On a day when New York introduced mandatory vaccines for 184 000 businesses in the city (see above), there’s plenty attention focused by the BizNews community on a PANDA attack by journalist Ivo Vegter and the spirited response from the organisation’s chairman Nick Hudson.
In a similar vein, I received a response to yesterday’s Premium Newsletter from BizNews tribesman Brian Pottinger, former editor and publisher of the Sunday Times. He retired some years back to write books and is the author of States of Panic: Covid-19 and the New Medieval, an insightful book on the pandemic.
Pottinger’s email reads: “Omicron is a reassortant virus with only traces of the original SARSCoV2. The Wuhan strain which got us all locked up expired in June 2020, according to the WHO. Coronaviruses, by their nature, constantly mutate, which is why you cannot vaccinate against them. In time they change their nature, hence a younger age group being affected, and lose their pathogenic intensity, hence a decline in severe infections. This is all 101 stuff.
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“What we do know is that the “vaccines” available are really anti-dotes which have limited impact on new strains, hence the high rate of reinfection of the “vaccinated”. What we do not know, and organisations like NICD are resolutely not telling us, is to what extent the reduction in severe infections is due to “vaccines” and how much the weakening virulence of the variants. No surprise there.
“But the really astonishing thing is that the experts are telling us with growing force that we should not be alarmed by Omicron (correct) but at the same time urge the Government to engage in a grievous abuse of human rights by reintroducing the pass system to contain it. How does that work?” Baffles me too.
More for you to read today…
- The Mutual Fund That Ate Wall Street – Based on an Index Few People Know About. Vanguard’s Total Stock Market Fund, at $1.3 trillion in assets, is a market unto itself—powered by an unassuming index called CRSP
- China Seeks First Military Base on Africa’s Atlantic Coast, U.S. Intelligence Finds. Alarmed officials at the White House and Pentagon urge Equatorial Guinea to rebuff Beijing’s overtures.
- New York City Sets Covid-19 Vaccine Mandate for Private-Sector Workers. Mayor Bill de Blasio says new requirement goes into effect later this month. (link to video at top of page)
- Kentucky Derby Winner Medina Spirit Dies After Workout. The Bob Baffert-trained colt—whose 2021 Derby win has been in dispute because of a positive drug test—suffered a heart attack at Santa Anita Park
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