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The European Union has set out its commitment to the continued use of lockdowns, mask mandates, vaccine passports and other restrictions this winter to control the spread of COVID-19, and also to the creation of a “legally binding” global pandemic treaty with a “reinforced WHO at its centre”.

The document, published on September 2nd and titled “EU response to COVID-19: preparing for autumn and winter 2023", was prepared by the EU Commission (the EU executive) and sent to the EU Parliament.

It reveals how much in thrall to the new biosecurity orthodoxy the EU leadership is and bodes ill for the future management of contagious disease in the bloc and globally.

On lockdowns and other restrictions, it proposes a framework of “key indicators to assess when deciding on reintroducing non-pharmaceutical measures”. These indicators include severe disease and hospital occupancy data, and importantly are stated to relate not just to COVID-19 but to influenza as well, making this potentially part of normal winter disease management, continuing indefinitely.

It suggests mask mandates as a “first option to limit community transmission”, giving a preference for FFP2 masks.

[Face mask] use in closed public spaces, including public transport, can be a first option to limit community transmission.

Recent evidence shows that FFP2 face masks, which are readily available in the EU/EEA, have a stronger protective effect than medical masks or cloth masks in the community.

Member States are therefore strongly encouraged to consider their use in specific settings.

The document recommends the pre-emptive imposition of work-from-home and gathering limits before any rise in infections to try to avoid the “need for more disruptive ones such as lock downs, closing businesses and schools, stay-at-home recommendations and travel restrictions”. It stresses the need for “political commitment” to make lockdowns and other measures work.

Other measures such as working from home or limiting the size of mass gatherings have proved effective to limit transmission of the virus.

When implemented ahead of increases in cases, these measures can avoid the need for more disruptive ones such as lockdowns, closing businesses and schools, stay-at-home recommendations and travel restrictions.

Political commitment and community engagement are key for the success and the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical measures.

The one welcome aspect of the document was the clear statement to avoid disrupting children’s education and lives any further, though even here school closures were not ruled out.

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the lives of children and adolescents affecting their everyday routines, education, health, development and overall well-being.

It is therefore important to keep in mind the negative impacts of school disruptions on the health and development of children.

The implementation of measures at schools should be aimed to be kept at a minimum and the further loss of learning should be prevented.

The document discourages travel restrictions – freedom of travel and the elimination of internal borders being an article of faith for the EU. However, it recommends use of the EU Digital Covid Certificate (i.e., vaccine passport, though it also recognizes natural immunity) wherever travel restrictions are “necessary”, boasting about how widely it is already used . . .

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From Dr. Joel S. Hirschhorn: We should pay attention to the frightening ideas of Geert Vanden Bossche. This long article is worthwhile, no matter how well informed you think you are.

Rather than control the pandemic, vaccines now appear instead to be contributing to it—with alarming implications, Vanden Bossche warns.

Virologist Geert Vanden Bossche predicts a vicious wave of covid-19 that will be driven by the vaccinated, or, more accurately, by the scientifically dubious policy of repeated mass vaccination.

ANTWERP, Belgium - I spent nearly three hours in this historic city on October 11 in an interview with Geert Vanden Bossche, who has devoted years to studying the complex interplay between vaccines and the human immune system. In our talk, this Belgian veterinarian-turned-virologist and vaccine researcher made unsettling predictions for the future.

I can only hope that Vanden Bossche, 62, is wrong. Let’s for the moment assume he is, that there are significant variables that can and often do intervene. That will make this story easier to read as well as write.

From the start, I asked Vanden Bossche to speak, uncharacteristically for him, in as simple terms as possible.

The short version is this: He predicts a vicious wave of covid-19, with cases already rising in parts of Europe. The coming re-emergence of SARS-CoV-2 will escalate quickly, he contends, and make all other waves pale in comparison. It will, he believes, be driven by the vaccinated, or more accurately, by the misdirected and scientifically dubious policy of repeated mass vaccination.

Vanden Bossche has long asserted that the global covid vaccination program, unprecedented in human history, would put enormous pressure on the virus to mutate; his warning has repeatedly been proven true. While the unvaccinated gained long-lasting, adaptable natural immunity from covid infection, the vaccinated harbor a confused and mostly unhelpful array of old-variant anti-spike antibodies; Vanden Bossche believes these so complicate the immune response that more serious disease from new variants will result. In the vaccinated, the SARS-CoV-2 virus, he predicts, will imminently turn a corner from more contagious to more virulent.

“The losses will be huge,” Vanden Bossche, dressed in a scarf and light jacket, told me across a table in a sunny outdoor café. Hospitals will be overwhelmed, he believes. Stability will be shaken. He has told his 20-something children (two daughters and a son), to prepare for this, even though he and his family are unvaccinated. “Literally there is no immunity, no single protection left for the vaccinated,” he said . . .http://allnewspipeline.com/Vaccine_Expert_Warns_Of_Catastrophe_Within_Months_Driven_By_The_Vaccinated.php

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The reason the FDA is blocking the release of these reports should be obvious to anyone that has two brain cells to rub together. The reports are definitely NOT good news . . . SC]

By presidentialhill.com - October 26, 2022

According to a report from The Epoch Times, the Food and Drug Administration is refusing to comply with a Freedom of Information Act request for all autopsy reports concerning deaths reported to the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) following COVID vaccination.

The FDA refused to release the results saying it is barred from releasing medical files.

The agency cited federal law that allows agencies to withhold any information if an agency believes disclosure could “harm an interest protected by an exemption,” namely personnel and medical files, that “constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.”

The Epoch Times has appealed the FDA’s decision.

However, a drug safety advocate argues that the FDA could release the autopsy reports so long as personal information is redacted.

Kim Witczak, who advises the FDA in her role on the Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee, told The Epoch Times that personal information could be redacted “without losing the potential learnings” from the autopsy. Witczak said the information submitted to VAERS is submitted with the understanding that it will be reviewed and investigated, including autopsy reports.

She said a review of the autopsies is an “important part of the postmortem analysis” which should be done especially around the “increased deaths following COVID-19 vaccination.”

However, a spokesperson from the FDA maintained that deaths following COVID vaccinations are rare.

As of last month, around 616 million doses of the COVID mRNA vaccines had been administered in the United States. By September 14, there had been 16,516 reports of death following COVID vaccination. [That number of deaths is likely under-reported by a factor of at least 20 and probably more like 40 according to a study conducted by Harvard on the actual reporting to the VAERS database. Therefore, a more realistic count on the number of vaxxx related deaths in the US alone would be something in the range of ~350,000 to over 650,000 deaths . . . SC]

The FDA spokesperson refused to say whether the FDA would ever comply with the FOIA request and release the autopsy results . . .

[SNIP]

CLICK THIS LINK TO READ THE REST OF THE ARTICLE. https://principia-scientific.com/fda-is-blocking-post-vax-death-autopsy-results/

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Oct 27, 2022·edited Oct 27, 2022Liked by Stegiel

What a fantastic post! Thank you. All so true, as a born and bread in Poland (left mid 81) I've had experience most of it. Thank you for introducing me to Mackiewicz. But the irony, the irony... What came was just a part of the big plan.

Only learnt the truth few years ago. The is and old saying in Polish that would

roughly translate "from the rain under the gutter" = from the frying pan into the fire. How could it be that looking back (today) I consider those times a lesser evil? The methods were cruel (and crude), perfidious as they were and still, what's been happening there (and her) seems to be much, much worse and a lot more dangerous. This is my opinion. Once again, thank you very much for this post.

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