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Feb 24, 2022Liked by epimetheus

Looks virtually identical to our data here in Sweden, actually. Total deaths attributed to mRNA-vaccination stands (from memory) 350, that's for all three vaccines used with no factoring of n:o shots or anything else. I think it's at about 280 for Comirnaty alone.

Anecdotally, hygiene and sanitation routines in nursing homes improved so much during 2020 and 2021 that both the common flu and winter vomiting disease has been virtually zeroed.

Quite possibly meaning that standards of hygiene among staff contributed greatly to how many elders succumed to Covid.

However, this is such a hot potato that not even the official multipartisan Covid-commission wants to look at that angle, as it would reverberate through the system of how nursing homes and care for elders work. Basically: "private profits/socialised costs"-system. Not to mention that several socialist democrat ministers in charge of the Covid response was found out hiding documentation, flat out lying and also ordering documentation of the decision-making process destroyed. Without any consequnce other than half a day of squaking in the regime loyal "free" media and virtual silence in state media - the only mention there was to the tune of the commission being used by the opposition to trying to create "gotcha" moments against the socialists.

I suspect it is the same in Austria as it is here with official data sources: for every year as the official narrative on political issues drifts farther and farther from observable reality, the governement (no matter what party is in power) makes it harder and harder to find data, reports, and such and makes it more and more difficult for private citizens to investigate?

While I fully understand the impulse of wanting ones ideal to be true and real, that cannot be achieved without knowing the facts. Especially those facts that speak of problems.

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Oh my, while I'm glad you can confirm, as far as this is possible, that the Nordics appear like proverbial 'peas in a pod' (pun intended), the snippet about 'improvements' in nursing home hygiene etc. is actually super-telling in terms of how much, if any, our governments actually care about 'the most vulnerable' we are ostensibly 'protecting'.

It's quite obvious, I think, that the Comirnaty product is the worst, which is perhaps due to the sheer number of injections. As to the Moderna product, it's approx. 3X the amount of mRNA than the BioNTech/Pfizer product, hence it might trigger a higher AE ratio after the first dose (as opposed to Comirnaty, which is apparently 'easier digestible' if spread out across various injections).

Another super-confounding issue is the cross-use of esp. both mRNA products, e.g., two jabs of the BioNTech/Pfizer and a 'booster' of Moderna. This is but an example, but keep in mind that the former is 60 micrograms (iirc) of mRNA while the latter is 100. (total of 160 micrograms); it's quite different from, say, 2 Moderna injections followed by a 'booster' with BioNTech/Pfizer (total of 230 micrograms); and if you take, say, 3 injections with the BioNTech/Pfizer product (at 30 micrograms each), that wouldn't get you to the equivalent no. of micrograms in one (!) Moderna injection.

(Note that I'm unsure about the unit--micrograms--here, it could be a different one, but I'm certain about the amounts.)

So, all the numbers everywhere--irrespective of the data source--are useless when it comes to assessing anything for certain beyond trends or the like.

Re the situation in nursing homes: I suspect this one, incl. specifically the despicable political aspect of it, to be the same across the 'Western' world. Sigh.

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Feb 24, 2022·edited Feb 24, 2022

Well, if you want to be further disgusted (do not read close to eating?), I can share an anecdote from my wife when she worked municipal kindergartens in Malmö, more than a decade ago.

See, winter vomiting disease was getting to be a problem back then. Kids pick it up, infect parents, parents make it to work before becoming sick, colleagues bring it home to their kids, and on it goes. So far, so obvious to anyone but politicians. Our KK (KrankenKasse, so much better than Försäkringskassan - FersicherungsKasse I guess would be a blind idiot translation?) was ordered early nineties to demand from people calling in sick that they saw a doctor day one, and that they had to forgo payout (karens) the first day of every separate sick period.

Cue doctors being overloaded with people having to get paperwork from them for sniffles and tummyaches, and people going to work sick and hopped up on pills (paracetamol and such). We still use this system. Despite the obvious effect it has on public health, schools, childcare, nursing homes - you name it. On the plus side we nove a very high quality private health care sector.

Since most of those going to work sick were/are also those working part time or on call for health care and similar service providers: i.e. the lowest income bracket, it's pretty much a perfect map of how to create the greatest number of persistent viruses and bacteria always being in season.

And it was costs alot. Which is why Malmö's then head of municipal kindergartens decreed all staff must use alcohol-based hand sanitizer, the kind you might use before surgery, before and after changing the kids' diapers. Not good for the skin that. Ok, so they switched to mandating wearing nitril gloves. But they need one pair per kid per diaper, obviously? Not to that politican. 14 kids/full time staff, average of 3 diapers/kid/day equals a diaper-load of gloves every day times some 250 workdays per year, give or take. Our educational system stopped teaching both logic and logistics in the sixties. It shows.

So she ordered them to re-use the gloves. You can guess what happened.

This whole mess took seven years from start to finish. Seven years to get it through the heads of decision makers how to change diapers and maintain basic hygiene.

I sometimes feel I should collect all these anecdotes I have. Maybe put them together in some kind of tribute with apologies to the late professor Parkinson.

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Just one thought, but it kept going through my mind the more I read your assessment. I could cry for everyone injured or dead due to these experimental biologicals. The current rumours are both Pfizer and Moderna share prices will drop significantly and soon. Down to zero for Moderna and $10 for Pfizer. Vaxx mandates will soon become a thing of the past. But when will those in big pharma and our health authorities and our bought and paid for politicians be brought to justice?

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DNA/mRNA comparion might be difficult for Norway, because DNA vaccination seems to have been brought to a halt early on. The DNA-vaccinated population is therefore very different (eg, regarding age) from the mRNA-vaccinated one. Comparison with UK (much more AstraZeneca) might be interesting.

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