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A guide to Euro-speak
As the vaccines war heats up, here are some of the euphemisms the EU uses to disguise its true intentions.
BEN COBLEY
1st February 2021
SpikedDuring the European Union’s ongoing vaccine debacle, we have been treated to the whole range of coded threats and euphemisms that the EU reaches for whenever it finds itself in trouble – from the Euro crisis to the current pandemic. Here is a guide to ‘Euro-speak’ to help you decode what EU politicians and officials are actually saying.
Let’s start with the tall and elegant Michel Barnier. The other day, Barnier gave an interview to The Times, in which he told his British audience, sounding magnanimous: ‘I believe that we must face this crisis with responsibility, certainly not with the spirit of oneupmanship or unhealthy competition… I recommend preserving the spirit of cooperation between us.’
Now, Brexit Britain’s experiences with Barnier and the Brussels propaganda machine over the past five years should tell us that these wonderfully crafted diplomatic phrases may not be so friendly as they initially appear. Indeed, Barnier has shown himself to be adept at using words of high principle to make threats and enforce the EU’s will. After all, in our rationalist age, appearing to be above politics is just about the most effective way of doing politics.
In this instance, Barnier invokes the principles of ‘responsibility’ and ‘cooperation’ as a contrast to ‘oneupmanship’ and ‘unhealthy competition’. We have all learned by now that ‘cooperation’ on the EU’s terms typically means: ‘You do what we say.’ Invoking ‘responsibility’ appears to be a polite way of reiterating European demands for the United Kingdom to give over the vaccines it has secured to the EU.
Barnier is nothing but the ultimate company man. His criticism of ‘oneupmanship’ and ‘unhealthy competition’ is a coded way to complain about someone doing better – it is a diplomatic reframing of the intemperate attacks that other European politicians have levelled against the UK in the past week or so.
Next, we move to the one-man talking shop that is Guy Verhofstadt, who tweeted on Saturday: ‘Vaccine nationalism, wherever it comes from, is a dead end. Article 16 mistake shows [the] importance of constant dialogue and strong UK/EU partnership.’
Again, this may sound like a criticism of the European Commission, which made the incredible blunder of almost imposing a hard border in Ireland without notifying London or even Dublin, and whose spinners have graciously tried to blame an anonymous underling.
However, we know that Guy is the last person to attack EU institutions publicly. Bringing the UK into his critical tweet, he reframes the EU’s vaccines debacle as a matter of joint responsibility. ‘Constant dialogue’, for Guy, likely translates into something along the lines of, ‘We tell you what to do, every day’, while ‘partnership’ means ‘You don’t do anything without our approval’.
Let’s have a look at a few other Euro-euphemisms that have appeared in recent times and attempt to unpick their meanings:
Negotiations: a process by which you agree to do what we say, forever.
Unity: you all do what we say, all the time.
Transparency: you tell us how bad you are and then we punish you. Or: you don’t admit how bad you are and then we punish you.
Rules-based organisation: we set the rules and you obey them. When they don’t work in our favour, we blame you for not following them and invent random new rules by which to punish you.
Having your cake and eating it: expecting to be an independent country and not being punished for it by us.
Cherry-picking: not abiding by the rules.
Peace in Ireland: using Ireland to get our way in negotiations, even predicting violence from Irish paramilitaries if we don’t. Or: randomly declaring a ‘vaccine border’ without consulting anyone in either Ireland or the UK.
Vaccine war: when you use your status as an independent country to encourage vaccine production in your country, at cost, so the world can benefit from cheap vaccines.
From their constant use of ‘our European friends and allies’, it appears that Boris, Gove and Co have developed their own taste for diplomatic euphemism over the fraught past few years. This one would appear to mean something along the lines of: ‘We don’t consider each other as enemies, but if you keep this behaviour up for much longer it’s going to be tough.’
Ben Cobley is author of The Tribe: the Liberal-Left and the System of Diversity, published by Imprint Academic.
A guide to Euro-speak
As the vaccines war heats up, here are some of the euphemisms the EU uses to disguise its true intentions.
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You are one of the "Marks"
Canada too BTW...
The scam is being run by the giant banker types...and the billionaires...just look at who is getting rich from it and who is getting more power.
You are one of the "Marks"
Canada too BTW...
The scam is being run by the giant banker types...and the billionaires...just look at who is getting rich from it and who is getting more power.
The lockdowns are certainly making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Well this silver short squeeze is a sign that the times may be a-changing
The giant banks ( in switzerland AND the city of London AND wall street ) hold a sh!tload of fakenews silver (among other things) and are getting their shorts ripped off.
Britain and America - when it was under that "evil" Trump - have paid far more for the Astra-Zeneca vaccine than the EU has because Britain and America are to supply vaccines to poor countries who can't afford them, whereas the EU is only interesting in getting vaccines just for itself, because it's an inward-looking, insular, organisation.
WAKE UP CALL: CDC Inflated DEATH Numbers 1600% Violating Federal Law
CDC illegally inflated the COVID fatality number by 1,600 percent as the 2020 presidential election played out, according to a study published by the Public Health Initiative of the Institute for Pure and Applied Knowledge”““The groundbreaking peer-reviewed research…asserts that the CDC willfully violated multiple federal laws including the Information Quality Act, Paperwork Reduction Act, and Administrative Procedures Act at minimum.”
Government admits they put covid-19 on every death certificate.
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Official COVID death numbers: the fraud, the killing
Feb2 2021
by Jon Rappoport
There are several reasons to reject and ignore ALL COVID statistics. Chief among the reasons—no one has proved that the virus, SARS-CoV-2, exists.
AARP: Oct. 30, 2020: “In a pandemic filled with grim statistics, one of the grimmest has gone largely unnoticed: 95 percent of COVID-19 deaths in the U.S. have occurred among people who were 50 or older. This even though the majority of coronavirus cases have been reported in people under age 50.”
“The unnerving numbers don’t end there. About 8 in 10 deaths have been among people 65 and older, according to the latest demographic data available from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).”
Let’s move forward in time. From statista.com, “Number of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) deaths in the U.S. as of January 23, 2021”:
“Between the beginning of February 2020 and January 23, 2021, of 359,352 deaths caused by COVID-19 in the United States, almost 115,700 had occurred among those aged 85 years and older.”
Statista goes on to report the COVID death numbers among other age groups. Age 75-84: 99,342 deaths. Age 65-74: 76,404 deaths. Age 55-64: 42,031 deaths.
Adding up all the COVID deaths in the 55-and-older age groups, we get 333,477—out of 359,352 total COVID deaths registered at the time of the Statista report.
93% of all COVID deaths in the US have occurred in people 55 years old and older.
I’ll build on that analysis: Most of these people who died had multiple long-term health conditions. They had been treated, for years, perhaps decades, with toxic medical drugs.
Buying into COVID propaganda, most of these elderly people were terrified they might receive a diagnosis of COVID-19. Then they DID receive that diagnosis.
THEN they were put into isolation, cut off from contact with family and loved ones—and they folded up and died.
NO VIRUS REQUIRED.
Note: Some of these elderly and frail people were heavily sedated and put on breathing ventilators. In a large New York study of hospitalized COVID patients, 97.2% of all patients 65 and older who were put on ventilators died. 97.2 PERCENT.
Whether ventilated or not, in these 55-and-older patients, we are talking about FORCED PREMATURE DEATHS—through terror induced by the COVID diagnosis, plus isolation from friends and family, on top of their prior serious health conditions and long-term toxic medical treatments.
NO VIRUS NECESSARY.
No need for a fairy tale virus to explain their deaths.
Therefore, using official death numbers, roughly 93% of all US COVID deaths are explained with no reference to a virus.
“Well, we killed as many old people as we could. That gives us the necessary COVID numbers…”
Perhaps you think the 55-64 age group is “too young.” I shouldn’t include them. All right. If we just consider 65 and older, the deaths in that group are 81% of all US COVID deaths. Still a staggering figure.
There is no pandemic.
Sounds like these people are just looking for an excuse to do poo swipes.
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Coronavirus vaccine unlikely to stop infection, World Health Organization says
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Masks Don’t Work: A Review of Science Relevant to COVID-19 Social Policy
Masks Don’t Work: A Review of Science Relevant to COVID-19 Social Policy
There have been extensive randomized controlled trial (RCT) studies, and meta-analysis reviews of RCT studies, which all show that masks and respirators do not work to prevent respiratory influenza-like illnesses, or respiratory illnesses believed to be transmitted by droplets and aerosol...
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Moderna boss says COVID-19 vaccine not proven to stop spread of virus
Moderna boss says COVID-19 vaccine not proven to stop spread of virus
Moderna’s coronavirus vaccine may not get life back to normal right away because it hasn’t yet been proven to prevent the deadly bug from spreading, the company’s top doctor says.…
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Coronavirus vaccine unlikely to stop infection, World Health Organization says
Grim reality of COVID-19 vaccine
As countries like the United States and Britain grapple with spiralling coronavirus case numbers, the World Health Organisation has warned the vaccines are unlikely to prevent one of the biggest problems with the virus.
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GOV. ANDREW CUOMO WEIGHS IN ON REPORT OF LYING ABOUT NURSING HOME DEATHS, "WHO CARES?"
New York Governor Cuomo faced criticism on Friday about how his administration handled the coronavirus pandemic.This comes a day after the state’s attorney general had said that the number of nursing home deaths from COVID-19 were severely undercounted by more than 50%.
The unapologetic governor said everything except that he was at fault and should take responsibility. He claimed it was political football, and claimed it was President Trump's fault, and tried talking about how he lost his dad, and blah blah blah.
“Your staff is often unapologetically aggressive when it comes to defending your policies, particularly on social media,” a reporter said to Cuomo during a press conference. “But in this case, many of the people who disagree with how this whole situation was handled with the nursing homes have a very personal connection to it. They’ve lost someone in the pandemic tied to a nursing home. So the policy aside—who was right, who was wrong—just as a father, as a son, what would your message be to those families today?”
“What I would say is everyone did the best they could. When I say the State Department of Health, as the report said, the State Department of Health followed federal guidance. So if you think there was a mistake, then go talk to the federal government,” Cuomo responded. “It’s not about pointing fingers of blame. It’s that this became a political football, right? Look, whether a person died in the hospital or died in a nursing home, it’s, the people died. People died.”
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“96% of the people who die are older people with comorbidities, which happens to be the population that lives in nursing homes,” he continued. “It’s continuing today, even with all the testing that we’re doing. If you look at New York State, we have a lower percentage of deaths in nursing homes than other states. A third of all deaths in this nation are from nursing homes. New York state we’re only about 28% … but were below the national average in number of deaths in nursing homes.”
“But who cares? 3,328 died in a hospital, died in a nursing home. They died.”
Gov. Andrew Cuomo Weighs in on Report of Lying About Nursing Home Deaths, "Who Cares?"
New York Governor Cuomo faced criticism on Friday about how his administration handled the coronavirus pandemic. This comes a day after the state’s attorney general had said that the number of nursing home deaths from COVID-19 were severely undercounted by more than 50%. The unapologetic...
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The EU is in denial about its vaccine failures
EU leaders are trying to claim that their botched rollout is going better than expected. Who are they kidding?
SPIKED
2nd February 2021
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The EU is having a terrible time with its vaccine rollout. As the UK approaches the impressive figure of 10million vaccinations, no EU country has reached even three million. In the past week, the EU has resorted to export controls on vaccines as supplies started to run out. It even came close to imposing a hard border in Ireland, to ensure EU-made vaccines didn’t end up in the UK via Northern Ireland.
The EU’s reputation has been severely bruised. As a coping mechanism, European leaders have responded with spin, denial and obfuscation. Here are some of their most ludicrous efforts:
‘The EU is doing better than Africa’
Martin Selmayr, once one of the EU’s most powerful civil servants, has pretended to be impressed with the EU’s vaccine progress. Europe, he boasted, is beating Africa: ‘The EU… vaccinated 12million people in three weeks… In Africa only 20,000 people have been vaccinated so far.’Congratulations are surely due to Brussels for managing to vaccinate more people than the poorest continent on the planet.
‘Going slow is better, actually’
German chancellor Angela Merkel reckons the EU’s vaccine rollout isn’t going so badly at all. She said on Monday, ‘We can stick to our statement that by the end of the third quarter… we will be able to make every citizen an offer of vaccination’. She also added, ‘I think there are also good reasons why [the rollout] has been slower’ – as if the delays weren’t largely the result of EU cock-ups.‘The EU hasn’t failed – Britain has’
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen today accused the UK of failing its ‘gigantic responsibility’ to ensure the vaccines are properly safe. She accused British regulators of ‘compromising’ safety for speed.‘Yes, Europe left it later, but it was the right decision. I remind you that a vaccine is the injection of an active biological substance into a healthy body’, she told European journalists. Of course, the EU is currently using the same vaccines as the UK. In every case so far, the UK’s and EU’s regulators have reached the same conclusions on efficacy and safety, only the UK has done so much more quickly.
‘The vaccines don’t work anyway’
The EU’s vaccine woes burst into view two weeks ago, when AstraZeneca announced that it would only be able to supply less than half of the doses the EU ordered. Since then, the French and German governments have started briefing against the jab. And last week, on the same day the European Medicines Agency approved it, French president Emmanuel Macron made an astonishing intervention. ‘The real problem on AstraZeneca is that it doesn’t work the way we were expecting it to… today everything points to thinking it is quasi-ineffective on people older than 65, some say those 60 years or older’, he told reporters. Macron, like a spurned lover, insists it’s fine that his countrymen have been left unvaccinated – he never wanted the jab anyway.‘That Irish border thing was just an oversight’
One of the most explosive consequences of the EU’s flailing over vaccines was its shock decision to trigger Article 16 of the Northern Ireland Protocol. Article 16 is a mechanism in the Brexit deal which allows either the EU or the UK to suspend aspects of the deal in situations of extreme ‘economic, societal or environmental difficulties’. In triggering Article 16, the EU was effectively drawing up a border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland to halt the flow of vaccines.After making a u-turn, the European Commission said it was merely an ‘oversight’ and that a ‘mistake was made somewhere along the way’.
An Irish government source, meanwhile, said Article 16 might have been triggered by ‘someone who did not understand the political implications of the decision’. All of this made it sound as if a poor intern was left responsible for triggering articles in international treaties, rather than the Commission leadership.
Von der Leyen then tried to pass the blame on to her deputy, Valdis Dombrokis, EU commissioner for trade. This is despite the fact that prior to the announcement of the vaccine export ban policy, von der Leyen took personal charge of the EU’s vaccine brief.
‘The EU isn’t perfect’
The EU cannot be expected to get everything right, according to European Commission spokesman Eric Mamer. ‘In my country we have a saying, “Only the pope is infallible”’, he said. (Perhaps he was one of the EU officials who didn’t understand the political sensitivities in Northern Ireland…) ‘Mistakes can happen along the way’, admitted Mamer. ‘The important thing is that you recognise them early on.’ Of course, the EU did not recognise its mistake on its own – it took angry phone calls from the British and Irish governments to force it to back down.The slow vaccine rollout in Europe is a disaster made in Brussels. Europeans have been badly let down. A slower vaccine rollout will lead to unnecessary deaths and socially crippling restrictions. The excuses are starting to wear thin.
The EU is in denial about its vaccine failures
EU leaders are trying to claim that their botched rollout is going better than expected. Who are they kidding?
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It’s A COVID Miracle! UK Flu Cases At 130-Year Low
Experts are crediting “lockdowns and new health habits,” after UK flu numbers dropped over 95% in what is a 130-year low.“Out of 3.9 million patients at 385 GP practices across England last week, only 35 had the flu,” Sky News writes.
According to Yahoo News, “Medical experts said flu appears to have been ‘almost completely wiped out’ after rates plummeted by a whopping 95%.”
Mainstream media claims COVID measures and increased publicity about the importance of taking the flu vaccine have contributed to this drop.
However, the increase in vaccinations has been minimal compared to the drop in flu cases.
No, it couldn't be the 97% inaccurate PCR tests...as stated by all the relevant parties like Fauci, the CDC, the FDA, and the (terrorist headed) WHO..
The missing flu riddle: 'Influenza has been renamed COVID,' maverick epidemiologist says
As influenza levels continue cratering, some cite COVID measures — even as COVID rates have multiplied nearly sevenfold since the spring in spite of enhanced mitigation policies.Rates of influenza have remained persistently low through late 2020 and into 2021, cratering from levels a year ago and raising the puzzling specter of sharply reduced influenza transmission rates even as positive tests for COVID-19 have shattered numerous records over the last several weeks.
Where have all the flu cases gone?
Epidemiologist Knut Wittkowski thinks he can answer the riddle.
"Influenza has been renamed COVID in large part," said the former head of biostatistics, epidemiology and research design at Rockefeller University.
"There may be quite a number of influenza cases included in the 'presumed COVID' category of people who have COVID symptoms (which Influenza symptoms can be mistaken for), but are not tested for SARS RNA," Wittkowski told Just the News on Thursday.
Those patients, he argued, "also may have some SARS RNA sitting in their nose while being infected with Influenza, in which case the influenza would be 'confirmed' to be COVID."
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's weekly influenza surveillance tracker reports that the cumulative positive influenza test rate from late September into the week of Dec. 19 stands at 0.2% as measured by clinical labs. That's compared to a cumulative 8.7% from a year before.
The weekly comparisons are even starker: This week one year ago, the positive clinical rate was 22%, where now it stands at 0.1%.
Those low numbers continue trends observed earlier in the year in which flu rates have remained at near-zero levels. The trend is not limited to the U.S. Worldwide, health authorities have all reported sharply decreased influenza levels throughout what is normally peak flu season in the northern hemisphere. Rates in the southern hemisphere were also low this year.
COVID mitigation measures cited even as COVID cases surge
Numerous experts have pointed to the ongoing COVID-19 mitigation measures — including mask-wearing, physical separation, and other anti-virus tactics — as an explanation for decreased flu levels.
Timothy Sly, an epidemiology professor at Ryerson University in Toronto, told Just the News that "the reduced incidence of seasonal influenza is almost certainly due to the protection that a large proportion of the population has been using for many months." Those measures, he said, are "designed to be effective against any airborne respiratory virus."
Holden Maecker, a professor of microbiology and immunology at Stanford University, echoed that assessment. "I feel pretty confident that the COVID-19 mitigation measures have caused the reduction in flu cases this year," he said. "Masks, social distancing, and hand washing are all effective counter-measures against colds and flu."
Speculating on why COVID levels have continued to soar if those measures have been so effective at stopping the flu, Maecker said: "I think it's because (1) there is less pre-existing immunity to SARS-CoV-2 in the population, whereas most of us have had vaccines and/or previous bouts with flu; and (2) the SARS-CoV-2 virus seems to spread more easily than influenza, including more aerosol transmission and 'super-spreader' events. Flu transmission is almost entirely close-range droplets and hand-to-nose or eyes contact."
Sly also argued that the different dynamics of COVID-19 and influenza transmission likely play a role.
Claiming that mask-wearing and social distancing are not universal, Sly said that "major transmission events" can result in explosive spread of the coronavirus
"All viral acute respiratory infections will be curtailed by distancing and masking: influenzas A and B, Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), common cold (more than 100 types of virus), and of course, CoV-19," he said. "But if the precautions are not universal, the transmissions that DO take place will have different consequences and rates of spread."
Wittkowski — who has been among the relatively few academics to consistently criticize widespread COVID mitigation measures — counters that there was "no evidence to support" the contention that masks would stop influenza while failing to stop COVID.
"I think that these viruses are more similar than people want to acknowledge," he continued. "People know everybody is wearing masks and distancing, and so people want to come up with things that are good about it."
Public health officials have at times struggled to explain why positive COVID tests have surged upward in places — such as California, Pennsylvania and elsewhere — where policies such as social distancing and mask mandates have been in place for months.
Data indicate that more than nine out of every ten Americans in most states are wearing masks in public regularly; those numbers have been above 80% since the early fall. Yet average positive COVID-19 tests have multiplied by nearly seven times since the spring peak.
Politicians and health experts have claimed at times that those surging numbers are being driven by individuals who are failing to wear masks and socially distance themselves from others, though such assertions are not often accompanied by much supporting evidence.
A 2019 World Health Organization study, meanwhile, found "no evidence that [wearing a mask] is effective in reducing transmission" of influenza, potentially suggesting that masks may not be playing much role in the currently reduced influenza levels being seen throughout the world.
Wittkowski, who has numerous times over the course of the pandemic called for an end to lockdowns, social distancing measures, and mask mandates, dismissed the idea that those policies could ultimately have much effect on the spread of COVID-19. He has argued that herd immunity, either through natural infections or through a vaccine, is the only way to blunt transmission of the virus. "Pandemics end in the same way," he said, "whether we do something or not."
The missing flu riddle: 'Influenza has been renamed COVID,' maverick epidemiologist says
As influenza levels continue cratering, some cite COVID measures — even as COVID rates have multiplied nearly sevenfold since the spring in spite of enhanced mitigation policies.
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We have less flu because miracle of miracles, spread of the flu is also reduced by wearing masks and social distancing and washing hands and working from home.
I just got over the flu. This round runs for 3 weeks. It started as an ear infection.