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Whose approach to covid-19
was correct – New Zealand or
Sweden?
Seemorerocks
I am putting this together on the day when a “three day” Level 3 lockdown has been announced in New Zealand and the spectre of mandatory vaccination faces us, or at least a version where the unvaccinated or untested cannot leave their own homes.
This piece from Andrew Wakefield, the whistleblower who revealed the very real connection between MMR and autism is one of the best expositions of what vaccination of the type we are looking at in the near future means.
As a retired practitioner of Chinese Medicine I have had an understanding of the issues since the mid-1990's but this has been deepened by subsequent research on the subject.
One thing I know is that my parents' generation was probably genetically the strongest generation in history (my father was born in 1912). They came at a time when huge advances were made in public health and hygiene and many of the issues of poverty that gave rise to disease were resolved; of course, now poverty is making a major come-back and is set to get worse.
"We cannot credit the mess immunisations in the US for the decline of some childhood diseases but they declined simultaneously in Europe where the mass immunisations did not take place"
The reality is that increased host resistance was due to better nutrition and sanitation and housing is the cause of the decline of infectious diseases
For example:
"The combined death rate from scarlet fever, diphtheria whooping cough and measles among children of up to 15 shows that nearly 90% of the total decline in mortality between 1860 and 1965 had occurred before the introduction of antibiotics and widespread immunisation."
There are two competing paradigms that I can see.
One, recognises that for the entire population to be largely healthy and resistant to deadly strains of virus some people will have to succumb to the illness (something that has happened throughout history and will continue to do so because we can't beat Mother Nature with our medications and viruses.
The other seems to regard every death as a tragedy but it is perfectly alright to destroy the immunity and the health of the general population to save the life of just one person who was probably going to die soon anyhow.
Not only that, but we have to shut down the economy, lock down the entire population, destroy human rights to reach this lofty goal.
In my mind that is complete insanity and speaks to an inability to confront reality.
Wouldn't it be wonderful to ban illness and death from illness forever? But Nature doesn't work that way!
Andrew Wakefield can say it better than I can:
The question of Sweden vs New Zealand
This video came my way yesterday. Although there are things I would take exception to (especially the climate change denial, and as an American there are things about New Zealand he misses), he is correct in many of the things he points out.
It comes down to New Zealand deciding to close everything down and to completely destroy the tourist industry that we are, as a nation, so dependent on to try and halt a condition that has so far killed about 5 people (how many people are permanently damaged I have no idea because they don't tell us).
Reaching For The Precious
This was leaked to someone else; Kia ora, I can't say who sorry as he will
get into trouble and already got into trouble for disagreeing to go to the
South Island (but flew out today) he rang me last Thursday to say the NZDF
(himself) and the Govt, met to put into place a full lockdown by Oct. He said
the NZDF will be taking over (as in martial law) on October 1st all of the
hospitals, quarantine bases and airports.
They will.assign their troops to regions to enforce mandatory testing with
household testers. He was told he had to train using the same plan of attack
he used in Timor.
He refused to hurt NZ'ers etc etc.but was told they had to use brute force
and any force necessary. The training for the next two weeks is dealing with
protests riots and a significant job loss in NZ. I'm letting you know only to
prepare (as you already are) and to warn your whanau to stock up ASAP
Feel free to let any and everyone know. Please don't say I said and re word
for yourself. I am letting as many know as possible. The lieutanant that
informed me actually cried when we were zooming as he didn't want to do
what was being asked of him. He trains troops to take over seas. I told him
that if everyone said no to Hitler there would be millions of lives saved. He
has a choice to say no.
But please let everyone know. Who knows if it will come to fruition but after
tonight announcement it's happening already just as it did in the ghettos \
during WW2.
Sweden
New Zealand's response has to be contrasted with that of Sweden.
This was what the world was saying back on 26 May about Sweden. It was, in corporate media, the very example of WHAT NOT TO DO.
To know what happens next and whether Swedes really have developed a natural herd immunity to covid-19 as described by Andrew Wakefield we will have to watch this space.
My suspicion is that, having let the virus rip through the country and kill over 5,000 people Swedes might be in a better situation than countries like New Zealand that have opted for the option of locking things down at the first sign of trouble.
P.S. For balance I checked the stats for neighbouring Denmark that did lock down and their deaths are at a similar level.
However, like other countries the Danes seem to be disinterested in the levels of mortality and concentrate on the number of cases.
P.S. This interview with Dr. Andrew Wakefield just came through
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