisis in rearing cattle every year too....1 week after foggy November nights every year... on the dot. ( fog = nil / humid air movement)

It is primarily caused by a variety of similar factors as I see it.

"Stocking density" is too high on most farms.(ditto Hospitals)

Stress factors are also present. Weaning, castrating, bullying from new social groups, transport stress, markets etc etc (All similar 'stress' contributory factors except for the debility of old age....and castration !)

A variety of pathogens are involved, mainly viral but some bacterial and now we see mycoplasma pneumonias on highly stocked farms. 90% Aerosol spread.

We have used all manner of vaccines, some better than others. Intra nasal vaccines are better in my opinion due to local IgA mucosal effects.

What has altered most in my time is building design and ventilation..which if done well causes major reduction in respiratory disease/pneumonia...sometimes dramatically.

The Americans have designed some excellent buildings for cattle which has reduced transmission and clinical pneumonias to very low levels.

I would have liked to have seen the 32 billion totally wasted on "test n trace" spent on separate Winterflu' blocks at many hospitals, built with state of the art ventilation designs...as we are also regularly told there is another "pandemic"coming anytime. They could remain empty in the Summer months.

It would not then be business as usual each December.

Mark Brown's avatar

ARE WE IN A COERCIVE RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR 'HEALTHCARE' SYSTEMS?

From Biderman's Chart of Coercion:

1. Isolation – Deprives the individual of social support, making them dependent on the captor and unable to resist.

2. Monopolization of Perception – Controls all information and reality, discredits the victim’s views, and fosters self-doubt.

3. Induced Debilitation and Exhaustion – Weakens mental and physical capacity through sleep deprivation, hunger, overwork, or medical neglect.

4. Threats – Creates fear through threats of violence, death, abandonment, or harm to loved ones or pets.

5. Occasional Indulgences – Offers rewards or affection after abuse, creating hope and reinforcing compliance.

6. Demonstrating Omnipotence – Shows complete control over the victim’s fate, often through physical or psychological dominance.

7. Degradation – Destroys self-worth through public humiliation, verbal abuse, or denial of basic dignity and hygiene.

8. Enforcing Trivial Demands – Imposes rigid, unrealistic, and often changing rules about appearance, behavior, or routines to induce compliance and confusion.

Alex Harding's avatar

Whoops - apologies for previous Freudian slip, I am in a Whatsapp chat entitled 'old gits' so in my previous post please read 'old geezers' instead!

No offence intended.

Dan Newell's avatar

For the 2026 winter season two mRNA vax's recommended-Spikevax or Cominarty along with Moderna mRESVIA.

So Moderna says no problem, you can receive both, we studied it and you can rely on us.....https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(24)00589-9/fulltext

However, after you look around you find that, lo and behold, that AI search reveals-

"Bottom Line

If you narrow the question to:

Two distinct mRNA vaccines, administered within ~3 months, studied in a trial not paid for by the manufacturer

The honest answer is:

There is little to no large-scale, fully independent RCT evidence published yet.

That doesn’t mean it hasn’t happened in practice — it means independent prospective trial literature is still sparse because RSV mRNA vaccines are new."

Here we go again........

Phil Button's avatar

Bang on, as always.

Cause of death reporting is something I have concerns about, I don't think it impossible that another Shipman could be at large, despite the mountain of paper that the enquiry produced.

But yes, the patient pays the price while those responsible push their own agendas.

jack dowie's avatar

On a Friday morning, it’s exasperating (to at least this huge supporter of your meticulous exposing of evidence abuse) when you can’t resist expressing your modelphobia in another of your regular digs. “The phenomenon is foreseeable and forecastable within weeks, without the help of demented modellers.” Everything you write (including the first part of that sentence is (a) based on modelling (yours), and (b) implicitly calling for better modelling. In the uncertain world most of us live in there is no alternative to predictive and decision modelling, only how transparently, competently, and uncorruptedly it is done. So I urge you to focus on ‘model abuse’ as a form of evidence abuse, rather than implying (or worse still believing) modelling is unnecessary.

This VOG is not the very model of a modern Major-Anything

Alex Harding's avatar

Thank you old gits for your efforts which are really useful for focus and clarity,.

Just to be squeaky clean based on previous comments re: Smokescreen 16 discussing no mechanisms of transmission studies undertaken were found.

How can crowding be assumed to provide good grounds for infection even if frailty translates as reduced capacity to resist? Resist what if bacterial and viral agents are poorly understood and further their causal link of transmission - if any.

Multiple smokescreens are difficult to distinguish inside the smokescreens. Well done for you for seeing anything.