Vaccine Escape Mutants

Mutant varieties of the Covid-1984 virus seem to be emerging with great speed. Today, Tuesday 22nd December 2020, the BBC carried this headline:

Covid-19 pandemic: 

International alarm grows over new variant

In a BBC article the day before, the headline was:

New coronavirus variant: What do we know?

This second article concludes with the following:

Will the vaccines work against the new variant?

Almost certainly yes, or at least for now. All three leading vaccines develop an immune response against the existing spike, which is why the question comes up. Vaccines train the immune system to attack several different parts of the virus, so even though part of the spike has mutated, the vaccines should still work. "But if we let it add more mutations, then you start worrying," said Prof Gupta. "This virus is potentially on a pathway for vaccine escape, it has taken the first couple of steps towards that." Vaccine escape happens when the virus changes so it dodges the full effect of the vaccine and continues to infect people. This may be the most concerning element of what is happening with the virus. This variant is just the latest to show the virus is continuing to adapt as it infects more and more of us. A presentation by Prof David Robertson, from the University of Glasgow on Friday, concluded: "The virus will probably be able to generate vaccine escape mutants." That would put us in a position similar to flu, where the vaccines need to be regularly updated. Fortunately the vaccines we have are very easy to tweak.

"Almost certainly yes, or at least for now". Clearly, in the future the Covid vaccine will be recommended or mandated on at least a yearly basis in order to keep these "vaccine escape mutants" under control. The BBC is ramping up the fear factor and the UK government is busy locking down the country. The photo of Boris reinforces the belief that the country, along with most the world, has gone bonkers.

The phrase "vaccine escape mutants" reminds me of "teenage mutant ninja turtles" and there's no doubt that the MSM will be dramatising the former relentlessly as we transition to 2021. The vaccine will be trumpeted as humanity's only choice if it is to avoid extinction. It will be interesting to see in the coming year how far governments and employers are willing to impose Covid vaccination as a condition for travel and employment. Those who resist any such impositions will be effectively confined to their homes. If a Universal Basic Income is rolled out then proof of vaccination might be a requirement for accessing it. 

From a CBCNews Report of December 21st 2020, we learn that in the United States:

With the first doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine now being administered in the U.S., the federal government is giving employers around the country the green light to require immunisation for most workers. In general, companies have the legal right to mandate that employees get a COVID-19 shot, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) said Wednesday. More specifically, employers are entitled — and required — to ensure a safe workplace in which "an individual shall not pose a direct threat to the health or safety of individuals in the workplace." That can mean a company requiring its workforce to be vaccinated.

The second BBC article features a large artist's impression of the virus and nothing is every mentioned about the fact that the virus has never been isolated. However, the relentless display of an imaginary depiction of the virus reinforces the notion that it is real and dangerous and possibly heading straight for you. Figure 1 shows part of the BBC image.

Figure 1: the new face of terror

Summing things up nicely is this excellent article from the OffGuardian of December 7th 2020 that begins:

2020 was GloboCap Year Zero. The year when the global capitalist ruling classes did away with the illusion of democracy and reminded everyone who is actually in charge, and exactly what happens when anyone challenges them.

In the relatively short span of the last ten months, societies throughout the world have been transformed beyond recognition. Constitutional rights have been suspended. Protest has been banned. Dissent is being censored. Government officials are issuing edicts restricting the most basic aspects of our lives … where we can go, when we can go there, how long we are allowed to spend there, how many friends we are allowed to meet there, whether and when we can spend time with our families, what we are allowed to say to each other, who we can have sex with, where we have to stand, how we are allowed to eat and drink, etc. The list goes on and on.

The authorities have assumed control of the most intimate aspects of our daily lives. We are being managed like inmates in a prison, told when to eat, sleep, exercise, granted privileges for good behaviour, punished for the slightest infractions of an ever-changing set of arbitrary rules, forced to wear identical, demeaning uniforms (albeit only on our faces), and otherwise relentlessly bullied, abused, and humiliated to keep us compliant.

None of which is accidental, or has anything to do with any actual virus, or any other type of public health threat. Yes, before some of you go ballistic, I do believe there is an actual virus, which a number of people have actually died from, or which at least has contributed to their deaths … but there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever of any authentic public health threat that remotely justifies the totalitarian emergency measures we are being subjected to or the damage that is being done to society. Whatever you believe about the so-called “pandemic,” it really is as simple as that. Even if one accepts the official “science,” you do not transform the entire planet into a pathologised-totalitarian nightmare in response to a health threat of this nature.

Facebook Censorship

Figure 1

I watched this video on BitChute that featured a range of medical professionals warning against the dangers of the Covid-19 vaccine. I posted a link to it on my Facebook site, mainly to see what action Facebook would take against it. Figure 1 shows a screenshot.

The post was quickly flagged as containing false information but the link was preserved so my Facebook friends could click on it if they chose. I was expecting some response but nothing came and it seems clear that I've been shadow banned described by Wikipedia as:

Shadow banning, also called stealth banning, ghost banning or comment ghosting, is the act of blocking or partially blocking a user or their content from an online community so that it will not be readily apparent to the user that they have been banned.

I'm not sure if that's what's happened. Facebook may simply not be promoting my post because the company's algorithm decides who sees what posts. Thus if someone visited my site they could still see my post, so I've not been banned.

One of my Facebook friends confirmed that my post had not appeared in his feed as it usually does but it was accessible if he went to my site. Thus if I wanted people to see it, I would have to message them and tell them to visit my site. One has to be more subtle if information is to be disseminated. For example, one could perhaps disguise the link as:

wwwdotbitchutedotcomslashvideoslashTlxWZHk5yhFM

However, I don't think I'll bother. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube are other such sites are of little use in presenting alternative viewpoints. The censorship will only intensify and it is better to migrate to alternative platforms sooner rather than later.

Psychedelic Soma

After decades of being demonised, psychedelics are making a comeback with possibly the help of Big Pharma and of course the tacit approval of the Global Elite. The following text was attached to a video that I just watched titled "Psychedelics Are Fuelling a Mental Health Revolution" (23rd November 2020):

Once deemed dangerous and illegal, psychedelic compounds have been rediscovered by the scientific, medical and psychiatric communities as research reveals their capacity to help patients with a range of maladies. With investors beginning to flood this new market with capital, will Big Pharma join in, or try to squash a nascent revolution of the mind?

Naturally Big Pharma will join in as the Global Elite are giving psychedelics the green light. Our overlords realise that, if global citizens are to submit to the looming dystopia, they will need their daily dose of soma. Once ingested, they just won't care. 

Significant numbers of citizens were already on antidepressants or anti-anxiety medication but the pandemic-related job losses and business failures have swelled these numbers significantly. Masses that are medicated, fluoridated and vaccinated are far less likely to push back against the looming dystopia that is unfolding.

The social engineering is so obvious. Today's already cowed and gender-confused adolescents have been vaccinated, fluoridated, medicated, miseducated and welded to their smartphones. As they enter a world in which they are unlikely to find employment, the psychedelics will keep them subdued and less likely to cause trouble. 

While drawing their Universal Basic Income, they can space out in their little urban boxes, listen to music, play games, watch movies, immerse themselves in virtual reality, enjoy an AI for companionship and maybe buy a sex bot to assuage their carnal needs. Indeed, a brave new world is upon us.

Twitterverse and Vaccinations

 Here is a recent tweet by a famous actor whose name I'll withhold:

At the time I took the screenshot, the tweet had been retweeted 6292 retweets and had received 68000 times. I'm sure the actor is sincere in his gratitude but one is left wondering if there any hope for humanity. The tweet conjures up this fantasy world in which medical professionals work frantically on a vaccine to save humanity from the brink of extinction. Very much the stuff of movies. 

Of course, any actor who questioned the efficacy of a vaccine would be putting his or her career in jeopardy. For example, we have this story (4th December 2020) from Newsweek:

Black Panther star Letitia Wright today made headlines for posting an anti-vaccination video on Twitter. The actress faced swift and intense backlash from followers leading to calls for her role as Shuri in the Marvel superhero movie to be recast. Following the news of COVID-19 vaccinations being rolled out in the United Kingdom, the British actress, 27, posted a YouTube video that featured a presenter named Tomi Arayomi saying: "I don't understand vaccines medically, but I've always been a little bit of a skeptic of them." The Black Mirror star has since defended her stance in replies to Twitter users.

At least one actor has the guts to speak out. Robert De Niro is another actor that comes to mind in that respect. There are not many who speak out however, and understandably most say nothing. There can be no open debate about vaccines. The official viewpoint is that they are all good and the latest batch of emerging COVID vaccines is being especially lauded. Even if a vaccine maims and kills, the good it does always outweighs the bad. Except when it doesn't as in the case of Dengvaxia in the Philippines:

The president of Sanofi Pasteur Inc., along with a former health chief and now politician, Rep Janette Garin have all been indicted by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in the Philippines for reckless imprudence, resulting in homicide as a result of the deaths of children associated with the anti-dengue vaccine Dengvaxia. As a result of an ongoing investigation, government prosecutors found probable cause to file the charges against the named defendants as well as nine unnamed officials from the Department of Health, Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the Research Institute for Tropical Medicine. Additional Sanofi Pasteur officials were indicted for violations of the Consumer Act of the Philippines. Source.

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Such incidents are soon forgotten and, outside the Philippines, few would even know about it. Most probably, pharmaceutical companies responsible for any of the emerging COVID vaccines will be shielded from prosecution should anything go wrong when they come to market. Anyway the vaccinations are coming but it's interesting to note the variation in trust regarding vaccines amongst the different countries of the world. The Welcome Trust carried out a survey, the results of which are shown in Figure 1.

The Wellcome Trust, a U.K research charity, surveyed more than 140,000 people (ages 15 and up) in more than 140 countries about their views of science and major health challenges. And while eight in 10 people worldwide (79%) said that vaccinations are safe — and nine in 10 said their own children had been inoculated — higher-income pockets in Europe have less confidence in vaccines than lower-income countries in Africa.

Meanwhile there is this report in The Washington Post:

A wealthy Manhattan couple has emerged as significant financiers of the anti-vaccine movement, contributing more than $3 million in recent years to groups that stoke fears about immunizations online and at live events — including two forums this year at the epicenter of measles outbreaks in New York’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community.

Bernard Selz and his wife Lisa are the couple referred to and Del Bigtree is the public face and chief executive of the Selz Foundation that the couple set up. I'd heard of Del Bigtree already from alternative news sources but hadn't realised the important role that he is playing in the anti-vaccination movement. He was co-producer of the film "Vaxxed".

Initiatives like these give a glimmer of hope and to my surprise I found that Michael Leunig has created some cartoons that have proved controversial. The mainstream media has done an excellent job of brainwashing the public so that a reflexive and hostile response is immediately elicited. No matter how much people may have liked his cartoons in the past, any questioning of the efficacy of vaccines meets with unalloyed and unthinking disapproval. The two tweets in Figure 2 are illustrative of the types of responses evoked:

Figure 2

The cartoon in question is quite mild in term of its opposition to vaccines. See Figure 3:

Figure 3

What's frustrating is that the opposition is based on a belief that what the medical mafia is telling them is unquestioningly correct. Anyone who doubts this is an anti-vaxxer and is to be ignored, ostracised or even punished.