Biomedical. Dr Sam Bailey discusses the Whooping Cough (Pertussis) and the alleged remedy.
Dr Sam Bailey, 9/3/24.
"These days it seems not a month goes by in which we fail to hear that humanity is under attack from another “pathogen“. This is usually presented as not-proven-to-exist “viruses” such as SARS-CoV-2, Avian Flu or Monkeypox. However, once in a while the “germ” is said to be in the form of a known entity such as a bacterium.
Whooping cough has hit the headlines in recent weeks with the claim that new outbreaks are occurring. The fear dial is being turned up with warnings that it is highly contagious and the unvaccinated are at risk of being attacked by aerosolised Bordetella pertussis. In this video we go back to the early 1900s origin of this belief and expose the flawed scientific publications that have been used to prop up germ theory and this “infectious” disease.
The reality of the epidemiological data paints quite a picture and patently demonstrates inconsistencies with both the notion of contagion and the claimed benefits of vaccines. We wrote that, “all pandemics lead to vaccines” in our most recent book The Final Pandemic and is the whooping cough story yet another example of a deceptive marketing funnel? More importantly, we must go beyond germ tunnel vision and appreciate the real ways to achieve true health.
Show notes and related videos HERE "[Link]
My comment at the page.
Jeffrey Strahl, Lockdown Times. 9/3/24.
Once again, thanks so much, Dr Sam Bailey. The con job regarding the selling of the "effectiveness of vaccination" re pertussis, switching from deaths at the beginning of the sentence to "incidence" at the end, is breath taking. Likewise the con job of presenting Bordetella pertussis. as the responsible pathogen, ignoring the scientific method and indeed Robert Koch's basic postulates.
I was recently amused by a friend of mine insisting that Koch's Postulates have been satisfied many times while being unable to state what these postulates say. "Not sure what the 'experts' say, but i am sure that they got it figured out." SMH. Luckily we have people like you and Dr Mark and others shedding light in the midst of all this engineered darkness.
And, a comment by a frequent excellent commentator.
Allen, 9/3/24.
One of the problems in discussing the "vaccine issue" with most people is that it is not a discussion about science or medicine or even a discussion about some product, it has become a discussion about a civic religion. The poisonous injection is the sacrament. The belief, and that is what it is, that vaccines have been a "miracle" of modern medicine is accepted as an indisputable article of faith. When arguing against such dogma, which must be done, many will take it as a personal attack on their entire belief system. Cutting through that is the greater challenge in my experience.
Anyone who has studied the topic in depth knows that every aspect of the "vaccine story", starting back in the 1800's up to present, is complete fraud. Vaccines have done nothing but harm people and line the pockets of the medical establishment.. Vaccines are barbaric- all of them.
There has never been a product of any kind so filled with historical misinformation, purposeful deception and outright fraud. The belief that injecting synthetic chemicals made by habitually criminal companies who profit from perpetual disease somehow produces health is not only ridiculous and unproven— it is a foundational teaching of a dangerous religious cult that western medicine has become.
From their inception to today's mRNA monstrosities vaccines have done nothing but cause massive and systemic harm to the human biological system. Vaccination is and has always been a racketeering operation.
My response to Allen.
Jeffrey Strahl, Lockdown Times, 9/3/24.
GREAT comment.
A racketeering operation which has been rendered into a compulsory religion. And worst of all, the people who fancy themselves as championing social change and progress are often the ones who are the most demanding of adherence to this blind faith in this scientism masquerading as "SCIENCE.”
And, Allen again,
Allen, 9/3/24.
“I was astonished and not a little perturbed to find that when you draw a graph of the death rate from whooping cough that starts in the mid nineteenth century, you can clearly see that at least 99 percent of the people who used to die of whooping cough in the nineteenth and early twentieth century had stopped dying before the vaccine against whooping cough was introduced, initially in the 1950s and universally in the 1960s.
“I also realized that the reason the Department of Health’s graphs made the vaccine appear so effective was because they didn’t start until the 1940s when most of the improvements in health had already occurred, and this was before even antibiotics were generally available. If you selected only deaths in under-15-year-olds, the drop was even more dramatic — by the time whooping cough vaccine was part of the universal immunization schedule in the early 1960s all the hard work had been done.” — Dr. Jayne Donegan
Once the microbe was “identified” as the specific agent leading to widespread respiratory ailments, the daily hazards of the turn-of-the-century industrial era—filthy street sewage, poor nutrition, heavy air pollution, and overall squalid living conditions—were no longer deemed causes for illness. Instead, they were sidelined by those who were in hot pursuit of the opportunity to invent a vaccine.
The story of the pertussis vaccine is largely the story of bacteriologist Pearl Kendrick and public health scientist Grace Eldering. Though many pharmaceutical companies in the United States were offering pertussis and mixed-serum pertussis vaccines in the early 1900s, none proved to be effective. In 1931, the American Medical Association’s Council on Pharmacy and Chemistry found no “evidence even for the presumptive value of stock or commercial vaccines” because “the pertussis vaccines seem to have absolutely no influence [as a preventive], and after the disease is thoroughly established even freshly prepared vaccines seem useless.”
In 1932, Kendrick and Eldering began the whooping cough research project in Grand Rapids, Michigan. They alleged that they had improved the methods used for growing the pertussis bacillus, which allowed them to design and direct the first large-scale controlled clinical trial for the pertussis vaccine. This was hailed at the time as one of the greatest field tests in microbe-hunting history. Keep in mind that in the 1930s, there were no accepted standards and few established models for conducting field studies.
The field trial ran from 1934 to 1937 was composed of 5,815 children. The vaccinated group was made up of “children of acceptable age and history who presented themselves at the city immunization clinics for pertussis vaccination.” The control group was “selected at random from a list of non-immunized children maintained by the Grand Rapids City Health Department.”
Even though an approximately equal sample of children of the same age comprised both groups, the original field trial design was methodologically flawed. The “vaccinated” experimental group was self-selected, but the unvaccinated control subjects were randomly chosen. In addition to this procedural defect, 1,603 observations (28%) from the study’s early years were not included in the final analysis.
Along with these operational deficiencies was the largely overlooked fact that the study was conducted during the height of the Great Depression (an era of extreme deprivation in which daily life consisted of grinding poverty, food scarcity, substandard housing, and extraordinary social stressors). As Grace Eldering noted, “[W]e learned about pertussis and the Depression at the same time.” In the summer of 1936, America’s then-premier epidemiologist, Wade Hampton Frost, a professor of epidemiology at Johns Hopkins University, was tasked with reviewing the Kendrick-Elder study. He identified four major problems with the study.
Due to the long, slow build-up of the trial, he noted, the study population overall was quite heterogeneous, which meant that:
– In the early years of the trial, follow-up of control children was either inadequate or the records were incomplete;
– Recruitment to the trial varied over the life of the study, as did the frequency of nursing visits to look for whooping cough;
– The possibility of unknown differences between experimental and control groups existed because of differences in the way they had been recruited.
– There was a question as to whether the rates of other communicable diseases were also lower in the experimental group, as might be expected, if the vaccinated children were from a higher socioeconomic group than were children in the control groups.
Nevertheless, the field trials were deemed a success, and Michigan began distributing the pertussis vaccines in 1940.
It’s called racketeering.
And, speaking of contagion and vaccines. Al Jazeera ramps up the story of a polio outbreak in Gaza and the immunization program being allowed by the IDF. Its forces have fired on aid and food convoys regularly, but agreed to short local cease fires to enable the distribution. The “immunized" then become once again subjected to the withering fire of IDF units on land, the sea and in the air. By the way, i’ve posted extensively evidence of how polio if actually the result of toxic chemicals, particularly the mass use of pesticides but also due to situations of mass exposure to toxins, as when waste disposal systems stop functioning in a dense urban environment.
‘Tragic childhood’: Gaza children vaccinated against polio, war continues. Some families question the push for vaccines amid eroded trust in the international community’s help. Maram Humaid, 9/3/24.
Deir el-Balah, Gaza – Maha Abu Shamas, 27, has been getting her four children, all under the age of 10, ready to get their polio vaccines since the early hours of the morning. Maha, a mother of five, has been living in a classroom in Deir el-Balah’s central Gaza Strip since the family was displaced from Beit Hanoon in the north last November. “When I heard about the threat of polio spreading, I was terrified for my children. When I learned of a confirmed case of paralysis, I felt like my world had collapsed,” said Maha, holding her nine-month-old boy inside the busy paediatric ward of Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, the last functioning medical facility in Deir el-Balah.
Gaza’s Ministry of Health last month confirmed the first case of polio – a 10-month-old boy, now paralysed in the leg – in the enclave after 25 years, following the detection of poliovirus in wastewater. [Using the PCR test for a virus which has never been physically isolated and purified]The United Nations, along with Gaza health authorities, has begun a vaccination campaign to protect children against polio, which can cause irreversible paralysis of the limbs or even death. About 640,000 children under 10 years old will receive oral drops of the vaccine to protect against the virus which primarily affects children under the age of five, is highly contagious and has no cure.
The threat of polio has only compounded Maha’s worries. Displaced parents like her already contend with harsh, unsanitary conditions at shelters like the school where Maha and her children live, and in Gaza’s tent camps, as they try to survive Israel’s war on Gaza which has killed more than 40,700 Palestinians. “The lack of hygiene is the main feature due to overcrowding, a collapsed infrastructure and a catastrophic health situation,” she explains. “The school I live in is full of pools of sewage and wastewater,” Maha adds. “I can’t maintain my children’s cleanliness or health in these conditions.”
In addition to taking her children to Al-Aqsa Hospital to be vaccinated, Maha had to bring her youngest child to the paediatric ward after three days of having a high fever and vomiting. “This is how most of my days pass in the war – rushing my sick children to the hospital for treatment due to the spread of diseases, if it’s available,” she says. “If this is how we struggle with minor illnesses like stomach flu, how can we fight serious diseases like polio?”
Maha’s life took a devastating turn last month when her husband was killed in an Israeli air strike near their shelter. “Now, I’m the sole caregiver for five children. It’s overwhelming, but like thousands of mothers in Gaza, I have no choice but to push forward.” While she welcomes the polio vaccination drive, she points out that this addresses just one threat posed by the dire living conditions. “Malnutrition, hepatitis, skin diseases, exhaustion – our children face a range of threats. The real solution lies in improving living conditions and ending the war,” she says. “We’ve endured enough.”
Loss of faith in the international community
For 31-year-old Hanin Abdullah, the decision to vaccinate her children against polio was fraught with hesitation.Hanin, a mother of three young children, was displaced with her family from Jabalia in northern Gaza, and they now share a cramped space with 25 members of her family. “In the same classroom, about 40 others are packed in,” she says, speaking at Al-Aqsa Hospital, describing her situation as tragic. The college where she lives is crowded, sewage pools throughout and there are long queues for the toilets. The outside walls are black from the wood fires used for cooking.
She says she no longer trusts any action undertaken by international organisations when it comes to the health of children in Gaza. “Our children are being killed daily by bombs and missiles, even in supposedly safe areas. Some are decapitated,” she says bitterly. “This madness is still ongoing and yet, they’re talking about fears of polio only?”
Like many displaced families in her shelter, Hanin initially resisted vaccinating her children. “People here have lost faith in anything global or Western,” she explains. “Some displaced people around believe conspiracy theories that the vaccines contain substances planted by Israel and the US to weaken our children.”
Despite her doubts, she ultimately felt she couldn’t risk her children’s health, especially after hearing about a confirmed polio case in Gaza, so she brought them to the hospital. “I understand the despair families feel living under war conditions. We are like the living dead, trapped in unbearable conditions,” she says, holding her baby boy.
“I gave birth to my child last November and since then he has been living a tragic childhood in the shelter,” she says, frustrated. “He has no proper nutrition, no clothes, no toys. He suffers from skin rashes and constant fatigue.”
For Hanin, the fight against polio is just one small part of a larger struggle. “Protecting our children from polio is important, but the real fight is against the living conditions imposed by war. These conditions are destroying their mental and psychological health and even their future,” she argues. “What is the point of vaccinating children and protecting them from disease, while the war that kills them every day continues? This is nonsense.”
4IR. Bridging from the last segment, more news of the war on Palestine, via Electronic Intifada’s weekly news show.
The Electronic Intifada Podcast, 9/4/24. Three hours and 8 minutes.
00:00 Introduction
01:35 Nora Barrows-Friedman delivers news report
18:22 Abubaker Abed reports live from Gaza
40:46 Hatem Abudayyeh of US Palestinian Community Network on where the protest movement goes next, and the struggle of Palestinians detained in Israel’s prisons and torture camps
01:28:37 Jon Elmer covers the latest resistance operations in the Philadelphi and Netzarim corridors in Gaza as well as the Israeli invasions in the northern West Bank
02:12:00 Group discussion, part 1
02:16:42 Asa Winstanley reports on Britain suspending some arms to Israel but keeps supplying most, and repression against UK-based activists
02:29:45 Group discussion, part 2
My comments. Barrows-Friedman does some polio-virus narrative pushing in the news section, plus the continuing horrors. The discussion with Abed gets into the matter again, which brings in Ali Abunimah, who states that the Israel government is allowing the “immunization” because "it fears the virus spreading to Israel.” As if the disease is due to a never found virus via the never-proven dynamic of contagion, rather than toxic chemicals.
Abbudayyeh discusses the Demo convention and the shutting out of the Palestine matter, while pushing the entire idea that a left coalition of identity-politics-based groups can actually challenge the powers-that-be. One alarming piece of news: NYU has now made it campus policy that any expression of opposition to Zionism now amounts to a hate crime, since such opposition constitutes “anti- Semitism.”
Ending this segment and this edition, a blog entry by a Facebook friend about the general situation we face.
Our Actual Reality - the Disappearance of Modernity. Erik Michaels, 9/4/24.
Formed in part by the question of my last article (What is our actual reality?), today's article brings up a topic I covered a while back that keeps coming back to my mind. I asked a question in Is Hunting and Gathering Really Better Than Agriculture? that many people may find ludicrous at first glance. Yet I find more and more evidence routinely that hunting and gathering was not just a much more sustainable way of living, but also a superior way of living in many respects. In fact, many communities actually tried agriculture and civilization and returned to hunting and gathering or even practiced a combination of both, something that local Indigenous tribes (Miami Indians here in northeast Indiana) engaged in. Corn and other crops such as fruit trees were grown at the confluence of the St. Mary's, St. Joseph, and Maumee Rivers (an area known as Kekionga) but the tribe moved around a lot (possibly due to disease and pressure from European Americans) and had various locations where they typically stayed (including Miami Village northeast of present-day Columbia City and Forks of the Wabash west of present-day Huntington).
Rather than give an historical account of hunting and gathering or prepare an account of Indigenous principles for living, I shall instead provide the link for an article which explains nomadic communities in more detail. The article asks why hunter-gatherers refuse to be sedentary (or in other words, accept civilization and technology use as a way of life in today's world). This is something which has been particularly difficult for most people today to understand, primarily due to the psychological denial of wetiko, a function of the very cultural programming and indoctrination it enforces upon societies. Because wetiko masks itself so well, most people don't even know that they suffer from it, and because they live in a world where they accept and believe (have faith in) in technology use, they will naturally find it difficult to accept that there are people who reject modernity (civilization) based upon their knowledge that it is metastatic and self-terminating.
Once one comprehends all of this, how we arrived at this point in time becomes far more understandable. The fact there are communities of people who see all too clearly that the way most of us live is destined for the dustbin is spectacularly wondrous. It still boggles my mind that most people today have never questioned any of the systems we live embedded within and seen that they are all unsustainable. Needless to say, I have found myself on this train barreling down the tracks and I want off the ride, but unfortunately there is no escape. Sure, I could go live with an Indigenous tribe if I so chose, but what would doing so accomplish? One less person indulging in civilization can hardly be seen as progress as more than 46 million people have been added to civilization so far just this year! So, while there are responses which are rational that can be undertaken, few people will actually do so, and the train continues roaring towards the Seneca Cliff. The scenario actually reminds me of The Eagles' Hotel California. The last sentence of the lyrics: "You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave."
Dan Vie commented on a recent podcast post, providing this analysis, quote:
"Our complicity with ecocide makes us schizophrenic, which is a sane response to an insane society. Health can be restored by shifting to resist and take action against structural oppressions, which takes shifts not in individual behaviors, but in large-scale organized actions acting to change complex systems. A supplicant politics suggests that if environmental activists only beg hard enough, their governments will be moved to see the error of their ways, and implement radical actions for course correction that will steer us away from the path of extinction. Doomers say the systemic dysfunctions are incurable, that the military industrial complex is too invested at every level to give more than lip service to radical changes in agriculture, energy use, war making, and what have you, and that the ecological consequences are baked in and beyond anyone's efforts at reform or bargaining tactics.
The psychological matrix of acknowledging one's ethical responsibility for the predicament of civilization and our role in perpetuating it is indeed crazy making. The obstacles are great, and if the best we can do is be happy hospicers, witnessing the inevitable loss of every part of our nature, as our species endures a bloody and apocalyptic end game; it wouldn't surprise me if there are some screws loose and blown gaskets here and there. It's a mass spiritual crisis far beyond any spiritual fix or psychedelic medication, as it demands a deep acceptance of our role in this destructive narrative. Coming to terms with this acceptance is the default outcome whether or not anyone takes steps to engage in therapy, although therapy may help motivate priorities about what one chooses to do with this wild and precious life."
It is vitally important not to assign blame, as this simply projects one's emotions out into the wider society and negates any personal responsibility of his or her own. Recently, a post of this video caught my eye, and I made this comment underneath the post:
"The video is a bit too reductionistic for my liking. There's really far more than emissions and climate change to think about, since BOTH of those are nothing more than symptom predicaments of overshoot. Yet ecological overshoot isn't even mentioned. Then, the video blames special interest groups and lobbyists for blocking "political action" when in reality, civilization itself has always been unsustainable to begin with (political action is but a part of civilization). Really, there is a ton of denial of reality in this video. I could only watch half of it before clicking out of it."
Inevitably, as Dan Vie pointed out, beneficial personal behaviors to reduce overshoot will not have any real effect upon any the larger systems surrounding us unless and until said behaviors gain mass appeal. This means that one can still practice his or her own ethics regardless of whether other people choose to follow those practices, keeping in mind that few people will accept such a challenge.
Quite some time ago, I looked into different movements such as degrowth, Transition Towns, The Venus Project (and similar variants), permaculture, and other "back to the land" movements. I wanted to understand why they failed and whether any of them could be successful. Ultimately, I discovered many of the same processes within each movement that doomed each one to failure, including in many cases faulty assumptions to start with. This entry about The Venus Project covered why that particular entry was doomed from the start, based on failure of logic regarding technology use. Sadly, other movements suffer from much of the same reductionist thinking, and this culminated in my article critiquing the degrowth movement. A little bit later came my article about self-sufficient communities. Of course, each of these movements is different from the others in some key fashion or criteria, but most all of them suffer from common myths about who and what we are as a species, which I tackled in my article about hunter/gatherers. It seems that most people forget specific characteristics about us and instead develop a romantic notion about who we are, thereby denying certain realities that cannot be done away with. The violence of our species (typically a male trait) is one of those traits that has stayed with us since the beginning. Still, there are other specifics as to why these types of movements never gained a foothold in mainstream society, and Alice Friedemann explains in this article.
I have seen many different ideas such as the ones brought up in Alice's article. But as her article points out, these ideas take time (a decade or two at least) to gain support and popularity. I see this type of support and popularity in other countries, but not here in the USA. Considering what kind of timeline I discussed in my last article that we have before major collapse, it looks like here in the US we will be forced into things haphazardly. Right now it appears that a broad portion of society here is still based in exuberance that William Catton discussed in Overshoot. That exuberance is about to get snuffed out.
There are some signs to be optimistic about as is highlighted in this video with ecologist Dr. Mike Joy, although I'm not sure any serious excitement is warranted. I agree with Mike that there are many younger folks who really do get where we are. Still, change doesn't happen overnight and even the best laid plans can only cover so much ground. Given the time constraints we face, I'd say that most any idea or plan or even an entire collection of them is about 4 decades too late.
The one thing my acceptance of these predicaments (and the most likely responses society will make regarding them) gives me is a realistic, well-grounded expectation; one which takes into consideration that conditions are most probably not going to be to our liking. While I miss the ignorance I once held for the optimism bias that it could produce, I can't imagine suddenly being thrown into the reality I am now aware of through an extreme weather event or collapse or some sort of awful disease (or name some other consequence of any symptom predicament of overshoot here). Perhaps this is just a rationalization of what I've learned? If nothing else, at least the shock value has been reduced. While I don't see hunting and gathering being the coming living paradigm anytime soon, certainly there are surprises awaiting that I cannot conceive of today. For instance, many of us have been on Facebook for a decade or almost two. But what will happen as Facebook fades away? This post from Ugo Bardi might help bring that idea into better focus (or see a similar-themed post here). I have actually been a part of several different websites and/or social media sites (remember MySpace?) that faded away. No differently than the song Ugo mentioned in his article (Gangnam Style by Psy), as a professional MC I have watched song after song after song fade into the sunset (although there are definitely popular ones that stand the test of time on the dance floor). So this phenomenon isn't really a strange or foreign concept; just one we don't often think about. Likewise, most people today can't really fathom the collapse of industrial civilization or the end of car culture or the disintegration of the electric grid. Yet all three will most likely disappear over the next couple of decades.
This is why I am constantly promoting people getting out and Living Now, while what we have today is still here. Most of what we have today is slowly going away and there isn't a solution or set of solutions, despite what you may have been told by industries which stand to make millions or billions off of people who don't know any better and/or governments complicit in increasing ecological overshoot (and possibly not knowing any better) through hyping the false ideas of "solutions" being marketed by large multinational corporations willing to cash in on the illusions they are selling. Speaking of getting out there and Living Now, here is my latest post on doing just that!