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Each round of vaccination will add not one, but two categories. Currently we have five (unvaccinated, recently vaccinated, "fully" vaccinated, recently boostered, boostered), after jab number four it will be seven. With that many categories, you can generate all the results that you like. el gato malo has a recent substack post on this.

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Good point, I think I also read that piece by El Gato (but I cannot find that piece again right now).

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It would be nice to break out unvaccinated into naive, "had covid", and 1 jab only (adverse event?) , but doubt that would ever happen.

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Well, in principle those data are available (albeit not to the public), eg, in Germany:

https://diviexchange.blob.core.windows.net/$web/Impfstatus_Definitionen_zum_Download_im_IR.pdf

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"Tomorrow’s post will focus on the current tug-of-war between the government and (vs.) ‘public health authorities’, which is in full swing these days"

???

Who runs the show over there?

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Ha, wait for it ^_^

Jokes aside, it's worse than implied by "From Norway": it's the 7th-tier "health" bureucrats who staff the IPH, aided and abetted by the media, who seek to push the government around.

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Yes. A couple of days before government press release the FHI releases publicly their recommendations, and then the media start the circus. The only time the government has resisted is mandatory vaccination for health personnel. They managed to substitute it with mandatory biweekly tests and no patient contact.

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The media

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That is why "they" control and/or own them. As you know, there are intel assets or even agents working in the media.

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That's certainly one part of the problem, and this entire shitshow will not stop before either democratic accountability is upheld and restored--which is to say: a fundamental reform of the public health authorities is a necessary precondition.

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Do let us know when that happens....

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Jan 13, 2022Liked by epimetheus

The FHI are no longer invited to government press conference tomorrow. They must be annoyed.

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I know, and this is why I think they are now trying to influence public policy by press releases. It's disgusting and certainly beyond the pale of democratic accountability--but my guess is they are doing this precisely because the gov't doesn't want them aboard any longer. After almost two years of exaggerated importance, the only way the IPH can continue to play a role (which they shouldn't have, btw), is to vomit up more and more fear porn, which then gets amplified by the legacy media, hence the perception of "public pressure".

Let's see if Støre has the guts to hold out a bit longer. You know, in his interview with Joe Rogan (over at Spotify), Peter McCullough, MD characterised this charade as a gigantic "game of chicken", and I think that McCullough is largely correct about this: Støre seems to at least want to try to restore governmental authority (primacy) over public policy, which is why the IPH is breathlessly posting inanities on their website, which gets taken up by media outlets…you get the point.

It's all political, and much of this shitshow is driven by the rather simple fact that most of the action occurs in the Oslo metro area, which is easily the region with the largest population (and density), hence: this is almost all local politicking masquerading as "national emergency" (which it is not), and it's revelatory in the sense that it should be clearly visible to all that this is a power struggle between (unelected, and hence unaccountable) "public health officialdom" vs. the elected government.

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Well, since I put the odds of "voluntary reform" informed by reason, rational argumentation, and supported by objectively true facts at rather low, I suspect the reckoning will take "other forms"

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