Covid in Norway, mid-December (Lies) Update

IPH now considers everyone 'unvaxxed' who didn't get another jab after 1 Sept. 2023--and much, much more

Editorial prelim: there’s no way the diehard vaccinators are going to give in any time soon, as evidenced in the IPH’s very own Preben Aavitsland, Head of Epidemiology, and his ‘somewhat evasive’ answers:

Norwegian Tautologies, or: Preben Aavitsland Wrote Me About the Covid 'Vaxx'

IPH Boldly Continues the Gaslighting

As I wrote about ten days ago, I have notified the Institute of Public Health (sic) about the misleading information about the Covid injections alleged powers to ‘prevent infections’ on their website.

For the record, the pertinent sections on the IPH’s website—click here for English and here for Norwegian—were last updated on 18 Sept. and 24 Oct. 2023, respectively. Despite the EMA and the CDC telling everyone that the Covid injections were never authorised for transmission control, the IPH steadfastly insists that ‘vaccination can help to limit transmission in society’.

How this is done with products that aren’t authorised to do has been ‘explained’ by Preben Aavitsland in the following way:

Covid-19 vaccines contributes [sic] to limiting transmission in society by protecting the vaccinees against infection, albeit for a limited time.

While I did, of course, ask Preben Aavitsland how to reconcile these two positions, I have yet to receive an answer (I doubt I shall ever get one in writing).

Disinformation, IPH and Aavitsland Style

So guess my surprise when I saw the following news item in Aftenposten yesterday (paywalled; I’m using 12ft.io to access it); translation and emphases mine.

IPH: There will be a Lot of Illness this Christmas. Two Waves are About to Wash Across the Country

By Wasim Riaz, Aftenposten, 15 Dec. 2023

The season's flu outbreak is underway and the spread of infection will increase in the coming weeks.

‘The influenza epidemic is under way in earnest and will increase further through December towards a peak at the turn of the year or early January. The number of admissions of patients with influenza is increasing significantly now’, writes Preben Aavitsland in an e-mail.

He is a professor and head of epidemiology at the Institute of Public Health (IPH).

In addition, the corona wave will wash across the country. This is revealed [lolcatz, the IPH has been publishing these weekly reports since spring 2020, but I’m glad you journos ‘found’ them now] in the weekly summary from the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, which arrived on Thursday afternoon.

[Aftenposten doesn’t link to said report; here’s the direct link]

‘The winter wave of Covid-19 is ongoing at the same time, but the increase in the spread of infection has slowed somewhat in recent weeks. Further development is uncertain due to the emergence of new covid-19 virus variants’, the report further states.

There are still around a hundred hospitalisations of patients with corona every day. It has been like this for several weeks now. And Aavitsland cannot guarantee that there will not be an even greater increase.

[but he insisted that the injections would help, didn’t he?]

Lots of Flu and Covid this Christmas

As for the flu peak, it is expected to occur in late December or early January.

What will Christmas be like considering these diseases?

‘There will be a lot of flu and a lot of corona at Christmas’, replies Aavitsland.

Older people over 65 and people with chronic diseases are recommended to vaccinate now and against both diseases. It is not too late, but according to Aavitsland it is urgent:

‘In addition to this, the individual must assess for himself how big of a limitation he wants to place on his own life development. If you want to completely postpone respiratory infections until later, you must stay away from people who may be sources of infection. It is especially those who have clear symptoms. And also stay away from cramped premises with many people. It is not our recommendation to people, but something you can try if it is very bad to get infected now’, emphasises Aavitsland. [haven’t you guys been telling us that part of the problem is the mandate-deriving ‘delay’ or ‘immune deficit’?]

Strong Increase in Admissions [for the flu, like every winter]

The proportion of positive flu samples among those tested increased markedly from 5.6% in week 48 to 8.6% last week. [fear, people, fear!!!]

There has been a sharp increase in the number of new flu admissions in the past week. While there were 96 admissions in week 48, the number increased to 158 last week. [death is imminent]

The infection prevention advice from IPH is to stay at home in case of new respiratory symptoms if you feel ill. Everyone should also practice good hand and cough hygiene.

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Bottom Lies by the IPH

I’m unsure if, at this point in time, I should laugh or cry. This is getting ever more stupid by the day: what’s driving hospitalisations now are the flu or influenza-like illnesses, we’re told, with the ‘Covid wave’ somewhat receding.

Hence it’s high time to get yet another Covid shot and the flu shot, preferably both at the same time. Hey, Preben Aavitsland, do we have any idea how these two products might cross-react when administered in close temporal proximity? What about these two jabs and the other drugs esp. people over 65 are potentially taking?

Oh, what’s that sound? (It’s crickets.)

About the Covid wave, allegedly receding somewhat now—here’s what the IHP’s weekly report (as cited above) actually says:

After an increase since the end of September, the number of new admissions with laboratory-confirmed Covid-19 has been relatively stable over the past four weeks. In week 49, there were 710 admissions, after 698 in week 48 and 724 in week 47. There were 14 new admissions to the intensive care unit with Covid-19 in week 49, a decrease from 22 the previous week.

See the difference between what Aavitsland and Afteposten claim and what one could read over at the IPH website? At this point, dear Wasim Riaz, should you read my Substack, here’s a ‘pro tip’ (as in free life advice): if you’d started reading these reports a wee bit earlier, you’d know a bit ‘more’. Jus’ sayin’.

Lies about ‘Covid-associated deaths’

We note, in passing, that the IPH’s report does not inform people if they’re admitted to the hospital or ICU because of or with Covid-19, which continues to be a relevant piece of information among Team Reality™. It is, of course, irrelevant for the diehard vaccinators and apparatchiks, such as Preben Aavitsland and his ilk over at the IPH.

Sounds ‘unfriendly’, you say? Well, here’s more evidence, in case you’d need it: these blokes over at the IPH still compile ‘Covid-associated deaths’, about which the IPH notes the following (p. 21 in the last available, above-related weekly report):

Covid-19-associated deaths are defined as deaths where covid-19 is stated as an underlying or contributing cause on the death certificate [i.e., it doesn’t matter if you died of or with Covid]. Data on deaths has been extracted on 6 December 2023 at 07.30. The figures may be adjusted based on subsequent registrations, especially in the last week. While previously only deaths with a positive test were included in MSIS, deaths without a positive test are now also included in MSIS [got that? you may even get counted as a Covid-associated death ‘without a positive test’]

High time to ignore these fraudulent and meaningless ‘statistics’. Thank you, public health officialdom, for rendering your jobs essentially irrelevant.

About the ‘Vaccine Status’ of Hospitalised Patients

Speaking of utterly meaningless ‘statistics’, here’s more proof of public health officialdom’s failure (same source, p. 12):

Monitoring of patients admitted to hospital with laboratory-confirmed covid-19 or covid-19-associated death by vaccination status is register-based with data from the National Vaccination Register (SYSVAK), the Norwegian Patient Register (NPR), the MSIS laboratory database, the Cause of Death Register, and the Population Registry.

Translation: we know the Covid-19 vaccination status of every single hospitalised patient.

Figure 6 shows the development in the incidence of Covid-19-associated deaths or hospital admissions with laboratory-confirmed Covid-19 for people aged 65 and over [so, they no longer show you data for the entire ‘eligible’ population]. The figure shows the number of patients who received the vaccine after 1 September 2023 within a week before admission or death [*drumroll*]. The unvaccinated group are those who have not received any vaccine dose this autumn, i.e. no vaccination after 1 September 2023 and up to the week before admission or death. The total number of admissions or deaths in the two groups is currently low and there are also several important factors that must be taken into account in order to estimate vaccine effect, so the figures must be interpreted with caution.

I wouldn’t be me if I didn’t show you that figure, eh? (ibid., p. 13)

I suspect that there’s but one more thing to say: around the end-of-year, the two lines shown in the lower part of the above-reproduced figure will swap, again, and then good luck telling everyone about getting yet another jab.

About these jabs, by the way, I’d propose that Aavitsland and his ilk are telling everyone to get yet another one to prolong the swapping of these two lines so that they’ll be able to tell people that the jabs work.

Should you get an Updated Booster? (nope)

One last thing to note here is that the current jabs on offer at the ‘updated’ ones targeting (ahem) the Omicron XBB.1.5 ‘variant of concern’. Here’s what the IPH’s weekly report says about the currently-circulating ‘variants’:

From October to November, a marked increase in the proportion of the newer BA.2.86 variants (especially JN.1) has been observed, and it is expected that these are already, or very soon will become, dominant in several places in Norway.

Statistical ‘evidence’ may be obtained here (links to the ‘microbiological genome surveillance), which shows the following results for October and November 2023:

See if you can spot the 'XBB.1.5’ variant somewhere (I cannot find it). Here’s how the above-linked ‘information letter no. 59’ from the IPH brags about the benefits of the updated Covid jabs:

The autumn booster vaccine is better adapted to newer virus variants [that, according to the IPH, don’t circulate in Norway, but nevermind…]. The vaccine provides good protection against serious illness, but can also provide some protection against infection because the vaccine is better adapted to virus variants that are currently circulating [liar, liar, pants on fire]. This protection will probably be relatively short-lived, both because the antibody response decreases over time, and there may be new virus variants that are not neutralised as well by the antibodies the vaccines provide [that’s a relatively newer one in terms of: I don’t recall these jabs ever being sold as ‘neutralising’ or ‘sterilising’]. Vaccination with the updated vaccine can thus to some extent prevent mild symptoms for a certain time after vaccination, in addition to providing good and long-lasting protection against serious disease.

The letter is signed by Are S. Berg from the IPH, but, of course, there’s no evidence cited.

Why Would Aftenposten Shill like That Now?

Finally, an easy one: jab uptake is quite low, and the IPH came out with an updated ‘risk assessment’. And while I would have loved to bring you the newest insights from the IPH, I can’t do it because…

Although the website says it was ‘updated 15 Dec. 2023’, the linked file is, well, ‘old news’ (lies), to say the least.

I suppose that whatever may or may not be in that risk assessment, it’ll likely be outdated by the time anyone notifies the IPH of the above mishap (it won’t be me).

A Suggestion for Christmas

Whether you live in Norway or elsewhere, if you know someone in your circles who’s considering getting another jab or two, share that information and kindly suggest not to take the jabs.

Cheerio, I suppose, and to my readers over at the IPH (muahahahaha), is there anything you’d like to add?