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The same nonsense is happening here in Belgium. For months they bragged about having the highest vaccination rate in the EU with 86% of the adult pop fully backed (not sure if they still hold that title). This is straight from the Brussels Times btw. This week they announced cases had jumped by 50%, surpassing the highest daily infection rate of the second wave. My guess is that it will overshadow the height of the first wave too as this ramps up. What’s even more interesting, is that Belgium is basically split into 3 provinces - Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels. For months they lamented the low vax uptake in Brussels (currently around ~60%, hovered closer to 50% before the Covid pass) while boasting the high vax rate in Flanders (80% vaxxed) and then actually ran an article this week on how the cases in Flanders doubled in the last two weeks. So.... the province with the highest vax uptake is also having the biggest spike in cases. I’m like... can’t they see the writing on the wall here?!? Wtf

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A friend is in New Orleans right now. Vaccine passports to get into restaurants, not just bars. One place that doesn't require vaccine passports -- The National WWII Museum. Hmmm. Maybe they know "showing your papers" doesn't end well.

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Same story in Singapore. 85% fully vaccinated. Unvaccinated are not allowed in shopping malls. Only vaccinated are allowed to dine in restaurants, in pairs. No music in restaurants (because that makes people speak louder, hence letting the fully vaccinated to spread virus to the other fully vaccinated in the restaurant!).

Cases shot up to ~3500 per day. 80% of the total covid deaths since beginning of pandemic happened in the last two months when the full vaccination rate has been 80% or more.

And yet all the policies are designed to expressly prohibiting unvaccinated from participating in normal life as if they are to blame.

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A family member of ours is “so angry” that people aren’t getting vaccinated. She believes they are so selfish! It angers her. Wondering if others are seeing this from friends and family. They have total trust in the jab. But more than that, absolutely zero recognition of understanding of natural immunity from previous infection. I guess it’s just me but I simply don’t get it.

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I saw someone post "Their tombstone will say, but they were fully vaccinated"

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At least they are testing the vaccinated. In Canada and many part of the US, they are rigging the numbers by not testing the vaccinated or testing them much less often.

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This is so sad. How can this be the state of the world? How can people want this? Why do so many Americans want this?

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Alex, we’re anxiously awaiting what you have to report about potential (understand your caution) rise in below age 50 deaths due to random and odd cardiovascular causes. I am hearing of these in my circles…. Random PEs and cardiomyopathy in 30 year old men.

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I shared tons of data with my loved ones -- some much smarter than me. Didn't matter. They rushed out to get the vaccine at the earliest possible moment. Now they are happily entering venues that discriminate against me. They refuse to listen to bad news about the vaccines. They demonstrate zero empathy for people losing their jobs and not being able to provide for their families because they don't want the vaccine. They even tell me to just get the shot with such vitriol. I'm mourning the loss of relationships.

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It is the same story throughout the west: High vaccination rates = High infection rates. Low vaccination rates = Low infection rates.

This would actually be fine if the vaccinated were getting infected, suffering only mild illness, then recovering with broad, durable protection against future infection. Unfortunately, the data coming out of England shows the opposite: Thousands of fully vaxxed Brits are dying every month. The vaxxed who don't die the first time around remain vulnerable to reinfection as well as to variants.

And yet, we must now vaccinate all the children:

From my Substack article: Coming for Your Kid's Cohort

https://darbyshaw.substack.com/p/part-ii-faucis-glaring-cohort-problem

"The current mad dash by the FDA and CDC to quickly approve and mandate a Covid-19 vaccine for all children under 12 in the United States now seems motivated by a desire to eliminate any chance for researchers to conduct a cohort study of health outcomes among children who do and do not receive a Covid-19 vaccine.

Pfizer recently published a press release describing the clinical trial results of its Covid-19 vaccine in children between the ages of 5 and 11, for whom it is now seeking FDA authorization... Pfizer’s press release listed no reduction in severe illness, hospitalization or death among children who took the vaccine. [1]

Apparently, the company plans to tell the FDA that no such benefits from its vaccine can be detected in this age group without very large clinical trials, because the virus poses such little risk to children. This bizarre argument, in favor of giving all school-age children a dangerous vaccine even though the clinical trial showed no meaningful benefit, is widely expected to be embraced by the FDA, and authorization granted...."

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It occurs to me that at some point there won’t be any unvaccinated left to be getting sick because they will all have had it. I think that is why the proportion of vaccinated getting sick is going up. The vaccine doesn’t protect them and they don’t confer terrific immunity. I think what we will see next is higher and higher proportions of vaccinated sick.

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This is just anecdotal, but to me, speaks volumes. A woman developed an intense headache and rashes after getting the shot, and her doctor looked to her existing meds for cause and not the shot. This kind of behavior would lead to underreporting of adverse events caused by the shot.

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What is shocking to me is so many compliants. A man told me he just returned from france where you cannot go nor do anything without the pp. and he said ‘i think its a good thing’. He then said ‘the hospitals are filled with the unvaccinated’. He actually believes all of that, everything he hears from politicians and mainstream. I really felt sorry for him.

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They have hijacked the word "vaccine" to push all these insane policies. While most other vaccines are sterilizing and prevent catching and transmitting the disease, this one does NOT. Even Pfizer or Moderna don't make the claim this garbage does that, but the woke politicians do. By just using the word vaccine, they are getting away with this scam over the dumbest members of society who just hear "vaccine" and nothing else.

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“Safe and effective. Safe and effective. The leader is good. The leader is great.”

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It Looks like the curve is starting to flatten out on the wrong axis!

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