Blimey.
What have flu deaths got to do with mRNA vaccines? Levels of recorded flu were naturally lower during the worst of the Covid period because transmission of that illness would be disrupted by lockdowns and masking. I suspect that much of the testing capacity that would have been used in flu surveillance was also switched to focus on covid, which would mean that recording was down.
The ONS reports the following from Week 1 of 2020 to 22 January 2021:
• Deaths involving Influenza and Pneumonia (underlying or secondary cause): 127,575
• Deaths due to Influenza and Pneumonia (underlying cause): 21,614
Covid is still ‘about’ and flu deaths are still occurring.
Not for measles, mumps, smallpox, Hep A or Hep B? How about rubella, chickenpox, shingles and rabies? Not even the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine that is doing so much to reduce the risk of cervical and other cancers?
It’s actually much harder to find examples of vaccines for diseases caused by bacterial and other non-viral infections.
Coronaviruses do have a high capacity to mutate, but despite the concerns that caused, it is clear that there was good deal of continuing benefit from the early iterations of the vaccine.
It is not true to say that the vaccines have not been changed to try to keep up with mutations. Both Pfizer and Moderna updated their vaccine to take account of Omicron, which was seen as a particular danger.
One of the benefits of mRNA technology is that it is essentially a programmable platform that can be updated.
It’s beyond doubt that Pfizer and Moderna did very well out of the risk that they took in developing their covid vaccines. It certainly presented them with a platform to showcase the mRNA technology that they had been developing. Some other companies were not so lucky with several part completed projects being abandoned.
I struggle to see how developing vaccines that are likely to have saved millions of lives can be described as a ‘rinsing’.
I’m not here to defend the media, which is a parlous state in the UK at least, but it is fair to say that they have limited numbers of column inches and minutes of air time and it would be impossible for them to provide coverage of every conspiracy theory that swirled around the internet. It’s increasingly apparent that some journalists now spend their time simply trawling Twitter for stories, but they are likely to undertake at least a basic fact check before writing up pieces about things that they read there.
Really? Lets look at your approach to this.
You have posted mountains of stuff that you have found on Twitter that supports your viewpoint and have largely ignored any analysis of the same.
When confronted with data that completely undermines the material you have found on Twitter, you simply imply that official data is fabricated
When it has been pointed out that there is no peer reviewed (i.e. quality controlled) science to support your beliefs, you have posted Tweets in which the concept of the quality controlling of science is attacked.
With that in mind, is it not crystal clear that you are only interested in one outcome from the Inquiry?
Let’s be honest, unless the outcome of the Inquiry agrees with your views, you are going to simply post links to Tweets that contain weird and wonderful explanations about how the whole thing was rigged.