New Covid Wave Scare Campaign a Massive Flop
Like the Marvel franchise, with its unlimited instalments and spin-offs, a new Covid scare campaign is underway in Australia.
Like the Marvel franchise, the entertainment content exists largely to create demand for merchandise.
Unlike most Marvel films, this latest virus fear-mongering drive is turning out to be a massive flop.
The hook: There’s a new ‘highly contagious’ Covid Omicron subvariant in town, catchily named NB.1.8.1.
Sticking with time-tested tradition, health authorities, experts and media are playing the ‘cases, cases, cases’ angle, as the latest variant “sweeps the nation” with what I calculate to be Australia’s 12th Covid wave since the pandemic scare series kicked off in 2020.
Exposition: “According to Griffith University, the NB.1.8.1 variant makes up more than 40% of total Covid cases tested in Victoria, around 25% in Western Australia and New South Wales, around 20% in Queensland and less than 10% in South Australia,” reports ABC.
“There are hundreds of different strains of Omicron, and the new subvariant NB.1.8.1 is driving up infections and hospitalisations, particularly in Asia and Western Australia,” reports the Daily Mail.
Narrator’s aside: Case counts and hospitalisations are well within the normal range in Western Australia (WA) and no one has been admitted to ICU with Covid for months, according to the latest WA Health reporting.
We’re not seeing anything out of the ordinary in national statistics either.
However, we mustn’t let this contextualising information get in the way of the narrative arc.
Climactic build up: Back to cases, cases, cases. It’s “pretty much everywhere,” according to ABC. “Doctors are expecting a further spike in cases,” so “experts are urging people to get their Covid booster jab”.
Endless vaccination is the only way out!
Climactic escalation: But experts are furious that Australians are not vaccinating enough. You naughty, naughty Australians. In the past six months, only 6.6% of adults have received a Covid vaccine, according to recent federal figures, despite the vaccines being ‘free’, i.e., already paid for with your taxes.
Crisis response: Our protagonist takes action to meet the threat head-on. After all, the Government has product to shift, so the vaccine advertorial must keep pumping.
Health Minister Mark Butler bravely does the media rounds, imploring anyone who can get a booster to “have a serious think” about following through.
Hero falters: Unfortunately for Butler, boosters aren’t recommended for many cohorts in Australia anymore, because the risk-benefit profile is not favourable for most people.
Current Australian guidelines suggest adults aged over 75 should get a booster every six months, while those aged between 65 and 74, along with severely immunocompromised adults over 18 years of age, should get one every year. Outside of this, boosters are not recommended but are available to all Australian adults and to children who are severely immunocompromised.
Plot twist: Experts admit that the reason everyone needs another booster is that vaccinating against a fast-mutating coronavirus doesn’t work super well.
“The virus gradually evolves so that some of its proteins are a little bit different so that it can avoid the antibodies that we’ve now got present at population level,” says one.
“In this case, we’ve got mutations in the spike protein that seem to be making it easier for this virus to attach to our cells and it seems to be making this virus evade our antibodies better,“ says another.
Flashback montage: Every expert who warned of immune imprinting, immune suppression, immune tolerance, the role of vaccines in driving new variants, vaccine-associated enhanced disease (VAEDs) and the general futility of vaccinating against respiratory viruses.
Slow roll a peer-reviewed article co-authored by Dr Anthony Fauci concluding that: “Durably protective vaccines against non-systemic mucosal respiratory viruses with high mortality rates have thus far eluded vaccine development efforts.”
Comic relief: Like the good lackeys they are, media outlets are beating up the BREAKING new variant story, to which the general public response has been LMAO.
An online Murdoch media poll indicates three-quarters of their readers just aren’t interested.
Denouement: Collective apathy. The failure of this latest scare campaign is unlikely to preclude a 13th scare campaign, as the Government is generally unresponsive to market feedback, and it has mRNA investments and purchase commitments driving its decision-making.
Media will continue to uncritically print Government press releases provided they convert to clicks – LMAO or otherwise.
Expect the next instalment just in time for the summer Covid wave.
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It isn’t about some alleged virud it is about waves of sickness occuring with smaller and smaller gaps between them. Just consider that in terms of quality of life. This isn’t going to go away if you pretend that it isn’t there. You can call it the sickness or the mystery if you want but it is still here and growing.
Then stop the vaccinations because the Coronavirus waves for the Wuhan altered variants are not behaving normally as they should with waves in step with the seasons. Also, vaccinating during an outbreak will drive mutation and the mRNA are not doing the same job as standard vaccines that use dead/alive viruses. There is growing evidence that mRNA therapies are damaging individuals immune system. I would bet that this recent outbreak is more pronounced among the vaccinated.
What on earth are you on about?
I worry about him. 😂
I think the last word was superfluous. What on earth are you on? would have done.
Airmanship, in the traditional sense, included the knowledge of when not to interfere in the aircraft. This is because there have been accidents caused by pilots doing something when doing nothing was the best course of action. This is what Lufthansa has to say to pilots about acting on impulse “The chance of saving the day by spontaneous reaction is extremely remote. The chance of catapulting yourself into deepest trouble is very high.” Prior to the Wuhan flue it was possible to hear doctors talking of the ‘do nothing’ approach for certain situations. Hans Rosling, in his book ‘Factfulness’, recounts a time he made a judgment that had the unintended consequence of causing multiple deaths. He made the judgment in haste and because he was under pressure to ‘do something’. All of the reactions to what is a seasonal and existing virus was to do something to (and this was fatal for some) eliminate the virus – the Zero Covid approach. There was nothing, and there still is nothing, that can combat the Coronavirus or the Flu, apart from rest, Night Nurse, Vitimin C, Vitamin D and other things to alleviate the symptoms. It was madness in the extreme to… Read more »
I love the aircraft analogy. If we had done nothing people would barely have noticed a bad flu going around
AZ is not a mRNA product. It is based on an adenovirus vector and does not contain LPNs.
Yes and no. It still forces your body to create spike, and it goes from DNA via mRNA to do this.
“Following vaccination, the adenovirus vector enters the cells and releases its genes, in the form of DNA, which are transported to the cell nucleus; thereafter, the cell’s machinery does the transcription from DNA into mRNA and the translation into spike protein”
Excerpt from the ever reliable ( 🤣 ) Wikipedia
(https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford%E2%80%93AstraZeneca_COVID-19_vaccine)
But ignore the claims of safety made in the link; AZ surely killed my friend.
Please may I share the following video with you where a Danish professor discusses traditional vaccines and mRNA. You may know most of this but I found the research on live vaccines interesting. I understand the Oxford AZ has been withdrawn for safety reasons.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_nKoybyMGg&t=5s
Danish professor: mRNA vaccine study sends ‘danger signals’
There were 28 different vaccine types developed, which is astonishing, and while Bill Gates thought it a great idea to vaccinate the entire planet, he didn’t seem too bothered that with so many different types the traditional medical expert hasn’t got a hope in hell working out how good any are as there was zero reference and no effort to establish any reference. Iran used 11 different vaccine types on it’s citizens. Tony Blair said all were good and you can mix and match – China used 6 types and none of which were mRNA.
Thanks for the correction. In that case the variation in vaccine types is more.
Coronavirus is a common virus that mutates so as to be relevant.
There’s got to be something to be scared about.
If it’s not Covid, it’s Russia.
If it’s not Russia, it’s climate change.
If it’s not climate change, it’s a cyber attack.
If it’s not a cyber attack, it’s high cholesterol.
Nowhere’s safe.
Better get out and stock up with loopaper.
It saved us during Covid.
Russia and cyber attacks are a thing.
After 3 years of attritional warfare the Russians have broadly the same area of Ukraine they already had.
I’m not sure that they’re going to send their troops into Poland just yet.
Russia has many nuclear weapons. Putin is a rogue war lord whose friends include Kim Jong Un, Hamas, the Iranians, the Houthis and President Xi. There have been two bio weapon attacks on UK soil using deadly substances, without any regard for the UK citizen. Putin cares nothing for the loss of Russian life and there have been concerted cyber attacks which can be hugely disruptive. He has also threatened the West with nuclear annihilation on multiple occasions. It is true that the Russian Army has not achieved what Putin wanted and they have been outsmarted by a people fighting for their country’s survival. But…
No. Tiny Tatar & Zelensky the Weasel are in cahoots, happily slaughtering White Men in their Genocidal Meatgrinder War.
Why would they do that?
Because the only thing standing in the way of the Globalist Communist New Feudal Order is The White Man.
That’s why the Globalist Communists have been quietly stirring up the 93% of humanity who are not white, to envy, then hatred, then genocide Ethnic Europeans: The World’s Smallest Ethnic Group, now only 7% of all the people on the planet.
Once we are gone, the Globalists will be able to enslave the rest of humanity much more easily, though the rest of humanity don’t know that yet. They are being used as a Proxy Army to wipe out the White Man for the Globalists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6-cNg2nyB4
Why Americans Don’t Understand Vladimir Putin – Konstantin Kisin
Just because Putin has threatened NATO with nuclear weapons on a regular basis since 2022, especially whenever they supply Ukraine with a new weapons system doesn’t mean he’s ever going to follow through on his threats. Why would he? He’s a cold calculating dictator and knows a nuclear attack on NATO would result in the total destruction of every Russian military base and possibly city.
I lived in a country in Eastern Europe that was under Soviet rule for 40 years.
Quite frankly, I can’t get myself wound up about them.
If I had to choose between occupation by the Russians or the dinghy people, I’d probably choose the Russians.
Thank goodness the Aussies are starting to see sense. Hopefully we will import some of this thinking / behaviour because there’s no shortage of stupidity over here.
Nothing new to see here (apart from rogue vaccines). As discussed in the Sceptic in October 2021…
https://staging.dailysceptic.org/we-should-ask-the-modellers-to-prove-their-models-can-accurately-predict-the-future-before-following-their-advice-again/
…All merely following a pattern somewhat akin to Russian Flu 1889 – 1894.
A trip down memory lane- “Covid wave” lol. Sad that taxpayers’ money is being wasted on “Covid tests” and nonsense statistics, but Joe Public is not buying it. The Covid horse has been well and truly beaten to death and nobody but a sadly terrified people is buying it.
May I just say something about a very strange comment I found on the internet today? It was one of those things you come across and think “That’s weird”, then move onto something else, but wonder about it later. Please hear me out, because this is important, and relevant to Rebekah Barnett’s article. The comment was by a Muslim man, gloating that the USA would suffer mass deaths within weeks, but before that, Britain would be drowned by the sea. After I searched for more information, it seems that a Globalist “training practice” programme from 2024 proposed at least a million deaths from a “virus” of both humans and animals “in a single day” in the USA, to happen on July 4th, 2025. It also seems that, when you look at topographical maps showing the highest concentrations of Muslim populations in Britain, they are all either on the highest ground above sea level, like Bradford, or on the highest areas above sea level within other towns, or near high hills like in Cardiff, and like the mysterious Super-mosque being built at Dalton-in-Furness with only 100 Muslims in the area, but a vast capacity for more. It is about 240 feet… Read more »
Maybe affluence is the explanation of elevation, it is generally nicer to live nearer sea level, especially near the banks of rivers.
Seen on X:
“Oh my, it’s now NB. 1.8.1 season and I still haven’t taken down my monkey pox decorations yet.”
Brilliant! 🙂
😀😀😀
Excellent article as always from Rebecca, however I have one correction. The new strain is called BS 24.7