So another of Campbell’s daily attempts to undermine confidence in public health strategies and to keep the money rolling in to his YouTube account is referenced here.

The usual smug face and cynicism is on full display, along with the attempts to validate the paper it’s based on by linking it to the site it appears on, in much the way the WHO was used before. This time it’s Oxford Academic.

The actual author is a surgeon from the USA who seems to have taken it upon himself to express opinions about vaccinations. He is not a virologist but some of his previous opinions don’t seem unreasonable, so let’s see.

I await more knowledgeable people than me to study the results of the data that was collected and express informed opinions on it, but at first glance this seems like powerful support of the need for tailored booster vaccines. If infection by the Delta variant was causing a highly significant greater protection against re-infection than the original vaccines then a targeted booster makes sense. Whilst the original vaccines still protected against severe disease they became less effective against re infection.

Let’s see what the real experts have to say about what these statistics reveal. In the meantime, based on his past record, I will treat Campbell’s analysis with considerable caution.

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You and your 'alternative' information sources. You keep posting these ludicrous soudbites from well-qualified scientists, rather than believing our public-school educated elites. Thank goodness you and your type are a minority, and all us well-behaved people do as we are told without even questioning.

I disengage, I turn the page.

They aren’t though from “well qualified scientists” are they?

They are from a gobby self-opinionated chancer who has found an easier way to make money than just being an “actor” and a nurse educator.Both Nursing and Teaching are respectable professions, but not science. He has also found a way of picking up pieces of official data and putting his own spin on it with nods and winks to provide an eager audience with the “proof” they need that all that has been and is being, done to protect people is a monstrous conspiracy between governments and the pharma industries. Whilst getting very rich whilst doing so. He is very clever but so was Charles Ponzi, and I don’t think he would be trusted today, though people still fall for schemes that bear his name.

A movie will be made about all of this at some time. There is a rich story line just waiting to be told.

There is no need to listen to any public-school educated elites. There is though a need to listen to genuine experts, find where the consensus lies and to follow the advice. The distrust of science and expert opinion, in all fields, that exists today is undermining the foundations of our society. Spread on the internet, where does it originate and who profits from it? Maybe you should have asked the recently deceased founder of the Wagner group. He might have had a clue.

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Wasn't sure where to put this.

So according to the ONS in 2021 the economy shrunk by 1.2% in the last quarter (COVID). Cue renting of clothes and blame Brexit.

Only it didn't shrink it grew by 0.6%.

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This only goes to show what I and others have said about BOE, ONS the IMF and OBR, they are not to be trusted their forecasts are inaccurate and they can't even tell what has happened correctly.

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Since when are comments about the reasons why videos are made “ad hominems”? Those making them aren’t users of this site so nothing said can be regarded as personal.

No-one questions what Campbell did prior to making videos, or indeed that his original intention and early videos wasn’t honourable. It was. What has happened since has been described by me, and many others better qualified than any here to make informed, objective judgements, as far from honourable. He has found a hungry, lucrative market eager for scraps to feed their prejudices. It’s clever, even admirable, but not honourable.

When the obnoxious term “anti-white” rears its ugly head in a comment you know that the whole argument has failed. It’s nonsense.

If people don’t believe that there is, and has been for several years, manipulation of opinion here, and in the west as a whole, by countries who wish us harm, then I suggest they need to do more research. Our security services know it and have counter measures in place to try to mitigate it. It’s real though.

Denying it exists or that their own views are incapable of being influenced by it, is to deny the obvious.

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You must have selective memory syndrome. When it was announced that the economy had shrunk by 1.2% the media made a big deal out of it and so did the Remainers.

If the ONS figures are unreliable and subject to correction then perhaps they should not release them until they do have all the data.

It matters because if people are told we are going into recession it knocks business and consumer confidence.

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