Measles is Resurgent Thanks to Lockdowns
Next year, the thing to keep an eye on in global health is measles, thanks to the interruption of routine immunisation programmes as a result of the lockdown policies. The Telegraph has more.
There have been recent outbreaks in countries as diverse as Ethiopia, India, Tajikistan and Poland. Last year, 22 countries experienced large outbreaks, with an estimated nine million cases and 128,000 deaths worldwide. Countless children will have suffered terrible neurological damage as a result, which will permanently blight their lives. Measles is, of course, entirely preventable. But vaccination coverage has steadily declined across the world since the beginning of the Covid pandemic because of disruptions to healthcare, leaving us in our present situation.
It is not the only childhood vaccine that millions have missed, but because of the speed at which measles spreads it will be the first we notice next year. In the areas hit, healthcare will have been found wanting and other preventable disease outbreaks will likely follow. “The paradox of the pandemic is that while vaccines against Covid were developed in record time and deployed in the largest vaccination campaign in history, routine immunisation programmes were badly disrupted, and millions of children missed out on life-saving vaccinations,” WHO director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has said.
It would be a big mistake to think that these are just problems facing developing countries. The UK lost its measles-free status in 2018 after vaccine rates slipped and cases surged. And the latest data suggest vaccine coverage for the second dose slipped further during the pandemic, to just 85.5% at five years, with 43 cases recorded in the year to September 2022. Only Tajikistan and Turkey recorded more in the WHO European Region.
In November, the organisation warned that there is now an imminent threat of measles spreading to different regions around the world as Covid has led to a steady decline in vaccination coverage and weakened surveillance of the disease. ‘Plummeting measles vaccination rates should set off every alarm,’ Elizabeth Cousens, president and CEO of the United Nations Foundation, has said. ‘There is no time to waste. We must work urgently to ensure life-saving vaccines reach every last child.’
Ephrem Tekle Lemango, Unicef chief of immunisation, added: “For three years, we have been sounding the alarm about the declining rates of vaccination and the increasing risk to children’s health globally… The time for decisive action is now.’ Countries that fully vaccinate 95% or more of their population create herd immunity against measles and quickly become measles-free. But the world is well under that threshold at the moment, as is the UK. It’s a marker of how much damage Covid has done to our health services – and how much we have to do in 2023 to make up for lost ground.
Stop Press: According to the Lancet, summarising a CDC report, one factor in the spread of measles is growing vaccine hesitancy. This global phenomenon predates the pandemic, but a lack of transparency about the safety and efficacy of the Covid vaccines, as well as the suppression of voices expressing concerns (see the most recent Twitter Files), may have increased vaccine hesitancy. The BMJ published an article earlier this year exploring whether a lack of trust about the Covid vaccines could be contributing to declining MMR uptake in England.
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I daresay the purpose of this article is to push the uptake of a new mRNA measles vaccine.
Well, well, well, what do we have here?
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/measles-vaccine-used-base-experimental-covid-vaccine
Surprise!
Yes, as noted on The Daily Telegraph’s Global Health Security website…
And they laughed…
I expect the fear is despite (because) fewer children have been vaccinated and the predicted severe and fatal cases do not materialise, people will then start questioning just how necessary vaccine programmes are.
The horror.
Predictable, sadly: both the assertion of a problem and the remedy for it.
Being prejudiced, I blame it all on mass uncontrolled immigration.
Apologies, nothing measles related for you atm. Interestingly no talk of that here in the Netherlands but the news is telling us instead that all pediatric ICU beds are full of kids with RSV and flu and patients cannot be transferred to neighbouring Belgium or Germany as they too have no free beds. Instead, an unrelated offering I thought interesting which includes Arkmedic’s synopsis of what went down with this whole scamdemic/Covid-19 palaver. It sounds totally on point to me. Also, it wasn’t until I read of Jikky’s revelation recently about doctors suppressing the use of antibiotics to treat post-Covid pneumonia, resulting in countless preventable deaths, that I learned this too was another example of the whole orchestrated, ”lockstep” agenda as this apparently happened worldwide too. An excerpt: “There was never a pandemic of any lethal virus. The sequences made by Baric, Daszak, Shi and their buddies in virology labs around the world are viral sequences of RNA, but they are synthetic. They can be effectively distributed via clones4 (lab based production of RNA sequences) rather than letting an unstable real-life RNA coronavirus loose on the world, which would likely regress and flop as a bioweapon. What they proposed (a scary… Read more »
That’s assuming that vaccines against measles actually work.
Tread carefully or people may think you’re a proper antivaxxer..
http://vaccinepapers.org/
Thanks for the link Sforzesca, which includes reference to aluminium adjuvants. On the subject of aluminium adjuvants, there’s a big problem in that an influential systematic review prepared by members of the then Cochrane Vaccines Field, including Tom Jefferson, concludes: “We found no evidence that aluminium salts in vaccines cause any serious or long-lasting adverse events. Despite a lack of good-quality evidence we do not recommend that any further research on this topic is undertaken.” The review was published in 2004, behind the paywall of The Lancet Infectious Diseases. In their review, Jefferson et al admit: “Overall, the methodological quality of included studies was low.” And yet “despite a lack of good-quality evidence” Jefferson et al advise “we do not recommend that any further research on this topic is undertaken”. What a bizarre conclusion! They admit there was “a lack of good-quality evidence”, and yet recommended against any further research on the topic – why would they do that?! In my opinion, Jefferson et al’s review has facilitated poorly evidenced acceptance of the safety of aluminium-adjuvanted vaccine products. As a consequence, an increasing number of aluminium-adjuvanted vaccine products are being added to vaccination schedules around the world e.g. multiple doses… Read more »
I found this very interesting. Originally shared on here – who by, I can’t recall – but I saved it.
“The Simpsonwood Transcript is why no parent can accept any statement of “settled science” regarding vaccine safety at face value.”
https://truthsnitch.com/tag/simpsonwood-transcript/
Full meeting transcript:
https://fearlessparent.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Simpsonwood_Transcript_Scan_by_RJK_OCR.pdf?fbclid=IwAR1xvDuoT3_jAFxR3LrNc3VvBFDS2id01_qMeuyhSD_EGWFEkjV0Ugd8xQY
ellie-em, thanks for the reminder about this information, will be interesting to revisit again.
The focus was on mercury / thimerosal.
We really need serious consideration of the potential impact of aluminium adjuvants too, but this has been suppressed.
The MMR / Andrew Wakefield controversy has been a focus for years, but has this shielded aluminium-adjuvanted jabs from scrutiny?
Whilst I’m on the topic of being off-topic…
I imagine one of the reasons some people are so reluctant to believe in a depopulation agenda with regards to the Covid bioweapons is that they don’t realise, or they’ve forgotten, that an objective to control population via anti-fertility drugs/vaccines has been researched for decades and embarked upon by the WHO more than once in Kenya, to name just one country. As recently as 2014, during the guise of a neonatal tetanus vaccination campaign, vials of the vaccine were independently tested and found to have b-HCG, which would sterilize a woman if given in multiple shots, as was the aim. This half hour documentary, directed by Dr Andrew Wakefield, looks at what happened in Kenya and the irrefutable evidence that covert sterilization was happening, aimed at teenage girls and women of child-bearing age. And if they can do it with tetanus vaccines what else can they hide this stuff in?
https://rumble.com/v18g3xg-chd-films-presents-infertility-a-diabolical-agenda.html
And just to reinforce that a depopulation agenda is hardly a far-fetched concept, a quick check into the history books shows us that this is old hat now. Just one excerpt, but the whole article is highly recommended reading for more on this topic; “Sterilization through vaccination has long been viewed as the holy grail of population control, as global faith in vaccination allows the covert mass administration of sterilizing substances, and unlike many other methods, in theory it only needs to be done once. As such, a lot of research has been done in this area, but at least until recently, the technology for it was lacking. To fully understand the context of that approach, we will first review what has been done with the forced administration of traditional contraceptive and sterilizing technologies. While the Nazis, who forcefully sterilized or executed millions they deemed unfit to breed, are history’s most notorious offenders, many sterilization campaigns have been forcibly conducted by governments around the world against poor women of color. One of the best-known examples occurred in the United States from the 1960s to the 1970s. There, the Indian Health Services, through force and deceit, sterilized between 25% to 40% of the female native American population… Read more »
This is the second and final article on the subject and the author takes us on a very deep dive of just how and which vaccines ( inc the clot shots ) are responsible for reducing fertility. Very interesting and shocking actually. Depopulation via increased death/disability plus increased infertility is not looking so unbelievable when viewed in this broad context.
https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/the-complete-history-of-depopulation
”It’s a marker of how much damage Covid has done to our health services”. No. The damage was done by the government (in lockstep with other governments, orchestrated by some supranational entity like the WHO or UN or WEF or G7, whatever) in response to covid.
Regarding infectious disease eradication;
“All our social history to do with infectious disease has been crediting the wrong people for things they never achieved. We need to be thankful to the engineers and the architects they collaborated with in building sanitary and water purification infrastructure.
Refrigerators, railways and motorways for faster food transportation in combination with perishable food refrigeration are also to be thanked, as well as all the engineers who worked on those projects too.
The most important thing to invest on is always clean water and secondly a waste and sewage disposal system which does not pollute the drinking water, not any pharmaceutical injection.”
Click on the link to crossness.org. Very interesting timescale.
https://nulluslocussinegenio.com/2022/02/18/the-real-history-of-infectious-disease-eradication/
Well now you’ve seen the manufactured Covid crisis in action Toby, surely it’s leading you to question how other ‘vaccine’ products have been foisted upon the population in the past?
Yes, I know the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) jab is a very big ticket item, but it’s way past time for this product to be examined, along with the entire vaccination schedule, which is mired in conflicts of interest.
Way past time to have a close look at the vaccination committees, e.g. the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) in the UK, and the Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) in Australia.
The pharmaceutical industry has been running the show for years…that’s why we’re in this mess with Covid.
Time for the big spotlight to be shone on taxpayer-funded vaccination policy and practice.
Consider the things that might go wrong after interfering with natural immunity by imposing an artificial vaccine intervention.
As I noted in my BMJ rapid response published in October 2018, “…artificial interference with vaccination could have repercussions over coming generations as the children of vaccinated mothers may become vulnerable to disease at a younger age, when they may be ill-equipped to deal with the disease, with possibly disastrous consequences.”
See: Measles vaccination – is anyone worried about shorter term maternally derived antibodies via vaccinated mothers? 29 October 2018.
Just think about the scary potential now after interfering with the Covid jabs… It’s known children are at little or no risk with Covid, but they’ve been pressed to be jabbed, as have pregnant women.
This is absolutely INSANE! And yet the medical ‘profession’ has gone along with it. They always going along with it, don’t they?
Why is the medical profession and scientific establishment apparently incapable of questioning vaccination policy and practice?
Conflicts of interest anyone?
In my opinion the measles vaccine shouldn’t have been implemented. Consider an article by Alexander D. Langmuir and Donald A. Henderson et al, published in 1962, i.e. The importance of measles as a health problem. The article commences with this statement: “During the past 40 years the ecological approach to disease has become a basic concept of epidemiology. Among all diseases measles has stood as the classic example of successful parasitism. This self-limiting infection of short duration, moderate severity, and low fatality has maintained a remarkably stable biological balance over the centuries. Those epidemiologists, and there are many, who tend to revere the biological balance have long argued that the ecological equilibrium of measles is solidly based, that it cannot readily be disrupted and that therefore we must learn to live with this parasite rather than hope to eradicate it. This speaker, not so long ago, was counted among this group and waxed eloquent on this subject in print.” (My emphasis.) So far so good and so natural…but then Langmuir and Henderson et al say: Happily, this era is ending. New and potent tools that promise effective control of measles are at hand. If properly developed and widely used, it should be possible to disrupt the biological… Read more »
I agree, and thank you for your posts – which prompted my recent take on the matter.
Got to give bigpharma credit where it’s due though.
Create the problem in the first place without anyone of consequence to them noticing, and then convince everyone that the only way to salvation lies through them and their mRNA therapies – which will only cause more problems but rinse and repeat.
Pure Genius – the perfect business model.
And now they’re pushing the Covid jabs every few months!
You couldn’t make it up…
“According to the Lancet, summarising a CDC report, one factor in the spread of measles is growing vaccine hesitancy“.
So many questions.
When the big state tries to destroy anyone who even questions the diktats, including threatened gaol in Austria for the “unvaxxed”, is this hesitancy not just a little understandable?
Anything which interferes with the delicate balance between man and his symbiotic relationship with microbes/virus can only have disastrous consequences.
Learn from history. Farmers flocked into towns which rapidly became cities which grew into communal cesspits. The resultant squalor lowered immune systems enabling “disease” to proliferate.
Then a miracle. Sewerage systems, clean water and better food.
And, disease largely disappeared.
But wait, the miracle was solely due to vaccination so the MSM/bigpharma say and thus people believe.
For over two years we’ve interfered with that relationship and our eminent scientists seem surprised at “unforeseen consequences”. So the remedy is simply more snake oil, no doubt mRNA based.
Kids have to have, we all have to have, regular exposure to “germs” by mixing with people.
This is a necessity for individual and herd immunity.
Sir Frank Macfarlane Burnet (Nobel prize immunology/vaccinology – a fellow Australian Dr G) said as much over 70 years ago.
Not mentioned much by Academia these days though – he began to doubt the wisdom of mass childhood vaccinations you see.
Well said. Also, do we actually have evidence of vaccines even saving anyone? Conversely, we can’t move for evidence that they have immeasurably killed and caused harms. How backwards is this? If pharma etc could be trusted to conduct non-fraudulent clinical studies using an actual inert placebo, rather than just another biologically active vaccine to skew results, I suspect we’d be shocked at just how ”efficacious” these things are proven to be in reality. But the whole industry is so entrenched in corruption that I think I’d sooner see a pig launch itself off nextdoor’s roof! I sincerely hope this whole scamdemic experience has resulted in a lot of scales falling from a lot of eyes.
Measles – another Big Pharma promoted terror.
Measles – number of cases and severity – were in decline in developed Countries before vaccination programmes: better hygiene, sanitation, nutrition AND the evolutionary characteristic of viruses to mutate to milder forms which produce symptoms so mild they go unnoticed or do not immobilise their hosts resulting increased transmission rates and success at reproduction. (Darwin)
Infection is the best vaccine and does not always result in disease.
We must by now have enough natural immunity to this and other ancient viruses that vaccination is redundant except as a money spinner for Big Pharma.
I was born and grew up before Measles vaccines and I, like most of my contemporaries got it, plus the other lurgy, when it did the rounds. I never heard of anyone dying or ending up in hospital, but I have heard of serious injury from Measles vaccines.
Time to re-evaluate the rôle of vaccines in the context of milder, emergent strains, better nutrition, hygiene and better sanitation.