A cruise ship arrived and left Sydney over this past weekend with a COVID outbreak on board.
We have memories of the Ruby Princess, which docked in August 2020, where sadly 28 people passed away as a result of COVID outbreak on the ship. The inquiry held after this event highlighted numerous mistakes made by authorities. With the current outbreak experts are in state of panic.
The Daily Mail reports “Health Experts slammed cruise ship…”
Experts like slamming. They would do well in the WWE. Channel 7 news reports 800 guests with COVID on board.
The cruise ship and emerging data has set experts into a flap. Picture yourself an image of chickens running back and forth as you take the fresh food scraps out to them. They are bored with ordinary grain. Wings flapping, heads bobbing. These are the experts.
Of course, the irony is not lost. To go on a cruise, one has to be vaccinated and tested before boarding. Cruises are enjoyed immensely by older people. I certainly know of older folk who have been vaccinated for the sole purpose of being able to go on a cruise.
Passengers disembarking in Sydney this time were told by health authorities not to take public transport to get home. OK that makes sense. What happened with the Ruby Princess was that passengers were let off as normal to make their way home. At the time, when we didn’t know much about COVID in Australia, it was stupidity.
Authorities this time said passengers were “encouraged to take private transport so they could isolate at home”. OK, put everyone in Ubers and taxis and spread it everywhere? There is no place in Sydney near the Overseas passenger terminal, like a long-term car park, where people can park their own personal car while they travel on a ship.
It might have made sense to organise some busses, find unvaccinated drivers with previous infection. They would have good natural immunity. I’ve recently looked at a few Dr Mobeen lectures, see this one on the Qatari study. Unvaccinated people showed protection from reinfection of 90% at 7 months.
The busses could drop infected people directly at their homes. Or perhaps take people to some location remote from the densely populated Sydney harbour area so family can pick them up. If the family picks up that sort of minimises spread, because family will be in contact anyway.
Maybe this is using too much common sense. Tell me in the comments if I’m wrong?
It might have taken a bit of organisation. But experts and authorities are too busy, creating panic amongst the fearful, afraid of missing out on the fresh scraps.
From the Sydney Morning Herald:
Symptoms are mild of course.
The problem that I have with this dismissal of COVID infections, as being mild, is that these mild infections will inevitably make their way to the vulnerable population and inevitably lead to hospitalisations and deaths.
From another Daily Mail article :
'The [new Covid] wave is taking off with some trajectory, it will be quite a steep wave and hopefully the decline will be equally as steep,' Dr Chant told the ABC.
'That's why it's important the community takes these protective measures now and I can't stress the urgency - if you're going to get vaccinated do it immediately.'
Ms Chant added that she expects the fourth Covid wave to drop off before December 25.
Let’s look at some data to see where they get this from. As I write, it is 15 November 2022. The latest Surveillance Report is for the Week Ending 29 October 2022. So publicly available data is just over 2 weeks behind. Here are infections plotted against age group from April, before the start of the previous wave, until the latest report.
I plot raw weekly counts above, not normalising by population of each age group. The infections data is no longer representative of actual infection numbers. It is a combination of PCR tests and Rapid Antigen Tests (RAT). It is also no longer mandated to report RAT results. You don’t have you report your family member to police if they don’t report a result. From 14 October fines no longer applied in NSW.
So, a lot of people are likely not bothering to report positive test. But we should still be able to observe trends over time. We can see a dive in reporting the week of 22 October. Close up of the last few weeks in the graph above:
It looks like infections are going up again. It seems 30-69 year olds are driving this. Authorities must already be seeing further upswing in data not reported yet. Let’s look at hospitalisations (not including ICU) for older ages.
Perhaps we can see hospitalisation going up again from about 8 October.
The NSW Chief Health Officer advises to get vaccinated immediately.
In a recent interview with Geert Vanden Bossche on Bright News, covering his latest insights on the evolution of the pandemic, he uses the term “stupid dumbness” to refer to health authorities, which seems apt.
We know that vulnerability to infection is increased in the immediate period after injection. Epoch Times has another great interview by Jan Jekielek with Dr Meryl Nass, someone who actually knows something about vaccines and has worked in the real world.
From the transcript of the interview with Dr Nass:
With negative efficacy in a vaccinated person, they become either more susceptible to the disease that they were vaccinated against, or they get a worse case of the disease when they’re vaccinated. We actually saw this recently, and this is a kind of a scandal. Dengue.
Dengue is a viral illness. A new dengue vaccine from Sanofi was actually licensed in the Philippines, although it hadn’t gone through full trials, and it was given to lots of kids. When kids got dengue, there were many deaths. This was just in the last four years. That vaccine has now been licensed in the United States for kids.
We now have a little bit of dengue in Hawaii and Florida, in Puerto Rico, in the Virgin Islands, and a tiny bit in Texas. The restriction on that dengue vaccine, Dengvaxia is the name of the vaccine, is that the child should have already had dengue, so that they’re much less likely to have this life threatening result.
There are bad vaccines out there, and the FDA licensed this one in the United States right before the pandemic started, actually. What has happened now with the mRNA vaccines is that when you get vaccinated, for a couple of weeks immediately afterwards, your immune system has been suppressed, and you’re more susceptible to COVID and to other viral infections, including viruses that may already be in your body.
And then, after two weeks, you get some enhancement of immunity against COVID for weeks to months. Depending on the age group and depending on the vaccine, a few months later the immunity slowly wears off. Instead of going to zero, which is what you would logically expect, it goes below zero.
It becomes negative and you become more susceptible to getting COVID in the United States. CDC data shows this, data from New York State shows this, and now data from Kaiser Permanente shows the same thing. After several months in children, and after about six to seven months in adults, after your last shot, you are more susceptible to getting COVID.
An extreme example of the dangers of being vaccinated at the same time as an infection is covered in Arkmedic’s substack. A very sad story where a young lady sought out vaccination in the early days of rollout and caught COVID at the same time.
She died of a heart attack.
Anecdotally I just heard, through a friend, of an older person about to go on a cruise, visiting their doctor and asking if they should get the 4th shot. The doctor actually advised to wait till after the cruise. Clearly this doctor is thinking. 1. If you have an adverse reaction, better to be at home, 2. Don’t make yourself more vulnerable in the petri dish of the cruise. If getting an extra shot, wait till you get back. Maybe someone should tell the Chief Health Officer.
So, while we know there is a wave of infection emerging, making people more vulnerable is foolish. Authorities can’t see the complex system that we exist in.
The prediction from the bureaucrats is that the wave will be over by 25 December. This means it will be sharper than previous waves. We will keep tracking this.
Other News
Great news posted by Rebekah Barnett on her Substack. Five train drivers in NSW won their case for unfair dismissal. From the judge’s ruling:
The judge included in his decision consideration that driving a train is a solitary activity. It seems common sense applied.
It made me recall a piece I saw on Epoch times reported by Roman Balmakov.
At the 5 minute mark in the interview the pilot, who refused vaccination on religious grounds, notes how amongst the ridiculous rules enforced he was required to wear a surgical mask in a single seater fighter plane.
In reality these have been punitive measures by bureaucrats just to create hardship for the people refusing. Those responsible need to be held to account. History will look unkindly at these people.
Slamming
To finish on a lighter note. I’ve noted how experts like to “slam” anything they disagree with. As an exercise go to google and enter search terms: Experts slam COVID
Joe Ladapo is slammed, lab leak theory is slammed, experts are slamming everything related to COVID. For those of you of my generation some will remember this moment from one of the early Wrestlemanias. Hulk Hogan versus Andre the Giant.
The experts think they are slamming. Now this was really a slam.
There is a follow up video with Hulk Hogan recalling that match years later. I could only think of the experts when he describes what happened in his first slam attempt.
Thanks for the article Andrew! It would be interesting to get transparent information on the Ruby Princess. I remember interviews with passengers which I found revealing.
Comparing health bureaucrats to chickens is not very nice to chickens. I think chickens have more personality and sense than the lot of them 😂