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Pick of the Week 10th September
Legal cases from Germany & Australia, propaganda from the UK and history of abortion services in the US.
Does mother know best?
The cost-benefit decisions that drive NHS spending can be hard to reconcile. On one hand, loving parents face roadblocks from courts and medical experts when seeking life-saving treatments for their children. On the other, vast sums are spent on COVID-19 interventions, raising the question: What is a life truly worth, and who gets to decide? Shouldn’t loving parents have more say when the stakes are so high?
Why do Monkeypox mRNA vaccines cause the same problems as Covid vaccines?
Here we reproduce a letter written to an MP by a constituent.
The letter raises concerns about the potential risks of approving future mRNA vaccines under a “platform authorisation” model whereby updates are assumed to be safe because the underlying methodology is considered safe – the way seasonal egg based influenza vaccines were regulated. This means the Monkeypox mRNA vaccines and others need not be authorised on a product-specific basis as discussed in a May 2024 MHRA Board meeting, but can piggy back on the claims made about the safety of covid vaccines. What could possibly go wrong?
Consultation on new Public Health Act for Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland is having a consultation about a new Public Health Bill which would widen the scope of the current legislation to create permanent powers on an ‘all hazards’ basis. It includes hidden in paragraph 143 that the regulations may require a person to be vaccinated or to receive other prophylactic treatment. Say goodbye to bodily autonomy.
Spiking via a spiked drink
A young adult with learning difficulties has been sedated and vaccinated against the wishes of him or his parents and at a time when this was not even a JCVI recommendation. His mother is appealing for help in her court case to prevent further doses being given.
The Witch Hunt continues
The current situation of self-censorship amongst doctors combined with GMC overreach, risks serious ongoing harms to patients and must not continue.
My Biggest Battle
Watch and share this harrowing documentary of how the extreme triathlete Heiko Sepp faced his severe Covid vaccine injury, supported by his wife and friends but remarkably little help from the medical profession.
What really caused covid deaths?
There is something rather odd about the fatality rate for covid in hospitals. NHS England have published data on covid deaths and hospitalisations (which includes both admissions and diagnoses of inpatients).
Children’s immune systems damaged by covid vaccines
Children given 2 doses of Covid-19 mRNA vaccine show an abnormal immune response a year later. But who cares?
Pick of the week – 27th August
PHEIC mpox call; will Annie’s Law really help: failure to recall AstrraZeneca and a Novavax children’s trial.
An Open Letter to yet another Prime Minister
An open letter to Sir Keir Starmer about vaccine safety. Will he continue the mistakes and obfuscation of the previous government or will he offer change?
Were the unvaccinated treated (literally) differently from the vaccinated?
If the unvaccinated were treated differently from the vaccinated, yet another bias could creep into the outcomes.
Yet another Pharmaceutical giant falls foul of the regulations
GlaxoSmithKline fined a mere £5000 for a breach of Pharmaceutical Industry regulations. They join the Hall of Shame
Pick of the week – 20th August 2024
Items on mpox, censorship, and harrowing footage on care home deaths reported in the Scottish COVID-19 Inquiry
Our institutions are hollowed out
This is what totalitarianism looks like Republished below is an article from Jonathan Engler, first published 19th August, on his substack page, where he looks at two examples from here in the UK: The first is The Royal College of Nursing, which says (of the recent protests): “These scenes around the country are nothing short […]
What next on the vaccine/pandemic front?
It is a question of ‘when’ not ‘if’ the next pandemic is ‘declared’, and then a question of how many people will say, “fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me.”
Covid-19 Vaccines: Censored Facts and Hidden Harms
The People’s Vaccine Inquiry was set up by five different expert groups who were all concerned at the delays in the UK Public Inquiry Vaccine Module. Witness statements and video interviews are available to the public and to share.
