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I’ve long been concerned that a lot of what’s reported as infection is false positives from an intrinsically inappropriate test.

The authorities have done little but lie from the beginning.

I wouldn’t put it past them to run up the cases by increased testing or even by tweaking test conditions without disclosure.

At this point I’d recommend to stop testing.

Why are we testing for this alleged pathogen & not others?

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In the context of seasonal flu, I would argue that only the first peaks might even qualify as “pandemic”. So tired of hearing the phrase “the ongoing pandemic”. We desperately need to recalibrate the language being used.

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Jun 9, 2022Liked by eugyppius

Must hear your thoughts on the Vande Bossche concerns...pretty please?

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Jun 9, 2022Liked by eugyppius

I've noticed I tend to go back and forth on this. It's tempting to believe that SARS-COV-2 now becomes the fifth hCov, one of many obscure respiratory pathogens that kill a handful of people at the end of their lives.

And yet, there's one data point that inevitably sticks out like a sore thumb in any model where SARS-COV-2 becomes a nothingburger: The genetic evidence of a historical coronavirus outbreak among East Asians:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-coronavirus-epidemic-east-asia-dna-covid

If we accept the claim for a moment, that a coronavirus left its genetic imprints on the East Asian ancestral population during a period of 20,000 years, it's hard to avoid the conclusion that sometimes coronavirus outbreaks can kill off a lot of otherwise relatively young and healthy people for an extended period of time.

After all, if 88 year old grandmothers with COPD and dementia died in the East Asian outbreak, we wouldn't have seen the genetic fingerprints: People who die under such conditions have no real way left to increase the fitness of their relatives and thus don't leave evidence of genetic selection.

And so I've arrived at the honest conclusion, that I just don't know. I find it very worrying that we see a very significant positive correlation between vaccination rates and infections (as well as deaths to some degree). It suggests we've interfered with the development of immunity at the level of entire populations, I have no real clue how long the impact of this would last. I think after this winter it should be easier to state with some confidence which direction this will evolve in.

~Rintrah

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I hope you are correct that SARS-2 is over now.

However, I am not that optimistic. We do not yet know the long term effects of this mass experiment with a novel genetic vaccine. We do not know how the vaccinated population will react next winter with the next SARS variant, or with any other virus.

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Let me go out on a limb here: I find myself wondering whether the "Forces A" who premeditated the "pandemic" of the novel SARS-CoV-2 and unleashed it onto the citizens were confronted by other "Forces B" who stood in opposition and unleashed their own souped-up Omicron as the latter occurance in order to mitigate the former?

One may have ideas who the Forces A are or might be (the corrupt, leftist pharma-fin-military-plutocratic-techno-bureaucratic complex) but one is in the dark as to the identity of the Forces B.

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Jun 9, 2022Liked by eugyppius

I have to confess something. I have just realized that I have become addicted to eugyppius daily dose of reality, and it is now clear to me that I suffered an acute deprivation syndrome during his brief hiatus.

Reading his daily article and then engaging in an intelligent discussion with the rest of the patrons of this substack has become one of my most precious activities during the day.

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Jun 9, 2022·edited Jun 9, 2022Liked by eugyppius

This article quotes an Israeli expert about likely trajectory of the virus he predicted back in March, 2020. It would seem his predictions were accurate. If only public policy decision makers could have known this and adjusted their pandemic strategies to reflect this. Oh, wait, they did know. And didn't adjust.

Haaretz: "But, social distancing should lead to fewer cases of infection and death, no?

Dr. Dan Yamin: “No, because we won’t be able to isolate ourselves completely or forever. At some stage, we will have to resume a regular routine, and then the R0 will stabilize at 2 again. Effectively, we are delaying the inevitable...the public needs to understand that these measures of social distancing mean that we will find ourselves with corona for a longer period, even to 2023.”

Haaretz: "That long?"

Dr. Dan Yamin: “Take the swine flu, from 2009. Reliable models show clearly that it was contained in Israel because its appearance coincided with the Jewish holidays in the fall [when people weren’t out much in public]. From the virus’ point of view, the timing wasn’t good for it in Israel. By contrast, in the United States there was significant infection in 2009-2010. But in the end, it balances out. So we saw swine flu in Israel both in 2009-10 and in 2010-11, whereas in the United States it just came and went. The American population as a whole was exposed to the virus at high rates, so those who fell ill and recovered served as a ‘human shield’ for those who did not get sick.”

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2020-03-21/ty-article-magazine/.premium/israeli-expert-trump-is-right-about-covid-19-who-is-wrong/0000017f-e7d6-da9b-a1ff-efff91ff0000

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Jun 9, 2022Liked by eugyppius

I was having this conversation just this morning with a friend - the vaccines have done nothing but fry the immune systems of those who voluntarily took it or were unfortunately coerced.

It was the natural evolution of the virus that reduced mortality and this can be seen by the way that the vaccinated are now more susceptible to reinfection but don't die.

I have never had the shot. I was very severely infected with Delta last summer. I have not been sick since. I have natural immunity that the vaccinated do not have and now at the very least, Omincron is going to be their own specific scourge, forever.

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Jun 9, 2022Liked by eugyppius

I think it boils down to people being inside and people being outside. Here in Israel people are inside from June-September - as it's too hot to be outside - and from December to February- because of the rain. The voluntary winter lockdown is less strict than the summer lockdown. In July 2021 Israel had the distinction to be the country with the highest vaccination rate and the highest infection rate at the same time and we see the number of infections rising again right now.

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Interesting to see the seasonality aspect of covid has been completely destroyed here in the UK. Our cases started rising in late June/early July 2021 after a lull of a couple of months from the winter 20/21 peak. Hospitalisation and deaths rose in step with the cases (delta) and then cases exploded in jan 2022 (omicron). Since last summer, cases/hospitalisation/deaths have never fully decreased like they would have in previous waves - I can only attribute this to the never ending vaccination programme over here that seems to be keeping a certain level of virus (or lack of immunity) circulating in the UK population

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Jun 9, 2022Liked by eugyppius

This is very interesting and the comments Are also informative. My question is this: how confident are you that the vaccines had absolutely no benefit? Many critics of the pandemic response in the US, such as Vinay Prasad MD still think the vaccines reduce death and morbidity and or hospitalization due to Covid. I personally have concluded that near all studies by US agencies using our data are invalid as they largely support vaccine promotion at all times , for all age groups. Not mention no discussion of all-cause mortality.

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Jun 9, 2022Liked by eugyppius

Thank you for this analysis. Especially, as you mentioned, Sweden vs. Germany.

I've felt that the area under the curve is going to be approximately the same, you can just spread it over multiple peaks with lockdowns and other measures (flatten the curve....). Everyone is going to get it sooner or later. And I think this was known or hoped for by the pharmaceutical companies: delay herd immunity as much as possible so that the vaccine would be accepted.

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Are you SURE it's not just luck that's allowed the 'seasonality theorists' to correctly predict virus activity since summer of 2020?

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Jun 9, 2022Liked by eugyppius

But but but we have new Omicron jabs! For old variants! The antibodies last a whole month. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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So good to see someone focus on the essence of the matter, namely excess mortality. The data don't care about cause of death, just the numbers of deaths: That's the sort of data that's very hard to fake. Test results, numbers of cases, hospitalization rates, causes of death, not to mention the wildly inaccurate 'data' from Imperial College projectionists -- all these metrics have an arbitrary element to them that at best is subject to unknown bias, and at worst can be politically manipulated. It's much harder to fudge excess mortality, so focusing on that is eminently sensible, as this article shows.

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