COVID-19

Preventive medicine displays all 3 elements of arrogance.  First, it is aggressively assertive , pursuing symptomless individuals and telling them what they must do to remain healthy. Occasionally invoking the force of law (immunizations, seat belts), it prescribes and proscribes for both individual patients and the general citizenry of every age and stage.  Second, preventive medicine is presumptuous , confident that the interventions it espouses will, on average, do more good than harm to those who accept and adhere to them.  Finally, preventive medicine is overbearing , attacking those who question the value of its recommendations.

This panel discussion put together by Sen. Ron Johnson of the United States features vaccine injury victims as well as scientists and members of the medical community who have declined to blindly follow the narrative. The horrendous stories of the victims bring to light the apathy and complicity of the wider medical community as well as the extreme fear of retribution for calling out the holes in the narrative. Attorney Aaron Siri Esq goes into detail (3:19) about what he has witnessed and experienced in this regard. The  NEJM paper on AstraZeneca's Phase 3 data  published recently surprisingly shows the incidence of the well known adverse event VITT as being similar between the vaccine and placebo groups. Does it not sound too good to be true? Anyone not used to critically evaluating clinical data - or even scientific publications in general - may just brush it off as good news. For me, it triggered a small spark of curiosity that compelled me to dig more.  Combine that with

There was much discussion and controversy surrounding the origin of the virus in the early days, which is yet to be fully settled. One of the early papers that discussed this was the nature medicine article in March 2020 by Kristian Andersen. While the authors refute the lab engineered theory in the article, Dr. Andersen's very early communications with Dr. Faucy in January of the same year have now come to light. This analysis by Jim Jordan is interesting When it comes to how and why Dr. Andersen changed his views. In this article  in the NY times, he gives his side of the story. TBC

TGA   Database of Adverse Event Notifications (DAEN)  is where all suspected side effect reports following vaccination are collated in collaboration with state level databases like  SAEFVIC  in Victoria. It is commonly reported in the media by politicians, epidemiologists, CHOs etc that all adverse events post vaccination are monitored by the TGA. However, the reality is that the TGA depends on health practitioners and the general public to report them. I quote from the TGA  website :  " The TGA encourages health professionals and consumers to report suspected side effects following immunisation with COVID-19 vaccines. Every report is valuable and contributes to our safety monitoring." The TGA claims to collect data of adverse events presenting after the administration of any medication irrespective of causality being established. This is good practice and a requirement in any data set that is to be used for statistical inference purposes - to ascertain if there is an increas

Background The Australian vaccination program was slow, inefficient and riddled with political interference for the better part of the first half of 2021. ScoMo famously - or notoriously, depending on one's opinion - said in the very outset that it was not a race. Come winter and the outbreaks that come with it (seriously, did no one predict that?), NSW and VIC was plunged into never ending lockdowns. This is when the above statement came back to bite the PM, in particular with the Victorian Labor government wasting no time in shifting the blame to the commonwealth in a desperate effort to divert attention from its own shortcomings. For the average Victorian, it was just dejavu.  With a federal election looming, ScoMo had to turn the tide and get ready for his endgame. Enter Doherty Institute's modelling  on the national plan to transition Australia's National COVID Response. I will not go into the intricate details of the different scenarios proposed by the modelling here,