Covid

The New Zealand Vaccination Records Leak: A New Analysis by William Briggs and Some Lesser Thoughts of My Own As everybody in this corner of the internet knows, a New Zealand Te Whatu Ora employee named Barry Young leaked four million vaccination records from New Zealand’s “pay per dose” vaccine program to Steve Kirsch on 8 November. The records pertain to doses administered to individual patients at apothecaries

Snowy Open Thread: Expiring Unwanted Expensive Covid Vaccine Edition Today, southern Bavaria is covered in snow. No trains are running, the Munich airport is closed, many shops have not opened, and children are enjoying fierce snowball fights before the offices of the plague chronicle. The trees bend under the weight of their white blankets; one of them (thankfully not

Who was responsible for the draft resolution, circulated among the state health ministers of Germany, demanding the vaccination of teenagers contrary to regulatory advice? Some final notes on the 2021 campaign to vaccinate German children and the importance of 28 July. I must make a correction to yesterday’s post on the bizarre campaign to vaccinate German children against the recommendations of regulators and in the absence of all evidence. It is important enough

The bizarre campaign to vaccinate German children against the recommendations of regulators and in the absence of all evidence Whys were German politicians were so eager, in summer 2021, to vaccinate school children? This was the question at the centre of yesterday’s post. I mean it in a very specific way. I understand this was a time of general vaccine mania, when everybody from local paediatricians to Chancellor

Why were German politicians so eager to vaccinate children, and why are they lying about it now? Here is a riddle: Why were German politicians so eager, in summer 2021, to vaccinate children? Why did they place public pressure on vaccine regulators to recommend child vaccination? Even a few months ago, I would’ve said this was no great mystery. Before August 2021, everybody still operated on

On the curious schemes of various activists, ideologues and politicians to minimise the emission of certain atmospheric gases by restructuring our energy supply and thereby our entire civilisation As the insanity of the pandemic era recedes, I find myself writing more and more about climate politics. Many of my posts on this matter – especially the last one – elicit disagreement from readers who believe that my arguments validate the premises of climate propagandists, who want me to know that

As the German Health Ministry drowns in millions of unwanted vaccine doses, Karl Lauterbach begs Germans to please, please line up for their fifth jab From the erstwhile vaccine propagandists at Der Spiegel, who I think are also tiring of the insipid autumnal vaccination liturgy and its noxious political enablers: Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach has again called on people to get a booster vaccination. “Despite the pandemic and awareness campaigns, the importance of the

Christian Drosten, enduring virologoid villain, demands mass livestock virus testing and scientific truth panels to enhance pandemic preparedness and marginalise people who disagree with him Christian Drosten, the malevolent virologoid at Berlin Charité who achieved international prominence in 2020 as court virus astrologer to the Merkel government, and who acted for years as the public face of hygiene restrictions in the Federal Republic, is one of the great villains of the pandemic. From lockdowns to

Crazy Munich doctor earns nationwide press coverage with call for Germans to resume indoor masking because "we have a lot of infections right now," even though we don't Clemens Wendtner is an oncologist and head physician at the Munich Schwabing Clinic. Despite his total lack of epidemiological qualifications, he rose to prominence in the pandemic because he ended up treating some of the very first officially recognized Covid infections in Germany. In those early days, he was fond

Nobel Prize awarded to mRNA researchers in effort to "Encourage hesitant people to opt for vaccination in the reassurance that it is safe and effective" On 2 October, the biochemists Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman received the Nobel Prize for medicine and physiology, for their contributions to the development of mRNA vaccine technology. In 2005, Karikó and Weissman solved a crucial problem that had bedeviled all prior attempts to develop RNA-based therapies. This problem was

Covid Juice 3.0 hits the shelves in Germany, with interest at such record lows that many doctors have not even bothered to stock it The latest Covid Juice release is for sale in Germany as of today, and Health Minister Karl Lauterbach was first in line. There’s abundant evidence that he’s not a great fan of vaccination; he got his third dose in secret, well after the rest of the vaccinators, and

Renowned idiot Karl Lauterbach shows his vaccine pass to the cameras, reveals once again that his 2022 claim to be quadruple vaccinated is a lie The idiot Health Minister of the Federal Republic of Germany, Karl Lauterbach, has beclowned himself again, leaking additional evidence that he lied about receiving a second booster in Spring 2022. To recap: By late summer of last, Lauterbach had spent many weeks urging a fourth dose on all and sundry,

Study: With each Covid vaccination, healthcare workers get sicker – applying for progressively more leave and taking more analgesic medication after each dose “Inability to work following COVID-19 vaccination” is a modest paper just published in Public Health (paywalled, but available here as a preprint from last November), analysing data from the ‘CoVacSer’ cohort study, conducted out of Würzburg to monitor the effects of Covid infection and vaccination on healthcare workers. Of 1,

More details on the very strange efforts of the German Health Ministry to hide internal details of the Covid response from a parliamentary investigative committee More details have emerged on the measures of Karl Lauterbach’s Health Ministry to conceal internal details of the pandemic response from the German public.

Vaccines and the Midwit Effect, or: Why smart people seem to believe all manner of crazy things, and smarter people seem to believe them even harder Some weeks ago, this Swedish study on the correlation between cognitive ability and readiness to accept Covid vaccination made the rounds. It irritated a lot of people, particularly in these circles, for appearing to support the observation that getting vaccinated is just something that more intelligent people do – and, by