Follow The Science

But seriously, folks, from the Grauniad, 18th December...

...because making the Worst Conceivable Case the New Normal is the New Normal.

Merry One

 

Merry Christmas one and all, and a New Year.

The lovely tree carving is in Lesnes Abbey Wood and no, I can't make out what yt ys faying either.

Blau Schuyte Cruises - Sailing Away

 

A happy Winter Solstice to all our reader on this 646th day since sailing.

We hope you will enjoy the next 646 days just as much, under the conn of our irreplaceable Helmspersons.

Unerwünscht

 

Hornstein, Burgenland, Austria 1938

Gelsenkirchen, Westphalia, Germany 2021

Cooking the Books

 

In the Soviet Union on Sea it would be incredible if anything were to appear that appeared credible, so this paper may be something of a wonderment:

Despite this apparent evidence to support vaccine effectiveness-at least for the older age groups-on closer inspection of this data, this conclusion is cast into doubt because of a range of fundamental inconsistencies and anomalies in the data. Whatever the explanations for the observed data, it is clear that it is both unreliable and misleading [...] we believe the most likely explanations are systemic miscategorisation of deaths between the different categories of unvaccinated and vaccinated; delayed or non-reporting of vaccinations; systemic underestimation of the proportion of unvaccinated; and/or incorrect population selection for Covid deaths.

Latest statistics on England mortality data suggest systematic mis-categorisation of vaccine status and uncertain effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccination, Martin Neil & Norman Fenton, Dec 2021

But... cui bono? Does anyone actually think they will benefit from the Rush to Totalitarianism, in anything but the shortest term? That it will end for the better which starts from a welter of falsity?