The NHS Crisis (Spring 2024): now there is no more money!

The NHS Crisis is developing fast, getting worse by the day, and has become a year-long event. I have been writing about this crisis for over 11 years now. The underlying pattern of the crisis has never changed:

 >>> increased sickness >>> followed by increased spending on pharmaceutical treatment >>> followed by even more sickness >>> and then even more demands for even more money. 

During this time the NHS has never changed its explanation for the crisis. They don't have enough money, they need more, lots more, for more pharmaceutical drug treatment, for more adverse drug reactions, for more sickness - for which the NHS will want more money for treatment. It is a merri-go-round!

It has always been thus. It is contained within the 14+ blogs written over the last 13 years on the NHS Crisis, all listed and linked at the foot of the page.

And no one (outside this blog) has EVER questioned whether it is wise to spend more and more money on a medical system that is so demonstrably failing to provide an effective response to the constantly expanding levels of sickness. Yet the right questions are beginning to be asked. The NHS has routinely told us that it does not have enough doctors and nurses. Yet doctor numbers have risen by 37%, and other staff by 45%, in the last 10 years. This Expose article asks "How does the the NHS do so little with so much". It fails to come to the inevitable conclusion, but it does provide some useful statistics from the Office for National Statistics.

• The number of doctors increased by 37,467 (up 37%) from 101,137 in 2013 to 138,604 by 2023.
• The number of nurses and midwives increased by 68,063 (up 23%) from 295,163 in 2013 to 363,226 in 2023.
• The number of scientific staff increased by 42,938 (up 13%) from 123,912 in 2013 to 166,850 in 2023.
• The number of support staff increased by 125,510 (up 45%) from 279,579 in 2013 to 405,089 in 2023.
• The number of infrastructure staff increased by 62,758 (up 41%) from 152,437 in 2013 to 215,195 in 2023.
• The number of ambulance staff increased by just 1,721 (up 10%) from 17,537 in 2013 to 19,258 in 2023.

Even the BBC is beginning to ask questions about the viability of the NHS. In July 2023 it wished the NHS a happy 75th birthday - but asked whether it could survive to 100 years old. They are right to ask the question, but as usual, wrong in their assessment of what the problem is. They mentioned the "dire warnings" that it could not do so "without drastic change". A change in the medical system, dominated by pharmaceutical drugs, that dominates NHS treatment? No, let's blame the patient instead!

            "When the NHS was created the main focus was on short bouts of treatment for injury and infection, but now the challenge is completely different.The ageing population means huge numbers of people are living with chronic health problems, such as heart disease, dementia and diabetes that require long-term care and for which there is no cure. It is already estimated about £7 out of every £10 spent in the NHS goes on people with these conditions. On average, those over 65 have at least two. And the situation is only going to worsen. "The numbers are going to grow," Health Foundation director of research and economics Anita Charlesworth says. "The baby boomer generation is reaching old age."

Predictably the BBC fails to spot that heart disease, dementia and diabetes have grown to epidemic proportions during the 75 years of NHS treatment, but fails to take the comment "... for which there is no cure" any further!

It does, however, provide graphs about health spending as a percentage of day-to-day public service spending, indicating that this rose from 27% in 1999-2000, to 32% in 2009-2020, to 42% in 2019-2020, and to 44% in 2024 to 2025. More and more money for health clearly indicates that there is less and less money for any other public service - education, police, local government, defence. We are gradually, progressively, robbing Peter to pay Big Pharma!

This Medscape article outlines just how bad the situation has become, focusing on the situation in Northern Ireland.

            "Record-breaking waiting lists and emergency department times – the worst across the UK, healthcare staff at breaking point and leaving the region, GP practices closing due to financial issues, and a scheduled junior doctors' strike this week have seen the situation hit crisis point. The health service in Northern Ireland is now in “absolute meltdown” say clinicians working in the region, with even the Minister for Health acknowledging that the situation is “deplorable” and “unprecedented”."

            "Northern Ireland's Minister of Health, Robin Swann issued a stark warning of an "extremely difficult and worsening" financial position for health and social care ... (as usual) ... calling for increased resources and multi-annual budgeting".             "We have a system that is in very real trouble. Every part of it is in profound distress.... The risks of service breakdown are real and growing in a range of areas. I do not say this to frighten people but to help build a shared understanding. We continue to have expectations and demands of health and social care that we cannot currently meet, and on the current trajectory the situation is getting worse rather than better".

In other words, there is no more money, no more handouts for a failing medical system can be expected. The Westminster Government continues to trickle money into the NHS; but it recognises that taxes are too high, that more borrowing is untenable, and in a recent budget, has said that they are expecting more productivity from medical staff (blame the staff?). The Opposition Labour party, which might find itself in government by the end of this year, tells a similar story; they will not break their fiscal rules, which effectively means - no more taxes, no more borrowing, no additional money for the NHS.

This is what has changed since I last wrote about the NHS Crisis. Both government and opposition has now accepted that there is no more money. The NHS is not going to be bailed out, again, as has happened routinely during the last 75 years. The magic "NHS money tree" is dead!

Another new factor is that key NHS staff have gone on strike; senior doctors, junior doctors, nurses, ambulance staff - people who have never been on strike before. Why? Despite the money thrown at the NHS little of it has apparently gone to staff. So not even those who deliver pharmaceutical medical treatment are content. A newly qualified doctor, after 5-6 years of training, has a starting salary is about £33,000. And it has been estimated that junior doctor's salaries have fallen by about 30% in the last 15 years.

So the NHS has not only devoted itself, entirely, to a system of medical treatment that does not work, which is actually making us sicker, it cannot even treat its clinicians, the people who operate the NHS, properly. Staff morale within the NHS is not only poor, it is getting worse.

In a health service that cannot cope with the pressures it faces, recent news from the GP Magazine, Pulse, on 12th March 2024, reported alarmingly that "swathes of GP's were at risk of redundancy". Watch this space! Is the NHS facing self-destruction? A BMA spokesperson has recently warned general practice that it has suddenly gone from a recruitment crisis to an employment crisis. 

Surely the NHS crisis cannot get any worse! But I haven't mentioned NHS dental services, which in many parts of the country are now virtually non-existent. The Guardian reported, in October 2023, that there were a record numbers of patients complaining to the NHS Ombudsman about poor care, exorbitant fees and gaining accept to NHS dental services in England. The Ombudsman said that poor dental care leaves patients frustrated, in pain and out of pocket. The number of complaints received every year has risen by 66%, and the proportion of complaints being upheld has increased from 42% to 78% over the same period. The ombudsman is currently receiving about 100 calls a week from people worried about poor treatment, an inability to access NHS dental care, and being removed from a dentist's practice list.

So the NHS crisis continues and deepens, as it is likely to do so long as we fail to recognise the main reason for the crisis. No problem is ever resolved unless and until the cause of the problem is accurately identified. The NHS, and the Government, have been singularly unable, or unwilling to do so to recognise that it has invested in pharmaceutical medicine, a medical system that just does not work. So, bad as the current crisis is, it will only get worse.

According to the USA Department of Health and Human Services, as many as 1 in 3 hospital admission each year are linked to adverse drug reactions, and inter-reactions. The situation in the UK is similar, as it is in other countries with a so-called 'advanced' or 'modern' medical system. So we have the evidence that prescription drugs, legitimately prescribed, cause patient harm, and make them sick, can even lead to death. 

In fact, many do lead to death. This is from a paper published by Imperial College London, "National State of Patient Safety, 2022. What we know about avoidable harm".

            "In 2019 there were more than 130,000 avoidable deaths in Great Britain - more than 22% of all deaths. Of these, 64% were classed as preventable and 36% were classed as treatable"

The problem is that the conventional medical establishment is skilled at discounting any such evidence. They are the result of under-performance, mistakes, errors, accidents, all of which can be avoided by improved management practices. The motto of the NHS seems to be "carry on, regardless".

 

NHS Crisis: links to previous blogs

• The NHS Debate (NHS in Crisis 2011)
• Our doctors in Crisis (NHS in Crisis 2015)
• Britain's NHS in Crisis (2016)
• NHS in Crisis (2016)
• NHS in Crisis (2017)
• NHS Crisis (Winter 2017)
  
• The NHS Crisis (2017-2018)
• NHS in Crisis (Summer 2018)
• NHS in Crisis (2018-2019)
• NHS Crisis (2019-2020). It gets worse each winter. But the real cause is never identified
• NHS in Crisis 2020. Another routine annual winter crisis notwithstanding Coronavirus Covid-19
• NHS in Crisis (Autumn 2020). Covud-19 is confirmation that conventional medicine is failing us
• The NHS Crisis (January 2021). The Covid-19 Pandemic, and an organisation heading for new levels of serious medical failure.
• The NHS in Crisis (March 2022)

 

 

The Sad Lament of an Anti-Vaxxer

I read this on Facebook on 15 August 2023. The author, Richard Moskowitz, MD, has given me permission to republish it here. It provides a full explanation and justification for everyone who wishes to be an "anti-vaxxer, or as I prefer to say, to remain "vaccine free".

An Anti-Vaxxer’s Sad Lament

Those of you who know me or are familiar with my work know that I’ve been questioning the scientific basis of vaccinations for over forty years,(1), and that my concerns about them go beyond the side effects of this or that vaccine to the nature of the vaccination process per se. In short, I am that rare case of an honest-to-God “anti-vaxxer,” unlike the vast majority of those unjustly stigmatized with that label, such as the parents of vaccine-injured children, whose only mistake was to have done exactly what they were told, and suffered the devastating consequences of it: “ex-vaxxers” would be a more appropriate term for them.

While I’ve always felt for them and advocated for their cause, my problem with vaccines goes beyond the moral and political duty of redressing the harm that they suffered, to the issue of scientific truth, based on 50+ years of experience as a family doctor, and amply supported by articles in the medical literature, albeit largely unread and ignored. (2). 

I am far from claiming that what I’ve come to believe about them is the complete and final truth; but I do think such views deserve serious consideration, rather than the ridicule and censorship that they commonly receive. So I will begin by summarizing my findings here.

The idea of vaccinating sounds attractive, as a way of preventing large populations from coming down with and suffering from acute infectious diseases, especially the most serious ones like smallpox, diphtheria, and polio, which have killed or maimed so many people who came down with them.  

But vaccines are now so numerous and widely used, even for the common diseases of childhood, that we seldom remember or think to compare how they act with the natural process of coming down with and recovering from the natural diseases, which are acute phenomena of relatively short duration, involving fever and a collaborative effort of various immune mechanisms, and culminating in the expulsion of the offending foreign organism from the body.  This result cannot be achieved by any one of these mechanisms operating independently of the others. 

The natural immunity that results from it is specific, in the familiar sense of protecting the patient against future outbreaks of the same disease, just as vaccines claim to do.  Less obvious but even more important is its non-specific effect, priming the immune system to respond acutely, vigorously, and in concerted fashion to whatever other infections we are exposed to in the future.  

That wouldn’t seem like that big of a deal, except for research that few doctors or patients are aware of, showing that those who come down with and recover from measles, mumps, chickenpox, influenza, and other common acute diseases of childhood are much less likely to develop chronic, autoimmune diseases and cancer later in life than those who are merely vaccinated against them. (3) 

If true, that tells us that vaccinating is not the way to develop a healthy immune system; and we’re much better off learning how to get sick than vaccinating everybody against everything simply because we have the technical know-how to do so.

In contrast, whatever good vaccines may accomplish depends on one thing only, producing specific antibodies in significant quantities over long periods of time, bypassing if not dysregulating all the other collaborative mechanisms. It thus necessarily falls far short of duplicating the natural immunity that good health depends on.  

When a vaccine is injected intramuscularly, there is a brief inflammatory reaction at the injection site, but no local sensitization of the nasopharynx and its epithelium, no co-ordinated mobilization of phagocytes, cytokines, and serum complement, no overt illness, and thus, above all, no reliable mechanism or pathway for getting rid of it. After 14 days or so, yes, there are likely to be measurable titers of specific antibodies in the blood; and, yes, the recipients of many though not all vaccines will be somewhat less likely to come down with the corresponding acute disease, at least in the near future, than they were before.  

But without the acute illness, there is no concerted activation of the cellular system, no priming of the immune mechanism as a whole, no improvement in the general health, no encrypted memory of the infection, and again, no means of expelling the invading viruses, bacteria, or bioengineered fragments derived from them.

Where the vaccine actually goes, how it persuades the antibody-producing cells to continue doing their work over extended periods of time, as it was designed to do, and what price we have to pay for these antibodies and the partial, temporary semblance of immunity that they provide, are questions that it seems we're not supposed to ask, can expect haughty contempt or righteous indignation if we do, and haven't been convincingly answered in any way that helps the public to understand.

What continues to haunt me about the vaccination process is the obvious fact that, unlike the diseases it is supposed to prevent, vaccination is and must be a chronic phenomenon, in that its intended result of achieving continuous antibody synthesis for months and years afterward would seem to require that either the vaccine substance itself or at the information that it conveys remain active inside the body for at least that long.  

It’s worth asking how such long-term carrier states might be achieved, and what effect they might have on the health of vaccine recipients; but for now I’ll just add that it’s dangerously misleading, if not the exact opposite of the truth, to claim that vaccines render us immune to acute diseases, if in fact they merely drive the invading organisms or toxic derivatives of them deep into our vital organs and cause us to harbor them chronically if not permanently instead.

My reluctance to vaccinate originated with a gut feeling that I couldn’t explain, while the hypothesis formulated above was the logical conclusion of a sabbatical year of visiting the immunology that I was never taught in med school.  But it didn’t really come alive for me until I began seeing a lot of chronically sick children in my practice.4  

With so many vaccines being given, several of them even simultaneously at the same visit, it was practically impossible to identify a specific vaccine or component as the culprit, as doctors are trained to do; and it didn’t immediately occur to me to think about the vaccination process itself.  There are a lot of reasons why that link was difficult to see even when I looked for it.

What started me thinking about it was seeing so many kids given vaccines on the approved schedule who were reacting non-specifically to them, by developing a more intense or prolonged version of whatever chronic diseases they were already bothered by.  What still threw me off, even then, was that they all reacted in a characteristic manner that was peculiar to them, no matter which vaccine was given, which disease they had, or how severely they suffered from it.

Eventually I discovered that any vaccine would do, and that several different ones would have the same effect for that child, while the diseases involved ran the whole gamut of pediatric practice, might also attack the unvaccinated, and be brought on by environmental toxins and pollutants as well.
   
Another source of confusion was simply that chronic diseases tend to wax and wane idiosyncratically, not on any preformed or regular schedule.  The only way to see the causal role of vaccines was to treat the children with herbs, acupuncture, or homeopathy until they recovered and were essentially symptom-free for several months.

Then and only then, consistently enough to be the rule, their old disease pattern would recur promptly and dramatically after their next vaccination, whatever it was, such that its causal role became obvious to the parents and anyone else paying attention.  Suppressing the main symptoms with pharmaceutical drugs didn’t clean the slate sufficiently to achieve that clarity.

With the specific effects of each individual vaccine thus essentially hidden, and doctors distracted from considering the generic effect of the vaccination process, they readily fall into line with the industry’s agenda of piling on as many vaccines as we see fit.

Yet investigating the safety of vaccinating against everything, of the process itself, would require nothing more elaborate than comparing the all-cause morbidity and mortality, the overall rate of death and chronic disease, in vaccinated and unvaccinated populations.  The public surely deserves to be told, if only to discredit nay-sayers like me, why our nation, which yields to none in its professed commitment to science, has never seen fit to undertake such an obvious study, even though if not precisely because it could resolve the issue once and for all.  

To summarize, then, my clinical experience strongly suggests that all vaccines, whatever benefits may be ascribed to them, are regularly and significantly implicated in initiating, exacerbating, and reactivating the innumerable chronic diseases of our time. If that much is true, it follows as night from day that subjecting whole populations to repeated doses of more and more of them, with no end in sight, is adding continuously and exponentially to the crushing burden of chronic diseases that we already bear, not as rare coincidences, aberrations, or side effects, but as a built-in feature of their design.

Gripped by the urgency of that realization, and unnerved by our obstinate inability and unwillingness to recognize it, I began combing through the scientific literature, and uncovered a substantial body of reputable, published research along the same lines, (5), studies ignored by most practising physicians, because they directly contradict what we are authoritatively taught, fondly believe, and seldom bother to question.   

Since well before the COVID, thinking it a scientific and moral issue of vital importance, I began emailing leading progressive legislators, pointing out that simply ending the mandates would significantly improve the health of the nation; but not one ever acknowledged even receiving them.  During the 2016 Presidential election season, the drug companies launched a campaign to convince the blue states to eliminate their philosophical and personal-belief exemptions from the vaccines they were requiring, especially measles, because of a few modest outbreaks of the disease that belied the CDC’s claim to have eliminated it from the country.

I reached out to Bernie Sanders, because he’d been railing against the greed and corruption of the drug industry for decades; but his office never wrote back, and in one campaign speech after another he echoed the official CDC line, blaming the unvaccinated for spreading the disease, and thus putting their fellow-citizens at risk. (6)   Similar attempts to inform Liz Warren, AOC, and a few others also failed, leaving me to own up to the fact that vaccination had become essentially a sacred cow, beyond question or doubt, for the public at large.  Nor could I blame them entirely, since their only mistake was having trusted the medical profession and the CDC to tell us the truth about matters of health that they presumably understand better than anyone.   

By 2019, as the outbreaks continued, editorials in the New York Times and other mainstream media were openly castigating “anti-vaxxers,” (7) with Congressman Adam Schiff, an avowed champion of civil rights, explicitly ordering Facebook and Google to suppress all content questioning the vaccine mandates as “disinformation,” and thus violating the First Amendment in the name of a public health emergency that he was doing his level best to create, with every righteous intention, to be sure. (8)

With the COVID pandemic in 2020, the censorship looked to become permanent, as the economy and almost all daily activities were locked down, against the advice of leading epidemiologists. (9)  In 2021, when the vaccines finally became available, the whole population was threatened with loss of jobs and forbidden to travel for refusing them, as the unvaccinated were blamed once again for spreading the virus, even though the vaccine was later admitted to be ineffective in preventing it. (10). Meanwhile, Biden had become President, and the Democrats, abandoning their concern for civil rights in the teeth of the emergency, enforced the mandate more strictly than the Republicans, and did everything possible to discredit the “anti-vaxxers” who resisted or even doubted the need for it, and to silence or punish those who dared to question its safety or tried to publicize its adverse effects.   

In addition to the growing number of doctors who began speaking out against these policies, a number of actors, writers, and politicians, mostly conservative Republicans and libertarians who detested the Biden Administration and government interventions of any kind, were raising their voices as well.

One of the leading dissidents was Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., who carries on the name and legacy of his still prominent family, especially his uncle, a beloved former President, and his father, who was also assassinated while running for President himself.  

A successful environmental lawyer who won major judgments against polluters and the government agencies colluding with them, this younger Kennedy also created and led a nonprofit public-interest group, Children’s Health Defense, which publicizes current health issues, including how the drug industry deceives the public about vaccines, and ends up controlling the government agencies meant to regulate them.11  In short, he sounded like a classic New Deal Democrat, championing many of the same values that led me to study and write about this issue in the first place.

For all of these reasons, he became a hero to me and so many others, for taking on these powerful interests and exposing them with passion and eloquence, not least for doing so as a Democrat, at a time when most mainstream Democrats and party leaders were either clueless about the dangers of vaccines, reluctant to speak out against them, or committed to the pro-vaccine agenda now prevailing because their GOP opponents had begun to attack it, largely on libertarian grounds.  

In the run-up to the 2024 Presidential election, when he announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination, RFK Jr. soon attracted a huge following from among the growing multitudes harmed by vaccines, or disenchanted with the censorship and emergency measures imposed under the pandemic. In particular, for the minority of liberal and progressive Democrats like myself who felt the same way, he seemed like our only hope of bringing the vaccine issue into the mainstream of political discourse, as the signature and indeed winning issue for the left that I’ve always thought it was, and now more than ever.  
 
But even at this early stage in the campaign, with the Democratic Convention still a year away, it is already clear that he cannot possibly win the nomination, because the party leadership and their activists at the state and district level are firmly committed to defeating him by any means necessary, so that there is no realistic possibility that he will succeed in bringing the vaccine issue front and center before the electorate and the general public at this time. If that is true, then the only possible result of his candidacy going forward will be to dissuade the 20% of normally Democratic voters who now support him from voting for Biden, the presumptive nominee, and thus quite possibly help to re-elect Trump, who has explicitly and for once truthfully pledged to end our already frail democratic experiment once and for all.  

Preventing that result, at once too horrible to contemplate yet suddenly within reach, must take precedence over the vanishingly unlikely prospect that Kennedy will be allowed to represent the party, when it refuses even to give him the same Secret Service protection it has always allowed its sworn enemies.  It saddens me to have to say this, since it will also mean weakening and burying yet again the cause that I’ve spent the last forty years trying to publicize.   

So this is my plea to RFK Jr., which I can only hope he’ll take to heart:

* Please arrange a private meeting with Joe Biden and other Democratic leaders, and announce your intention to suspend your candidacy for the sake of party unity against Trump.
* Please ask them to give serious attention to your work at Children’s Health Defense, exposing the malfeasance of the vaccine manufacturers in corrupting the CDC and other government agencies that were created to regulate and restrain them.
* Please promise to be a loyal Democrat, to work hard to help re-elect Biden or the party nominee, whoever it turns out to be.
* And this is my plea to President Biden and the Democratic Party leaders, which I hope they will heed as well:
* Please listen carefully to what RFK Jr. and various doctors and scientists have to say about the dangers of vaccines and the successful tactics of the CDC and other agencies to keep them hidden from the public.
* Please appoint him to the Platform Committee, to make use of his research and expertise about vaccines and public health to help formulate party policy about these important issues.

Thank you.
 Respectfully submitted,
 Richard Moskowitz, M. D.

1. Moskowitz, R., “The Case against Immunizations,” Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy 76:7, March 1983.
2. Moskowitz, Vaccines: a Reappraisal, Skyhorse, New York, 2017, Chapters 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, passim.
3. Cf., for example, Albonico, H., et al., “Febrile Infectious Childhood Diseases in the History of Cancer Patients and Matched Controls,” Medical Hypotheses 51:315, 1998.
4. Moskowitz, 2017, op. cit., Chapter 4, pp. 57-69.
5. Vide supra, note 1.
6. Pollack, H., “All Our Politicians Should Join to End the Dangerous Anti-Vaccination Madness,” Washington Post, February 4, 2015.
7.  “How to Inoculate against Anti-Vaxxers,” Editorial, New York Times,   January 20, 2019.
8. Rodrigo, C., “Schiff Calls out Facebook, Google over Anti-Vaccination Information,” The Hill, February 14, 2019.
9. Cf., for example, “Perspectives on the Pandemic: a Conversation with Dr. Knut Wittkowski,” The Press and the Public Project, thepressandthepublic.com, April 2, 2020; Prof. David Katz, “Is Our Fight against Coronavirus Worse than the Disease?,” New York Times, March 20, 2020; and Michael Osterholm, M.D., “Facing COVID-19 Reality: a National Lockdown Is No Cure,” Washington Post, March 21, 2020.
10.  Cf. President Biden, the White House, September 9, 2021: “This is a pandemic of the unvaccinated . . . ,” vs. Rochelle Walensky, M.D., CNN Interview with Wolf Blitzer, You Tube, August 8, 2021.
11.  Cf., for example, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., “Gates’ Globalist Vaccine Agenda: a Win-Win for Big Pharma and Mandatory Vaccination,” childrenshealthdefense.org, April 9, 2020.

The Failure of the Covid-19 Strategy, the Vaccines, and a system of medicine. Is it all the benefit of hindsight?

After two years of incessant conventional medical propaganda it is now becoming clear to an ever increasing number of people that public health measures such as face masks, and lockdowns, and the experimental Covid-19 vaccines, have been an abject failure.

The official Covid-19 narrative has been recited, ad nauseam, by government, conventional medical authorities, and the mainstream media throughout the world for over two years. The narrative is simply outlined.

• The Covid-19 virus is deadly.
• Everyone is at risk, no-one is safe.
  
• There is no treatment available.
• Government has a responsibility for our health and will keep us safe.
  
• Only a vaccine will save us, and return life back to normal.
• The new vaccines were amazingly effective; they would quickly contain the pandemic.
• The new vaccines were also entirely safe.
• Everyone should get the vaccine, for their own safety, and until we did we were at risk.
• Everyone should get the vaccine for other people's safety; it was a public duty.
  

For so many people, this narrative, repeated day after day, has been their only source of information about the Covid-19 virus; so whilst many people may now realise they have been duped, the sheer consistency of the propaganda means that no one can be blamed for believing it - apart, that is, from the messengers, governments around the world, conventional medical authorities, and the mainstream media. 

And now that the narrative is breaking down. It is breaking down because what is happening in the real world does not reflect what is happening in the narrative, in medical propaganda. So now, those who are responsible for that narrative are now having to find excuses for providing the general public with misinformation.

The excuses from government, conventional medical authorities, and the mainstream media, have begun. They know they have to justify the messages they have been giving us. And it is already clear that one excuse, "the benefit of hindsight" will be high up on their agenda.

It is probably best for those of us on the winning side, previously thought to be "the misinformed", or "the spreaders of misinformation", not to say "I told you so". But this blog was amongst the first blogs to accurately predict what was going to happen. If we take the first month of the official Covid-19 narrative to be January 2020 (it was actually earlier than this), this is what appeared on this blog.

January 2020.

The Coronavirus Panic. Just how dangerous is this new virus? The worldwide coronavirus panic is in full swing! I predicted in month one that the virus would not prove to be as serious as was being suggested. I said that homeopaths were already treating the virus, and working on identifying the remedies that were the most effective to patients who contracted the virus.

February 2020.

The Coronavirus Panic. What every sensible and informed person should be doing. In this blog I predicted that conventional medicine would be unable to prevent people contracting the virus, unable to treat it effectively, and that large numbers of people would die without treatment. Again, I outlined how homeopathy was working to protect people with simple remedies, but that conventional medicine would not offer their patients this treatment.

Conventional medicine is in a gigantic panic. So is enough being done to contain it? When it has nothing to offer, but refuses to embrace homeopathy? In this blog I highlighted how homeopathy had been used successfully in past epidemics, and what it was doing in the current epidemic. Yet conventional medicine was (and still is) allowing people to suffer and die with the virus, even when it admitted during this first year it had no effective treatment to offer.

Health Freedom and Patient Choice. This blog was my first response to increasing calls for mandatory drugging - this long before the Covid-19 vaccines had been developed, leave alone had a track record of any description.

March 2020

Does the Conventional Medical Establishment prefer patients to die rather than offer them Natural Medical Treatment? By the pandemic's third month the number of people dying of, or with the Covid-19 virus was increasing rapidly, and I asked why conventional medicine was not using every possible way of preventing this. The exaggeration of the seriousness of the virus was already plain - anyone who died within 28 days of testing positive - for whatever reason - was a Covid-19 death. 

We are just beginning to find out the extent of this deception. GB News recently confirmed figures, based on a Freedom of Information request from UK Office of National Statistics (17 January 2022). Only 9,400 people died OF the virus in 2020, and only 5,746 in first 9 months of 2021. The 150,000 figure of Covid-19 deaths includes those who died WITH the virus, but not OF the virus. This was a gross exaggeration of seriousness of pandemic, designed to create fear in the population.

April 2020

Covid-19. The important questions that are not being asked.  Even by month 4 this blog was asking pertinent questions about the so-called pandemic, including what (to me) is the key question - why was conventional medicine, which still had nothing to offer, was not taking the opportunity to emphasise the importance of natural immunity, and what people could do to support and strengthen their immune systems. 

In addition, I asked why the virus was mostly affecting 'developed' nations, that is, nations with well-funded pharmaceutical medical systems in operation. And it was also one of the first blog to question why 'lockdown' was considered to be a sensible policy.

Covid-19. Does Natural Medicine have an alternative? This was the first time I emphasised the importance of our natural immunity, and natural medicine. I stated, nearly two years ago, that if this was done it would prevent the unnecessary damage being caused by social distancing, and lockdown policies both to the economy, to social life, and the emotional damage it was doing to people lives.

And so the blog has continued for the next two years. My opposition to both the public health measures, and the experimental vaccines, used by conventional medicine in response to the Covid-19 pandemic were not made 'in hindsight'. They arose from an understanding of the ongoing failure of conventional medicine - which I then applied to what I could see happening 'on the ground" as a result of the Covid-19 panic. The pandemic was clearly no more than the repetition of so many previous examples of conventional medicine incompetence.

I had written my E-Book, "The Failure of Conventional Medicine" on the basis of the previous history of this medical system, notably its consistent and ongoing failure to treat illness and disease successfully. 

Over the weekend I took time to re-read this book (written originally in 2007). It provides a history of the past failures of conventional medicine, alongside a detailed explanation of why this drug-based system of medicine would continue to fail. What I realised was that it could equally be used as a predictor of future failure. It is a far better explanation for what is happening to our health, and why levels of public sickness has been increasing rapidly, year by year, especially during the last 70-100 years, than any explanation coming from the conventional medical establishment!

So for anyone who is as horrified abour what has happened over the last two years should perhaps take some time to read "The Failure of Conventional Medicine". It will explain much about what has happened during the last two years - even though it was first written 15 years ago. Writing the E-Book has cost me much time, and a little money - but it is entirely free for anyone to read. It was written to inform, to enlighten, to educate, not to produce profit. 

For anyone with an open enquiring mind, reading the book can alter your view about health, it can explain why conventional medicine is now dominated by the drug industry, and the consequences to our health of that domination. For anyone who wishes to escape the clutches of pharmaceutical medicine this can be the first step to a more healthy life.

 

Why do so many people wish to remain Vaccine Free?

I am not an "anti-vaxxer. I am one of thousands who wish to remain "vaccine free". And there is an important distinction between the two description. The former is negative. The latter is positive - I have good reasons for not wanting to take a vaccine, any vaccine.

If you genuinely want to know the difference this blog will provide my answer.

First, and most important - I have an immune system, which I have spent my life (most of it anyway) supporting and strengthening - because ultimately this is what I believe keeps all of us getting sick.

We all have an immune system. We have understood this since Ancient Greek times. The strength of our immune system is the criteria we should use to determine our personal susceptibility to illness and disease, and certainly not our vaccine status!

We are all born with an innate immune system. And as we come into contact with foreign bacteria and viruses - germs - it works to protect us; it learns how to do this; so on top of our innate immune system there is built acquired immunity. Together these are often referred to as natural immunity.

Yet as we each live our lives, we can do things that can undermine and compromise our natural immunity. Once our biggest problem was living in poverty, with malnutrition, in squalid and insanitary housing. Now it is more about poor diet and nutrition, lack of exercise, and life-style choices that puts pressure on our immune system, and will eventually compromise, and undermine it.

However, we can all do things that support and strengthen our immune systems - good diet and nutrition, a sensible exercise regime, and positive life-style choices.

So how strong is your immunity? One rule of thumb I often use is to ask the question - how susceptible are you to catching every cold, cough, infection that is going around? 

• If your answer is “rarely” - then your immune system is strong; it is protecting you. 
• If your answer is “always” then your immune system has been compromised.

Either way we can all do things to protect ourselves from illness: live our lives, and making life-style choices, that will actually support and strengthen our natural immunity.

So when we are confronted with a bug, the threat to our health depends to a large degree on the ability of our natural immunity to cope with it. And this ability depends largely on ourselves: not on pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines. Moreover, this can explain what is happening to each of us when faced with infectious disease - including Covid-19.

Some people, with a strong immune system, will not know that they have faced a threat to health, or that our immune system has coped with it.

Others, with slightly weaker immunity, will get ill; the ability of the individual to cope with the illness, recover better or quicker will depend upon the remaining strength of our natural immunity.

• Those with heavily compromised immunity will suffer most, they will become seriously ill, struggle to recover, and many will die.

Infectious disease has always done this. The fittest survive, the weakest die. It happened with the Black Death in the 14th century; with the Great Plague of the 1660'2; with Spanish flu in 1918-19; and with every other epidemic known to humanity.

It’s only in recent years, not least with the Covid-19 pandemic, that another ‘understanding’ has arisen, one emanating from the pharmaceutical medical establishment. I have written about it here.

https://safe-medicine.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-immune-system-misinformation-and.html

We should all be aware that this is an attempt by the pharmaceutical medical establishment to ‘re-educate’ us about natural immunity - that our immune systems are no longer protective, that only 'vaccine immunity', an artificial immunity, will keep us safe from infections.

This idea certainly sells vaccines; but it is not how the our bodies work, or how they have ever worked!

• Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic we have been told that there is no natural immunity, that only vaccines, and vaccine immunity, will save us from Covid-19.
• And even then, that vaccines cannot save us unless everyone is vaccinated (herd immunity, and other similar nonsense arguments).

Then, after people get vaccinated, more questions about immunity are asked, quite understandably. Who will suffer side effects from the vaccines? Which side effects? How severe are the adverse reactions of the vaccine likely to be?

The answer is exactly the same: those with strong natural immunity will suffer less than those with a weakened or compromised immune system. The immune system will always seek to protect us, even against vaccines injected into our blood stream, and it will always do so - if it is sufficiently strong.

The problem with this is that it is not what the conventional medical establishment have been telling us. From the very outbreak of Covid-19 pandemic we could have all been told about how best to support and strengthen our natural immunity; but this strategy does NOT sell vaccines. And buying some fruit, rich in vitamin C, is of no financial value to the pharmaceutical companies.

Yet something important now needs to be added to this process. The history of our health over the last 70-100 years has been that our rapidly increasing consumption of pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines has actually undermined and compromised our natural immune systems. Just as smoking, fast food, sedentary lifestyles, obesity, and recreational drugs, they have overloaded our immune systems with toxicity. 

As more toxic drugs and vaccines are added the immune system will initially struggle to cope with it, and eventually it will be overcome - to the cost of our health. There is increasing evidence, rarely reported to the general public, that natural immunity protects better against infections, including Covid-19, than vaccines.

https://dailysceptic.org/2021/12/15/danish-study-confirms-that-natural-immunity-protects-better-against-infection-than-the-vaccines/

There are 144 research studies that have demonstrated that natural immunity to Covid-19 is superior to vaccine immunity.

https://brownstone.org/articles/79-research-studies-affirm-naturally-acquired-immunity-to-covid-19-documented-linked-and-quoted/

Second, one of the most important ways of supporting and strengthening personal immunity from infection and illness is to stay clear of pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines.

All pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines can cause serious health problems. Conventional medicine call them ‘side effects’, often ‘adverse drug reactions’; but I call them DIE’s - or Disease-Inducing-Effects - they are that serious. This is why I now have nothing to do with conventional medicine, as I am not prepared to play a game of Russian Roulette with side effects that can ruin my health!

The Covid-19 vaccines are proving to be one of the most dangerous vaccines ever produced. The evidence of patient harm is coming through official channels, via national drug regulators, and patients reporting the harm that has been done to their health after taking the vaccines. I will provide you with the data from some of the official websites, and some assessments of this data  made by small independent news agencies.

Official Statistics on Adverse Vaccine Reactions

** The situation in the UK - official statistics from the Drug Regulator

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-vaccine-adverse-reactions/coronavirus-vaccine-summary-of-yellow-card-reporting#annex-1-vaccine-analysis-print

(Note, if you read this, how the UK drug regulator heavily discounts the serious adverse vaccine reactions being caused when their primary function should be to protect patients from harmful drugs).

** A summary of these UK statistics, taken from the UK government website.

https://yellowcard.ukcolumn.org/yellow-card-reports

** Vaccine Safety Update.

https://dailysceptic.org/2021/12/18/vaccine-safety-update-21/

** An assessment of the situation in the USA, from official VAERS statistics.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/vaers-cdc-covid-vaccine-pfizer-moderna-johnson/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=daa9f6a6-5cb8-4e4c-9385-d04231fb11cc

** Another assessment of the situation in the USA.

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/20000-deaths-reported-to-vaers-following-covid-vaccines/

** Study in 145 countries shows sharp increase in transmission of virus and death since vaccines introduced

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/01/massive-145-country-study-shows-sharp-increase-transmission-death-introduction-covid-vaccines/

** Two Pfizer documents that informs us about the safety of their Covid19 vaccine.

https://safe-medicine.blogspot.com/2021/12/covid-19-vaccines-allow-pfizer-to-tell.html

** Europe. European Medicines Agency report 36,257 deaths: an “adverse Covid-19 vaccine reaction”!

https://healthimpactnews.com/2022/36257-deaths-and-3244052-injuries-following-covid-shots-in-european-database-double-vaxxed-13-year-old-dies-from-heart-attack/

** Sharyl Attkisson. A summary of all concerns about adverse reactions to the vaccines

https://sharylattkisson.com/2021/11/exclusive-summary-covid-19-vaccine-concerns/#Summary-by-safety-concern

** The treatment was worse than the virus

https://thetruthiswhere.wordpress.com/2021/07/18/official-data-shows-twice-as-many-people-have-died-due-to-the-covid-19-vaccines-in-6-months-than-people-who-have-died-of-covid-19-in-15-months/

If you were not aware of the size of this problem, then ask yourself why - why is it that governments, medical authorities, and the mainstream media have not told you about any of this?

One vaccine, the AstraZeneca vaccine, has been suspended (=banned) in many countries around the world.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/15/which-countries-have-halted-use-of-astrazenecas-covid-vaccinehttps://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/covid-booster-immune-system-fatigue/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=ddfcdbac-ec58-435b-91ee-8c3c6cfd3156

The same vaccine was never approved in the USA, yet has been widely used in Britain.

Third, the Covid-19 Vaccines have proven to be ineffective. People have been given the vaccine, risking serious adverse reactions, and the virus continues much as before the mass vaccination programme began.

** The vaccines do not prevent the the vaccinated contracting the virus!

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-number-reported-covid-cases-climb-fully-vaccinated/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=04efec71-8531-42cd-8bae-818ea0502083

** Double vaccinated have double the infection rate: data from Iceland (a heavily vaccinated nation)

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/01/09/double-vaccinated-have-double-the-infection-rate-data-from-iceland-shows/

** The boosters don’t work, medical authorities confirm evidence they are failing

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/eu-regulators-who-end-covid-boosters/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=b5be3851-e217-4fa4-afa8-e0ddac5c9bfd

Fourth, the Vaccinated continue to spread the virus

** Vaccination actually increases risk of spreading the virus

https://dailysceptic.org/2021/10/28/new-lancet-study-from-sweden-shows-vaccine-effectiveness-against-infection-dropping-to-zero-and-sharp-decline-against-severe-disease-as-well/

Hospitalisations and Deaths amongst the Vaccinated Population

** Deaths caused by the vaccines are now mainly amongst the vaccinated population

https://dailyexpose.uk/2021/12/18/triple-vaccinated-account-4-in-5-covid-deaths/

** Deaths, hospitalisations, highest in the most highly vaccinated countries

https://dailyexpose.uk/2021/11/06/highest-risk-of-covid-19-death-is-in-the-most-vaccinated-nations/

Fifth, the impact the Covid-19 vaccines have had on Children and Young People. The mass vaccination programmes now include children and young people - despite the fact that they were largely unaffected by the virus. They, too, have suffered the consequences.

** Deaths of children caused by the vaccines

https://thewhiterose.uk/85-of-covid-deaths-are-among-the-vaccinated-child-deaths-have-risen-by-83-since-they-were-offered-the-jab/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-latest-news-from-our-blog_11

** Increase in child deaths since vaccine rollout

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/uk-sees-44-increase-in-child-deaths-after-jab-rollout-for-young-teens-data-shows/

** Evidence of childhood deaths following vaccination

https://dailyexpose.uk/2021/11/17/57-percent-increase-in-deaths-among-young-girls-over-12-since-covid-vaccine-roll-out/

** Scientists & MP’s tell Government: end Covid-19 vaccination of children: risk outweigh benefits

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/01/08/end-covid-vaccination-of-children-because-the-risks-outweigh-the-benefits-government-told-by-mps-and-scientists/

** Children at risk for lifelong health problems from Covid-19 vaccine

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/children-risk-lifelong-health-problems-covid-vaccine/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=ddfcdbac-ec58-435b-91ee-8c3c6cfd3156

** Covid-19 vaccines more responsible for child deaths than virus

https://www.lifesitenews.com/opinion/covid-jabs-may-be-more-responsible-for-child-deaths-than-the-virus-data-suggests/

 Sixth, the impact on women, especially pregnant women, perhaps the most vulnerable of all. There is now clear evidence that the Covid-19 Vaccines are not safe for them to take - despite what they have been told.

** New study reveals Covid-19 vaccine terminates 4 out of 5 pregnancies; spontaneous abortions

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33882218/

** Miscarriages have been increased by the Covid-19 Vaccines

https://www.wddty.com/news/covid-vaccine-doubles-chances-of-miscarriage/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=wddty&utm_content=Covid+vaccine+doubles+chances+of+miscarriage&utm_campaign=FREE+MEMBERS+enews+-+%28Covid+vaccine+doubles+chances+of+miscarriage%29+16.11.2021&gr_s=BvO&gr_m=Ge&gr_x=a62e

3,147 fetal deaths in USA following Covid-19 injections in pregnant and child-bearing age women.

https://healthimpactnews.com/2022/thousands-of-miscarriages-following-covid-19-injections-reported-in-vaers-are-being-censored-as-an-entire-generation-is-being-sterilized/

Seventh, Sports Persons - the impact on fit and healthy people following vaccination - perhaps one group you might imagine would be most resistant to the harm caused by the vaccines.

** The surge in deaths of fit, healthy sportspeople following vaccination

https://thewhiterose.uk/341-athlete-cardiac-arrests-194-dead-after-covid-shot/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-latest-news-from-our-blog_11

** 2021 epidemic of heart issues in athletes

https://airtable.com/shrbaT4x8LG8EbvVG/tbl7xKsSUIOPAa7Mx

Eighth, one of the most concerning adverse reactions to the Covid-19 vaccines is that they are now thought to be causing damage to our immune system.

** Official UK government data proves booster Covid-19 vaccines destroy innate immune system

https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/01/13/covid-boosters-destroy-immune-system-causing-ade/

** Covid boosters may cause immune system fatigue, compromise ability to fight viruses

https://nationalfile.com//new-york-times-covid-boosters-may-cause-immune-system-fatigue-compromise-ability-fight-virus/

Fully vaccinated people developing Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

https://thewhiterose.uk/fully-vaccinated-brits-developing-aids/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-latest-news-from-our-blog_11

** Official German government data suggests fully vaccinated will develop Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome

https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/01/02/german-gov-data-suggests-fully-vaccinated-developing-ade/

Conclusion. None of this is what we have been told, what we have heard from government, conventional medical authorities, and the mainstream media. So you might be sceptical. You might even think that this is ‘misinformation’ - which is how it has been summarily dismissed for the last two years.

But information is not ‘disinformation’ because the government, or the mainstream media, calls it disinformation! In a democracy we always have to be careful about government information, especially when the official Covid-19 narrative for the last two years has been a message emanating from the pharmaceutical industry - who stand to gain most from the mass vaccination campaigns. 

The drug industry is now so powerful that it can controls politicians and governments, it owns most of the mainstream media, and it dominates medical authorities around the world, including drug regulators, the authorities who should be acting to protect patients from dangerous drugs and vaccines.

My rule of thumb, when presented with any information, is to ascertain whether what I am being told makes sense of what is happening on the ground - so this is what I urge you to do.

In addition, have a look at what the Insurance Industry is now telling us about Covid-19 Vaccines

** Life Insurance data proves vaccinated more likely to die than Unvaccinated

https://dailyexpose.uk/2022/01/09/life-insurance-data-proves-vaccinated-more-likely-to-die/

** Insurance companies report increased premature deaths since Covid-19 vaccines rollout

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/insurance-companies-report-increase-premature-deaths/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=f9464c47-e2ff-4ee5-8f35-ca3143d27920

Then read about what senior doctors around the world are now admitting - that the Covid-19 strategy, based on face masks, social distancing, test and trace, lockdown, and vaccines, has not worked.

** Leading Israeli immunologist says “It’s time to admit failure”.

https://dailysceptic.org/2022/01/12/treat-covid-like-the-common-cold-says-the-wellcome-trust-as-leading-israeli-immunologist-blasts-lockdown-consensus-its-time-to-admit-failure/

** “There’s something awful happening”

https://thewhiterose.uk/dr-mike-yeadon-theres-something-awful-happening/?utm_source=mailpoet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-latest-news-from-our-blog_11

** CDC Director says Covid-19 policies have failed and must be abandoned.

https://childrenshealthdefense.org/defender/cdc-director-covid-policies-failed/?utm_source=salsa&eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=d8800cb1-6ca8-45e1-9766-b37231ff4113

** ”It’s time to admit failure” - Israeli Microbiologist and Immunologist

https://swprs.org/professor-ehud-qimron-ministry-of-health-its-time-to-admit-failure/

So, for one, I am pleased to remain vaccine free. I have gone one stage further by using natural medical therapy rather the conventional medicine - because it is much safer, and more effective. Throughout the pandemic, indeed for the last 30 to 40 years I have used homeopathy both to prevent influenza, and to treat other medical conditions that I have had over the years.

This is why I am passionate about health freedom. Individual Freedom and Personal Liberty are principles mankind has been fighting for now for millennia. Those of us who live in democracies like to believe that we have freedom, that we are at liberty to lead our lives doing what we want to do - as long as this does not infringe upon the freedoms of other people.

Please understand - people have fought, long and hard, for health freedom.

https://safe-medicine.blogspot.com/2021/10/mandatory-vaccination-or-forced.html

And in accepting health passports, and mandated drugging is a threat to health freedom, perhaps the most fundamental freedom of all. It is alarming how easily so many people have been prepared to give it up, to accept that their government, and a medical system, should be allowed to dictate what we can, and cannot do with our body.

We have been bombarded for two years with constant publicity about the Covid-19 virus and the Covid-19 vaccines. Our government has told us, through the mainstream media, and conventional medical authorities, that these vaccines are safe and effective. Perhaps they do actually do believe this. Yet so many people seem prepared to allow the government, aided and abetted by the pharmaceutical industry, to force (mandate) them.

Forcing these vaccines on people who wish to remain vaccine free is a serious breach of our individual freedom and personal liberty.

I want you to understand this. I do not want the vaccine. This is my personal decision. It is based on many factors, but notably that the vaccines are proving to be dangerous, as well as ineffective.

Other people may disagree; within a democracy people have a right to do so; anyone can take the vaccine if this is their wish. But no government is entitled to force anyone to have any vaccine. We must all beware!

• First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
• Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
• Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
• Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

If we allow the pharmaceutical companies to get away with forced drugging now, soon other vaccines, and other pharmaceutical drugs will be forced on us.

The Immune System. Why Conventional Medicine wants to Re-educate us

The Conventional Medical Establishment is trying to "re-educate" us about our immune system. The new medical understanding is that the immune system protects us best only after we have been vaccinated, and even questions whether there is any such thing as "natural immunity". 

These are some comments I have seen recently on the Quora website, responses to a question about whether "young children have a natural immunity to Covid-19, even if they do not catch it". What these responses describe appears to be an entirely new understanding of what the immune system is, what it does, and how it does it.

        "No human of any age has immunity until infected or vaccinated."

        "I don't think they could have any natural immunity....."

        "No. No one has any immunity to COVID 19. We/Humans have never had it before; therefore, we have never developed any immunity."

        "No, Next question please". 

        "One cannot have a “natural” immunity to a non-preexisting entity. First, one has to be exposed."

        "No. To have an immune response to a specific virus your immune system has to see the virus, either by catching ir or being vaccinated against it...."

        " No. There is no such thing as “natural immunity”.

        "There is no natural immunity".

        "The coronavirus that causes Covid-19 is novel to the human race, so no one is immune to it, especially children."

        "No human has 'natural immunity' until they are infected and their immune system responds." 

        "No, haven't you seen any local news? The hospitals are filled with children with Covid.

Most of the responses the questioner received were in the same vein. To date the questioner has received 53 similar responses. Perhaps this should not come as too much of a surprise. During the Covid-19 pandemic conventional medical 'experts' have been given free-rein, both by government and the mainstream media (MSM), to inform us about this entirely new understanding of our immune systems. 

"We have no immunity, we are all at risk, we all need the vaccine" has become part of the official narrative being incessantly forced on us.

Only vaccines can safe us from Covid-19!

So what you will now hear from me will be described by the conventional medical establishment as disinformation! However, I will quote only from conventional medical websites to describe what we used to believe the immune system is, and what it does. This 'misinformation', for examples, is taken from the John Hopkins Medicine website.

        "The immune system protects your child's body from outside invaders, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and toxins (chemicals produced by microbes). It is made up of different organs, cells, and proteins that work together. There are two main parts of the immune system:

• The innate immune system, which you are born with.
• The adaptive immune system, which you develop when your body is exposed to microbes or chemicals released by microbes."

THE INNATE IMMUNE SYSTEM. This is your child's rapid response system. It patrols your child’s body and is the first to respond when it finds an invader. The innate immune system is inherited and is active from the moment your child is born. When this system recognizes an invader, it goes into action immediately. The cells of this immune system surround and engulf the invader. The invader is killed inside the immune system cells. These cells are called phagocytes." (also from the JHM website, my emphasis).

THE ACQUIRED IMMUNE SYSTEM. The acquired immune system, with help from the innate system, produces cells (antibodies) to protect your body from a specific invader. These antibodies are developed by cells called B lymphocytes after the body has been exposed to the invader. The antibodies stay in your child's body. It can take several days for antibodies to develop. But after the first exposure, the immune system will recognize the invader and defend against it. The acquired immune system changes throughout your child's life." (also from the JHM website, with my emphasis).

The JHM website only then adds that "immunizations train your child's immune system to make antibodies to protect him or her from harmful diseases." It is almost an after-thought. But it is an after-thought that does not explain why the child's immune system should not work; why it should fail in its primary task; or what has compromised our 'natural immunity' so that we need vaccines.

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases describes the function of the immune system as follows"

        "The overall function of the immune system is to prevent or limit infection..... The immune system can distinguish between normal, healthy cells and unhealthy cells by recognizing a variety of "danger" cues called danger-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs). Cells may be unhealthy because of infection or because of cellular damage caused by non-infectious agents like sunburn or cancer. Infectious microbes such as viruses and bacteria release another set of signals recognized by the immune system called pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs)." 

Let's try one more description of the immune system this time described by the NCBI, the National Centre for Biotechnology Information .

        "The immune system has a vital role: it protects your body from harmful substances, germs and cell changes that could make you ill. It is made up of various organs, cells and proteins. As long as your immune system is running smoothly, you don’t notice that it’s there. But if it stops working properly - because it’s weak or can't fight particularly aggressive germs - you get ill. Germs that your body has never encountered before are also likely to make you ill. Some germs will only make you ill the first time you come into contact with them. These include childhood diseases like chickenpox."

        "Without an immune system, we would have no way to fight harmful things that enter our body from the outside or harmful changes that occur inside our body. The main tasks of the body’s immune system are: 

• to fight disease-causing germs (pathogens) like bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungi,
• to remove them from the body, 
• to recognize and neutralize harmful substances from the environment, and 
• to fight disease-causing changes in the body, such as cancer cells.

This is how the immune system has been understood for a very long time. Thucydides, an Athenia historian and general, said this about acquired immunity in 430bce, during the Athenian Plague.

        "Yet it was with those who had recovered from the disease that the sick and the dying found most compassion. These knew what it was from experience and had no fear for themselves; for the same man was never attacked twice - never at least fatally."

So nothing in any of these conventional medical descriptions, pre-Covid-19, talk about the inability of the immune system to recognise new, or strange viruses, whether artificially produced in a Chinese laboratory, or not. They do not support what conventional medicine now seems to be saying. To the contrary, we have been told, and we have been aware for many millenia, that the immune system is designed to protect us against 'foreign substances'.

Nowhere, in any of these descriptions, is it suggested that we have NO immunity UNTIL we have CAUGHT the infection; and certainly not UNTIL we have been vaccinated.

• So who is spreading disinformation?
• Has conventional medicine been wrong about the immune system for centuries - until now? If so, where is the science?
  
• Or perhaps our former understanding of innate and acquired immunity (= natural immunity?) does not lead to the financial rewards that 'vaccine acquired' immunity provides for the pharmaceutical industry?

I do not know who the young person was who asked the question. But the responses he/she received will have left him/her in little doubt that he/she was completely unprotected against the Covid-19 virus, and that he/she would either have to subject himself/herself to the virus, or get the vaccine.

Of course the immune system does not protect everyone from everything; if it could do that no-one would ever be ill. We have known this for a long time too. But the problem is not the immune system - it is our treatment and abuse of our immune system. If we eat badly, if we don't exercise properly, if we smoke, if we drink to access, if we take pharmaceutical drugs, et al., we can undermine, or compromise our immune system. When we abuse our bodies our immune system will not function so well; it will not give us the protection it should; we will succumb to illness.

The Covid-19 narrative has, at least (and to a very limited extent) been honest about this. We have been told that those people most at risk of infection, hospitalisation and death are people with compromised immune systems. However, the narrative has never gone on to develop this further. Conventional medicine should have been telling us how best we can support natural immunity but it has signally failed to do so.

• It has never told people what they can do to support and strengthen their immune systems - in terms of nutrition, exercise and life-style choices.
• It has never offered people tests that can assess the strength of their immunity (although I believe such tests do exist).
  
• It has never told people who have strong immune systems that they could/should carry on their lives, normally, through the pandemic - in order to keep social life moving.
• The official narrative certainly never mentioned that people with "underlying health conditions" were often people who have a history of taking pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines for other illnesses, and that taking these drugs could have compromised their immune system.
• We have never been told that people who had had limb and organ transplantation, and other people taking "immuno-suppressant" drugs (that is, pharmaceutical drugs that intentionally compromise our natural immunity) were most at risk from the Covid-19 virus.

So the pharmaceutical industry might want to promote their vaccines. It might want to downplay the importance of innate and acquired immunity - natural immunity. It might want to suggest that vaccine immunity is best.

But nobody needs to believe this blatant promotional sales pitch!

Natural immunity is alive and well; and unless we abuse it it will continue to protect us from most infections, and keep us well, just as it has always done.

 

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91 Scientific studies prove naturally acquired immunity provides better protection protection than the Covid-19 Vaccines (a summary given of each study provided here)