Data as OpenDocument Format

ack in October I looked at the data from Ireland for the first quarter of each year, focusing on total number of deaths, irrespective of cause and age.

We now have data for the second quarter (Q2) of this year.

Total number of deaths in second quarter (Q2), by year:

Q2 2019: 7519
Q2 2020: 8582
Q2 2021: 6700
Q2 2022: 9326

The official data for England only runs until the 19^th, so let’s compare apples to apples:

2022 hospitalisations per day with COVID-19

19-12-2022 1,296
18-12-2022 1,176
17-12-2022 799
16-12-2022 834
15-12-2022 1,064
14-12-2022 963
13-12-2022 1,026

2021 hospitalisations per day with COVID-19

19-12-2021 926
18-12-2021 735
17-12-2021 743
16-12-2021 777
15-12-2021 805
14-12-2021 815
13-12-2021 794

2020 hospitalisations per day with COVID-19

19-12-2020 1,812
18-12-2020 1,672
17-12-2020 1,873
16-12-2020 1,796
15-12-2020 1,730
14-12-2020 1,746
13-12-2020 1,581

Meanwhile ONS says that due to some unspecified technical error it cannot publish the latest death toll/tally (for December), which seems awfully strange. How hard can it be to just count death certificates? No classification or further certifications of them is required, just a running sum/total.

The official government propaganda will likely say the above are not hospitalised for coronavirus but for something else, but how is that any different from last year (wintertime)?

In spite of very scarce testing, 28.8% more COVID-19 positives were registered in the latest week compared to the prior week.

COVID-19 is still with us and it kills many people. The media must not ignore this.

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Covax

https://www.who.int/initiatives/act-accelerator/covax

WHO, Covid vaccine site

https://www.who.int/emergencies/diseases/novel-coronavirus-2019/covid-19-vaccines

Site as of 12st December 2022

Everyone, everywhere, should have access to COVID-19 vaccines.

WHO is determined to maintain the momentum for increasing access to COVID-19 vaccines,

and will continue to support countries in accelerating vaccine delivery,

to save lives and prevent people from becoming seriously ill.

Countries should continue to work towards vaccinating at least 70% of their populations

WHO vaccine equity site

https://www.who.int/campaigns/vaccine-equity

This represents a serious threat to the fragile economic recovery,

including due to the risk of new variants creating large waves of serious disease,

and death in populations with low vaccination coverage.

Director general press release

https://www.who.int/director-general/speeches/detail/who-director-general-s-opening-remarks-at-the-media-briefing—14-december-2022

Only one in five people in low-income countries has been vaccinated;

Access to diagnostics and life-saving treatments for COVID-19 remains unacceptably unaffordable and unequal;

Also mentioned

Greater Horn of Africa

Cholera outbreaks in 29 countries

Haiti, 1,200 confirmed cases, 14,000 suspected and 280 reported deaths

Haiti received almost 1.2 million doses of oral cholera vaccines

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/263838/Green-Book-Chapter-14v2_0.pdf

50% of severe cases die within a few hours

With good treatment, mortality is less than 1%

Faecal–oral route

Oral, killed cholera vaccine

Contains 1mg of recombinant cholera toxin

Four strains of killed Vibrio cholerae

Yellow card scheme, Don’t wait for someone else to report it

www.gov.uk/drug-safety-update/yellow-card-please-h…

It is estimated that only 10% of serious reactions and between 2 and 4% of non-serious reactions are reported.

Yellow card government site, just a click away

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

As of 23 November 2022, (UK)

Pfizer/BioNTech, monovalent and bivalent

177,925 Yellow Cards have been reported

AstraZeneca

246,866 have been reported

Moderna, monovalent and bivalent

47,045 have been reported

Novavax

52 reports

Brand of vaccine was not specified

2,130 reports

Total reports

474,018

Overall reporting rate

Around 2 to 5 Yellow Cards per 1,000 doses administered

In the 28 days

Pfizer/BioNTech, + 2,499 reports

AstraZeneca, + 228

Moderna, + 1,099

Novavax, + 15

Brand not specified, + 154

For all COVID-19 vaccines

injection-site reactions (sore arm for example)

generalised symptoms such as ‘flu-like’ illness

headache, chills, fatigue (tiredness), nausea (feeling sick), fever, dizziness, weakness, aching muscles, rapid heartbeat

they may be reported more frequently in younger adults

Overall, our advice remains that the benefits of the vaccines outweigh the risks in the majority of people.

The benefits of the vaccines in preventing COVID-19 and serious complications associated with COVID-19 far outweigh any currently known side effects in the majority of patients.

https://wchh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/psb.1789

Google YT guidelines

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9891785

Claims that an approved COVID-19 vaccine will cause death, infertility, miscarriage, autism, or contraction of other infectious diseases

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulatory-approval-of-covid-19-vaccine-moderna/information-for-healthcare-professionals-on-covid-19-vaccine-moderna

4.4 Special warnings and precautions for use

Hypersensitivity and anaphylaxis
Anaphylaxis has been reported in individuals who have received Spikevax.

Close observation for at least 15 minutes is recommended following vaccination.

Myocarditis and pericarditis

There is an increased risk for myocarditis and pericarditis following vaccination with Spikevax.

Few days, primarily occurred within 14 days,

more often after the second dose,

more often in younger males

risk profile appears to be similar for the second and the third dose

Available data suggest that the course of myocarditis and pericarditis following vaccination is not different from myocarditis or pericarditis in general.

Healthcare professionals should be alert to the signs and symptoms of myocarditis and pericarditis.

Vaccinated individuals should be instructed to seek immediate medical attention if they develop symptoms indicative of myocarditis or pericarditis,

such as (acute or persisting) chest pain, shortness of breath or palpitations following vaccination.

Healthcare professionals should consult guidance and/or specialists to diagnose and treat this condition.

Who can get a COVID-19 vaccine

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/coronavirus-vaccination/coronavirus-vaccine/

Everyone aged 5 (on or before 31 August 2022) and over can get a 1st and 2nd dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.

People aged 16 and over, and some children aged 12 to 15, can also get a booster dose.
Hypertension after COVID-19 vaccination

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34985455/

Italian research

A “dog ate my homework” moment?

After much waiting, and maybe a dozen page refreshes^*, we finally get this:

Are these numbers reliable?

Can they blame Microsoft Excel? Either way, vigilant citizens are being left in the dark for about 3 weeks^**. How hard can it be to just count death certificates (no classification needed)?

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^* I’ve been very eager to see these numbers. We see reports about COVID and hospitalisation surges.
^** It’s hard not to feel like they may be ‘hiding’ the dead now (the totals at least). Delaying the information? We have a vaccine crisis, virus crisis, freezing wave etc.

Aside from the bizarre working hours, there were other factors.

Summary: Abuse and bullying by management at Sirius ‘Open Source’ caused health problems for some staff; this is no laughing matter as there can be legal ramifications

THIS series is about halfway through now. It has only been prepared for a number of weeks and more material is being added as we go along.

Speaking for myself, I never took sick leave (or time off work for illness) in my entire time in the company. The same goes for my wife. But colleagues have had different experiences. One was rushed to the hospital with COVID-19 (from which he never fully recovered) and another suffered from abuse by managers. This abuse was causing health issues, in effect harming the health of staff, as we shall show much later in this series. This is what happens when completely untrained (not merely insufficiently or improperly trained) people are assigned or entrusted to manage a company with workers who are difficult to recruit and then retain. Skilled and experienced staff is very hard to find and keep.

As a reminder, managers at Sirius aren’t there for their skills but for nepotism. They posses no relevant skills and clients can notice this. Of course it can in turn lead to contract cancellations and non-renewals.

Here’s the relevant part of the report:

In later years the nepotism (to be expanded upon in the final section) became apparent. Some people were basically implicitly shielded from criticism.

For instance, one colleague was often late to the shift and did not apologise. Her partner did the same thing — basically came online almost half an hour late without apology. This is abject disrespect for colleagues, even people who have been in the company for much longer than them. The three-way relationship involved here will be explained later.

The above examples are merely a small subset and some are based on distant but accurate recollections of a rather dark era of distress. When a conceited manager is accusing, without any actual evidence, people of “cooking” while on the job it doesn’t sound like management but just an attempt to shame staff. As an aside, it was often unclear what the management itself was doing (if anything substantial at all). There was a sentiment that some management people colluded and perpetrated schemes against individual members of staff, not limited to Roy and Rianne. This often backfired. There were also examples of retaliation attempts. One common tactic, which can be witnessed outside the realm of high-tech as well, is to psychologically manipulate or assign people nonsensical things, e.g. asking then to perform totally meaningless jobs that don’t yield anything at all and don’t improve but rather worsen the service, encumbering staff, never to be checked by anyone (as if just to waste time). This happened in Sirius too.

The hypocrisy was not just routine; it was a new standard, e.g. reprimanding people for not picking up the phone fast enough even when there were upstream technical faults (supplier) or when Reception was far slower to pick up the phone, if at all. This sort of hypocrisy or these attempts to shame staff are akin to guilt tripping. Healthy work environments would weed out such behaviour outright.