Vaccine budget, Deaths from vax
P140.5 billion vaccine budget
January 12, 2021
Yesterday, a friend pointed me at this post by the Department of Finance @DOFPH:
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https://www.facebook.com/DOFPH/posts/1637031889791421?_rdc=1&_rdr
January 11, 2020, 9:05 am
LOOK: Summary of funding for the Philippines’ Vaccination Deployment Plan
In a recent interview with CNN Philippines, Finance Assistant Secretary and Spokesperson Paola Alvarez said the government’s national vaccination plan aims to vaccinate 100 million Filipinos without exemption. All vaccines to be administered under this program shall be free of charge.
The Philippines’ Vaccination Deployment Plan (PVDP) will be funded by the following sources:
• Department of Health (DOH) Budget - ₱2.5 billion
• Government financial institutions (GFIs) and Government-owned or controlled corporations (GOCCs) - ₱20 billion
• Low-cost and long-term loans - ₱48 billion
• Unprogrammed appropriations - ₱70 billion
The loans come with very low interest and are payable for over a prolonged period of time. Policies from these banks will also guarantee that each Peso lent is allocated solely to the PDVP.
Watch the full interview here: https://www.facebook.com/CNNPhilippines/videos/220358532971184/
Take note of this: “vaccinate 100 million Filipinos without exemption.”
Meaning, mandatory vaccination? PH population this 2021 projected at 110 M, so 10 M cannot be vaccinated (exclude newly-born, very frail people, with lots of allergies, etc). So 100% mandatory vaccination of the 100 M?
Compare also that P140.5B vax budget with these 8 Departments’ approved budget in 2021 GAA, in P Billion:
DENR 23.6, DOJ 23.1, DFA 22.4, DTI 21.4,
DOF 16.0, NEDA 11.2, DOT 3.1, DBM 1.8.
Plus OVP 0.9, UP system (including PGH) 21.5 = P145B.
If push turns to shove and kicks, many of these agencies can be defunded just to fund huge vax pushing agenda.
The unofficial campaign season for May 2022 Presidential, Senatorial, local elections starts this year. If one has a skeptical mind, assume that at least 10% of the P140.5 B vax budget alone would be diverted by those in political power now, that's P14B clear. If one is more pessimistic, assume 20%, 30% diversion, big happiness for the political class. Plus vaccine suppliers from China to Russia to America will be happy. Also the in-betweens like the endless vax pushers among local physicians, health NGOs, media, etc. People too because they will get "free" vax. But unfree potential side effects, unfree future taxes.
I am suspicious of people, physicians included, who (1) push indefinite lockdown, (2) shoot down proven cheap early treatment, and (3) gung-ho about vaccine pushing.
If cheap, proven, early treatments don't exist, I would understand vaccine pushing. But they do, I personally know doctors here in MMla who treat their patients with HCQ, Dr Homer Lim has treated at least 500 patients with hydroxychloroquiene (HCQ) and they all got well, no need for vaccine so far.
See this paper from Dr. Harvey Risch, professor of epidemiology at Yale School of Public Health, https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/hydroxychloroquine-works-in-high-risk-patients-and-saying-otherwise-is-dangerous.
So from my understanding about HCQ:
(a) It is mainly a preventive prophylaxis, and if person is infected, it is for early treatment, not late treatment when the patient is already dying.
(b) Use low dosage of 400 mg/week, not 800 or 1,600 then report that the patient suffered side effects. (c) It is cheap, generic and off-patent, about 60+ years been used worldwide.
But suddenly HCQ is demonized because Trump mentioned it, and because implicitly it will remove the hysteria for vaccine pushing. Again, dengue and HIV, both killer infectious diseases for many decades now, have no clear safe effective vax. and Covid vax with just one year of research are suddenly safe and effective? Vax pushing narrative.
Meanwhile NEDA Sec Chua already impatient with endless, indefinite lockdown. And DOH, Salvana, Leachon, etc all gung-ho at indefinite lockdown until vax are here.
On herd immunity. It's like gravity, you demonize it or not, it will happen. Virus mutate, humans too. Virulent viruses are the first to go extinct because they kill their human hosts, they can no longer replicate. So it's the mild strains of viruses that multiply because their hosts survive, they can replicate. Remember Spanish flu 1918-1919, among the worst health conditions perhaps: (1) Europe just came from WW1 in 1914-1917, damaged and dilapidated buildings, hospitals, electricity, water, squalor in many places. (2) no modern medicines, no prophylaxis, no modern tests, no vaccines. And yet the pandemic stopped, human population expanded big time after.
Meanwhile, Covid lockdown original proponent "to avoid hundreds millions deaths", the ground zero of virus alarmism, Dr. Neal Ferguson of Imperial College London now believes herd immunity may have been attained in London? https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9131383/Professor-Lockdown-Neil-Ferguson-believes-London-herd-immunity.html.
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Deaths from vax, Studies on lockdowns don't work
January 17, 2021
Some deaths and additional diseases after taking the Covid vax.
55 dead in the US after taking Moderna and Pfizer vax,
https://www.theepochtimes.com/55-people-died-in-us-after-receiving-covid-19-vaccines-reporting-system_3659152.html
29 dead in Norway after taking Pfizer BionTech vax,
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-16/norway-vaccine-fatalities-among-people-75-and-older-rise-to-29?sref=ZMFHsM5Z
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202101/1212915.shtml#.YAH4cOM0a0Q.twitter
3 facial paralysis in Israel after taking Pfizer vax,
https://www.rt.com/news/512736-israel-facial-paralysis-13-covid-vaccine/
You can't sue vax companies over side effects,
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/16/covid-vaccine-side-effects-compensation-lawsuit.html
Meanwhile, no longer possible for Filipinos to travel abroad without a vax passport, it will become mandatory,
https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2021/01/16/2070787
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Last Nov. 19, 2020, I received this compilation from a reader of my column, Greg Gibson. He said he's an American married to a Filipina and been living here for a decade and a half. Good list of materials, thanks Greg. Reposting all below...
12 STUDIES AGREE LOCKDOWNS DON’T WORK
1. Lancet Study of 50 Countries: Full Lockdowns Not Associated with Deaths/Million People
A Country Level Analysis Measuring the Impact of Government Actions, Country Preparedness and Socioeconomic Factors on COVID-19 Mortality and Related Health Outcomes
https://www.thelancet.com/action/showPdf?pii=S2589-5370%2820%2930208-X
“Data was collected from the top 50 countries ranked by number of cases… Rapid border closures, full lockdowns, and wide-spread testing were not associated with COVID-19 mortality per million people.
However, full lockdowns (RR=2.47: 95%CI: 1.085.64) and reduced country vulnerability to biological threats (i.e. high scores on the global health security scale for risk environment) (RR=1.55; 95%CI: 1.132.12) were significantly associated with increased patient recovery rates.”
2. Study: 80% of Covid-19 Outbreaks From Home, Only 1 Outside
Indoor Transmission of SARS-CoV-2
by Prof. Hua Qian, PhD
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.04.20053058v1.full.pdf
“…Home outbreaks were the dominant category (254 of 318 outbreaks; 79·9%), followed by transport (108; 34·0%...Most home outbreaks involved three to five cases. We identified only a single outbreak in an outdoor environment, which involved two cases…”
3. REVEALED: 66% of New York state coronavirus hospitalizations are people staying at HOME
by Jennifer Smith
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8293417/66-New-York-coronavirus-hospitalizations-people-staying-HOME.html
“…In a study of some 1,000 new patients admitted to New York hospitals over the last week, 66 percent were staying at home…Almost all of them - 96 percent - had underlying conditions.”
4. Study: Covid-19 Infections 18.7 Times (1870%) More Contagious in Closed Environments
Closed Environments Facilitate Secondary Transmission of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)
by Prof. Hiroshi Nishiura, M.D., PhD., et al.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.02.28.20029272v2
“The odds that a primary case transmitted COVID-19 in a closed environment was 18.7 times greater compared to an open-air environment (95% confidence interval [CI]: 6.0, 57.9). Conclusions: It is plausible that closed environments contribute to secondary transmission of COVID-19 and promote superspreading events…”
5. Study of 124 Countries: No Evidence That Lockdowns Saved Lives
There Is No Evidence Lockdowns Saved Lives. It Is Indisputable They Caused Great Harm
by William M. Briggs, PhD
https://wmbriggs.com/post/30833/
“…There were 12 countries (with at least a million people) that had, on May 12, reported death rates greater than 100 per million…
There were 31 countries (of at least one million) with reported death rates from 11 to 99 per million…
There were 51 countries (of at least one million) with reported death rates from 1 to 10 per million…
Finally, there were 30 countries (also at least one million) with reported deaths under 1 per million…
What can we conclude. Only one thing: we cannot conclude that lockdowns worked…”
6. Study of 50 States and 4 Countries: No Evidence Lockdowns Work
There Is No Empirical Evidence for These Lockdowns
by Prof. Wilfred Reilly, PhD
https://www.spiked-online.com/2020/04/22/there-is-no-empirical-evidence-for-these-lockdowns/
“The average number of cases-per-million across the states minus New York was 1,392 and the average number of deaths-per-million was 54. Comparing the social-distancing states plus South Carolina to US states minus New York, the social-distancing states experienced 663 fewer cases per million and 42 fewer deaths per million on average than the lockdown states…
Japan had…73 cases per million citizens, and two deaths per million. South Korea had…207 cases per million and four deaths per million. Taiwan had…17 cases per million and 0.03 deaths per million.”
7. Study of 30 Countries: Lockdowns Have No Impact
Impact of Non-Pharmaceutical Interventions Against COVID-19 in Europe
by Prof. Paul R. Hunter, M.D., et al.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.01.20088260v1.full.pdf
“…We found that closure of education facilities, prohibiting mass gatherings and closure of some non-essential businesses were associated with reduced incidence whereas stay at home orders, closure of all non-businesses and requiring the wearing of facemasks or coverings in public was not associated with any independent additional impact…”
8. Study of 24 Countries: Lockdowns Have Not Worked, Failures
Did Lockdown Work? An Economist’s Cross-Country Comparison
by Prof. Christian Bjørnskov, PhD
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3665588
“I find no clear association between lockdown policies and mortality development…more severe lockdown policies have not been associated with lower mortality. In other words, the lockdowns have not worked as intended…
A British government report from April for example assessed that a limited lockdown could cause 185,000 excess deaths over the next years (DHSC, 2020). Evaluated as a whole, at a first glance, the lockdown policies of the Spring of 2020 therefore appear to be substantial long-run government failures.”
9. Study of 4 Countries: Lockdowns Show No Impact
Full Lockdown Policies in Western Europe Countries Have No Evident Impacts in the COVID-19 Epidemic
by Thomas Meunier, Phd
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.24.20078717v1
“This phenomenological study assesses the impacts of full lockdown strategies applied in Italy, France, Spain and United Kingdom, on the slowdown of the 2020 COVID-19 outbreak. Comparing the trajectory of the epidemic before and after the lockdown, we find no evidence of any discontinuity in the growth rate, doubling time, and reproduction number trends.
Extrapolating pre-lockdown growth rate trends, we provide estimates of the death toll in the absence of any lockdown policies, and show that these strategies might not have saved any life in western Europe. We also show that neighboring countries applying less restrictive social distancing measures (as opposed to police-enforced home containment) experience a very similar time evolution of the epidemic.”
10. Study: Lockdowns vs. Deaths Correlation Only 5.5%
Do Lockdowns Save Many Lives? In Most Places, the Data Say No
by T.J. Rodgers, PhD
https://www.wsj.com/articles/do-lockdowns-save-many-lives-is-most-places-the-data-say-no-11587930911
https://nominister.blogspot.com/2020/04/lockdowns-dont-work-what-does.html
“The speed with which officials shuttered the economy appears not to be a factor in Covid deaths…The correlation coefficient was 5.5%—so low that the engineers I used to employ would have summarized it as “no correlation…”
11. Study: “Removal of Lockdown Policies Had Little Effect on Transmission Rates”
Four Stylized Facts About Covid-19
by Prof. Andrew Atkeson, PhD., et al.
https://www.nber.org/papers/w27719.pdf
“…Our finding in Fact 1 that early declines in the transmission rate of COVID-19 were nearly universal worldwide suggest that the role of region-specific NPI’s implemented in this early phase of the pandemic is likely overstated. This finding instead suggests that some other factor(s) common across regions drove the early and rapid transmission rate declines
Our findings in Fact 2 and Fact 3 further raise doubt about the importance in NPI’s (lockdown policies in particular) in accounting for the evolution of COVID-19 transmission rates over time and across locations.”
12. Lockdowns Don’t Work
by Lyman Stone
https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2020/04/62572/
“…But ordering people to cower in their homes, harassing people for having playdates in the park, and ordering small businesses to close regardless of their hygienic procedures has no demonstrated effectiveness…
Across all studies, these estimate places typical death time at about twenty to twenty-five days after first exposure….lockdowns should not create an appreciable decline in deaths earlier than twenty days after a lockdown.”
There are now at least 27 such studies,
https://thefatemperor.com/
Charts, Lockdowns vs. Deaths, no relationship
The Virus Doesn’t Care about Your Policies
by Jeffrey Tucker
https://www.aier.org/article/the-virus-doesnt-care-about-your-policies/
Lockdown Fail In One Easy Graph
by David Middleton
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/05/12/lockdown-fail-in-one-easy-graph/
Why Americans Should Adopt the Sweden Model on Covid-19
by Gilbert Berdine, MD
https://mises.org/wire/why-americans-should-adopt-sweden-model-covid-19
Oxford Stringency Lockdown Charts
by Todd Kenyon, PhD
https://twitter.com/TTBikeFit/status/1289000686001295360
https://twitter.com/TTBikeFit/status/1294811075293085696
The World's Toughest Lockdown Has Resulted in the World's Highest COVID-19 Death Toll
by Jordan Schachtel
https://jordanschachtel.substack.com/p/the-worlds-toughest-lockdown-has
Lockdown Political Agenda
World Bank Offered Belarus $940 Million Coronavirus Loan But Only If They Locked Down and Destroyed Economy
by Jim Hoft
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/07/world-bank-offered-belarus-940-million-coronavirus-loan-locked-destroyed-economy/
32,000 Medical Practitioners and Scientists Against Lockdowns
The Great Barrington Declaration
by Prof. Kulldorff, PhD., Harvard Univ., Prof. Gupta, PhD., Oxford Univ., Prof. Bhattacharya, PhD., MD., Stanford Univ., et al.
https://gbdeclaration.org/#read
“As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection…
Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health. The results (to name a few) include lower childhood vaccination rates, worsening cardiovascular disease outcomes, fewer cancer screenings and deteriorating mental health – leading to greater excess mortality in years to come, with the working class and younger members of society carrying the heaviest burden. Keeping students out of school is a grave injustice. Keeping these measures in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage, with the underprivileged disproportionately harmed.
As immunity builds in the population, the risk of infection to all – including the vulnerable – falls. We know that all populations will eventually reach herd immunity – i.e. the point at which the rate of new infections is stable – and that this can be assisted by (but is not dependent upon) a vaccine. Our goal should therefore be to minimize mortality and social harm until we reach herd immunity.
The most compassionate approach that balances the risks and benefits of reaching herd immunity, is to allow those who are at minimal risk of death to live their lives normally to build up immunity to the virus through natural infection, while better protecting those who are at highest risk. We call this Focused Protection.
Those who are not vulnerable should immediately be allowed to resume life as normal…Schools and universities should be open for in-person teaching. Extracurricular activities, such as sports, should be resumed. Young low-risk adults should work normally, rather than from home. Restaurants and other businesses should open. Arts, music, sport and other cultural activities should resume. People who are more at risk may participate if they wish, while society as a whole enjoys the protection conferred upon the vulnerable by those who have built up herd immunity.”
Doctors Raise Alarm About Health Effects of Continued Coronavirus Shutdown: 'Mass Casualty Incident'
by Tyler Olson
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doctors-raise-alarm-about-health-effects-of-continued-coronavirus-shutdown
“More than 600 doctors signed onto a letter sent to President Trump Tuesday pushing him to end the "national shutdown" aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus, calling the widespread state orders keeping businesses closed and kids home from school a "mass casualty incident" with "exponentially growing health consequences."
"We are alarmed at what appears to be the lack of consideration for the future health of our patients," the doctors say in their letter. "The downstream health effects ... are being massively under-estimated and under-reported. This is an order of magnitude error."
The letter continues: "The millions of casualties of a continued shutdown will be hiding in plain sight, but they will be called alcoholism, homelessness, suicide, heart attack, stroke, or kidney failure. In youths it will be called financial instability, unemployment, despair, drug addiction, unplanned pregnancies, poverty, and abuse…”
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