Horowitz: The lies about vaccine efficacy are exposed, so Scotland stops publishing data



If the truth hurts your narrative, you must censor it. But what if your own information harms your own narrative? Well, then you stop publishing it.

For the past few months, Scotland has been publishing age-stratified case rates by vaccination status in a very well broken-down chart every Wednesday afternoon, similar to the way the U.K. published the data every Thursday. The common thread observed from these trends was that the unvaccinated had the lowest case rate, the double-vaccinated had even higher death and hospitalization rates, and the triple-jabbed gradually had increasingly higher case rates, which clearly doesn’t portend good news even for hospitalization and death in the long run. When people like me started using their data, we were lambasted by the “fact-checkers” paid for by Big Pharma. Now Scottish health officials announced they will not be publishing the data at all.

“Public Health Scotland will stop publishing data on covid deaths and hospitalisations by vaccination status — over concerns it is misrepresented by anti-vaxx campaigners,” reports the Glasgow Times.

The notice of change was published on page 29 of the latest, and evidently final, Wednesday report from Feb. 16. “PHS is aware of inappropriate use and misinterpretation of the data when taken in isolation without fully understanding the limitations described below,” they decried.

You mean like screenshotting their own charts?

Obviously, there can be confounding factors, but those factors actually cut both ways. However, at the end of the day, these are age-stratified adjusted case rates per 100,000 and are completely fair game to use. No vaccine that is anywhere near as effective as they make it out to be should be netting these results.

Here is the latest case rate chart from the final report:

As you can see, for the past two weeks they have been placing disclaimers at the bottom of the charts.

What the chart clearly shows is what we have been seeing throughout the world — from the U.K., Canada, and Israel, for example — namely, that the second shot has gone negative a long time ago and the third shot is gradually following in the same direction. The public health officials themselves are demanding that people get boosters because they say the other shots wane. Well, logic would dictate that now that we are three to five months into the boosters in most places, they are waning as well. We also know that waning efficacy is potentially associated with a Trojan horse effect of antibody dependent disease enhancement, something the FDA admitted was never studied in the long run (at the time they thought the shots wouldn’t wane) but would be a risk “potentially associated with waning immunity.”

The main argument of those who are against us screenshotting their own charts to point out what they themselves have admitted is a speculative theory that perhaps the vaccinated test more often than the unvaccinated. That is a purely speculative confounding factor in the favor of the vaccine, but here is a concrete proven confounder against the vaccine: Scotland counts the first 21 days of the first vaccine as unvaccinated and the first 14 days of the third vaccine as double-vaccinated. We already know from Alberta’s data (which of course they also took down since we cited it) that roughly 40% of cases, 47.6% of hospitalizations, and 56% of deaths among the vaccinated occurred within 14 days of vaccination! So if anything, many of the cases and deaths ascribed to the unvaccinated are caused by the immune suppression of the first shot, and many cases and deaths ascribed to the double-vaccinated makes that cohort look even worse than it already is in order to ameliorate the image of the boosters.

Furthermore, if the higher case rates among the vaccinated are the result of a higher testing rate, then why would the double-vaxxed also be worse off than the unvaccinated for hospitalizations and deaths, as PHS has been showing for weeks in its other charts?

It’s quite evident that everyone is tested in the hospital. If anything, it stands to reason that the unvaccinated would be more aggressively tested even when admitted for other ailments and therefore potentially be roped into incidental hospitalization counts more often than the vaccinated. For example, in June 2021, Scripps Health in San Diego announced it would only test unvaccinated asymptomatic patients but not the vaccinated. Clearly, the testing requirements of the unvaccinated and the counting of the (immune-suppressed) partially vaccinated as unvaccinated would be confounding factors for woefully overestimating unvaccinated hospitalizations, not the other way around.

Also, why would the triple-vaxxed test less often than the double, who test more often than the single or unvaccinated? And why would the waning always continue in the same direction throughout the pandemic? As you can see from the U.K. Health Security Agency weekly reports, the efficacy of the shots constantly wanes with every new weekly report, a phenomenon that cannot be explained away by testing rates.

Infection rate growth (Rept Wks 50 to 7) since Omicron became dominant is much higher in all boosted cohorts. In boosted adults \u226550, growth increases sharply with age or time since boosting - whereas infection rate growth in the unvaxxed is more consistent across cohorts. Why?pic.twitter.com/DhQ2r9wlcz
— Don Wolt (@Don Wolt) 1645113384
UKHSA COVID Hospitalization Update: 2/17/22\n\nWeek 7 report just came out.\n\nBefore and After % of Total Hosps by Age Group by Vax Status (dose).\n\nChart 1 - Week 6 Report\nChart 2 - Week 7 Report (current)\n\nIf anyone knows where to locate Pop Vax% by Age group, please show me.\n\n/1pic.twitter.com/ZXIVVfpCFp
— Hold2 (@Hold2) 1645116891

Clearly, this picture points to dangerous waning efficacy that plagues every cohort within a few months.

The bottom line is that during the final week of reporting in Scotland, just 12% of the deaths are among the unvaccinated, and that is including the 21-day grace period of counting the single-jabbed as unvaccinated. Nobody is suggesting that there is no efficacy for some people for a period of time against serious illness before the shots wane. But to suggest that this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, to ignore the negative efficacy on infection which has been true across the board since last summer, and to obfuscate the concern of waning efficacy on critical illness even as they themselves demand boosters defies willing suspension of disbelief.

Unbelievably, PHS admits that the shots first suppress the immune system before they ramp up antibodies. But instead of using this as a strike against the shots, they use that is a strike against the unvaccinated and assert that it is a factor for why you can’t even compare hospitalization or death rates. “Individuals who have not completed their vaccine schedule may be more susceptible to a severe outcome and could result in higher COVID-19 case, hospitalization and death rates in the first and second dose vaccine groups,” claims PHS in the report.

But if that is true, that is the fault of the manufacturers who made a shot that first makes you vulnerable during an ongoing pandemic. It’s one thing to have a shot that makes you more vulnerable for a few weeks during the off-season of a virus. But to do so during the pandemic is akin to telling someone in a foxhole during a firefight that they will be safer in a bunker 100 yards ahead but must first run across the field to get there. The risk of making that run should be counted against the bunker option, not the foxhole.

In other words, as I wrote in my original piece on the Scottish data that was “fact-checked,” “You have to look in totality where we are headed rather than manipulating a snapshot of time.” You can’t just pull out one period of time of some efficacy for some people. You need to consider the following:

  • Vaccine injuries short term and long term, known and unknown;
  • Other safer treatment options for COVID itself;
  • A leaky vaccine that wanes in efficacy and runs the risk of enhancing the virus itself even while offering temporary protection for some;
  • The cost to the immune system of constantly boosting people to deal with the abovementioned concern of waning efficacy and enhancement.

The bottom line is that the social media guardians are looking at a snapshot of time. If they were to study the trajectory and progression of the virus and the vaccine throughout the year, they would recognize an unmistakable pattern of waning and then negative immunity. A large study published in the New England Journal of Medicine by Weil Cornell Medicine-Qatar found (table 3) that the Pfizer vaccine waned very quickly after four months. By seven months, when adjusted for those in Qatar who already had prior infection, the Pfizer shot was -4% effective against transmission and just 44.1% effective against severe illness. Also, effectiveness against asymptomatic infection was -33% after seven months.

A Swedish preprint study in October 2021 looked at 1.6 million people in Sweden to examine infection rates and critical illness rates by vaccination status. They found a sliding scale of efficacy that wanes with time, but eventually turns negative. Here is a presentation of fully adjusted vaccine effectiveness against symptomatic infection for various demographics after 210 days:

Clearly, it was known early on that the vaccine wanes and has the potential to go negative even with Delta, for which both natural infection and the vaccines offered better immunity. It stands to reason that this is certainly the case with Omicron, making it abundantly clear that the negative efficacy rate has more to do with potential Trojan horse antibodies than it does with vaccination-status bias of testing rates.

So what’s the solution? Go for a fourth and fifth shot? This week, Israeli researchers published a preprint study on the efficacy of the fourth shot, which found that after just one month, Pfizer’s shot is down to 30% efficacy and Moderna is down to 11%. At the same time, “Local and systemic adverse reactions were reported in 80% and 40%, respectively.” They conclude, “Low efficacy in preventing mild or asymptomatic Omicron infections and the infectious potential of breakthrough cases raise the urgency of next generation vaccine development.”

Remember, the FDA's industry guidance for EUA status (p. 13) requires a 50% threshold of efficacy to even get emergency use authorization, much less full approval!

Thus, who is actually misreading or inappropriately using data here?

The Israeli study also concluded that “most of these infected HCW [health care workers] were potentially infectious, with relatively high viral loads. Thus, the major objective for vaccinating HCW was not achieved.” Full stop. The biggest public policy debate is over the fact that somehow you not getting the shot affects other people. Here we see that even people with four shots were still infectious with high viral loads. To what degree the shot offers some degree of protection from serious illness for some people for some period of time should be a decision left to the people. Perhaps other people would like to choose therapeutics that offer protection that don’t run the risk of severe adverse reactions. But none of that should have bearings on another human being, and none of that should justify human rights violations.

This entire saga began with censorship of the work of others because the narrative assertions could not withstand peer review. Now we’ve come full-circle, in which the governments’ own data must be censored because the narrative assertions cannot withstand the scrutiny of their own data.

Horowitz: Shocking report: 55% of Brits have antibodies, despite 12 months of restrictions



You mean we did all that for nothing?

Originally, we were told that governments can assume unprecedented control over our lives, businesses, and even our own faces for the goal of not overrunning hospitals. A year later, as we come increasingly close to herd immunity, not only are hospitals in no danger of being overrun, but it turns out that people have likely contracted the virus at a rate that would have occurred without any of these restrictions – and their calamitous damage to society. Twelve months later, it's all pain and no gain.

We've always known that the number of confirmed COVID cases in a given region is only a fraction of the likely infection rate. Now, according to Great Britain's Office for National Statistics (ONS), 54.7% of people in England in a random sample of 30,000 have SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, which includes people who have had been infected or have been vaccinated. Those are the sort of numbers we were promised would happen only if we just "let the virus rip" without any non-pharmaceutical interventions, aka lockdowns and mask-wearing. But it turns out that the virus was always gonna virus, regardless of what hocus-pocus was thrown in front of it.

The survey, conducted from December 7 to March 14, also revealed the antibody levels in the other areas of Great Britain: 50.5% in Wales, 49.3% in Northern Ireland, and 42.6% in Scotland. As the Daily Mail observes, "The figure is likely to be even higher now because millions more have been vaccinated since the blood tests were conducted a fortnight ago, and it takes about two weeks for immunity to kick in."

Also, many people don't produce antibodies or their antibodies wane quickly because the T cells warded off the virus without major symptoms. It is therefore likely that if 55% of Brits have antibodies, a supermajority of citizens are already immune.

We have no way of knowing how much of the seroprevelance is from the vaccinations and how much is from infection, but many other countries have had aggressive vaccination programs and still do not have as few cases as Great Britain currently has. That tells you there is a lot of built-up immunity from the earlier waves of infection.

Here are the latest death numbers from Worldometer.

This data demonstrates that the entire 12-month premise of lockdowns and masks to slow the spread was a lie (after the original lie of flatten the curve), and even more so, any continuation of these policies after most people have immunity is built upon a dastardly lie. Even if the new goal has changed illogically from decreasing the burden on the hospitals to slowing the growth of cases, it's quite evident that these measures don't work. We have now achieved well over 50% immunity between infection and vaccines in most Western countries, built on 12 months of masochist public policy designed to preclude that immunity.

Despite cases slowing to a trickle for the past two months, Britain is still under a strict lockdown. Restaurants, hotels, stadiums, and even indoor mixing in groups of six or more are still being regulated until May 17, as well as all international travel. Even nonessential retail and gyms are closed for another week.

Ironically, this news comes at a time of global panic over the "Kent" British variant of the virus, which was supposedly super deadly and contagious, yet Britain itself barely had any cases since the variant was discovered. Which demonstrates that this is all about natural geographical and seasonal patters of spread that will continue everywhere until herd immunity is built up, not about specific variants or non-pharmaceutical interventions.

What this likely shows is that immunity from both infection and the vaccines works against different variants of the virus, as one would expect, but only those who had a high degree of natural immunity are close to herd immunity. Serbia, which also has high vaccination rates like Great Britain, is still going through its latest wave of deaths.

The difference between Serbia and Great Britain is obvious because Serbia, like most Eastern European countries, didn't experience much of a wave earlier last year. Consequentially, the country has less built up natural immunity on top of the vaccinations.

Texas, like Great Britain, has probably come close to herd immunity, which is why three weeks after getting rid of the mask mandate, and with the Kent variant as the dominant strain throughout Texas, the virus is at its lowest level since it started.

NEW: 3 weeks since Texas lifted their mask mandate, the 7 day average in cases is the lowest it's been since June https://t.co/RFATqgXzGb
— Breaking911 (@Breaking911)1617559631.0

The Czech Republic, on the other hand, was touted as the world champion masking country, yet it failed to protect this nation from experiencing the worst surge in Europe.

@bclpbclp @RMConservative @GBMillennial @WSJ @ianmSC Batting 1.000 https://t.co/dhbAZCl4Mo
— Hold2 (@Hold2)1617711396.0

By hook or by crook, we will reach herd immunity. The question is whether we will to continue to needlessly destroy humanity in the process.

Horowitz: Biden calls for mask mandates in response to increased cases in states … that already have strict mandates



As thoroughly as the lie of mask efficacy has been debunked is exactly how strongly it will continue to be forced upon the citizenry.

"I need the American people to do their part as well. Mask up. Mask up. It's a patriotic duty," Joe Biden said during a rare speech yesterday in which he implored mayors and governors to reinstate mask mandates.

It's almost as if these people are living in a time warp and it is still March 30, 2020, when mask-wearing was first introduced as a desperate measure to possibly slow the spread of a virus … that we now see 12 months later it failed to stop one iota. The mask mandate has been implemented against all ADA and OSHA standards — beyond our wildest dreams — yet it failed to stop two subsequent waves of spread. However, Biden is still saying, "It's the only way we ever get back to normal," as if nobody has ever worn a mask.

Just how insane was Biden's call to reinstate mask mandates in reaction to some data showing cases increasing in some states? Every state with an increase in cases has had an ironclad mandate for almost a year, while all the states that got rid of the mandate at the beginning of the month are either flat or going down.

Once again, we can count on Rational Ground's Ian Miller, the master of the mask charts, to expose the truth.

I’m legitimately unsure if Biden’s aware of what’s going on at this point, but let’s look at what’s happened in wha… https://t.co/EHpuCUmhNq
— IM (@IM)1617048437.0

As it turns out, the three lead states in the resurgence of cases are none other than New York, New Jersey, and Michigan. It is truly hard to find a place in these states where one can go indoors without a mask. Tether that to the federal mandate that began in early February, several weeks after cases were already going down, and you are left with the mystery of how cases went back up again long after the mandates were in place. Well, it's the same way they spiked in the fall long after those same state mandates were fully complied with.

Texas and Mississippi are the only states to have had mandates, but then, in early March, categorically removed them, even locally. The morgues are filling up, right?

Nope. Here is Texas compared to New Jersey:

Thought I’d check in on hospitalizations in New Jersey & Texas, considering the Governor of New Jersey said he was… https://t.co/g5uFEVRz3G
— IM (@IM)1616962073.0

Cases are down 41% since Texas Gov. Greg Abbott lifted the mandates:

The new hospitalization numbers are out, so let’s look at Texas 25 days after CNN’s @ChrisCillizza said ending mask… https://t.co/PrcuhIrb7d
— IM (@IM)1616960579.0

So, what is the truth of the matter? As we've observed for a full year, it's all geographical and seasonal. Every climate region seems to have the exact same curve. Take Mississippi and Alabama, for example. Cases are going down in both states, and they have identical curves. But if anything, Mississippi, which terminated its mandate, is experiencing a sharper decline than Alabama, which still has a statewide mandate.

Nearly 4 weeks ago, Mississippi removed all county level mask mandates, while Alabama didn’t remove its statewide m… https://t.co/ktJ5gnJEmr
— IM (@IM)1617060493.0

Now compare that to Michigan in the northern part of the country:

Can you imagine the endless media outrage and hysterical, panicked, “Neanderthal” comments from Biden, Walensky, Fa… https://t.co/Qh5UfGUYtc
— IM (@IM)1617068219.0

Clearly, some areas still have not reached herd immunity. In some of the northern states, they will still get a natural seasonal spread in the cold weeks of the early spring.

The greatest example, of course, is the Czech Republic. In the summer, the country was touted as the global success story presumed to be the direct result of strict adherence to the mask cult. Well, that was until God had a different plan. Now, the Czechs are worse off than almost every other Western country, including the United States:

@edschminke @foogatwo @ifihadastick I believe seasonality does drive respiratory illness patterns. I don’t know t… https://t.co/qZeyA6ypMI
— Hold2 (@Hold2)1617063180.0

Then, of course, there is Florida, which has counties that are masked and counties without mandates. There is almost a perfect reverse correlation between cases per 100,000 and mask mandate counties:

@GGoodie52 @bazzardhigh @MonicaGandhi9 We have this piece of evidence. https://t.co/1aqGcbCQfq
— Hold2 (@Hold2)1616867993.0

The Philippines has the highest level of mask compliance in the world (the president threatened to shoot violators of quarantine), yet it certainly has failed to stop the spread there.

Back in July, The NY Times said the Philippines had the highest mask usage rate in the world. Compliance has remain… https://t.co/Q7gnIe35RU
— IM (@IM)1617045033.0

None of this should surprise people who have studied this issue. Every randomized clinical trial that has studied mask-wearing as source control for respiratory viruses demonstrated the masks' lack of efficacy, a fact OSHA promoted for years.

Thread: 45+ Mask StudiesThe medical literature for the past forty-five years has been consistent: masks are usele… https://t.co/EPbi8tXHBs
— FineTuned Photography🇨🇦 (@FineTuned Photography🇨🇦)1613665973.0

Yet masks are so magical that they can "work" in the states that don't have the mandates while failing in the states where they are actually implemented.

Last week, I exposed the fact that the FDA only approved mask-wearing as an emergency medical device under the experimental Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). One of the conditions for such use, besides being optional and not mandatory, is that the "the known and potential benefits of the product, when used to diagnose, prevent, or treat such disease or condition, outweigh the known and potential risks of the product" (21 U.S.C. §360bbb–3(c)(2)(B)). Also, they are only approved if "there is no adequate, approved, and available alternative to the product for diagnosing, preventing, or treating such disease or condition" (ibid. – 3(c)(3)).

Well, 12 months later, we now know that there are zero benefits to wearing the masks and there are numerous early and prophylactic therapeutics that can easily treat the virus. Furthermore, the World Health Organization wrote a list of potential harms from mask-wearing in its June 2020 guidance that clearly outweigh the nonexistent benefits.

Image source: WHO screenshot

The mask experiment is over, and it has failed. Now it's time to follow the science — and human rights.