A Potpourri of Covid news from Downunder
Featuring the experimental gene-therapy drug and a happy cop
“Healthy and fit father-of-three, 37, dies from the flu just five days after falling ill with a slight cough”, ran the headline of a news article in July reporting the ‘sudden and unexpected’ death of Mate Babic in Canberra, Australia, soon after catching the flu. He died in a great hurry at the end without even time to make it to hospital.
That’s one mighty flu, indeed a turbo-flu that brushes aside with disdain the body’s immune defence system which is usually pretty robust in healthy 37-year-olds like Mr Babic who had given up alcohol for fruit and vegetables and had taken up gym. Even the ‘Experts’ agree on flu’s marked demographic disparities - the state propagandist, the ABC, quotes University of Sydney infectious diseases paediatrician, Professor Robert Booy, thusly: “we know from a century of experience that influenza picks out the very vulnerable, the old, young, disabled".
Nothing adds up to indicate a killer flu strike on Mr Babic. His extremely sudden passing (sitting on the end of his bed whilst waiting to run a warm bath) might, however, just hint at a massive heart attack, which does kill healthy people, or at least those people who were perfectly healthy before getting Covid-jabbed.
Nevertheless, the mainstream media have tried to pin the blame on flu before going on to sermonise about Mr. Babic’s failure to get the seasonal flu vaccine – flu, says the ABC, is rampant because of “people getting vaccinated too late” for flu, or like the Babics, not at all. Mate’s wife, Carla, had also been reluctant to get her flu shot following a bad reaction to an earlier shot of the Pfizer Covid injectable.
Australian ‘medical experts’ (trigger warning!) have blamed “poor flu vaccination rates in the post-Covid period” for Australia’s most prolific, and deadliest, flu season on record with repeat flu infections a feature (‘yo-yo’ flu had been the experience of twice-infected Mr and Mrs Babic since December last year). As well as flu making merry, there have been repeated and lingering respiratory infections of the common cold type at rates well above normal, the SMH reports.
So why all the tardiness about getting the flu vaccine? One of the ABC’s house experts, the President of the Australian Medical Association, Michael Bonning, says the delay is due to “general vaccine fatigue”. “This makes us worried”, adds The Guardian. Of course, that ‘New Normal Progressive’ rag par excellence would say that, as would any vaccine evangelist.
What is upsetting the media worthies is that many Australians are now done with not just the horrid and useless Covid jabs but that some of them have gone on to become vaccine atheists over the flu jab, too. Having a bad experience with the Covid jab, or just being sicklier than usual all the time post-Covid-jab, might just make its equally useless if less dangerous cousin, the flu jab, get caught in the Covid-jab blowback.
The taboo answer to the exacerbated flu problem, of course, is that the Covid jabs have compromised people’s immune systems, inviting not only repeat infections of Covid but also more susceptibility to flu and a suite of other infections. Just as the double whammy of flu-pneumonia is the classic example of a virus (flu) temporarily impairing the immune system, especially in the elderly, whilst it is preoccupied with fighting off the virus and thus allowing the real killer (bacterial pneumonia) to do its mortal worst, so, too, an immune system trained to fight the last (Covid) war against a redundant (spike) part of a superseded mutation, will be that much more vulnerable to a host of other infections.
If you stress out your immune system with Covid boosters, then its defenses against viral, bacterial or fungal infections, including those like varicella which lie dormant in our bodies until activated by immune suppression to cause shingles, or the bacterial infection that spreads to the blood causing potentially fatal sepsis, both of which are on the rise. The immune system’s resources are not infinite and if they have deployed so many resources with a battle plan to defend the Maginot Line then an easier line of attack opens up for new enemy pathogens. ‘Vaccine acquired immunodeficiency syndrome’, or ‘VAIDS’, as we Covid deplorables call it.
In the current Covid-jab era, people’s immune systems are shot but the media refuses to see the culprit The SMH blames the “depressed immunity” on lockdowns, quoting one of Their Experts, the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners vice-president, Bruce Willet, who said that “limited natural immunity after two years of staying indoors” increases their “susceptibility to infections and secondary infections”. Lockdowns will certainly do that, especially for children, whose immune systems need early exposure for proper training, but the Covid jab will do the job of immune suppression spectacularly well for everyone, especially adults, particularly as a result of repeated ‘stress tests’ from the Covid booster treadmill.
So, in New Normal World, the best explanation you are going to get is that it is lockdown that has done the immune damage whilst the more Covid-crazy The Conversation, of course, knows exactly what to blame the record flu season – not the immune-wrecking Covid jabs but “changes to your immune system that may put you at risk of other infectious diseases”, changes caused by, yes, I see everyone has got their hands up – Covid, of course. Well done, class of New Normal ‘20-23.
More ‘unexpected health challenges’ and mysterious deaths downunder
It’s not just Mr. Babic who has had a sudden, unexpected and mysterious death (conveniently blamed on the flu). There was a female Australian Rules football player who has ‘followed The Science’ straight into the great blue yonder ('A true star who shone bright': Tributes after tragic death of rising Aussie rules football star). Sixteen-year-old Samara Whitney (the ‘pocket rocket’), who played for Wynyard Football Club in Tasmania, and who was on the path to play for state representative honours in the semi-pro national competition, died recently. Her high school principal said “more than football, Samara was a vivacious, charismatic, engaging, friendly, and compassionate student to every person”. Well, she was.
No cause of death has been, or ever will be, released. Why would it; who cares anyway? Healthy young footballers dropping dead all of a sudden happens all the time. But, of course, for those with their heads not stuck in the sand, we know full well what the absence of news of the cause of death means and the money is on a very sudden expiry from either heart attack, or stroke, or a complication from blood clots such as an embolism, the sort of thing that never kills young healthy people – unless they’ve been Covid-jabbed. Australia had one of the toughest sports vaccine mandate regimes in the world, and virtually all codes demanded their players get Covid-vaccinated or hang up their footy boots. You connect the dots.
Meanwhile, the ubiquitous Pat Dodson, the 75-year-old Aboriginal activist and diversity pick Labor Party senator, has been recovering from cancer treatment (chemo). The Labor Party has been all-in on the experimental Covid gene-therapy shots and, in March this year, Dodson had gone to the Aboriginal Medical Service in Canberra for a Covid vaccination when his doctor there realised he was really crook and sent him to hospital where he was diagnosed with a serious infection in his oesophagus - plus Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Now, there’s an interesting trifecta of a bad infection that his impaired immune system could not handle, plus cancer (also a failure of the immune system to deal with mutant, replicating cells) with the cancer located in his blood system. All three problem areas (immune system, cancer, blood) are well known targets for Covid vaccine disruption. Getting one of these problems is to be expected from all the Covid jabs but all three in one go? How unlucky can you be? How many Labor-approved ‘boosters’ does it take before your luck runs out? Will these questions ever occur to the Covid-jab-loving Senator?
It’s not all bad news – there is at least one Covid winner
There is, however, at least one person in Australia who is a Covid winner. The South Australian state Police Commissioner, Grant Stevens, who enforced lockdowns, ‘social distancing’, vaccine passports and mask mandates on the hapless citizens of the state (my state) has just been given an extra $101,000 per annum to take him up to $650,000 a year. It comes with a five-year job tenure extension.
All this as an allegedly independent review of the state Labor government’s Covid response is yet to report, rather pre-empting any possible finding that the government-ordered policing strategy might possibly have been a mite heavy-handed. This is the state where you were committing an offence if you left your house more than the permitted once a day, or, at one stage, travelled more than 1.5 kms from home, where, if you failed to do the QR code sign-in ritual, or failed to wear a mask on public transport or in a health and aged care setting, or failed to self-isolate for two weeks if you ever ‘tested positive’ for Covid or came into contact with someone else who did, then you were a criminal.
The fine for these infringements was $1,000 or, for ‘serious’ breaches of Covid restrictions, $20,000 or two years in jail. Businesses faced a ruinous $75,000 hit per breach if they failed to enforce vaccination mandates or mask rules. All these penalties still remain on the legislative books, courtesy of the state Labor government. Dan Andrews had the most brutal Covid police state in Victoria but the South Australia government just across the border had, and still has, the harshest Covid financial punishments in the country. And the cop in charge of it all gets a big fat reward for his services.
I wonder if Mr. Stevens has any regrets about it all now, as the toll of wrecked businesses, ruined lives, lost human experiences and sudden and unexpected deaths, including amongst his vaccine-mandated employees, mounts? I don’t suppose, however, that he will be sleeping unsoundly any time soon. Dreaming of his bank account balance will block any such thoughts out.
ATAGI in strategic retreat
Leaving appalling but slow motion damage in its vaccine wake, the slow retreat of Covid hysteria nevertheless continues in Australia as the mRNA romance has just about iced over. Absent vaccine mandates, take-up of later boosters has been dismal with only the older Branch Covidians still panting for them as they dutifully follow the advice of the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI), the ‘Experts’ whose pro-vaccine advice guides government vaccination policy in Australia – “all adults aged ≥ 75 years should receive an additional 2023 Covid vaccine”, they declare.
ATAGI is not pushing the booster on other age groups, however - adults aged 65 to 74 years should only “consider” getting ‘boosted’ whilst adults aged 18 to 64 years should forget about it entirely, says ATAGI. At least ATAGI is finally catching up with the public mood - apart from the True Vaccine Believers, as of 15 September, just 50.1% of people aged 75 or older have received a ‘booster’ in the past six months and only 37.6% of those aged 65-74, whilst a piddling 8.7% of those aged 18-64 years, have done so.
The Vaccinators will be back, of course, come next winter, after a vaccine brand refresh, gunning for everybody, otherwise they will have to admit to having got it all terribly wrong from the beginning. The response from an increasing chunk of the customer base, however, looks like it could be of the ‘once-bitten/boosted twice shy’ variety. If so, it couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of corporate criminals and their well-paid political, media, academic, ‘Expert’ and law enforcement accomplices.
Great article but only not the headline: let's stop parroting "gene therapy" just because it sounds good. The word therapy always has a positive connotation in popular use. Let's instead call things for what they are: Gene Modification. There's nothing therapeutic about it, quite the opposite.
Good to hear about Grant Stevens. I have dirt on that pig, and one day he needs to hang his head, since he has no shame, in another way, otherwise others will surely hang his head for him.
Another run on the board for us conspiracy theorists: the 'VAIDS' hypothesis is gathering support from - of all places - Murdoch Children's Institute with this doozy, 'BNT162b2 COVID-19 vaccination in children alters cytokine responses to heterologous pathogens and Toll-like receptor agonists' (https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2023.1242380/full), and the evidence of an imunosuppressive IgG4 class switch continues to mount: https://jessicar.substack.com/p/igg4-antibodies-induced-by-repeated. But the answer to all this mayhem is.... get your COVID booster and your flu shot!